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foreveraIone
06/16/17 11:36:13 PM
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he's actually a lot better than batman and a lot more interesting to read or watch about.

batman is ok when it comes to solo acts, but put him in justice league, and the amount of bullshit writing to make him useful drags everything down.
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GOATSLAYER
06/16/17 11:39:12 PM
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Superman is boring. Get over it lol
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Gamer99z
06/16/17 11:40:35 PM
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foreveraIone posted...
he's actually a lot better than batman

Lmao
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Monday
06/16/17 11:40:40 PM
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Superman isn't boring, he's just incredibly annoying. You can't sit there and give one superhero a dozen powers to work with, then have him struggle against random enemies. That's bullshit, and we all know it.
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foreveraIone
06/16/17 11:41:03 PM
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GOATSLAYER posted...
Superman is boring. Get over it lol

as opposed to batsue who somehow is useful against superpowered aliens and gods.

nope.
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MakoReizei
06/16/17 11:41:45 PM
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Yes he is.

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foreveraIone
06/16/17 11:42:45 PM
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Monday posted...
Superman isn't boring, he's just incredibly annoying. You can't sit there and give one superhero a dozen powers to work with, then have him struggle against random enemies. That's bullshit, and we all know it.

a lot of the people he fights against and the JL does are just that powerful. I remember reading that JLA comic where they needed dozens of people to fight against Amazo and they still got their asses kicked.
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GOATSLAYER
06/16/17 11:42:53 PM
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foreveraIone posted...
GOATSLAYER posted...
Superman is boring. Get over it lol

as opposed to batsue who somehow is useful against superpowered aliens and gods.

nope.

The fact that you just keep saying "but...but.. Batman!" just goes to show that you don't have a real defense for superman being interesting
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Sphyx
06/16/17 11:43:18 PM
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He's not a boring character.



He's THE boring character.
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Etherealfare
06/16/17 11:43:20 PM
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foreveraIone posted...
GOATSLAYER posted...
Superman is boring. Get over it lol

as opposed to batsue who somehow is useful against superpowered aliens and gods.

nope.

He's a scientific genius with unlimited money.

Of course he's useful against aliens and Gods.
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JE19426
06/16/17 11:44:32 PM
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GOATSLAYER posted...
The fact that you just keep saying "but...but.. Batman!" just goes to show that you don't have a real defense for superman being interesting


You haven't presented a real argument against Superman being interesting, so why should OP present a real argument in support?
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Nikra
06/16/17 11:45:28 PM
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The comics are okay. All the movies are crap imo.
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GOATSLAYER
06/16/17 11:45:34 PM
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JE19426 posted...
GOATSLAYER posted...
The fact that you just keep saying "but...but.. Batman!" just goes to show that you don't have a real defense for superman being interesting


You haven't presented a real argument against Superman being interesting, so why should OP present a real argument in support?

I never said batman was more interesting, but he keeps bringing him up lol
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JE19426
06/16/17 11:47:08 PM
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GOATSLAYER posted...
I never said batman was more interesting, but he keeps bringing him up lol


You also never presented a real argument so why should he?
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GOATSLAYER
06/16/17 11:48:31 PM
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JE19426 posted...
GOATSLAYER posted...
I never said batman was more interesting, but he keeps bringing him up lol


You also never presented a real argument so why should he?

He didn't even present an argument for superman being interesting in the OP
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foreveraIone
06/16/17 11:49:13 PM
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BUT BATMAN is a great argument actually.
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JE19426
06/16/17 11:49:59 PM
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GOATSLAYER posted...
He didn't even present an argument for superman being interesting in the OP


I never claimed they did.
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ChromaticAngel
06/16/17 11:50:17 PM
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Monday posted...
Superman isn't boring, he's just incredibly annoying. You can't sit there and give one superhero a dozen powers to work with, then have him struggle against random enemies. That's bullshit, and we all know it.


His name is Darkseid and he literally represents the dark side of humanity, all the selfishness and hatred and willful ignorance that we all have inside us to overcome. He can never really be defeated because dealing with that stuff is never something you finish. It’s always in there, your own personal Darkseid, trying to get you to give in. There’s not a lot of subtlety in that, Kirby says right in the name who he is and what he does, and that’s before you get to the part where he’s an eight foot-tall rock monster from space in a sleeveless mini dress. At that point, subtlety is out the window. Or at least, you’d think it would be.

