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    Bruce Wayne, who witnessed the murder of his billionaire parents as a child, swore to avenge their deaths. He trained extensively to achieve mental and physical perfection, mastering martial arts, detective skills, and criminal psychology. Costumed as a bat to prey on the fears of criminals, and utilizing a high-tech arsenal, he became the legendary Batman.

    Was DCAU Batman overpowered?

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    Edited By modernww2fare

    Poll Was DCAU Batman overpowered? (94 votes)

    Yes 40%
    No 60%

    Was DCAU Batman the way he should've been, or did Bruce Timm turn him into a god?

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    JL Batman was.

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    #2  Edited By zaied

    No, he was just the easiest character to not have deviate from the comics. He never really did anything that Batman hasn't done, or can't replicate in the comics.

    Only his 2-3 higher end feats are really that over the top.

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    I always liked the character more in the pre JL shows to be honest.

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    I always liked the character more in the pre JL shows to be honest.

    why?

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    @modernww2fare: I liked the writing better and how they focus in other aspects i found more interesting.

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    Only when he dodged omega beams

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    B:TAS Batman was just a dude. I remember him having a hard time beating Harvey Dent in a fist fight.

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    Last episode of Justice League Unlimited he dogde two Omega beams and maganed to direct the beam to kill a parademon while Superman wasnt able to dogde it. But then you had in some episodes where he knew everything or could do anything.

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    #9 ganon15  Online

    @jayc1324 said:

    Only when he dodged omega beams

    And took out Sinestro with just a batarang

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    No he was Batman. Is Earth 1 Batman useless? Seems like a better thread.

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    If anything he gets downplayed, some people even think the Nolan Batman was superior.

    His feats, for the most part, are in line with what I would expect from the character in that universe.

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    #13 the_stegman  Moderator

    No. He just didn't get needed like the others. Except Hawkgirl, who seemed stronger.

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    The man didged darkseid's omega beams man come on if that isn't OP i don't know what is lol. Still he has his butt handed to him a good amount of times i remember lady wonder woman treating him like a rag doll and the joker knocking him out with a bag of bricks.

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    No. BTAS Batman was fine. JL Batman was pretty much perfect.

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    Off the top of my head? He dodged Darkseid's Omega Beams, kicked Darkseid and made him tumble, he dodged Kalibak's attack while Kalibak beat up Wonder Woman, he tossed Superman across the room...

    That's off the top of my head.

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    #18  Edited By modernww2fare

    @superguy1591 said:

    Off the top of my head? He dodged Darkseid's Omega Beams, kicked Darkseid and made him tumble, he dodged Kalibak's attack while Kalibak beat up Wonder Woman, he tossed Superman across the room...

    That's off the top of my head.

    He also knocked out Sinestro with a mere batarang, as Ganon said

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    Nope.

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    If you didn't already know the answer, you wouldn't bother to ask.

    We all know League Batman was amped, which wouldn't have been so bad if everyone else didn't get nerfed.

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    @scouterv said:

    If you didn't already know the answer, you wouldn't bother to ask.

    "Don't handle me J'onn, I'm serious"

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    @scouterv said:

    If you didn't already know the answer, you wouldn't bother to ask.

    "Don't handle me J'onn, I'm serious"

    ...Thank you.

    I didn't think anyone would get that reference, but I'm glad someone did.

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    #24  Edited By Gracetrack

    @superguy1591: People make way too much of this.

    "He dodged Darkseid's Omega Beams..."

    Eh, happened one time. And Darkseid was also nerfed (in general) along with most of the other more powerful characters, as you yourself pointed out. So it's not really implausible. This is also the same episode that had Lex Luthor (sans battle suit) keeping up with Batman and taking on parademons with two pistols.

    "kicked Darkseid and made him tumble..."

    He didn't make him "tumble," he made him stagger a little. Also, Batman had a running start and pole-vaulted, essentially putting everything he had into it (his entire body weight). And again, it happened one time (in the exact same episode as the above feat) against a nerfed Darkseid. This was literally the last episode in the Timm-verse series.

    "he dodged Kalibak's attack while Kalibak beat up Wonder Woman..."

    Um... Batman being able to dodge Kalibak isn't all that impressive or unbelievable. Wonder Woman wasn't trying to evade him. Besides, all these characters were nerfed, remember?

    "he tossed Superman across the room..."

    Again, Superman was nerfed, especially the STAS version of Supes (which is when this happened). Supes then immediately speed-blitzed Bats and put him in his place.

    ..............................................

