[BatPat]: February 18th, 2023, I finally cracked it. These creatives with their comic
books making movies have zero respect for the science of style. No matter how realistic they
want their movies to be, they don't consider the realistic consequences of the actions of their
antics. And now I have proof. Proof that Batman should be dead. And the reasoning is explosive.
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Exactly the same way that we theorize about film games and food, because everything and
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And speaking of fictional clothing, have you ever wondered just how effective skimpy
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here we’ve still got to talk about one of the most iconic pieces of clothing in all of pop culture,
the Batsuit. Loyal theorists, there have been a lot of Batsuits on film over the years. We've
had spandex suits, rubber masks, military grade spelunking gear, comic accurate capes and cowls,
and even Bat-nipples for some reason. But I think my favorite incarnation of the
suit so far has to be the realistic version that we see in director Matt Reeves’ The Batman. See,
this suit looks like the stuff that this Bruce Wayne could have realistically found
and cobbled together himself. And it really followed the vibe that was set by the rest
of this version of The Caped Crusader. The Batman follows the tried and tested
formula of Bat-films that we've seen over the years. Bruce Wayne's parents are killed
in front of him, turning him into an edge-lord cosplayer, who takes out his frustrations on
the superstitious, cowardly lot that is the criminal underworld of Gotham City.
But this go-around, things are a lot more grounded. While Christopher Nolan's
Batman was a suave globetrotter with unlimited resources, and Zack Snyder's
Batman was a murderous psychopath with an exoskeleton mech. On the surface level,
this Batman seems a lot more realistic. He wears combat boots that he probably picked
up from the local army surplus store. He drives a muscle car Batmobile that
he clearly modified himself. He listens to Nirvana while journaling about his feelings.
The film even embraces the idea of cycles of violence, with Batman being the inspiration for
a lot of the lunatics that he's trying to stop, which sometimes gets just a wee bit too real.
Matt Reeves and the other filmmakers involved in The Batman clearly put a lot of time, effort and
energy into making this the most practical, realistic and down to earth iteration of the
character that we've ever seen on film. Which is why it's so weird for me that the Batinson shrugs
off bullets with such alarming regularity. At one point even takes a shotgun blast point blank to
the chest, before smooching Catwoman, dusting himself off and beating the poop out of the
guy who shot him. Seriously. For as grounded as this take on the hero might seem on the outside,
the Batman has bullets bouncing off of the Batsuit more than Superman's
chest. And that just didn't sit right with me. Are billionaires suddenly reality benders now?
Well, not exactly. You see, loyal theorists. Even if Batman had the best body armor in the world,
his ability of affluence wouldn't have let him limp away from the events of this movie,
and not for the reasons that you might think. I don't even have to go into that
ridiculous scene where he face-plants into a bridge going like 45 miles an hour either.
Nope. The reason that Batman would be dead is a lot softer than that. So put on your super
suits and stand broodingly in the rain there, loyal theorists. Let's dive in.
So let's just start off by looking at how exactly bulletproof armor works. See,
bullets are deadly because they concentrate an enormous amount of force onto a small
surface area, allowing bullets to tear through almost anything that they hit.
Bulletproof armor works by taking the force of that bullet and then spreading it out
over a larger surface area. Preventing it from penetrating your body and wreaking havoc on your
internal organs. Don’t get me wrong, it's still going to hurt, leaving you winded and bruised.
But it makes it substantially more likely that you'll be able to survive getting shot.
We've actually touched on this subject before in my Game Theory discussing whether or not
you should bring a knife to a gunfight. And we found that bullet-proof isn't exactly the
right phrase. Bullet-resistant is more accurate. In pop culture the most commonly cited type of
this sort of bullet resistant armor is known as Kevlar, which actually isn't what you probably
expected to be when you hear the word armor. The stuff isn't some sort of metal or anything
like that. It's actually a bunch of synthetic fibers interwoven together,
which makes it really good at dispersing the force of bullets as they strike the Kevlar. Yeah,
you heard that right. Kevlar is technically a fabric. Fun fact, Kevlar was originally
developed by the DuPont Company who were also the minds behind another superhero staple, spandex.
