Ever wonder how much it would really cost to become Batman? Well, a few kind souls have done the maths for you. A group of students at Lehigh University leave the serious business of economics to smarter minds, choosing instead to apply their expertise to finding answers to burning questions like How many zombies would it take to defeat the Nazis? and publishing the results on their blog Centives. They have taken a particular interest in the Batman, calculating the average cost of Batmobiles over the years (about $215,000) and attempting to determine how much Bruce Wayne is actually worth and how much of that cash goes into his hobby. After taking into account expenses like martial arts instructors, private jets, gadgets and Alfreds wages, they estimated that becoming Batman would cost about $2.8 million a far cry from the MoneySuperMarkets sums estimating that it would cost a whopping $682 million. As for Bruce Waynes net worth, they calculated that Wayne Enterprises has a net income of almost $1.5 billion and Bruce himself would be worth $11.6 billion a step up from famed American business magazine Forbes most recent estimate of a $9.2 billion personal fortune. Going down the middle of the two best estimates available, Bruce Wayne is worth at least $10 billion, and although this only amounts to approximately a third of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg's assets, everyone is fairly certain the Prince of Gotham would take him in a fight.
I watch movies and I watch sport. I also watch movies about sport, and if there were a sport about movies I'd watch that too. The internet was the closest thing I could find.
