Poor, ever-grieving Batman has had to endure too many sidekick deaths by nefarious means. Superman: Kryptonite radiation, love of humanityīatman: No actual superpower, Catwoman's feline allureĪdvantage: Superman. Superman: Super-flight, super-speed, super-hearing, super-intelligence, super-near-invulnerability, super-heat vision.īatman: Hand-to-hand combat a street fighter's hard-won guile. Superman: The infant Kal-El's parents rocketed him away in a capsule like a cosmos-Moses ("cos-Moses"?) before they died in the explosion of home planet Krypton.īatman: Young Bruce Wayne saw his own parents murdered before his eyes, while old enough to remember the psyche-scarring event.Īdvantage for lifelong mental torture as compelling narrative: Batman Superman: Earnest do-gooder (aka "The Big Blue Boy Scout")Īdvantage: Superman. Superman: Bumbling, stumbling newspaper reporter Clark KentĪdvantage: Superman - those media connections pay off in times of trouble. The "Bat-Signal" looks impressive projected into the midnight skies over Gotham. To weigh their pros and cons, here's our tale of the tape:Īdvantage: Superman, with a name so distinctive, fan Nicolas Cage even tagged his son with it.Īdvantage: Depends of weight of Batman's gadget-laced utility belt.īatman: Potential "helmet hair" from the cowl.Īdvantage: Batman. So who has the edge in this epic showdown of DC Comics's most popular warriors? Sure, Superman is the stronger combatant - but don't think Batman doesn't have something in his utility belt to counter him. And on March 25, these Spandex heavyweights will go (Super-)mano a (Bat-)mano for the first time on the big screen, in director Zack Snyder's "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice." Two iconic characters in capes rocketed the comic-book industry into the American mainstream: Superman and Batman, twin pop-culture monuments who, though born in the late '30s, still reign ageless.
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