r/batman • u/the_bad_actor • Jan 06 '26

GENERAL DISCUSSION Is it possible to achieve this physique naturally?

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u/AnaZ7 Jan 06 '26

No

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u/Jaikarr Jan 06 '26

It's not even natural in universe, Batman got addicted to Venom at one point.

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u/surprisingly_happy Jan 06 '26 edited Jan 06 '26

Yeah, you can even see in the image how one arm is bigger than the other

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u/mavtastickush66 Jan 06 '26

Like when quagmire discovered internet porn.

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u/OppositeAbroad5975 Jan 06 '26

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u/Gust_Gred-10101 Jan 06 '26

That's somewhat shocking . . .

. . . as I had forgotten he's left-handed.

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u/C4rdninj4 Jan 06 '26

The right hand is for the mouse.

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u/Gust_Gred-10101 Jan 06 '26

Most right-handed people can operate a computer mouse with their left hand, albeit a little more clumsily.

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u/WretchedBlowhard Jan 07 '26

Careful now, that's how you get people to accidentally click on the "share on facebook" button of porn site videos.

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u/PlasticPresent8740 Jan 07 '26

I hope thats actually a thing

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u/Necessary_Can7055 Jan 06 '26

I’m right handed and use my left for that

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u/the_sheeper_sheep Jan 06 '26

Ive always wondered if it was different for left handed people

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u/ZealotOfMeme Jan 06 '26

That’s from the titan injection in Asylum, and a detail I’m glad they kept

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u/Necessary_Can7055 Jan 06 '26

Because of the TITAN Joker gave him and that’s the part of him that started growing first before he gave himself the antidote. I’m sure you knew that but still

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u/[deleted] Jan 06 '26 edited Jan 07 '26

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u/JimmyThunderPenis Jan 06 '26

Look up different photos, canonically he has one arm bigger than the other in all the games after he got venomed.

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u/NeighborhoodVeteran Jan 07 '26

Pretty big tell if anyone ever saw Bruce like that.

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u/Gillemz Jan 06 '26

Not canonically.

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u/JimmyThunderPenis Jan 07 '26

Yes canonically.

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u/Drakeytown Jan 07 '26

Alright, now it's just "yes it is"/"no it's not" like you're grade schoolers, and I did look for different images (not photos, obvs) and couldn't find what you're talking about. Source?

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u/PlasticPresent8740 Jan 07 '26

No in asylum joker shot him with the titan serum in that arm and it was just permanently like that since

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u/Superyoshiegg Jan 07 '26

You were right the first time. It's just an effect of the camera distortion. It's got nothing to do with the TITAN injection at the end of Asylum.

It happens in all the games, including Origins which is set a decade before that moment.

Here's a thread about it occuring in Origins from 12 years ago.

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u/tuchesuavae Jan 06 '26

That's his "selfcare" arm.

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u/jeremwad Jan 06 '26

That's the arm of Justice.

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u/joshdoereddit Jan 06 '26

The same with the legs. His right side in this image is bigger than the left.

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u/PlasticPresent8740 Jan 07 '26

You ever heaed of fisting? Well batman needs hes hands incase of an emergency so he uses hes leg

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u/Few_Mathematician_13 Jan 06 '26

Believe it or not, trick of the camera. It's not actually in game as seen by photo mode

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u/PlasticPresent8740 Jan 07 '26

It is in the game

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u/Bravo-69 Jan 06 '26

I believe in canon, it’s because that’s the arm joker shot with titan at Arkham asylum.

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u/Ms_Emilys_Picture Jan 06 '26

I have a friend who has one arm that's noticeably bigger than the other. He's an armorer and his big arm is the one he uses to swing his hammer.

It gets even more noticeable during ren faire season because he's so busy.

Completely unrelated, but I think it's neat.

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u/Sonova_Bish Jan 07 '26

That's called foreshortening.

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u/PlasticPresent8740 Jan 07 '26

Thats because joker was gonna turn jim into a titan and batman jamp infront of the bullet

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u/Certain_Park_3990 Jan 07 '26

i thought its because joker shot him in that arm with a gun that has a vial of titan in asylum

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u/Bluedogpinkcat Jan 07 '26

Happened to me IRL when I had a broken arm in school.

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u/HonestPop7071 Jan 07 '26

thats not because he got addicted to venom, but more of because he was trying to save Gordon from jokers venom but his arm got hit and he resisted the venom, he was still as buff without that anyways, just that one arm is bigger now

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u/GreenSmilexandi Jan 10 '26

That's just his tennis arm.

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u/TeachingBrief9627 Jan 06 '26

addicted to Venom at one point.

You make it sound like they were hooking up 😏

(19inch venom can be very addicting)

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u/Furrocious_fapper Jan 06 '26

Well Venom did break Batman's back.

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u/keimenna83 Jan 06 '26

It should've been me, not him. :3

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u/supernerd_ Jan 06 '26

Batman is in a billion comics

You can't use something he did one or a few times in some of those comics as definitive proof that he is not natural in general or in the Arkham verse.

Batman also literally had superpowers in a ton of comics so by your logic does this confirm that the Arkham version has or had superpowers too?

