10 Comic Characters Who Have Beaten The Batman
5. The Mutant Leader
One of Batman's more crushingly humiliating defeat comes in the pages of The Dark Knight Returns, at the hand of the proto-Bane, The Mutant Leader.
Overestimating his own abilities, Batman leaps straight into a fight with the gargantuan mutie, and is rewarded with a thoroughly savage and brutal beatdown that he barely survives.
Of course, like almost every good battering he's ever had, The Bat recovers and evens the odds for round two, which takes place in a mud pit slash operating table, upon which limbs are shattered and Batman emerges the ultimate victor.