10 Most Badass Batman Moments Ever

7. Batman Takes Out Superpowered Martians With Some Matches (JLA #1-4)

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During the New World Order story arc, a group of super powered individuals calling themselves the Hyperclan showed up on Earth and made it their mission to make the Justice League look bad by simply being better than them.

With public opinion in the Justice League starting to wane in favor of this new mysterious group of superheroes, the Justice League investigates the Hyperclan and discovers that they are actually using mind control to manipulate the public, which of course leads to the two teams punching the crap out of each other.

Batman is taken out early and presumed dead (he is, after all, only human) after his Batplane crashes during the battle. Eventually all of the Justice League is defeated and are taken to the Hyperclan stronghold to be tortured.

Of course, Batman isn’t dead, and while undercover deduces that the Hyperclan are actually evil White Martians, which means that they are susceptible to fire. He slinks around their stronghold, knocking off members of the Hyperclan one by one using nothing but a can of gasoline and some matches.

The leader of the Hyperclan, unable to comprehend how awesome Batman is, starts to freak out and question why his team of super powered aliens can’t stop one human man. A weakened Superman casually explains to him that Batman is the most dangerous man on the planet. Respect.

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Ryan Lynch is a freelance journalist from the United States. He currently lives in Adelaide, Australia and writes for Adelaide-based music magazine Rip It Up. He wishes he could live like Hank Moody, but he watches too much TV and plays too many videogames to be that nonchalant.