Mr Khan said:
Kasz216 said:
d21lewis said:
I love Marvel but I LOVE DC. DC gets critcized (not really but, I've seen it recently) for having characters that are too powerful. I don't get it. Silver Surfer can fly through the sun at the speed of light and not get hurt. Magneto can bend the entire earth at its axis and flood New York City. Sentry or the Hulk are strong enough to break the planet apart. And don't get me started on people like the Beyonder, Red Skull, or Thanos who've had the power to change the world just by thinking about it (in previous Marvel storylines). The fact is that BOTH universes have characters that are over-powered.
It's up to the writers to make the characters likeable, put them in challenging situations, and just tell good stories. I think that DC tends to do a better job of this with their characters. Plus, DC has the icons! Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, Green Lantern, the Flash--these are the characters that people who don't even read comic books think of when the think of a comic book character.
And the best storylines of all time tend to feature the DCU. I just wish they'd stop with their recent trend of storylines so epic that nobody can read them (Final Crisis, Blackest Night, Infinite Crisis) and scale things back just a little bit. Nobody has $100,000 to spend on a storyline!!
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Marvels main power guys just aren't as popular is what it boils down to I think.
I mean. Marvel has Thanos. Thanos would destory Darkseid.
The most popular 3 DC characters are Superman, Batman and Wonderwoman.
Three most popular Marvel characters are Spiderman, Wolverine and... actually I think Captain American oddly by the numbers. Maybe Deadapool at the moment.
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Thanos and Darkseid have fought before, and seemed reasonably well-matched against one another. Though that was the mid-90's, and both characters may have changed considerably since then.
You had a Thanos avatar for like forever, didn't you?
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Yeah, pushing down a kid during the amusing lowpoint of his career when he fought hellcat and had a helicopter with his name on it.
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The thing about comic book Crossovers between companies is they never go as they should because both sides need to look good and have their "untouchable characters".
For example, Superman isn't going to lose to anyone on Marvel, despite Thor being like the perfect anti-superman being nearly as strong and magical.
Spiderman I believe beats Superboy in a crossover too. Batman beats the Hulk with a kick in the gut and a gas grenade.
Batman and Captian America fight to a standoff, and the best they can do is have Batman admit he'd probably lose if the fight went on...
Thanos did get a couple power upgrades since that crossover. Though then he died, and was reborn... and really haven't kept up with what level reborn thanos was at.
At the end there though Thanos was doing things like going toe to toe with Galactus for a while.
