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The DCAU’s Dark Knight just revealed he thinks he doesn’t belong in the Justice League but he couldn’t be further from the truth.
WARNING: The following contains spoilers for Justice League Infinity #7, on sale now from DC Comics.
Batman is one of DC’s most iconic heroes. The company owes a large amount of its success to the Dark Knight, including its own name. Over the years, he has been a force of nature in Gotham and even lightyears beyond. As a founding member of the Justice League, he’s stood amongst gods and kings and held his own. Though such a thing might give one an inflated ego, apparently that isn’t the case for the World’s Greatest Detective.
As the narrator of Justice League Infinity #7 (by J.M. DeMatteis, James Tucker, Ethen Beavers, Nick Filardi and AW’s DC Hopkins), the Batman from the DC Animated Universe gave an insight into how he thinks, especially when he’s with his Justice League teammates. The multiverse was destroyed and the only survivors were Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, the Flash, Martian Manhunter and, of course, the Dark Knight. In the face of multiversal oblivion, Batman admitted that he felt he was powerless to stop it.
He explained how he was just an ordinary man and, obviously, that is true. Out of everyone in the original lineup of the DCAU’s Justice League, Batman is the only one without powers. Even though this universe started with him, through Batman: The Animated Series, he admitted that he feels he’s in over his head on the team. He said that, although he would never tell his fellow teammates, he often feels like he doesn’t belong in the Justice League. Throughout the first two seasons of the Justice League show, Batman did distance himself from the League. He funded them and supported them, but for the longest time, he always saw himself as outside help. Perhaps this feeling of inadequacy is why.
Of course, everything that Batman said here is simply untrue. Though he is a street-level crimefighter, he definitely is not in over his head. All of his teammates would agree that he’s perhaps the most well equipped out of all of them. He claimed that he didn’t know what to do to stop the death of the multiverse but, when it came down to it, he did. He led the team and told Green Lantern and Flash what to do. Even when it was Diana’s turn to save all life in existence, Batman helped her get through it. He was an essential part of saving the multiverse here.
It’s not just here that Batman has proven he’s wrong about his place in the Justice League. He’s proved it time and time again. Perhaps the best example of this is the infamous “Tower of Babel” story from JLA by Mark Waid and Howard Porter. In that story, Ra’s Al Ghul used the Dark Knight’s secret contingency plans to take down the entire Justice League. This proved that, if he wanted to, Batman could take down each and every one of Earth’s heroes with ease, including Superman and Wonder Woman.
As for the nigh omnipotent gods and demons the League faces, he’s more than capable of taking them on. Both in the DCAU and the regular DC Universe, he’s taken on Darkseid multiple times – and won. In the final episode of Justice League Unlimited, he was able to avoid Darkseid’s Omega beams, something that no one had ever done before. In the comics, he shot the Dark Lord of Apokolips in Final Crisis and once bested him in his own home, when he kidnapped Supergirl.
Batman may not believe he should be a part of the Justice League but he’s wrong. He’s more than a match for each and every one of them. Even when it comes to the cosmic threats they face, he may be a man but he can hold his own, and even win. If that isn’t someone who belongs in the Justice League, then no one does.
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