    In general, Batman was not overpowered in the DCAU. Yes, there were a few brief, anomalous moments (dodging the Omega Beam in the final episode being the biggest "offender" by far), but said moments ultimately amounted to nothing anyway.

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    @superguy1591: People make way too much of this.

    "He dodged Darkseid's Omega Beams..."

    Eh, happened one time. And Darkseid was also nerfed (in general) along with most of the other more powerful characters, as you yourself pointed out. So it's not really implausible. This is also the same episode that had Lex Luthor (sans battle suit) keeping up with Batman and taking on parademons with two pistols.

    "kicked Darkseid and made him tumble..."

    He didn't make him "tumble," he made him stagger. And Batman had a running start and pole-vaulted, essentially putting everything he had into it (his entire body weight). And again, it happened one time (in the exact same episode as the above feat) against a nerfed Darkseid. This was literally the last episode in the Timm-verse series.

    "he dodged Kalibak's attack while Kalibak beat up Wonder Woman..."

    Um... Batman being able to dodge Kalibak isn't all that impressive or unbelievable. Wonder Woman wasn't trying to evade him. Besides, all these characters were nerfed, remember?

    "he tossed Superman across the room..."

    Again, Superman was nerfed, especially the STAS version of Supes (which is when this happened). Supes then immediately speed-blitzed Bats and put him in his place.

    ..............................................

    In general, Batman was not overpowered in the DCAU. Yes, there were a few brief, anomalous moments (dodging the Omega Beam in the final episode being the biggest "offender" by far), but said moments ultimately amounted to nothing anyway.

    So pretty much your entire argument is, "It works cause everyone was nerfed?"

    Just so we're clear.

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    @scouterv said:

    @omnicrono said:

    @superguy1591: People make way too much of this.

    "He dodged Darkseid's Omega Beams..."

    Eh, happened one time. And Darkseid was also nerfed (in general) along with most of the other more powerful characters, as you yourself pointed out. So it's not really implausible. This is also the same episode that had Lex Luthor (sans battle suit) keeping up with Batman and taking on parademons with two pistols.

    "kicked Darkseid and made him tumble..."

    He didn't make him "tumble," he made him stagger. And Batman had a running start and pole-vaulted, essentially putting everything he had into it (his entire body weight). And again, it happened one time (in the exact same episode as the above feat) against a nerfed Darkseid. This was literally the last episode in the Timm-verse series.

    "he dodged Kalibak's attack while Kalibak beat up Wonder Woman..."

    Um... Batman being able to dodge Kalibak isn't all that impressive or unbelievable. Wonder Woman wasn't trying to evade him. Besides, all these characters were nerfed, remember?

    "he tossed Superman across the room..."

    Again, Superman was nerfed, especially the STAS version of Supes (which is when this happened). Supes then immediately speed-blitzed Bats and put him in his place.

    ..............................................

    In general, Batman was not overpowered in the DCAU. Yes, there were a few brief, anomalous moments (dodging the Omega Beam in the final episode being the biggest "offender" by far), but said moments ultimately amounted to nothing anyway.

    So pretty much your entire argument is, "It works cause everyone was nerfed?"

    Just so we're clear.

    That wasn't the entire argument... but yeah, you run with that.

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    #28  Edited By ScouterV

    @scouterv said:

    @omnicrono said:

    @superguy1591: People make way too much of this.

    "He dodged Darkseid's Omega Beams..."

    Eh, happened one time. And Darkseid was also nerfed (in general) along with most of the other more powerful characters, as you yourself pointed out. So it's not really implausible. This is also the same episode that had Lex Luthor (sans battle suit) keeping up with Batman and taking on parademons with two pistols.

    "kicked Darkseid and made him tumble..."

    He didn't make him "tumble," he made him stagger. And Batman had a running start and pole-vaulted, essentially putting everything he had into it (his entire body weight). And again, it happened one time (in the exact same episode as the above feat) against a nerfed Darkseid. This was literally the last episode in the Timm-verse series.

    "he dodged Kalibak's attack while Kalibak beat up Wonder Woman..."

    Um... Batman being able to dodge Kalibak isn't all that impressive or unbelievable. Wonder Woman wasn't trying to evade him. Besides, all these characters were nerfed, remember?

    "he tossed Superman across the room..."

    Again, Superman was nerfed, especially the STAS version of Supes (which is when this happened). Supes then immediately speed-blitzed Bats and put him in his place.

    ..............................................

    In general, Batman was not overpowered in the DCAU. Yes, there were a few brief, anomalous moments (dodging the Omega Beam in the final episode being the biggest "offender" by far), but said moments ultimately amounted to nothing anyway.

