Dick Grayson
Bruce Wayne
Cassandra Cain
Richard Dragon
Lady Shiva
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Black Canary
Ra's al Ghul
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The difference between Batman and Karate Kid is that Batman has technology and other resources to ease the plausibility of anything he accomplishes his utility belt can become the ultimate deus ex machina, his shadow cabinet of miscellaneous devices, etc
Batman will never do something insane like punch a ocean in half its too outlandish
Karate Kid is simply a man who learned martial arts in the future and because of that he can basically do anything and believe me the stuff he does in LOSH is not comparable to a regular human but more like superboy or superman
One character should logically extend to every human in the DCU but doesn't because it would break the internal logic present day DC
In the LOSH time its fine because nothing matters but modern day DC that's a pretty big break in consistency
ConnEr Kent flies. ConnOr Hawke has a bow. Batman's kid is named DamiAn.
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ConnEr Kent flies. ConnOr Hawke has a bow. Batman's kid is named DamiAn.
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Why is Black Canary getting so few votes? She almost definitely is a better fighter than Bruce
you aren't going to out popular Batman. I prefer Bruce written as a great detective who is well versed in many disciplines using everything at his disposal to get things done.
But then you have other characters who have been patently established as being legendary masters it is just embedded into their characters. Talking about Karate Kid who is just doing looney tons Martial Arts. Then you've got the martial arts trinity of Richard Dragon, Bronze Tiger and Lady Shiva. DC just made a movie about them and inserted Batman so it would sell. The movie even goes on to demonstrate they are more skilled Martial Artists, but Batman still gonna Batman so he's never going down easy.
I don't even know why Jason Todd is on this list. He gets smoked by every one here in straight hand to hand, but he evens the playing field because he's the only one smart enough to bring a gun to the fight.
I don't know if Cassandra Cain or Connor Hawke will ever get the love outside of battle boards. There'd have to be a movie or hit cartoon that portrayed them as superior to Batman for them to get mainstream recognition.
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I am basing this post on Pre Flashpoint Roy, but yes. He and Dick were shown to be equals quite a few times, he held his own against Connor Hawke once, and was “trained “ by both Dick and Canary, not to mention Chesire. And he also has that Checkmate crash course going for him. His skills are pretty respectable, just not a focus on most stories he’s been in.
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