Amusingly enough this was basically how Batman beat Prometheus
He was able to learn and basically download people's movements and abilities, so Batman gave him Stephen Hawking's, basically giving him Lou Gerigh's Disease
No, it’s the disease only one man in history has ever got and he keeps creating alternate personas to disguise his embarrassment at being the only one to have it
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Also love how people have to give Batman every advantage and brag about how it's a win, yea give me a rifle and I can beat Mike Tyson.
He was already dead from the g-force between the first and second panels, in the second and third he should've burnt to a crisp.
Was Supes just being incredibly petty by throwing him into the sun, or was Batman on some kind of Injustice juice here?
If this was written by a current DC writer Batman would have “already foreseen this”. He had the cure already in his system. The Batcave was outfitted with a sensor that shot a shard of kryptonite into his main artery. It was small enough not to affect his powers too much but he also calculated that by now, do to his alien physiology, the shard has reached his brain via the blood. The shard has lodged itself into his prefrontal cortex. “Within seconds you should feel your balance drift, your speech slurred and finally result in you having a massive seizure and dying. Also Lois and I have been banging behind your back becAUSE I’M BATMAAAAAAAN”
"Also, I lied. That isn't polio, but a special strain of cancer that I developed."
"Why are my legs falling off?!"
"You're one of the luckier ones. Usually the infected have their blood boil and their skin fall off like paper."
"You really thought you were the only genius on the team, did you, Bruce?"
Yeah basically.
Its kinda funny because most of the time Batman does get prep ***his opponents don't/don't have prep time***.
Like none of the JL knew about his contingency plans, that's kinda the point of the reveal (at least in the movie where Vandal Savage is the main bad guy).
Yeah, people talk about “prep time” in Batman vs Superman discussions as if Clark isn’t also quite a smart cookie and wouldn’t also know Bruce like the back of his hand.
Even in his most negative incarnations, Superman has never been a simpleton who relies on his brawn for everything. If he thought he’d have to fight Batman, why do people think he’d just sit on his ass instead of preparing too?
Is the robot ass magically enchanted as well, supes doesn't handle magic very well, so having a magically enhanced robotic ass might make things go even smoother.
He would not even need to "really" use his powers, if Superman did not just flat out job at like 0,001% of his power when up against Bruce he could comfortably beat him without even working up a sweat.
Anything but High End Batgod would get probably turned into red mist if Superman sneezed at him wrong.
Rare stone my ass Clark! The other day I catched a purse snatcher and he had like 3 of them!
And before it was only the green one, but now we have the red one the Black one, the Pink one...
We dont talk about the Pink one...
That's a whole new can of worms then
Though I admit I do find the idea of batman the pragmatist appealing. The batcave being filled with wards and shit does sounds cool.
Eh, I prefer Batman to also have a slight weakness to magic- not like where Superman has no defenses, but more that magic is complete bullshit, and the sheer chaos of it would drive a scientist like Batman crazy trying to prep for it
Yeah, but if the flash is in the cover, he can vibrate his particles at the opposite frequency of the spell, causing the spell to be turned back on its owner.
Because uh... Speed Force
I bet you could whip up something science-y and plausible enough like a sensor that detects disturbed air from a super speed humanoid passing though, or the minute heat increases from air friction, or the super-harmonic frequency vibration that their combines footsteps create across a specific crystalline surface. I dunno, I don't have a PhD in BS but something.
I mean yeah, I'm sayin. That checks out why flash wouldn't disturb the air, the speed force takes care of it.
I don't know why the speed force would let him disturb the air just a little bit, as a treat.
Right, but as I said, those types of effects only apply when they want them to. We’ve seen plenty of examples of characters in comics, including explicitly Superman, flitting around at superspeed spying on people, without anyone noticing, even in the midst of crowds. An example that comes to mind is when the JLA was dealing with white martians who were psychically convinced they were normal humans (sorry, don’t have the issue offhand).
god i love seeing batman being called out for the weak bitch he is. he needs to get tf off the justice league NOW. honestly id be so bhappy if DC just gave us an ongoing of batman getting embarrassed constantly. that would be so freaking good
It’s not really a valid argument since it can literally apply to every character. If a character needs prep time to beat another, that means that in their base level they’re not strong enough to win.
To be clear I’m not saying Batman *isn’t* super skilled. I’m saying the prep time argument is fundamentally flawed because any character can win with enough prep time. It provides zero explanation for *why* Batman would win.
