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Batman or Superman - who's better?

  • 28-06-2006 10:13PM
    #1
    Dudess
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭


    Forgive me if it has been done to death but it's an important question.
    For me, it's gotta be Superman. Batman's pathetic. He can't even fly and what on earth is superheroish about calling yourself after a rodent - although at least that particular rodent can fly. Taking their alter egos into account - and I'm going to risk not using spoiler tags - Clark Kent is everyman. He has the same weaknesses as you or I. And he's not ashamed to show them. Bruce Wayne is a pompous, moody git who always has something profound and meaningful to say. The "strong, silent type". Meh, give me a goofy nerd any day.

    Superman FTW!!!


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  • #2
    BrenC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 364 ✭✭BrenC


    In the Dark Knight Returns, Batman beat Superman


  • #3
    fly_agaric
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,464 ✭✭✭fly_agaric


    Batman.

    Sure, anyone could be a hero, save the world, help the aged etc with the kind of powers Superman has!

    Weaknesses...LOL.


  • #4
    Kazaanova
    Closed Accounts Posts: 626 ✭✭✭Kazaanova


    Superman is more powerful yeah, but Batman is a million times more cooler. Batman actually struggles, and works hard. I read somewhere that Superman can technically like, absorb an entire star and stuff like that. Yet he struggles with Lex Luthor. He's a loser. Didn't even have special powers put upon him against his will like say Spiderman. And yeah, Batman even beat him once. So Batman of course.


  • #5
    qz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,753 ✭✭✭qz


    In a fight, Superman would win, but Batman is so much cooler. He's rich too.

    Batman ftw


  • #6
    john22
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29 ✭john22


    In A fight to the death it has to be superman. But Batman looks slick and has a deadly car and cool gadgets. Superman has tight spandex and a cape :rolleyes:


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  • #7
    Dudess
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    I must admit, you guys are starting to turn me. Damn! Foiled so easily!


  • #8
    the_syco
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,308 ✭✭✭✭the_syco


    Batman. Weakness: he's human. His gadgets make up for it, tho.

    Superman. Weakness: kryptonite. He only gets away from it with help. No help, he'd be fscked.


  • #9
    skywalker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,707 ✭✭✭skywalker


    Batman easily, "its the car, chicks dig the car".


  • #10
    aidan_walsh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,208 ✭✭✭✭aidan_walsh


    Dudess wrote:
    Forgive me if it has been done to death but it's an important question.
    For me, it's gotta be Superman. Batman's pathetic. He can't even fly and what on earth is superheroish about calling yourself after a rodent - although at least that particular rodent can fly. Taking their alter egos into account - and I'm going to risk not using spoiler tags - Clark Kent is everyman. He has the same weaknesses as you or I. And he's not ashamed to show them. Bruce Wayne is a pompous, moody git who always has something profound and meaningful to say. The "strong, silent type". Meh, give me a goofy nerd any day.

    Superman FTW!!!
    Never actually read the source material, have we?


  • #11
    monkeyfudge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,216 ✭✭✭✭monkeyfudge


    The Powerpuff Girls are better than them both!


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  • #12
    Dooom
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,808 ✭✭✭Dooom


    Batman. Anyone who says otherwise will be called ghey.


  • #13
    Ruu_Old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 36,634 ✭✭✭✭Ruu_Old


    Batman by a mile.


  • #14
    abetarrush
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,221 ✭✭✭abetarrush


    They're both fags, Im gonna go watch Kill Bill


  • #15
    super_furry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,377 ✭✭✭✭super_furry


    Superman is a super-hero. Batman is a vigilante Bill Gates with a rubber fetish.


  • #16
    chamlis
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,175 ✭✭✭chamlis


    BrenC wrote:
    In the Dark Knight Returns, Batman beat Superman

    Yeah, and he was the best Grumpy-Old-Bastard™ EVER!


  • #17
    dabbler2004
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,848 ✭✭✭dabbler2004


    Batman no question.
    The Dark Knight, an anti hero, so wrapped up in inner turmoil but yet always there for the needy too.



    <
    is this a clue?

    all that occupies Superman's mind is how to get cosy with Lois lane :)

    And of course if you're going to wear red underpants outside your trousers how do you expect to be taken seriously :D


  • #18
    the Shades
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 697 ✭✭✭the Shades


    For anyone who thinks Batman is better than Superman read Action Comics 775.

