10 Times Batman Was A Total Jerk‏

4. When He Kept Records Of How To Take Down The Justice League

Right, so let's get back to that spy satellite, shall we? Because it wasn't enough that Batman was doing illegal surveillance on the entire planet, but that the theoretically impregnable AI turned out to be totally pregnable. Which, considering that by the point that Ra's al Ghul does manage to break into the system's archive and nab off with all the information that it had been cataloguing for years, it had detailed records of every member of the Justice League's biggest weaknesses? That's pretty terrible.

In JLA: Tower Of Babel it transpires that keeping and concealing hidden records concerning the strengths and weaknesses of his allies is not only something Batman does, but also that it's so he can easily neutralise any of his supposed friends if any of them goes rogue. Again, it's totally understandable with his being a little less trustworthy of the rest of the League after they got a bit too liberal with the mind-wiping antics, but this seems like a step too far. Even for the psychopathic torturer we've been profiling so far.

It was pretty awful of him to be doing that in the first place, but letting it fall into the hands of his greatest enemy is probably the ultimate jerk move by Batman in this scenario. Especially since the fates Ra's commits the rest of the team to are pretty torturous themselves, including making Aquaman pathologically scared off water (which he needs to live), trapping Wonder Woman in a virtual reality where she's constantly getting the crap kicked out of her, and Superman gets subjected to red kryptonite.

Sure, Batman didn't do any of these things personally - except creating the kryptonite, nice one Bruce - but he had all these plans written down and ready to go. What a jerk.