History CrazyPrepared / Batman

** In general, the campy, tongue-in-cheek tone of ''Brave and the Bold'' allowed them to get away with more preposterous instances of CrazyPrepared that would seem over-the-top even in the mainstream comics. This includes a can of {{Amnesia}} spray, a Batsuit with a built-in life support system and jetpack in case of space emergencies, and a Batmobile that transforms into a MiniMecha in case of superhuman smack downs!

* The long-awaited smackdown at the center of ''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice'' involves Batman donning a suit of PoweredArmor in order to go toe-to-toe with the Man of Steel, along with strategically placed weaponry. It is a subversion in that it's not that much of an advantage: if Superman was truly intending to take out Batman rather than talk, the Dark Knight would have been soundly beaten. Then again, as soon as the KryptoniteFactor kicks in, Supes is weakened enough that Batman ''can'' overpower him in a physical battle.

** The Red Hood's helmet can explode, just in case he needs his helmet to explode.

** There's a fantastic example in the first season finale, where it appears that he has planned for the specific situation of [[spoiler:"forced to [[EnemyMine team up with the Joker]] and use back-up vehicle"]] by [[spoiler:including a BigRedButton in that vehicle that would spray knock-out gas into the passenger seat, knowing that Joker wouldn't be able to resist pushing it]].
** Joker himself shows tendencies of this. When Batman put him in handcuffs, he revealed that he was wearing fake, detachable hands (as well as having a number of other objects up his sleeve).

* Franchise/{{Batman}} apparently spends most of his time devising contingency plans to use in the event that he has to fight a given individual, to the point that it's widely said that [[MemeticBadass Batman can]] [[UltimateShowdownOfUltimateDestiny beat anyone or anything "if he's prepared"]]. For example, he carries a [[Franchise/{{Superman}} chunk of Kryptonite]] on his utility belt at all times, "just in case". He also prepares himself to an [[strike:almost]] unhealthy extent, regularly injecting himself with antitoxins in the off chance a poison-wielding villain might attack him, and training most of his day. There are some things you just can't ever see coming, like [[TabletopGame/{{Deadlands}} zombie Abraham Lincoln]] [[UltimateShowdownOfUltimateDestiny armed with an assault rifle]]. Such are his preparation skills that he's earned a place amongst the TropePantheons, specifically, in the [[Pantheon/{{Mentalism}} House of Mentalism]].

* Batman's crazy preparation is shown to an extreme in the ''ComicBook/BatmanRIP'' storyline, in which we find that [[spoiler:in case of [[MindRape psychological attack]], he has created a backup personality known as "The Batman of Zur-En-Arrh". Said personality might actually ''be'' crazy, making this a literal example.]] This is not, however, not the first time he's done something like this. In a Gotham Knights story, Bruce uses a contingency plan that involves [[MemoryGambit hypnotizing himself]] to essentially strip the Batman part of his identity and leave only the Bruce Wayne part, in case someone found out and he needed to take extra measures to convince them (and others) otherwise.

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* Rather infamously in ''JLA 59'' Batman engineered the defeat of Polaris to end with the JLA victorious, Superman's healing accelerated by the hole in the ozone layer and ''himself standing on a teleportation disk he had hidden in the arctic for just such an occasion''. Appropriately he ends the comic with the words "always plan ahead".

* Further demonstrated in an issue of Superman/Batman where the world is under the control of Gorilla Grodd except for Batman. Batman's arm is robotic and Superman is gone in space because the atmosphere has Kryptonite in it. By the end of some long convoluted that proves enough how CrazyPrepared Batman is, it turns out that it was just a simulation of that potential scenario just in case and Batman reveals to Alfred that he does these all the time.
* There was an ''{{Elseworlds}}'' comic called ''JSA: The Liberty Files'' which had an alternate reality version of Batman, Hour Man, and Mid-Nite on a train in their civilian identities. They were simply eating dinner when they were suddenly attacked by a villain. Batman, as Bruce Wayne, opens his jacket and throws two grenades. One of the heroes remarks, "You brought grenades to dinner?" to which Bruce replied, "I needed them, didn't I?".

