Who annoys the Batman?
While your immediate thought would be ‘everyone’, there are some heroes who annoy the caped
crusader more than others.
Batman has a complicated history with many a character in the DC universe, but his relationship
with the characters we discuss on this list are often pretty satisfying to watch play
out, especially when those characters just don’t realize they probably shouldn’t
mess with the dark knight to begin with.
So with that in mind, let’s jump into our list of the top 10 superheroes who annoy Batman
the most!
10 Superman Batman and Superman at times have REALLY disliked
each other.
They’re basically complete opposites when it comes to their ideologies.
At times, Clark Kent’s alter ego has been depicted as a goody two shoes, whereas Bats
will do whatever necessary, minus killing, in order to bring about justice.
One is light, the other dark, you guys know the deal.
And often, its Batman’s trust issues that lead him and Supes to clashing.
Considering Superman is essentially accountable to no one and has an ultimate amount of unchecked
power, you can see why Bats gets super wary of him.
The reason why Superman only comes in our number 10 spot though is because when he’s
not annoying the crap out of Batman, he’s being his best buddy.
I mean, look at the Golden Age you guys, that’s a bromance if we ever did see one.
But often, these two are forced to face off against one another, whether in a wacky World’s
Finest comic book from the Golden and Silver ages, or in that recent mess of a movie Batman
v Superman. 9 Rick Flag Jr and The Suicide Squad
Rick Flag Jr took over where his father left off as head of the Suicide Squad.
And Flag clashed a couple of times with Batman with the Suicide Squad.
The first was when Batman discovered that the Suicide Squad existed, disagreeing that
a group of criminals who weren’t reformed would get early parole if they managed to
survive the crazy missions that the government was assigning them.
In the 1987 issue 10 of Suicide Squad, he decides to do something about it, which results
in him taking on Flag, and beating him up.
The only reason why Batman doesn’t end the Squad is because Amanda Waller, being the
ULTIMATE BAUS SHE IS, threatens to expose his identity to the public.
The second time was when Bats and the Justice League decide to rescue Nemesis.
Once he discovers that the Squad is also trying to rescue Nemesis, Batman is like ‘nah,
f*** it, let’s not go through with this” but Flag tries to reason with him, thinking
they could help each other.
Problem is, Batman doesn’t want to be associated with the Suicide Squad, and he swats Flag
away like a fly.
8 Green Arrow After 2006, Oliver Queen aka Green Arrow started
having a bit of an attitude problem towards Batman.
Eventually, Batman was essentially like hey man, why you gotta be so mean to me all the
time?
He put it much more eloquently than that, really, and brought up the fact that he knew
that the Green Arrow’s anger towards him wasn’t because of something he did but rather
something Queen had done to him, saying that Queen wasn’t that shallow.
While out of context this may seem super presumptuous, Bats was actually right.
Prior to this, Green Arrow, along with the rest of the Justice League, had wiped Batman’s
memory in Identity Crisis; something that was revealed during JLA Crisis of Conscience.
The reason they had done it was because Batman had walked in on the other members of the
league when Zatanna was mind-wiping Doctor Light, who years prior had raped Sue Dibny
in the Justice League satellite headquarters, who did not approve of this.
By the time Batman calls Green Arrow out, he’s been throughoutly annoyed with Queen’s
behavior, and has deduced that it’s not just Oliver being a dick, but rather he’s
acting out of guilt.
The Green Arrow has often been criticized for initially being a rip off of Batman, with
Oliver Queen being an wealthy orphan whose equipment and base (ie, the arrowcave), but
the character received a bit of a makeover that made him much more of a liberal superhero,
and also broke.
7 The Outsiders Once upon a time, the Justice League prohibited
Batman from entering a war torn country to save his pal Lucius Fox after the UN objected
to it.
Bruce wasn’t really cool with that, so he quit the Justice League and decided to start
up his own new team, which became known as the Outsiders, all so he could go save Fox.
The team was made up of two Justice League rejects, Black Lightning and Metamorpho, and
four new characters at the time, Katana, Geo-Force, Halo and Looker.
But, things with the Outsiders didn’t really work out as planned.
They didn’t like following Bruce’s strict rules, so he got annoyed and ditched them
all together, believing it was more important to protect Gotham City than any of the stuff
that the Outsiders whined that they’d rather be doing.
Batman stuck around with them in their own solo comic, called Batman and the Outsiders,
until issue 32, in which the comic title was changed to Adventures of the Outsiders, which
only carried on for 6 issues after that, then another 8 issues after that that were reprints
until it was cancelled altogether.
6 The Flash Now it’s no secret that the recent Justice
League feature film wasn’t all that great.
And we’re not about to unpackage all of its problems in this number.
But one thing we will talk about was how a lot of critics felt that Ezra Millers’ Flash
was a really annoying source of comic relief, despite a lot of fans liking his interpretation
of the character.
But one person in the film agreed with those critics, and that person is none other than
our easily annoyed pal, Bruce Wayne.
From asking silly questions to his short attention span, Barry has a way of making Bruce metaphorically
roll his eyes.
According to Miller himself, “Flash is Ringo Starr.
He annoys everybody, but he doesn’t have any specific beef with anyone.”
Miller also called Batman the “dad” who “gets too grumpy.”
He’s not wrong there.
5 Judge Dredd What’s more annoying to Batman than someone
refusing to stick to his code?