    So pretty much your entire argument is, "It works cause everyone was nerfed?"

    Just so we're clear.

    That wasn't the entire argument... but yeah, you run with that.

    Just Saiyan.

    It was in every point you stated, so...

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    We'll yes if you take all the plot armour and the bullets the cops miss..

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    He wasn't until Justice League

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    Every Batman is

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    No and the comic book version is more powerful.

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    Every Batman is

    And that's what I hate most about Batman. He's supposed to be "human", but does stuff like this. Yes I know it's comics and all but it irks me to know that members of the Justice League, hell people with superpowers are more human than him.

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    @nerevarine_11 said:

    Every Batman is

    And that's what I hate most about Batman. He's supposed to be "human", but does stuff like this. Yes I know it's comics and all but it irks me to know that members of the Justice League, hell people with superpowers are more human than him.

    His power doesn't come from physical strength because we know that Superman, Captain Marvel and many others are stronger.

    His power come from is intelligence and knowledge, he can outsmart anyone.

    Far from every Batman is overpowered ! He's let people die or get hurt (Robin or Batgirl for exemple), he's got beaten a few times (Bane in Knightfall for exemple), he's needed help from others (in No Man's Land for exemple), he doesn't know everything (Court of the Owls for exemple), ...

    Haters are alway gonna hate.

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    #38  Edited By Eto

    @jb681131 said:
    @jeremy1989 said:
    @nerevarine_11 said:

    Every Batman is

    And that's what I hate most about Batman. He's supposed to be "human", but does stuff like this. Yes I know it's comics and all but it irks me to know that members of the Justice League, hell people with superpowers are more human than him.

    His power doesn't come from physical strength because we know that Superman, Captain Marvel and many others are stronger.

    His power come from is intelligence and knowledge, he can outsmart anyone.

    Far from every Batman is overpowered ! He's let people die or get hurt (Robin or Batgirl for exemple), he's got beaten a few times (Bane in Knightfall for exemple), he's needed help from others (in No Man's Land for exemple), he doesn't know everything (Court of the Owls for exemple), ...

    This

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    Brave and the Bold version is more powerful than DCAU Batman.

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    No.

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    He dodged the Omega Beams. Everything else I can buy.

    And it was supposed to be a more powerful version of Darkseid. Don't even give me Luthor killing Parademons, parademons are fodder, literally. Their job is to swarm and overwhelm and even in the comics Robin has taken out several at once.

    The Omega Beams, smh. And I like Batman.

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    #42  Edited By Jeremy1989

    @jb681131 said:
    @jeremy1989 said:
    @nerevarine_11 said:

    Every Batman is

    And that's what I hate most about Batman. He's supposed to be "human", but does stuff like this. Yes I know it's comics and all but it irks me to know that members of the Justice League, hell people with superpowers are more human than him.

    His power doesn't come from physical strength because we know that Superman, Captain Marvel and many others are stronger.

    His power come from is intelligence and knowledge, he can outsmart anyone.

    Far from every Batman is overpowered ! He's let people die or get hurt (Robin or Batgirl for exemple), he's got beaten a few times (Bane in Knightfall for exemple), he's needed help from others (in No Man's Land for exemple), he doesn't know everything (Court of the Owls for exemple), ...

    Haters are alway gonna hate.

    I don't hate Batman as a character, I hate this ideal that he is this Prep God/BatGod that people praise him to be. That he can beat everybody due to PIS/CIS.

    For example...

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    When he defeated Spectre with one kick.

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    #43  Edited By jb681131

    @jeremy1989: I agree that some writters tend to make too mush of a "batgod" and that also annoys me.

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    @jb681131 said:

    @jeremy1989: I agree that some writters tend to make too mush of a "batgod" and that also annoys me.

    Speaking of which...

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    His power level fluctuated so much it's impossible to say. With the Justice League he's stomping teambusters but in the streets of Gotham he struggles with lone thugs. It happens.

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    @jeremy1989: batman didn't defeat spectre with one kick but spectre let him kick because he killed the person that batman was trying to save

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    @jeremy1989: batman didn't defeat spectre with one kick but spectre let him kick because he killed the person that batman was trying to save

    Still, it's a ridicules moment. Too ridicules even for metahuman standards. Although ironically, he is now deemed metahuman for some reason. I think his only superpower is nerfing powerful beings.

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    @jeremy1989: Then I hope he keeps using this nerfing powers as long as he is in jla.Makes comic books interesting because they would suck without plot.

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