** This is also a ShoutOut the Hush story arc, when Poison Ivy does just that to Supes in an elaborate {{plan}} of Hush's to corner Bruce into trusting him. Batman tricks Superman into punching into the power cables for '''all of Metropolis'''. And then snaps him out of mind control by [[spoiler: having ComicBook/{{Catwoman}} drop Lois Lane out a window, so that his subconscious desire to protect her will break through the effect of the Ivy-spores]].

** Right off the get go, Bruce Wayne is captured by Arkham City guards and incarcerated, Bruce convinces a guard to attack him and snaps his radio off and quickly steals the SD chip before getting processed into the prison. When he changes to Batman, he slips the SD chip into his Sequencer and taps into the guards radio transmissions, ensuring he'll know about their movements ahead of time well into the rest of the game.

* It's been confirmed that the long-awaited smackdown at the center of ''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice'' will involve Batman donning a suit of PoweredArmor in order to go toe-to-toe with the Man of Steel. [[spoiler: It's actually a huge subversion, as he is only able to just barely overpower Superman and had the fight gone on much longer, or if Superman was truly intending to take out Batman rather than talk, the Dark Knight would have been soundly beaten.]]

* The series finale of ''WesternAnimation/TheBatman'' has a rather odd case where this comes in handy. Aliens have stolen the powers of Justice League of America members, and the methods to defeat them are used by ''the superheroes they were originally planned for''.
* Before that, ''WesternAnimation/TheBatman'' episode "Seconds" starred [[CaptainErsatz someone-totally-not-the-Clock-King-or-Chronos]] who could rewind time and relive a battle every time he loses, correcting any mistakes -- the equivalent of emulator-SaveScumming. This power allowed him to fight Batman ''to a draw''.

** Batman decided that just in case he would be hanging people from random points in Arkham, he should bring in a large amount of rope to do so.
** He also has an apparently infinite supply of Batarangs at his disposal as well.

** If for whatever unlikely reason Batman should ever get kidnapped, he knows Robin will save him before too long. When Robin saves him in ''Harley Quinn's Revenge'', he only says "what took you so long?".

* In ''Film/BatmanAndRobin'', Batman and Robin run into Mr Freeze for the first time and slip on his ice. They then reveal that they had ice skates hidden in their boots, despite there being no possible reason for them to ever install/use them before Mr Freeze, who they didn't know about before he showed up.

* Batman has attempted to be prepared in case of the inevitable superhero FaceHeelTurn, most notably in two infamous incidents. In the "Tower of Babel" arc of the Justice League comic, it was mainly confined to the League. The second was shortly after ''ComicBook/IdentityCrisis'' where Batman decided to secretly tab '''every''' superhero/metahuman on Earth he could, so he built the Brother Eye program to monitor them. Both blew up in his face horribly (Ra's found and used the files and Brother Eye was hijacked by Max Lord and, later, [[ComicBook/LexLuthor Alexander Luthor]]). That being said, while they did indeed blow up in his face, they did so by incapacitating every member of the league, who all needed to be saved by the backup plans to THE BACKUP PLANS! Yes, indeed; Batman is so prepared, he even prepared for his contingency plans to get stolen.

* Lampshaded by Jaime Reyes, the ComicBook/BlueBeetle, in one of his teamups with Batman. An enemy has just ambushed them by essentially spawning an arctic blizzard ramped UpToEleven above them, causing them to get buried in a few meters of snow. After Beetle breaks out and stops the blizzard by scaring off their attacker...

* In the ComicBook/{{New 52}}, a plot point in ''Comicbook/ForeverEvil'' is that Batman created contingency plans in case he ever needed take down the Justice League. He and Comicbook/{{Catwoman}} end up having to recycle the plans to use them against the Crime Syndicate, the JLA's MirrorUniverse counterpart.
* In ''ComicBook/BatmanEndgame'', Bruce finally ends up having to put use his contingency plans when the members of the Justice League are taken over by TheJoker.

