14 DAY TRIAL // Over the years, some people (and dinosaurs, as of late) have really bent on sucking the fun out of superheroes, have repeatedly set out to prove how these could never exist. In case you needed reminding, Batman could never exist in real life because it’s statistically impossible.
Forget about how he’d need about $682,451,350 (€489,879,957) in order to be able to afford all of the things he boasts in Chris Nolan’s “Dark Knight” trilogy, including his education, his mansion with the Batcave, Alfred and all the devices he needs in order to fight crime.
That’s not the reason Batman could not exist. The real reason, as the green dinosaur explains in the comics above (courtesy of Dinosaur Comics), is that chances of such a child being born are so small that your odds of winning the lottery without playing might actually be bigger.
I won’t spoil the fun for you but, suffice it to say that Batman’s circumstances, as you must know, are unique. It’s precisely that which makes his existence such an impossibility: there are too few billionaires in the world to become parents to such a physically and mentally gifted child, and even fewer are killed in front of the kid’s eyes.
So, as the dinosaur puts it, “reality sucks sometimes.” And yes, I know that Batman is a fictional character but, like many fans, there’s no harm in occasionally fancying that he might be real if the planets ever became aligned.
