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[kame-sennin]

Ok, I don't follow comics anymore, but what reason does Batman have to not wear a power suit? He's got as much money as Tony Stark, he's one of the smartest guys on the planet, he's constantly getting shot at, and he has to go into battle alongside people like Superman and Wonder Woman. He's got the means and the motivation to make a power suit. It would seem like super strength, flight, and invulnerability would come in handy in his line of work. But instead, he straps on a Kevlar vest and a utility belt and calls it a day.

In hypothetical future comics, he's always using a power suit, although the explanation seems to be that he's too old to fight without it. But why wait? Ninja skills are great and all, but shouldn't Bruce use every advantage possible in his never ending war on crime? Am I missing something here? Has this been explained in the comics?


Edit: The suit doesn't have to be full on medieval style armor. It can be a light muscle enhancement like Crysis, or even as simple as the shitty suit Jean Paul wore after Batman's back broke.

 

[.GqueB.]

Not sexy enough.

 

[……forgetit]

He has a few. He just doesn't use them cause plot.

 

[Betty]

Ninja's need to be stealthy, powersuits remove the element of surprise.

 

[Mesoian]

He does sometimes. The Batman Beyond suit was his first after all.

 

[Lautaro]

Stealth > Strenght.

 

[lovely ladies]

His villains don't really have super powers, not much a need for it.

 

[Face it Tiger..]

Ninja's need to be stealthy, powersuits remove the element of surprise.

Iron Man has made a few stealth suits, mostly been light weight and "light bending"

 

[OnPoint]

Who needs a powersuit when your super power is prep time?

For normal crime fighting I don't think he needs it. But when going up against beings like Darkseid, he'd probably be better off with something special.

 

[Leunam]

Those are both from the future. The suit Terry wears was in use towards the end of Wayne's own career, and the suit from Kingdom Come had to be powered because Bruce was basically held together by an exoskeleton after years of abuse.

 

[Professor Renegade]

Because he's the goddamn Batman.

 

[Ri'Orius]

Because he's a fictional character and that would be off-theme. Batman's supposed to be the Badass Normal, and a power suit would be too sci-fi.

Sorry, but most fictional characters (especially comic book super heroes) don't act according to what makes sense. They act according to what makes a good story.

 

[Mistel]

I don't think a armored suit really suits batman...

 

[Halcyon]

 

[Team Filler]

Batman's mind is his main weapon & defense, he wouldn't normally need any special armor. For those occasions where he does need one, he no doubt has it available. I imagine, though, that there would be hesitance at using it too often lest he winds up using a power-suit so much that he becomes reliant on it.

 

[Anteater]

That's just not his style, he's batman not ironman

 

[Angelus Errare]

He does sometimes. The Batman Beyond suit was his first after all.

It's not at all, Bruce has made plenty of power suits before the BatBey suit. He just chooses not to use them.

 

[Grenouille]

Why doesn't he cover his jaw when fighting superman in dark knight returns?

 

[Abounder]

Same reason why he doesn't use a gun: because he's the goddamn Batman

 

[Finaika]

Ninja's need to be stealthy, powersuits remove the element of surprise.

Build a power suit with a cloaking device then?

 

[shira]

Ya, three buttons is a little 90's

 

[PetriP-TNT]

He like the feel of leather on his rock solid nipples

 

[quickwhips]

He fought predator in a power suit and got worked. Without the suit with a baseball bat who won?

 

[fredrancour]

It's not what people pick up batman stuff to see. He had one briefly in a recent comics sidestory that emulated various justice league powers, but he dropped it for the most part.... actually then I think later in the main story he used a different powersuit...

I'm sure that a powersuit batman could work now but in modern movies they won't do that because they are afraid of being seen as imitating iron man.

 

[Ri'Orius]

It's not at all, Bruce has made plenty of power suits before the BatBey suit. He just chooses not to use them.

It's not "The Batman Beyond suit was his first [power suit]", it's "The Batman Beyond suit was his first [before he gave it to Terry]". It belonged to him first, not it was the first he ever had.

The sentence is ambiguous, but one of the parsings is accurate.

 

[anotherVegan]

Batman already has the only power he'll ever need.

Sweet dance moves.

