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Batman has to be prepared. Not just for chaos in Gotham, but for chaos throughout the multiverse. From parallel universes to universes of other series. To that, he must watch the series. React to them. Plan for them.

Batman Reacts is a web video series created by Multiversal Wisdom, with over 350 videos and counting. The series range from reacting to certain events, creating contingency plans for threats, and even offering rehabilitation to those who need it.

Batman Reacts contains the following tropes.


  • All-Loving Hero: Downplayed. While Batman is ruthlessly pragmatic and will develop contigency plans for anything or anyone he deems a threat, he staunchly adheres to a Thou Shalt Not Kill rule and empathizes with human suffering. The Batman Rehabilitation Plans series especially focuses on this aspect of him.
  • All-Powerful Bystander: Deconstructed with the Jedi Council. Batman points out that the Jedi Council each possess immense Psychic Powers that would have let them stop corruption or made them attuned to human suffering. Instead, they let their own pride and complacency blind them, detaching themselves from the world while turning Force-sensitive children into obedient Child Soldiers. This led to the rise of threats like Emperor Palpatine and Darth Vader.
  • The Anti-Nihilist: Batman firmly is of the belief that choices matter and are what define people — which is in his eyes is enough. In Batman Reacts to Owlman's Nihilism, he calls Owlman a Dirty Coward who refuses to acknowledge or accept the possibility that he could be wrong, that he himself was responsible for the man he became, and that wiping out the entire multiverse would leave him with no one to validate (or disprove) his philosophy.
  • Batman Grabs a Gun: Batman generally focuses on threat containment and tries to avoid killing if he can help it. However, if someone is so dangerous that they threaten reality itself, then he will not hesitate to kill them — and even then, it's a decision he doesn't treat lightly.
    • When explaining Thanos' snapping half of all life in the universe out as idiotic, Batman makes it clear that in this situation, deadly force is a necessary component as anyone with the ability to wipe out half of all life in the universe is too dangerous to let live.
    • This also extends to supernatural entities and/or forms of undead like Jason Voorhees and William Afton, both who kept coming back to menance innocent civilians no matter how many times they died. Since he is an All-Loving Hero who prefers to contain and/or rehabilitate threats, Batman's lethal approach to the aforementioned individuals can be justified as them being already dead, so the plan is to make sure they don't come Back from the Dead.
    • Batman acknowledges that Muzan Kibitsuji is one of the few villains who is Too Powerful to Live, so he focuses on coming up with contingency plans to kill him rather than contain him.
  • Crazy-Prepared: The Batman Contigency Plans series involve Batman coming up with contigency plans for when a certain character goes rogue and becomes a threat, whether to the world or even reality itself. Due to his Thou Shalt Not Kill rule, the end-goals of these plans are containment and, if possible, rehabilitation. Killing is to be a last resort.
  • Deconstruction: Despite being mostly a reaction video series, Batman deconstructs various things that he finds illogical or even unforgivable on a moral and pragmatic standpoint.
    • He deconstructs Thanos' snapping half of all life in the universe out by explaining that mass genocide to prevent resource scarcity only causes far more problems, with entire ecosystems being devastated, communications and entire nations breaking down, planets full of life being wiped out to extinction. He also notes that it wasn't to prevent resource scarcity, but for control.
    • He also deconstructs Star Wars and their view on Jedi. As Batman notes, they had become blinded by Pride, foolishness and had been pushing a project to have children bottle up their emotion to become remorseless killing machines. As Batman notes, it led to Anakin's fall and the rise of Vader as they treated him more like a weapon than a human, and their complacency ended up costing them thousands when Order 66 was executed.
    • Batman deconstructs the Uchiha Massacre in Naruto, pointing out that the Konohagakure Council's decision to treat the Uchiha Clan as pariahs led to unnecessary conflict, and they practically took advantage of Itachi's loyalty to the village to make him commit genocide. Batman also points out that there was a possibility that not every member of the Uchiha Clan was conspiring to commit the coup and Itachi had also slaughtered children. As Batman notes, Konohagakure has a history of creating their worst enemies.
  • Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: No matter how powerful or godlike someone is, Batman will always create a contigency plan designed to counter them. He'll even contact magic-wielding like Zatanna and Constantine for help if he has to.
