10 Times Batman Outsmarted Everyone

There's something naturally soothing to the brain to see Batman encounter smug villains with superiority complexes, and then watch him mercilessly dunk on them with elaborate, intelligent plans. And of all the DC villains, Darkseid is undeniably the smuggest, and thus the most satisfying to see ruthlessly proved wrong about his perceived invulnerability.

Upon learning that Orion and Darkseid have roughly the same genetic makeup, Batman analyses the bullet that took Orion out until he finds its most important component, radion. Building a radion bullet - and a gun specially made for it - the Dark Knight hunts down Darkseid, and straight up shoots him with it, breaking his one rule this one time to save the world.

While this scheme only works with some later temporal shenanigans and the help of the Flash, it's still mind-blowingly impressive that Batman managed to take down Darkseid in a way that was still somehow totally in character.