In practice, Darkseid is all about subtlety, exactly because he’s drawing on those impulses that we all wish we didn’t have. Darkseid, for all his grand posturing, doesn’t always arrive with the crashing thunder of a Boom Tube and an army of parademons to conquer the planet; he sometimes shows up in your house, sitting in your favorite chair, a calm and casual reminder that there’s nowhere you can go to get away from the evil that he represents, because it’s already inside you. Seriously, it’s kind of his signature move.

And when he does send an army, it’s not always a race of alien conquerors from the far-off planet of Apokolips showing up, toppling monuments and blowing things up. Sometimes it’s the Justifiers, ordinary human beings who have allowed themselves to be taken over by their own base, petty hatreds and fears because they’ve found something that allows them to justify — there’s that lack of metaphor again — what they’re doing. Despite its name, the Anti-Life Equation, the McGuffin that he’s been looking for since 1971, is not about killing anyone. It’s about taking away their ability to choose anything other than to listen to that dark side that’s within us all, a choice that, at one point or another, we’ve all made already.

That’s how Darkseid works, and that’s what makes him so compelling and genuinely frightening — because it feels so real. Kirby was, after all, someone who had seen his share of evil in the real world, and with Darkseid, he figured out how to take those ideas and condense them into a single person. He’s the “tiger force,” the part of us that’s horrifying because we know it’s in there somewhere.

On paper, that makes him the perfect foil for Superman. Ask anybody who loves him, and they’ll tell you that Superman’s greatest power isn’t flight or heat vision, it’s the ability to inspire good in others through his example. It’s why scenes like the message carved into the moon in “The Last Days of Superman” or the talk with Regan in its modern-age equivalent are so emotionally resonant. They’re about how Superman, and by extension how superheroes as a whole, can inspire us to be better. We might not have the luxury of being fictional characters who can always get it right, but they’re always there to lead by example. If Darkseid’s the worst of us, then Superman’s the best of us, and when you see them next to each other, it makes it easy to pick a side.

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foreveraIone
06/16/17 11:50:32 PM
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GOATSLAYER
06/16/17 11:50:51 PM
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JE19426 posted...
GOATSLAYER posted...
He didn't even present an argument for superman being interesting in the OP


I never claimed they did.

If he's not presenting an argument, why should anyone else?
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Kelystic
06/16/17 11:51:55 PM
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name me 5 superman villans not named luthor, zod, mongul, doomsday, metallo
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foreveraIone
06/16/17 11:53:42 PM
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Kelystic posted...
name me 5 superman villans not named luthor, zod, mongul, doomsday, metallo

darkseid
imperiex
parasite
myx
bizarro


are you kidding
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ChromaticAngel
06/16/17 11:53:45 PM
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Kelystic posted...
name me 5 superman villans not named luthor, zod, mongul, doomsday, metallo

Bizzaro, Darkseid, Brainiac, Faora, Mr. Mxyzptlk
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Slip-N-Slide
06/16/17 11:54:35 PM
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ChromaticAngel posted...
Kelystic posted...
name me 5 superman villans not named luthor, zod, mongul, doomsday, metallo

Bizzaro, Darkseid, Brainiac, Faora, Mr. Mxyzptlk

I've never even heard of all but one of those.
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Etherealfare
06/16/17 11:55:33 PM
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you've never heard of Darkseid or Brainiac?
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Kelystic
06/16/17 11:56:41 PM
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chill brothers lol
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ChromaticAngel
06/16/17 11:57:35 PM
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Slip-N-Slide posted...
ChromaticAngel posted...
Kelystic posted...
name me 5 superman villans not named luthor, zod, mongul, doomsday, metallo

Bizzaro, Darkseid, Brainiac, Faora, Mr. Mxyzptlk

I've never even heard of all but one of those.

