Batman Prompt 18 - 1# Ranked
Batman is ranked the most-liked "superhero" because no one knows anything about him.
Batman is the least controversial hero.
The media conducts a huge poll that ranks all the Justice League members. Everyone thinks that Superman or maybe Wonder Woman or the Flash will take the top spot, but no, the one to take it is the scariest member, Batman.
You can't dislike or like something before you know more about it. When you hear about someone or something you don't know about you probably won't care.
*Based off loosely of me and how I don't have an opinion on celebrities I know nothing about, and how rumors and what people say can change what I think about them even though I have never seen it myself and know little to nothing about the celebrity. Though this only applies to celebrities, I have at least heard of; otherwise, I don't care at all.
But no one knows ANYTHING, so no one else opinions can twist others' opinions from rumors, and even if they make fake rumors, people will know that they are fake because no one knows anything. They don't even know if he is real.
There are lots of people who like him just for that reason and people who try to hate him lose the feeling fast because there is nothing to back it up.
The JL was excited to see the results of the popularity poll that multiple news companies put together. These companies that usually have opposing news came together to get as many to take the poll to the most accurate ranking they could. It was strangely beautiful. They got every top media company from the hometowns of the members and many more.
*There are 3 polls taking place: One for the main members, another for all the members, and another for the "kiddie" groups.
Some of JL was making bets on the rankings. The more gutsy ones had a bigger list. For the top spot, most beted on Superman, the other two highest guesses were Wonder Woman and the Flash.
(Wonder Woman beted for funsies and Martian Manhunter did not bet. Everyone else betted.)
There is one member that most didn't bet on, Batman. Most didn't bet because they just couldn't confidently guess, so they didn't guess at all. Others guessed on him for a variety of reasons. Some thought that most people didn't know about him to vote, maybe he would get 2nd or 3rd, he is a founding member after all, or that he was too scary to be a popular "hero."
The common theme throughout everyone was that nobody thought Batman could take the top spot...
When the results came out, oh boy were they surprised.
The poll results were going to be announced on every top news channel. In the Watch Tower, multiple screens were playing the different news channels that were going to show the results. All the channels came to a consensus to show the results at the same moment so that none of them "get ahead."
"Here we go! The results are coming out!"
"Noo! This can't be true!"
"How did Batman, of all people, out of all of us, win?!"
"YES!" Everyone looks at Clark, "Sorry- I voted for Bruce." Clark was the only one to bet on Batman, so that means he won the 1st place bet, and he is a journalist who gets paid for the work done.
"I don't understand. Why did he get first place?"
>Most people don't know anything about him, he stays out of the media as much as possible, he appeals to vigilante and hero fans, he has the best record, he was the first hero, he was a founder of the Justice League, he has connections to dumb but caring Brucie Wayne, and many more reasons.
>People pick him for these reasons. When it comes to people who either don't like heroes or every hero they know (and is on the pole) has some controversy/bad rumors, they pick the one that they nothing about because they rather pick the unknown rather than the one that has done something bad(whether or not it's true.)
>Many have said he has the most "good all around" and he was "Just Right."
*Maybe you can also add in the Batfam's, the public's, the villains, or Gotham's reaction to him getting 1st place.
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