DC vs MARVEL - who would win in a fight between...

In these articles I imagine that the Marvel and DC characters both exist in the same universe and describe the scenarios that would pit characters from Marvel and DC against each other and the reasons why one would defeat another.

For this first DC vs Marvel battle I have chosen Superman vs Captain America. Some would argue why would captain America ever chose to fight superman he isn't strong enough it should be Thor facing off against the man of steel. Well I think it's too simple to pair characters up against each other because of their similar power levels, and it's not a viable reason why they would come into confrontation. If the Marvel and the DC universe merged into one I think more interesting similarities between characters would bring them into 'this town ain't big enough for the both of us' style conflicts.

 

Here's my reasoning for pairing Superman and Captain America off against each other.They are both the leader of their universe's main super hero team The Justice League and The Avengers respectively. Both have rich histories going back to the 40's where they both fought the Nazis and defeated Hitler and finally both represent truth justice and the American way like no other heroes in their respective universe. I think it would be only logical that there would be room for only one of these characters and they would naturally come into confrontation. And here's how i think it would play out...

 

                                                
                                                     -The True American Hero-

 

 

The sun glistens off the red white and blue that adorns both Captain America and Superman as they stand proudly at either side of the president on the white house lawn. Both nominated for the the true American hero award for the relentless defence of the American ideals of truth justice and freedom at home and abroad.

 

Surrounded by a panel of judges selected from the super hero community, celebrities, congressmen and members of the public all of whom are in the process of casting their vote to decide the winner of America's greatest award.

 

The president chuckles to break the awkward silence and suggests a friendly sparring match between the two statuesque heroes to help the panel make their decision. Superman is almost arrogant in his reluctance, Cap is only glad to oblige having missed training with The Avengers to be here. Captain America begins circling Superman, both now a little away from the podium and surrounded at a distance by the crowd of judges, media and spectators.Cap is poised and ready moving like the greatest boxers, gauging his imperious opponent, ready for battle and eager to test himself against the man of steel. Superman remains reluctant shying away from cap's advances.

 

 

"I've held my own against Thor, don't be afraid to hurt me superman, come on!" , commands Captain America.

 

Cap swings a punch, Superman decides to allow Cap to Hit him, maybe the pain of punching steel will convince him of the senselessness of this contest. Captain America hammers superman full on the chin with a right hook, Superman who had arrogantly unbraced for the punch finds his head violently jar to the side quickly followed by the rest of his body as it twists and rolls along the Whitehouse lawn tearing up chunks of grass and turf. Superman looks up, his face still showing his genuine shock, to see cap leaping on top of him completely confident in his ability and not surprised in the slightest that his attack has floored the man of steel. Cap smashes his shield into Superman's face drawing blood from his nose. Superman now shaken up and with no thought of hesitation tries to blast Cap with his heat vision but it won't work, neither can he create some distance between him and his opponent using his super speed. He just about manages to shove Cap off him in between attacks. During the brief pause in combat Superman receives a telepathic message from the Martian Manhunter,

" It appears this Captain America is a more powerful opponent than you initially evaluated, it seems his shield which is known to have been constructed from a mysterious combination of metal alloys and elements may contain trace amounts of kryptonite, not enough to cause you physical harm but enough to disable or decrease the potency of your powers, and although your strength and durability have been dramatically lowered you are still considerably stronger than your adversary and you should still be easily be able to win this, 'spar.' ",

 

Captain America is up and charging down superman before he can contemplate what j'onn j'onzz has told him. Cap ducks under a desperate haymaker thrown by Superman then rolls behind him ramming the edge of his shield into Superman's back. Superman even without his heat vision,flight,super speed, and freeze breath is still a lot stronger and more durable than Cap, but Cap never needed powers, his years of training and fighting experience makes him more than a match for the weakened superman. He out maneuvers his opponent punishing him with his mastery of hand to hand combat while evading or blocking his opponents comparatively inexperienced blows. Captain America is unyielding, he has never gone easy while sparring or training, Kang wouldn't go easy,the red skull wouldn't go easy.

