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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
Although at this point, Batman beating Superman isn't an interesting story anymore.
Forever liveblogging the AvengersWhile is true that power can changes, sometimes they are rule or a least stuff that writer abise, even lightly, I mean Civil war make not pretense Zemo could take Cap, much less the avenger who he create a overly convulted plan to get the oportunity to destroy the avengers.
"My Name is Bolt, Bolt Crank and I dont care if you believe or not"I have an idea for an evil Batman story that has Batman hunker himself down in a bunker several miles below the Earth surrounded by all sorts of defenses like red sun radiation & kryptonite totally read to face Superman.
Only for him to be suddenly in the air as Supes grabs him by the colllar in the literal blink of an eye. Supes just disabled the defenses via a simple opening.
"I am Alpharius. This is a lie."I also have Supes countering stuff like Batman having a kryptonite tooth filling simply because he knows the guy well enough. So he pretty much immediately scans his body for anomalies & plucks them out without him ever reasoning it.
Also the grand reveal that Batman experimented on himself to give him full Kryptonian powers only to still be curb-stomped by Supes cause he knows the powers far better than Batman ever will.
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Which comic?
Edited by slimcoder on Dec 18th 2019 at 11:18:30 AM
"I am Alpharius. This is a lie."I’ve rather become attached to the concept of Bats turning himself Kryptonian or at least ultra-powered because it’s like the ultimate tear down to fans of his Badass Normal concept.
Plus it’s the logical progression of his pragmatism. Batman is characterized as using everything at his disposal for victory, so a Batman with no limits or moral standards would immediately augment himself with the strongest superpowers he can find as it would increase his chances of winning.
"I am Alpharius. This is a lie."I think I'd just make Bv S a teamup movie between the two (granted I haven't actually seen it in full). Actually I'd just up and overhaul the hell out of it.
Self-serious autistic trans gal who loves rock/metal and animation with all her heart. (she/her)Paparazzi shots of Falcon, Bucky, and Baron Zemo for The Falcon and the Winter Soldier.
How do metal arms work in filmmaking? Is it like they film the scene normally and then use CG to make it look like an actual metal arm?
Because Sebastian looks to be wearing some kind of sleeve colored like Bucky's Wakandian metal arm.
Typically, the actor wears makeup or a form-fitting sleeve that is colored green so that green-screen CGI can be done over it.
Edited by Fighteer on Dec 19th 2019 at 9:25:07 AM
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"Right, that's true. I forgot that green-screen prosthetics are no longer used in CGI; instead they have motion capture dots and do all of the effects in post.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"

That's why the Superman v. Batman rivalry is a thing in the first place.
By all logic, Superman wins. In a straight fight in a controlled arena with no special circumstances, no outside help, no prep time, etc. Superman wins a million times over.
But in actual stories that people write, Batman will likely win more frequently than Superman. Because that's a more interesting story. Superman winning is boring because Superman obviously wins, come on, Batman doesn't even have superpowers. Coming up with a way for Batman to beat the odds and overcome Superman is interesting. That's the kind of story people want to hear.
That's why Zemo wasn't the final boss fight for Captain America: Civil War. Iron Man was. At the end of the film, when all is said and done, Cap had to find a way to actually beat Iron Man in a fistfight. The movie gave him a partner, it gave him an advantageous battleground that plays more to his strengths than Tony's, it gave him a distracted foe too busy trying to accomplish a different goal to actually fight him properly, all for the sake of bringing about Cap's ultimate victory over an otherwise insurmountable foe.
Because that's exciting. So much moreso than "Tony shoots Cap with a tank missile and explodes him into giblets because how the f*ck did you think this was going to end?" For the sake of building and ultimately releasing tension, Cap had to beat Iron Man this one time, and the writers pulled out all the stops to make that possible.
Edited by TobiasDrake on Dec 18th 2019 at 10:39:38 AM
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