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    Character » Batman appears in 23535 issues.

    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.

    Why did batman choose a bat as the animal to put fear into others

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    Edited By Batman15

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    #1  Edited By joshmightbe

    Bats have a long history of being symbols of fear throughout most of western culture

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    #2  Edited By gravitypress

    Bats carry rabies.

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    #3  Edited By ARMIV2

    Bats are what Bruce is(was, maybe) afraid of. One happened to fly in his chamber when he was in the middle of choosing a symbol too.

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    #4  Edited By iLLituracy

    Because your momma.

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    #5  Edited By duchess

    Because with enough prep time, bats can do anything.

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    #6  Edited By Mercy_
    @iLLituracy

    Because your momma.

    How eloquent.
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    #7  Edited By Saren

    Because it flew through his window at the right time. That's all there is to it. If someone had hurled a cat through that window at the right time, Thomas Blake would still be a fat loser.

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    #8  Edited By iLLituracy

    @The Dark Huntress said:

    @iLLituracy

    Because your momma.

    How eloquent.

    Much like your momma.

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    #9  Edited By Mercy_
    @iLLituracy

    @The Dark Huntress said:

    @iLLituracy

    Because your momma.

    How eloquent.

    Much like your momma.

    My mother's actually incredibly eloquent and articulate, thanks.
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    #10  Edited By RainEffect
    @The Dark Huntress said:
    @iLLituracy

    @The Dark Huntress said:

    @iLLituracy

    Because your momma.

    How eloquent.

    Much like your momma.

    My mother's actually incredibly eloquent and articulate, thanks.
    LOL
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    #11  Edited By iLLituracy

    @The Dark Huntress said:

    @iLLituracy

    @The Dark Huntress said:

    @iLLituracy

    Because your momma.

    How eloquent.

    Much like your momma.

    My mother's actually incredibly eloquent and articulate, thanks.

    You're welcome.

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    #12  Edited By Mercy_

    Whatevs.

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    #13  Edited By Mercy_
    @RainEffect ;)
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    #14  Edited By difficlus

    @ARMIV2 said:

    Bats are what Bruce is(was, maybe) afraid of. One happened to fly in his chamber when he was in the middle of choosing a symbol too.

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    #15  Edited By batkevin74

    It was a serendipitous synergistic meeting of Bruce's childhood and current situation. And if say a hawk, turtle, kite, your momma or shoe had thrown through that window then just maybe we'd have Hawk Man or Turtle Man or Kite Man or Your Momma Man or Shoe Man but luckily it was a bat!

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    #16  Edited By Gambit1024

    Lol... Your Momma Man...

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    #17  Edited By Superguy0009e

    @CitizenBane: i think we should have thrown a random animal, like a jaguar or a horse through the window then

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    #18  Edited By Mega_spidey01

    it should have been a dolphin or a bear them, he just be bear-man. lol

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    #19  Edited By CATPANEXE

    I believe it's never been fully disclosed. Bob had set him as Bird-Man, and generated from a different character archetype prior to it, one mainly resembling a dog which mirrored the usual popular cartoon trope of the time, Mickey, Goofy, ect. The creative teams at the time fully admit however a complete take off the Shadow, and that character being an inspiration for " Bird-man" and in the novels they point to as inspiration their is a gross amount of bat references. Some believe this to be the inspiration proper, the only one in writing however was they looked in a dictionary at a picture of a bat, and used the ears for the characters cowl, whose originally looked dog like and the rest went from there.

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    @iLLituracy said:

    @The Dark Huntress said:

    @iLLituracy

    @The Dark Huntress said:

    @iLLituracy

    Because your momma.

    How eloquent.

    Much like your momma.

    My mother's actually incredibly eloquent and articulate, thanks.

    You're welcome.

    QFT!!!!!

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    #21  Edited By RedOwl_1

    In Year One Bruce takes it like a "message" of his father or something alike

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    #22  Edited By InnerVenom123

    @RedOwl_1 said:

    In Year One Bruce takes it like a "message" of his father or something alike

    In Year One, a bat crashes into his study, which he takes as a message.

    I think you meant to say that.

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    #23  Edited By RedOwl_1

    @InnerVenom123 said:

    @RedOwl_1 said:

    In Year One Bruce takes it like a "message" of his father or something alike

    In Year One, a bat crashes into his study, which he takes as a message.

    I think you meant to say that.

    Well, the line says "Yes, father I shall become a bat"

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    #24  Edited By InnerVenom123

    @RedOwl_1 said:

    @InnerVenom123 said:

    @RedOwl_1 said:

    In Year One Bruce takes it like a "message" of his father or something alike

    In Year One, a bat crashes into his study, which he takes as a message.

    I think you meant to say that.

    Well, the line says "Yes, father I shall become a bat"

    I know.

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    #25  Edited By Mutant God

    Because Bruce had a fear of bats

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    #26  Edited By luckydomino1

    he choose a bat because of a child hood encounter with them he was scared of bats and he over came his fear and became batman

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    #27  Edited By Jonny_Anonymous
    @Superguy0009e said:

    @CitizenBane: i think we should have thrown a random animal, like a jaguar or a horse through the window then

    Clearly Zoom should go back in time and throw a gold fish through the window
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    #28  Edited By RedOwl_1

    @InnerVenom123 said:

    @RedOwl_1 said:

    @InnerVenom123 said:

    @RedOwl_1 said:

    In Year One Bruce takes it like a "message" of his father or something alike

    In Year One, a bat crashes into his study, which he takes as a message.

    I think you meant to say that.

    Well, the line says "Yes, father I shall become a bat"

    I know.

    That's my reason

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    #29  Edited By Superguy0009e

    @spiderbat87: or maybe a random animal, like a silverfish or a toad

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    #30  Edited By cosmo111687

    @joshmightbe said:

    Bats have a long history of being symbols of fear throughout most of western culture

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