Name: Heroes And Villains That Have Destroyed Batman
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Batman is often treated like a god among mortal superheroes by dedicated comic fans.

After all, he's basically a genius ninja detective billionaire with enough money to build weapons

designed to beat the most powerful heroes and villains in the DC Universe.

Still, comics writers like to remind readers that Batman is totally capable of having his

bat-butt kicked up and down the streets of Gotham.

Even though he always bounces back, let's take a look at some of the heroes and villains

Let's start with the obvious one: the big bad guy that beat Batman so badly that it

In the summer of 1993, DC kicked off a major Batman event called Knightfall, in which Batman

becomes burnt out after Bane releases all of his greatest villains from Arkham Asylum

While Bats is overworked and overstressed, Bane discovers that the Dark Knight is Bruce

Wayne — which leads to a violent showdown in the Batcave.

Things don't go well for Batman: Bane dominates the fight against a weakened Caped Crusader.

He lifts Batman over his head and brings him crashing down over his knee, breaking Batman's

back and putting him completely out of commission.

It's become such an iconic takedown, that it made its way to the big screen in The Dark

It really is the most devastating hit that Batman has ever taken — but it's not the

Even within the ridiculous medium of comics, where anything is possible, it takes a lot

to believe Batman has a realistic shot at defeating Superman in a one-on-one fight,

but somehow, Batman often seems to come out on top.

There was the time villain Maxwell Lord made Superman hallucinate that he was battling

Darkseid in a gladiatorial arena, when in reality he was beating on Batman so badly

In the story Lex Luthor: Man of Steel, Batman is planning to attack Superman with kryptonite…

only to have Supes literally blow the rock out of Batman's hand, then pound Batman to

Or how about the time an alien parasite called Blackrock took over Batman's body, granting

him superhuman strength, flight, and a whole lot of crazy?

Even fighting a Batman with super powers, Superman was able to punch the parasite right

Punching is typically not a good solution for dealing with parasites.

In the 2016 graphic novel Wonder Woman: The Hiketeia, Batman is on the hunt for a woman

responsible for the deaths of sex slavers and drug dealers in Gotham.

And she just so happens to be the very same person Wonder Woman has been honor-bound to

When the two titans of the DC universe collide, things get ugly — mostly for Batman.

Diana beats him into submission and stands with a foot on his head.

If that isn't the ultimate symbol of Batman getting owned, we don't know what is.

He escapes by invoking an Amazonian ritual, but it's a pretty close call.

Though he's a villain you don't hear much about…

...Prometheus is Batman's twisted mirror image, and in an even more literal way than Joker

Batman's family was gunned down by a street thug, but Prometheus' parents were criminals

killed by the police, leading him to swear vengeance upon those who attempt to bring

Like Batman, he's a trained fighter, he's filthy rich, and he's got a sharp mind.

But despite sharing the same name, he has very little to do with the Prometheus who

Prometheus masquerades as the hero Retro and walks straight into the Justice League's Watchtower

with a helmet that grants him the skills of the 30 greatest martial artists in the world,

He then beats the snot out of everyone, and his trouncing of the Justice League only ends

The Cult is one of the darkest, most brutal stories in the Batman canon, thanks to the

vicious Deacon Blackfire, leader of a cult of Gotham's homeless, who've been brainwashed

During his investigation into the cult, Batman is captured by Deacon's forces and spends

a huge chunk of the tale being tortured… and kissed gently on the cheek… while high

It's all an attempt to brainwash Batman into fighting for Blackfire's underground army.

Batman's eventually saved by Robin, but not before being reduced to a sobbing husk of

his former self, and having his entire worldview shattered.

Robin finally gets Batman back for all of those meme-friendly slaps to the face.

Blackfire isn't even the only opponent to use drugs to take down Batman, either.

You might think that Swamp Thing is a joke, and if you've ever heard his old cartoon theme

Bad cartoons aside, Swamp Thing isn't just one of the most fascinating characters in

all of DC comics — he's also one of the most powerful.

In fact, he's won pretty much every fight he and Batman have gotten into.

When Batman chases Killer Croc into Swamp Thing's… uh, swamp, the big green guy takes

out Bats with a puff of hallucinogenic pollen.

The most memorable beatdown happened in Swamp Thing #53, when the muck man's wife is in

police custody and he responds by turning Gotham into a jungle.

When Batman confronts him, Swampy divides himself into many Swamp Things and just beats

the snot out of Batman like it's a gang initiation ritual.

Slade Wilson is one of the deadliest characters in any comic book universe, regardless of

He was the world's greatest killer even before the government experimented on him, making

One of his first fights after getting his own comic book in the early '90s was with

At this point the Dark Knight was already something of a legend, able to defeat any

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