Batman or Superman

Plunky · 31-01-2005 7:57pm

Thanks, Raph!...

Get a grip? Dude I started this thread to begin a proper discussion about the two characters based on actual information about them, and then you come along and basically just bìtch Batman out of it for no reason. That is not cool. You honestly think we're the ones who should be getting a grip?

fade2black · 31-01-2005 8:01pm

A proper discussion about Batman and Superman....right yeah....my apologies....

Raphael · 31-01-2005 8:07pm

Duly accepted, now leave

fade2black · 31-01-2005 8:12pm

Who the f uck do you think you are? Duly accepted...now leave??

Plunky · 31-01-2005 8:13pm

Raph:
Same as what i was going to say only more...pacifistic ;-P
So does anyone have any actual arguments in favour of Superman, or is Batman the winner?!

edibility · 31-01-2005 9:54pm

Read this: http://www.npr.org/programs/morning/features/patc/batman/
It shall explain all.
For those too lazy, the real arguements for Batman:

Pity not poor Batman, the most un-super of superheroes. Sure, he can't fly. He's not an alien. He has no radioactive spider venom running through his veins. But somewhere under that dark cape lies the heart of a hero. And between those pointy ears, the swift, capable mind of a vigilante out for justice.

When Batman made his debut in issue #27 of Detective Comics, swinging from a rope with a crook clutched under his arm, the occasion was momentous not because of the superpowers being demonstrated, but for the character of the hero.

And unlike other conventionally good-vs-evil superheroes with more spectacular or otherworldly talents, Kane's hero was always just a step away from criminal behavior himself.

"He's got this gorgeous streak of malice running through him that makes him a really exciting character," Miller says. "He's not a role model. He's not here to tell us how to behave. He's a scary fantasy."

Kane, who died at the age of 83 in 1998, said that the bat wings came from a sketch out of a book of drawings by Leonardo da Vinci, who had grafted them onto a sled to form a flying apparatus > such a damn cool bit of trivia

Also:

Beat that for cool.

Crash · 31-01-2005 10:06pm

Hitman is still better than batman for evil malice while still being technically good.

and he's showed batman up a few times.

edibility · 31-01-2005 10:11pm

Read the thread title your modship.

zing boom ducky · 31-01-2005 10:58pm

y'all are startin to scare me.... aaah with the knowledge of such things and what not. i just think supermans better, cos well his costumes nicer. and HE doesn't need a sidekick now does he.

Raphael · 31-01-2005 11:39pm

fade2black wrote:

Who the f uck do you think you are? Duly accepted...now leave??

Aonghus Francis James Raphael Collins - Lyricist, Thespian and part time Messiah

Plunky · 01-02-2005 12:06am

Raphael wrote:

Aonghus Francis James Raphael Collins - Lyricist, Thespian and part time Messiah

...(contd.) Genuinely nice guy, gentleman, and scholar.

edibility · 01-02-2005 12:16am

(ctd.) ...irritant, victim of depressing music and a good chooser of comics.

Zing boom ducky: Course he doesn't, cause he has no human qualities. Aha.

Plunky · 01-02-2005 12:19am

Nice one!

StupidLikeAFox · 01-02-2005 2:23am

fade2black wrote:

Who the f uck do you think you are? Duly accepted...now leave??

Thats ok, he thinks he owns the place. Dont take him seriously and hes actually quite amusing

fade2black · 01-02-2005 3:08am

I posted a reply earlier that I notice has been deleted. I was making the point that I liked the idea of the thread that Plunky had started and that I had made several replies to it. Now that I have discovered that he has no sense of humour I shall let this thread lie...

fade2black · 01-02-2005 3:09am

Oh and "edited cause it seems that I was agreeing with fade2black"??? Are you afraid that Raphael will give out to you?? Truly the saddest thing I've ever seen.

StupidLikeAFox · 01-02-2005 3:29am

Plunky wrote:

Dude I started this thread to begin a proper discussion etc etc

ok, i just read this. Haha

Plunky · 01-02-2005 12:05pm

meh

Undergod · 01-02-2005 4:07pm

crash_000 wrote:

Hitman is still better than batman for evil malice while still being technically good.

and he's showed batman up a few times.

And who can disagree with that?

Other than people who don't know about Hitman, or don't like it.

smiley_knees · 05-02-2005 8:42pm

Has the world gone mad???

Batman doesn't actually *have* any superpowers and is therefore not a superhero... He only has a belt full of useful crap, but hey, so do boy scouts and they don't have their own show or merchandise.

True, Superman's atire is not as suave or subtle as Batman's (I'm sure red and blue spandex was fashionable at one point) but that doesn't make him any less. Plus he must be a good Superhero if a city full of people don't notice that Clark Kent not only possesses all the physical characteristics and likenesses of Superman, but, on removal of his *glasses* is actually him. Plus he does a damn good job of hiding his costume under his suit. Come on, with a cape that's got to be uncomfortable.

Yeah, so out of the two Superman's better. Althoug Spiderman, the X-men and above all else, The Turtles (RULE MY WORLD), are far better. Turtles rock. Ah, Michaelangelo... Wasn't Donetello the boring one no one liked? Raphael was the leader. Leonardo was "cool but rude, Michaelangelo is the party dude!
Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles
Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles..!" Etc.. sorry, off point.

pinkpimp · 05-02-2005 9:00pm

I agree. I wish to withdraw my vote (for superman, I can't believe he's losing) and put it towards a third candidate... THE TURTLES!! HEROS IN A HALF SHELL!!

jono087 · 05-02-2005 9:16pm

yeah, but your vote now only counts as a quarter 'cos there's four turtles....... and anyway, they're not human so they don't count.....

Piste · 05-02-2005 9:47pm

Power rangers rocked! I always wanted to be the pink one......

Caoimhe · 05-02-2005 10:08pm

pinkpimp wrote:

I agree. I wish to withdraw my vote (for superman, I can't believe he's losing) and put it towards a third candidate... THE TURTLES!! HEROS IN A HALF SHELL!!

TURTLE POWER!! God I love the turtles... I was brought up with their awesomeness

fade2black · 05-02-2005 10:11pm

I was in the fan club....luminous laces and everything....but anyway...back to the thread. Superman!! Wehey!

StupidLikeAFox · 05-02-2005 10:38pm

god i hate that shredder *grrr*

GO TURTLES!

PurpleFistMixer · 05-02-2005 10:41pm

So nobody found anything even mildly disturbing about practically naked turtleguys hanging out with kids?

All right so.

Agent Smith · 05-02-2005 10:41pm

big fan of superted myself.....

smiley_knees · 06-02-2005 7:19pm

jono087 wrote:

yeah, but your vote now only counts as a quarter 'cos there's four turtles....... and anyway, they're not human so they don't count.....

Neither is superman, he's from Outer Space. Superheroes don't have to be from Earth.
It can't only count as a quater vote coz if you voted for Batman then that's only a half vote if you include Robin as well... Which means you'd technically have to divde Batman's votes by two making Superman the true winner *yay!*
And yes, i think the majority of people here were raised on the Turtles. that is the show that made yellow jump suits cool. Plus, the Turtles appeal to people of all ages. When my sister was being born (back in the day of the turtles) there was a girl who gave birth to triplets and named them Leonardo, Michaelangelo and Raphael (see, no likes Donnatello).

The new white-eyed Turtles suck..

pinkpimp · 06-02-2005 9:25pm

How can you fight a robot with a stick???
Those things have lazers, ffs.

Batman or Superman

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