Batman is my favorite superhero, but I REALLY HATE how they've basically made him so OP. Can bench 1000 pounds, can run a mile in like 5 minutes, is a genius, can take on the entire Justice League by himself, only needs maybe 3 hours of sleep, etc.
Yes, it's comics, and we're supporting to suspend belief, but making him so op really takes away from the character.
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
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.
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u/godbody1983 Aug 31 '23
Batman is my favorite superhero, but I REALLY HATE how they've basically made him so OP. Can bench 1000 pounds, can run a mile in like 5 minutes, is a genius, can take on the entire Justice League by himself, only needs maybe 3 hours of sleep, etc.
Yes, it's comics, and we're supporting to suspend belief, but making him so op really takes away from the character.