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justincredible

Nick Mangold

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Jun 20, 2011 12:06 PM
Y-Town Steelhound;807414 wrote:Batman? Batman isn't even a real fucking superhero. What are his powers? He's just a really rich guy that decides he wants to fight crime. Bill Gates could be Batman if he wanted to be. If Bruce Wayne were a middle class plumber could he be Batman? No batmobile, no batcave, no batgadgets, no Alfred, no Morgan Freeman to build his batgadgets, no nothing...Batman is a joke
GTFO.
Jun 20, 2011 12:06pm
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like_that

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Jun 20, 2011 12:07 PM
justincredible;807438 wrote:GTFO.

I like Batman, but Y-Town has a point, Batman is not a SUPERhero.
Jun 20, 2011 12:07pm
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Just Ain't Care

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Jun 20, 2011 12:08 PM
Ironman92;807433 wrote:Yeah, I know...but I like ghey music so I have zero room to talk.

We agree on something.
Jun 20, 2011 12:08pm
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Heretic

Son of the Sun

18,820 posts
Jun 20, 2011 12:13 PM
Batman might be my favorite, but I like far more Marvel ones, particularly X-Men and Spider-Man.
Jun 20, 2011 12:13pm
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justincredible

Nick Mangold

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Jun 20, 2011 12:18 PM
like_that;807439 wrote:I like Batman, but Y-Town has a point, Batman is not a SUPERhero.

No, he's not a superhero. Which makes him even more of a badass.
Jun 20, 2011 12:18pm
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Fab4Runner

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Jun 20, 2011 12:27 PM
justincredible;807455 wrote:No, he's not a superhero. Which makes him even more of a badass.
This.
Jun 20, 2011 12:27pm
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Scarlet_Buckeye

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Jun 20, 2011 1:11 PM
Marvel, and it's not even close. The only thing DC has going for itself, and I mean only thing is Batman. While I watch the Superman movies (and I'll more than likely check out the Green Lantern movies), Superman is hands down THE dumbest superhero ever. A superhero, by nature, is supposed to have a flaw. Superman's ONLY flaw is kryptonite. How dumb is that? Let's create a character that is virtually impenetrable and occasionally toss in kryptonite. Dumb.

The X-Men universe ALONE trumps DC. That's not even getting into the Spider-Man, Fantastic Four, the Silver Surfer, Thor, the Incredible Hulk, the whole Shi-ar Empire, etc.

Marve 10x > DC. #Fact
Jun 20, 2011 1:11pm
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bigdaddy2003

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Jun 20, 2011 1:17 PM
Scarlet_Buckeye;807499 wrote:Marvel, and it's not even close. The only thing DC has going for itself, and I mean only thing is Batman. While I watch the Superman movies (and I'll more than likely check out the Green Lantern movies), Superman is hands down THE dumbest superhero ever. A superhero, by nature, is supposed to have a flaw. Superman's ONLY flaw is kryptonite. How dumb is that? Let's create a character that is virtually impenetrable and occasionally toss in kryptonite. Dumb.

The X-Men universe ALONE trumps DC. That's not even getting into the Spider-Man, Fantastic Four, the Silver Surfer, Thor, the Incredible Hulk, the whole Shi-ar Empire, etc.

Marve 10x > DC. #Fact
This. You know your comic book characters.
Jun 20, 2011 1:17pm
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enigmaax

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Jun 20, 2011 1:28 PM
like_that;807439 wrote:I like Batman, but Y-Town has a point, Batman is not a SUPERhero.

But he is a super friend. So he's super at something. And I miss the Super Friends cartoon.

I'm in the crowd whose taste for DC is pretty much limited to Batman. I had a subscription from about age 4 to age 10. But my favorite was far and away the Avengers.
Jun 20, 2011 1:28pm
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Jun 20, 2011 2:03 PM
justincredible;807455 wrote:No, he's not a superhero. Which makes him even more of a badass.

Indeed, I am not arguing that he isn't bad ass, because he is definitely the man. I just think it's dumb when people call him a "super" hero when he doesn't have any super powers.
Scarlet_Buckeye;807499 wrote:Marvel, and it's not even close. The only thing DC has going for itself, and I mean only thing is Batman. While I watch the Superman movies (and I'll more than likely check out the Green Lantern movies), Superman is hands down THE dumbest superhero ever. A superhero, by nature, is supposed to have a flaw. Superman's ONLY flaw is kryptonite. How dumb is that? Let's create a character that is virtually impenetrable and occasionally toss in kryptonite. Dumb.

The X-Men universe ALONE trumps DC. That's not even getting into the Spider-Man, Fantastic Four, the Silver Surfer, Thor, the Incredible Hulk, the whole Shi-ar Empire, etc.

Marve 10x > DC. #Fact
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enigmaax;807521 wrote:But he is a super friend. So he's super at something. And I miss the Super Friends cartoon.

I'm in the crowd whose taste for DC is pretty much limited to Batman. I had a subscription from about age 4 to age 10. But my favorite was far and away the Avengers.

They made an exception for Batman, because he is bad ass as Justin has stated. Still no super powers, therefore not a super hero.
Jun 20, 2011 2:03pm
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Heretic

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Jun 20, 2011 2:11 PM
justincredible;807455 wrote:No, he's not a superhero. Which makes him even more of a badass.

There's a College Humor deal you can find on YouTube that spoofs how Batman's not a superhero...by basically making him have good intentions with no ability to handle actual supervillains. His "fight" with (I think) Darkseid is hilarious.

Not as good as the Batman's Drinking Problem one, but still good.
Jun 20, 2011 2:11pm
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Heretic

Son of the Sun

18,820 posts
Jun 20, 2011 2:13 PM
[video=youtube;PeT1t0lQn5Q][/video]

Well, there it is, but embedding seems disabled by request, so fuck...
Jun 20, 2011 2:13pm
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Manhattan Buckeye

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Jun 20, 2011 7:59 PM
Scarlet_Buckeye;807499 wrote:Marvel, and it's not even close. The only thing DC has going for itself, and I mean only thing is Batman. While I watch the Superman movies (and I'll more than likely check out the Green Lantern movies), Superman is hands down THE dumbest superhero ever. A superhero, by nature, is supposed to have a flaw. Superman's ONLY flaw is kryptonite. How dumb is that? Let's create a character that is virtually impenetrable and occasionally toss in kryptonite. Dumb.

The X-Men universe ALONE trumps DC. That's not even getting into the Spider-Man, Fantastic Four, the Silver Surfer, Thor, the Incredible Hulk, the whole Shi-ar Empire, etc.

Marve 10x > DC. #Fact

Agree 100%. I had a ton of Batman comics, but just as many Spider-Man so that's a wash. Could never get into Superman (for the reasons you mentioned) and the films have NOT held up well over the years aside from Williams' awesome score in the first. The only other DC comic book character I had was Green Lantern, and I think one year I got a Flash comic book for my birthday. Whereas in Marvel I had a bunch of X-Men, Captain America, Hulk, Iron Man, Fantastic Four, Avengers, etc. (some of these movies were crap as well, but the comics were much better). Unless one really, really favors Batman, I don't see how it is close. The marvel comics are less campy and have far more mature storylines.
Jun 20, 2011 7:59pm
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Jun 20, 2011 8:04 PM
I recently saw a top 100 comic book heroes countdown and thought for sure Spider-Man or Batman would be number 1 but of course it ended up being Superman and that just irked me.
Jun 20, 2011 8:04pm
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Jun 20, 2011 8:44 PM
Jun 20, 2011 8:44pm