Originally posted by leonidas loli'd be wrong? iYo you mean? even iron fist commented on the simplicity of steve's 'style'.
and batman isn't iron fist- unless he's somehow mastered chi amping and the other ridiculous MA feats that iron fist and shang chi get away with.
note that even with steve's "simplicity of style" iron fist still couldn't beat him. All of his advanced skills weren't enough because Steve was simply too physically dominant.
And yes- both crossovers that had steve and bruce going head to head flat out stated that bruce was not superior to steve. I'm not sure how much clearer it can get.
as far as the rest--bats has too many superhuman level style feats of his own to go into including bullet dodging speed, moving railroad cars, kicking down trees, beating.....too many superhumans (including deathstroke who actually HAS a true hf) to bother going into.
I'm aware batman has impressive feats. I simply stated that Steve is better. If you have any specific examples of Bruce moving faster, tanking more damage, lifting more weight, etc. please do so.
you're laboring (as many do) under the impression that bats is 'just human', well, this discussion is over because you don't know batman very well, or his feat history. and that's a common mistake. he's performed too many superhuman feats and beaten too many superhuman characters to pigeonhole him into an area you (or so many others) THINK he should be in. bats has proven time and again he is BEYOND (well beyond by some depictions) the even 'peak' human labels he is constantly ascribed.
Calm down junior. We've both been here way too long to throw around silly statements like "oh, you just might not be aware..etc. etc." I'm perfectly aware of batman's feats. I'm aware that they simply aren't as high end as steve's are. Marvel has gone out of it's way to put Cap's physical feats out of reach of anyone without physical enhancements, and Bruce is in this category.
Show me Bruce lifting several tons, or taking machine gun fire to the arm sans armor and walking it off, and you might have a point. I might be waiting a while, though.
As for superhuman opponents, Steve's combat feats are ALSO better. He consistently goes up against more powerful opponents on a regular basis. USAgent has been trained *in steve's style* and gets the bejeezus beaten out of him and he's class 10. Even Namor has problems when they go head to head- which they have, many times, for 40 years now.
incidentally, i'd say cap and ds are about as close to equals as you can get, and the fact that bats has beaten him (only a couple times) is telling of how a cap/bats battle would go. [/B]
not really, because cap and deathstroke are two completely different characters with different motivations and feats. "batman beat deathstroke and deathstroke is just like cap so...." doesn't work here.
In addition, remember the parameters. how many times has batman beaten deathstroke, with no equipment head to head in a ring? exactly. it's zero. In a comic scenario where batman is in gotham? sure. its possible and I've said so. In a ring match relying on skill and physical stats? it's a different story and steve beats the hell out of him.