What if superman was a bad guy?

Wasnt this the plot of the first injustice?

Yeah, and what do you suppose a sequel would be about, genius ?

Well, sequels can distinguish themselves sometimes. Die Harder took place at an airport while Die Hard only took place in a skyscraper; it abandoned verticality in favor of horizontality and that's a pretty big risk to take.

So what are the odds that Superman will say he's going to make Metropolis great again or something to that effect?

Wasn't this the setting of the first Bioshock?

Okay no

Being disabled, I have a "tens" unit for back pain. I put one of the pads on my frenulum, turned it on, and before long I had an erection and an orgasm. I have done this several times and each time I turn the electric current up a little more. It works for me!

Wasn't that the plot of Fallout New Vegas?

Is Bane in?

Juiced Spiderman is in, don't know why they decided to call him "Bane".

Dropped

But he is.

Wasn't pandering the reason DD:I tanked?

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Nigga I aint gay but superman is fucking average looking. Fuck, all of them, men and woman, are average or straight up ugly in this game what the fuck gives? Are sjw's just averse to the idea of universal laws of human attraction?

Yes

They know that was just George Costanza, right?

Superman was originally created by commie Jews (literally) but DC said fuck that and turned him into their own thing. Superman was an anti commie simple for 40 years.

Asking hypothetical questions within the context of comics is somewhat pointless since that's pretty much how creators come up with new stories in the first place.

Nothing and I mean nothing is ever original in comics.

So DC character and history is good but injustice is a shit fighting game.

Why don't they finally do it a sequel where Bat Sue over there loses his mind and becomes a murderous tyrant instead? Nobody gives a shit over time #4960 where Superman going evil.

Get lost loser.

Batman would make a great villain, probably impossible to beat.

Superman and Batman are the blandest superheroes. Fucking aquaman is more interesting than those two.

Batman looks bland to you because he's like 5 times older than your underage ass. No other super hero comes close it him in terms of originality.
Supes on the other hand is indeed just reimagining of some ancient greek myths, but even then he's the daddy of all modern super heroes, so fuck off.

at least they know they've made a steaming pile of shit

Think they're going to shoehorn a flashback of the backstory from the Justice League cartoon, only have president Luthor sound like Trump?

I preferred Batman when he was Zorro. Originality my ass. This is your brain on Holla Forums.

Superman creator Jerry Siegel continued to write for Superman well into the 1960s.


It's not a hypothetical question. It's half of Superman's rogues gallery, including at least four different versions of Zod, four different versions of Bizarro, and four different versions of Ultraman. Plus alternate timelines, like Justice Lords Superman.


He tried to come up with plans to defeat the whole Justice League just in case. They included such brilliant plans as "Give Superman Red Kryptonite (which has a random effect each time) and hope that it helps Batman win, instead of just making him more powerful (or turning him into a gorilla or something)."

The first Batman story, The Case of the Chemical Syndicate, is literally just a drawn version of a Shadow story, only they changed The Shadow's costume.

Why would you like Batman?

Practically every superhero has a no kill rule, and there are very few good superhero games before Arkham Asylum anyway. And it's not like Spider-Man games were still on the level of Spider-Man 2, or like we were getting more Hulk: Ultimate Destruction.

Hail Hydra

Well I know next to fuck all about comics, but when you're dealing with a guy that takes fucking magic to stand a chance of beating, you're probably not going to have much of a plan either.

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Doomsday killed Superman without magic or Kryptonite. Most of his other villains do just fine challenging him without them too. Luthor usually doesn't use Kryptonite anymore, and Bruce Wayne is basically just a more powerful Lex Luthor. But Bruce didn't realize that. Instead he used Red Kryptonite, well known for doing things like turning Superman into a Metallo John Wilkes Booth, or into some sort of ant monster.


Canonically, that isn't the plan Batman came up with.

Canonically doesn't mean shit in western comics because it all depends on the current writer.

Oh but it's not just limited to superhero games. Plenty Third person hack n slashers also use that terrible formula. Shadow of Mordor, The Last Templar, Witcher, etc.
Man I wish we'd get more stuff like Ultimate Destruction or Infamous.

And my problem with Batman's no kill rule specifically is that it doesn't even make sense, especially when Batman goes at great lengths to keep Joker alive. Hell, doesn't he fucking maim Jason Todd in Under The Red Hood trying to keep him from blowing away Joker?
I don't know how stupid it is with other superheroes but with batman it pisses me off to no end.

Naw, that's just not true. What's canon and what's not canon just becomes more important over time. it's one of the key problems with modern comics. The reliance on previous canon locks out new readers.


Well yeah but you said superhero games in particular.

Batman's goal is to prevent murder, especially by his own hands. He wouldn't protect Joker from being legally executed by the state. However, the one time Joker was up for execution, Batman saved him because he was convicted for the one crime that he didn't actually do.

Superheroes beat up people who are trying to kill people. If Red Hood is trying to kill someone, even Joker, Batman's gonna beat him up.

That said, Batman later seems to come to an understanding with Red Hood where he kinda turns a blind eye to his activities, as long as they're far enough away.

Practically every other superhero has a no kill rule, but Batman's is probably the strictest. Flash killed Reverse Flash when Reverse Flash tried to kill his second wife at their wedding (Reverse Flash had previously killed Flash's first wife), and even Kid Flash testified at trial that Flash could have stopped him without lethal force. Superman killed a version of Zod from an alt universe where he killed everyone in his universe's earth, but then later he felt bad about it and stopped being Superman for a while. Later he killed Imperiex when Imperiex tried to blow up the earth (which would destroy the universe because of stuff that happened in the Crisis on Infinite Earths, which resulted in there only being one Earth afterward), but he did this by taking Imperiex to the beginning of time and blowing him up there, so he could be the original big bang instead of a new big bang. Superman was fine because he already survived the big bang at least once before (in the aforementioned Crisis).

The closest main-universe Batman's come to killing is when he shot the god of evil, Darkseid's, ghost (he's a god so being dead wasn't really a problem for him) with a god killing bullet because Darkseid was sucking the whole universe into his black hole heart. But even that didn't fully work and all the Flashes had to team up to help death catch up to Darkseid's ghost as it fell backwards through time as he died. And then Superman sang at the perfect frequency to counter Darkseid's vibrations (the DCU is made of vibrations) to erase him from existence, but the multiverse needs Darkseid, since he's a fundamental concept, so Superman made a wish on the Miracle Machine and Darkseid and all the other gods reincarnated back on their own universe, which they had previously destroyed.

So Batman kinda killed a guy one time. And Earth-Two Batman (the original Batman) killed a few guys back in his first few stories, but he stopped shortly after he got Robin.