Who wins?
Well, are talking about the entire Boy Scouts of America orginization, every Boy Scout in the world, or an elite squad of commando Eagle Scouts? What about the Order of the Arrow? I must have details!
Satisfying Andy Licious
I love your handle! Find myself saying it to myself from time to time. Is that from “Candy Man” or just similar?
Believe it or not, I almost posted a thread about the Boy Scouts earlier today. Was going to ask how many people were either scouts or were avid readers of the manuals. (I’m in the latter group, FWIW)
Anyway, to your point/question: I’d go with the scouts.
Yeah, the Scouts are always prepared.
Yeah, but Batman has been hanging out with young boys for a long time and he knows how they think.
There is no fight. Scouts have that restraining order on Bats keeping him away from underage boys, remember?
Holy pederast, Batman!
NoClueBoy
Is that a triple entendre?
Get 'em, boys! Don’t be afraid to use your nails!
/Radioactive Man, the movie
Ha! I forgot about the priests.
Good catch, Zeldar.
I can beat that.
Dick Gayson: Holy NAMBLA, Batman! We’re caught in a squeeze play!
Bruise Swain: Steady, boy wonder, my little chum. We’ve been in darker and tighter places than this. And we will again.
Decuple entendre.
While I’ll admit that Batman’s arsenal is formidible, I’ve seen what implements of mayhem a bunch of teenage boys can improvise in the middle of the woods. Has Batman ever produced a “campfire” visible from fifteen miles away on the other side of a hill? No? I didn’t think so.
The scouts could always render him helpless with several good kicks to the shins. I don’t think anyone can stand in excess of four or five good kicks to the shins without taking a break for a while.
I was (or still am, I guess) an Eagle Scout.
I agree with Chronos. Industrious teenagers, especially those with scouting skills, can raise some hell. I’ve seen four 16 year old scouts build (over the course of a one week summer camp) a 35 foot tall tower, a monkey bridge, and a catapult capable of launching oranges across the lake (probably 175-200 yards.) And don’t get me started on fires.
Batman has himself referred to Superman as a “boy scout”. So, obviously, the Scouts get the Last Son of Krypton to help them.
In the 1940’s, Captain Marvel acted as a Scoutmaster in one issue. So, the kids get Captain Marvel.
The odds look a little better now.
The same thing would happen that ALWAYS happens.
Batman and the Boy Scouts mix it up.
Batman gets his ass kicked.
Batman either escapes, barely, with his life, or the Boy Scouts put him in a deathtrap which he barely escapes with his life.
Batman heals up in the Batcave for a couple days while doing intensive anti-Boy Scout research.
Batman comes back with a couple anti-Boy Scout gadgets and a couple new moves, and utterly slaughters the Boy Scouts, right and left.
Gotham City police clean up the mess. Batman strikes a cool pose on a roof cornice, cape swirling in the wind.
Same stuff, different day…
It was all a misunderstanding. A group of Scouts showed up at Wayne manor. Bruce asked them “What do you do?”
They replied “Webelos.”
“You do?” he said, and things went downhill.
From the song. As a kid, I asked if they were singing about me on the radio, this led to blank looks from the adults, presaging several minutes of confusion, until I sang the song for them complete with the reference to satisfying Andy. That lead to a laugh fest from which I still bear the psychological scars.
“Webeloes” is such a low, crude, nasty little reference. I love it, a’course.
The thread title alone is worth the price of admission.
“Alfred … hand me the Bat Lube.”