10 best comic character martial artists

Originally posted by Laminator_X
Often forgotten: Dr. Strange. He did the whole "Years of training in an Asian monastery" thing, and he and Wong spar daily.

And he faught Mantis and Black Panther at the same time in h2h and held his own, even dodging Mantis' attacks which "only three others have done".

If it's not merely limited to human beings, then Wonder Woman and Hipployta are somewhere in the top ten.

Darkwing Duck, man! He even mastered the Belly Bounce! (to heck with mods who don't think DW is a comic character 😛)

Batman is first for sure

then in a random order
Nightwing
Captian America

Darkwing was awesome! I can't believe no one figured out that he and Drake Mallard were the same guy.

For that matter, we don't want to forget that Howard the Duck is a Master of Quack-Fu!

If we're limiting to just humans, then the big list posted earlier was pretty good, if we are adding slightly above human, Azrael goes in ther right around Batgirl/shiva level.

People are adding Champion and Karate Kid so it can't just be limited to humans.

I only have intimate knowlege of DC, so I'm not even gonna try at Marvel's best:

Batman
Lady Shiva
David Cain
Karate Kid
Richard Dragon
Cass Cain

Only roughly in order...

Thing about WW is she just knows how to fight, it's not really martial arts per se.

I'll give this a shot.... bear in mind obscure Legion of Superhero characters from the Silver Age aren't exactly my major study, so I'll probably skip some dingbats that nobody born after 1980 knows about...

Understand that this goes in no particular order. These characters are simply the best.

1. Batman. 2. Lady Shiva. 3. Batgirl II. 4. Green Arrow II. 5. Black Panther. 6. Captain America. 7. Wolverine. 8. Elektra. 9. Shang Chi. 10. Richard Dragon.

Even though this makes it 11, I'd contend Iron Fist deserves a spot on there as well....

Originally posted by Draco69
If it's not merely limited to human beings, then Wonder Woman and Hipployta are somewhere in the top ten.

Wonder Woman is definitely not a martial artist...

Originally posted by Nataku8188
Thing about WW is she just knows how to fight, it's not really martial arts per se.

Originally posted by Esteemed Leader
Wonder Woman is definitely not a martial artist...

Have I taught thou nothing? She has several millenia mastering every form of martial arts there is. She mastered Akido and its various forms by age 3. She mastered swordplay by age 4. As she grew older, her marital arts library grew and grew.

Think about it. She's been trained by a war god with extensive knowledge of every form of martial combat there ever was and women from all across the globe with thousands of years of martial arts knowledge.

It's really no brainer.

She doesn't have much a chance to display it though. One hit usually implodes a man's head.

(it's why Cap won't be on the list... He's a great fighter, but Batman would own him pretty hard at sparring, as oppposed to real fighting)
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could batman beat him either way or just sparring?

Originally posted by Draco69
Have I taught thou nothing? She has several millenia mastering every form of martial arts there is. She mastered Akido and its various forms by age 3. She mastered swordplay by age 4. As she grew older, her marital arts library grew and grew.

Think about it. She's been trained by a war god with extensive knowledge of every form of martial combat there ever was and women from all across the globe with thousands of years of martial arts knowledge.

It's really no brainer.

She doesn't have much a chance to display it though. One hit usually implodes a man's head.

Never read a WW comic in my life and never really seen you talk about her. I'll take your word for it.

Originally posted by braz
(it's why Cap won't be on the list... He's a great fighter, but Batman would own him pretty hard at sparring, as oppposed to real fighting)
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could batman beat him either way or just sparring?

Just sparring. In a real fight, Cap would win.

It should just involve people w/no physical superpowers. No DS, No Wolvie. No Champ or KK. No Bats 1mill. BTW, Wolvie has the talent, he just doesn't need to use it all the time because he's a rock. Anyway, pure h2h(no weapons or armor), I think Taskmaster'd beat them all down.

"People are adding Champion and Karate Kid so it can't just be limited to humans."

KK is human. He is the closest thing to Dragonball stuff you have at comics, a human doing metahuman stuff in martial arts.

"Wonder Woman is definitely not a martial artist"

She is yes. The powered one of the top better at it in fact.

KK is the best there is if you gave him powers he would probably be virtually impossible to defeat physically.

Batman is top 3 at least. The rest of the list is debateable.

He is not even top 3 at DC nevermind when you add the Marvel guys.