The great superhero debate: Marvel vs. DC

Wow. Now THIS is awesome.ROUND ONE:IRON MAN (Anthony Stark) VS. BATMAN (Bruce Wayne) "Iron Man is one of the most widely known superheroes in the world. Anthony "Tony" Stark was born with extreme intelligence. After the death of his parents when he was 21, Stark inherited Stark Enterprises. After being wounded while in a war zone, he built an armored suit that would help keep him alive. Stark helped to organize the superhero team, The Avengers early in his career as a superhero. Originally, Tony Stark had no powers of his own, and he depended on his armored suit for all of his super abilities, until he injected himself the Extremis virus and later had an arc reactor implanted in his chest, gaining new abilities and intellect."TOOLS AND WEAPONS:The most recognizable part of Iron Man is his armor. How many sets of armor does he have? 10? 20? 30? All wrong. In the main Marvel comic universe Iron Man has made 70 sets of armors. All of them more powerful the the other. Each armor has different purpose, like the Hulkbuster armor. These armors carry weapons like lasers and machine guns., much more then a utility belt could carry! The thing that tops it all is the Iron Man suit's flight capabilities. Can Batman fly in his suits? I don't think so! Currently Iron Man's favorite armor is MK 42. The capabilities of this armor include Wrist-mounted armor piercing taser guns, Hacking units. UV laser, Repulsor mini-gun, Explosive decompression unit, Augmented back-thrusts gear, Anti-electric counter measure Shields and Wrist-mounted missiles. Now THAT is what I call a utility belt! Another VERY useful tool of Tony Stark is the arc reactor, or the rt node. "Tony is able to interact with different types of energies and forces a normal human cannot. The R.T. node acts like a new sense for its user. The reactor's excessive generation of energy provides Stark with an increased amount of intelligence and gave him superhuman-level multitasking and learning capabilities."When using the rt node Iron Man can fire repulsor beams at enemies, he can also create a magnetic field, levitate, increase his strength and senses and defend himself from telepathic attacks.Why is this rt node so important? It's because not only as Iron Man but as Tony Stark can he defend himself. Does Bruce Wayne have something that can protect himself from others when he is simply a business and and not the caped-crusader? Not to my knowledge!ABILITIES:Iron Man nor Batman have any super powers but with their gear they have many powers that some more natural superheroes do not have. One of the great feats of Iron Man is his ability to lift 100 tons or more. If he gets more power then he can lift more, much more. Speed and flight go hand in hand. While some may think that with a suit of metal you would be very slow but yet Iron Man pulls it off. On average the suit and it's wearer will only go up to mach 10 but now Iron Man can outfly black holes. That is fast. In my opinion the most useful tool of Iron Man is his onboard computer. The computer helps Iron Man devise battle strategy, look up opponents, their histories, strengths and weaknesses plus the computer can prevent targeting lock.But wait, there is more!If Batman were to somehow get the advantage over iron Man I think that the defensive abilities of Iron Man and his suits would help out hugely. Iron Man's suit's are very durable. In Avengers VS X-Men issue 12 Iron Man and the avengers were facing off against the Dark Phoenix, one of the most powerful characters to ever exist and Iron Man took a small amount of damage in the final battle.Another defensive strength of Iron Man is his Energy Shield. The shield allows Iron Man to repulse attacks and stay mobile. At a mere 2% power that shield can deflect a nuclear explosion. Batman is no atom bomb.It would take way too long to cover all Iron Man's abilities as the abilities change with the armor. These are just the most powerful abilities I could find. If you want to review some other abilities there is a link to were I got these powers from at the end of the speech. OTHER:Tony Stark is not a genius. He is a SUPER-Genius. "Quite apart from the powers granted him by the suit, Tony Stark is far more than a mechanical engineering prodigy who graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with honors at the age of 17. With an intelligence classed as super-genius, he easily is one of the smartest people on Earth. Furthermore, this extends to his remarkable ingenuity dealing with difficult situations such as difficult foes and death raps where he is capable of using his available tools, like his suit, in unorthodox and effective ways, as an example: when he built the first Iron Man armor in captivity. He has also been able to hack even technology from the aliens Karee, a race centuries more advanced than humans"Told you.In the face of battle he is an expert tactician and a brilliant engineer. With the help of his computer and his brain he can formulate battle plans in mere seconds, and with his brilliance in the subject of engineering he can repair almost any piece of technology.He is also a skilled marksman and a very skilled combatant. WeaknessesIron Man's only true weakness is his dependency on the rt node. His extremis-modified body rely's on the rt node and without it Iron Man very well could die. The thing is is that it is very unlikely if not impossible for Batman to exploit this weakness.This is why Iron Man is superior.Thank you for accepting and I hope you do great!DarthKironeshttp://marvel.wikia.com...