If You Could Only Keep One....Superman or Batman?

[The Toyroom]

If you could only keep one, which would you retroactively erase from continuity? Superman or Batman?

I love 'em both equally but I gotta think I'd have to zap Batman with my eliminator ray. The universe and the four-color comic book world needs Superman. I think it could get by without Bats.

Of course that would mean that others would vanish too (guilt by association) such as Robin, Batgirl, The Joker.....hmmm maybe I should rethink this

[Meule]

Erase Batman?
I hate you again :tongue2:

Say bye bye to Superman
You wouldn't be loosing too many cool villains either

[joshvox]

wow--well if I HAVE to get rid of one, I'd say Superman. I just love the bat-universe too much for it to go away.

[The Toyroom]

Erase Batman?
I hate you again :tongue2:

Say bye bye to Superman
You wouldn't be loosing too many cool villains either

Yeah I hate me too! That's why I said I might have to rethink this. To me Superman is more important than Batman BUT Batman does have the cooler toys, associates, villains, vehicles etc. I'd hate to lose all of that but I think the DC Universe could get by without Bats...Superman on the other hand is a more iconic inspiration that's definitely needed.

Maybe that's the way to look at this....

1) In the comic world, get rid of Bats, keep Supes. Batman's not as important in the scheme of things.

2) In the real world get rid of Supes and keep Bats because Batman has a more complex world with lots of the aforementioned gadgets and gizmos and whatnot and is (usually) a more enjoyable read.

And to pick up what you said Thomas about not losing too many cool villains with Supes I agree. He's never had the roster of rogues that Batman has had and that's a shame. I think he's suffered greatly in this department since the Byrne reboot. Bloodsport, Silver Banshee, et. al of the "new" creations are nothing more than minor annoyances and C or D level Batman kind of foes.
I long for the villains of the 70s...that's when Superman seemed to get some heavy hitters: Solomon Grundy, Vartox, Terra-Man (laugh if you will but cosmic space cowboy is cool!), Galactic Golem and old stand-bys Luthor and Brainiac. I don't always care for the modern interpretatoions of Lex, Brainy, Toyman, Prankster and all of those old guys either.

[thunderbolt]

Ditch the big blue boyscout.

[kingdom warrior]

Ugh what a decision......I'd have to go with Batman Better stories Better villans Better Movies Better toys.....

[The Bat]

This Tread is sacreligious! Well....My Avatar and Title says it all...BATMAN is My #1 Favorite Comic Character! I like Big Blue(buy the Comic's)...but No one's COOLER than BATMAN!

[toys2cool]

I Like Superman better,but if it means that the rest of the clan go with him,I say delete Superman,cause Batman has better people around

[The Toyroom]

Boy! Poor Supes can't get no love!

However, everyone is right in the fact that the Batman Universe is a much cooler playground. Makes me wonder if Superman can ever reach that #1 spot again.

The Superman Returns movie probably didn't do anything to help his "lack-of-cool" factor...if anything they should have started from square one and re-introduced him for a new generation instead of building on "our" Superman of the 70s. And the toys sucked too! (And that's a key factor for grabbing the attention of the youth market)

Meanwhile Batman has been in the spotlight continously since the '89 film, what with all of the sequels and various animated series and multi-toy lines (even though he's had his share of bad too, Bats always seems to bounce back!)

To paraphrase Batman in "Infinite Crisis": The last time Superman was popular was when he was dead.

[Comic Book Geek]

Anyone who would keep Superman over batman is wrong

[brineb]

Ditch Superman!!! Batman is way cooler!!!

[ctc]

Hmmmm....

It's an odd question, since both are prototypical superheroes. When you get right down to it; there are only three superheroes; with everyone being a derivation thereof:

-Superman: gooder than good, fights to protect the little guy
-Batman: grim vigilante who fights for justice, often using the bad guys' techniques against them
-Spiderman: average schmo who ends up a hero because of circumstance

Taking out one of them sort of throws the equation off.

Now, Starman? HIM we can do without!

*grrr*

Don C.

[jemboy2004]

throw away the first true superhero! NEVER! Batman would have to go!

Don't all hero's owe something to the first true superhero. SUPERMAN!

btw Superman Returns was perfect for the new movie. IMO anyway.

[Bionic Joe]

bye bye batman

[huedell]

Batman's persona is minimal to Superman's overall

and, ya know---

Superman & Green Arrow would do just fine for me

Whereas teaming Batman with say Capt. Marvel just doesn't do it for me

So---yeah---get rid of Batman

And those of you that think Joker/Penguin/Riddler/Catwoman/Scarecrow etc
are that much better than Luthor/Bizarro/Myxlpltlk/Brainiac/Parasite etc.
I think are missing the incredible worth of Supes' baddies
--------granted ya can't beat the Joker as a villain & sure, Supes
needs a classic female foil slash love interest ala Catwoman----

but

heck EVEN if ya think Batman's rogues gallery is better than Superman's-
--to say Superman has a "poor rogue's gallery" is utterly ridiculous (altho
it is something fanboys have been saying for years---more to celebrate
Flash's baddies and Batman's and just to put a thorn in Kal-El's side
because he's so dang not cool to prefer)

Putting Batman over Superman is a sign of society tho'----yeah "Batman's a
badass---so he's gotta be the better superhero" ---well, I disagree----
and put my vote in for Superman anyday

Anyone who can have THAT much power and not go ballistic one day
heat-visioning the Batman fanclub (probably based in Metropolis) to ashes
is tops in my book.