10 Most Powerful Batsuits, Ranked (Including A Literal God-Buster)

Batman is one of the most over-prepared heroes to ever exist. There’s the classic meme that he can beat anybody with prep time, and although that is definitely overblown, it’s easy to see why the sentiment became so popular in the first place. The Dark Knight always seems to have one final trick up his sleeve, some hidden plan or technology that nobody else knew about, and comes in at just the right time to save the day. That’s especially true for his costumes, as Batman has a Batsuit designed to face every situation he could possibly find himself in.

The Caped Crusader has worn dozens of suits over the years. Some good, some bad, and some designed to handle threats that seem both obvious and incredibly specific. Today, we’re going to be looking at the ten strongest costumes that Barman has ever worn, and ranking them from least to most powerful. So, let’s examine the Dark Knight’s most destructive wardrobe.

10) Suit of Sorrows

Number ten on our list is actually the most low-tech option available. The Suit of Sorrows first appeared in Detective Comics #838, gifted to Bruce by Talia al Ghul. The suit made him far stronger and faster than before, enhancing his fighting instincts and letting Batman achieve feats and bodily control that were beyond even him before. Unfortunately, it came with the side effect of making its wearer extremely violent and eventually driving them insane, which forced him to give it up. This suit, created by the Order of Saint Dumas during the Crusades, would later be stolen back by them, and given to their new Azraels. A powerful suit for sure, but one with far too high a cost.

9) Justice Armor

The twelve-issue series Justice introduced this hyper-strong Batman suit, worn during the final battle against the Legion of Doom. Brain-controlling worms were attempting to convert the world’s heroes into robots, and Batman created this armor and many others for the League to protect them from the worms’ effects. While the exact specifications of this suit’s strength are unknown, it allowed Batman to take blows from the Legion of Doom’s world-ending threats, alongside letting him fly. It was obviously powerful, but without more to go off of we can’t rank it any higher than this.

8) Batman Beyond Hard Light Suit

The Batman Beyond suit is famous for both its sleek design and powerful capabilities, granting its wearer enhanced strength and durability, alongside flying with retractable wings. The upgraded version, introduced in Batman Beyond: Neo-Year #6, was also capable of absorbing hard light and creating wings out of solidified light, too. Not only could it absorb the very stuff Green Lantern’s attacks are made out of, but it can let out a massive burst of energy once it’s taken in enough. The old suit was powerful enough, but this one gave the Dark Knight a fully-functional energy blast, which is something that Batman is sure to put to great use.

7) Batman One Million

The Batman of the 853rd Century watches over the prison planet of Pluto, and uses his incredibly powerful Batsuit to maintain order when the villains inevitably try to escape. Not only does this suit include camouflage, night vision, strength-enhancers, collapsible armor, and most powerful of all, the Legacy Driver. The Legacy Driver allows this potential-future Batman to transform his suit into any of the ones worn by Batmen of the past, from the original Dark Knight’s, to Azrael’s Bat-Armor, to even the Batman Beyond suit. This suit is not only incredibly strong in its own right, but versatile to the point of adding every previous main Batsuit into it, which makes this one unbelievably useful and super powerful.

6) Metal Men Suit

This suit showed up in Batman/Superman: World’s Finest #15, when Superman and Metamorpho were pushed against the ropes by Ultra-Morpho, an Amazo-like android that could mimic Metamorpho’s powers, and the Dark Knight stepped in to save the day with the help of the melted-down Metal Men. They came together to create this suit, a ten-foot-tall behemoth with all of their own powers, which include shapeshifting into virtually anything they wanted. Not only was this suit incredibly versatile in what it could make, it came with the added benefit of six extra heroes being to chip in and watch Bats’s back. This is as much a team-up as it is a suit, but it still ranks as majorly strong.

5) The Batcavatron 

Old Lady Harley, a parody of Old Man Logan, showed Harley Quinn living in the post-apocalypse following the Brainiac 5 taking over the world. Of course, the end of the world didn’t stop Batman from prepping for worse times, and so he built the Batcavatron, a skyscraper-sized robot made to take down anyone who stood in his way. This suit is named after the fact that it’s built from the entirety of the cave system under Wayne Manner, weaponized for maximum carnage. It’s big, bad, and driven by an integrated Bruce Wayne who was driven insane and turned into a literal murder-machine. This suit is all about wreaking havoc, and boy, can it ever.

4) Insider Suit

After his supposed death in Infinite Crisis, Bruce donned this suit to secretly explore Gotham in Bruce Wayne: The Road Home. This may not look like a traditional Batsuit, but it more than makes up for it with its insane abilities. This suit is capable of mimicking superpowers from almost every member of the Justice League, including tapping into the Speed Force, channeling raw willpower like a Green Lantern ring, shooting Kryptonian-like heat vision, and even teleporting up to three meters. And that’s not even all it can do! This suit might not match any individual hero’s power, but the fact that it can mimic all of them practically makes it a wearable Amazo, with the only downside being it takes a long time to recharge between uses.

3) Justice Buster

Appearing in Batman (2011) #35, this suit was specially made to help Batman go up against the Justice League. After the Jokerized League tried to bring down Batman, he donned this to go toe to toe with them. It was equipped with weapons to take down each of them, from a super dense magnesium carbonate cannon to Aquaman to the Red Giants, which are gauntlets fitted with miniaturized red stars from dead solar systems. This suit hit and got hit by the strongest superheroes in the universe, and while Superman eventually ripped it apart, the fact that it let Batman stand against the entire Justice League on his own says so much about how absurdly powerful this suit is.

2) Hellbat 

The Hellbat armor was Batman’s ultimate rainy day suit, debuting in Batman and Robin (2011) #33. The entire Justice League helped build it, from Superman forging it in the heart of the sun to Wonder Woman enhancing it with magic. It enhances the wearer’s strength to ridiculous levels, lets you fly, and can shoot powerful energy blasts. Batman wore this and it let him fight on par with Darkseid, one of the most powerful beings in the entire universe, and Lois Lane later used it to bring down the Eradicator. This suit is demonstrably powerful, but has the serious drawback of running on the user’s metabolism, and can kill them if used for too long. Still, with this suit, I can’t imagine the fights taking very long at all.

1) Final Batsuit

This suit debuted in Justice League (2018) #24, and is without a doubt the most powerful Batsuit of them all. The Final Batsuit is made from Element X, the metal of pure imagination, and was incorporated with the Son Box, the next generation of the Mother Box. Not only is it capable of letting Batman go up against the entire Justice League and stomp them into the ground, but it is able to rewrite people’s minds to the cellular level, making them believe whatever you want and making it so they feel like they’ve always believed it. It can create seemingly unlimited resources and weapons, and likely has all the abilities of a Mother Box as well, which can do anything from opening Boom Tubes to alchemy.

This is easily the strongest Batsuit ever designed, and would let Batman literally create world peace if he used it to take over the Justice League. Given its absurd and potentially reality-warping capabilities, it’s definitely for the best that this suit stays a remnant of the World Forger’s Sixth Dimensional false Earth.

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