What would happen if batman gained an invisibility device?

Expense, resource requirements and familiarity, probably.

Like why pour $50 million into Ghost in the Shell style active camo when you already have years of ninja training that will be good enough 90% of the time and you can use the money for more military grade jet fuel?

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He respects the Invisible Hood too much to steal his gimmick like that. He's not Katherine Kane.

>>94724116
because he has like 20 BILLION in the bank to spend anyway?

Obviously an active camo/invisibility thing probably is expensive to maintain too. he wouldnt use it every night, but when shit gets real...its good to have an ace up your sleeve

>>94724061
He uses one in Batman Beyond. As far as I understand it, Batman refuses to use magical etc equipment made by other people because it's unreliable - what if it's white magic that will suddenly stop working against black magic? Or what if that shiny new suit is actually an alien symbiote feeding off your agression? What if that fancy Green Lantern ring stops working against yellow?

The trick is, Batman doesn't WANT to have any weaknesses he doesn't know about, so he mostly refuses to use stuff he didn't built. The parts of Batman: Arkham Origins where he steals the grapple launcher and Electrocutioner's gloves were honestly out of character, Batman would never grab untested unreliable equipment in the field.

>>94724061
but invisibility devices are pretty low tech as far as comicbooks go

>>94724721

This. To simplify, while he could easily become more like Iron Man than Iron Man, he doesn't want to end up like the Batman renditions of old where he was as helpess as anyone else if his belt was out of reach.

Enhancing gear/powers are a crutch, and he doesn't want to be caught flat footed any more than he has to.

>Batman is stood in the room near a villain who can actually see through his tech-invisiblity, but pretends not to. Impales/shoots him before he can react, the fact he was 'invisible' having taken some of his focus on not being been/caught.

>>94724853

>Batman is stood in the room near a villain who can actually see through his tech-invisiblity, but pretends not to. Impales/shoots him before he can react, the fact he was 'invisible' having taken some of his focus on not being been/caught
hence why he should only use the invisibility in addition to hiding in the shadows and darting thru the rafters. Not marching into a room like its the Wayne manor bathroom.