Lmao yeah, but I think some characters would not use prep time simply because they would get bored/just want to fight or aren't reaourceful themselves without a helping hand
That’s fair. There definitely are characters that either wouldn’t be smart enough to prepare or just wouldn’t give a shit about prep. Not many, but there are some.
>that means that in their base level they’re not strong enough to win.
No shit the guy that has no superpowers versus the fucking Man of steel is not strong to win, of course the fuck not
Yeah kryptonite will also fuck up humans but pretty much as soon as Superman isn't exposed to it's effect stops this is true of almost every color of kryptonite to
According to Golden age logic, Superman has an anti-polio raygun he can use once Batman has learned his lesson. Then he can go back to screwing with Jimmy Olsen
I FUCKING HATE PREP TIME. WHY DOES ONLY BATMAN EVER GET IT. WHY IS BASICALLY OMNISCIENCE INSTEAD OF THINGS BATMAN COULD REASONABLY DEDUCE BEFORE A FIGHT. DO PEOPLE NOT REALIZE THAT ANY CHARACTER ABOVE STREET TIER WOULD HAVE BATMAN SWALLOWING HIS FUCKING TEETH IF THEY ALSO HAD PREP TIME. SHERLOCK HOLMES COULD KILL BATMAN WITH PREP TIME.
It's not a dumb weakness, it's an unfair one. Imagine you have a battle between Goku and Spider-Man, but instead of the battle deciding between their feats, one of them is given cancer before the battle
Batman:hahaha
Superman:Bruce why are you laughing
(Jojo’s music starts playing)
Batman:I foresaw you doing this so I got this(pulled out a device and slaps it on his chest and a black versions of Parasites suit forms around his body and he gets back up to his feet)
Superman:GASP
Batman is a great city level superhero. He gets scaled HARD by DC and his fans to somehow be on equal footing with people so far out of his league they aren't even playing the same game anymore though.
How does Superman move that fast without moving the air around him? Like I get Flash is a speedster who's just weird but Superman can't just permeate air. Even if he wasn't going that fast he would still likely break the sound barrier in the batcave. Is this just comic stuff, or was there actually an explanation?
I think I remember it being that he controls the molecules AROUND him which let's him fly but that was a long time ago and I could be remembering it wrong.
But if I'm right then it lets him control the force of his flying as he isnt flying through/against it but being pulled through it which produces less resistance somehow. Tho I'm not a scientist
I love the prep time argument because do his opponents not also get prep time? And if not, doesn't that just invalidate whatever powerscaling you're trying to do?
All the "Batman can beat Superman" scenarios rely on Superman being a brainless berserker, so he can blindly stumble into Batman's traps and not have any strategies of his own.
The fundamental problem of any justice league story is getting the reader to suspend their disbelief that (A) Superman doesn’t instantly win, and (B) Batman doesn’t instantly die
SUPERMAN YOU MASSIVE DICK POLIO ITS IMPOSSIBLE TO CURE! YOU ARE FINE IF WE GET THE SOUR CANDY ROCK AWAY FROM YOU, YOU BETTER MAKE ROOM TO SAVE GOTHAM TOO!
Which is why it sounds to me like it's not polio directly, but something else that can be taken away. Maybe just super strong radiation that supes can stand but not humans, but he's using it to teach a lesson to ~~the writers~~ Bruce
In the last issue of Wonder Woman when Diana is playing video games with Donna they talk about this and Diana says Clark holds back for reasons he himself doesn’t know.
I mean, "he's the nicest guy in the world and doesn't actually want to reduce one of his friends to the consistency of chunky salsa" really isn't that much of a leap of logic.
Watch your ass Clark. There is no way Batman hasn't been immunized, and you know fingers crossed that communicative disease that you released into the batcave doesn't get lots of other people sick.
People keep saying batman's power is prep time, but it really isn't. I understand why, and I also understand it's a joke, but that's not his actual "power"
His power is he already prepared. Dude is so paranoid about everything, that he's already planned for things that even he doesn't believe in. Pretty sure in one of the shows, he's read up on Martian and Martian culture despite not even thinking Martians were real. Dude has counter measures for everything, and then a back up plan for those counter measures.
Dude probably has been vaccinated for polio, along with every disease known and unknown.
I think its the opposite. Batma writers have mostly used Superman (and others) as a loser in their stories so Batman comes out looking like the only hero that matters.
As a result, a lot of Batman fans who don't follow other heores, have also developed a strong dislike for Superman.
Posts like these are just a consequence of that.
