Amazingly Insightful Thoughts On Superheroes From A Friend Of Mine
"Batman vs. Superman:
I'm not doing a comprehensive look at the comics, movies, and lore of each of these guys. I'm solely going off of the mid-'90s animated series on each.
Batman wins, easy.
If I'm Batman, I'm a bad-ass, shadow-stalking detective with genuinely frightening stories. … I mean villans whose psychosis is so profound they could be an entire lecture series. A show where the bad guy can and sometimes does win. So — gritty darkness wins.
Superman — seriously, that guy is a city planner's nightmare. 'Maybe we should put in the new business center on Fourth Street.' 'Yeah, so Superman can throw someone through it.' No joke, the only thing Superman ever did was beat people up. And not just with his hands: He would through them into building, smash someone else's car over them, and pick trees out of the ground to use as clubs.
I think he got kickbacks from the construction firm Metropolis used."
As a woman, the comparison between Batman and Superman brings out the whole good boy versus bad boy debate I have with myself on a regular basis.
Do I want the incredibly sexy bad boy that's gonna possibly disappear for days on end, live in a basement, and never quite reconcile the forces of good and evil within him?
Or do I want the good guy, the one who will bring me flowers, be attentive, and probably never actually take my breath away?
Batman always wins.
Jun 16, 2007 9:03 AM