    Batman is psychologically unbalanced and the only thing seperating him from the villains he chases is he's chosen to attack the bad guys rather than the innocent. He's obssessed with revenge to the the point that his actual identity is now a mack for his 'heroic' one and he qualifies everything in his life by what he does when he's running around at night in a giant bat suit. Sure he's intelligent but he needs a major dose of therapy.

    Oh and the only reason Batman has ever beaten Superman in a fight is because Superman always holds back. (See the Hush storyline for Clark revealing this)

    Shouldn't this really be in the comics forum?


  • #19
    aidan_walsh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,208 ✭✭✭✭aidan_walsh


    the Shades wrote:
    Batman is psychologically unbalanced and the only thing seperating him from the villains he chases is he's chosen to attack the bad guys rather than the innocent. He's obssessed with revenge to the the point that his actual identity is now a mack for his 'heroic' one and he qualifies everything in his life by what he does when he's running around at night in a giant bat suit. Sure he's intelligent but he needs a major dose of therapy.
    Which is exactly what makes him better than Superman. He's interesting.


  • #20
    simu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,730 ✭✭✭✭simu


    Batman is darker and less cheesy so the win for him!


  • #21
    Dooom
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,808 ✭✭✭Dooom


    Aidain=ghey


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  • #22
    monkeyfudge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,216 ✭✭✭✭monkeyfudge


    simu wrote:
    Batman is darker and less cheesy so the win for him!
    Yep.. and lets not forget about some of the great cases he has had to solve over the years.

    http://www.redshirt.co.uk/media/batman/batman04.JPG


  • #23
    aidan_walsh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,208 ✭✭✭✭aidan_walsh


    Spike wrote:
    Aidain=ghey
    Might want to read those posts again there, before you go making outlandish accusations like that...

    Anyway, Superman is a dick.


  • #24
    Sleepy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 24,652 ✭✭✭✭Sleepy


    Too hard a question to answer for certain. Superman was my childhood hero (even had the outfit) and I'm as excited about the upcoming movie as a four year old on Christmas Eve.

    BUT... Batman kinda wins on 'coolness' terms because he chose to be a hero. No magic gifts just a lifetime of training and (to quote Kevin Smith) an 'ass-load of cash'.

    And as a few others have pointed out Batman beat Superman when they fought (assuming you take Dark Knight Returns as being canon).

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  • #25
    Basq
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 45,082 ✭✭✭✭Basq


    Hmmmmm..! :confused:

    As soon as i find out that result.. i'll let you know!


  • #26
    Dooom
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,808 ✭✭✭Dooom


    aidan_walsh wrote:
    Might want to read those posts again there, before you go making outlandish accusations like that...

    Ahem, sorry. Thought you said it the other way around.

    Dudess=ghey.


  • #27
    evad_lhorg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,922 ✭✭✭evad_lhorg


    yea batman kicked the crap outa him didnt he. somethin about cryptonite in his gloves and punching him to death


  • #28
    aidan_walsh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,208 ✭✭✭✭aidan_walsh


    However, all that said...


  • #29
    simu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,730 ✭✭✭✭simu


    monkeyfudge wrote:
    Yep.. and lets not forget about some of the great cases he has had to solve over the years.

    http://www.redshirt.co.uk/media/batman/batman04.JPG

    Sexual assault is a serious matter tbh! Yeah, I was thinking of the more recent incarnations of the Batster. The campy 60s series was pretty cool too, in a trippy sort of way. :D


  • #30
    Darkbloom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 202 ✭✭Darkbloom


    monkeyfudge wrote:
    The Powerpuff Girls are better than them both!

    YES! Buttercup is my own personal Jesus.

    Batman's a more interesting character, plus he could have sex with a woman without his semen exploding her womb and, y'know, killing her.


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  • #31
    Rollo Tamasi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,514 ✭✭✭Rollo Tamasi


    would you trust your life to an alien in tights or a man who thinks he is a bat? com'on!!!!! batman ftw!

    I heard that Indiana Jones got the title of best super hero because he was human...but Batman is too and Batman is much cooler.


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