# I Was Literally Saved by Batman **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 30, 2019, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-literally-saved-by-batman/844214 "2019-11-30T23:42:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2019, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-literally-saved-by-batman/844214/1 "2019-11-30T23:42:41Z")
A recent Batman comic has Batman tied up and hanging upside down. As he escapes he does an internal monologue about how to undo the knot in the rope. Today I grabbed a pair of my fancy shoes that I don’t wear often and they had a major knot. I was in a hurry but I remembered the text and kind of did what he said and sure enough I got the knot out. So thanks Batman, you kind of saved the day! ---
**Author:** ![DorkVader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/73ab20/32.png) [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2019, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-literally-saved-by-batman/844214/2 "2019-12-01T01:19:20Z")
Somehow, as cool as that is, in my head I was picturing a Simpsons/Batman crossover, not what you said:D ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2019, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-literally-saved-by-batman/844214/3 "2019-12-01T01:20:20Z")
I remember a Little Archie comic in which an adult charges at him and Archie (who I guess is ten) does a judo-like movie and redirects the adult’s momentum, throwing her to the ground. I did the exact same move to a guy in high school when he charged at me for some reason, slammed him across the lockers. I have no idea what precipitated this - I barely knew the guy and it wasn’t a rough school - but I’m reasonably proud of that moment. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2019, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-literally-saved-by-batman/844214/4 "2019-12-01T02:37:43Z")
> [@Quimby](#): > > A recent Batman comic has Batman tied up and hanging upside down. As he escapes he does an internal monologue about how to undo the knot in the rope. Today I grabbed a pair of my fancy shoes that I don’t wear often and they had a major knot. I was in a hurry but I remembered the text and kind of did what he said and sure enough I got the knot out. > > So thanks Batman, you kind of saved the day! Holy socks! :eek: Why didn’t _I_ think of that? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2019, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-literally-saved-by-batman/844214/5 "2019-12-01T14:52:18Z")
When I was a kid and read Silver Age DC comics, I learned a lot from the one page things they had in them that had various scientific facts and what not on them. It was my first exposure to a bunch of stuff that fascinates me still. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2019, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-literally-saved-by-batman/844214/6 "2019-12-01T16:14:03Z")
And heck, some of those facts might even have been true! ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2019, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-literally-saved-by-batman/844214/7 "2019-12-02T19:23:46Z")
> [@Quimby](#): > > A recent Batman comic has Batman tied up and hanging upside down. As he escapes he does an internal monologue about how to undo the knot in the rope. Today I grabbed a pair of my fancy shoes that I don’t wear often and they had a major knot. I was in a hurry but I remembered the text and kind of did what he said and sure enough I got the knot out. > > So thanks Batman, you kind of saved the day! Don’t leave us hanging! What did you do? Beat the knot into submission? Use the Bat-Knot-Untying-Tool from your utility belt? Summon the Boy Wonder? ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2019, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-literally-saved-by-batman/844214/8 "2019-12-02T19:32:17Z")
“Twist and push”? ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2019, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-literally-saved-by-batman/844214/9 "2019-12-02T19:46:03Z")
> [@DCnDC](#): > > “Twist and push”? Ahhh, the “Twist And Shout” lost verse. ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2019, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-literally-saved-by-batman/844214/10 "2019-12-03T12:34:54Z")
The [Battle of Hastings](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Hastings) in 1066 was referenced for some reason in a mid-1960s DC comic book (I think it was _Batman_, and that Robin said it), and it stuck in my head. Years later, a teacher asked a question in class, to which that was the answer, and I gave it. I think she was impressed, and asked me what else I knew about the Battle. I knew nothing but the name and date.:o ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2019, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-literally-saved-by-batman/844214/11 "2019-12-03T17:39:48Z")
> [@muldoonthief](#): > > Don’t leave us hanging! What did you do? Beat the knot into submission? Use the Bat-Knot-Untying-Tool from your utility belt? Summon the Boy Wonder? It was actually just some stuff about how “the rope doesn’t want to be in the knot” and and if you push the rope it will work itself out so I sort did that and sure enough the knot came out. It was more about me not panicking because I was in a hurry at the time. I’m not saying this makes me basically Robin but I’m not not saying that either. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Max\_S](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@Max\_S](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_S)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2019, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-literally-saved-by-batman/844214/12 "2019-12-04T00:57:54Z")
Elseworlds: Batman #1 (2016) maybe? Where he meets Houdini? ~Max