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