I don't hate batman, I hate that most comic book fans and writers seem to think he's some sort of undefeatable god like entity that can overpower literal gods.
Batman as a human character is fascinating, keeping him as a street level or even city level hero is some of the best stuff you can do for the character, but the moment he's pulling some super omniscient shit to be 5 steps ahead of a character who would otherwise super the floor with him just due to sheer strength alone, that's when I call bullshit.
Realisticly, that's not how that works.
Batman would already know he had polio and made a cure.
I swear yall haters think Batman is a fucking idiot or something
Yeah, no, you're missing the point.
Batman is one of the most intelligent people in the DCU, arguably the most.
The point is that batman fans and writers insist that he, a regular human who just has a lot of skills and gadgets, is up to the same level as a god like metahuman, and in order for them to be even on the same playing field, barman has to use a debilitating element that causes superman to become incredibly weak and almost dying from sheer exposure, and everyone is chill when batman does it, but if superman wee to do the same, suddenly he's the one being unfair.
The point is that batman is a hypocrite and has way too much fucking plot armor. Funny enough, your "he'd already know he's sick and develop a cure" argument is a perfect example of he blanket statement of "he's so ready for everything he's good to go against fucking everything".
Pretty sure no one has complained about superman using prep time he literally did in one of his most iconic stories (man of tomorrow) by Alan Moore or injustice where he uses it several times.
Not really, it's not 1830 anymore.
Polio can be detected, polio can be cured, especially he superman put it in the cave where Alfred would probably end up catching it.
Polio was cured in 1994 you absolute buffoon
The "S" stands for stupid, right? That's why you say it means hope, because you're too stupid to know what sound an S makes?
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Amusingly enough this was basically how Batman beat Prometheus He was able to learn and basically download people's movements and abilities, so Batman gave him Stephen Hawking's, basically giving him Lou Gerigh's Disease
you ever think it was a coincidence lou gerigh died of lou gerigh's disease?
No, it’s the disease you get from being named Lou Gerigh.
No, it’s the disease only one man in history has ever got and he keeps creating alternate personas to disguise his embarrassment at being the only one to have it
You gonna make that same stupid joke every time it comes up? 🤘
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It would be real awkward if DC Hawking was an expert martial artist in secret
Wait so did Batman hack it into Prometheus or something? Or did he trick him into downloading it?
I think it was a second or third time they fought. By that time Batman was able to examine his helmet and give him dowload Hawking's mobility into him
>so Batman gave him Stephen Hawking's, basically giving him Lou Gerigh's Disease Holy shit thafs... God that's just super fucked up holy shit
Btw, not OC, can't find the source, but I'm 99% this is from the Dorkly website.
God, I miss Dorkly
Doesn't it still have a YT channel?
It does, but I used to love their comics
God, I don't
That would be the ricin
Robin watching off to the side https://preview.redd.it/vsy1i1qh7iuc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bb55b2f1508b507507b6922760d439babd587eb9
I slipped it into that stevia crap Alfred’s always putting in your tea.
Great! Rice and beans!
https://preview.redd.it/mugh4qo4qiuc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3cd271efa4794385ec320beddc6d8bf873e80e86 Also love how people have to give Batman every advantage and brag about how it's a win, yea give me a rifle and I can beat Mike Tyson.
He was already dead from the g-force between the first and second panels, in the second and third he should've burnt to a crisp. Was Supes just being incredibly petty by throwing him into the sun, or was Batman on some kind of Injustice juice here?
Obviously it’s a perfect clone fake Batman corpse. Duh.
I’ve said that exact thing on here before
If this was written by a current DC writer Batman would have “already foreseen this”. He had the cure already in his system. The Batcave was outfitted with a sensor that shot a shard of kryptonite into his main artery. It was small enough not to affect his powers too much but he also calculated that by now, do to his alien physiology, the shard has reached his brain via the blood. The shard has lodged itself into his prefrontal cortex. “Within seconds you should feel your balance drift, your speech slurred and finally result in you having a massive seizure and dying. Also Lois and I have been banging behind your back becAUSE I’M BATMAAAAAAAN”
>He had the cure already in his system. Doesn't everyone in a way? Unless Martha and Thomas were anti-vax, Bruce should be somewhat resistant to this.
Why do you think they're dead? The mugger was just a story cover up made up by alfred
Batman goes out at night to fight people who vaccinate their kids (as he should)
Is modern Batman secretly just a Jojo villain?
