The Dark Knight of Gotham City has worn quite a few different costumes over the years in his never-ending fight against cowardly and superstitious criminals, though Batman isn't always the most fashionable superhero at the party.

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Sometimes his various armors and new costumes look insanely cool and make fans pine for their return to the comics, and other Batsuits just end up looking lame and thankfully never appeared again. So today we are going to look at a few of Batman's legitimately coolest costumes, and a few that only Mr. Freeze from 1997's Batman & Robin would think are "cool."

10 COOL: GOTHTOPIA

Batman's New 52 attire doesn't rate as either cool or lame as it was just kind of there, but when Gotham City was given a utopic overhaul during the "Gothtopia" event, Bruce donned one of his coolest costumes.

The white-shaded tactical suit highlighted the armored look of his costume while also projecting a "White Knight" feel that fit in with Gotham's new positive attitude. Unfortunately, the utopia was revealed to be just another experiment from Scarecrow and Batman soon resorted to his darker costume.

9 LAME: ZEBRA BATMAN

Not all of Batman's white costumes look great though, as we've seen when he became affected by the magnetic abilities of Zebra-Man in the pages of Detective Comics #275, which caused his costume to transform.

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Batman also gained uncontrollable magnetic powers along with the unique look of his costume (which mirrored the striped look of Zebra-Man), but thankfully he was able to negate the abilities and restore his costume to normal.

8 COOL: SUIT OF SORROWS

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Batman was gifted with a new armored costume named the Suit of Sorrows by Talia al Ghul during the "Resurrection of Ra's al Ghul" storyline. The Suit of Sorrows resembled his normal costume, though it featured chainmail armor and gauntlets.

The Suit of Sorrows added the "Knight" to the Dark Knight and even increased his speed and strength, but it also tainted the wearer with darkness borne from its creation during the Crusades. Michael Washington Lane would later wear a modified Suit of Sorrows as the new Azrael.

7 LAME: AZ-BATS

Lane wasn't the first Azrael, as the name dates back generations as the avenging angel of the secretive Order of St. Dumas. Jean-Paul Valley was the current Azrael when he first met Batman, who invited Valley to train with him and Robin (Tim Drake).

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Following Bruce Wayne's fall at the hands of Bane in "Knightfall," Valley took over as Batman, and his former St. Dumas brainwashing kicked in and rebuilt the Batman costume, armoring it up, adding deadly gauntlets, and more than enough pockets to fit in with other lame 90s design styles.

6 COOL: HELLBAT

That's not to say that all of Batman's armor suits are lame, as we've seen quite a few juiced-up costumes over the years that we're always eager to see again. The Hellbat armor was created by Batman during the "Hunt for Robin" storyline, which required Bruce to armor up for a battle on Apokolips.

The Justice League assisted in the creation of the Hellbat armor, which not only looks cool but is also one of the more powerful suits ever worn by Batman that helped him take on the overpowering forces of Apokolips.

5 LAME: SUPERHEAVY

Following the "Endgame" storyline of the New 52, Bruce Wayne was missing and presumed dead, so Gotham City launched a new program to replace Batman with a giant suit of armor, piloted by none other than former police commissioner James Gordon.

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Gordon's time as Batman seemed fitting given his long-standing relationship with the hero, but unfortunately, the bunny-like armor and Gordon's own streamlined Batsuit failed to live up to the usual high standards of Batman's costume designs.

4 COOL: INSIDER

This could be considered a bit of a cheat as Bruce never actually called himself Batman while wearing the Insider suit, but it's way too cool to not include and still featured a lot of the same design ideas as his Batsuit.

The costume first appeared in the pages of Bruce Wayne: The Road Home following his apparent death in Final Crisis. He wore the Insider suit (which was able to briefly replicate League abilities like heat-vision and super-speed) to keep tabs on the Batman family, though it disappeared after he returned to the mantle of the Bat.

3 LAME: ZUR-EN-ARRH

The Batman of Zur-En-Arrh was originally a super-powered character from another planet that appeared in 1958's Batman #113 and featured a colorful costume that shared a few similarities with the regular Batsuit.

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Grant Morrison revisited some of those crazier comic elements from the fifties to work them into current continuity in unique ways. The Zur-en-Arrh Batman became a backup personality for Bruce to use should he become compromised, and the costume's unique colors were present because a deranged Bruce built the suit using random rags.

2 COOL: BATMAN BEYOND

While Batman Beyond first appeared as an animated series, the costume and character would soon appear in the comics as well. The high-tech Batsuit was initially worn by Bruce Wayne during one of his final battles, though it was mostly worn by Terry McGinnis.

Other characters like Tim Drake have worn the simplistic red and black suit from the future over the years, though it has returned to Terry who continues to save Gotham as Batman Beyond in the comics, years after the animated series was canceled.

1 LAME: DEBUT

Now don't get us wrong, the first appearance of Batman in Detective Comics#27 will always hold a special place in our hearts, but the costume and character hadn't yet been fully developed and there were a few oddities that stick out today.

Not only was the costume uncertain of its color scheme with the inclusion of purple gloves, but the cape featured segmented wing parts that sat weird on his shoulders and long slightly askew bat ears that did the worst thing to Batman a costume can do - make him unintimidating.

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