The Batarang=A ******ed Weapon!?

[TMC1982]

You make the call!
http://www.cracked.com/article_16983_11-most-******ed-fictional-weapons.html

#11.
The Batarang

Used By:
Batman.
Why It Could Be Cool:
Because he's the goddamned Batman.
Why It Absolutely Is Not Cool:
We all know Batman loves to maintain a consistent theme. And we're fine with that. We don't mind that he calls his car the Batmobile, or his hideout the Batcave, or his computer the Batputer, because it doesn't affect his crime fighting. If he wants to have a cool bat screensaver or a bat-shaped birthday cake, whatever, as long as it works.

It was at the invention of the batarang that somebody should have intervened and told Bruce to spend less time worrying about every single accessory fitting the theme. Making your deadly boomerang thing bat-shaped makes it hard to store, hard to throw and, in reality, would be next to impossible to catch without severing three of your own fingers.

Look, Batman, the bad guys aren't going to care what your weapon looks like once it's lodged in their neck. Don't worry about it, you look fine. Quit primping, get out there and stop some goddamn criminals.

 

[Bathead]

This has to be the stupidest waste of time article ever. The question should be whether or not the writer is an idiot. Even a spoof article like this has to have some basis in reality for it to be really funny. It's only lately the Batarang has turned into a batshaped shuriken, it's original intent was as a non-lethal means to knock out foes at range. I get it, it's a joke, but get your facts right or it's not a funny joke.

 

[TruerToTheCore]

Batarangs are useless.

 

[Blaztro]

No. Do you know what a Boomerang was originally? A weapon thrown through the air at prey that twirled and hit the target, injuring it through sheer force, and would circle back if it missed.

 

[Matt.S99]

The batarang is meant to be more of a distraction. To injure the opponant a little, to catch them off guard.

 

[TruerToTheCore]

No. Do you know what a Boomerang was originally? A weapon thrown through the air at prey that twirled and hit the target, injuring it through sheer force, and would circle back if it missed.

it would not be an effective method to fight criminals.

 

[Two-Face=Badass]

The batarang is one of the more awesome things about Batman. Itas many uses, to knock foes out, render weapons rom their hands, frighten them and when attached to a rope, catch falling things/people or climb over smaller gates when the grapple gun will be too impractical.

 

[SuperFerret]

it would not be an effective method to fight criminals.

You would think, but being hit in the face with a two-pound piece of wood, or even ducking to avoid it, would provide enough distraction for the guy who threw it to close the gap and start the actual beating.

 

[SHADOWBAT69]

Making your deadly boomerang thing bat-shaped makes it hard to store, hard to throw and, in reality, would be next to impossible to catch without severing three of your own fingers.

Yeah, those 2 little words pretty much sum everything up. He's a comic book character with comic book weapons in a comic book world. There is no reality.

 

[Bathead]

You would think, but being hit in the face with a two-pound piece of wood, or even ducking to avoid it, would provide enough distraction for the guy who threw it to close the gap and start the actual beating.

The Australian boomerang (upon which the original Batarang is based) is a very effective weapon. The Australian Aborigine hunters have used it to quite good effect for thousands of years. In the hands of an expert hunter, they can be quite deadly. They don't have or need a razor's edge. The concussive force a well aimed boomerang can deliver is significant, if it doesn't outright kill an animal, it at least will render it unconscious long enough for the hunter to move in and finish it off. They're not just the toy that most people are familiar with.

 

[Majik1387]

Though the article isn't really funny, I agree with #'s 10, 8, 4, 3, and 1

 

[Matt.S99]

The Daleks are awesome!

 

[elgaz]

This article has no bearing whatsoever unless the writer is a qualified weapons expert. I have a feeling he isn't.

 

[SuperFerret]

The Australian boomerang (upon which the original Batarang is based) is a very effective weapon. The Australian Aborigine hunters have used it to quite good effect for thousands of years. In the hands of an expert hunter, they can be quite deadly. They don't have or need a razor's edge. The concussive force a well aimed boomerang can deliver is significant, if it doesn't outright kill an animal, it at least will render it unconscious long enough for the hunter to move in and finish it off. They're not just the toy that most people are familiar with.

Agreed. The yo-yo is another effective weapon that has become a toy.

 

[ironman29758]

The Australian boomerang (upon which the original Batarang is based) is a very effective weapon. The Australian Aborigine hunters have used it to quite good effect for thousands of years. In the hands of an expert hunter, they can be quite deadly. They don't have or need a razor's edge. The concussive force a well aimed boomerang can deliver is significant, if it doesn't outright kill an animal, it at least will render it unconscious long enough for the hunter to move in and finish it off. They're not just the toy that most people are familiar with.

Wasn't the baterang a metal boomerang shaped like a bat so that would make it more dangerous

 

[tomstoyz2]

I love the Bat-a-Rangs!!

 

[Bathead]

Wasn't the baterang a metal boomerang shaped like a bat so that would make it more dangerous

Not always. It's only in the last few decades they've turned the batarang into a metal razor edged shuriken like thingy. It was originally just like a regular wooden boomerang only with an edge scallopped like a bat's wing.

 

[Daredevil_2003]

The guy who wrote that article's an idiot. A realistically designed Batarang I have no issue with, like the original boomerang style or the more modern shuriken rangs from TAS. They would work just like the original weapons they're based off of. Now, the one's from the old movies (like the one in the OP from Forever) and some of the ones from the comics are just laughable, no way those things would fly like a boomerang or shuriken.

 

[sto_vo_kor_2000]

it would not be an effective method to fight criminals.

Well it was quite effective in as a offensive hunting tool as well as a self defense weapon used by Egyptians and some Native Americans.

They were also used for hand-to-hand combat by Indigenous Australians.

I cant see why it wouldnt be of some use to Batman.

 

[ross2287]

Article = Fail.

 

[Mantis Rapture]

HAHAHAHA...jesus, people actually catchin feelings over this article - it's only a joke guys, why so serious?

 

[Daredevil_2003]

HAHAHAHA...jesus, people actually catchin feelings over this article - it's only a joke guys, why so serious?

Because it's a bad joke? It's not funny...last time I checked that was pretty important part of any joke.

Maybe I was just raised wrong and have it all ass-backward. *shrug*

 

[Cunning Stunts]

I always saw Batarangs as more of throwing knives than boomerangs. Either way, how are they "******ed"? I don't get what this guy thinks he knows about weapons, but apparently not much at all.

 

[Cunning Stunts]

HAHAHAHA...jesus, people actually catchin feelings over this article - it's only a joke guys, why so serious?

You know, you get an F for effort every time you quote TDK just to try to be funny and/or witty.

 

[WolfCypher]

I don't know why the have to Batarangs anyway. Modern day stories should replace them with Bat-Shuriken, like the movies.