Marvel vs. DC: Fight of the Year Part 1

Welcome one and all to another installment of Mad Dawg’s Mad Mad World.  I’d like to dispense with the usual pleasantries, and jump right into today’s topic.

Disclaimer: The following blog an overload of nerdom for some.  Read at your own risk.

Now that I got that out of the way…I was talking to a friend the other night, and we happened to stumble upon a set of topics that really got me thinking.  Now, these are age old questions with no clear cut answers, but it’s fun to debate.  It’s the age old, who would win in a fight.  This week, we’re gonna focus on Marvel vs. DC, because those are the two big companies in the comic world.  The matchups will go like this:

Monday: Hulk vs. Superman

Tuesday: Deadpool vs. Deathstroke

Wednesday: Silver Surfer vs. Green Lantern

Thursday: Hawkeye vs. Green Arrow

Friday: Spider-Man vs. Batman

The rules for the fights are as such:  These are chance meetings.  No planning, no strategizing.  They meet, they fight, one wins, and they all walk away.  So without further adieu, let’s get ready to RUMBLE!!!!

Hulk vs. Superman

This is one of those battles where you have two relatively even matched forces that collide with each other.  In order to get a better understanding of their abilities, we need to look at the tale of the tape.

Hulk (Marvel)

Superman (DC)

Strength	Gets stronger the madder he gets. Unlimited strength and stamina.	Able to destroy planets. Has punched a hole in the space time continuum.
Speed	Can run faster than even the fastest athletes.	Second in speed only to the Flash.
Additional Powers	Can regenerate at an alarming rate. Body can adapt to any environment. Can see astral images.	Heat vision, freeze breath, flight, x-ray vision, heals at an alarming rate.
Weaknesses	Multiple personalities	Kryptonite, no yellow sun – no powers, susceptible to magic

Now as you can tell by the tale of the tape, both Hulk and Superman have their advantages and disadvantages.  Superman owns Hulk in terms of sheer speed, but Hulk’s strength has no limits.  So the question is, in a chance meeting, who would best whom?

In my opinion, Hulk takes this fight.  Here is the reason: Hulk doesn’t die.  Plain and simple.  Superman has already fought at his highest level, and “died” in the past.  Doomsday was able to best him.  Hulk, on the other hand, has never reached his highest level because he has no highest level.  Superman will dazzle Hulk with his speed, but that will only serve to anger Hulk even more, which will increase all of his stats exponentially to the point where Hulk will become impervious to ANYTHING.  Heat vision won’t work against Hulk because Hulk can withstand the sun’s core temperature.  Freeze breath won’t work because Hulk can survive sub-zero temperatures.  You can’t drown the Hulk because his body will adapt so that he can breathe underwater.  You can’t suffocate Hulk because Hulk has been known to have the ability to breathe and talk in space.  So no freezing, burning, drowning, or suffocating.  And you can forget dropping a nuke on him too.  Hulk can survive that.

Superman’s only option would be to turn Hulk back into Bruce Banner.  Now this sounds like a great plan in theory.  Here’s the problem: If Banner dies, Hulk takes over AUTOMATICALLY.  Even if Banner gets to be too old, Hulk takes over.  In essence, Hulk can’t die.  And all Hulk has to do is find some Kryptonite of the green or blue variety, and then the fight is automatically over.  Green kryptonite weakens Superman, and blue kryptonite takes his powers away.  I doubt Hulk would find this in a chance meeting, but hey, stranger things have happened.  Like this fight!  Or should Hulk REALLY want to end the fight, take Superman to a planet with no yellow sun.  No yellow sun means Superman has no powers.  No powers, no challenge.

So the winner of this fight is…

 Sorry Supes, the evidence just didn’t favor you in this fight.  Hulk truly is “strongest there is.”

Hope you enjoyed this installment of Mad Dawg’s Mad Mad World.  Be sure to check back tomorrow for matchup number 2: Deadpool vs. Deathstroke. 

As always, love, peace, and chicken grease.