10-07-2009, 03:42 PM
Quote:Everything I've read recently shows that Superman is getting more powerful due to his constant exposure to Earth's Sun. This seems to have accelerated since his "death" at the hands of Doomsday. Batman wouldn't be able to wear down Superman and having been the victim of a similar tactic at the hands of Bane it would be highly unlikely he would resort to such a tactic.
Given what I know of Bats, I think having firsthand experience with the power of attrition would make him *more* likely to use it against an opponent, given the means to do so.
Supes versus Bats, as pointed out by Chesspiece, has more to do with psychology than powers. Superman has a thousand ways he could reduce Batman or any other human to a stain on the floor. But he's too much of a pansy to do it. Heck, I've got an old comic where it takes the better part of a page for the Phantom Stranger to convince Supes to throw a punch at an animated pile of *dirt* because it's powered by the souls of dead criminals. And this while said mound is getting bigger by the minute and threatening to crush Metropolis.
The Bat, on the other hand, is ruthless. He has to be in order to be effective in a crime-ridden rathole like Gotham. He'll resort to anything, up to and including self-destruction if need be, to get the job done.