I'm surprised that everyone here is underestimating Tony Stark a lot. I'm kind of tired of everyone saying that Batman could beat anyone that he comes up against when really there's dozens of super heroes who would dominate him. My main point is Superman. I really think that it's stupid to think Superman would get taken down by Batman. Even with the ring Superman can just take Batman down from a distance with some heat vision or freeze breath. I really think half of the Justice League can take him down also, they just don't use the abilities to the lethal level necessary to take down Batman. I mean Wonder Woman, Hal Jordan, Wally West, Martian Manhunter and Aquaman are all smart enough, resourceful enough and powerful enough to beat him.
I agree with this.
To be honest, I wasn't kidding when I made my post.
There are fundamental differences between Batman and Iron Man that make the idea of a 'fight' between the two difficult to talk about.
The only reason why Iron Man wouldn't win by vaporizing Batman's *** with hot electomagnetic death is for marketing/story reasons.
Batman woud have to win because it would be contrary to fandom for him to die or get beaten by a guy in an armored suit. Fans want Batman to lose OR win 'honorably' (whatever the **** that means) in a prolonged struggle with lots of bloodshed, broken bones and a dramatic coda to the battle.
Which is why they've built up this myth of Batman as a character who is Prepared for Everything, "Cause I'm The ******* Badass". So he would win by disabling Tony's very obvious advantage. After all that's how they let Batman win against a physically superior foe ALL THE TIME, they give him some kind of deus ex emasculata to disable the advantage so that the prolonged 'fair fight' can happen.
Tony on the other hand, cannot die because Marvel can't bring him back to life all too easily unless nanomonkeys assemble him bit by bit just as Wolverine can supposedly regrow himself from a ****ing blood stain. So instead he just gets beaten badly and Batman walks away because "I'm The Better Man"
Tony however, while being more of an Engineer Savant than the Wowza I'm So Smart of Reed Richards, and more of a Business Bad-*** than the Trust Fund Baby Bruce Wayne can use his L33t sense of industrial design to I don't know, reinvent the ****ing iPod and build a company from two sticks and a sock puppet and have an IPO with an accumulated value of ten digits in dollars, all while he's shagging Carmen Electra.
After which he buys Wayne Industries.
And there is absolutely no way Bruce would take that sitting down, so the cycle continues and never ends.