10 Stupid Arguments About Batman That Don't Make Sense

1. He's The World's Greatest Detective

Batman's origin story has been told time and again, in dozens of different formats and slightly tweaked takes. In every single one, though, a key part of Bruce Wayne's journey from orphan to superhero involves a round-the-world field trip. That's where he learns to hone both body and mind, training with everyone from master criminals, to boxers, to pick pockets, to martial arts legends, to private detectives.

The physical side of his Batman persona has been well covered, and hasn't been found lacking. The detective part, though, leaves a little to be desired. But there's nobody who will argue otherwise: he's the world's greatest detective. It appears as the byline on comic covers a lot of the time. Heck, he's the star of a series called Detective Comics. A series that's run for nearly a century, no less. And yet it's a misnomer.

Batman really isn't much of a detective a lot of the time. Sure, when he's being written well he is, and if he's appearing in a certain type of story. But really, how much detective work does he do in the Nolan films? Or the Burton ones, for that matter? There's barely any detecting going on at all.

Say Batman isn't a superhero, call him a fun-loving joker, call him the worst member of the Justice League of America. Just don't ever try and argue he's ever a detective, let alone the world's greatest. (That's Sherlock Holmes. Duh.)