Nope. At best I'd believe they were a seriously mis-guided wannabe. There are in fact masked vigilantes in this world, you know? Search it--the "ABC News" video of a "Shadow Hare" in "Cincinnati". Those terms are in quotes so you can search by copy and paste, no typing required.
But the real problem with this is: The Batman, as character, is an alpha. Set aside for the moment that he's also a copyrighted intellectual property, ok? Batman as such is an alpha--he is the best there is at his game. He spent his whole life--from the death of his parents onward--in study, training and preparing to be both an elite martial artist and an elite detective. At once. Bruce Lee and Sherlock Holmes in the same body.
This is a difficult endeavor. Difficult as in nearly impossible for someone to do while running a multi-billion dollar corporation and also trying to maintain a low public profile. I've always said that Bruce Wayne _had_ a super-power, in that he never really needed to sleep more than two hours a night, two nights a week, ever. That's really the only way he could liberate enough time in his schedule to manage it all.
And an otherwise ordinary human body doesn't heal right or function worth a damn on that little sleep. Duh. Sorry for the tangent though.
Point is, he's an alpha, statistically. This is how rare that is:
In all of the modern history of the NBA, only _one_ team has ever been a statistical alpha--only one team has ever scored the _Maximum_ number of points humanly possible to score under the rules of a normal-length, regulation basketball game.
That would be the Jordan/Pippen/Rodman version of the Chicago Bulls. Michael Jordan gets a lot of the credit for that, but honestly, the first version of the team--the one that won the first three championship rings--didn't make it. The Bulls needed Pippen and Rodman to max it completely out and force rule changes (or at least changes in enforcement of them).
That's how rare an alpha is: Jordan alone couldn't force the issue, in basketball. He needed a team.
Batman is much the same way. It's not just his money or his desire: it's that, the training, the fact that he's _in Gotham_ where rule of law is so permissive that a masked vigilante actually _does_ better police work than the police do themselves--and it becomes _admissable_ in a court of law.
Every star has to be aligned for someone to become an alpha, and they rarely stay that way for long.
Under the circumstances of the present day (post-Patriot Act, post-9-11 paranoia) I'd have to say the man is either a well-meaning wannabe or utterly off his rocker (if not both). The stars _can't_ align right under the current circumstances for that.
Sorry to go on so, though....
Yep. Thanks kindly for the Best Answer. I hate to be so blunt about it, but the guy would either have to have an identical twin nobody knows about, or be a serious druggie, to be able to maintain that sort of double life: elite martial artist/elite detective _and_ multi-billionaire too? (more)
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Would you believe someone if they told you they were Batman?(continued) That alone's hard enough: but doing it in an American city "just like Gotham" (like St. Louis, Missouri; Detroit, Michigan; or New Orleans, Louisiana)? It isn't rational. It makes no sense to be a billionaire who routinely goes out at night to beat up crackheads... (more)
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(last) not when you can get more done for the city by _Using_ your wealth and not your fists, and not when you can do more for _yourself_ by moving out to somewhere more civilized. This really does flip the whole thing on its head though: Batman as stingy, sadistic, uber-Scrooge?
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Would you believe someone if they told you they were Batman?yes but first i would have to go see the billionare and ask if he has a super cool butler named Alferd and if he does ill say "CAN I BE YOUR SIDEKICK PLEASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS… and if he says no ill just ask him if i could just see his mansion and sneak into his secret lair and put on his sidekick suit and start kicking and karate chopping in the air while saying "hachachacha hiya'
Haha, that would be so cool. But i'm a born skeptic, so I'd need to do some investigating first..
Edit: Hmm, that makes it more interesting. I'd be so surprised, I wouldn't know what to think. I guess then I would believe him slightly.. But there would still be that part of me who doubts it. I'd have to talk to him again.
so do you mean that if a billionaire told you that he was batman and that he would appear on tv 3 days later in 3 different locations and then that happens would i believe him? well i guess maybe if it really did happen. but i dont think that he would really have superpowers though.
At first, no, I couldn't believe in them..
Being a billionaire doesn't prove anything; they could have gotten it my usurping another person's property.
Probably wouldn't believe him but would ask to see the Batcave and Batgirl
Maybe. I'd want to believe it because I'd love to be able to say I've met Batman.
If they were a billionaire, I would go along with anything they had to say! ;)
NoOoo..
I would not still believe them..
No 'cuz he wouldn't have told me if he was really Batman.
nope but i'd still be like "heeeey....i met a dude who said he's Batman" :) Then I'd go make some toast
No, because I know who the real one is.
been reading too many comics
Nah. He's to cool.
No
Not really.
No, I would not.
Yes.
if his name was bruce Wayne then i might
I wouldn't buy it
Yes i would. because truth is, i'm wonder-woman....
Honestly, yes I would. I'm so naive! /:
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