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Grant Morrison can get particularly bad about that. Especially when it turns out that Batman just happened to have a contingency plan in place for just such an occasion, no matter how ridiculous the situation is. I have to wonder when, in between running Wayne Industries during the day, doing his spoiled-billionaire-playboy thing in the evening, then running around brutalizing criminals at night, does Bruce get the time to sit around in the Batcave and draw out battle-plans for what to do if, say, he has to put down an evil Aquaman or some shit.
And really, 99% of those contingency plans should consist of 2 steps:
1) Call Superman.
2) Let him handle it.
Going on a slightly different tangent, I still maintain that Batman is a really bad starting point to get people into the rest of the DC universe, because the Bat-franchise doesn't fit with the rest of that world at all. Superman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, Flash, etc, all have cities and rogues' galleries that are over-the-top, have all sorts of crazy adventures that involve time-travel and alternate dimensions, and generally deal with having millions of people's lives in their hands at all times. So with these guys running around every single day, why the hell is Gotham City still such a toilet? You'd think the JLA would just be able to spend a weekend or two there and have it come out as a freaking utopia by the end of it. I mean, it's not like there are any Superman-level villains there--the worst they've got is a serial killer in a clown suit. Are they all just staying away because it's Batman's territory? The more I think about it, the less sense Batman makes in terms of the rest of DC.
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