10 Times Batman Outsmarted Everyone

While Batman is placed in a position of trying to retake Gotham for most of No Man's Land, the series does make it evident that the hero can outsmart just about everyone he needs to, without any plan whatsoever.

From Ventriloquist, Poison Ivy, Scarecrow, and pretty much any villain he can lay his hands on, Batman slowly extracts their control over the city, and begins to slowly replace it with his own law and order - albeit a rudimentary sort, given the limited capabilities and supplies Gotham has throughout the series.

The level of planning this requires shows us the intense amount of thought batman puts into every aspect of his hero identity, as everything from building the mythos of Batman, to working out how to build a society that still functions when he is not directly present is explained on the page.

A lot of comics require you to already assume that batman is intelligent to believe he is capable of his feats. In No Man's Land, you could begin reading thinking Batman was a complete moron, and you'd still think he was capable of outsmarting anyone by the time you got the the end.