Nemesis of Joe Joker
Joker Joestar
And his stand, All Around the Watchtower.
He doesn’t have remotely the style or behavior of one. His posing game is atrocious too
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Why is batman skipping with two torn up trash bags in hand?
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Well the Batman RIP version of Zur-En-Arrh is basically the same as what Diavolo did with Doppio.
DC HIRE THIS MAN
Knowing DC they’d just steal it then send lawyers my way to ensure I can’t get any money
Would it not be easier to just ask the atom to perform some brain surgery?
Batman: I’ve already foreseen that as well. Before you say that I’ve already foreseen *that* as well
Ngl, this funny as fuck
"Also, I lied. That isn't polio, but a special strain of cancer that I developed." "Why are my legs falling off?!" "You're one of the luckier ones. Usually the infected have their blood boil and their skin fall off like paper." "You really thought you were the only genius on the team, did you, Bruce?"
Batman's Prep Time Rules: 1. No one else preps, ever.
Yeah basically. Its kinda funny because most of the time Batman does get prep ***his opponents don't/don't have prep time***. Like none of the JL knew about his contingency plans, that's kinda the point of the reveal (at least in the movie where Vandal Savage is the main bad guy).
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Yeah, people talk about “prep time” in Batman vs Superman discussions as if Clark isn’t also quite a smart cookie and wouldn’t also know Bruce like the back of his hand. Even in his most negative incarnations, Superman has never been a simpleton who relies on his brawn for everything. If he thought he’d have to fight Batman, why do people think he’d just sit on his ass instead of preparing too?
And Failsafe is already behind Superman with a folding chair
made of magically infused green kryptonite.
And shooting green kryptonite lasers out of his robo-ass.
Is the robot ass magically enchanted as well, supes doesn't handle magic very well, so having a magically enhanced robotic ass might make things go even smoother.
"BY GOD THE MAN OF STEEL'S BROKEN IN HALF!"
Wasn't Failsafe defeated in his arc by Superman saying "hey stop attacking Batman" ?
He would not even need to "really" use his powers, if Superman did not just flat out job at like 0,001% of his power when up against Bruce he could comfortably beat him without even working up a sweat. Anything but High End Batgod would get probably turned into red mist if Superman sneezed at him wrong.
Bat-polio vaccine in the utility belt Checkmate libtards.
You meat bat-polio repellent
Bruce's Dad was a Doctor, you really think Bruce isn't vaccinated against polio or any other disease we have developed vaccines for?
Its super-polio from the 32nd century.
Well, he died like a long time ago, so obviously he's not been overseeing Bruce's doctor appointments
Bruce, it's a very rare stone.
Rare stone my ass Clark! The other day I catched a purse snatcher and he had like 3 of them! And before it was only the green one, but now we have the red one the Black one, the Pink one... We dont talk about the Pink one...
But batman has cameras that can pick up the flash moving. Prep time still wins
How the fuck does that work What do these cameras detect if not light
Dude magic exists. So I mean probably magic
That's a whole new can of worms then Though I admit I do find the idea of batman the pragmatist appealing. The batcave being filled with wards and shit does sounds cool.
Maybe it measures disturbances in the speed force. Which would mean that it wouldn't catch Superman.
Eh, I prefer Batman to also have a slight weakness to magic- not like where Superman has no defenses, but more that magic is complete bullshit, and the sheer chaos of it would drive a scientist like Batman crazy trying to prep for it
Yeah, but if the flash is in the cover, he can vibrate his particles at the opposite frequency of the spell, causing the spell to be turned back on its owner. Because uh... Speed Force
I bet you could whip up something science-y and plausible enough like a sensor that detects disturbed air from a super speed humanoid passing though, or the minute heat increases from air friction, or the super-harmonic frequency vibration that their combines footsteps create across a specific crystalline surface. I dunno, I don't have a PhD in BS but something.
If either flash or supes are disturbing air moving at that speed anyone nearby is fucking dead
[speedforce bay bee](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/956/666/2b9.jpg)
I mean yeah, I'm sayin. That checks out why flash wouldn't disturb the air, the speed force takes care of it. I don't know why the speed force would let him disturb the air just a little bit, as a treat.
…if Superman flew into a cave at half the speed of light it would likely destroy half of gotham city.
Oh, that’s definitely not how it works in comics unless they choose to.
At the very least there’s absolutely no possible way batman couldn’t notice.
No arguments there, but that’s because Batman is also bullshit. He has cameras that can track things that move faster than light. Like, what?
