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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.

    What makes your ideal Batsuit and why?

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    Poll What makes your ideal Batsuit and why? (46 votes)

    Soft cowl 20%
    Hard cowl 65%
    Short ears 22%
    Medium ears 63%
    Long ears 9%
    Hush style bat symbol 59%
    TDKR/BvS style bat symbol 24%
    Bat symbol with yellow background 13%
    Suit composed of tights 7%
    Suit composed of advanced protective mesh 67%
    Suit composed of armor 28%
    Gloves with gauntlets 78%
    Gloves without gauntlets 9%
    Black utility belt 22%
    Yellow utility belt 41%
    Gold utility belt 15%
    Bronze utility belt 7%
    Grey utility belt 11%
    Utility belt with puches 39%
    Utility belt with capsules 28%
    New52 style utility belt 57%
    Trunks 24%
    No trunks 52%
    Other 9%

    The Batsuit has often been portrayed inconsistently (not in a bad way), with the core parts/aspects changing as needed either due to plot, the style of the artist or some other reason.

    For the purposes of this poll, I am defining the core parts of the Batsuit as:

    • Cowl
    • Ears
    • Gloves
    • Utility Belt
    • Suit material
    • Trunks
    • Bat symbol

    All of these have been depicted differently. The cowl has been depicted as a soft and flexible and able to be draped over something, and other times as a hard helmet. The ears vary in Length to the short Batfleck ears to the exaggerated Kelly Jones ears. The gloves tend to stay the same except if they have gauntlets or not. The utility belt has varied from black to grey to yellow to brown to gold, and from being pouches to weird tube canisters. The suit material has sometimes been a spandexxy material, sometimes been an advanced protective mesh and other times been straight up armor.

    I think I've listed most of the main variations above, and would love to hear which parts people consider to be ideal and why.

    For me personally:

    • A soft cowl. A hard cowl makes more sense in many ways, but I just prefer the soft cowl.
    • I like medium length ears. Long ears are too impractical, and if they are too short they may as well be absent
    • Gloves should definitely have Gauntlets.
    • Utility belt should have pouches, and ideally be a very muted yellowish grey. I love the yellow belt, but hate it whenever it is made bright. Kind of goes against the whole stealth thing.
    • The ideal suit material for me is when it looks like tights, but is actually an advanced mesh. He retains his iconic look, has protection but not to the point it hampers flexibility.
    • I love the trunks look, but can admit it is outdated. So no trunks for me, but ideally they can be replaced with something more modern looking that retains the color pattern.
    • The Hush bat symbol is my favorite. The TDKR symbol is too big. While I like the idea of a yellow chest emblem to draw fire, I think it makes even more sense not to try and draw fire at all.
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    Hard Cowl

    Medium Ears

    Bat Symbol with Yellow Background

    Suit composed of Armor

    Gloves with Gauntlets

    New 52 Utility Belt

    Batman has trunks?? Please explain.

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    #2  Edited By MuyJingo

    Ahh I forgot to add in options for white eyes.

    @deathstroke52: What people often call underwear on a costume, are trunks.

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    @muyjingo: They're alright but I prefer regular.

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    @deathstroke52: Why?

    For me the white eyes are iconic, and make sense as they help to hide his identity and humanity, which is useful when he was intent on becoming a myth.

    The only time I don't mind the lack of white eyes is when Alex Ross draws him.

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    #7  Edited By deathstroke52

    @muyjingo: Depends on how thick they are and how big the sockets are.

    They are iconic when done right.

    Batman: TAS is a good example of doing it right.

    EDIT: Alex Ross is a legend.

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    I think you should have added options for suit colour since he has either had black or grey since his inception (also cape and cowl colour between dark blue and black)

    Anyway my batsuit would be:

    • Hard cowl made of some light weight carbon fiber to protect his head from blunt impact
    • Medium length ears
    • Bat symbol inside of the gold oval (ie Burton's Batman logo)
    • Grey Batsuit made of somekind of high flexability protective mesh with armour plating in important areas (chest, thighs)
    • Gloves with armoured gauntlets to use for blocking melee weapons (like in the Arkham games)
    • Gold ultility belt with pouches
    • No trunks
    • Black cape and cowl

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    #9  Edited By infantfinite128

    Hard Cowl- After Knightfall where the panther bit into his cowl, I think it's wisest to stick with this!

    Medium Ears- Just enough to look like a Bat, but not too long to be impractical. I'd think he'd want his costume to take less surface area as possible

    The Dark Knight Returns Bat-symbol- I prefer it to be smaller like how Bruce Timm drew it in the New Batman Adventures though. The angular Bat-symbol is much more bold than the curvy one, and I think that fits his character. Batman wears the oval in all my favorite stories so it was tough not to pick it!

    Suit composed of Advanced Protective Mesh- It's just way more practical than tights.

    Gloves with Gauntlets- I loved how they showed practicality for them in the Nolan trilogy.

    Yellow Utility Belt- Muted colors though

    Belt with Pouches- Just looks old school and practical.

    No Trunks- For the longest time I had a nostalgic attachment to the trunks, but now I wish they were no longer present in my old favorite stories!

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    Best way I could put it is Greg Capullo's Batman if he had longer ears.

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    @muyjingo: you also forgot color . I'd go with medium ears, mesh, hush bat symbol, gloves w gauntlets, cape and cowl very dark blue

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    If batman Arkham asylum video game batman had a little shorter ears would be perfect

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    @playswithsquirrels: I'm going to have to say no on the undies haha I feel like we should have really abandoned that style a while ago

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    #16  Edited By ULTRAstarkiller

    Hard Cowl

    Long Ears

    Hush Batsymbol

    Suit of Protective Mesh

    Yellow/Gold Utility belt

    New 52 style belt

    Gloves with gauntlets

    No trunks

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    Hard Cowl

    Medium Ears

    Advanced protective mesh suit

    Hush Batsymbol

    Gloves w/Gauntlets

    Gold Utility Belt

    New 52 style belt

    No trunks

    Also the Cape, Cowl, Boots, and Gloves must be black and the suit has to be grey.

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    Hard Cowl

    Medium ears

    Protective mesh

    Yellow oval bat-symbol

    Gloves with gauntlets

    Gold belt

    New 52 style belt

    No trunks

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    Batman wearing it.

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    Armored and protective mesh - makes more sense because he would often run into situation that the criminal would have a weapon

    Gaunlets-when he is fighting so one with bladed weapon for example especially deathstroke or sword welding characters.

    Short ears- batman begins and hush batman have short ears beside it makes more sense so whenever batman is hiding in covers in stealth situations. No one would notice him

    Black utility belt-so he could more blended with the night and darkness

    New 52 utility belt- I just like the style of it, that's all

    Belt pouches- it more realistic that way and make more sense where he can keep his batarangs.

    Jim lee bat symbol- tough I like the circle bat emblem but I just like how it looks great.

    White eyes if they are done right like btas and maybe make the cowl look angry looking then it will be perfect beside the white eyes would be useful for detective mode.

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    Everybody against them trunks tho.

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    uru Armour batsuit would pawn ruin king THOR, Odin, surtur and the serpent all in the same day.

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