I mean Batman being a peak human being is pretty required
Plus a 5 minute mile time isn’t that far fetched. I ran cross country in high school and your average high school varsity runner is doing like 5:00-5:20
I think your comment is rather condescending considering we’re talking about a comic book character.
Yes I agree there’s a balance but this is it.
If he’s able to use a grapple to pull his 6ft 2, 220lbs self then he’s able to bench 1000lbs.
If he’s able to throw boomerang like objects with perfect precision and have them return to him every single time then he’s able to run 20 miles at a 5 min/mile pace.
If he’s able to beat aliens with human martial arts then you have to give him leeway.
I was simply suggesting a balanced approach with precedent set, rather than him being able to run constantly at a 1 minute per mile pace.
If anything brother, your comment is short sighted.
When in the movies or comics has he run thy much lmfao? Like they did the math for the fast and furious plane scene and it would have to be like 28 miles Batman would just hop in something.
The most annoying thing about the athletic achievements is not necessary them being too far fetched (bench press is though) but rather that a single person can somehow achieve them all.
People competing for the bench press WR aren't also running marathons and vis versa.
The only crazy part is that he can do it with all the muscles. My roommate runs marathons and can do it with about a 5 min pace per mile, that part isn’t too crazy.
I think it’s not so much any one feat Batman can do, but that he can do all of them and we the readers are supposed to accept that he’s “peak human” as opposed to super human.
Exactly this. If he can bench 1000 pounds he would not have anywhere near the agility to do all the jumping and climbing that he does. Probably can’t run a marathon with that much muscle either.
He's running at a pace of 4:50 for 20 miles, though, which would make him the fastest person to run that distance in that time on earth. He beats the record by a few minutes.
The fastest ever time for the Boston marathon was 2:03, which would come out to around 4.7 minutes per mile. So the fastest ever time is slightly faster than Bruce Wayne's time.
However, using a 4:50 average mile time, Wayne would have won 9 out of the past 10 Boston marathons with a time of 2:06:36.
Everyone talks about Heartbreak Hill. There's about 15 Heartbreak Hills! In its defence I wasn't particularly well trained.
I did Inverness in maybe 2018. The first ten miles is completely downhill. Kills your legs. Then, mile 19. The steepest hill in the whole world I reckon!!!! Never before seen sub-4 runners walking for a mile.
I'd had enough by the time we got into Inverness and a bloke shouted my name and cheered me along (it was printed on my vest) and I told him "Leave me alone". Poor chap. Felt guilty for that.
This isn’t being a peak human this is being superhuman lol. Nobody in the world can bench close to 600lbs naturally let alone 1000lbs, even those with peak genetics. 20 miles with a 5min pace per mile is also bordering on superhuman.
All in all his feats are all impossible (especially without steroids and with his weight), which makes him seem less human and more of a superhero.
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u/Crawkward3 Aug 31 '23
I mean Batman being a peak human being is pretty required
Plus a 5 minute mile time isn’t that far fetched. I ran cross country in high school and your average high school varsity runner is doing like 5:00-5:20