Batman

There are quite a few heroes on this list who don’t have superpowers, which goes to show that normal humans can be more violent than people with special abilities. And Batman may be the most violent of them all (he isn’t, though).

An expert martial artist with a brilliant mind (world greatest detective, right?), Batman always manages to find answers – even if it means breaking every bone in someone’s body.

But he doesn’t kill. Does that make his enemies less fearful? No way, because death can sometimes be an escape. But there’s no escape from the Dark Knight.

Sure, the movies don’t really focus on this trait, even though his foes sometimes die off-screen. But there are plenty of these moments in the comics, including in the Hush storyline, when the Dark Knight brutalizes the Joker over the death of his childhood friend.