If you saw Man of Steel, you've heard of Faora. If you played Injustice 2, or DCUO at any point (or even watched the fucking cinematic trailer), you've heard of Brainiac guaranteed. If you watched Superfriends, you heard of Bizarro. If you pay any attention to comics at all, you've heard of Darkseid.
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Etherealfare
06/16/17 11:58:39 PM
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Brainiac was the villain in Green Lantern film with Ryan Reynolds as well
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ChromaticAngel
06/16/17 11:59:56 PM
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Etherealfare posted...
Brainiac was the villain in Green Lantern film with Ryan Reynolds as well

Brainiac is horrendously antagonistic to everyone, even other bad guys like Darkseid. He is just traditionally a Superman antagonist.
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Kelystic
06/17/17 12:00:10 AM
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now name me 5 wonder woman villains not named cheetah or ares
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Etherealfare
06/17/17 12:01:05 AM
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no I am just pointing out that he has been in movies
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DarkChozoGhost
06/17/17 12:02:12 AM
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Well, he's certainly more relatable than Batman, I'll give you that.
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ChromaticAngel
06/17/17 12:02:14 AM
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on second thought maybe it's not a good idea to post that lol
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Kelystic
06/17/17 12:03:54 AM
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i saw that but didnt click.

gender stuff?
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Feline_Heart
06/17/17 12:04:04 AM
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DarkChozoGhost posted...
Well, he's certainly more relatable than Batman, I'll give you that.

Batman is actually human though. And he's dealing with psychological issues and trying not to let his work life consume him. What's more relatable than that?
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ChromaticAngel
06/17/17 12:04:51 AM
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Kelystic posted...
i saw that but didnt click.

gender stuff?


It was an adult swim / robot chicken cartoon with censored nudity about "Negative Wonder Woman"
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TheoryzC
06/17/17 12:05:48 AM
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He's not
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cuttin_in_farm
06/17/17 12:05:58 AM
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Batman is like the only DC character with recognizable villains.

Flash?
Wonder Woman?
Aquaman?
Lantern?

Do these guys even have villains.

Superman is actually decent in the antagonist department.
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marc55
06/17/17 12:06:43 AM
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i like him more whenever his powers are weakened
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Feline_Heart
06/17/17 12:07:53 AM
#42:


cuttin_in_farm posted...
Batman is like the only DC character with recognizable villains.

Flash?
Wonder Woman?
Aquaman?
Lantern?

Do these guys even have villains.

Superman is actually decent in the antagonist department.

Flash's villains are recognizable now because of the show. Everybody knows who reverse flash, captain cold and zoom are now.
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ChromaticAngel
06/17/17 12:08:03 AM
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cuttin_in_farm posted...
Do these guys even have villains.


They have less mainstream ones, with the Lanterns having the most famous of the bunch.

Atrocitus, Bleez, Sinestro, Necron, Parallax, etc.
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Kelystic
06/17/17 12:08:15 AM
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Flash and Lantern has decent villains.

WW i am not sure.
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DarkChozoGhost
06/17/17 12:13:20 AM
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Feline_Heart posted...
DarkChozoGhost posted...
Well, he's certainly more relatable than Batman, I'll give you that.

Batman is actually human though. And he's dealing with psychological issues and trying not to let his work life consume him. What's more relatable than that?

He lives in a mansion with his butler, and he's dealing with ridiculous psychological issues very few people can relate to.

Superman had an upbringing not too different from a lot of people. Clark Kent's life is far, far more relateble than Bruce Wayne's.

And both Batman and Superman have abilities far beyond what a normal person can have, so they're already completely out of reach.
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Mr_Legendia
06/17/17 12:15:35 AM
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I thought the Superman Animated series was better than Batman from the 90s.
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cuttin_in_farm
06/17/17 12:19:57 AM
#47:


ChromaticAngel posted...
cuttin_in_farm posted...
Do these guys even have villains.


They have less mainstream ones, with the Lanterns having the most famous of the bunch.

Atrocitus, Bleez, Sinestro, Necron, Parallax, etc.



I dunno. I only know Sinestro. And that's just because of the Injustice game.

Like, I for some reason know Cheetah and Captain Cold. I feel like DC did a poor job with that Justice League cartoon. That's how a lot of people would be introduced to DC.
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EternalMelodies
06/19/17 1:35:20 AM
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cuttin_in_farm posted...
ChromaticAngel posted...
cuttin_in_farm posted...
Do these guys even have villains.


They have less mainstream ones, with the Lanterns having the most famous of the bunch.

Atrocitus, Bleez, Sinestro, Necron, Parallax, etc.



I dunno. I only know Sinestro. And that's just because of the Injustice game.

Like, I for some reason know Cheetah and Captain Cold. I feel like DC did a poor job with that Justice League cartoon. That's how a lot of people would be introduced to DC.
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donkeyjack
06/19/17 1:40:24 AM
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Most people don't know that most of Batman's villains come from Superman. Superman is epic character and all of that. It's just the millennials talking shit because the 90s is revere as the best decade ever because of them lol.
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