  • Emotion Suppression: Deconstructed in the Batman Reacts to the Jedi Council video. Batman points out that the Jedi's preaching of emotional detatchment contributed to their doom — in treating potential recruits like weapons and forcing them to suppress their emotions under the guise of "balance", they ended up creating blindly obedient soldiers incapable of connectng with others on an emotional level. It also blinded the Jedi to their own growing corruption and stagnancy. Their severe mishandling of Anakin created the circumstances that turned him into Darth Vader, and led to their near-decimation under Order 66.
  • Fake Ultimate Hero: While reacting to King from One-Punch Man, even Batman fails to see that King is an ordinary person who was mistakenly credited for Saitama's achievements.
  • Godzilla Threshold: In his reactions to Giorno Giovanna and Diavolo, Batman notes that one option to combat them is to prick himself with the Stand Arrow and give himself a Stand powerful enough to fight their respective Stands on equal footing. However, it's a decision Batman refuses to take lightly — because Stand Arrows only awaken Stands in those with sufficient willpower, there is a chance that Batman might be judged unworthy and be killed by them.
  • Hypocrite: In Batman Reacts to the Jedi Council, Batman accuses the entire Jedi Council of being this. They talk about spreading balance and peace, yet they recruit children and train them in ways akin to a military, turning them into remorseless, blindly obedient killers. The Force grants them Psychic Powers that would have let them detect Palpatine's corruption and react accordingly, yet they chose not to out of sheer arrogance. They preached emotional detachment from the world, yet they clung to outdated traditions and associated with corrupt authority figures while claiming their own hands were clean. Most glaringly, they failed to prevent Anakin from falling into the dark side because they refused to treat him as human.
  • Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy: Batman has an entire video reacting to this subject, blaming visibility in Stormtrooper helmets, defects in cloning, second-rate weapons, inferior training, and because the Empire put more resources into massive weapons like Star Destroyers and the Death Star. He also takes time to explain how he would solve this problem.
  • Irony: When reviewing The Purge Universe, Batman remarks that for all Joker claims to be on the side of lawlessness and anarchy, he's running for his life because he relies on the same laws that keeps the friends and family of his victims from hunting him down and butchering him like an animal.
  • Let No Crisis Go to Waste: When the law legalizing all forms of crime from The Purge Universe for 12 hours is passed, numerous guards in Arkham Asylum exploit it to butcher inmates they hated for years and caused Joker to flee for his life, given how many people want him dead.
  • Obfuscating Stupidity: In Batman Reacts to Columbo, Batman notes that Columbo is an extremely intelligent man who hides behind a "bumbling old guy" demeanor to make criminals underestimate him until it's too late. Batman then muses how many cases Columbo could've solved if he had access to WayneTech's cutting-edge technology.
  • Other Me Annoys Me: Batman has no kind words for his All-Star incarnation for his treatment of Dick Grayson and overall cruelty.
  • Screw Destiny: Batman is of the belief that fate isn't set in stone and it can be defied. This is made clear with certain individuals like Diavolo, who Batman takes umbrage with as Diavolo can erase ten seconds of time, essentially allowing him to control people's fates however he wishes.
  • A Shared Suffering: Due to his own Dark and Troubled Past, Batman often sympathizes with those who suffered like he did, especially vigilantes like Billy Butcher and the Punisher. While he points out that their tragedies don't justify their crueler actions, he deeply understands their reasoning and hopes they can be redeemed.
  • Vigilante Justice: When reacting to The Purge Universe and how it's passed in his world, Batman notes how numerous Arkham guards had been murdering troublesome inmates that were either unrehabilitated or just pissed them off.
  • Who Would Be Stupid Enough?: Batman makes it very clear when reviewing The Purge Universe that the law that makes crime legal for 12 hours was so eccentric and unbelievable, that he honestly thought that even the most incompetent officials wouldn't even pass it due to how idiotic it is.

 
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Batman on Stormtroopers' Aim

Batman gives his two cents on the Stormtroopers' hideous marksmanship skills, citing reasons such as defects caused by cloning, faulty weapons, and the Empire focusing on bigger projects. He also explains how he would solve this problem.

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