Becoming Batman: The Possibility of a Superhero

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Let me preface this review with the fact that this is not a geeky treatise on all of Batman’s cool toys and tools of the trade. Instead, it’s a geeky treatise on the idea that Batman is one of the few superheroes who has trained to be a crime fighter, no otherworldly or radiation-granted powers. It’s a look at the physiology of what it would take to train to become as good as Batman. It’s a science book so if you’re looking for something else there are plenty of other books about that. If you have an interest in the human body and physiology (and a healthy interest in super heroes) you’ll enjoy this and Dr Zehr is the person to write this book. He is a professor of neuroscience and kinesiology as well as a martial artist and presumably a comic book fan. I got to meet the author briefly when he was the keynote speaker for the Human Anatomy & Physiology Society’s annual meeting this year. Ever had a friend who would get recover from flu in just 2 days while you would lie in bed for a week? That kind of body. Higher lung function, no bodily abnormalities, perfect eyesight and no faulty genes that could give you disease later in life. Now, as an aside, this is just about the physical skills- don't go into this book expecting detailed info on grapple guns, Batmoblies, or ninja smoke pellets.

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Get into the army as soon as you graduate high school, preferably as a cadet at an officer academy, and preferably a full-time 4-year course. And you need to have been investing money and amassing a fortune the entire time, because the technology you'll need to even get close to a real-world version of Batman will cost millions of dollars. So you've done that, and now you start spending the money to get an armored suit full of electronics to communicate with assistants and have night vision and so on. You need a base of operations, so you buy one of those old used missile silos the military sells (yeah, they really do that, and it's pretty cool inside them) and turn it into a secret headquarters for the computers and monitoring equipment and car and bike and other equipment you need for your vigilante life.

But is that possible? What would ‘peak human’ mean in our real world? And what kind of training would you have to go through to accomplish something approaching the level of Batman? The author does an admirable job with his quarter of the equation, but Batmans workout routine should really only be one chapter in a book written by this guy, an accountant and a material scientist. How does Bruce Wayne funnel his money to the team of mechanics required just to keep his Batmobile running? How do they avoid the tax man and preserve his secret identity? Where can I get a batarang made? Thanks for reading Scientific American. Create your free account or Sign in to continue. Create Account

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Goldsmith, Brian (April 6, 2012). "50 Celebrities Who Train a Form of Martial Arts". Bleacher Report. No.online. 2017 Bleacher Report . Retrieved January 7, 2017. I do all this when I can because I enjoy it and it’s what I’m interested in. I love seeing how far you can push your body and mind and topics like transhumanism and martial arts fascinate me. Training for skills rather than just size is much more interesting to me and it is yielding some interesting results and essentially meaning I get to play superhero for an hour a week.Using copious references to various Batman comics from the golden Age until today, Zehr studies is it possible to train like Bruce Wayne did and what is truly possible in Batman’s world and what is pure comic book fantasy. So what’s the best training you could actual follow to achieve Batman like feats? Well, CrossFit when done safely is actually a great approach to ‘general preparedness training’ so regardless of its controversies that would actually be a good type of training to take up. Batman also trains in martial arts and according to some sources, he knows ‘all forms of martial arts’. Dark Knight Shift: Why Batman Could Exist--But Not for Long". Scientific American. Archived from the original on 21 February 2014 . Retrieved 30 January 2014. Maintaining a relationship is also pretty much off the cards, as is having friends, drinking alcohol or even engaging in hobbies outside of the whole ‘become a living weapon’ malarkey.

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This book is not what I expected. As a fan of comic books, I expexted a breezy book reviewing how billionaire playboy Bruce Wayne would transform himself into Batman. What kind of training regimin? How would he get all those wonderful toys? How much money would it take? How could he keep this all a secret? In the aftermath, Batman and Bruce are both presumed dead, with the former honored as a hero. Wayne Manor becomes an orphanage and Bruce's estate is left to Alfred. Gordon finds the Bat Signal repaired, while Fox discovers that Bruce fixed the malfunctioning auto-pilot on the Bat. While vacationing in Florence, Italy, Alfred discovers that Bruce is alive and happily in a relationship with Selina. Blake resigns from the GCPD and receives a parcel from Bruce leading to the Batcave.

A look into what it might take to become Batman, since he's both one of the most well known superheroes and one of the non super-powered superheroes. The book goes through all the science of how the body works, how muscles and reflexes develop as well as some of the training that might go into becoming Batman. So, if you were to follow this kind of protocol, there’s a chance that you really could become Batman without killing yourself. I can’t speak for your mental health, or your lifespan though… How to Train Like Batman Without Killing Yourself Bale's version of Batman was adapted into the video game Batman Begins. The suit from Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight film was added as an alternate skin to Batman: Arkham Knight during a free update in December 2015. Fourteen years later, Bruce is still mourning his parents, and plans to kill the recently paroled Chill. Before Bruce can take his revenge, however, Chill is murdered by an assassin working for mobster Carmine Falcone ( Tom Wilkinson), whom Chill was going to testify against. When Bruce tells his childhood sweetheart Rachel Dawes ( Katie Holmes) what he had planned to do, she is disgusted and lectures him about the difference between justice and revenge, which motivates him to confront Falcone himself. Falcone dismisses Bruce, stating that he does not understand the criminal world, so Bruce leaves Gotham, intending to explore the world to find the means to fight injustice. I’d like to take this moment to point out that this is impossible. There are an unknown number of styles of martial arts and new ones are being born all the time. Sure, you have your ‘classics’ like karate, kung fu and ju-jitsu, but within those are countless substyles and schools. Within karate alone you have Shotokan-ryu, shito-ryu, wado-ryu (the style I trained in), goju-rhy, uechi-ryu, shuri-ryu… you get the gist. Some styles are recognized, some are not. Then there are new modern styles like the keysi fighting method, which is incidentally the fighting style that Batman used in the Christopher Nolan films. It’s not even 100% clear how you define a martial art.

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Finally, Batman training programs would likely have dedicated time to training in a wide myriad of different skills and abilities. These would include things like: Of course, Bruce Wayne also has the luxury of inheriting a hugely successful business and the riches that come from that. Likewise, our real life Batman would need some way of earning a living that wouldn’t take eight hours out of their day. Perhaps they would earn passive income from online endeavours then?Throughout the series, Terry learned he was actually the genetic son of Bruce Wayne, albeit through genetic engineering by Project Cadmus. The moniker of the Red Hood has been used by several individuals. However, none are more famous than the Joker from his previous life and Jason Todd. When Jason returned to Gotham City after his resurrection, he donned the moniker as an insult to Joker, the man who killed him. Terry McGinnis was also added to the DC Comics line, with his first appearance coming in Batman Beyond #1 (March 1999). Thomas Wayne Thomas Wayne as Batman. Pic credit: DC Comics And you don't—make it in time, that is. The first few nights, you keep showing up and the robberies or shootings or whatever are already over, and you realize that this makes sense because most reports about crimes are only after it happens, not while it's taking place. And you also remember that as a cop, you almost never just walked up or drove up accidentally right where a crime happened to taking place. In fact, you were just one of several thousand cops in your city, and most of you never just stumbled right across a significant crime in progress. DC Comics has made it clear there is one successor for Bruce Wayne once he is gone and that is his son, Damian Wayne. Jason Todd and Tim Drake The Batman Battle for the Cowl storyline. Pic credit: DC Comics