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Jodie44
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Aerodynamics?
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They improve his powers of intimidation and also make him feel as though he is a bat
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Batman has learned how to breath through his ears.My girlfriend is trying to teach me now
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It gives his girlfriend something to scratch behind - the grammar doesn't sounds quite right but you know what I mean.
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I'm pretty sure that he had limited choices in how he was going to present himself as a bat. Wings and ears are pretty much the only distinguishing features of a bat so he really had no other choice than to go with ears.
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Just like a real bat, Batman's ears contain secret sensing devices that can use echo-location to help fight enemies.
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Originally, no, they were just for looks. Recent writers have given Batman more and more expensive high-tech, and a few times it has been mentioned that the "ears" of his costume also contain the antennaes for his communication links. He's in almost constant contact with Alfred at the cave, Oracle, or the Justice League, and the earpiece and transmitter arrays are arranged inside the "ears". See the "Hush" trade paperback for a good example of this. Interestingly, Daredevil's "horns" were also said to work as radio antenna waaaay back in the beginning of his series, allowing him to use his superhuman hearing to tune in to police broadcasts. This idea was dropped early on, and Batman's writers sort of salvaged it.
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To listen. I know bats don't need ears like most animal to listen due to their ability to use echolocation. A deaf Batman wouldn't be too much of a hit.
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I read a Batman comic in the 70s once where Batman had a magnesium flare in one of his bat ears. Since his hands were tied, he was able to lean his head up against a wall and break off the ear in question.
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In "Batman Begins", they hid the antenna for his radio. In the comics, it was just so he could cast a batlike shadow or silhouette in the moonlight -- what with criminals being a superstitious and cowardly lot and all...
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