While Batman and Iron Man share many similarities, perhaps their greatest point of comparison is the armor both heroes don when facing evil. While Batman normally prefers a suit that is closer to a costume than Iron Man’s use of powered armors, the Dark Knight still keeps a variety of advanced suits for use against specific characters or in hazardous environments. Accordingly, while Iron Man may generally have the more powerful armor, Batman’s Sun Knight suit, and its insane abilities, make Tony Stark’s machinations look amateurish.

In Justice League #24, the League finds itself facing the Forger of Worlds, a cosmic being hellbent on reshaping the DC Multiverse in an authoritarian fashion to ensure that "justice wins" all the time. The League is backed into a corner, as the Forger has recruited several key players in the DC Universe, including Batman. As if having to face Batman alone wasn’t bad enough, the Caped Crusader brings out his latest suit to face the League, the dreaded Sun Knight armor, which allows him to fight the League without breaking a sweat.

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Not to be confused with Batman’s Justice Buster armor, the Sun Knight suit is not explicitly designed to take on the League. The armor does possess many countermeasures Batman uses to take down the League, but its real purpose is to win hearts and minds… through mind control. Utilizing a series of modified Mother Boxes codenamed "the Son Box," the suit can change and manipulate people’s minds down to a cellular level. While the suit absolutely thrashes the League in a fistfight, the point was to manipulate them into joining Batman and Forger. As if that wasn’t enough, thanks to its Apocalypse-tech, the suit has reactionary adaptive abilities, allowing it to develop powers and countermeasures to suit the situation, in addition to all the other powers associated with Mother Boxes. The issue comes from Scott Snyder, Jorge Jimenez, Alejandro Sanchez, and Tom Napolitano.

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While Iron Man has built his fair share of impressive and iconic power-suits, few (if any) bear such an impressive repertoire of powers and abilities. For instance, Iron Man’s Godkiller (Model 61) allowed him to fight the Aspirants for hours, which is no simple feat. But while Iron Man’s armor has allowed him to take on Gods, he's rarely able to seal the deal and win. With the sheer amount of overpowered Apocalypse tech in Batman’s Sun Knight armor, Batman could likely take on the Gods of DC without breaking a sweat.

Just by using Mother Box technology, the suit allows Batman to do all sorts of things including altering gravity, teleportation, and hijacking any technology. To top it off, this isn’t something Batman was given by the Forger; the latter explains that Batman built the suit, and the underlying tech, showing a technical mastery over human and alien gadgetry that Tony Stark would likely kill for.

With mind-control, a keen mind piloting it, and advanced alien tech, the Sun Knight armor is an unstoppable force; thankfully only making one appearance when the stakes were at their highest. Batman and Iron Man both possess closets full of technologically advanced armors, yet Bruce Wayne’s Sun Knight armor blows Tony Stark’s entire collection of suits out of the water.

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