It’s not difficult to piss off Bruce Wayne.
Really, pretty much everyone has gotten under his bat suit at one point in time, even the
heroes he’s come to respect, which aren’t many, let’s be fair.
So today, we’re returning to our list of the top 10 Superheroes who annoy Batman with
a part two.
This time around, we’ll be including a few characters from the Marvel universe who have
ticked off the Dark Knight, some who have irked him for no reason other than existing,
and many who have perhaps goofed up once but the caped crusader, aka the king of grudges,
has held it against them.
Man, it’s gotta be tough to be Alfred, don’t you think?
Let’s jump in!
10 Supergirl Superman isn’t the only DC Kryptonian who
doesn’t get along well with Bats.
The post-crisis Supergirl as introduced in 2004 in a story arc called The Supergirl from
Krypton, which brought her back into the mainstream continuity.
Batman had discovered a space ship in the harbor beneath Gotham, and in a state of confusion
she goes on an unintentional rampage throughout the city.
Batman knocks her out with kryptonite, and we find out that she’s Superman’s cousin.
But the thing is, overtime, its revealed that she’s got quite the temper, which didn’t
bode well with Batman, and he constantly questioned whether or not she was really related to Superman
or not, and the two clashed on more than one occasion.
She also went evil a handful of times, so yeah, kinda get where he’s coming from on
this one.
9 Superboy In Superman vol 4 issue 8, Superboy gets on
Batman’s nerves, along with his own son, Damian Wayne, who is the current Robin.
For context, Jonathan Kent, who is Superboy in Rebirth, and becomes besties with Damian,
even though at times the two have quite the rivalry.
In this issue, which was part of the In the Name of the Father story arc, Damian and Jon
have a bit of beef.
Robin has been keeping him under surveillance, and the two get into a tussle.
Jon loses his temper at a brawl breaks out again, and Batman is clearly disappointed
in the both of them.
He and Superman end up discipline them by making them work together to accomplish a
series of challenges, ultimately brining the two super sons closer together once they learn
how to be teammates.
8 Billy Batson Man, it’s not easy to dislike Shazam.
Poor dude.
So in Justice League War, Bats gets really ticked off by Shazam throughout the narrative.
Despite Batman being impartial to putting younger superheroes in danger, the character
finds Billy’s presence annoying at best, always jumping into action much sooner than
he should.
He also declares that their team is called the Super Seven, which gets groans not only
from Batman, but from the rest of the Justice League team.
Side note, the moment when Green Lantern introduces Flash to Batman is comic gold.
Easy to see why Green Lantern ended up on our part one, isn’t it?
7 Bat-Cow Oh man, BAT-COW.
Bat cow was added to the Bat Family in Batman Incorporated Vol 2 issue 1 back in July of
2012.
She was rescued from a slaughter house by Batman and Robin Damien Wayne in order to
test her for diseases that she was potentially infected with.
She carried a synthetic hormone that was derived from Professor Pyg’s pharmaceutical experiments,
as a means of using mind control by putting the hormones in animals that would be killed
and turned into the beef used at Dark Tower restaurants.
Damien became a vegetarian after the experience, and named her Bat-Cow.
Batman wanted to get rid of the cow because of the hormones, but Robin wouldn’t have
it.
Eventually, Batman decided that they could keep her.
But at first, you can imagine how his boy wanting to keep a cow and make it part of
the Bat family could be irksome.
Bat-Cow, also known as the battlin’ bovine, would eventually be sent to the Wayne Enterprises
dairy farm, where she would run around with a cape and eventually become a member of the
legion of super pets.
6 Harley Quinn This is kind of a no brainer.
Harley Quinn has long terrorized Batman alongside the Joker.
Ever since her character’s creation, she’s worked with the Joker to bring Bats down.
While she pales in comparison to the kind of threat that the Joker poses for Batman,
she’s proven to be an agile opponent at times, and often, when her character has fallen
into comic relief territory, she’s been more than a nuisance to him.
These days, Harley is an anti-hero, and while sometimes some of her attempts to do good
are a tad misguised (like solving the homeless problem by feeding the homeless to cannibals),
she has generally renounced doing evil things.
She even broke up with the Joker after the New 52.
Plus, one time, she farted in the Bat Mobile in the Batman and Harley Quinn animated film
released in 2017.
Which seemed to gross out Nightwing more so than Bats, but hey, dude has probably smelt
worse anyway.
Batman also doesn’t seem to think much of Nightwing’s ahem, social activities, with
Harley either.
5 Wonder Woman Let’s be honest.
The Justice League was anything but good.
