Greetings nerdy list aficionados and welcome back to Top 10 Nerd today we’re going to
be tackling some hidden talents that heroes have ones you may not be aware these aren’t
secret powers, maybe Batman can make a mean sandwich maybe you want to try it.
So Batman is the first character we are starting off with on our journey of the Top 10 Things
You Didn’t Know Batman Can Do.
I’m Sasha and let’s get started.
Number 10 - Immune to Poison - So the Grant Morrison era of Batman was an interesting
time Batman for a time became like a bat God to the point where he trained himself to be
immune to poisons by exposing himself to a little bit at a time, so that he could force
himself to be immune to them lest any of his villains try to use them on him, as was the
case.
The Black glove tried to use a paralyzing agent on him but he was able to fight it off
thanks to his intense poison training.
Yeah ok let’s see him do this with Arsenic Batman just slowly dying from all these various
poisons he’s constantly ingesting.
This arc got insane but Grant Morrison wrote it so in some circles you’re not allowed
to critique it.
Number 9 - Costume Designer - Batman has gone through some subtle but consistent shifts
in his costume over the years.
He tends to come up with these upgrades himself I mean he doesn’t make them someone else
does that Alfred or maybe he gets Lucius to outsource it.
Keeping that same design but adding those subtle updates and tweaks tis a talent.
The blue was a nice friendly choice.
The changes are so slight but they give the costume an entirely different feel who else
loves playing the Arkham games in ridiculously out of contest suits.
90s animated suit for the win.
It’s funny cause were it not for Bill Finger Batman would look nothing like the caped crusader
we now know but instead like this with blonde hair and a bright red costume and a domino
mask.
That first redesign definitely served him in good stead.
Number 8 - Collector - One of the staples of Batman lore is the Batcave was firmly introduced
in 1943 on Batman’s first tv show or tv serial as it was called at the time.
Inside this batcave it has been shown that he has a collection of memorabilia items he’s
taken usually from his rogues on some of their grander escapades that he has kept.
The giant penny, joker’s giant playing card, the T-Rex.
But think about it how does he get these items back to the cave is he just that slick he
has the timing down pat people are too disoriented to see him flying away/towing a giant coin.
Or they’re just like oh we owe him one so they take it a location and he picks it up
and they respectfully don’t follow him.
I have questions.
Questions that probably don’t need answering but I ponder them anyway.
Still it’s impressive that Batman can amass these items I mean who wouldn’t want to
stare at a giant t-rex.
Number 7 - Hypnotist - This is more of a silver age ability but unlike many occurences in
the silver age it has come up more the once the idea that Batman is a trained hypnotist
and also that he has very few scruples about just how he uses them.
I think my favourite usage is the famed comic wherein we have the now memed panel where
Batman slaps Robin but after that he hypnotizes him to make him forget he was ever Robin or
that he had taken him and sends him back to the orphanage just ice cold.
Now this is a trick he should maybe pull out of his arsenal from time to time or who knows
maybe he already does dun dun dun.
That should be part of his take down the Justice League team mass hypnotism.
Number 6 - Skier - Now you’d think this would come up more often not even so much
as Batman but as Bruce Wayne.
He needs to keep that playboy persona intact and that includes weekend getaways to Aspen.
He has had to ski as Batman as well crimes happen on mountains and he has many an ice
villain.
I’m pretty sure he’s got skies built into his vehicles cause again you never know.
I wonder if he likes those capers where he gets to do something more obscure like ski
break up the routine of running over rooftops and giving people injuries they should really
never recover from.
Number 5 - Computer Hacker - One of the fun things about the bat cave aside from his massive
collection is getting to track the evolution of items inside the cave such as the batcomputer.
The batcomputer made it’s first appearance in issue 189 of the batman comic and has undergone
the same evolution as computers themselves nothing better than Batman having a computer
that takes up a whole wall or a 90s monitor.
Fun stuff but Batman doesn’t just own an impressive computer he also has hacking skills
now they’re not as good as Oracle’s and the comics will freely admit that but Batman
can still get into your system and has some above rudimentary hacking skills.
Batman is figuring out your wife, husbands sons daughters fish or potted plants birthday
and getting into your system.
I’m not joking about the plants some people are getting pretty intense about their foliage.
Number 4 - Micro Sleeper - Now if you’ve read a lot of Batman or even if you haven’t
you may have wondered just when does Batman sleep.
He’s Batman by night.
Bruce Wayne by day he actually kinda runs his company and also goes on dates.
How is he doing this?
Well the answer he is a micro sleeper or micro napper who has mastered the art of taking
little naps and getting to the level of sleep depth required to feel rested and not go insane.
This is something some people have accomplished so it seems like they never sleep but you’d
be surprised how often in the day you can slip away and hour here 20 minutes there it
adds up.
Still makes you wonder what he could do after a full nights sleep.
Watch he’s worse like for people who always eat terribly the first few days of healthy
food feel like poison.
Batman gets the job done one nap at a time.
Number 3 Multilingual - Batman can speak multiple languages in a skill that is often shown off
but rarely specifically highlighted.
Batman travelled the world in his quest to be the best like no one ever was and when
you see these sequences he’s speaking the language, Japanese, russian, arabic what have
you.
Learning a language is like any other skill first there is an advantage for having some
base intuitive talent but also the more you do it the easier it gets, and many of the
european languages or ones with the same base roots are similar so it’s easy to believe
that a man as dedicated as Bruce Wayne would pick up as many languages as possible.
This is also an advantage of course in his mission as Batman saves time not having to
translate things just being able to understand right off the bat.
That was almost a pun.
Number 2 - Marksmen - Batman knows how to use a gun, he has a mighty aversion to them
this is true thanks to the death of his parents but he is also skilled a using them he made
sure to be as you never know.
He has also trained the robin’s in how to use and handle them as well.
When he was training Jason pre crisis this was one of the sequences shown him teaching
him how to work with the guns that he kept around the cave just for those purposes.
There’s also a rotating fact as in sometimes it’s there and sometimes it isn’t that
he found and kept the gun that killed his parents.
That’s super morbid but I mean he kept Jason’s battered costume around so it’s not that
beyond the pail.
People go back and forth on whether or not Batman would use a gun or not I’m in the
no camp but what do you guys think?
Number 1 - Sing - Oh yes Batman sings he’s done it multiple times in comics but characters
singing in comics is always a bit of a lackluster experience.
Sure you see the musical notes around the words but especially if it’s a new song
you kind of have to input your own rhythm and figure it out.
However, we’ve heard the dark knight sing and my fave instance of such justice league
unlimited This little piggy the episode where Wonder Woman gets turned into a pig and Batman
has to sing to turn her back into a human.
Wonder Woman had a huge crush on Batman in this series and he liked her as well but the
mission you know still he was willing to put his Batman persona to the side when Circe
demanded he sing to turn Diana back into a human.
He sang Am I blue and it’s glorious.
And his voice not bad.
He could earn some extra cash moonlighting as a Batman impersonator who sings.
I mean he doesn’t need the extra cash but as someone who does that’s what I would
do then take a quick micro nap.
So those were ten things that Batman can do...