Superman has heat vision, he can travel super fast and is super strong. He is invulnerable to bullets. And most importantly, everyone loves him. He isn't human, he isn't subject to any kind of human weaknesses. His heart and motivations are truly and completely pure. He is a really, really good person. At certain points in the comics, he even is worshiped as a God, and is considered immortal.
Batman, he doesn't have any powers. In the comics, he comes up with the ideas for all his gadgets. Nobody really likes him unless they have just been saved by him, mostly people are incredibly frighted of him. He's really smart, and pretty tough, and he has an armored suit, but at the end of the day, he is only a man. He has loads of issues, mostly focused around the death of his parents, and the audience isn't always sure if he is doing the right thing because it's right, or because he just hates bad guys and is insane himself. He can be arrogant, paranoid, egoistical and unjustly suspicious.
Batman, in other words, is a human. He is only capable of the kind of things that humans can do. He can't stop time, he can't shoot lightening, he can't run faster than sound, yes, he does have his tech, but he doesn't have any futuristic things, and most of his gadgets would be possible if you had billions of dollars. Yet not only does he keep up with the other superheroes, he bests them. He knows everyones' weaknesses, and get gets the job done.
Batman, though only a mortal guy, is capable of phenomenal things. That's why I like him. He is the ultimate mortal.
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