Someone whose code is even more intense than his.
Think about it; according to Dredd, who considers himself to be the law, and the judge, jury
and executioner for that matter, Batman works OUTSIDE of the law.
The two clased in the crossover Batman/Judge Dredd: Judgment on Gotham which was published
in 1991, and saw Dredd make a dimensional jump to Gotham City, murdering two lovers
and a police offer.
Batman finds that dimensional jump belt that he used and accidentally lands himself in
Mega-City One, where Dredd accuses him of vigilantism and carrying illegal weapons in
his utility belt.
Eventually by the end of the four issue series, Dredd drops the charges against Batman, and
even implies he has respect for the caped crusader.
The two would team up again, but not without Dredd getting on Bats’ nerves.
4 Booster Gold Booster Gold has always pushed Batman’s
buttons in a pretty comical way.
Batman’s never really had much patience for Booster’s antics over the years.
Booster is typically depicted as a glory seeking showboat character from the future, who uses
his technology to stage high publicity heroic antics, which was initially all part of a
get rich quick scheme.
So arguably, he and Bats have very different intentions.
Recently, Booster got Bats a wedding gift for his and Catwoman’s almost nuptials,
which goes very, very wrong.
He tries to rewrite the timeline to give Batman his parents back.
Sweet in intention, disastrous in execution.
The timeline warps into a dystopian alternate future where Dick Grayson is Batman but kills,
and the Joker has taken over Gotham.
This begins a whole series of Booster trying to unf*** the timeline and doing some pretty
silly stuff, including trying to fix his wrongs by breaking this timelines version of Selina
Kyle out of a mental asylum so that she can meet Bruce Wayne.
So yeah, kinda makes sense why Batman has a few issues with the fella.
After all, he kind of is the biggest yet most lovable screw up in the DC universe.
3 Robin If you’ve ever heard the phrase I’m the
goddamn Batman!
Or seen the meme, you probably know where this number is going.
Between 2005 and 2008, Frank Miller wrote a comic series that would later be placed
in the same continuity as his original classic The Dark Knight Returns.
This series starred a younger Bruce Wayne during his days when he was an active superhero
long before the events of the Dark Knight Returns.
The comic is often remembered for how it really pushed boundaries in terms of Batman’s rough
and sometimes crude behavior, especially in regards to how he treated his young ward,
Robin.
There was a whole lot of verbal and physical abuse that Dick Grayson endured, with Batman
not allowing him to grieve for his parents deaths, telling him to shut up often, not
letting him have any say in his costume or name, and, most famously, calling him retarded,
right before saying “Who the hell do you think I am?
I’m the goddamn Batman!”
Outside of All Star Batman and Robin, Bruce’s relationship with Grayson has had its ups
and downs, but generally he perceives him as family, even when he’s being tough with
him, which is usually when he’s acting out in Grayson’s best interests.
2 Hal Jordan Hal and Bruce are another pairing that have
a complex relationship.
Hal has a very specific way he likes to police the universe.
And Batman, once again, operates by his code.
Both are incredibly stubborn, too, so it makes sense why they would sometimes harbor clashing
opinions.
But during Emerald Twilight, a story arc in Green Lantern vol 3 issues 48 to 50 back in
1994, Hal went a little crazy and murdered a bunch of Green Lanterns after the whole
controversial Death of Superman and Reign of the Superman arcs.
Anyone who’s a longtime fan of this channel probably knows my disdain for that whole train
wreck of a story arc AKA THE REASON WHY DEATH IS INCONSEQUENTIAL IN COMICS , but I won’t
get into that now.
Anywho, Jordan’s home Coast City is destroyed while all of this is going on, he loses it,
and tries to re-create it with his ring, which is a big no-no for a Green Lantern since its
using his power for personal gain.
The Guardians contact him, give him crap, and Hal turns against them.
Its later revealed that all this happened while he was under the control of Parallax.
Flash forward to long afterwards, when Hal has been aggressively working to rewrite his
wrongs, but Batman just can’t get over it.
He doesn’t trust him.
And because of this, Hal doesn’t like Bruce, because he doesn’t trust him.
And because he uses fear as a weapon against criminals.
So all and all, you can see how Bruce would see Hal as being super annoying.
His annoyance with the Green Lantern has been depicted in the comics many a time.
And it even made an appearance in a very hilarious way during All Star Batman and Robin when
Batman not only states that Hal has the imagination of a potato, and then paints an entire room
yellow just to piss him off, since Hal hates the colour yellow.
What makes it better is that he forces Robin to do the painting.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerald_Twilight 1 Guy Gardner
While Batman annoyance with Hal Jordan makes perfect sense when you look at their history,
there’s another Green Lantern who annoys the dark knight even more.
Guy Gardner.
He even mooned Batman at the Justice League headquarters.
But to be fair, Gardner pretty much hates everyone, but he holds a particular grudge
towards Batman.
The two were both members on the Justice League team that reformed in 1987, and Guy assumed
he would be made the leader, but instead everyone else on the team wanted Bats to lead.
So, full of resentment, he kept pressing Batman’s buttons and kept challenging him to fights,
so finally, Batman gave in and said yes.
And what happened?
The Dark Knight knocked him out with one punch.
So yeah, makes sense why Guy wasn’t chosen to be their leader.
Luckily he’s not a character that Batman has to endure a whole lot these days.
There we have it friends!
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