People who follow the celebrity channels believe that Bruce Wayne is the world’s clumsiest skiier.
Some think Batman is a real jerk, too: https://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/530/557/08b.jpg
Wow, I never realized he is a southpaw. That must make it even harder to keep his identity secret.
He’s just using a time-honored method of disguising his handwriting.
I recall one episode of Batman: The Animated Series where Bullock, Montoya, and a rookie cop who were involved in a sting gone bad were being questioned by Internal Affairs. They did the Rashomon deal where each of them gave a different account (Bullock tried to cover his own mistakes and blame Batman for the screwup, Montoya gave a more-or-less honest account but erroneously thought Batman had been killed, and the rookie gave an account where Batman’s tricks and gadgets came across as magical/superpowered feats).
As I recall, the story ended up with Bruce slipping out into the darkness and then making an appearance as Batman. The kids were not impressed and saw him as just Bruce Wayne in a silly Batman costume. As the kids went to sleep, he mused that he struck fear into the hearts of the guilty, not the innocent.
I recall that he sometimes bolsters this false impression by saying that he’s never been caught killing anybody (which I suppose is a technically true statement).
When they rebooted the Justice League for the New 52, they did a scene where Green Lantern meets Batman. He was astonished to find that Batman has no superpowers at all.
Of course, the various Green Lanterns also have no superpowers at all, just a gadget (albeit a very nice one).
My favorite superhero has to be Defendor. His power was ultra-DK.
Translate that?
I remember hearing about a Batman story in which Batman catches a criminal, and Bruce Wayne gets called upon to serve on his jury trial. When the judge asks Wayne if there’s any reason he shouldn’t serve on the trial, Wayne answered honestly, “I’m Batman.” But nobody believed him.
Unless their high level of will-power counts as a superpower.
Because they were all expecting him to say, “I’m THE Batman.”
D&R
Green Lantern rings were the sort of thing I was referring to in the last part of my first post.
While in the DCU Earth tech is somewhat more advanced than in the real world, the Green Lantern rings might as well be magic compared to what humans can make.
In current continuity, even Cyborg is beyond human capabilities - a Father Box (Apocalyptian version of Mother Box) was incorporated into his prosthetics.
Batman, on the other hand, while he uses advanced tech, it’s mostly not even on the level of ‘STAR Labs is theoretically working on this’…it generally tops out at ‘it’s not technically in production, yet, but Wayne Industries has demoed this’.
Ordinary people know the Batman never would have been in a hospital…
That’s a good point. Most super-hero gadgets fall under the category of ‘technology indistinguishable from magic.’ Batman’s utility belt has any device required by the plot, some plausible and some not. Even the simple things (like using a grappling hook gun) would require superhuman resilience to avoid damaging his own body.
One super-power Batman seems to have is the ability to induce unconsciousness in anyone he touches. It’s pretty bizarre. You’d think with all that kicking and punching, he would occasionally have a bad guy get Hillary Swanked, even if unintentionally. People can and do die from being punched or falling and striking their heads. Batman might not shoot anyone, but if his violence is even a little bit realistic there are going to be piles and piles of dead and crippled criminals all over Gotham.
He was not smart enough to realize how dangerous his situation was.
That’s something literally every single person in the DC universe can do, though. Hitting someone in the head just isn’t that dangerous in comic books - or, indeed, any sort of action/adventure story. How many times did Sam Spade get clocked from behind, and wake up with no worse injury than a headache and a lump on his head?
I blame professional boxing, where he-men were supposed to shake it off and not be crybabies.
Alas, the villain discovered his secret weakness: bullets.
Presumably, ultra-Dunning-Kreuger, right?