User blog comment:Thundrtri/Collab with Pach! Arsene Lupin III VS Batman/@comment-5232784-20130506232422

Okay lets give this a go

1. Physicality and hand to hand combat

Batman not only works out excessively to build a superior physique, he has bio-feedback treatments that adds to his formidable body: though not superhuman, he is in par in many ways with Captain America. He also has mastered at least 100 different fighting styles, and uses thems together fluidly despite the ultra-hard problems of combining that many fighting styles together.

Arsene Lupin III however, though well aquainted in martial arts, does not have the intensive training and knowledge of hand to hand combat techniques tha the Batman possesses, and he is a quite thin, gangly person, no the muscular yet quick specimen that is Batman.

EDGE: Batman!

2. Batarangs vs Walther P38

On the face of it, the Walther should be the superior weapon to the batarang: guns after all have become the main weapon of choice among the world's warriors today, and they are more lethal than batarangs ever could be. But Batman is a master at fighting gun-toting-crooks and croneys, easily more than capable of disarming them and beating them to pulps: Meanwhile Lupin has no prior experience fighting someone with batarangs, will not have a prior frame of reference to aid him. He loses here.

EDGE: Batman!

3. Gadgets!

Batman has a superb supply of gadgets in his utility belt, but lets face it: he does not have rocket shoes, cigarette pack super glue bomb (capable of immobilizing a horde of coppers), exploding cigars, blinding super suits, etc. Indeed, from the account listed above, Lupin seems to have a far greater variety of gadgets than Batman could ever hope to have.

EDGE: Lupin!

4. Intelligence

Both combatants are highly intelligent: Lupin researches and studies both his targeted things to steal and those who guard them, as well as the security systems used to protect the objects of his desire, so he should have done his homework (at least as much as can be done online, considering Batman's secretive nature).

Yet Batman likewise shares vast intelligence, and can put his superb brain into strategy and tactical analysis, figuring out the weakness of his opponents before utilizing such weaknesses.

This is a hard one, but in the end, the Batman's intelligence is geared in major part towards attaining tacital advantage and victory, and he can think of these things on his feet: I feel he will decipher several methods of defeating this goon.

EDGE: Batman!

This battle will be one that pits two very formidable combatants together, yet the goal of this battle is not a fight to the physical finish per se: while Batman will try to beat Lupin down to submission, Lupin will be trying to get at the artifact. Batman is a terrible foe to be reckoned with, but several bad guys have escaped him before (Catwoman springs to mind), and though those escaping supervillians eventually were caught, Lupin is not one to stay in town and hang around until Batman bounces him: he's going to get outta dodge. Plus, like Batman he is an expert escape artist, so if Batman gets him tied up or in bat cuffs, he'll find a way to slip out of them.

I feel that Lupin's superior gadgetry, his get outta dodge after stealing strategy, and the fact that, while Batman has had a few bad guys get away from him in his day, Lupin has never to my knowledge been caught.

LUPIN LAMPOONS THE BATMAN