That was the whole premise of the World’s Finest episodes of the Batman and Superman animated series in the late 90s…. Joker told Lex Luthor he’d kill Superman and Luthor could go after Batman.
I think sometimes their cities are depicted as the same city, with Superman patrolling during the day and Batman at night, or neighboring cities. When you consider Superman’s superspeed cleaning up Gotham sounds like something he could do in a long weekend.
Batman would easily lose to Superman’s villains. They are so much stronger.
Also, the entire premise of Batman vs. Superman is stupid. Superman is an alien with ridiculous powers like heat/laser vision, flight/hovering and ridiculous strength. Batman is just a human with some tech gadgets.
I read a comic where they do this and they both hate it.
The stone and lead in Gothams architecture makes it harder for him to see through and all the futuristic glass skyscrapers of Metropolis make it harder for Batman’s grappling hooks.
No, Batman and Superman couldn’t just swap cities and clear each other’s villains
Superman’s villains like Doomsday or Brainiac would completely would completely outclass Batman NO MATTER how much prep time he had, and villains like Joker or Scarecrow would mess with Superman’s morality and emotions until he eventually screws up; each hero has different motives as heroes which is why they work in their own cities
There’s a comic which features the Joker coming to Metropolis to fuck with superman, where Superman mostly defeats Joker by talking to him. Joker leads in with insults like he usually does when fighting batman and gets quite upset when Superman’s reaction is to go “haha, ouch, ya got me”. He doesn’t like the fact that Superman actually thinks he’s funny (of course, it implies Superman doesn’t see him as a threat), and as he keeps trying to up the ante Superman pivots to just laughing at Joker instead of his jokes.
Joker has set up a bunch of bombs all over Metropolis, but superman manages to collect them all and bring them to the rooftop where they’re having this confrontation, and when Joker threatens to detonate them superman essentially says “Uh, sure? Go ahead. The building’s evacuated, I’ll survive and catch any falling debris. You’ll die, but…meh?” Joker says that he’d only die because superman brought the bombs here, which would make him at least partly to blame, and killing is against the code; Superman points out that that’s just Batman’s code. He just does what feels right, and letting Joker choose to blow himself up seems fine. Joker just decides to go home.
Later Superman visits Batman and tells him that if he lets any of his “playmates” come to Metropolis again, they’ll be sent back broken instead.
The6ve done this a few times and they both hate it for various reasons. But a good point to make is even though batman’s villains are physically weak they’re crazy enough to ruin superman’s life.
People rag on injustice but Jpker would absolutely target Lois to get to supes. Superman villains are stronger but Batman villains are far more cruel.
By the time supes clears out half the garbage someone is going bomb the daily planet.
Batman is probably gonna have a better I metropolis since almost everything had some dumb weakness. And if he needs brute force he calls in superman.
Batman is toast against Darkseid, Doomsday, Braniac, most of supermans villains are on a cosmic scale, far beyond human ingenuity. Lol not even remotely close
Kind of the reverse happened in the latest season of Harley Quinn! She, Poison Ivy, etc. decide to move to Metropolis.
Others are correctly pointing out that there are other stories where Batman/Superman swap, I just didn’t see anyone else mention Harley Quinn yet and thought it was fun (even though it’s not exactly the same).
Without spoiling anything, in the Superman animated series, Season 3’s second episode “Knight Time” has Batman go MIA. Superman goes to Gotham to check up on things, where he meets with Robin, who convinces Superman to pretend to be Batman for a while to keep things under control.
It shows that whilst Superman would have the ability to take on any Gotham villain (or anyone really if he didn’t care about physically breaking them), he is far from equipped with Gotham’s criminal’s modus operandi. Robin has to actually tell him how to act to get things done, which is very different from how things would have gone back in Metropolis.
At home, his appearance would make most feel like it’s over. In Gotham, the criminals will look at him and probably not even care that much. They’re a different breed.
All the real ones remember that Lego batman special where batman goes on holiday and leaves superman in charge of Gotham and he and the rest of the justice league absolutely get their asses handed to them by the Joker
In a couple stories it’s implied dealing with Gotham is just too big of a hassle and that Batman keeps everything contained. Yeah Superman could just go round up the joker but he probably has lead coated crates of laughing gas all over metropolis as a final joke for this exact reason.
how could Batman be of any real help to Superman? Who are these villains that Superman can’t deal with that Batman would be able to? If Superman can’t deal with them, no one can. Unless there is Kryptonite involved, Superman is millions of times more capable of everything than some human in a suit with gadgets.
We do realize that the majority of things Superman fights are kaijus and beings whose only weakness is getting punched hard enough to crack open moons, right?
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That was the whole premise of the World’s Finest episodes of the Batman and Superman animated series in the late 90s…. Joker told Lex Luthor he’d kill Superman and Luthor could go after Batman.
I think sometimes their cities are depicted as the same city, with Superman patrolling during the day and Batman at night, or neighboring cities. When you consider Superman’s superspeed cleaning up Gotham sounds like something he could do in a long weekend.
Batman would easily lose to Superman’s villains. They are so much stronger.
Also, the entire premise of Batman vs. Superman is stupid. Superman is an alien with ridiculous powers like heat/laser vision, flight/hovering and ridiculous strength. Batman is just a human with some tech gadgets.
