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** Even those plans are sometimes criticized by readers. The plan against Flash, for example, relies on him vibrating through a special bullet, instead of just, y'know, moving out of the way.

** In several stories, it's later expanded to note that every single one of the Justice League members have at least some vague plan to take out their team-members in case any one of them goes rogue. They vary in effectiveness, though. [[Green Lantern|Hal Jordan]]'s contingency plan shows one of his own moments of [[Popularity Power]] - his plan to defeat Batman was to create a jetpack, strap it to him, and shoot him as far away as possible to be sure. Despite certain obvious flaws, his plan ''worked''(even if it was entirely unnecessary for a guy that can casually exceed the speed of light and destroy planets without trying).

** In one alternate universe, after Jason Todd was killed Batman went ...a ''little'' more nuts than normal...and ''killed every single villain on Earth'', resulting in a utopia. ''No one thought this was unlikely.''

*** To be fair, it took him fifteen years, and relied a whole lot on murdering people in their sleep one at a time and making it look like an accident. And even then some of the more powerful villains had to be taken down by the other heroes -- Batman's main contribution was to remove so many minor villains (and major villains who had no invulnerability, such as Lex Luthor) that the rest of the superhero community was all free to dogpile on the few threats that were left.