8 Movie Characters With Completely Irrational Fears

2. Bruce Wayne Spends His Days Hanging Out With Bats, Can't Stand Bats

Bruce Wayne doesn't like bats; owing to a childhood incident in which a swarm of the little blighters flew at him, Bruce can't stand it when he sees one before him, and especially not when Scarecrow is using his 'fear toxin' to show Bruce one of those little demons up close. "Bats frighten me", he tells Alfred unequivocally, in case you didn't get it. Which can't be absolutely true, seeing as how Bruce Wayne spends so much of his day with bats he barely has any time left over for humans. He may deny it, but Batman loves bats: he dresses like a bat, flies like a bat, practically lives amongst bats, even calls for his bat friends to help him out when he gets into trouble. When his night-time vigilante sessions hit a snag, Bruce signals any winged rodents flying by to temporarily incapacitate his enemies. As they fly all around him providing a distraction, Bruce is the only one tough enough to handle the vampiric horde; and yet as soon as the Scarecrow unleashes his toxin, Batman is once again crippled by his bat-fright, almost as though all that hanging out with bats was completely pointless, and weird. It's not just that the fear is irrational, it's that it's also both illogical and entirely self-serving.