4. Mortals, Thy Limits Do Not Exist
Supermans family has nothing on these guys. I say this as a huge Bat-Fanatic, but my reasoning is not just the better costumes (which I will gladly debate any day with a Superfan). My reasoning for liking the Family has to do with the fact that they are all, and always will be, just a bunch of gents and lasses in costumes. Theres no heat vision shooting out of their eyes, no super breath that will freeze their foes, and if theyve lost their grappling hooks and access to all the toys, the Family aint flying out of a scrape. In all honesty, if it were a sudden hand-to-hand battle between the Supers and Bats, the Superclan will most likely win seven out of ten fights easy. And thats what makes the Bat-Family so much more compelling. Theyre mortals, humans with nothing going for them (beyond the personal expense accounts for gadgets that I will admit appear to be limitless). They have to train to be able to withstand the punch of Bane or any other villain thats packing a super-powered punch. There are years involved in learning the multiple forms of self-defence that each member of the Family now have down to art forms. The Family trains while being constantly surrounded by beings that seemingly prove the Familys obsolescence. This is the story of David vs. Goliath. Since the dawn of time readers want to root for an underdog. The Family, for all its wealth, has always been a long-shot in its battles. And whenever they rise too high, they fall just far enough to remain compelling. Readers feel so much more, and in the back of our minds were always thinking Gosh, with a few billion dollars, twenty years of training and a Batmobile, that could be me