superhero showdown 3: Hulk vs superman

[cyborg_cinema]

gee whizz, a costumed crusader. funny to think that our hero's of comicdom would be locked up in padded cells in this world.

...you just gave me an idea for a kryptonite lined straitjacket

 

[Princess Ivy]

, babe,go round trying to sell that and the cell just might have an android occupant. although it sounds like heaven to me right now. peace and quiet. not having to cook and some sleep for once... sigh....
btw: been meaning to ask: do you dream of electric sheep?

 

[cyborg_cinema]

, babe,go round trying to sell that and the cell just might have an android occupant. although it sounds like heaven to me right now. peace and quiet. not having to cook and some sleep for once... sigh....
btw: been meaning to ask: do you dream of electric sheep?

...electric sheep, yes. Pris be my girl...
Every house should have a padded room for down time. Everyone would be entitled to one hour of insanity per day.

 

[Princess Ivy]

you have no idea babe, just how close to the bone that is, and so i'll leave it at that and got ot bed. good night.

 

[cyborg_cinema]

you have no idea babe, just how close to the bone that is, and so i'll leave it at that and got ot bed. good night.

...no need for a straitjacket—its make-believe insanity.

 

[Leto]

i can't stand superman. He's pathetically good. No dark side to him. not too keen on the hulk either, but at least he has his dark side (when he becomes green and the buttons pop open on his shirt ).

I hear you girl.

Anyway as for the poll, it would be superman who would win, he can fly, hes got strength, he can fly, hes an actual 'super'hero, did i mention he can fly? But i would cheer on the hulk lol

Super-speed too. Unless the Hulk is in his Maestro persona : Superman.

 

[Jayaprakash Satyamurthy]

There's no way The Hulk can win this. They're from different universes (Marvel and DC), so I don't know if anyone has compiled specific relative stats, but all The Hulk really has is a lot of muscles and a bad temper tantrum going for him. Superman has super-strength, intelligence and a whole lot of other bells and whistles. The outcome is inevitable: Superman would win.

Suoerman doesn't have a dark side? People haven't been paying attention to the last ten years of comics. Frankly, the way every comic is trying to be darker and grittier in the wake of Frank Miller et al, I actually derive a lot of comfort from escaping from Marvelesque superhero angst and reading some classic Curt Swan-illsutrated Superman stories. They're engagingly goofy and heroic.

 

[Princess Ivy]

imho at least they have allowed these characters to grow up.

 

[Jayaprakash Satyamurthy]

Maybe, but for instance, endless issues of Superman moaning over his troubled love life with Lois Lane, as had in the 90s, aren't growing up at all! They're just a symptom of the collective comic mentality moving from childhood, which is playful but not very logical, to adolescence, which is where all the angst and despair happens.


Still, with the variety of titles the major superheroes appear in, some in mainline continuity and some in versions based on animated series, I think there's enough for you to read, whichever flavour of story you prefer. I do appreciate that comics have evolved in sophistication, with more complex characters and challenging storylines but I think angst and grit are too often mistaken for growing-up.

 

[Princess Ivy]

i've never read superman, he's right up there with spidey for irritating hero's for me. i'm not much into batman either, he was to tortured for growth. However i did like the issues brought up in books like Hawk and Dove, and teams like the suicide squad, with all of their fun and lightheartedness (ok, so it was black humor, but i still enjoyed them).

 

[Leto]

Princess, try to read Birds of Prey if you like the Batman universe. It's focusing mostly on Black Canary and Oracle (the former Batgirl) but it's written very intelligently with grown-up characters, full of wit, action and fun. Only mainstream DC I buy, but I buy it religiously.

 

[cyborg_cinema]

Superman does not need to be in costume in order to kick A; Hulk needs to get ticked off first—before he can even think of throwing a big green fist.

 

[A1ien]

Superman is a cartoon. Hulk's a real guy.

Yes because ppl generally turn into green monsters.

Sorry i dont mean to be rude but that made me laugh


I think superman would definitely win. he could just hover out of hulksway while he thrashed around and shoot him with heat vision

 

[cyborg_cinema]

I think superman would definitely win. he could just hover out of hulksway while he thrashed around and shoot him with heat vision

...like that one. Roast Hulk with the heat ray until he looks like a huge broiled snot.

 

[Salazar]

I think the Hulk is way cooler than Superman, but in a fight Superman is just to hard to beat! He only has very few weakness and the Hulk could not use them.
Superman has to many powers! Bullet proof, super fast, super strenght and can fly!
If you ask me that makes him too super, the bad guys can only use lead and kiptonite!

 

[Jayaprakash Satyamurthy]

He's also vlunerable to magic. And with his boy-scout code of honour you could always kidnap one of his buddies and threaten to do terrible tbings to them, thereby tying Supes' hands.

 

[polymorphikos]

Has anyone addressed the possibility of Bruce Banner laying an elaborate and fool-proof trap for Superman, then taking some form of aggrevating drug that would trigger his transformation, followed by the Hulk immediately going ape and thus facilitating whichever part of the aforementioned plan going ape was required for?

 

[Leto]

Has anyone addressed the possibility of Bruce Banner laying an elaborate and fool-proof trap for Superman, then taking some form of aggrevating drug that would trigger his transformation, followed by the Hulk immediately going ape and thus facilitating whichever part of the aforementioned plan going ape was required for?

Or slipping into a brainier form of Hulk as Mr Fix-It ?

Could do. Especially since he would be brainy enough to use the Supes friend card... But he would still lacking raw strength and has no element to play on Superman known weaknesses.

 

[cyborg_cinema]

...the possibility of Bruce Banner laying an elaborate and fool-proof trap for Superman...

...I'll go with "elaborate"—but "fool-proof"? Banner is dealing with Superman here—the epitome of truth, justice and the American way.

 

[Princess Ivy]

He's also vlunerable to magic. And with his boy-scout code of honour you could always kidnap one of his buddies and threaten to do terrible tbings to them, thereby tying Supes' hands.

its his boyscout code of honour that ticks me off so badly. he is just to perfect. gnash teeth,

Has anyone addressed the possibility of Bruce Banner laying an elaborate and fool-proof trap for Superman, then taking some form of aggrevating drug that would trigger his transformation, followed by the Hulk immediately going ape and thus facilitating whichever part of the aforementioned plan going ape was required for?

problem is banner is a good guy, so his own moral code would prevent him from playing this card. sigh
but i still want the hulk to win!