S.T.A.G.E. said:
NYANKS said:
Superman to me is as boring as things get. His power levels change drastically based on whoever is writing, whatever was written first isn't necessarily what should be followed. There would be no plot for him at all if he was literally just like God, flying so fast around the earth that he turns back time and such.
Batman is human, and his status as a badass Everyman is the reason he is more popular. He has normal struggles, so we can relate.
A lot of writers consider Batman to be smarter, possibly in the top 5-10 of DC intelligence. He has literally had a story where he single-handedly beats the entire Justice League. He obviously cannot beat Superman in a bare hand fight, but Batman gets to play dirty while Superman never strikes first.
Basically, Batman is a better character. No matter what old stories about Nazis in the early days of Superman might say, he's really boring if he's invincible. So writers have tried to make it more canon that he's not as smart as Batman, on top of being weak to a rock , one that Batman has been shown to possess and keep on him many times.
His relevance is what you choose to believe. In the new DC Batman is a genius (as always really), and Superman gets nerfed, because writing a story for God is boring.
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Its not that writing for a god is boring, the question for Superman always is, how do you create a fall for a man who is a basically a god? DC has found so many ways to hurt superman and even tried to kill him off with sun poisoning. He just keeps coming back. We're in a time period where no one likes the good two shoes, but in the 70's and 80's Superman would've been considered much cooler than Batman. In the 90's peoples mentalities changed and they started liking anti-heroes like Wolverine and Spawn. Even Cyborg, himself, could potentially create greater wonders than the tech Batman has since he's considered to be a more advanced inventor than his father. Wonder Woman can use the lasso of truth to interrogate people, Flash to bend time and change the course of history if he wanted to. Really...it just goes on and on.
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So, then isn't this completely subjective?
DC has been trending toward making Superman not super intelligent. Batman has only gotten more intelligent than before if anything. His power lies in being a peak human (sometimes a metahuman) who is so intelligent and intuituve that he can predict what all the pawns around him will do in advance. He's got the Batman Gambit named after him lol. And last I checked, a tactician is often more important than the individual warriors in a fighting unit. Superman may be exempt because he can usually just punch the story to a conclusion, but I think it applies to many of the lesser members of the league.
