Why?
I've never understood that. You know what the thread is before you even click on it. If you don't like the topic, don't click on it. Don't read it. And especially....don't post on it!
Some of us enjoy this topic though. So we're going to talk about it. Whether you like it or not. So nyah.
Batman is cool when they bring him back to his roots. I loved Nolan's take on the character - a driven guy with resources who's a badass, but not The Best At Everything In The World Who Can Beat Anyone Because He's The Best At Everything. He's more like James Bond with a cape. And sometimes the comics present him that way too, BUT....
When Batman is functioning in the DCU with superheroes, I'm fully on board with the OP. When Batman's in a story involving any other superhero, he totally sucks. Hard. Here's why...
1. He doesn't belong in the main DCU, and cramming him in there makes him hateful. Originally Batman was another masked pulp-hero like the Spirit, the Phantom, or Zorro. The character was designed to be street-level. He was never meant to operate in a universe with Kryptonians and Amazons. Batman was intended to fight crime, not super-powered crime.
But eventually DC had to put him in with the likes of Superman, Wonder Woman, and the Flash. But Batman's a regular human. He's rich, but ultimately he's a regular human armed with boomerangs and rope.
In order to make him able to hang with Superman and the Flash, he became a most obnoxious Mary Sue-type character. He's smarter than anyone, the best fighter ever, speaks every language known to man, can hack into any computer system, plays guitar better than Jimi Hendrix, and can dance better than Barishnakov.
The only way he could be any more obnoxious is if he was The Sentry.
2. He's the most unbelievable and unrealistic character ever. Here's why: So Superman can do the impossible. He can fly, see through walls, and can toss planets around. But there's an explanation. Superman's from Krypton. It's not much of an explanation, but at least its an explanation. All other characters have some kind of explanation, even if its dumb. The Hulk got hit with a Gamma Bomb, Spider-Man was bitten by a radioactive spider, etc. etc.
But not Batman. There's no explanation why Batman is the The Best At Everything Of All Time Ever Ever Ever. He's a Master of 127 martial arts? A Master? And he's Mastered criminal psychology, chemistry, history, law, escape, bullet-dodging, sleight-of-hand, military tactics, disguise, forensics, finance and business, lock picking, stealth, piloting & driving, espionage, mechanical engineering, projectile throwing, computer science, at least 24 languages, and all the other stuff I forgot about.
It takes 10,000 hours of study and practice to master one skill. That's practicing 8 hours a day, every day for 3 years and 4 months. "But Batman's really smart and has a photographic memory!" Ok, fine. But he's not superhuman. It's impossible for a human to master that many things. Impossible. Even for a genius with photographic memory. At least give us an explanation.
3. He has nothing to do with bats. He has no bat powers. Batman's schtick is gadgetry + "World's Greatest Detective". He should be called "Inspector Gadget". Why is he called Batman? He can't fly, he can't echolocate, he doesn't suck blood...there's nothing about what he does that's bat-like. He has a cave I guess, but so what? Lots of things live in caves. Bears live in caves, and they're way scarier than bats. Why isn't he Bear-Man? Makes as much sense.
4. He shacks up with adolescent boys and denies them pants.
5. Prep-time.
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