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The problem with the "time to prepare" meme is that Batman doesn't really rely on preparation, he relies on everyone around him being profoundly stupid.

Like, the most famous example, his takedown of Superman in The Dark Knight Returns, basically relies on Clark being really, really dumb and credulous.

I'd like to see an anthology where Batman is just constantly slapped around by his betters. I call it The Brave and the Bruised.
 
"Time to prepare" really comes down to the writer though and the story. I think this is why it's become such a joke among fans (and an annoying one at that at times). Bruce has been written as this uber-martial artist who additionally to his incredible training also has access to a wide variety of gadgets to assist him. Strip those gadgets away a fan will argue (as I have many times) that he is still a formidable opponent with his knowledge and ability. Bruce has been shown to adapt incredibly well to any given situation. Bane only was able to snap his back the first time due to his methodical approach to wearing down Bruce and being hoped on venom too. He's lost every fight against Bruce since then.
 
I dunno, I'm kinda hoping Simone will take the Secret Six out with a blaze of glory and murder Batman. (Bane leading the Six against the Bat-family actually is the plot of the current arc. Obviously, this would not be the outcome, but it would be pretty great as a "Whatever Happened to the Villains United?" type of imaginary story wrapup.)

But anyway, Bane isn't Superman. Or even Aquaman. Aquaman would kick Batman's ass and feed him to an orca. And I've always been of the opinion that the Flash could beat basically anybody, especially since the Waid (Morrison? Johns?) innovation that he's still subject to relativistic mass increase.
 
I think Aquaman gets mocked a lot because of how he was portrayed in "Super Friends". That's been my take on the ridicule and mocking.
 
I haven't seen many Superfriends, not till I was well into my 20s, but they were awful.

I've heard they're better with weed.

But then so is paint drying.

I once had a "Superpowers" comic related to the Toys that came out in 1984, and Aquaman teamed up with Martian Manhunter to take on Darkseid, but thy got sidetracked by a perfectly ordinary bankrobbery whereafter a thousand bullets bounced off their studly chests, they were both totalled by a small fire in a wastepaper bin.

Sad.
 
I think it goes back to the comics in the 1970s, where iirc Aquaman literally could not stand to be out of the water for more than an hour (I think it was an hour, I always like how completely arbitrary biological processes always seem to take a period conveniently expressed in modern timekeeping methods).

Him and the Atom were always complaining about how useless they were. Do they still have the bit with the Atom where he retains his mass? If so, have they ever done a comic where he shrinks down beyond his own Schwarzchild radius? It'd be pretty cool to see the Atom explode like the Tsar Bomba.
 
The Atoms powers are fine.

He's more worried about his personal life.

Have you read Identity Crisis?

A supervillain was generated by Ray withholding sex.

That's gotta give the lad issues, that for the safety of everyone he loves, he has to whore it up for anyone asking, just to be safe.

Unrelated almost, Ray's replacement was killed by Dwarfstar (badguy with the same powers as the Atom.) and the replacement "Ryan Choi" had a supervillain girlfriend "Giganta" who is currently wandering around the pages of the Secret Six. Giganta invited Dwarfstar back to her bedroom for a bit of slap and tickle to get lost in her bosoms.

Dwarfstar's remains have probably been sold to a mob owned dogfood company by now.
 
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Admiral_Young said:
I think Aquaman gets mocked a lot because of how he was portrayed in "Super Friends". That's been my take on the ridicule and mocking.
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I never watched Super Friends. My impression is that people just think a lot of things about the character are dorky, and they're not wrong. He's like "Ant Man" in the SNL spoof about superheroes at a cocktail party.
 
Admiral_Young said:
I think Aquaman gets mocked a lot because of how he was portrayed in "Super Friends". That's been my take on the ridicule and mocking.
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No I'm pretty sure that it has more to do with the fact that when you think about it he has powers similar to Spongebob Squarepants.
 
No, I saw an episode where they pulled off Spongebobs arms over and over again and they kept growing back... Shoving that harpoon into his wrist made Aquaman.

Aquaman has a personality more like Squidworth.
 
His powers are sea based. That's no reason why he should be mocked and made fun of and comparing him to Spongebob...a sponge who lives under the sea and wears underpants for no particular reason is just silly and once more expresses the point perfectly.
 
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How about when Spongebob and Patrick dress up as Mer-Man and Barnacle Boy, which happens often enough.

That's completely a slight against Aquaman.

I never thought much of Hawkman either until there was a purist reboot a couple years ago and they explained what a 20 pound mace does to a human skull if you keep whacking it.
 
Aquaman is telepathic, superstrong and amphibious. Nothing wrong about any of those super powers.
 
^ Exactly. There was a really funny scene in Kevin Smith's Batman: the Widening Gyre where Aquaman detects Bruce's bio signature while he and Silver are making love in the ocean lol. He rags on Bruce and Bruce is annoyed. It was really well written, and Smith wrote Arthur with deadpan humor.
 
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