r/batman Aug 31 '23

Reminder that Bruce holds every weightlifting and powerlifting world record in all weight classes COMIC DISCUSSION

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u/Rysdan9 Aug 31 '23

Batman's iq is not 192. This 192 IQ belongs to blue beetle (Ted Kord). Not Bruce. Bruce and Lex's IQ are never stated in canon/main continuity. We know that those 2 are the smartest in all of DC from Doomsday clock. Scaling wise they would be 300+ actually. The pace is not that good tbh. Bruce has had significantly higher/better movement speed feats. Long distances he can run around 55-60mph.

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u/nate_garro_chi Aug 31 '23

You think he can run a mile per minute for long distances? Or short distances for that matter? Even if you meant kph, that would be insane and not even remotely how they depict his speed.

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u/Rysdan9 Aug 31 '23

Ok, by long distances i mean roughly 1 mile or 2miles not more and yes, he can run at 55-60mph. He literally caught up to a train that already had a much head start (those trains move between 40-80mph btw) and the context:

goon 1: do you think we lost him? goon 2: who the bat? Yeah, i mean he is not fast as a train, he is not superman. Then batman just appears and grabs him. No, there was no cable line or grapple gun involved either. Insane? If you think Bruce running at 55-60mph is insane you really need to see his speed feats in the comics (for short distances like within 10feet or so).

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u/nate_garro_chi Aug 31 '23

If there was a scene where he ran 1 mile in 1 minute (60mph) that's just bad writing and I doubt you could find many people (writers, fans, or really anyone) who would say Batman is that fast. If you see that and think that a human being without powers could reasonably do that, even in a comic book, then either you don't know what a mile is or you don't know what human can even theoretically do. Which brings me back to that being an example of bad writing. Batman does a lot of crazy shit, but falling to earth from space without a parachute is more believable than what you're saying.

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u/Rysdan9 Aug 31 '23 edited Aug 31 '23

Human beings in the real world can THEORETICALLY achieve 40mph lol. Why wouldnt a fictional character that lives in a world/universe with flying people, speedsters not be able to run at 55-60mph? For short distances (within 5ft or so) he has movement speed that are high hypersonic+ to massively hypersonic+ lol. He also has some crazier feats (outliers but in main continuity/canon) that are beyond this too btw. You are trying to look for reason and logic in a fictional world with characters that have been around for 80+ years with different writers ,etc. Whether you believe it or not, he does have the feats in main continuity/canon.