Super Fight!

[Hammerskjold]

I got into a minor arguement with a co-worker today over who would win in a fight:
Batman or Superman
I took the side of :ph34r:Batman:shuriken:
He went with "Superman pick up big rock, make Batman paste"

I got him to budge on a few points, but he still insists that it "wouldn't even be a contest"

What do you guys think?

At the risk of repeating and overlap, I would guess it depends on the settings and rules of the era. Ie: Comic vs Animated vs Live Action. Golden age, silver, modern, post crisis, post modern, post modern crisis. Earth2 alternate multiverse where people don't play 6 degrees of why Obama is to blame for my coke being flat, and Jon and Kate only had twins and TLC was not a Cthulloid agent of ancient evil.

IIRC, in the general comics settings Superman has 2 vulnerabilities. Kryptonite and Magic. So as someone pointed out, even if there's a rule that says it has to be a one on one fight, chances are Batman wouldn't follow that rule. Cause ya know, he's freakin Batman. Batman's genre is no stranger to magic, while Supes is more or less closer to sci-fi'sh.

While Superman is not a moron either, personally I think it comes down to who they are at their core. Kal-El- Kent probably likes to believe more in the best parts of humanity. T3h Batman, is deeply affected by what he'd seen and experienced from the worst of humanity.

While Supes would most likely win in an aerial supremacy raining heat vision from high above, my bet is Batman would conduct a guerila warfare combat where aerial laz0ring would either be useless, or turn the tide of mere mortals against the big blue cape.

But my personal take is, Bats could be defeated. But most likely, pointy ears would find a way to turn it into a phrryc victory for Supes. Not necessarily because of intelligence, but because one is probably more willing to go further than the other.

But no matter what the outcome, winner gets to fight the -real- champ.

Matter Eater Lad.