I agree 100% we should have a versus forum that involves TV/movie/video game/comic book related characters. Now the general complaint I see of why that can't happen around here are:
1. You can't compare the two
2. I hate vs threads
Will I'll show how you can solve the first problem. A cross match up might be hard to decide the winner if given the names alone. But if guidelines are given about the fight, it makes it much more easier to decide. Here are few examples:
Master Chief vs Yoda (our moderator friend's match up). The galaxy in which the Halo events and the galaxy in which the Star Wars events occur are in the same universe. So the force exist here as well as wookies, brutes and everything else featured in those two franchises. Master Chief can do everything he displayed in the games. Yoda can do everything he displayed in the movies.
Goku vs Mario. Fight takes place in the DBZ universe. Anyone who knows about the DBZ universe would know that ANYTHING in it can learn how to fly and shoot fireballs (which Mario already knows how to do). Whether it's an alien, human, or deer as long as they're skill enough and powerful enough. Mario has his abilities to become various battle modes via item absorbtion (leaf, feather, flower, metel box, etc) and his point bar gives you an idea how powerful he is. Fight takes place after Mario amps up his point bar by killing Frieza, Cell, and Buu.
Bart Simpson vs Ryu. Ryu at his power peak (Marvel vs Capcom would probably be this) against Bart Simpson. Bart can alter his self into his various forms he displayed in the shows and games (Bart the wizard, Stretch Dude, both the Batman and Superman versions of Bartman, etc) Superman Bartman mostly exist in the games, alot of them in the NES, SNES consoles. So looking at how powerful the Street Fighter characters became from Street Fighter for the SNES to MvsC, use that same power upgrades on NES, SNES Bartman.
And since how there are people who probably knows these characters and universes alot better than I do, shouldn't be "impossible" to decide an outcome. There was another site where there was a Goku vs Superman vs Chuck Norris vs Jesus vs Bruce Lee vs Mr. Rogers thread. And believe it or not, people were able to debate and decide the outcome. FYI given your reasoning, it would be impossible to EVER decide which video game characters can beat one another, because the overall determining factor of how tough a video game character becomes depends on the people playing the character. Also if people have trouble deciding who can beat who, had you ever thought that the people can simply skip that thread and move onto the next one instead?
Considering that the comic book forum has a small post to thread ratio.
Compared to what? The ratio looks about the same to me compared to the other forums. A "Goku vs Superman" thread had 163 post. 213+ if you count other "Goku vs Superman" threads that I found. Small ratio indeed.
As much as i love the genres seperately, I find the idea of comparing their abilities a bit pointless. The characters were designed with each their own strength and weaknesses. The purpose of that is to make the characters interesting. This allows for dramatic and interesting plots. Comparing different characters is stupid because what your basically doing is saying on author/creator is shitter then another because their characters are not good enough against the other. I could make the world's strongest character and the world's shittest plot, but who would read or watch my material? NO ONE! because it'd be pointless cause the story would lack depth and story, which would make an all round peice of shit.
Okay what are you talking about? We're just taking two characters and deciding who can beat who. Not making a movie of where the two characters go through tons mystical journeys and character developments. Don't get me started on that whole "offend creator/author" defense. If I created my own characters. Character A is a street leveler like Wolverine, and character B is the guardian of the planet. Then someone made their own characters whose on par with A and B. I wouldn't be offended if people say that person's B can beat my A, because I'll probably agree with them. Then there's the part that these creators/authors should already feel their characters are "crappy" because people are saying this comic character can beat that comic character. Makes no difference what medium are they from.
Originally posted by Captain REX
Nobody intellectual likes the Vs. forums. Not just the Comic Book Vs., but all of them. They're more trouble than they're worth.
Narrow minded here are we? I've seen vs threads on other sites than this one, and the majority of people don't really take them that seriously. There were numerous people on the comic vs forum that included joke weaknesses and vulnerabilities that were in the comics. We don't all have to be serious.
Also you guys are exaggerating the bashing that goes around there. Compared to bashing that happens on other sites on general topics, it's very tamed there. Most of the bashing I see there consist of two types. Bashing the medium which they came from. For example in a movie Ghostrider vs Smallville Clark Kent thread, the bashing was of how much they dislike the Ghostrider film and the show Smallville. The second type is bashing of the character. For example some people don't like Sentry, and calling his feats PIS or CIS. Both of these bashings are going to occur whether it's Captain America vs Spiderman or Thanos vs Spongebob Squarepants.