Originally posted by Ironmanpower
Ironman easily with prep time. If Batman can do it, why Stark couldn't do the same? Stark is a better inventor than Wayne, he gonna invent every things you can imagine to his armor with the kryptonite. If can't find kryptonite ? He gonna create synthetic kryptonite like Luthor did. Without prep time... Superman
Originally posted by Swanky-Tuna
Juggernaut74's gonna have to clear that up 'cause Pre and Post both start with P.
Superman has got to be jaded as hell. Besides the crap he has to put up with from Aquaman every day, he can hear the death screams of orphans for thousands of miles in every direction. That kind of thing would get to get to you. When I hear about dynamite ninjas blowing up the president, I don't feel guilty. There's nothing I could have done; I don't know how to defuse a ninja or even where the president lives. Not Superman. He can take every single obituary personally. He can go through the paper and say, "Let's see, this was the bus that fell off the bridge when I was in the bathroom... and here, I was playing ping pong when this family suffocated under tons of rubble... Oh! And I could barely get to sleep while this former skydiver was screaming for help! Ha ha ha!"
I'm surprised he even cares when the Trouble Alert goes off. I'd expect him to say, "Sorry your government building got shrink-rayed, Congressman, but I can hear a baby being circled by vampire hippos right now. Do you want me to let it get torn apart becau-- oh, there. It's dead. Good job, Congressman Selfish *******. How about you don't call again until there's a real emergency like poison ivy or a leg cramp?"
Or maybe he's not bitter at all. He does have X-ray vision and a job where he gets to stand near Wonder Woman. He's probably happier than her panties and bustier put together. He might even be happier than a monster booty whenever I drive by with my bumper sticker that says, "I Brake for Monster Booty" that I got from ordering the CD "Monster Booty."
DR. CRIME'S CRIMINAL KRYPTONITE GUIDE AND SPEEDBOAT CHALLENGE
Hi, future dictators! There are about eight different kinds of kryptonite. They each give off unique radiation that have different kinds of effects on Superman. All of them give off unique radiation that sterilize your gonads. That's one of the reasons I can only get sexually aroused by blueprints of grocery stores. Let's start!GREEN KRYPTONITE
AFFECT: DEATH
This is supposed to kill Superman, but seems really crappy at it since he gets covered in it every episode and still isn't dead.RED KRYPTONITE
AFFECT: MUTATE
This almost always just gives him extra arms which doesn't help evil very much since it means he can punch us twice as much. Maybe you'll get lucky and it will give him a tail. Because if Superman has a tail, no one can resist us!RAINBOW KRYPTONITE
AFFECT: GAY
This type of kryptonite makes Superman gay. He injected it into his blood years ago. Ha ha ha!
Originally posted by long pig
like i said earlier...IronMan can absorb supermans solar energy into his own suit making him even more stronger.
with no solar power superman turns into normalman
Ok, but since the suit is a machine Im assuming it has a capacity to the amount of energy it can hold, while superman has none. And if this battle is during the day supes will simply recharge as fast as he's drained if not faster.
EDIT: oh we're talking pre crisis supes, then there's no competition, if stark has no kryptonite he goes down no matter what the situation.
IM resources are vast beyond measure. not only does he have a device that can sap energy of all sorts but some of is suits have that mechanism built in to siphon energy from heat, extreme cold, cosmic, and solar power sources when his batteries are running low, but he can also siphon just for the hell of it. the reason i think he has a chance is bcuz writers like to play cheap. for all we know they would say that he already has a suit thats powered by kryptonite or some BS like that.....
speaking in terms of how superman fights(which annoys the f uck outta me) he doesnt employ super speed when he throws down. in fact, the only time in a long long time ive seen him use super speed was when that imperiex probe destryed his parents farm and he just lost it. but i dont think he would do that against IM
so IMO stark having enuff time to leech at least some of his stored solar energy is a reasonable argument. besides his suits can stand up to a lot of pressure, for back in the day way before comics got uber scientific..the good ol days where all a guy had to do was spill some household chemicals on himself and he would get super powers.
in the original contest of champions, Terrax dropped a land mass the size of manhattan on IM and he just flew into it and smashed it up. that was with his silver centurian suit. since then his junk have become way more advanced. being equipped with force fields and other energy absorbing mechanisms. so i say he holds his own if its just one of his regular high powered suit.
HOWEVER, and this is a big HOWEVER, his thorbuster suit is a brash mixture of technology and Asgardian magic, and we all know that superman is suseptable to magic, and the Thorbuster armor exudes some pretty potent magic. so im willing to go out on a limb and say that with this armor he COULD beat superman. especially if he starts off with a huge concentrated blast of magic from his chest plate thingy