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Originally Posted by GDB
Wasn't a big point to the first movie about how the world wasn't ready for a superhero, and that's why Clark was wandering around instead of being Superman? Yet Batman's apparently been out there for a while, being a superhero. While we, the viewers, know he's just a guy, the general populace considers him to be mystical in some fashion. So... yay, plot hole already?
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Umm, there's a big difference between Batman and Superman. A pretty obvious one at that.
Batman's a crime fighter who knows martial arts. The public knows he's just a person. It's just he
seems to be mystical because of his theatrics. And he scares the heck out of p[eople with his ninja skills.
Superman.....................lifts large cranes and buses with his bare hands. And can fly. And can shoot "laser" beams.
The "world not being ready" is about the world not being ready for somebody who is essentially a god compared to humans. They'll all see him as a threat or a monster, simply out of fear since they don't understand him. And that's exactly what they showed in the Man of Steel.
Batman, on the other hand, is very easy to understand. He's a human being who puts on a mask and fights crime. The fear he puts in criminals is from his theatrics, but nobody is afraid that he'll try to take over the world and we won't be able to stop him.
This is all incredibly obvious, since they make it pretty clear exactly why Clark's and his father thourhg the world wasn't ready for Superman. And in a way they still aren't; the US government is already trying to spy on him even after he saved their world from imminent destruction.
Plus, they also make it clear in the Avengers, with all the public commentary at the end of the movie, and the council's douchebaggery throughout. People are scared of superheroes; they think that with all their powers, if they turn against the world they'll do some serious damage before anybody could stop them. And really, they're right. They just don't understand these superheroes and thus don't know that they would never do that.
One of the constant themes for superheroes for a long while has been "people fear what they don't understand." It was a stated theme back in the original X-Men cartoon years ago, and superhero creators have been holding to it ever since.