Batman is Right

So today, I watched Justice League: Doom for the first time. For those not in the know, it's based on a Justice League comic book known as Tower of Babel, which is well worth a read. It details how a supervillain, Ra's al Ghul in the book, Vandal Savage in the film, steals Batman's plans to take down a member of the Justice League should he or she go bad. The League is obviously upset by Batman's actions and, after stopping Ra's'/Savage's evil plot, they vote on whether or not to kick him out of the League.

But you know what?

Batman's right to have those plans.

Every single member of the Justice League, past and present, is a Superhero. On their own, they've got amazing powers. In a group, they're practically an unstoppable force. If any one of them went bad, it would be a majorly bad situation. And the thing is, it's not unheard for any member of the League to go nuts and start randomly killing people.

Just look at J'onn Jonzz! In the storyline where he got over his phobia of Fire, he became a giant, firey rage monster determined to burn the world in order to create MORE giant, firey rage monsters. After the destruction of Coast City, Hal Jordan fell under the influence of the Parallax and killed dozens of fellow Green Lanterns. And I have lost count of how many times Superman has been brainwashed into a mindless destruct-o monster. Even Green Arrow, who's only power is his dry sarcastic wit, would be a danger, since he probably has a mini-nuclear arrow in case Mongul decides to attack Star City.

So yes, I am in full favour of Batman having these plans. If I were in the DC universe and didn't have powers, I'd want something like that there, just in case. Some people have suggested that had Batman told the other members of the JL that he had these plans, they wouldn't have minded AS much. 

I call those people idiots.

As soon as you find out that someone has a plan to take you out, the first sensible thing you'd do is figure out the various ways that you could hypothetically be taken out, and take measures to avoid them being effective.  

As for Batman's so called contingency plan to take himself out being the Justice League... that's a really shitty plan, considering that he has just proven that he can take out the entire Justice League, and when you realise that this is Batman we're talking about, you can bet that these are just the plans he wrote down on his computer, and that he has at least ten other ways of taking you out.

After all, He's BATMAN!

Excessively paranoid? Maybe, but he has damn good reason to be.

Live Long and Prosper