srankmissingnin
VP of Comic Knowledge
Originally posted by Omega Vision
The way I use "street level", and the way I think a lot of people use it, a clearly superpowered character is by definition NOT streetlevel. Wolverine, Deathstroke, Iron Fist, and Spider-Man are Meta characters.And your logic is terrible. Number of appearances and number of characters in a type does not in any way suggest that Marvel has categorically more powerful or effective street level characters. To convince me of that you'd actually have to go into specifics. But seeing as we have different definitions of "street-level" that will be difficult.
IMO street-level caps out at Spider-man, any character who is sub Spider-man in attributes, is a street level character. I mean Spider-man is routinely refereed to as street level character by Marvel, you can find direct quotes of Dan Slott saying it. If you want to limit Marvel's street level characters to just Punisher, then I guess I would concede that DC's streets are better.
In what way does number of appearances and "character types" (what ever the hell that means), not account for a more powerful or effective character roster? More feats almost always means better feats. You take two characters with a similar abilities and powers, if one character has significantly more appearances, that character is probably going to have better feats. What's the exception to that? The Plutonian? Who else.
The reality is Marvel has more street level characters, those characters are significantly more powerful and have significantly more appearances to draw feats. But apparently that is all irrelevant and DC = Marvel because.... ummm I don't know? Batman FTW?