 

Superman now feverish from the beating, the kryptonite and his own thoughts of humiliation, gathers up some reserve of strength and charges Cap to the ground, grabs his shield and mindlessly hurls it away, he stands over his opponent his power slowly returning ready to finish him, but then he hears something, the first sound his super hearing takes in and the first scene his super sight witnesses is cap's shield embedding itself in the side of the Washington monument. He notices for the first time during the fight the crowd are no longer cheering, in fact some are crying. Captain America is their true American hero, he's one of them, superman flies off in a blur.

 

 

2 weeks later

Cap lands a quinjet in the arctic, leaving his shield in the cockpit he exits the ship and walks towards The Fortress of Solitude.

"I was told I'd find you here", Cap's voice echoes towards the back of the icy cavern to where superman stands looking downwards.

 

"I'm truly sorry for what happened, I repaired the Washington monument and retrieved your shield."

 

"Thank you but you have nothing to apologize for, it was the kryptonite, I didn't know, and here I brought you this.",

Captain America holds The True American medal in his palm.

 

"Take it I bet you saved the world more times than me anyway."

 

"I can't accept that, I'm not American I'm not even from this planet."

 

"Maybe not but you stand for every value Americans hold dear and you represent the American dream more than anyone, you came here a stranger and instead of just looking to make a life for yourself you fight everyday to make the lives of others safer."

 

"Thank you Steve"

 

"No problem big guy, but next time, don't give me a free punch"

 

"Sure thing cap, I was wrong to underestimate you, your a lot tougher than you look"

 

"So are you boyscout."

"look who's talking, you and I shoud go...

                                                                 
                                                                        -END-

Spider-Man's Top 5 Villains

5. Morlun

In my opinion Morlun is Spider-man's greatest villain of the modern era, his first appearance in J. Michael's Straczynski's run on Amazing Spider-man is in my opinion one of the webhead's greatest fights and was only a prelude to what was to come.(spoilers if you haven't read 'Spider-man-the other-evolve or die')He kills Spider-man! he doesn't just beat him, and he does beat him, he beats him bad. MORLUN FRIGGIN KILLS SPIDER-MAN. nuff said.

 

 

4. The Lizard

 

What makes the lizard a great villain is that he's one of spider-man's most dangerous villains but he's also Kurt Connors one of spider-man's few friends, the complex relationship between the three parties makes most stories involving the lizard very tense and very unique.

 

3. Kraven The Hunter

 

Kraven became so wrapped up in defeating Spider-man, it defined him, kraven the hunter, he could hunt and kill any animal on earth but was repeatedly beaten by Spider-man, an insect. What kraven first saw as his weakest prey soon became his greatest. (spoiler if you haven't read 'kravens last hunt') He finally defeats Spider-man, he drugs him, buries him alive then dresses up in his costume and becomes him, the ultimate and total victory, and afterwards when it is all done and it is finally over, there are no more hunts worthy of Kraven, he can die at peace. He commits suicide guaranteeing him the last victory.

 

 

2. Venom

 

When venom first came on the scene no other spidey villain could touch him. Consisting of an alien symbiote suit brought back to earth by spider-man from the secret wars then rejected and left to fend for itself on a foreign planet, and Eddie Brock, fired from his job as a journalist and then divorced by his wife all because of an interview with a supposed serial killer he'd wrote, who turned out to be a chronic confessor when spider-man captured the real killer. Brock and the symbiote bonded to form a creature far stronger than their mutually hated enemy. Venom could blend into any background, has a much larger supply of organic webbing, doesn't set off peter's spidey sense and since the symbiote was once bonded to peter it and in turn venom, knows all spider-man's secrets. No villain is as dangerous in a one on one fight as Venom.

