7 Villains Batman Has NEVER Defeated
Not even the ever-prepared World's Greatest Detective could topple these rogues.
One of the great unspoken rules of comics is that Batman can pretty much beat any villain who exists within the DC Universe.
He may not have any superpowers to speak of, but Bruce Wayne has taken down a who's who of rogues over the decades. Whether it's otherworldly, all-powerful forces, crime bosses, street gangs, or deranged lunatics with a penchant for chaos, the Caped Crusader usually emerges as the victor in any such fight.
Batman is famous for always being prepared for any possible situation, and it's this level of forward-thinking that has so often served the Dark Knight well when stepping into battle. Throw in a genius IQ and an array of various gadgets, and you can see why you'd always back the Bat when it came to the crunch.
That said, Batman hasn't always emerged victorious from his scuffles. And while the World's Greatest Detective largely wins the proverbial war even if he loses the initial battle, there are a select few villains who Bruce has never gotten one over on yet.
With that in mind, then, here are seven villains who Batman has NEVER truly defeated.
7. Lady Shiva
Even by Batman's own admission, Lady Shiva is the best hand-to-hand fighter in the realm of the DC Universe.
The Caped Crusader may be at the very peak of human conditioning in terms of body and mind, and he may have trained under the tutelage of some of the best martial artists on the planet, not to mention have a genius-level IQ to help him out, yet even he bows down to the clinical, badass nature of Lady Shiva.
Whenever Batman and Shiva have faced off, neither have particularly got the upper hand. That said, there's so often a sense that Lady Shiva is holding back whenever she comes up against the Dark Knight - with both fighters knowing who would really win should they properly engage in a fight to the death.
There's no shame whatsoever in being bested by Lady Shiva. Many a hero and villain haven been left lifeless at the feet of Shiva, and Batman is just one in a long, long list of people who are unable to get one up on this supervillain-turned-occasional antihero.