this whole fight is out of character.
Not nessesarily.
These two have had
reason to fight in the past while still in character.
but I'm saying if something pushed superman over the edge enough to do something out of character enough as fighting 1 of his allies, he'd make decisions and be doing other stuff he normally wouldn't choose to do as a side effect of being pushed so hard.
Thats about the first thing that you have said that makes 100% sence......no insult intended.
superman would avoid a conflict w/ batman if he could. (out fear of accidentally hurting batman to much, and not fear of batman hurting him, incase you where wondering)
Funny because Superman has expressed a fear of Batman and what he could do if pushed.
but this is if superman was mad enough to fight batman, and vice versa, so most of what superman would and would not do if he was acting calm and like his usual self is pretty much irrelevant.
Who said that would be the case????
The original poster of this thread did not lay down any rules to govern the course of the fight.
w/ that in mind the outcome of this fight seems little more random, and a little less predictable doesn't it?
Not in my eyes.
now as far as superman holding back, I do believe even if he was angry he wouldn't hit or hurt batman enough to, say, cripple him or kill him,
I can see that.
but if you really think that's how far he'd have to go to win a fight w/ batman you are seriously over estimating batmans chances.
No your seriously under estimating Batman chances.
Batman would be willing to criple himself to stop Superman if it were needed.
Superman would have to be
willing to go that far to stop him.
but as far as prep time goes, this is a whould be fight that happens on the fly,
Again who are you to dictate the course of this fight????
No critera was set by the original poster.
This is just you trying to manipulate the situation again to achieve your desired outcome.
meaning batman wouldn't have time to time to prepare his vast suply of kryptonite for using against superman, and that he wouldn't have time to prepare a red sun room,
Both are surry prepered at all times.
The only thing Batman would have to figure out would be "how to spring the trap"
Taking Lois hostage last time was on the fly...as you call it.
If he did it once he can do it again.
or plant bombs in the fortress of solitude,
Altho I havent thought of bombs in the fortress, if Batman has such bombs I'm sure he planted them years ago.
or bring green arrow, or robin, or any other dc character along to help him,
All he has to do is make a call useing the phone in his mask.
or build a super armor suit,
Already built.
Althu getting it to where he needs it could be a problem.
he still has his ability to strategize, his intelligence, his utiliy belt full of batterangs, a grappling hook, and what else he NORMALLY caries w/ him.
Which includes a small amount of Kryptonite.
and I know what ur gonna say, and no, this ISN'T to limit batman's abilities. it's only to help eliminate the random factor
And why would you want to do that?????
Random factors are what great fights are made of.
but don't forget superman has intelligence, strategy,intuition, capabilities,knowledge, will power,invention and determination too.
Yes he does but they pale in compairison.
but guess what, he does have powers. and alot of them too.
Powers that can be negated.
his fisical ability is on a whole new level compared to batmans. batman would break his hand w/ b4 he ever punched supes hard enough to actually hert him. once you stop crying and accept the fact that batman can't even phase superman, I'm sure it'll make much more sense to you why he would lose to superman.
I havent been crying buddy.....I've been useing known exaples and logic.
You keep falling on the same tired argument that proves nothing.
now as for what HAS happened in comic issues. believe it or not, I don't consider crossover stories to be 100% accurate. now b4 you start jabbering on about how "comics the best examples of who would win this fight", that's not necessarily the case. see, the outcome of a fight is based solely on who the writer is, and who he wants to win. also on the story he's trying to tell. all that means that most of the fights are both unpredictable and irrelevant. And this is why I think that; because of the conditions the writer always has to follow. 1: it has to be a good fight. I mean, who wants to see a fight ended in 1 punch? so in order to make the fight more interesting they have to even the odds more. this is the main reason cross over fights are irrelevant.
So on what do you place your fait in???Which stories do you consider rellivent to the issue at hand???
Has to be his solo stories right????
Based on them alone its not in Supermans character to do what must be done to beat Batman.He's never done what was needed to ultimate beat Lex so he'll harly do so with Batman.
when ever batman uses kryptonite, or red solar rays, or anything happens to weaken superman, it's just the writer wanting to bring superman down to batmans level.
And its in character.
Batman normaly finds ways to improve his odds fighting with his regular superpowerd rouges....of course he would do the same with Superman.
whenever batman has a friend help him fight superman, or uses some tool that gives him extra abilitys like a suit of armor, it's the writers trying to give superman enough of a challenge to warrant a longer fight.
Again Batman uses examples of both of those in his day to day fights.
He has trained at least 4 partners and has worked closly with countless outhers.
this fight, in order to truly be definitive, must have all the random factors removed.
Again I dont agree.
So that means no preptime in the batcave for batman,
Its way too late to take that one away.
Take that away and all you'll see is them talking.
]the only fair fight that has all the random factors removed (which would include preptime, mind control, raging superman), and is still in character for both, is if it was.... a practice fight!
Prep time is not a random factor.
Its not a random factor if you study for a history test.
Preptime is no different then stuying.
And if its a
"pratice fight" then they would have forknowlidge of the coming fight, leaving the possibility for Batman to set traps and bring what ever he wants.
Which would defeet the very critira your tring to set up.
now, that may sound anti climatic, or boring to some of you, but that really is the best, fairest way to see who would win imo. i don't think it's outa character.
so the conditions are this: they're just sparring in the justice leagues equivalent of the danger room. only w/ lasers and crap shooting at them. just a giant metal room w/ a flat surface, a ceiling, but alot of open space. (well, about 4 stories of open space that is) superman IS holding back. after all, it's just practice. batmans not using any kryptonite, or any thing that could seriously weaken or hurt supes. after all, it is just practice.
so who wins in that case? I'd say superman. what do you think?
What would be the purpose of this fight?????
To establish whats already fully known??????
We all know that Superman outclasses Batman on a physical level.
I've said it, you've said it.Its well known.
"On powers alone Superman should win"...that was the first thing I said on this topic.
But the point is that a fight between these 2 characters , practice or real, wouldnt fall on powers alone.
This fight your setting up is not a fair fight because just like your other senrios it robs Batman of all he has and would do to make the fight as fair as possible.
A real fair fight, even a pratice one where they make sure not to use leathal force, would allow Batman to use what ever tool and weapons are at his disposal.But set to a non lethal level.
A real pratice fight has both fighters useing all their skills, capabilities and knowlidge....but with non leathal force.
It would be like a game of tag.
Just look at the X-mans danger room practice fights.
Each character is capable of useing what ever tool,power or weapon they own but not at leathal levels.All their capabilites are used.
And in allowing for a fair "practice" fight between Bats and Sups we still see the same happening.
Batmans straigy and planing combined with his tools and weapons can bring him to victory.