** In the very first episode where bars of a window high above the ground needed to be welded, Batman told Robin not to drop them due to pedestrian safety. He then uses a bat-hanger to hang those bars.

* In ''Film/BatmanAndRobin'', Batman and Robin run into Mr Freeze for the first time and slip on his ice. They then reveal that they had ice skates hidden in their boots despite there being no possible reason for them to ever install/use them before Mr Freeze who they didn't know about before he showed up.

* It's been confirmed that the long-awaited smackdown at the center of ''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice'' will involve Batman donning a suit of PoweredArmor in order to go toe-to-toe with the Man of Steel. [[spoiler: It's actually a huge subversion, as he is only able to just barely overpower Superman and had the fight gone on much longer, or if Superman was truly intending to take out Batman rather than talk the Dark Knight would have been soundly beaten.]]

* In the 1989 ''Film/{{Batman}}'' 1989 movie, the Batplane is outfitted with oversized scissor blades to cut the tethers of the poison-filled balloons in SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker's parade. Okay, but why would you have giant scissors at all if you didn't know you'd one day have to use them at a holiday parade?

* In ''Film/TheDarkKnight'', SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker was often [[UpToEleven even better prepared than Batman himself.]] It helps that he's both a MagnificentBastard and completely insane.

** The Riddler also had the foresight to plan ahead for Catwoman teaming up with Bats, strewing trophies and riddles around Arkham City for her as well. However it should be noted that most of her trophies are in much easier spots or even in traps set up, suggesting that he rushed to add them after finding out she was there.

** The Riddler also had the foresight to plan ahead for Catwoman teaming up with Bats, strewing trophies and riddles around Arkham City for her as well.

* It's been confirmed that the long-awaited smackdown at the center of ''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice'' will involve Batman donning a suit of PoweredArmor in order to go toe-to-toe with the Man of Steel.

* In ''WesternAnimation/BatmanUnderTheRedHood'' Nightwing is yet again Crazy Prepared. Of all the things to carry around in his utility belt, all the cool gadgets, and he just so happens to carry a staple gun with him. Because you never know when you might need to staple something!

* Batman has attempted to be prepared in case of the inevitable superhero FaceHeelTurn, most notably in two infamous incidents. In the "Tower of Babel" arc of the Justice League comic, it was mainly confined to the League. The second was shortly after ''ComicBook/IdentityCrisis'' where Batman decided to secretly tab '''every''' superhero/metahuman on Earth he could, so he built the Brother Eye program to monitor them. Both blew up in his face horribly (Ra's found and used the files and Brother Eye was hijacked by Max Lord and, later, [[SelfDemonstrating/LexLuthor Alexander Luthor]]). That being said, while they did indeed blow up in his face, they did so by incapacitating every member of the league, who all needed to be saved by the backup plans to THE BACKUP PLANS! Yes, indeed; Batman is so prepared, he even prepared for his contingency plans to get stolen.

** This was parodied in an episode of ''TheSimpsons'' where Krusty was a guest-villain in an old rerun of Batman. Krusty's plan was to spin Batman and Robin on a carousel so rapidly that they would apparently "blush themselves to death". Fortunately, Batman happened to have a can of Carousel Reversal Spray with him.

* In the [[Film/{{Batman}} 1989 movie]], the Batplane is outfitted with oversized scissor blades to cut the tethers of the poison-filled balloons in SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker's parade. Okay, but why would you have giant scissors at all if you didn't know you'd one day have to use them at a holiday parade?

** Parodied in a DC/Wildstorm crossover miniseries [[http://superdickery.com/index.php?view=article&catid=36%3Astupor-powers-index&id=746%3Abat-female-villain-repellent&option=com_content&Itemid=24#content here.]] The members of ComicBook/{{Planetary}} are fighting various AlternateUniverse incarnations of Batman, and at one point the Adam West version uses a can of "BAT-FEMALE-VILLAIN-REPELLENT" on Jakita Wagner.

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! Batman in Comics

* In ComicBook/BatmanEndgame, Bruce finally ends up having to put use his contingency plans when the members of the Justice League are taken over by TheJoker.

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