We actually talk about exactly that and a whole lot more in our episode about Hulk's pants. The
new episode over on Style Theory. So you should go check it out. Just another shameless plug. Anyway,
most of the guns that are used by Falcone's goons and the Riddler's henchmen were either
pistols or submachine guns that fired nine millimeter rounds, which Kevlar would do a
pretty good job at stopping. Buuuut here's the thing,
that's talking about firing from a distance. When fired at point blank range, like we see
quite a bit during The Batman, Kevlar doesn't do the best job of stopping the bullets. Depending on
where they hit the armor, some bullets would have a good chance at breaking through and entering
the body. And that's not even mentioning that some of the bad guys use bigger guns
with more powerful bullets, especially during the finale fight above Gotham Square Garden.
Here we can clearly see Batman getting hit with bullets fired by M16 and Winchester rifles,
which both shoot 5.56 nato rounds. And remember, Kevlar isn't bulletproof, just bullet resistant.
And 5.56 rounds fired by those rifles would absolutely be able to break through it. No
problem. Thankfully for Batman, though, Kevlar isn't the strongest type of body armor out there.
It's actually considered a soft body armor, which you can clearly see here in this video
by Taofledermaus. Notice how it basically folds around the bullets to stop them? It almost looks
like it's catching the bullets, right? Given the fact that we don't see anything like this
happen when Batman gets shot in the film, instead the bullets just bounce off of him with sparks.
Clearly, he's wearing some sort of hard body armor. According to the National Institute of
Justice, there are five different categories of body armor used in modern times. These include
Level IIA, Level II, Level IIIA, Level III, and Level IV. Just in case you're wondering,
level I body armor does exist, but it's no longer considered acceptable by the NIJ. Also,
those “A” classifications just get shoved between existing classes when an armor
doesn't quite fit into one of the categories. The IIA through IIA levels are all soft armors,
with Kevlar ranking somewhere right in the middle there. It means the Kevlar is actually
on the weaker side of modern body armor believe it or not. That might come as a surprise to you
if you've ever heard that Kevlar is stronger than steel. And yeah, I mean, that's still true,
that just doesn't paint you a complete picture. Kevlar is indeed up to five times stronger than
steel. If you compare their strength to weight ratio, basically steel armor that weighs the
same as a Kevlar vest won't be offering that much protection. But that doesn't mean that
steel can't stop bullets. If you're willing to wear a full suit of armor out into the field.
The YouTube channel Demolition Ranch actually did a test to show just how effective steel armor
can be at stopping bullets. But steel isn't even the best option for plate armor nowadays. We are
long past the Middle Ages, after all, and Batman has himself the entire R&D department of Wayne
Enterprises at his fingertips. These days, the highest NIJ rated armor consists of several solid
plates, usually made from some sort of ceramic composite, something that is literally harder
than the bullets that are being fired at it. According to the NIJ, the strongest level for
armor is able to withstand armor piercing rounds, quote, “obtained from U.S. military
M2 AP ammunition”. If none of that means anything to you, which, why would it? We are talking about
some seriously heavy firepower. This stuff can penetrate three quarter inches of steel
with no issue. Those ceramic plates are going to be able to stop the weaker nine millimeter
and 5.56 ammo shot by most of Riddler's and Falcone's goons no problem. Honestly,
these plates aren't even that expensive by Batman standards. I was able to find commercially
available military grade nine and a half inch by 12 and a half inch level four armor pleading
for just around $600 per plate. And given Bruce Wayne's resources, it's even feasible that the
parts of the Batsuit that needed to be flexible and aren't armor plated could be made from Kevlar.