Yeah, Batman solos Doomsday, Brainiac, Metallo, Cyborg Superman and so on. /s
I read a comic where they do this and they both hate it.
The stone and lead in Gothams architecture makes it harder for him to see through and all the futuristic glass skyscrapers of Metropolis make it harder for Batman’s grappling hooks.
No, Batman and Superman couldn’t just swap cities and clear each other’s villains
Superman’s villains like Doomsday or Brainiac would completely would completely outclass Batman NO MATTER how much prep time he had, and villains like Joker or Scarecrow would mess with Superman’s morality and emotions until he eventually screws up; each hero has different motives as heroes which is why they work in their own cities
Batman and Superman swap cities for a week… suddenly Gotham villains are running scared in Metropolis, and Lex Luthor is getting roasted in Gotham
The Joker is the only batman villain that would give Wonder Woman any trouble at all.
There’s a comic which features the Joker coming to Metropolis to fuck with superman, where Superman mostly defeats Joker by talking to him. Joker leads in with insults like he usually does when fighting batman and gets quite upset when Superman’s reaction is to go “haha, ouch, ya got me”. He doesn’t like the fact that Superman actually thinks he’s funny (of course, it implies Superman doesn’t see him as a threat), and as he keeps trying to up the ante Superman pivots to just laughing at Joker instead of his jokes.
Joker has set up a bunch of bombs all over Metropolis, but superman manages to collect them all and bring them to the rooftop where they’re having this confrontation, and when Joker threatens to detonate them superman essentially says “Uh, sure? Go ahead. The building’s evacuated, I’ll survive and catch any falling debris. You’ll die, but…meh?” Joker says that he’d only die because superman brought the bombs here, which would make him at least partly to blame, and killing is against the code; Superman points out that that’s just Batman’s code. He just does what feels right, and letting Joker choose to blow himself up seems fine. Joker just decides to go home.
Later Superman visits Batman and tells him that if he lets any of his “playmates” come to Metropolis again, they’ll be sent back broken instead.
The6ve done this a few times and they both hate it for various reasons. But a good point to make is even though batman’s villains are physically weak they’re crazy enough to ruin superman’s life.
People rag on injustice but Jpker would absolutely target Lois to get to supes. Superman villains are stronger but Batman villains are far more cruel.
By the time supes clears out half the garbage someone is going bomb the daily planet.
Batman is probably gonna have a better I metropolis since almost everything had some dumb weakness. And if he needs brute force he calls in superman.
Someone doesn’t know the story of Injustice.
Batman is a city but isn’t Superman the entire world?
Wasn’t there a storyline where Superman dressed up as Batman? Now that would have been disconcerting.
The billionaires will just hang out and oppress the working class together
Isn’t the whole premise of Injustice start from Joker got tired of the shit in Arkham and decided to go for the easy mode that is Superman.
Batman is toast against Darkseid, Doomsday, Braniac, most of supermans villains are on a cosmic scale, far beyond human ingenuity. Lol not even remotely close
One of few reasons Metropolis is too bright at night for Batman (no shadows). Gotham is old. Hard to see trought (lead roofs)
Kind of the reverse happened in the latest season of Harley Quinn! She, Poison Ivy, etc. decide to move to Metropolis.
Others are correctly pointing out that there are other stories where Batman/Superman swap, I just didn’t see anyone else mention Harley Quinn yet and thought it was fun (even though it’s not exactly the same).
Without spoiling anything, in the Superman animated series, Season 3’s second episode “Knight Time” has Batman go MIA. Superman goes to Gotham to check up on things, where he meets with Robin, who convinces Superman to pretend to be Batman for a while to keep things under control.
It shows that whilst Superman would have the ability to take on any Gotham villain (or anyone really if he didn’t care about physically breaking them), he is far from equipped with Gotham’s criminal’s modus operandi. Robin has to actually tell him how to act to get things done, which is very different from how things would have gone back in Metropolis.
At home, his appearance would make most feel like it’s over. In Gotham, the criminals will look at him and probably not even care that much. They’re a different breed.
In the Injustice comic series. Joker killed lois Lane while she was pregnant with Superman’s baby.
Superman easily kills the Joker for that, and starts his totalitarian regime as a God who will deal justice as he sees fit.
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All the real ones remember that Lego batman special where batman goes on holiday and leaves superman in charge of Gotham and he and the rest of the justice league absolutely get their asses handed to them by the Joker
Batman can’t even handle the Joker. How is he gonna handle actual metahumans?
Quite sure this has been done several times and uh, no
In a couple stories it’s implied dealing with Gotham is just too big of a hassle and that Batman keeps everything contained. Yeah Superman could just go round up the joker but he probably has lead coated crates of laughing gas all over metropolis as a final joke for this exact reason.
how could Batman be of any real help to Superman? Who are these villains that Superman can’t deal with that Batman would be able to? If Superman can’t deal with them, no one can. Unless there is Kryptonite involved, Superman is millions of times more capable of everything than some human in a suit with gadgets.
Doomsday shows up
Batman- wanna switch back?
They could easily take care of their own villains if they would both get over themselves.
We do realize that the majority of things Superman fights are kaijus and beings whose only weakness is getting punched hard enough to crack open moons, right?
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The fuck is batman gonna do against lex luthor? outbid him?
World’s Finest exists solely to show this buddy