# How did Batman dodge the draft? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 19, 2005, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-batman-dodge-the-draft/322442 "2005-09-19T23:07:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2005, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-batman-dodge-the-draft/322442/41 "2005-09-21T20:42:41Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Quoth **toadspittle** :Wow… I don’t _think_ you’re my brother-in-law, but both of my grandfathers were exempted as steelworkers, too, one of them in Johnstown. One of my grandfathers was exempted because he was one of only a handful of welders in the country who could work on live pipelines. He tried several times to enlist and was always rejected. ---
**Author:** ![Odinoneeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/97f17d/32.png) [@Odinoneeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odinoneeye)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2005, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-batman-dodge-the-draft/322442/42 "2005-09-21T20:44:55Z")
However, most of the JSA did join the military during WWII. The one exception was the Spectre. I mean being dead is a pretty good excuse to avoid military service. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2005, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-batman-dodge-the-draft/322442/43 "2005-09-21T21:39:35Z")
> [@bubastis](#): > > Or was the vietnam war never referenced in Batman’s history? Any one think this is a cool premise? Bat-nam? In current continuity, Batman is about my age (a truly depressing thought; before longer I’ll be OLDER THAN BATMAN); so he’d have been too young. In the Bronze Age, I’m sure he could have found a way to wiggle out of t had he been so inclined, what with being a billionaire and all. (Okay, he was just a millionare back then, but a $450 M fortune in 1980 was a lot more than it is today.) Batman in 'Nam would make a nice elseworlds. It could be his first meeting with Ra’s al Ghul. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2005, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-batman-dodge-the-draft/322442/44 "2005-09-21T22:00:28Z")
> [@Odinoneeye](#): > > However, most of the JSA did join the military during WWII. They did? In the period stories or as a retcon? ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2005, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-batman-dodge-the-draft/322442/45 "2005-09-21T23:28:31Z")
How did Batman dodge the draft? Simple. Batman can dodge _anything_. Have you seen how nimble he is? ---
**Author:** ![Skott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Skott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skott)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2005, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-batman-dodge-the-draft/322442/46 "2005-09-22T00:14:22Z")
> [@wolf\_meister](#): > > **cbawlmer** > Yes, I wasn’t too thrilled about Ali’s non-violent conscientious objector stance either. (I mean if he played badminton, tetherball or croquet that would have been different). Oh, I don’t know about badminton. When you’ve got something called a “shuttlecock” moving at over 300kph towards your head, you’re not thinking of peace, love, and the good of all mankind. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2005, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-batman-dodge-the-draft/322442/47 "2005-09-22T18:50:08Z")
Never get off the Bat-Boat. Absoultely God damn right. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-batman-dodge-the-draft/322442.md?page=2)