So this super suit of armor might actually be legit. It would also probably be able to stop
that point blank shotgun blast that briefly winded Batman during the finale fight. YouTuber Paul
Harrell tested common shotgun pellet projectiles against level IIIA soft body armor, which is
weaker than the ceramic plates. And things went really well despite multiple direct hits.
Even when testing much heavier slug projectiles, the heavily compromised level IIIA vest was able
to stop the bullet, even though a great deal of concussive force was able to get through.
That force would have been lessened had this been level IV armor like Batman's wearing,
probably saving his life even if he got knocked to his butt, which perfectly lines up with what we
see in the movie. Batman gets hit by the shotgun, and though the armor stops the projectile,
he flies backwards from the concussive force. So is that it? The Batman's armor is legit?
Does all of this prove that Bruce Wayne could have put on this Batsuit and had all those cool fight
scenes in dark hallways and come out on the other end with only a few bruises to show for it all.
welllll, not exactly loyal theorists. Because bullets bouncing off his armor isn't the only
life threatening situation that Bruce Wayne finds himself in in The Batman. During one of the most
tense scenes in the film, The Riddler straps an explosive collar onto the district attorney's
neck in an attempt to get him to confess who's at the root of the government's corruption?
Batman, both trying to save the DA's life and get himself the same information. Stand's real close
so he can do the whole gravelly whisper schtick instead of just talking like a normal person.
Of course, because we're only about halfway through the movie at this point and we can't
solve the mystery yet. The D.A. refuses to give a name and the bomb goes off, throwing Batman
across the room and knocking him unconscious. Yeah, Naah. This absolutely stretches the edge
of believability in a lot of ways. But the most obvious one, given that we just deduced that the
Batsuit is level IV pleated armor, this scene and the explosion would have 100% killed Batman. See,
explosive ordnance disposal suits, or just bomb suits for short, are very complicated pieces of
clothing. Up until the mid 1990s, they were actually made of Kevlar with armor plating,
all in an effort to stop shrapnel from killing the bomb technicians.
But that type of armor didn't provide protection against the blast waves. In
the unfortunate situation where an explosive actually went off, they produced shockwaves
that ripped through the bodies of the people that were trying to diffuse them. So even if
there was no injury from shrapnel, the lungs and other internal organs of the person would
be wounded. Oftentimes these wounds were fatal. This was actually such a huge deal at the time
and happened so frequently, that these sorts of injuries earned themselves the nickname Blast
Lung. Researchers found that the Kevlar and armor plating by themselves just couldn't offer enough
protection. But when they were layered with both a high and low density acoustic foam,
suddenly the people in the suits were far more likely to survive the blast wave.
So because of this, modern bomb suits are made not only from Kevlar and ballistic plating like we see
with Batman’s suit, but also several layers of both high and low density protective foam.
That's partially what gives the bomb suit that iconic, bulky look, which the Batman lacks with
its thinner, sleeker silhouette. And all of this is without even mentioning the bomb suit helmets,
which have themselves giant thick visors made from fully laminated acrylic and polycarbonate
to protect from shrapnel entering the face. In short, there's just no way that the Batsuit in
the movie has the protective layering required to survive a point blank explosion, especially when
Batinson's lower face is completely uncovered. In fact, now that I'm thinking about it,
even with the super strong, basically bulletproof suit of armor, you would think that Bruce Wayne
would be smart enough to cover his entire face if he’s expecting to be shot at all the time. Between
that and approaching an active armed bomb without any sort of bomb suit? Yeah,
I'd say that this Bruce Wayne has himself an active death wish. Forget The Batman. Robert
Pattinson is more accurately described as The Deadman. But hey, that's just a theory,
A FILM THEORY! Aaaand you know what other superhero hasn't self an unrealistic
costume that stretches the bounds of reality? The Incredible Hulk and his purple pants. If
you want to know why exactly these things stay on the Hulk while all his shirts rip off his body or
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