If there has ever been a straight up Batman beats/has a plan to beat Pure Evil Spuerman comic I have never seen it. Even here, with the spear its implied that Batman still thought Clark would snap out of it. I mean its implied Superman killed damn near everyone on the planet and Batman still held out hope of his Superman coming back to him.
Regardless of how popular culture has interpreted it, in the comics Batman's plans against Superman always assume that at heart Superman is basically a good guy.
In cynical takes, like Dark Knight Returns, Batman's plans take advantage of Superman's inherent niceness. In optimistic takes, like Hush, Batman's plans are usually all about stalling Superman while helping Clark break free of whatever mindcontrol BS.
No, not really. For example Snyder wrote a really good story about the different ways Batman would fight Superman. Most of the other writers just choose to take the lazy way out.
Who? Where? I mean there are a lot of comics and I haven taken breaks from time to time so maybe I have just been fortunate never to have heard of those issues.
An extremely evil Superman would just push an asteroid into Earth or something, which is kind of hard for Batman to deal with without dipping way far into the Sci-Fi Closet. Not that it wouldn't make for a good story.
Has there ever been a story where one of the heavy hitters like Supes or Flash or Green Lantern (or Ultraman, Sinestro, etc.) was going to just one-shot humanity, and Batman had (say) twenty minutes' warning to try to stop them?
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Regardless of how popular culture has interpreted it, in the comics Batman's plans against Superman always assume that at heart Superman is basically a good guy.
In cynical takes, like Dark Knight Returns, Batman's plans take advantage of Superman's inherent niceness. In optimistic takes, like Hush, Batman's plans are usually all about stalling Superman while helping Clark break free of whatever mindcontrol BS.
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Has there ever been a story where one of the heavy hitters like Supes or Flash or Green Lantern (or Ultraman, Sinestro, etc.) was going to just one-shot humanity, and Batman had (say) twenty minutes' warning to try to stop them?