10 Stupid Arguments About Batman That Don't Make Sense

8. He's Not A Real Superhero

How do you define a superhero? Superman is the first real such character to appear in comic books, setting the template of a guy with heightened abilities in a cape and tights. Batman followed soon after, and was in a similar mould.

However, unlike the Krypton-born Man of Steel, Bruce Wayne was very much a son of Earth, a regular human being. Whilst Clark Kent had otherworldly abilities owing to his origin, Batman is just a person. So he's not really a superhero, right?

Is a superhero just somebody with powers who doesn't use them for ill? That doesn't seem quite right. And yet that's the justification people always give for not characterising the Caped Crusader as a "real" superhero, in the same way they would Superman, Wonder Woman, or even Martian Manhunter.

Is he really more of a superhero than Batman? It's all the more ridiculous when you consider that Batman kind of does have superpowers, if you quantify them as being abilities beyond most human beings. Nobody on Earth - fictional or otherwise - has the martial arts training, resources, or deductive reasoning that Batman does. (Nor his eerily supernatural ability to always be two steps ahead of everyone, whether friend or foe.)