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Is the Hulk the cheapest comic book superhero ever?

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Chamber said:
Hey, at least Arthur doesn't have ankle wings.
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Namor is still more of a badass than Aquaman though
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RSTEIN said:
The problem with Wayne as Iron Man is he has nowhere near the scientific mind Stark has. Stark has invented most of the technology behind Iron Man. Wayne is no slouch--and obviously has the money--but not gifted in the same way.
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But the suit alone is pretty awesome - see Jim Rhodes in the suit or the War Machine suit.
 
Puddles said:
There's a pretty big gap between the Batmobile and the Iron Man suit.
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i'm not saying the batmobile is on par or better than the ironman suit. it probably could be, who knows....but my point is, it shows what batman can be capable of.

slayven said:
He didn't build the cave, the cave was already under his house. And honestly how much brain power does it take to make a grappling hook and batshape boomarangs. Batman is smart, but not in the way Tony is. Batman has been shown numerous times stealing and adapting other peoples tech.
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i know he didn't build the cave. but the stuffs inside, the exits, and probably traps are all probably laid out by him. the grappling hook and boomerangs are both good choices for his kind of job, stealth. plus he got a lot of other stuffs in his utilities belt. his focus is to insert fear into his opponent by using the dark and doing everything as silent as he can. so i odn't think having gun power and confront the enemies directly like iron man would be a good idea.

i might be wrong, but didn't tony stark gets some of his ideas from his dad and most of his suits are similar . beside his suit, i don't know what else he really invented that bruce didn't have.

I don't think that bruce ever really build the batcave by himself and alfred. I mean the time and logistics alone would require a full team. Making sure the mountain doesn't collapse on you isn't a skill you pick up reading. Neither is having a fully functioning supercomputer and lab that isn't destroyed by bat guano and moisture. Alfred is busy with maintaining the house ans bruce just sulks,fights, and goes out at night so that cave is not touched by their hands.

Bat-prep time is just bull. I loved it when Superman beat the crap out of him and took out the team before Wonder Woman broke him out of mind control. It's one thing to strategize and take someone out after reasonable discrepancies in power, but supes and bats? No contest. If they are both going at it bruce died 10s ago with both gotham AND metropolis building statues in clarks image.
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but who else would knows his identity? although we gotta remember it's a comic book here.

i beg to differ, i like how batman can have a chance up beating every other super heroes. at least it makes me feel a human being can outsmart a overpowered super hero. these kind of heroes are rare in the comic universe while the other are dime a dozen. if you hate how batman can beat anyone with prep-time because it's unrealistic then wouldn't make you hate some other character like hulk or superman who has no limit to their power?
 
tigerin said:
i beg to differ, i like how batman can have a chance up beating every other super heroes. at least it makes me feel a human being can outsmart a overpowered super hero. these kind of heroes are rare in the comic universe while the other are dime a dozen. if you hate how batman can beat anyone with prep-time because it's unrealistic then wouldn't make you hate some other character like hulk or superman who has no limit to their power?
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Man, going by this thread, you would need the likes of the Hulk and Superman just to try keep up with the batshit insane power levels of some of these characters. @_@
 
Okay, this is showing my true nerd colors, but anyone ever play the Marvel roleplaying game? In their character descriptions they had pretty cut and dry stats for the various heroes and villians. This was in the late 80's/early 90's before all the crossover bs and crazy ass storylines, but if I remember correctly, the heroes in the highest category of sheer strength (unearthly level, able to lift over 100 tons) were Hulk, Thor, Gladiator, Hercules and a few others. There was an even higher category that was reserved for godlike creatures and I believe only Galactus and the Beyonder had that.
 
Xyrmellon said:
Okay, this is showing my true nerd colors, but anyone ever play the Marvel roleplaying game? In their character descriptions they had pretty cut and dry stats for the various heroes and villians. This was in the late 80's/early 90's before all the crossover bs and crazy ass storylines, but if I remember correctly, the heroes in the highest category of sheer strength (unearthly level, able to lift over 100 tons) were Hulk, Thor, Gladiator, Hercules and a few others. There was an even higher category that was reserved for godlike creatures and I believe only Galactus and the Beyonder had that.
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I still have my box with over a 1000 Marvel and DC Overpower cards. My friends and I played the hell out of that in high school.
 
