Bastian sounded utterly offended by that, though he wasn't really. It was more of a... well. He would explain it to her, and then she would either agree with him, or clearly they just wouldn't be able to be friends!
"Batman is the most amazing superhero, because he didn't have any powers!" He crossed his arms over his chest, nodding wisely, as though this were a discussion about Aristotle and Socrates, or something of that kind of importance. "Whereas Spiderman got bit by a spider, and suddenly was superhuman. How does that even make sense?"
Rolling his eyes, he finished, "Batman did it all by himself, no superhuman stuff going for him. So clearly he's the best."