Nightwing has been making some adjustments these days. Having reclaimed the Batman title, he’s now making strikes to attempt to save the world. That is all based mostly on his heavy use of brane, a drug that will increase psychological means. Apart from giving him visions of the longer term, it additionally appears to have granted Batman a brand new superpower: battle precognition.
In Future State: Gotham #13 (by Dennis Culver, Dan Mora, Geoffo, Troy Peteri), Batman interrupted a gathering between Gotham’s villains within the bat crater left behind by Hush’s machinations. Naturally, the villains attacked, however couldn’t land a single blow on him. Whereas this Batman is extra agile than his counterparts, it is not talent that was maintaining him secure, however the means to foretell what transfer his opponents would make subsequent. This may be the beginning of much more powers courtesy of the brane.
Batman already advised Talia al Ghul that taking brane in small doses gave him a small edge in fight, a mistake his predecessor has made previously. It elevated his mind and likewise gave him the power to see into the longer term for a quick second, doubtlessly giving him an ace within the gap when he actually wanted it. His new go well with nevertheless, delivers brane straight into his system in a gradual stream, not in contrast to Bane’s personal venom supply system.
On account of having a continuing provide of the drug, Batman has now unlocked a everlasting type of battle precognition. This has made it nearly inconceivable to hit him, even when surrounded. It will appear that the drug’s energy allows him to understand a number of futures regardless of there being loads of potentialities to maintain monitor of in his thoughts. In a means it mirrors Bruce Wayne’s overpreparation however in speedy time.
That may really be a secondary means. The brane can be rising Batman’s psychological fortitude, and he was already a very smart particular person beforehand, so that is basically a type of tremendous multitasking. This permits him to maintain monitor of the assorted branching paths the longer term will almost definitely take and seize the benefit.
Although the usage of the drug is questionable, it’s clearly having a optimistic impact on his conflict on crime. This may really be essentially the most harmful model of Batman up to now. In an extraordinary battle, having the ability to predict what his opponent will do subsequent would unfairly rig the battle in his favor. The one means he may conceivably be touched is with some sort of assault that merely cannot be averted. This makes participating him in hand-to-hand fight ineffective, as he’ll be capable of keep away from getting hit earlier than countering.
Nevertheless, this might even have unexpected penalties. Whereas the brane has gifted him superior information of the longer term, similar to what turned of Damian Wayne, it could additionally grow to be a crutch for him. Since his publicity to brane in huge quantities, Batman has not been seen with out it. Apart from the doable habit he could now endure underneath, it may additionally hinder his fight expertise if he runs out.
With out the brane, he’d be compelled to depend on his personal instincts as a substitute of getting what quantities to a cheat code in a battle. In that case, then he does have a weak point that might be exploited. That is particularly harmful contemplating {that a} conflict between the totally different Batmen appears to be approaching.