There's a big difference between games themselves and characters. And there's a big difference between going toe-to-toe with Link/Cloud/Mario/Snake/Samus and random near-elites like Ryu and Dante. If you don't think there's any chance that Batman could hang with near-elites then I really don't know what to say.
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Praise the Black Turtle, Game of the Decade Guru Champ.
(Well, I never promised creativity, did I?!)