Originally posted by Bentley
I agree with this. Actually the biggest "issue" -assuming there is one and assuming we should care about power levels and realism to enjoy a comicbook story, both being bold assumptions imo-
Yea. Realism isn't what matters, verisimilitude is. Whether it makes sense in context.
with DC is that the herald class is swamped and the meta class is almost non-existant; in order to have some hero credibility in DC you need to at least being able to amp to hang with Superman level characters. There are exceptions to this -mostly the Secret Six/Suicide Squad series-, but it's kind of true for other books.
That's not really the case. The Titans/Outsiders/etc. level is swamped with Metas (and keep in mind the Titans have often been *huge*, with more than one book at a time and tons of characters), and JLA teams are generally filled out with them too. Plus Batman deals with streets and low metas a lot, and by extension so does a lot of the other Batfamily books. Legion of Superheroes is 90% meta class people.
It's just that as DC's classics are herald level, they tend to get more focus to outside eyes looking in, but in terms of actual numbers of heroes DC and Marvel are closer in those categories than most people thing.