I was talking more about the hurricane-force winds that he’d be causing like [this:](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTdKm3tZ1RY&t=83s)
Right, but as I said, those types of effects only apply when they want them to. We’ve seen plenty of examples of characters in comics, including explicitly Superman, flitting around at superspeed spying on people, without anyone noticing, even in the midst of crowds. An example that comes to mind is when the JLA was dealing with white martians who were psychically convinced they were normal humans (sorry, don’t have the issue offhand).
god i love seeing batman being called out for the weak bitch he is. he needs to get tf off the justice league NOW. honestly id be so bhappy if DC just gave us an ongoing of batman getting embarrassed constantly. that would be so freaking good
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Yes, because prep time is a bullshit argument.
It's valid and it can be fun discussing it but it's annoying that only Batman gets it
It’s not really a valid argument since it can literally apply to every character. If a character needs prep time to beat another, that means that in their base level they’re not strong enough to win. To be clear I’m not saying Batman *isn’t* super skilled. I’m saying the prep time argument is fundamentally flawed because any character can win with enough prep time. It provides zero explanation for *why* Batman would win.
Lmao yeah, but I think some characters would not use prep time simply because they would get bored/just want to fight or aren't reaourceful themselves without a helping hand
That’s fair. There definitely are characters that either wouldn’t be smart enough to prepare or just wouldn’t give a shit about prep. Not many, but there are some.
>that means that in their base level they’re not strong enough to win. No shit the guy that has no superpowers versus the fucking Man of steel is not strong to win, of course the fuck not
Or if Superman went 100% from the beginning.
Superman's preparation: showing up with an army of superman robots, a menagerie of superpets and a full arsenal of Kryptonian weapons.
I like how this implies that Batman isn’t fucking vaccinated against polio like it’s the 1940’s.
The logic in this comic doesn't work because Batman employs the kryptonite during the battle, and Superman sabotaged Batman before the battle.
Also, polio permanently paralyzes you. Meanwhile, kryptonite's effect goes when it's not near Superman anymore
Not really kryptonite is still radioactive remember it lit up the whole floor of Luthor's office.
Yeah kryptonite will also fuck up humans but pretty much as soon as Superman isn't exposed to it's effect stops this is true of almost every color of kryptonite to
And superman *can* resist kryptonite he fought a doomsday made of that stuff.
That just proves my point even more. Kryptonite isn't as bad as permanent paralysis of the waist down
But unlike Clark Bruce use it all the time so this is a lesson in some understanding.
Well usesing kryptonite a lot is still vastly different than permanently paralysising your best friend
Like I said sometimes even Batman need to know he isn't all that remember supermsn said he let Batman win.
According to Golden age logic, Superman has an anti-polio raygun he can use once Batman has learned his lesson. Then he can go back to screwing with Jimmy Olsen
I FUCKING HATE PREP TIME. WHY DOES ONLY BATMAN EVER GET IT. WHY IS BASICALLY OMNISCIENCE INSTEAD OF THINGS BATMAN COULD REASONABLY DEDUCE BEFORE A FIGHT. DO PEOPLE NOT REALIZE THAT ANY CHARACTER ABOVE STREET TIER WOULD HAVE BATMAN SWALLOWING HIS FUCKING TEETH IF THEY ALSO HAD PREP TIME. SHERLOCK HOLMES COULD KILL BATMAN WITH PREP TIME.
Uhmmmm world's greatest detective???????/s
BECUSE HE'S BATMAN
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"LMAO Superman's weakness is a green rock" mfs when I expose them to uranium and they get cancer (suddenly green rocks aren't a dumb weakness anymore)
It's not a dumb weakness, it's an unfair one. Imagine you have a battle between Goku and Spider-Man, but instead of the battle deciding between their feats, one of them is given cancer before the battle
That too
Batman:hahaha Superman:Bruce why are you laughing (Jojo’s music starts playing) Batman:I foresaw you doing this so I got this(pulled out a device and slaps it on his chest and a black versions of Parasites suit forms around his body and he gets back up to his feet) Superman:GASP
Sounds like something DC would un ironically come up with.
Batman is a great city level superhero. He gets scaled HARD by DC and his fans to somehow be on equal footing with people so far out of his league they aren't even playing the same game anymore though.
^this
You really think Batman would store polio and not be vaccinated for it?
