Originally posted by DarkSaint85
Here's a straw to grasp.
You realize your entire argument is based on Shaw screaming out how his powers work in a thread where the threadstarter clearly didn't want Batman knowing how his powers work, right? It's one thing for this to happen naturally in a fight, it's another for the first hit to ruin all the surprise.
"No basic knowledge"
"Yeah well Shaw screams out every minute detail about his powerset so that's no issue."
You might as well start arguing that Batman doesn't go into fights without knowing who his opponent is. So therefore he has to have knowledge. There's meant to be a little leniency in character stupidity in threads where something or someone isn't supposed to do something or know something.
While you're arguing that you might as well argue that fight stopping monologues are a large part of forum battles as well while you're at it. Maybe Shaw screams his secret plan too. It can't be because writers think too little of readers that they have to blatantly state everytime he uses his powers. Hell maybe Flash slows down a little in every fight to explain what he's doing and give the opponent a chance to give up and land some hits on him? Sure you'd love hearing Carver argue that, no?
With that said, Batman wins.