 

 

 

1. The Green Goblin

 

Easily spider-man's greatest villain, no one has come close to causing the same amount of anguish to the webslinger as the green goblin .(potential spoilers here) From the initial dynamic of being Peter's best friend Harry Osbourne's father , to finding out Peter's identity, dying then coming back from the dead, killing peters true love Gwen Stacy, corrupting and in one way or another causing the death of Harry, killing Ben Reilly, kidnapping aunt May, having kids by Gwen Stacy it just keeps on going, and all of this history is in play every time spider-man and the green goblin meet creating one of comics all time greatest conflicts.

 

 

Comic Book Of The Week – Fables Vol. 1 Legends In Exile – Review

 

Created and written by Bill Willingham, pencils by Leo Medina, inks by Steve Leialoha(except for issue 4 which is inked by Craig Hamilton, with little discernible difference) colours by Sherilyn Van Valkenburgh letterer Todd Klein with covers by James Jean (except for issue 1 which is by Alex Maleev,which in my opinion doesn’t carry the uncanny qualities the others possess.)And finally this comic is published by Vertigo.

 

 

Fables Vol. 1 is our first comic book of the week review and I’ve been hearing great things about the series for years but was put off reading it due to its non-superhero, fantasy based story, what if fairytale characters were forced to leave their fantasy kingdom and come and live in real world New York. And to be honest I was also a little repelled by the issue cover art, these strange mixed media paintings, which are quite moody and create a heady, mysterious and almost sinister atmosphere which alludes to the dark origins of fairy tales. I feared this art style would continue in the actual panels of the comic but on reading the first issue you realise the covers are completely unrepresentative of the tone of the story, which is in fact very light and consumable or the panel art which is in stark contrast to the covers, very clean,bright and detailed. The panel artwork in Fables wouldn’t feel amiss in any superhero comic, it’s normal, which I think works, these characters left their fantastical world and now are trying to live in our ‘normal’ world and have to blend in. It’s subtle but effective.

 

The story in this first volume revolves around a murder mystery with characters such as snow-white, the big bad wolf and prince charming playing out the usual roles of suspect, detective and so on. I’ve heard some people suggest the fairy tale characters add very little to the telling of the mystery and it would have played out just as well as a straight up crime story without the fantasy gimmick. I disagree, for one Willinghams take on these characters is very unique and interesting, they all seem very complex and well-rounded straight out the gate, they all have their inherent rich history and then there is Willingham’s interpretation on top of that. Not to mention the mysterious back story which is going on in the background. All of these intricate character and plot points couldn’t be dealt with in the first story arc without overwhelming the reader. I think the murder mystery provides an easy entry point into the series and a logical initial story arc. Showing characters from our ‘old’ world stories playing out a modern world story, the CSI murder mystery. The meeting of fairy tales and crime fiction, the meeting of childhood and adulthood, in many ways this first story arc sums up the concept of the entire series.

On another note Fables is a great comic for people who aren’t really into comics, apart from it existing in its own universe outside that of Marvel or Dc and their often intimidating continuity, most of the characters are known to everyone,so it makes new readers comfortable and feel knowledgeable of the world from the very beginning.

 

Upon finishing the volume I was intrigued to find out what must have happened to have changed these characters, the once pure snow-white now swears, the big bad wolf is now a detective.Beauty and the Beast are having marital issues and so on, apart from an average enough mystery it was the underlying back story and engaging characters that will bring me back for volume 2.

 

The next comic book of the week will be Cerebus Vol 1 by Dave Sim.

Issue(post) no.1

I thought for the first post I’d just copy and paste what I’ve written in the about section of the blog as a rough mission statement, along with a heads up on the first book/story of the week I plan to review in the coming days, it’s Fables Vol. 1 Legends In Exile, so if you’ve read that before or you need an incentive to read it, I’ll be reviewing it in the coming week and hopefully starting some discussion about the book. There will be other cool articles out this week the first top 5 list, and the first DC vs. Marvel ‘who would win in a fight between…’ article so drop by soon, anyway here’s a brief guide line of what to expect in the coming months.

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