Originally posted by spetznaz
The thing about a Batman replacement is that the focal point isn't on physical abilities. If it were then there would be a host of characters who could easily fill the spot. Comicdom is rife with meta/super/hyper characters who can easily provide sufficient power stats to the game.Then there is also the mental aspect. Again, that is not the only thing to look at. There are many characters (although nowhere as many as those who are merely 'dumb bricks'😉 who have sufficient mental capacity to pass their SATs. Some can even write an essay! However we are not talking about brains and nothing else here .....which is whypeople like Reed couldn't get a position in the JLA. All they have to offer is brains, and that makes them too uni-dimensional for th Justice League (although it makes them perfect for the F4 or X-men, who tend to have one-trick ponies as I explained in an earlier post on another thread).
Most of the characters in the JLA are quite oni-dimensional (i.e having a diverse power set in a single individual ...eg characters like the martian manhunter and superman are basically entire X-men teams put into one individual when it comes to powersets. ....take MM: super-speed, super-strength, phasing/density alteration, high-order telepathy, heat vision, force breath, x-ray vision, high-order shapeshifting and size augmentation, high intellect). Thus a 'one-trick pony' would find it quite rough in the JLA (even characters like Aquaman have a set of abilities).
Now ...a Batman replacement.
It is not about strength, or skill, or brains .....or even the moral 'flexibility' I was talking about.
It is about ALL OF THOSE and MORE .....something that only ONE character listed from Marvel or DC can be able to accomplish, and accomplish well.Black Panther.
That is the only guy who could technically replace Batman and not cause too many things to go wrong.
People like Deadpool would probably find themselves thrown into the coldness of space by one of the GLs in the JLA (although that wouldn't happen since a character like Deadpool wouldn't even be allowed anywhere near the Watchtower ....he couldn't qualify).
^Quoted for truth^