The Dark Knight Rises

[cheerfulgreek]

Originally Posted by MysticCat

Which, of course, is part of the point.

Which, of course (to me), makes him lame.

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by cheerfulgreek

Which, of course (to me), makes him lame.

Yes -- doing what he is able to do without the aid of any superpowers (or Superman's invulnerability) is indeed lame.

[cheerfulgreek]

Originally Posted by MysticCat

Yes -- doing what he is able to do without the aid of any superpowers (or Superman's invulnerability) is indeed lame.

I don't like Superman, either. Most of DC's superheros are awful. And Batman is still lame, to me. I like Marvel much, much better. She Hulk and Spidergirl.

Two different opinions that you and I both are entitled to.

[DrPhil]

Marvel > DC

Batman and Superman are still cool. Batman movies stopped being awesome years ago. The only things that saved The Dark Knight were Heath Ledger as Joker and Aaron Eckhart as Harvey Dent/Two-Face. Superman movies never stopped being awesome. Both superheros' comic books are awesome.

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by cheerfulgreek

I don't like Superman, either.

Most of DC's superheros are awful.

I like Marvel much, much better.

Two different opinions that you and I both are entitled to.

Yes, but only one of us is right.

And I am that one.



(You do know, I hope, that the means I'm just giving you a hard time.)

Originally Posted by DrPhil

Marvel > DC

Once again, you are just so wrong. So very, very wrong.

[cheerfulgreek]

Originally Posted by MysticCat

And I am that one.



(You do know, I hope, that the means I'm just giving you a hard time.)

I know, that's why I hate/like you, MC.

[DrPhil]

Originally Posted by MysticCat

Once again, you are just so wrong. So very, very wrong.

This has been a battle among my siblings, parents, and me forever. LOL. The family members who believe Marvel is better are obviously the coolest family members. I believe my Significant Other prefers DC which shows a total lack of comic book awareness. X-Men, in and of itself, kicks DC's ass.

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by DrPhil

This has been a battle among my siblings, parents, and me forever. LOL. The family members who believe Marvel is better are obviously the coolest family members. I believe my Significant Other prefers DC which shows a total lack of comic book awareness. X-Men, in and of itself, kicks DC's ass.

I like your SO more and more all the time.

I never liked Marvel as a kid, and I've never really liked it since. None of the Marvel superheros ever appealed to me, and I didn't like the stories as much. X-Men never hooked me at all -- couldn't care less about them.

I read something once where the author compared Marvel and DC to mythologies -- DC is Greek mythology and Marvel is Norse mythology. The central ethos of DC, he said, is that you (the superhero) have a responsiblity to yourself and society, to you'd better be ready for it and face it. The Marvel ethos, by contrast, is that you'd better be ready because lots of undeserved things beyond your control are going to happen to you. DC is about the virtues and flaws of extraordinary people, while Marvel is about the personal dramas of ordinary people in extraordinary situations.

I think there's some truth to that.

And I always liked Greek mythology better than Norse.

[Cen1aur 1963]

Originally Posted by cheerfulgreek

I don't even consider him a "real" superhero. He has like zero super powers.


I thought his version of Batman was awful. I mean, whenever he would change into Batman, his voice would change. That was so fake to me, and the lame lisp didn't help either. He talked like a demon possessed Cindy Brady.

LOL I didn't notice any lisp, but I wasn't paying any attention to that if there was one.

Originally Posted by MysticCat

Which, of course, is part of the point.

Thank you.

Originally Posted by DrPhil

This has been a battle among my siblings, parents, and me forever. LOL. The family members who believe Marvel is better are obviously the coolest family members. I believe my Significant Other prefers DC which shows a total lack of comic book awareness. X-Men, in and of itself, kicks DC's ass.

I don't know Doc, DC has some really good story lines. I can use Lex Luthor and Batman alone as pure examples of two DC characters that I don't think Marvel can get with.