It was a giant pile of confusing garbage that had some pretty decent actors in it who couldn’t
manage to save it because of how poorly written and executed it was.
Joss Whedon couldn’t even save it.
And he’s the man who made Buffy and did the first two Avengers film.
If anything, this number should be Batman being annoying by his portrayal in the DCEU
or whatever it’s called these days.
But, for this number, we’re looking at his annoyance with Gal Gadot’s Wonder Woman.
Which in itself is a faux pas because how dare you be annoyed by Gal Gadot, she’s
one of the only good things in that movie.
Anyway, in the film, Batman has a much more cold and calculated approach when it comes
to collecting the heroes together to join the Justice League, whereas Wonder Woman is
more sympathetic, operating under the idea that if the other superheroes want to join
them, they will.
This irritates Batfleck in the beginning, but eventually everything works out and the
Justice League prance off to save the day from the bad Steppenwolf CGI.
Yay….
4 Deadpool So Deadpool and Batman have never actually
encountered one another in anything that’s canon.
But that hasn’t stopped Deadpool from being all meta and making fun of the caped crusader.
Yes, this number is a hypothetical one.
That being said, as far as hypothetical numbers go, Deadpool has done some pretty solid taunting
on his end, and it wouldn’t be a surprise if there was ever a Marvel DC crossover with
the character that had him irritating the crap out of Bruce Wayne’s other half.
In the new 2018 Deadpool issue 1, Deadpool got a dramatic new backstory that revealed
he was the one to kill Bruce Wayne’s parents.
Sounds absurd at first, but really, it’s just part of a grander story of Deadpool trying
to decide on a new backstory for himself in an attempt to get himself more work.
He also takes a shot at other famous superheroes and their origins stories, like Spider-Man
and Superman.
After he takes the kids parents out, he announces, “sorry kid, but your parents had to be grade
A pieces of s*** or this other grade A piece of s*** wouldn’t have paid me to take them
out.”
He also tells young Bruce to not grow up and be a cliché, and to stay away from caves
all before he decides that this isn’t the right story for him.
Now if that isn’t a way to get Batman to hold a grudge against you, I don’t know
what is.
3 Huntress Huntress’ character changed a few times
over the years.
Initially, she was Helena Wayne, the daughter of Batman and Catwoman who hailed from Earth
2.
After Crisis on Infinite Earths, she ended up returning to the main continuity but now
as Helena Bertinelli, who decided to turn on her mafia lineage and become a superhero.
She had a bit of a chip on her shoulder.
And when she arrived in Gotham, she just naturally assumed that because she was a hero, she could
work with Batman.
Hah.
Good luck there girl.
Batman rejected the notion, and did not approve of the way she fought crime, since her methods
were pretty violent.
Which yeah, is kind of hypocritical, all things considered.
Over time, he came around and she chilled out on the violence, and even managed to secure
a spot on the Justice League, but it took a while for her to earn his respect, considering
he basically called her a killer once upon a time.
2 The Hulk Another Marvel character on this list!
In 1981, in the DC Special Series, vol 1 issue 27, Batman took on the Incredible Hulk in
The Monster and the Madman.
The Joker steals a gamma gun and forces Bruce Banner to transform into the Hulk, which draws
the Batman out.
Naturally the Joker loses track of Hulk, and asks Batman for assistance, who manages to
track him down.
Hulk realizes this and attacks Batman in a violent rage.
This forces Batman to use a more absurd tactic; he disguises himself as an old man to convince
Hulk to return to the Joker, which is all part of their temporary truce.
Eventually Hulk and Batman team up to defeat Joker, who gets locked up, but needless to
say, Batman has a bit of a rough time with the green monster prior to them working together.
Including a moment where the Hulk almost crushes Batman’s spine.
Poor Bats.
Always having back problems thanks to big hulking characters.
1 Spawn In the 1994 one shot Spawn Batman written
by Frank Miller and Todd McFarlane, the duo take each other on when Batman visits New
York City.
The two get into a brawl, and Spawn loses his cool and declares “break you in half.
I’ll break you in half.”
To which Batman responded, “Sloppy fighter.
Stupid fighter.
No discipline.”
Eventually they come to the realization that they’re actually after the same villain.
So they end up working together, but still treat each other with a whole lot of snide.
Later on, Frank Miller would reveal that this crossover took place within the same DC universe
as his The Dark Knight Returns and All-Star Batman and Robin; in the latter, Batman is
known to be a massive dick, so his cruelty towards Spawn in this is no surprise.
Miller likes making his Batman a total asshole.
There we have it friends!
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And what characters do you think Batman should have a grudge against?
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