• toynbee@piefed.social
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    22 hours ago

    True, but wasn’t he also the only human (or otherwise, I think) to dodge Darkseid’s eyebeams? Admittedly it would take willpower to get to the point of being physically able to do so, but from what I understand of the eyebeams, also quite a bit of luck.

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      22 hours ago

      Wait, I thought he did get hit by the beams and they sent him back in time, and through what could only be described as an exceptional demonstration of determination and willpower, he worked his way back up through time- through ages & ages, to confront Darkseid again. Maybe we’re thinking of different storylines?

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        12 hours ago

        It’s very possible. I’ve never read more than a handful of Batman comics. A while ago I was big into TVTropes and Wikipedia regarding some superheroes; I’m pretty sure I read there that he was the only one to have dodged them.

        That’s why I keep providing caveats and prefacing my statements with things like "I read … " My claims are by no means authoritative and I don’t mean to represent them as such.

        Actually, the further I type this comment, the more I think my source was the Death Battle research team. I did not follow up with primary sources.

        That said, a quick search suggests that maybe whatever I read or watched was referencing the cartoons, rather than the comics. DB, as entertaining as they can be, generally sources whatever favors their desired outcome. If it was TVTropes or Wikipedia, they might not have referenced the source or I might have forgotten.