Inherited billions doesn't hurt either.

Later in the episode, Captain Jerk loses his powers, but don't worry, Aquaman gives him a pep talk or something:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yE8C1WWixgc

I was a little let down that we didn't see more realistic remains of Batman after each attack. Skeletal remains still smoldering from the ray incinerated flesh. Lichtenberg figures burned into his pale electrocuted corpse from the lightning attack. A mangled and broken body from being crushed like a grape. Ottherwise, boffo!

The sound of the batarang hitting the pavement was fine comedy, though.

Plus, Giganta was originally a gorilla who was transformed into a human being against her will. That's at least three more fetishes.

Everything about Giganta is a throwback to a time so long ago that nobody reading this was alive during it.

Batman used to suck a lot of dicks.

Giganta scene was best scene.

It was a more innocent time, Caminante. A time when giant women still wore skirts, because pants were for the giant menfolk.

Except for Galactus

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I'm a joyless fart, too! Two stars!

Yes, and beating up the mentally ill.

His power is the State of Texas

Nah, this is Captain Atom, who BTW is the character that Dr. Manhattan from "The Watchmen" is based on.

They look and act very similar. I looked into it and the Teen Titans character Val Yor seems based on him. They're both silver and racist, however, Val Yor didn't have a problem with Robin not having super powers, he was just racist towards starfires.

I just thought of a paradox. While Batman rarely takes on superhuman foes, t's pretty much canon that Superman's greatest nemesis is Lex Luthor, whose only power is ingenuity. This seems like an elegant irony all of a sudden, and it makes me respect Luthor a lot more, though I wish they�d given him a better origin story. Supposedly, Luthor turned evil when he blamed Superman for the laboratory accident that made him bald. That's a pretty trivial motive for seventy five years of murderous villainy.

My age is showing. According to wikipedia, Luthor has been retooled.

Lex Luthor typically appears in comic books and other media as a business magnate with a bald head. However, Luthor was originally depicted as a recluse who, in the vein of pulp novels, wreaks havoc on the world with his futuristic weaponry. The character was later remodeled as a well-known business magnate and philanthropist of Metropolis. In his earliest appearances, Luthor is shown with a full head of red hair. Despite this, the character later became hairless as the result of an artist's mistake. A 1960 story by Jerry Siegel expanded upon Luthor's origin and motivations, revealing him to be a childhood friend of Superman's who lost his hair when a fire destroyed his laboratory, a fire which Luthor blamed on Superboy, who was attempting to save Luthor from a lifeform Luthor had created in vitro that was threatening to kill Luthor.[4][5] In current continuity, Luthor's hatred of Superman stems from viewing him as a rival for the status of the most powerful man in Metropolis.

this is in the context of JLA Batman, where he is teaming with other super heroes to fight global threats. While the guy in the video does have a point, Batman's "super power" is basically that he would never be in those situations. His power is foresight, knowledge and willpower greater than anyone else. He is almost always written in a co-leadership role, with Superman, as the tactician and seeker of justice above all else as counterpoint to Superman's physical abilities and benevolent view of humanity.

What makes Batman and Superman resonate so much with culture is that they ultimately represent, respectively, a pessimistic and optimistic view of humanity, i.e. humanity is inherently bad/good. Their interactions, both created and on a more meta level (cultural popularity), represent that argument that is fundamental to our own view of the world.

They've changed Lex's origin over and over. These days, he was basically always an asshole whose assholery grew over the years. The "hair" thing was introduced as an explanation that a ten-year-old reader might accept, and it hasn't been "real" for 30 years now.

If I had to do a Lex Luthor origin, it would be that Lex Luthor was essentially Doc Savage: an adventurer, a scientist, a Man of Bronze and a living legend. Even a mostly all right guy too, with only two character flaws: he expects to be recognized as the most fascinating guy in the room, and he's vain about his full, overflowing head of hair. So when a certain Man of Steel shows up, and eclipses Lex Luthor without even wanting anything except the opportunity to be kind, stress starts eating at Lex and his hair begins to fall out.

Luthor's main motivation, as pretty consistently written now, is that Humans do not need Superman, and that Superman ultimately makes Humanity weaker, because of their reliance on him. He will always have monetary motivations as well, but he views himself as the pinnacle of what Humanity can achieve on its own (almost always the richest person in the DC universe), and Superman is an affront to that, as a power even greater, but one that can never be achieved by Humans

Lex's baldness has been retconned multiple times. I think now, most writers use the "caused by overexposure to kryptonite" explanation.

>>Luthor's main motivation, as pretty consistently written now, is that Humans do not need Superman, and that Superman ultimately makes Humanity weaker, because of their reliance on him. He will always have monetary motivations as well, but he views himself as the pinnacle of what Humanity can achieve on its own (almost always the richest person in the DC universe), and Superman is an affront to that, as a power even greater, but one that can never be achieved by Humans.

In other words, a Republican.

Wow, replace "superman" with "big government", and that totally works!

And I think Superman sort of agrees with Lex in large measure these days -- that it's Lex, not Superman, who could save mankind. Superman's frustration is that Lex refuses to.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucBHrxzXLUM

*sorry to interrupt, but this conversation made my morning. Thanks!!* :)

Batman is a villain.. you know what, no, I wont say anything. Not here.

Submit another Batman video, any Batman video, and I will Joseph Campbell Kamahamaha Batman into oblivion before all of your eyes, leaving only Superman in his ashes.

But not here.

This is sacred ground, Lowlanders.

Let our battleground be here!

http://www.poetv.com/video.php?vid=143230&what=VOTING

Nahh, Batman may punch criminals in the face, but Bruce Wayne spends a lot of time and effort trying to do something about crime from the other direction (giving ex-cons a job so they don't return to crime, alleviating poverty, etc). If you want to blame anyone for the Joker not getting the chair, that's the courts.

You say that like you're not one of us.

YOUR CUTIE MARK IS THE JOKER HITTING ROBIN WITH A CROWBAR

No, I'm a jock. And as a jock, it is my duty to give nerds a hard time!

Also, my cutie mark is HARLEY whacking Robin with a HAMMER, smart guy.

Today, I have a cat who is dying. Thanks for making me laugh.

Very sorry about your cat.

They say that life can be nasty, brutish, and short, but you kept all that away from your kitty as long as could be done. That's mighty decent of you.

John, please post a picture of your cat. I really wanted to do a painting of you, but that is evidently not happening; at least let me give you a gift to remember your kitty by.

You can argue that he's got blunt batarangs and razor sharp batarangs, that's how he keeps things from getting fatal. The one I want to know about is Captain America's shield, 12 pounds 3.2 oz of metal that can either rip through solid steel, or bounce off a Hydra agent's chest with no damage other than making him Fall Down.