HomerSimpson-Man said:
Man, going by this thread, you would need the likes of the Hulk and Superman just to try keep up with the batshit insane power levels of some of these characters. @_@
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tell me about it. lol

btw, are there ay character that are really powerful and smart at the same time? seems like one usually lacks the other.
 
tigerin said:
tell me about it. lol

btw, are there ay character that are really powerful and smart at the same time? seems like one usually lacks the other.
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Hulk has had Banners brain from time to time.
 
Xyrmellon said:
Okay, this is showing my true nerd colors, but anyone ever play the Marvel roleplaying game? In their character descriptions they had pretty cut and dry stats for the various heroes and villians. This was in the late 80's/early 90's before all the crossover bs and crazy ass storylines, but if I remember correctly, the heroes in the highest category of sheer strength (unearthly level, able to lift over 100 tons) were Hulk, Thor, Gladiator, Hercules and a few others. There was an even higher category that was reserved for godlike creatures and I believe only Galactus and the Beyonder had that.
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I remember that game. Used to play it a LOT. It, however, made the heroes more 'believable' than anything that's come out of the comics since then.

All of the 'cheapness' of superhero comics is actually why I stopped reading them a long long time ago. GI Joe and Alien Versus Predator/Alien Earth War were the last comics that I actively collected.
 
tigerin said:
tell me about it. lol

btw, are there ay character that are really powerful and smart at the same time? seems like one usually lacks the other.
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Superman. His alien brain is vastly superior to a human brain.
 
WanderingWind said:
Marvel Adventures was the cure to grimdark rape books. Sadly, the strain was too strong, and the inoculation didn't take.
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Wasn't Marvel trying to cash in on the whole grimdark? I remember reading something about how Marvel had Captain America's Strange Tales. No one was above the lurid tales of the EC Comics era. It was just that the public outcry got so bad that the CAC (or was it CCA) got formed.
 
kaiwing said:
Just read the cracked article and smiled. I do kind of wish that before the reset happens at DC that they show the john doe workers punching in and fixing up the batcave just for the hell of it. The fandom would explode.
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I would punch DC's dick if that happened.
 
Namor is like the most important Marvel character, if you look at it from a organizational point of view. He was apart of both the Illuminati and the Cabal, he is best friends with Dr. fucking Doom, is a mutant and recently apart of the X-Men, fought Nazis with Captain America as a member of the Invaders(basically one of the original superheroes of the universe), fought all sorts of crazy cosmic/magic shit as a member of the Defenders, rocks an advanced civilization which loves to invade shit(also holds sovereignty over most of the planet), always ends up on the "cool" side of crossover superhero fights, and has a catch phrase where he says "Imperious Rex!". Seriously, the guy's two best friends are Captain America and Dr. Doom, god-like.
 
Riposte said:
Namor is like the most important Marvel character, if you look at it from a organizational point of view. He was apart of both the Illuminati and the Cabal, he is best friends with Dr. fucking Doom, is a mutant and recently apart of the X-Men, fought Nazis with Captain America as a member of the Invaders(basically one of the original superheroes of the universe), fought all sorts of crazy cosmic/magic shit as a member of the Defenders, rocks an advanced civilization which loves to invade shit(also holds sovereignty over most of the planet), always ends up on the "cool" side of crossover superhero fights, and has a catch phrase where he says "Imperious Rex!". Seriously, the guy's two best friends are Captain America and Dr. Doom, god-like.
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also banged a blonde who can turn invisible (allegedly)
 
The best part about She-Hulk is that, if it were any other character, i.e. Jubilee or Rogue or Supergirl or Emma Frost, she'd be called a skanky slut with tons of misogynistic nerd bitterness that the comics world is full of.

Yet you don't get that much nerd rage for her. Somehow, it just doesn't...fit to call She-Hulk that. She just seems too...uninsultable, like it wouldn't stick.

That's a good demonstration of how to write a charismatic female.
 
