The debate constantly rages on about which is better, Marvel or DC. These two juggernauts of comics have been going back and forth with who leads the industry longer than some of their fans have been alive. The question always comes up when you debate comics. Are you a Marvel Fanboy, or a DC Shill? Today we're going to be Marvel Fanboys as a I list off 5 reasons that Marvel is better than DC.
1. Anyone Can Be A Hero, Any Day - Marvel has street level heroes and they always have. The difference is that street level heroes in Marvel are known to rise to the occasion and do amazing and spectacular things. Sure Spider-Man fights street crime, but he also takes on cosmic level events, he's Marvel's Batman in the sense that he shouldn't be dealing with these problems, and he knows it. Yet, he manages to overcome the odds and stand on equal if not higher footing than his peers. But, Spider-Man is not the only one. Any street level hero in Marvel can become the world saver in any story at any time. Kitty Pride is quite possibly one of the lamest X-Men to exist, yet, she defeated Galactus. Squirrel Girl isn't even a street level hero, but she's managed to take down Wolverine. You don't see stories about Plastic Man rising to the occasion to take on Doomsday. With Marvel there's always a lesser hero stepping up to the plate.
2. Heroes Have Lasting Flaws - Don't get me wrong, DC characters have flaws as well but they're temporary. Batman and Red Hood have a bad relationship because Batman didn't really care about him. Flaw. Batman accidentally gets Red Hood injured and cries at his bedside apologizing for the injury and everything else. Red Hood wakes up and they hug. Flaw fixed. With Marvel however they maintain these flaws, sometimes forever. Tony Stark was an alcoholic and it led to James Rhodes becoming Iron Man and eventually War Machine while Tony was facing his issues. Even now he still fights his alcoholism to this day. Roy Harper was a drug addict, and he struggled with it. Yet, after he got clean he never struggled with it again. Sometimes it seems like Marvel heroes are regular people trying to be super heroes, and DC heroes are super heroes trying to be regular people. That's the reason Ralph Dibney has gotten over Sue yet Hank Pym is still a woman beater who ruins everything because of his jealousy issues.
3. The Heroes - A while back I wrote about how Marvel doesn't really have a need for villains anymore because heroes are always fighting heroes. Yet, sometimes that can be a good thing. You don't necessarily need good villains to make a hero good in Marvel. Can you name a recurring villain for Kamal Khan? Who is her Green Goblin? It doesn't matter because she's good enough to stand on her own. Meanwhile Arkham is full of some of Batman's strangest foes. The Flash's Rogues have some of the most unique dynamics with a hero ever and Superman has a prison in the Fortress of Solicitude because his villains are so dangerous. Yet, with Marvel we can read an entire issue where Spider-Man and Iron Man fight it out over Mary Jane while endangering civilians and letting a lower level villain go free.
4. The Movies - Don't get me wrong here, Deadpool was great, Batman V Superman's Rated R cut may be my favorite super hero film ever. But, when it comes to movies, Marvel has the game locked down tight. So tight, they managed to pry Spider-Man from Sony's warm living hands. Sure, the villains in these movies are usually not very well written and they've made some that weren't verry good like; Thor, Thor 2, Ant-Man, Iron man 3 and others. But, unlike Fox and Sony, they never had to reset the universe and unlike DC they've actually created one. The movies have managed to bring in thousands of fans to Marvel. Unless DC can rapidly push out good movies then Marvel will have the movie game on locked for a long time.
5. Death - These days DC doesn't really kill anyone, well they do, but they don't often stay dead. Marvel on the other hand will kill an every universe besides 616 just because they can. They will kill Namor and destroy Atlantis in the first issue of Squadron Supreme, so you know they aren't playing. They had Cyclops kill Professor X, just for Cyclops to turn around and die. Marvel is like Game of Thrones, you don't want to cheer for anyone because they might end up dead. "Yeah, Cyclops is going to get revenge on those Inhumans, oh shit, he dead y'all." Superman again recently in DC, they replaced him with a new Superman who was actually the old Superman. DC just doesn't want to kill characters right now and Marvel wants to kill everyone. They almost killed an entire Ultimates team, hell they had Jim Hammond threatening to give people cancer.
Those are the 5 reasons that Marvel is better than DC. Reading Batman doesn't make you a bad guy but thinking he could beat T'Challa does make you a bad guy. There's nothing inherently wrong with liking DC more than Marvel, just make sure to know your role and shut your mouth.
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ReplyDeleteMarvel actually uses same actors for the same role, no matter whether it's movie or series, Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury in both the marvel movies as in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. while DC has Will Smith as Deadshot in Suicide squad and some random unknown white actor in Arrow.
ReplyDeleteMarvel heroes also have a better back story most of the time, Peter Parker already had his spider mutation power before he actually thought about using them, he just started to use them to find his uncle's killer while Bruce Wayne simply used his money to buy some toys because he couldn't get over his parents who died in a random mugging decades ago.
Tony Stark became Ironman after he made the 1st suit to escape a terrorist camp where he was held captive and continued as Ironman because he found out his own company had been supplying the terrorists with weapons, Superman simply became superman because he had the powers and I guess he was just bored.
Even Captain America has a better background story than Green Arrow, becoming a super soldier because you wanted to fight for a cause instead of becoming some weird Robin Hood because you had a farfetched survival story.