This guy is like Bruce Wayne suiting up as Batman to fight injustice. Only, it's his stolen bike instead of dead parents. Same difference.
Watch the Batman logo mutate over forty years. Fascinating from a cultural standpoint, but also from a design aesthetics one, as well. You really get a sense of how things became sleeker through the decades.
http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1884973
Compared to the abilities of flight, super-strength and heat vision, there is something kind of sad about Batman’s gadgetry. Sure, Superman comes off as kind of lame, but at least he’s not a pathetic, mask-wearing growler like Batman.