10 Different Ways Batman Has Been Defeated

5. In Hand-To-Hand-Combat (By Someone Who Matrix'd Himself)

Really hoping that takes off as a verb. Grant Morrison is a man who returns to similar themes and tropes again and again, and his run on JLA in the early nineties was a riff on the same concept as Final Crisis. Principally, how exactly does a villain prevail in a universe that's rigged in favour of the good guys? Simple! You cheat. That's the tactic that Prometheus goes for, a character named for figure in Greek mythology, is essentially the anti-Batman.

His parents were criminals gunned down by police, which caused him to swear eternal justice against law enforcers. Which is why he wants to destroy the Justice League. By that logic, Batman is his first target. With nary the training nor motivation that the Dark Knight has, Prometheus elects to download the skills of the thirty greatest martial artists in the world, including Batman, into his helmet.

Like Neo in The Matrix, see? He knows kung fu.