Batman vs. Superman

Batman vs. Superman
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Off TopicA recent post on another board I post onmade me start thinking of this. What are everyone's thoughts on this fight if it went down. And we're not talking about a training session or some sissy fight, we're talking with the gloves off.
SUPERMAN
VS.
BATMAN
I think Batman doesn't stand a chance, personally. Yeah, he's Batman and he's the best damn human around, but he's still just human. Superman is a Kryptonian, a Kryptonian with years of experience with his awesome powers. Superman has also overcome a little thing like Kryptonite plenty of times. If that is Bats' strategy, he better bring enough to drop on top of Superman.
-Nate-

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How often does Batman fight during the day?How often does Superman fight at night?
Assuming this fight happens at night,I'd say Batman has the upper hand.
The way I see it Superman isn't as strong during the night as he is during the day due to the lack of sun.
1. In the Hush series, he went to Metropolis expecting to fight Superman. But he also had no intention of actually fighting him, even the Kryptonite ring was intended just to slow Superman down. Batman's gadgets and prep gave him the ability to avoid most of the direct conflict and slow Superman down early on, but nothing he did was capable of actually stopping Superman, in the end it was only Superman breaking out of Ivy's control that ended the fight.
2. Dark Knight. I haven't read this one as thoroughly as the others, but the whole book was really written as a "Look how uber skilled and talented Batman is. Nothing can stop him for long." So...yeah, of course he wins.
The third...the fight was unexpected....and Batman didn't fare as well.
3. During Infinite Crisis, Max Lord sent Superman to crush Batman. And...he did. Blew through everything Bat's could throw up (including the JLA watchtower security systems) and would have killed Batman, at close range by strangulation, had the other Justice Leagers not arrived in time. This is really the most "real" of the fight scenarios since it's the only one in which Superman wasn't trying to hold back at all.
I do prefer Batman to Superman, but in a fight where the only way to win is to incapacitate the opponent, Batman's only gonna be able to pull off the win maybe 1 in 100 times. The other 99, he's gonna be a little baggie of skin and broken bones. (For which Superman will feel horrible about afterward..)
Reason: In anything short to a fight to the death Batman will never surrender ...ever so let's assume it is a fight no holds bar to the death and Superman goes all super speed superkillyourawr.dek he kills Batman now killing his BFF is gonna set him over the edge completely breaking his psyche. SO even in death Batman wins.
I also found the support I needed for Batman faking his death.
In The Dark Knight Returns, Batman uses a pill that causes him to suffer what appears to be a fatal heart attack and temporarily stops his heart (or something like that, I never read the comic myself). In the comic though Supes attends the funeral and hears Bruce's heartbeat in the coffin.
Stupid mistake on Bats' fault but also raises the question of how Superman was able to hear Batman's heartbeat with all the other people at the funeral being present. I mean not only are all the other people including Superman making all other kinds of noise, like I don't know, crying? But, all those people have beating hearts and have other bodily functions that make noise. How could Superman filter all of that out to hear the heartbeat of one person who is inside coffin and why would he be listening for it in the first place? Bats was supposed to be dead anyway.
Still I think if Superman wanted to kill/maim/paralyze Batman, he could.
If there is something that causes Superman and Batman to get into a serious fight, there probably will have been a lot of tension between the two for awhile, and Batman would have been prepared, because he's that kind of guy. Unless it's some sort of situation where Superman is under mind-control and is told to go kill Batman. And if Batman is thinking that they are going to get into a huge fight, he's probably going to carry more than his kryptonite ring with him.
And if Bats thinks it's a really serious, Superman must be stopped, situation, he would probably call in help from other heroes or even Luthor.
Or if the fight just happens out of nowhere, Batman's isn't going to try to take down Superman unless he is actually able to, so if Bats has nothing with him to take down Supes, he's going to try to escape. But considering Supes' range of powers, Bats isn't very likely to escape, especially if Supes is really trying.
Also, on the subject of Batman faking his death:
Unless there's something he could use to actually temporarily stop his heart, Superman would be able to hear Batman's heartbeat.
So, I'd say: If Bats has prep-time or if Bats is being controlled: Bats has 50% chance of winning
If Superman is being controlled: Bats has a 5% chance of winning
But wait, you say. Bats has a Kryptonite ring! Do you guys realize how small a bit of kryptonite that is? Batman doesn't just hold it up and Superman loses his powers. He holds it up and Superman gradually gets a little weaker... he still has more than enough power to end a fight with the Batman, and as someone else pointed out, if Superman is farther away than a few feet, the radiation from said kryptonite won't even reach him.
But wait, you say. If Batman has time to plan ahead, he can beat anyone! Ahem, while I do feel that he could overcome many a challenging foe if he had time to prep, there are actually many foes that are simply out of his league, regardless of how thoroughly he prepares or boobytraps the battlefield. That aside, let's be serious... how many fights have any of you out there been in? Now how many of those fights did you have time to prepare for in advance? Most fights in real life and in comics are pretty spur of the moment, so I'd say no as far as giving Batman time to prepare for this fight. The topic was "could Batman beat Superman in a fight?", not "could Batman, if allowed time to maximize every nuance and advantage in his favor beat Superman?".
Just my two cents. Take them for what you will.
As a side note, I should point out that I like Batman as a character far more than I like Superman. But I recognize Superman's capabilities as compared to Batman's. In Marvel, I like Spider-Man a lot more than I like the Hulk, but I have to recognize that there's no way that Spidey is going to win against ole jade jaws.
cuz well batman wood use his kryptonie ring and superman doesn't kill but depowerd supes is actully a pretty strong guy and batman slightly less muscler so meaning slightly weaker but faster and more skilled fighter yeah supes is gonna get his asssss kicked but I think supes can take hit pretty well....but if supes was fast enough to destroy the ring b4 affecting him completlly he beat the crap out of him.....
so its a DRAW!!!!!
yes his plan would have to rely on kryptonite, and yes supes has fought through kryptonite before, but that is when facing off with his enemies.
superman's enemies tend to be idiots. they try to say his enemies are intelligent, but their plans are always moronic.
batman is not an idiot. batman would cover his bases and wouldn't leave that loophole supes always escapes through.
true intelligence > brawn.
just my little opinion.
also, my theories are based on general views. some idiot writers have made batman incompetant, and some writers have made superman a genius, but on both counts, the opposite seems to be the rule.
If he does, Batman wins.
Batman's plan to take down the man of steel doesn't revolve around a little green rock, that's just for emergency escapes. Batman's plan to beat Supes is to fake his own death making Supes think he killed Batman. When Superman suffers a complete mental breakdown from not only breaking his own moral code but killing one of his best friends, he'll either completely give up being Superman for fear he would kill again or be weak enough for Bats to strike back and kill Superman.
On the other hand, if Superman doesn't mind if he kills Batman, Superman wins in .05 seconds.