bluewaterrider
Senior Member
Originally posted by Squallx
Batman took down CF. Is Batman>every leaguers now?
If you're the longtime DC reader you present yourself as, you should know better than this. Batman is one of the greatest overachievers in comicdom, and frequently outperforms his supposed peers.
To give only one example, examine the following:
Source: JLA #4
Circa: April 1997
The above is useful for illustrating several things.
In no particular order:
-- Superman is vulnerable to suffocation attacks from a powerful enough opponent
-- Retcons even of characters' basic physical properties occur with some frequency. Note that here White Martians need air to breathe and Wonder Woman defeats her opponent by depriving her of it. When these characters are introduced a 2nd time into this title, their very goal is to deprive Earth of breathe-able oxygen to rule an airless world where fire cannot be used against them.
-- Superman struggles with his lone opponent but defeats him, not through any intrinsic power, but through clever use of the environment, exploiting the Martian weakness to heat by relocating them to where geothermal energy knocks most of the fight out of Protex.
-- While Superman presents having overcome ONE White Martian, Batman presents having at least THREE of them helplessly in tow.