Who is the greatest superhero?

Someone mentioned The Hulk earlier. The Hulk is an anti-hero. Although he is one of my all time favorite creations in the genre of comics. Cursed with the inability to never lose control or allow himself to be angry. On the run, from the life he committed himself to, a woman he loves, and the government that wants to use him to exploit the accident that became him. Man on the run alone, pleading with himself to find a cure, can never stay anywhere long due to a rational fear of being caught. He drifts from place to place never being able to go home or create a new one.

Batman and Superman are the greatest. But nobody ever goes deep into the extent of who they are as characters. I mean where are the flashbacks of Bruce Wayne growing up clearly mentally disturbed and then flashing back to present where he is in a situation that coincides with it and you can see how rational and insane he is at the same time?

Superman well, For a being from a different planet, I would assume him to be the loneliest man on the planet. The fact that he does fly around to protect it shows how much he yearns to have a place to accept as his own. Where's ever continuing stories of Superman just staring down at the planet then flying in doing his shit and saving the day going to the Daily Planet making his rounds then hitting the fortress of solitude and just aimlessly walking through his cold halls there and then staring at a console with television channels around the world on display?

superman could beat the hulk easily. it would take like a second or two to hoist the hulk into space and leave him there. though, i like the hulk comic more. the aspect of a man dealing with a bipolar disorder shows more humanity than an alien with pretty much unlimited strength. that's why, with the exception of batman, i prefer marvel in most every other way.

All superman is a demi god wrapped in modern time setting.

The Mulk once kicked a tidal wave into the sun!

I don't think Superman could beat the Hulk, citing Superman v. Doomsday as precedent.

<---geek

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i am still not convinced

hands down.

I love robbers too!

That's obviously Batman villains Scarface and The Ventriloquist aka "Dummy", not a robber.

But whose foot is that behind batman's hand?

Are you guys forgetting the bad assery that is Spawn?

BatmanBatmanBatmanBatmanBatman. No contest. He might not have super-powers but he is pretty fucking super. Fuck Superman. Batman kicked Superman's ass in Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns when he sythesised kryptonite, and he was an old man then! What more proof do you need? Superman should have known what he was doing since his hearing is that good, but he didn't. Then Batman made Superman his Superbitch in The Dark Knight Strikes Again. Yep, Batman IS a super-hero and he's the greatest of them all. OF THEM ALL! AAAAAAAAAARGH!!!

The lowdown on the French Superhero Superdupont : http://www.internationalhero.co.uk/s/supdupont.htm

I love Don Martin.

I grew up on his stuff.

Does Supdupont have superpowers? This looks quite interesting if slightly... cheesey? Ha!

Just read the lowdown, i wish i could read French or Dutch, this sounds pretty funny

Duh.

He can satisfy twenty-five women at once.

Think about it.

"Superhuman strength, invulnerability, able to fly. Can fire a ray from his hands immediately curing gonorrhea. In him the many virtues and qualities of the French genius are united (description by some cosmic entity, namely the French-created standard metre).
More on Le Héros :
http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/2008/superdupont/
http://www.writeups.org/fiche.php?id=812
http://beretandboina.blogspot.com/2009/12/superdupont-is-french-comic-cr...

Also notable : Supermurgeman (approx. transl. Superblotto)


Powers : (linked to an extraordinary consumption of beer)
- supernatural strength
- fast healing due to high alcohol level in his blood
--paralysing his foes by vomuting on them (after drinking beer, particularly Supermurgebeer)

he's like a French Popeye!

I don't understand why people always say Superman, Batman or Spiderman are the greatest superheroes.

When this superhero/villain can do a lot of more stuff then all of them put together.

I'm talking about X-Men's "Jean Grey(Phoenix)"

Batman is great. But when i think of "greatest", i'm thinking of the guy who can whoop everyones butt. So now that i know more than i want to know about the flash, id put him in there. Defitnitley the Hulk, Superman. How bout the silver surfer? Dont know much about Pheonix except that she's pretty powerful. My votes with the hulk, he has unmatched strength and has healing powers like wolverine except at least 10x faster.

Just being the most powerful doesn't make someone "the best."

Batman has beaten Superman a few times. Just saying. Smarts can beat muscles.

I kept reading what it said at the bottom and didn't notice the Green Lantern reference in the picture. I feel retarded now.

I noticed it right off but it still seems weird. Maybe if Intelligence, Willpower and Imagination didn't describe him or something. Like if it had been a picture of Jimmy Olsen or Wimpy from Popeye.
Also, they didn't really make him a green lantern did they? That's just some goofy fan art, right?

He could have got a hold of a ring at some point without formally being made into a Green Lantern. It doesn't look like fan art.

