Very true, but I think its still demoralizing to Superman to see weakest link Batman get pwned by Spidey in no time flat....before Routh himself gets trashed by Surfer.
Bruce and Parker might as well sit by the sidelines and watch the fight, because getting involved would just have them killed for no discernible purpose whatsoever.
This fight is simply between movie Superman and movie Surfer.
Now, if it was the comic versions I would choose differently (in my opinion comic Surfer would absolutely wreck Superman), but the movie versions are totally different.
Movie Superman was basically a pre-Crisis version of Superman, with the feats to back it up.
Movie Surfer was basically a base-level matter-manipulator who was a pale shadow of his comic-book iteration. It doesn't matter whether or not knocking him off his board denudes him of his power ...even if the power was from within and not the board, it wouldn't affect the outcome much (the board connectivity issue simply gives Superman one more way of defeating the movie version of the Silver Surfer).
Anyways, the first team wins. Each Superman movie (even the one with Routh in it, although he was part of the Reeves continuity and it was the same Superman) basically portrayed pre-Crisis level feats. Movie Surfer has nothing on that (it was interesting, hilarious even, seeing the Fantastic Four engaging Doom with Surfer's powers physically).
II think movie Superman is probably the only character who is as powerful as the comic book iteration. Other characters I can think of are always weaker, in many cases significantly weaker.
Movie superman was as strong (and in a couple of cases, stronger, than the modern version since he is basically at pre-Crisis levels). Other characters who are more or less equal to their comic iterations are movie Spiderman, and movie Spawn. All other characters i can think of (e.g. Hulk, Silver Surfer, Batman, the X-men, etc) are always weaker than their comic versions .....in many cases significantly weaker to a high order of magnitude.
Oh ....I'd have to say Jean Gray in the X3 movie was also quite powerful. The movie sucked, but powerwise she was not like the movie Hulk.
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Last edited by spetznaz on Aug 27th, 2008 at 07:23 AM
That's true, compared to the advanced comics versions you are talking about (e.g. the so called 'god Spawn').
However, the movie Spawn was basically ol' Al at the beginning of 'career' when he came back as a Hell's Pawn (I prefer writing it like that since that is what he is), and it matched Al at the beginning of the comics when he came back.
The two (movie and comics), once you factor in the time-sequence for both the movie and the comics (they are both starting out) has them quite equal.
Obviously movie Spawn is much weaker than the awakened versions of Spawn (where he is ruling hell and all that), but he was not ruling hell when he came back from the dead as a pawn of the Malebolgia.
The thing is, Surfer beat Galactus. Even if you say it was just a "Cloud", it was a cloud powerful enough that it was about to literally consume the whole Planet.
I guess you could probably say his power level is inconsistent in the film.
If I recall... the only way they could knock Surfer off his board was by using some gizmo doohickey that Reed and Doom created. Movie Surfer > movie Superman, IMHO.
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Aug 26th, 2008 05:11 PM
He solos.
