by Mike Gagnon

Created on: December 06, 2006   Last Updated: February 09, 2007

Although everyone's first instinct is to say Superman could crush Batman to a pulp, this story was already done in the Justice League of America comics in a 2003 story called "The Tower of Babel" published by DC in JLA #43-46.

It is true that Batman rolls with some pretty powerful folks, and that he is the only regular human member of the Justice League. He is also often written as one of the greatest detectives in comics. Batman is portrayed as a realist and knows he has no hope of defeating any of these heroes one-on-one if he had to. Because he knows this it is revealed in "The Tower of Babel" that he has a database of defeat strategies on the computer system in the Batcave. This info is a back up plan to be used in case any of his super powered friends should ever turn evil and Batman has to try and take them down.

Unfortunately for the Justice League, Batman villain Ra's Al Ghul hacks into the system and gets this info. He then uses this info to defeat the Justice League single handedly and take over their moon tower headquarters. When the league discovers that Ra's got the info from hacking Batman's computer system they are furious. The entire gang confronts him and tells him he is no longer welcome in the Justice League. Batman tries to make up for his mistakes by going on a solo mission to take Ra's Al Ghul down.

The team refuses to let Batman help, saying they no longer want him involved in any of their business, and tries to keep Batman on Earth by force. Batman has no other choice but to use his strategies to take down each of his former friends on-by-one and defeats not only Superman, but the entire Justice League on his own.

He defeats them by:
Green Lantern - given a hypnotic suggestion causing him to believe he has gone blind.
Martian Manhunter infected with mini machines in his skin that release magnesium, causing him to bust into flames when exposed to oxygen. Martian Manhunter's weakness is fire.
Wonder Woman Plunged into a virtual reality where she believes her powers have failed her and she has been shot.
The Flash Shot in the spine with a bullet that vibrates while lodged in his spinal cord, causing epileptic seizures and left unable to use his super speed.
Aquaman exposed to the fear toxin used by bat-villain Scarecrow to give him a fear of water. The longer he stays out of water the weaker he gets.
Plastic Man Frozen and shattered.
Superman Exposed to a synthetic Kryptonite which makes his powers go haywire and causes him to nearly explode.

So not only did Batman take down Superman single handedly, but also took down the entire Justice League of America, a group of very powerful super-heroes using only his keen intellect.

After Batman wallops his friends he defeats Ra's Al Ghul.

A few months later the Justice league agrees that he made the battle plans for the right reasons and they allow him to re-join the team.

Of course he could have made them let him rejoin the team any time he wanted to.

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