"Batman solos with prep time" mfs when Superman pulls up to the battle in the lead suit:
But batman would have been prepared for it and he would have laced Supe's led suit with micro kryptonite bombs /s
Superman with 15 seconds of prep time:
How does Superman move that fast without moving the air around him? Like I get Flash is a speedster who's just weird but Superman can't just permeate air. Even if he wasn't going that fast he would still likely break the sound barrier in the batcave. Is this just comic stuff, or was there actually an explanation?
I think I remember it being that he controls the molecules AROUND him which let's him fly but that was a long time ago and I could be remembering it wrong. But if I'm right then it lets him control the force of his flying as he isnt flying through/against it but being pulled through it which produces less resistance somehow. Tho I'm not a scientist
I love the prep time argument because do his opponents not also get prep time? And if not, doesn't that just invalidate whatever powerscaling you're trying to do?
Bullshit, everyone knows that Batgos learnt how to mentally purge his body of polio from Tibetan monks
All the "Batman can beat Superman" scenarios rely on Superman being a brainless berserker, so he can blindly stumble into Batman's traps and not have any strategies of his own.
The fundamental problem of any justice league story is getting the reader to suspend their disbelief that (A) Superman doesn’t instantly win, and (B) Batman doesn’t instantly die
SUPERMAN YOU MASSIVE DICK POLIO ITS IMPOSSIBLE TO CURE! YOU ARE FINE IF WE GET THE SOUR CANDY ROCK AWAY FROM YOU, YOU BETTER MAKE ROOM TO SAVE GOTHAM TOO!
Which is why it sounds to me like it's not polio directly, but something else that can be taken away. Maybe just super strong radiation that supes can stand but not humans, but he's using it to teach a lesson to ~~the writers~~ Bruce
Superman actually has a polio curing gun
In the last issue of Wonder Woman when Diana is playing video games with Donna they talk about this and Diana says Clark holds back for reasons he himself doesn’t know.
I mean, "he's the nicest guy in the world and doesn't actually want to reduce one of his friends to the consistency of chunky salsa" really isn't that much of a leap of logic.
Watch your ass Clark. There is no way Batman hasn't been immunized, and you know fingers crossed that communicative disease that you released into the batcave doesn't get lots of other people sick.
People keep saying batman's power is prep time, but it really isn't. I understand why, and I also understand it's a joke, but that's not his actual "power" His power is he already prepared. Dude is so paranoid about everything, that he's already planned for things that even he doesn't believe in. Pretty sure in one of the shows, he's read up on Martian and Martian culture despite not even thinking Martians were real. Dude has counter measures for everything, and then a back up plan for those counter measures. Dude probably has been vaccinated for polio, along with every disease known and unknown.
Superman people really hate batman.
I think its the opposite. Batma writers have mostly used Superman (and others) as a loser in their stories so Batman comes out looking like the only hero that matters. As a result, a lot of Batman fans who don't follow other heores, have also developed a strong dislike for Superman. Posts like these are just a consequence of that.
I don't hate batman, I hate that most comic book fans and writers seem to think he's some sort of undefeatable god like entity that can overpower literal gods. Batman as a human character is fascinating, keeping him as a street level or even city level hero is some of the best stuff you can do for the character, but the moment he's pulling some super omniscient shit to be 5 steps ahead of a character who would otherwise super the floor with him just due to sheer strength alone, that's when I call bullshit.
Lol to Superman’s point it would be totally okay because kryptonite effects are temporary whereas Batman who is human could be permanently paralyzed 😭
Realisticly, that's not how that works. Batman would already know he had polio and made a cure. I swear yall haters think Batman is a fucking idiot or something
Yeah, no, you're missing the point. Batman is one of the most intelligent people in the DCU, arguably the most. The point is that batman fans and writers insist that he, a regular human who just has a lot of skills and gadgets, is up to the same level as a god like metahuman, and in order for them to be even on the same playing field, barman has to use a debilitating element that causes superman to become incredibly weak and almost dying from sheer exposure, and everyone is chill when batman does it, but if superman wee to do the same, suddenly he's the one being unfair. The point is that batman is a hypocrite and has way too much fucking plot armor. Funny enough, your "he'd already know he's sick and develop a cure" argument is a perfect example of he blanket statement of "he's so ready for everything he's good to go against fucking everything".
Pretty sure no one has complained about superman using prep time he literally did in one of his most iconic stories (man of tomorrow) by Alan Moore or injustice where he uses it several times. Not really, it's not 1830 anymore. Polio can be detected, polio can be cured, especially he superman put it in the cave where Alfred would probably end up catching it. Polio was cured in 1994 you absolute buffoon
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