I don't care for jewelry on men.

I agree, however: they actually did launch the Hulk into space once. Needless to say, it didn't end well for them. Google "Planet Hulk" and "World War Hulk". They were pretty much fucked.
Summary of the plots: "He's overpopwered and dangerous! Quick, Iron Man, Reed Richards, and some other super-genious badasses! Launch him into space!"
Lands on a planet: "Hulk take over! And also now I'm really intelligent and can control my own conciousness now, so it's time to have a kid, a wife and dominate the galaxy."
Looks through telescope: "Oh, shit! He got even COOLER, has a sword, a race of aliens at his disposal, and is about to breed! Blow that place up!"
They do. Needless to say, eh survived along with his alien guards. They weren't happy.
Lands in New York. "You have a day to get the Hell out and leave the heroes who did this or YOU DIE."
"Evacuate. Time to fight, guys."
So they fight, and some people get their asses handed to them until Hulk gets captured by a ray-gun thingy (it's been a year since i read this) and put into a military base, where he miraculously devolves.
One thing happens after all of this: RED HULK. Look him up. Not the greatest hero, but the most over-powered. He threw Thor, smacked him in the face with Mjolnir, punched Uatu out, and did a lot of other insane things.

Is it just me or are they, in lieu of coming up with original ideas, just changing the color of things and trying to convince people it's great? They're doing the same thing with the Green Lanterns.
Maybe it's just green things they're doing it with, I dunno.

Pretty much. Although, the Red Hulk is more or less rape on two legs, so I don't think that's lack of an idea. More like lack of respect for all of continuity. And Green Lantern isn't that great anymore. Honestly, though, the only current running mainstream series (ie, Marvel/DC) that is really good and still fresh with ideas I read anymore is Deadpool and all subsequent spin-offs. It's just insane, violent, funny, and fun.
Although, Dark Horse still publishes some kick-ass titles.

What the fuck does that mean?

It means that no one is safe from his power, and all the characters that happen to anger him for whatever arbitrary reason may as well just let it happen and be over with soon enough.
Really, it's hard to explain the insanity and sheer ridiculousness of Red Hulk. It something best left for people on Wikipedia to explain, and angry fanboys on the Marvel forums to complain about. And by the way, somehow, despite having beaten the crap out of Iron Man on multiple ocassions, they let him join the Avengers. Just because. He also shot the Abomination down in his first appearence.
And the first six issues of the current Hulk series just had him screaming on every cover. One of them was a reflection of him screaming on Iron Man's beaten up helmet.

SO you think people being raped should just let it happen and it's be over soon enough? Terrible.

It's a joke. I don't mean to make rape a trivial thing (members of my family and a very close friend of mine have been victims, and I understand the seriousness of the subject). However, if you're simply being sarcastic/joking, sorry. It's hard to tell on the internet, especially in the age of trolls. If I managed to offend in any way, sorry. I probably should have diferentiated in some way previously.

How about "Racism on two legs?"

I like that. A lot. And I haven't seen him brutalize anything red yet, so maybe.
Nate, you need to be a fucking quote machine or something. You are hands down the funniest forum user I've seen anywhere. How the fuck are you this scatter-brained, I mean I have my days, but you... it's like someone dumped LSD on your brain or something, and you've been set lose upon the intarwebs. I mean that in the best way possible.

I'm amazed that anyone actually gets my sense of humour. Will you marry me?

Consider it done.
I really struggle to understand how someone wouldn't get it. It's like Monty Python blended with Chevy Chase on SNL and Simpsons at their best, with the better moments of Futurama and being incorporated into a Patton Oswalt bit. In other words, it's brilliant.

Batman.

If you disagree with me I will fight you.

He's not a superhero

*mask on,gadget belt fastened,deep christian bale voice activated*

"You know that day that you once told me about, when Gotham would no longer need Batman? It's coming."

If you're narrowly defining a superhero to only include meta-humans, you're correct. But otherwise, he is a superhero.

They ran an Elseworlds where Bruce kind of failed at being Batman and ends up getting a ring http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman:_In_Darkest_Knight

The image in question however, is from Green Lantern vol.4 #9 (the current series). It is a variant cover and didn't actually happen.

Midnighter > Batman

Without a doubt it is.....

Obviously, Spawn. Does Batman have a living cape? I think not! Does Spiderman regenerate his dead flesh using forgotten magic? Think again!
So, Spawn.

I'd say Batman if "greatest character" means the character who I like to read about the most. I really love the Hulk comics that Peter David wrote but every Hulk comic that I've read from another writer has been pretty shitty. I think it's difficult to write the Hulk well while it's pretty easy to write a decent Batman comic.