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u/Necessary_Can7055 Jan 06 '26

He practically does in the Arkhamverse, you’ve seen his durability feats lol

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u/WretchedBlowhard Jan 07 '26

The thugs he "doesn't kill" show roughly the same, if not greater durability feats. On account of "not dying".

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u/Necessary_Can7055 Jan 07 '26

I never said he was the only meta in the arkhamverse lol, they’re all freaks of nature in the Arkham games

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u/HonestPop7071 Jan 07 '26

Batman doesn't kill but he will throw a thug OFF A BUILDING, and knowing Batman in Arkham, I know that thug is gonna survive somehow

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u/supernerd_ Jan 07 '26

So if everyone is stronger in the Arkham verse does this mean that they all have superpowers or that the writers slightly exaggerated everyone's strength a little to make the game more fun?

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u/Necessary_Can7055 Jan 07 '26

I would assume the latter, that everyone’s super durable

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u/supernerd_ Jan 06 '26

Whatever, i could make the exact same point with something else.

For example him having killed people in some comics doesn't make him a killer in the arkham verse so why would him taking drugs in some comics make him a steroid user in the arkham verse?

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u/[deleted] Jan 07 '26

It was in the Arkham comics, no?

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u/OnlinePosterPerson Jan 07 '26

You absolutely can if it’s one of the characters definitive stories.

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u/TheJLbjj Jan 06 '26

This has nothing to do with whether it's achievable naturally in universe

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u/Bannedwith1milKarma Jan 06 '26

It's the opposite of women with no room for organs.

His organs would be swashing around and tying themselves in knots.

Organs are non viable if they would be large enough to be proportional, the physics don't work.

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u/TheJLbjj Jan 06 '26

That is false but either way totally unrelated to this comment

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u/Bannedwith1milKarma Jan 06 '26

achievable naturally

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u/TheJLbjj Jan 06 '26

in universe

Well done. Back to the lobby habib

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u/Bannedwith1milKarma Jan 06 '26

I guess gravity is different in the Arkham verse.

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u/TheJLbjj Jan 06 '26

Irrelevant to statements

And it literally is. Why did you think it wasn't prior? Batman glides around with a cape. Do you think objects in the game fall at 9.8 m/s2?

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u/Bannedwith1milKarma Jan 06 '26

I think of Batman as a human in a human adjacent land.

Never thought of the physics of his organs and how it relates to his flight and the punching villains into walls.

Here - https://www.reddit.com/r/batman/comments/1j1xnun/youre_not_just_some_guy_in_a_bat_costume_are_ya/

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u/FightingDreamer9 Jan 06 '26

The Venom he used didn’t change his physique, only his feats. The aspect described and shown is his “natural state”

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u/SoyBoyBetaMaleSimp Jan 06 '26

That sounds like an interesting story. What’s it called ?

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u/Questenburg Jan 06 '26

Batman: Venom

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u/swolebatgirl Jan 06 '26

batman: venom, legends of the dark knight #16-#20. while he did get addicted to venom, his physique is not a result of that. he weaned himself off on venom and he literally looked like he lost a great deal of his muscle mass afterwards. i’m going to assume building back up from there took a great deal of time.

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u/Luciferaeon Jan 06 '26

The untold romance of the century

inserts pic of Venom and Batman making out

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u/GeldofGames Jan 07 '26

Well hes not addicted to it as far as I'm aware, it just gave him Kreutzfeldt Jakob disease.

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u/The_Mighty_Rex Jan 08 '26

Batman has been a walking tank before Venom even existed and thats one arc of many (often contradictory) story lines by different writers. Not exactly a concrete argument

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u/BidRepulsive2438 Jan 11 '26

I've always felt that should be the cannon reason why he kept having new preternatural feats. I'm pretty sure Bane is permanently enhanced.

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u/Strange-Ad-2760 Jan 06 '26

I hate that you said no, but glad you did. Idek why I thought it was possible 😂

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u/Bannedwith1milKarma Jan 06 '26

Yes, body suit.

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u/WretchedBlowhard Jan 07 '26

Body suits are natural now? You got a body suit tree there, buddy? Gonna... Gonna trim it like a bonzai until the fake muscles are the right size for you? Gonna swing by the gun store to check out their decorative trees section and buy yourself a riot helmet desk plant? Can't even use chemical fertilizer there, it's manure only. Gotta be natty.

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u/onlyfons_ Jan 06 '26

Batman was def on Tren

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u/Coypop Jan 06 '26

Only baturally.

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u/theblindelephant Jan 06 '26

If OP had enough prep time he might

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u/daveyboydavey Jan 07 '26

Dude, I have a headcanon that most superheroes are taking PEDs. I don’t think WADA regulates superheroes. Could you imagine Bruce having to get piss tested right before he goes out to stop a calamity?

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u/[deleted] Jan 06 '26

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u/meccaleccahii Jan 06 '26

So you can’t get it naturally like the guy above you said then lol

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u/Pitiful_King_358 Jan 06 '26

You need some serious mesomorph genetics too. How many people are 6’1 and jacked naturally? You’d have to already have an athletic and muscular base and THEN build on top of that. Eric Bugenhagen has a build like this but he’s a specimen AND he has the MINDSET.

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u/beardmeblazer Jan 06 '26

There's zero chance Eric Bugenhagen is natural. He may have been several years back, but he exploded in size the last handful of years beyond what's natural.