 

[OldRoutes]

He will in Batman Vs Superman, apparently.

 

[Goliath]

Batman stories revolve around his detective work and his mind during the beginning and during the action sequences stealth and agility.

Power suits are none of those things. They wouldn't help him in his city against his villians with his ability. He dons them every so often when going up against a heavy but Batman is street hero. He spends his days chasing thugs, gangsters and cazy person. His whole point is to be essentially the Captain America (Human in top physical condition).

Ironman is essentially Batman with a power suit and his comics are far from interchangable with Batman comics, writing talent aside.

 

[Slayven]

Why doesn't he cover his jaw when fighting superman in dark knight returns?

Why doesn't Lex wear a helmet? DC powersuit game is whack.

 

[Qasiel]

Iron Man and his suit is all about blowing stuff up and taking massive hits, whilst showboating.

Batman is more stealth-oriented, and while he could probably create a suit with cloaking tech, he prefers not to rely on that sort of thing due to the fact that it could ultimately fail and he may have relied on it too much. We're talking about the man who gave himself a "backup personality" in case he ever lost his mind, so to create a battle suit and wear it as part of the norm would be counter-intuitive. At the end of the day, Batman can only rely one one thing; Batman.

 

[pulga]

same thing why he doesn't have a GL ring

because reasons

 

[MisterHero]

New 52 Batman made one but he Lucius junked it

 

[Slayven]

Well Damien will build one in the future.

 

[Pandaman]

Why doesn't Lex wear a helmet?

ego. he wants everyone to know its him.

 

[Parch]

In one of the animated movies he's got a bulletproof suit with a force field, but opted to not use it because deflections could cause bystander injuries.

 

[akira28]

Too Iron Man.

edit: there is already a billionaire industrialist playboy with power suits gimmick. He's super successful and has a ton of lawyers. One of whom might be the Daredevil.

 

[The Silver]

It would weaken his jobber aura

 

[Slayven]

In one of the animated movies he's got a bulletproof suit with a force field, but opted to not use it because deflections could cause bystander injuries.

Need to research more advance shit.

 

[MisterHero]

A power suit has certain liabilities if it malfunctions. There was an episode of Batman Beyond where hacking almost caused Terry to drown. The suit itself was unusable until its software could be rewritten. Computers and machines are just more natural to Tony Stark.

Also, RE: Kingdom Come. Bruce had already exchanged on-foot crimefighting for robots. He doesn't have to be in harm's way if he doesn't need to. I think Bruce could either do robots or on-foot crimefighting, but not both.

 

[GungHo]

If he used a power suit, he wouldn't be Batman. He'd be Batsuit Man. I'm not even being all that facetious. It's like asking why Wolverine doesn't use an M2 Browning. He's Wolverine, not Motherfucker With A Machine Gun Man.

 

[The_Hitcher89]

Because it would make him less awesome.

 

[B-Dubs]

He likes to give the bad guys a sporting chance.

 

[Imm0rt4l]

Batman likes playing on hard mode.

 

[.GqueB.]

Iron Man and his suit is all about blowing stuff up and taking massive hits, whilst showboating.

Batman is more stealth-oriented, and while he could probably create a suit with cloaking tech, he prefers not to rely on that sort of thing due to the fact that it could ultimately fail and he may have relied on it too much. We're talking about the man who gave himself a "backup personality" in case he ever lost his mind, so to create a battle suit and wear it as part of the norm would be counter-intuitive. At the end of the day, Batman can only rely one one thing; Batman.

Lol wut?

 

[Screaming Meat]

Lol wut?

You read that correctly.

Basically, Batman on military-grade crack, minus Bruce.

With a baseball bat.

 

[Qasiel]

Lol wut?

Yup, in the Batman R.I.P arc: Batman of Zur-En-Arrh

 

[Napoleonthechimp]

Perhaps he feels that it is necessary to feel pain and be in danger in order to be as effective as possible.

 

[GungHo]

Lol wut?

Welcome to the wacky world of comics.

 

[Slayven]

Lol wut?

Pfbt, Tony Stark backed up his mind, reformatted his brain, installed new upgraded firmware and then reinstalled his mind.


Get on his level Bruce.

 

[Imm0rt4l]

Lol wut?

Zur-En-Arrh