Batman Bruce Wayne Funny or Die
Bruce Wayne is often seen as the perfect superhero. He's got a plan for everything, so people make the assumption that he's never made any mistakes. Of course, the truth is far more complex than that. Though Batman can use prep-time to defeat any of his villains, that doesn't mean he's got a handle on what's one of the biggest threats he's ever had to deal with: himself.
Batman has gotten in his own way more than a few times since the '80s, as they started allowing characters to be more flawed and deal with their own inner problems as much as their usual villains.
10 Bruce Revealing His Identity To The Joker
In an epilogue to the New 52 event "Death of the Family", it's revealed that one day Bruce found a Joker card in his Batcave. Immediately believing the Joker had found a way into the cave, he visited the Joker and showed the card off to him, effectively revealing he was Batman.
Immediately after, Bruce admitted he didn't think Joker had gotten into the cave, but ever since then, Bruce's battles with the Joker have grown only more dangerous, with the Joker knowing his identity.
9 Building The Brother Eye Satellite
The story of Identity Crisis was known for a lot of things, but the thing that goes unremembered is it's actually the reason Bruce built the Brother Eye satellite. It was only intended to keep them all honest, but that's not how it wound up playing out. Instead, Brother Eye went rogue and began to take on a mind of its own.
It started with turning a bunch of humans into cyborgs that were specifically aimed at taking down the entire metahuman population. They also attacked Themyscira, Wonder Woman's home, and was part of the reason Themyscira would eventually vanish from this plane of existence.
8 Ra's Al Ghul
By now, everyone's familiar with the Tower of Babel storyline. Mark Waid took the idea of Batman's ability to take on anyone "with enough prep-time" and turned it into a trait that nearly destroyed the rest of the Justice League.
The story follows Ra's Al Ghul after he gains the plans to Batman's methods of shutting down the JLA should they go evil, making those methods much more dangerous. This reveal winds up destroying the League altogether.
7 Making Jean-Paul Valley Into Batman
Bane executed a perfect plan from start to finish against Batman. It started with unleashing all the criminals of Arkham and forcing Batman to his limits to take each one of them down. Then he snuck his way into the Batcave and broke the Bat, leaving him unable to do anything about Gotham.
Rather than ask Dick to return to take over the role of Batman, Bruce instead chooses Jean-Paul Valley, a young man who'd been brainwashed by the cult of St. Dumas, hoping the role would help focus him. Though it does focus him, Jean-Paul turns into a darker Batman than Bruce could've imagined, and he winds up having to clean up the mess he set up for himself.
6 Turning Down Talia Al Ghul
At the end of the Batman and Son arc, Talia asks Bruce to become her lover and raise their son together. It's meant to be the last opportunity he has before she takes her wrath out on him, and of course, Bruce is unable to agree.
What follows is Talia building up an army that surpasses even that of the League of Assassins, with Leviathan members being globally involved at every level of society. It takes not only a global Batman organization, but the hidden group Spyral to shut down Leviathan, and it still comes with quite a high cost, as Bruce loses Damian in the conflict.
5 Batman: Joker War (James Tynion IV)
Joker War takes place not long after Bruce manages to defeat Bane, with Bruce trying to remake Gotham with his vast fortune. But Joker not only manages to seize Bruce's fortune, but uses it to take over the courts, the law, and uses all of Bruce's toys to terrorize the city.
The entire time, Bruce continues to try and handle the Joker alone, even though it's clear that Joker isn't playing by the same rules and has an entire army working with him. It isn't until Bruce accepts the help of his friends that he's able to turn the tide and get Gotham back from one of his oldest enemies.
4 Coming Back From The Past
In Final Crisis, Bruce was the person who finally finished off Darkseid by firing a gun with a bullet made of Radion, the only substance capable of killing him. In response? Darkseid used his Omega Effect to send Bruce backward through time.
There, Bruce would reincarnate time and time again, each time making his way closer to the present. But Darkseid had infected him with energy that would detonate once he reached his own time, making Bruce into a weapon that would destroy everything he loved.
3 The Batman Who Laughs (Greg Capullo & Scott Snyder)
A literal example, the Dark Multiverse shows readers a collection of Batmen from universes that were wiped from existence. These universes had all taken a turn towards darkness, and the worst one was definitely the Batman Who Laughs. There, Bruce had finally been pushed too far and killed the Joker once and for all.
But rather than that being the end of it, Bruce found himself infected by a toxin that turned him into the Joker. This version of Batman would make his way to the regular timeline and nearly send the entire multiverse into the dark multiverse, bringing an end to existence as everyone knew it.
2 Taking Venom
No, Batman didn't get into a fight with Eddie Brock. In a story that predates Bane, Bruce is driven to try an experimental superdrug after failing to save a young girl. Slowly, the addiction to the drug takes over Bruce's mind, and he nearly becomes an operative of a rogue military officer.
Bruce's unwillingness to accept his own loss leads to him having to break the habit cold, starving himself of the drug for thirty days straight in a Batcave with no actual way to escape.
1 Becoming Batman
Bruce becoming Batman at all has caused him more problems and more pain than any other major decision in his life. Nevermind becoming a philanthropist, just learning to accept his loss and get on with his life, all of it would have caused him to avoid so many run-ins with criminals and super-villains.
He could have saved himself millions on top of that... but if he did that, he wouldn't be the hero fans have loved for years.
Source: https://www.cbr.com/batman-times-bruce-wayne-was-own-worst-enemy/
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