With all the Superhero threads floating around lately I thought I’d chime in with this one. Basically, the idea is to nominate one superhero from the world of comics as the worlds greatest Any and all logical arguments will be allowed (this is to level the playing field for those none comic geeks who love batman none the less).
That being said I Nominate The Batman
The batman is the greatest for the reason that he is the weakest and yet unbeatable. Allow me to explain. Batman has no super powers, no X-ray vision, no Green power ring, no claws, eyebeams, mental projections, or super strength. None. He is as strong and agile as a human could ever hope to be, but unlike Captain America he has no Super Solider Serum to thank for it.
Batman is a man who is driven by a quest. A quest to never again allow any man, woman, or child to suffer as he has suffered. At six years old he witnessed the brutal murder of his parents after watching the mark of Zorro (a film that he avoided for the rest of his life). The words Bruce/Batman used:
Show the deep emotional scars this day left on the young boy. This is not unusual, sadly. What it is, is the makings of a man of steel. Not the steel of Superman, outer steel, but a deep inner core of unbreakable Mettle. Bruce spent the next 18 years of his life in constant training, learning all methods of martial arts, not just the combat aspects but the underlying philosophies. Bruce came to be the Ultimate Crime fighter.
His power lies mostly within his two pointy ears. He posses a mind gifted with a deep understanding of criminal psychology, chemistry, engineering, metallurgy and a dozen other sciences and skill I can’t even spell. His tactical mind, which always plans a dozen moves ahead of even his allies makes him most feared by those who know him best (in fact his files on all the weaknesses of the Justice League lead to his temporary expulsion from it)
Even cataclysmic injuries are not enough to break the Dark Knight. In a battle with bane, after running a gauntlet of his deadliest foes (the Joker, Two–Face, and the Mad Hatter to name a few) spent and exhausted Batman fought the Venom (strength enhancing drug) pumped up Bane, who broke his back. Months of recovery and a poor replacement later Bruce walked again (hard enough) but regained his edge, his total control of his body and mind at the razors edge, smiling in deaths face yet again.
Lastly The World greatest Detective is superbly trained, and very well equipped. but as the last example shows he is merely mortal. It is easy to run into a bank full of gun toting criminals when you are faster then a speeding bullet, have a power ring that projects and inestimable force field, or a healing factor that closes bullet holes as fast as you can make them (not that they can get thorough the unbreakable bones anyway). But with his mortality comes the knowable that each and every leap from the bell tower is a leap that could be his last, that one well placed round at his unprotected face and there is one less member of the long underwear crowd. Yet night after night, he places his life on the line to protect the innocent from the scum.
In conclusion Bruce Wayne is a hero not because of what powers the universe saw fit to grant to him, but because of the power in him that he forces upon the universe. Instead of sinking into a life of sinful decadence like so many “trust fund brats” Bruce forged a legend, bigger then life. Truly, the Legend created by Bob Kane is awe inspiring, a tale and a model for all of us to emulate. And that is the measure of a true hero, the heroism they inspire in others. Batman for world Greatest
PS Sorry for only one cite, but it’s late and this thing is 710 words already. 
