spetznaz
Senior Fanboy Killer
Originally posted by Malo
Ok lets say the Batman is going to take a 1 year leave from the JLA..And the for some reason the JLA are made or forced to take on, a new member they know not one thing about? ..but only that he is a brit and have no super powers...Superman asks him, what is your name? and the brit reponds with, Bond..James Bond
The JLA:
James Bond
Superman
Green Lantern
Wonder Woman
Manhunter
Flash
aquaman
Superman and the rest of the JLA members fear for the life of Bond if the encounter a powerful threat ask James to set up a hideout in gotham City and to use his contacts thur the MI6 to Hunt down the Riddler, The Joker, Pinguen and Harly Quin...
James Bond, Agent 007, has 1 year to bring them down anyway he can, before batman gets back..Can he do it?
Interesting thread. Nice.
Bond could definitely take this ....based on the established parameters of the thread. It specifies that his targets are going to be the Riddler, the Joker, Penguin and HQ.
Now, Bond with the Bat's gadgets can definitely bring them down, and the thing with Bond is that it will be permanent. No taking them to Arkham or any of that nonsense (goodness .....Batman has so much potential for pure unabated evil, but he keeps doing stupid things like taking the criminals to Arkham or Black Gate, knowing very well they will be coming out. Now, I know his character is against killing, but if Bruce was a real person he would DEFINITELY need psychological counselling since the guy is definitely a masochist. He loves to suffer, and thus he creates scenarios that will inevitably lead to him having to work harder and, sooner or later, suffer like in the case of Jason).
Anyways ....Bond would pull this.
Caveat: There is only one exception .....the James Bond 'Batman' would have to remain in Gotham, and he would have to concentrate solely on characters like Penguin et al.
If he decides to take on some of the JLA's bigger foes then he will definitely go down and go down hard!
Why?
Well, because Batman is written in such a way that his feats are simply out of his league (again, the whole Batman as a 'peak human' thing is rather hilarious. Many of his feats are definitely metahuman. A quick check at any of the various Batman respect threads scattered around the web can quickly confirm this. It is almost as if his writers have been having an inside joke with the whole 'peak human' thing for the last 3 decades, and with every passing year his 'peak humanity' gets more meta).
Anyways ....a comicbook James Bond would be more along the lines of a Nick Fury (a more appropos example would be the Batman/Nick Fury combination that was in the Amalgam comics ....which would mesh together DC and Marvel characters into one character).
Another analogue would be a Punisher type of person ....only with more charm (due to Bond's innate suave nature), more polished, and with more panache!
Such a character, although able to take on characters like Penguin, the Riddler, and even the Joker, would simply not be able to take on JLA level threats in the way Batman is able to.
For instance take the Obsidian Age saga .....Batman had basically made plans that stemmed over a thousand years.
Batman is basically one of very few 'humans' who can be able to fit seamlessly into the JLA (the only other 'human' that I can think of who can do the same is the Black Panther. He is basically Batman with darker skin and no cape, and without young boys jumping about all around him). No one else comes to mind as a viable Batman replacement (some like Cap America, De
