I've always wondered why Batman hasn't taken down every crook in Gotham. He certainly has the brains, and he certainly has the resources for it. It's just to keep his comics going.
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Young Avengers: Patriot. He's a poor fighter and he gets hurt all the time. Hawkeye is a far better fighter and her arrows are much more useful than shield that can't even take a laser blast. PLUS, she's the financial backing of the teams. She's rich. Patriot is poor...
Alpha Flight: Puck
Excalibur: Pete Wisdom. Hot knives?! Nocturne's possession power is an infamous last-resort tactic that has saved the Exiles' asses numerous times.
JSA - Wildcat. Dr. Mid-Nite is the surgeon who can save your ass when Solomon Grundy has ripped out your guts...
Astonishing X-Men- Wolverine, by far.
Fantastic Four- The Thing, although he's the coolest.
The original JLA- Acquaman. Sorry, but for me he's just poor man's Namor.
The Authority- Don't know so much about then.
New Avengers- Luke Cage.
Teen Titans (before Infinite Crisis)- I don't care.
And trying to find a weak link in the FF is pretty tough. As teams go, they're more balanced than most. I'd vote Thing if I had to, but they're all quite useful and needed.
I didn't mean to suggest that Kitty isn't useful at all. I was thinking more along the lines of who helps to round out the team overall and would allow them to deal with most threats.
Cyke- leader and offensive powerhouse
Emma- telepath
Beast- medical and tech
Colossus- super-strong brick
And I had a toss up between Kitty and Wolvie. The reason Wolverine got the slight edge is that I though his covert intelligence and military training/contacts might be more helpful as well as the fact that Marvel has now seemed to decided the hairy runt in indestructible.
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Yeah, they kicked him off the team for it. But guess what? They couldn't have Batman be off the team for long. They made him a member again. And it's usefull if one of them goes insane, or double crosses the league.
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I agree that in some terms of intellect, they don't need him. But as a strategizer and as a detective? Even J'onn has admitted they need him in those departments.
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Strategically? Eh. Diana's a cream of the crop strategy general. She's an Amazon after all. War is their picnic. And Martian Manhunter spent centuries at war as a general against White Martians and the like.
Detective? Batman is useful for his resources on crime. But they can always just call him up if they need him.
They spend more time fighting a giant hell-demon threatening the solar system. Not supercriminals they could fight by themselves.
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He certainly has the brains, and he certainly has the resources for it. It's just to keep his comics going.
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