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Started by Eminence16 pages

Zampanó
Mara Jade vs. Batman.

1 week of prep each.


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Me, on this fvcking page, regarding THE SAME FVCKING CHARACTER
If multiple interpretations or incarnations of the non-SW character exist - The Dark Knight Batman, The Animated Series Batman, Batman from current continuity, etc. - one needs to be selected and agreed upon before the thread is created.

What are you, dense? Are you retarded or something?

Spoiler:
The fact the thread has not yet been created is not an excuse or loophole.

Pick a goddamn Batman.

Off the top of my head, the graying Batman of The Dark Knight Returns might be the closest you could get to a fair fight. Any live-action incarnations of the character - barring the West version, for which I cannot speak - will be outmatched, and a Batman from continuity or TAS would be cruel, merciless overkill.

Btw, I suggest you all go to your nearest B&N and read through Batman: RIP.

truejedi
Still would like to See Yoda vs. Superman or Grievous Vs. Spiderman.

I didn't know you liked spite threads.

Joe Biden vs. Sarah Palin. GO

Originally posted by Eminence

What are you, dense? Are you retarded or something?


Why are you so mean?

You, on the same page, regarding the same character
If multiple interpretations or incarnations of the non-SW character exist - The Dark Knight Batman, The Animated Series Batman, Batman from current continuity, etc. - one needs to be selected and agreed upon before the thread is created.
Go to hell.

Originally posted by mattatom
Batman.

Me
Spoiler:
The fact the thread has not yet been created is not an excuse or loophole.

Like TAS Batman to your Mara Jade, I crush you with preparation in a manner that does not necessarily make sense when exposed to outside logic and brood into the shadows.

srsly tho, details. What does one week of prep entail? Does each have access to the resources that would be considered the norm for them in their respective worlds? Where is the fight taking place? Would each combatant bring, if possible, the physical manifestation(s) of his/her preparation (i.e. power suit)?

And I'm assuming this is LOTF Mara?

Naw, Mara Jade would whoop his ass. Force Speed ftw, unless he uses some gadgets to great effect.

Comic Deadpool vs Luke. Luke as of TESB.

The prize is Leia.

Originally posted by Nephthys
Naw, Mara Jade would whoop his ass. Force Speed ftw, unless he uses some gadgets to great effect.

But he's The Batman.

Luke chokes him till he blacks out maybe? Luke has no way to actually put him down bar incapacitation.

Originally posted by Nephthys
Luke chokes him till he blacks out maybe? Luke has no way to actually put him down bar incapacitation.

BFR = win.

Chewbacca vs Bane(The Batman villan)

Cad Bane and Darth Bane vs Bane and Batman

3 BANES!!!! ZOMG!!!1!!1!11!11!!!1

Originally posted by Hewhoknowsall
So are we allowed to start making threads by these rules?

No and Never. A match is decided upon, and then I make the thread.

For starting this off, I do not want factions or teams. I may allow them to be introduced later.

I'm seeing a prevalent mention of Batman... pick a Batman, as Faunus has suggested, if people actually want to see a Batman-related fight.

If it's a Batman... The Dark Knight.

I vote Batman from Identity Crisis.

Mara Jade isn't nearly cool enough to head a title with Batman, who again is only once at best [The Dark Knight Returns] portrayed in a manner that suggests he could be a fair fight for her anyway.

That said, if people like the premise, I'd be fine with Mara Jade circa LOTF and TDKR Batman.

I'm particular about this incarnation of the character because he strikes a reasonable balance between the weaker depictions [live-action] and the absurdly dangerous continuity and animated versions. No one in the former category - particularly the Nolan/Bale Batman - has demonstrated on any level the ability to prepare for and deal with a prescient psychokinetic who can dodge bullets and cut a tank in half.

A continuity or animated Batman lies on the other end of the spectrum. IIRC, in JLA: Tower of Babel, Batman's notes explain that if he was violently confronted by any rogue charter member of the Justice League barring Superman, he'd be able to "wing it." He prepares contingency plans anyway, but the fact that he feels he could handle Wally West or the Martian Manhunter on a whim suggests that a fight with Mara Jade would be a walk in the park. Physically, he often does difficultridiculousimpossible things.

In a JL[U?] episode, TAS Batman rewrote a program for a belt that controlled time, and managed to do so simply because "he got a good look" while fighting the man wearing it. That establishes his ability to deal with extremely weird shit in a very short period of time. If you want to see what he can do physically, just YouTube it.

TDKR Batman is still fast enough to - mostly - evade gunfire, agile enough to shoot a tightrope across rooftops and sprint over it, strong enough to pull a man through a sheetrock wall, skilled enough to do lots of extremely skillful things, and smart enough to qualify as the goddamn Batman.

This Batman, however, is fallible. He is weaker, slower, and yet apparently much luckier than he was in his prime, when he could presumably ban gay marriage with a sidekick. He is technologically far behind his continuity and animated peers, which is not to say that he doesn't have a tank impervious to all human weaponry, a helicopter that can turn invisible, and a power suit that - with lots and lots and lots of preparation and a wee bit of atomic luck - helps him beat down Superman, but he's more limited in what he can bring in against Mara.

So I vote Batman as seen in The Dark Knight Returns. I think this is the one instance in which a case could be made for either character, depending on what parameters we establish regarding the nature of their preparation.

Originally posted by Eminence
I didn't know you liked spite threads.

explain yourself. I really couldn't pick a winner in either one.

I think we should include ALL batmen. We include information on Star Wars characters from all sources. We should do the same for selected opponents in this thread.

BTW, I think Mara Jade can take Batman.

Originally posted by truejedi
I think we should include ALL batmen. We include information on Star Wars characters from all sources. We should do the same for selected opponents in this thread.

That isn't the same. Star Wars is one continuous time line. Comics branch into different realities sometimes.

this is probably a good point. Can you give me an example where it would screw us up, just to drive it home?