Well I love me some batman as much as the next guy but some of the some times I think he could handle things a lot better

• An power suit for flight,strength, and projectile firing

• Advise/Mentor police instead of lone wolfing it...or Working with the police instead of only working with children

• Run for Governor / Mayor Office

1. Better government support for the poor ends the need for crime alley muggings
2. Death Penalty for violent criminals  the Joker and zzaz ( I know Batman does not kill.. But that's because he operated as a vigilante and borderline outlaw. He needed this distinction to separate himself from the scum he was fighting. If the death's were done within law ( he controls) and received a fair trial he would not have this dilemma.)
3.   Stricter  Child Labor Laws would force the Grayson's to look for more lifestyle to raise their family
4. Allowing for Stem cell Reasearch would give progress in medicine that help regenerate the withering parts of disfigured members of the rogues gallery allowing them to lead normal lives
5. etc.

Or he could just go all Bane on folks and start breaking folks backs. Cripple them for life or something. Kind of hard to live a life of crime if you're living in a home bed ridden and sucking food through a straw. But then again, healthcare costs would go up in Gotham.

1- depends of the writer

2- heh? isnt that the point of Commissioner Gordon

3- maybe when he is retired

@adamrolls: He could be Iron-Super-Green Arrow-Man, but he's Batman, and that's how we like it.

@adamrolls: He could be Iron-Super-Green Arrow-Man, but he's Batman, and that's how we like it.

My belief is Batman should use Iron Man armor, have his own Iron men army and take over the planet.

@colonyofcells said:

My belief is Batman should use Iron Man armor, have his own Iron men army and take over the planet.

He does. Please see Batman Inc 5 and 6.

A political Bruce, that would be kinda interesting to see.

@Onemoreposter said:

@colonyofcells said:

My belief is Batman should use Iron Man armor, have his own Iron men army and take over the planet.

He does. Please see Batman Inc 5 and 6.

lol Yeah, funny how the timing worked on that huh?

Now, on the OP, all the ideas might make good books, but not a good Batman book. Batman wouldn't be Batman if he wore a power-suit 24/7, or if he was mayor/governor. Idea number 2...he already works with the police, but I would never want him to work more than he does now.

1: An argument could be made that Batman knows if he begins to rely on tech, his physical skills would suffer from disuse. Given that he can't have the powersuit with him at all times, that would be very bad. Not to mention that weaponized projectile launchers are kind of against his creed, with the whole no guns thing.

2: Batman doesn't work with the police force at large because the vast majority of them are corrupt. Hence why the crime in Gotham is where it is: They've bought the cops. Cops get the right kinds of money, stuff tends to happen while cops accidentally look the other way. Commissioner Gordon is one of the few non corrupt cops in Gotham PD, hence why Batman works with him, and why Gordon covers Batman's rear with the other cops. If Batman were to train just ONE corrupt cop in the same crash course he puts his Robin's through, and that cop started training criminals, it would be like blood in water. While relatively few thugs would follow the training through, enough would to make Batman's job a lot more dangerous. Especially since they don't have his scruples.

3. Batman can't become mayor. Too much in the public eye, too many meetings, too many criminals with their eye on him to do what needs doing. Bruce Wayne could have, probably, but he's dead.

If Batman includes power suits and stuff then villains will have to step their game up and we'll end up seeing Batman fighting metas more and more. Can Gotham city withstand more damage done by super powered beings, on a frequent basis?

If Batman prefers to work alone, he can just drive a giant robot and rule the planet. Drones are also becoming popular now so maybe Batman can shoot everyone with billions and billions of drones.

He needs to make a SSS, use guns, and become immortal lol

Batman using armor was popularized by Frank Miller ages ago. Batman using robots is about as old as the Kingdom Come Batman and Batman Inc is just borrowing some ideas from the bat robots of Kingdom Come.

He could stop being a homo and kill The Joker. The Joker scares even most of Bats Rogues Gallery, if he offed him the majority of them may skip town for fear they'd be next. But the Batfans would revolt so it'll never happen , damn

1. That's not nearly as frightening, and Batman's supposed to be rather scary. It's much easier to wrap your head around a big mechanical robot than it is some huge feral thing leaping out of the shadows and mauling you. Getting hit by a car going 60mph is just as (if not more) likely to kill you as getting mauled by a bear, but most people would find the bear the more frightening prospect.

2. Mind that this is just my interpretation of the character and some may disagree with me. Batman isn't about the law. If he were he would be a lawyer or cop or something, but instead he is Batman. He doesn't enforce the law, he fights evil. He breaks the law all the time. Most of his means of gathering information are inadmissible in court, but they're very effective means of tracking down murderers and beating them to bloody pulp in alleys. He exists to fill the gap that occurs between the law and justice.

3. My answer to 2 is also applicable here. As for fixing the villains, they've tried that, it doesn't work. Bruce Wayne has funded surgery for for Two-Face at least a dozen times, and Two-Face usually ends up mutilating himself and going back to being a villain. And Bruce isbetter of doing all the philanthropic save-the-city stuff from the private sector, that way he can just do whatever it is that he needs to do instead of going through whatever legal channel, getting enough votes to get his ideas passed through city council, etc.

1. I liked your bear to car analogy..that is true shit.. but mechanical marvels can present terror/awe as well...Terminator..Christine...Robocop.and bruce can add a theatrical angle to his armor/suit that would dampen diapers

@adamrolls said:

Well I love me some batman as much as the next guy but some of the some times I think he could handle things a lot better

• An power suit for flight,strength, and projectile firing

• Advise/Mentor police instead of lone wolfing it...or Working with the police instead of only working with children

• Run for Governor / Mayor Office

I agree with all three ideas. Some others are to get over Gotham being "his" city and allow other heroes to help out, using his enemies technology, growing a pair and emptying a round in the Joker's skull, etc.

batman doesn t have that much time because he is in the JL too and in JLI