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Well like the title says who do you think would win in an all out fight?

Well, on account of having more than a single passably cool character, Marvel clearly wins outright.

DC has Batman. And thats. About. It. The rest are all lame. Simple as. Superman is invincible, ergo he just gets out of *any* situation that way. Why bother reading?

Marvel win, mainly because they can always go and get the Marvel Zombies (who ate Galactus and are now Zombies with the Power Cosmic) to go and eat the DC Universe. Easy!

Marvel.

Just too many superheroes and villains.

As Mad Doc said Superman = lame.
Everyone elve excepting Batman and Watchmen = Lame.

If you are judging on a coolness factor then Marvel.

But if judging by a Power Level then DC.

Superboy Prime, Black Adam, and Darkseid could take on 90% of the marvel heroes & Villians and wipe them out.

HArdly.

If the pansy arsed DC Heroes can take them on, Marvel guys would flatten them!

Image has Jesus...

Loaded Bible Feb 2006 and May 2007.

And Jesus kills zombies good...

But those Zombies don't have the Power Cosmic.

Once again, Jeebus fails!*

*Please note, although not a man of Religion, the above asterix has been put in so I can explain that the comment was for comic effect, rather than knocking anyone elses religion.

Definetly Marvel. Altough they suck a lot these days (Brand New Day) they still have the better roster. I'm not even complaining about the JLA, but DC just doesn't have any memorable villians outside of Gotham City.

DC makes better cartoons...does that count?

Evil Eli wrote:
But if judging by a Power Level then DC.

Marvel has the Sentry I believe. Of course there are like 7 guys in the marvel universe that have used that name. I think his real name is Robert Reynolds. He is on par, if not surpassing, the power of Superman. His hand is permanently stayed though due to psychological damage. He thinks he killed his wife or something to that effect I believe.

I read a lot of image. But if I had to choose between DC and Marvel. I'd go with Marvel.

DC makes better cartoons...does that count?

Well, considering what I have seen of their new Iron Man animated project I guess you have a point there.

edit: and I'm still surprised how awesome "the brave and the bold" is.

I think we should toss dark horse in there. Can't beat the Devil

I second the vote for Jesus.

Evil Eli wrote:If you are judging on a coolness factor then Marvel.

But if judging by a Power Level then DC.

Superboy Prime, Black Adam, and Darkseid could take on 90% of the marvel heroes & Villians and wipe them out.

This is the correct answer. The power scales are so wildly different that it isn't even funny. Of course they all have plot armor, so in the end any of them could really win.

Whoever makes Aquaman and Battle Pope.

Marvel has ... Galactus, Apocolypse, Silver Surfer.

Who would win Dr. Fate vs Dr. Strange.

I wonder if the Pheonix could destroy Superman....I mean, he is made out of matter and all, and it's not like he can regenerate.... At least she'd be able to keep him from doing anything. And what about The Hulk? That would be a fight to see.

Anyway, I think that Marvel would definetly win, hands down. Even though most Marvel superheroes and villains have more weaknesses than DC's (Which makes them better characters anyway), there's still far more at Marvel's disposal. Far more. And some of them are just as powerful as anything DC can throw at them.

I'm getting the impression that people on the board are far more familiar with Marvel then they are DC, which colors the opinion. For example Galactus keeps coming up in Marvels defense, but DC has it's own cosmic and inter-stellar entities as well.

In hindsight Garth Ennis's The Boys would pwn noth universes!

or his Punisher who actually wiped out 99% of the Capes and Cowls on earth in Punisher Kills the Marvel Universe.

They only seem tough because they've never messed with Spawn!

Problem with Spawn is that he never acctually does anything but sit around with hobos and feels sorry for himself.

I collected Spawn 1-100.
First 12 issues or so he was kicking ass and didn't bother to take names then the next 80 odd issues... nothing happened.

Don't know what happened after issue 100 as I just gave up on it.

Marvel has better character development and its heroes and villains all have flaws that let them be beaten.

DC just makes the new gods like dark sied who can blast beams from his eyes that will go around cornersto kill people.

I guess you could say DC's writers have the more underdeveloped skill at character development.

I don't care. If Warren Ellis writes marvel then I read Marvel. If Garth Ennis
writes a DC book, I'll read a DC book.

I won't follow a character just for the sake of the character unless it has
a really good storyline behind it (you know, one that doesn't really require
retcons and continuity into infinity)

Well I like both universes but DC kills them because of the anti monitor he will just look at them and kill them in one fell swoop If the zombies try biting they will get a face full of anti matter

Waaagh_Gonads wrote:Problem with Spawn is that he never acctually does anything but sit around with hobos and feels sorry for himself.

I collected Spawn 1-100.
First 12 issues or so he was kicking ass and didn't bother to take names then the next 80 odd issues... nothing happened.

Don't know what happened after issue 100 as I just gave up on it.

Marvel has better character development and its heroes and villains all have flaws that let them be beaten.

DC just makes the new gods like dark sied who can blast beams from his eyes that will go around cornersto kill people.

I guess you could say DC's writers have the more underdeveloped skill at character development.

Y'see, spawn would infect all of them with his emo goth weepiness and convince them to kill themselves.

I don't think it's that people here are more familiar with DC it's just that we gave up on DC when we turned 13. I've been reading comics on and off for a long time and all the DC gods just aren't entertaining to read as you go through the ages.

I like how marvel weaves real world events into their comics too. Marvel doesn't have a super hero who can just instantly stop 9/11, so they had a 9/11 issue and it was paved with tragedy and it was very good. DC has no excuse to let it happen. Superman can blink of an eye fly over there and catch planes then throw them into outer space. DC just isn't entertaining when super heroes have the ability to rip dimensions apart. And Earth 2 through 53 are all dumb. What do you do when your heroes are two strong? Pull in 52 Dimensions of other heroes for possible villains.

I'd say thats several good points Typeline

I'm not crazy about either one anymore, but I lean toward DC.

DC, Has lots of actual heroes. But if your favorite is a 2nd tier character it could be a decade between appearances, unless they want to kill him for no reason.

Marvel only had two actual Superheroes and they shot one. Plus their writers have the amazing ability to make all of them extremely unlikable. That and Marvel seems to only have one storyline they keep recycling.

I go by writer, not brand, because honestly just because your hero is X doesn't mean he'll have a great story in each issue. Like Kevin Smith's incarnation of Onomotopeia, potential for a cool villian, but he just sucked ass.

Neil Gaiman, Garth Ennis, Alan Moore. there's a couple more

but on topic, DC, superman totally would own everyone because he can see the ladies nekkid!

So true but I like marvel so I would say that the zombies eat superman

VermGho5t wrote:I go by writer, not brand, because honestly just because your hero is X doesn't mean he'll have a great story in each issue. Like Kevin Smith's incarnation of Onomotopeia, potential for a cool villian, but he just sucked ass.

Neil Gaiman, Garth Ennis, Alan Moore. there's a couple more

but on topic, DC, superman totally would own everyone because he can see the ladies nekkid!

Yup. My list also includes Joss Whedon, Stracynzski, Warren Ellis, Azzarello, Willingham (Fables),
Grant Morrison (crazy bugger that he is), Mark Millar (sometimes), Carey.