Originally posted by Mindship
I've said this on previous threads, I'll say it again: You can go anywhere in the civilized world, tie a towel around your neck, and everyone will know who you are referring to.Remember that commercial not too long ago: the grainy film of a little boy with said towel and a caption going, "No one ever grew up wanting to be Moneyman."
The prefix "super" is all over the place. When was the last time you went into McDonald's and said "Batsize me"?
Look, he aint everyone's cup of tea, and I'll be the first to say that costume leaves a great deal to be desired. But he is The Icon for the genre, like Sherlock Holmes is for detectives, James Bond for spies, Tarzan for jungle dudes, Godzilla for giant monsters, Dracula for vampires. Even Aunt May, in advising her nephew said, "You're not Superman, you know."
And you thought Batman and Wolverine fans were bad... 😛
Superman's costume rocks. I love it... and yes, he is the greatest hero of all-time regardless of what any haters say.
Originally posted by FistOfThe North
Is Superman the ultimate superhero
Originally posted by FistOfThe North
If all superheores needed a leader to stand behind it would be Superman.
Originally posted by FistOfThe North
All superheroes would would unanimously pick him. that's one reason why he is the ultimate superhero. he's a super superhero.
And, lets not forget, the first thing Superman would do as a leader is appoint Batman as his field general, to basically handle the logistics of any pending battle.😉
As a written character he's kind of bland without any distinctive character traits.
As for his powers, they seem abundant and disjointed: Freezing breath, x-ray vision and heat vision? Compare him to Wolverine, who has one power, regeneration, and with that the writers gave him claws and an adamantium laced skeleton, which—considering his anatomy—made sense.
"Bland"? BS. People who say crap like that don't understand his character at all and probably haven't read more than a handful of Superman comics in their whole pathetic insignificant lives. He's MUCH more interesting to me than a character who sits around brooding all the god****ed time in a cave over the loss of his parents and is so deluded he arrogantly thinks he's better than everyone else... Or a teenager who has typical high school issues... Or a green (or grey) guy who goes around raging all the time....
....and Wolverine? Ugh (*throws up*) ... OMG, what a loser he is. I can't believe you actually just compared a clown like that to Superman. He thinks he some ****ing badass with those claws of his but in reality he's just a joke with no character depth at all. He's one of the lamest characters in Marvel or DC comics. It's ludicrous to think he's the "ultimate hero". Hell, he's not really a hero at all,imo. More of an anti-hero like Punisher.
Captain America is really the only one who even comes close to Superman as the "ultimate hero".
Originally posted by Astner
As a written character he's kind of bland without any distinctive character traits.As for his powers, they seem abundant and disjointed: Freezing breath, x-ray vision and heat vision? Compare him to Wolverine, who has one power, regeneration, and with that the writers gave him claws and an adamantium laced skeleton, which—considering his anatomy—made sense.
Not sure if serious...
With two exceptions, Superman's traditional/standard powerset, I think, is quite simple: basically an amplified human body. Stronger, tougher, see better, etc. The only exceptions are flight and heat vision. But even then, flight "evolved" from Golden Age Superman's superleaping; and HV developed when the heating effects of X-ray vision (superseeing, like tele- or microscopic vision), were made into a separate power.
Even freeze breath, before it was given a scientific spin, was basically an amp of a person's ability to, say, cool off hot soup by blowing on it.
As far as comparison to Wolverine: Imo, Superman and Wolverine, for their tiers, have excellent powersets.