Which is Batman’s Best Gadget?
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What
Serves Batman Best?!
Bat plane,
Bat car, or The Bat, an all purpose flying machine that Lucius Fox presents to
Bruce Wayne, which one is the most efficient tool of Batman?
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What
attracted me as a kid towards Batman was his vulnerability. The thought that he
could fail was enough for me to unshackle myself from the meta-fantasy of the
Superman, the hero of perfections. (Not completely, though, which I later
realized.)
However,
among battles between good and evil, Batman relies on a number of surprise
gadgets which were fun to watch and enthralling to imagine on your side; what
impressed me the most was the rope. But then there was Spiderman, with a
genetically generated spider-web-shooting gland on his wrist!
Batman
has still got the grounds, because he always has the specially designed
vehicles and daggers or darts. Some darts, are designed to look like bats. Only
Batman has custom designed cars and bikes and planes. They have their names
too—bat bike, bat plane, bat car and so on, like a whole “bat” franchise.
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Then
there is the Bat signal. In the relentless fight against evil, injustice,
corruption and darkness, Bat signal is the only medium through which any
ordinary citizen of Gotham city can
communicate with their superhero. This is the answer to the question why are
superheroes so aloof from the common population. The Bat Signal is a huge bat
wing stuck over a spot light. Anyone can light the signal and project it
towards the sky.
In
most of the early comic books featuring Batman, his gadgets usually won the war
for him. But if one looks at The DarkKnight Rises, and other latest comics or movie versions, one can see Batman
miserably waiting for some miracle. Most of the technological advancements
Batman possessed were used against him by the shrewd Bane. And Batman finds it miserable.
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Technology
can be copied or stolen. However the might of the hero is undefeatable. What
helps Batman succeed at the end?
After
being thoroughly defeated by Bane, Bruce Wayne hits the bottom of the barrel.
And he was thrown literally into one, by the villain. The emergence of the hero
from that dark dungeon, from the fear of failure, loss and death is the only
factor we are able to see Batman, at the end, standing against Bane and
company. It is to this “emergence” that we owe the heroism of our hero.
The
most powerful weapon, therefore, Batman owns is his mind, that at the same time
suffers from a series of fears—loss of parents; fear of death; the fear for
darkness—and possess the capability at the same time, to emerge from the claws
of these fears.
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