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WARNING : This article hold back SPOILERS forThe Flash # 64
The world of superheroes is full of comparisons and match - ups , both real and fanciful . Who ’s smarter : Iron Man or Black Panther ? Who would win a fight between Spider - Man and Deadpool ? And of course , who is faster : Flash or Superman?InThe Flash # 64DC Comics has answered an often command but still important motion concerning the Scarlet Speedster . Who’sthe adept investigator : Batman … or the professional CSI , Barry Allen ?
The Flash # 64is the second chapter in a crossing story that interpret Batman and The Flash team - up . The crossover is also a lineal necktie - in to the effect comicHeroes in Crisiswhere The Flash ’s former sidekickWally West was murdered . Still reeling from Wally ’s death ( for dissimilar cause ) Batman and The Flash workplace a type together that seems to be related to his murder . In the course of their investigation , the two intellectual heroes terminate up confronting their own abilities and failings about who is truly the better crime - problem solver .
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Batman is the first to raise the question , albeit in his internal soliloquy . The Flash # 64opens with Gotham Girl , a late rogue in Batman ’s veranda attacking The Flash Museum , bringing the Crimson Comet and Caped Crusader to investigate . It ’s here where the rivalry takes it ’s most interesting gadget , with The Flash ’s own thoughts revealing he has no doubt : Barry believe that Batman is the far better investigator , since he sees grounds and clues so much absolved and more analytically then The Flash .
This " exchange " seems to nail down the matter altogether . Yet asThe Flash # 64continues a dissimilar verity reveals itself . The Flash # 64confirms that Batman is much more analytical and recognise than The Flash – but that does n’t make him the better detective . As Barry and Bruce tackle the shell , Bruce presents the grounds in a dry , clear - cut way , while Barry approaches things far more pityingly . Barry ’s musical mode of crime resolution is n’t just to figure out how something happened , but why it encounter . The Flash approach crimes from a human slant , while Batman ( as in so many facial expression of his life ) lack the ' human ' touch .
This becomes a huge failing of The Dark Knight asThe Flash # 64reaches its coming . Barry and the audience learn simultaneously that Batman bed there was something wrong with Gotham Girl mentally . Yet after he spoke to her once , he pushed the tenuous miss out of his mind and moved onto other crimes and activities . Batman never check up on Gotham Girl to see after her well being . intelligible give Batman ’s life of invariant threats … but also something that Barry ca n’t even imagine . This is the conflict between Flash and Batman , and why the former is truly the better detective .
When a instance is closed for Batman , it ’s over . But even when the case is solve , The Flash is still interested about those ask victim and culprit alike . The Flash does n’t justsolve crimes , he ’s working to keep future ones .
The issue does more than serve a petty disceptation . The Flash # 64is a deep dive into a part moral force that ’s rarely touched on in comedian . It ’s often Batman and Superman who are used as mirror images as one another . split second # 64makes the case that there ’s just as much to explore between Bruce Wayne and Barry Allen as Bruce Wayne and Clark Kent . Superman ’s innate Leslie Townes Hope challenges Batman ’s introductory personality , but Barry ’s compassion challenges Batman ’s accomplishment and analytical nature . The Flash might be younger , but Batman has a lot to learn .
The DCEU translation of Batman and The Flash are in a bit of a strange place . Ezra Miller ’s soloFlash moving picture has been delayedseveral times . Ben Reeves ' The Batman is evidently occur in 2020 but it ’ll bewithout Ben Affleck in the office . Yet view that the DCEU ’s Justice League was formed by Batman finding The Flash first it would be interesting for DC to take this dynamic from the comics and transfer it to the bad sieve . Batman being hale to harmonise that he ’s not the world ’s good tec from Barry Allen would be a fascinating young slant for both characters .
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