ReiGun said:
You mean hook hand? If so, then no. Make mine original.

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Outrageous.
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Aquaman does literally nothing for me. Its not that i think he sucks or anything he's just..well hes aquaman. Hes blonde and dresses like robin hood of the sea.
 
17 pages and I can't imagine that people would still be talking about the OP, but here are my 2 cents.

The hulk is broken. He is a natural disaster you can yell at. That's about it. His powers are limitless, his life is endless, and the only show to ever surpass his insanity of powers is Tengen Toppa Guren Lagan. In that show reality they could punch someone so hard it broke a dimensional wall. Mechs got so big that they hopped spiral galaxies like they were nothing, and some were even tossed around like shrunken.

Hulk = Cheapest comic book character.
Tengen Toppa Guren Laggan = Cheapest animated character.
 
Riposte said:
Namor is like the most important Marvel character, if you look at it from a organizational point of view. He was apart of both the Illuminati and the Cabal, he is best friends with Dr. fucking Doom, is a mutant and recently apart of the X-Men, fought Nazis with Captain America as a member of the Invaders(basically one of the original superheroes of the universe), fought all sorts of crazy cosmic/magic shit as a member of the Defenders, rocks an advanced civilization which loves to invade shit(also holds sovereignty over most of the planet), always ends up on the "cool" side of crossover superhero fights, and has a catch phrase where he says "Imperious Rex!". Seriously, the guy's two best friends are Captain America and Dr. Doom, god-like.
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Namor was the first Marvel character and the first mutant. Dude doesn't get no respect. Just like Rodney Dangerfield.
 
Anslon said:
17 pages and I can't imagine that people would still be talking about the OP, but here are my 2 cents.

The hulk is broken. He is a natural disaster you can yell at. That's about it. His powers are limitless, his life is endless, and the only show to ever surpass his insanity of powers is Tengen Toppa Guren Lagan. In that show reality they could punch someone so hard it broke a dimensional wall. Mechs got so big that they hopped spiral galaxies like they were nothing, and some were even tossed around like shrunken.

Hulk = Cheapest comic book character.
Tengen Toppa Guren Laggan = Cheapest animated character.
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sentry. look him up. hes a being of sheer possibility that only died because he wanted to.

there are other broken marvel characters, but hes a definite stand out.
 
Htown said:
Yeah. Kind of.

Spoilers for War of the Green Lanterns:
He takes the purple energy and combines it with the remnants of of the Black Lantern energy still inside Mogo, and makes an energy sniper rifle at Mogo's core and essentially HEADSHOTS THE PLANET.
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By far my favorite part of the series
 
Gr1mLock said:
Aquaman does literally nothing for me. Its not that i think he sucks or anything he's just..well hes aquaman. Hes blonde and dresses like robin hood of the sea.
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I didn't mind brightest day aquaman, where all he could summon was dead fish and other marine life.
 
jaxword said:
The best part about She-Hulk is that, if it were any other character, i.e. Jubilee or Rogue or Supergirl or Emma Frost, she'd be called a skanky slut with tons of misogynistic nerd bitterness that the comics world is full of.

Yet you don't get that much nerd rage for her. Somehow, it just doesn't...fit to call She-Hulk that. She just seems too...uninsultable, like it wouldn't stick.

That's a good demonstration of how to write a charismatic female.
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I've never understood the dynamic with She Hulk because she's not attractive. (Dunno, but green doesn't do it for me at all.) It's more a stupid running gag with a character barely anyone ever pays attention to.

Didn't she rape Herc?
 
I think we're all forgetting the biggest badass in comics, the Black Panther. He's basically Batman except he runs an entire nation(most of the time storyline wise.)

Here he is facing off against a Superskrull that has the fighting ability of Iron Fist, Shang Chi, Bullseye and Wolverine's claws
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RSTEIN said:
The fact that Black Bolt obliterated Apocolypse there shows how strong Hulk was in WWH.
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Except that Hulk did not fight with the REAL Black Bolt, that was a Skrull impostor.
I think Black Bolt would have come out of that fight winning. Not by much, but he is... Black Bolt :)
 
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