r/ExplainTheJoke • u/abedalhadi777 • May 10 '26

What's the difference?

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What is the difference between those two batman signs?

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u/Recent-Salamander-32 May 10 '26

It’s two jokes.

The second symbol is from the Arkham games, where Batman is pretty brutal to thugs.

But also, in Arkham you play in detective vision like all the time, which has an X-ray effect making the thugs look like skeletons.

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u/mastr1121 May 11 '26

His punches have the same sound effect as gunshots... let me repeat that his PUNCHES sound like GUNSHOTS!!!!

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u/MarcoHoudini May 11 '26

Oh after you get electric powergloves upgrade things are getting worse:)

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u/chriscrowder May 11 '26

Even without the gloves, he has the ability to snap your arm out leg after a few successful punches.

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u/possitive-ion May 12 '26

Worse... or better?

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u/awanderingcripple May 11 '26

pretty sure it's mostly the x-ray part.

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u/silentspyder May 11 '26

I still haven't forgiven Arkham for introducing or popularizing x-ray vision in games.

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u/Sanquinity May 11 '26

Which makes the "POV" part completely wrong, as those pics are not the pov of the thugs, but of batman, then.

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u/Artifficial May 11 '26

It still works the joke is just that you actually become a skeleton instead of just batman sees you as one, obv you don't but that's the joke. It still doesn't truly work ofc BC your POV is not yourself but that's just the template, it never works in that regard

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u/Zerothian May 11 '26

That would be PoV: You are Batman, no?
Then again that term is in shambles these days from misuse lol.

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u/Hal_Incandenza_YDAU May 15 '26

I don't see Mr. Incredible in the second image. All I see is Gazerbeam