Love em both but end of the day batman has more history with his rogues individually vs a sinister 6. The obscure and silly ones can be reinvented. Spiderman's have more flair style wise but not as much dramatically as batman's.
Spider-Man has Mysterio which is my favorite villain in comics so Spider-Man wins, he also has more variety, you have aliens, interdimensional vampires, mad scientists and a lot of them are plays of irresponsible use of powers, which ties them thematically with Peter.
Loved it but it wasn’t a set-up more than a coda where Trinity and Neo get what they deserve as a parallel to Lana’s life. A creator with a new outlook reflecting on material and a legacy made when they were almost literally a different person. Lana‘s now free to change The Matrix, as in the movie.
Honestly, The Matrix should’ve just been one movie, only cuz it was only one movie that worked, and that’s the first one. It was lightning in a bottle that caught waves and can’t be replicated by the multiple sequels. Plus Keanu’s doing so much better in his newer movies, especially in John Wick.
Definitely Batman! I think this is because fans are used to Batman being more malleable, as Kane and Finger's Batman was a pretty basic, archetypal character that had an awesome motif. As such, the only real qualifiers are being someone who suffered a crime-related tragedy and stands against crime.
The idea that anybody could be Spider-Man is a quintessential characteristic of the core of the character, you can be rich, poor, black or white and still be Spider-Man, even Stan said that's why he wears a full face mask, so it naturally follows that he is the best legacy heroes ever created.
I feel like the point of Spider-Man is that anybody can be Spider-Man. Miles and Peter are different characters with their own upbringings. It’s not the same for Batman. Bruce Wayne IS Batman. Only Bruce can really understand what it means to be Batman on a more intimate, personal level in my eyes.
Honestly I believe that Miles is the best example and most successful example of a legacy character ever, in just a little over a decade he has been in animated TV shows, animated movies, and video games, and now a sizeable part of the fandom considers him THE Spider-Man.
Love em both but end of the day batman has more history with his rogues individually vs a sinister 6. The obscure and silly ones can be reinvented. Spiderman's have more flair style wise but not as much dramatically as batman's.
ReplyThey're both great, but Batman's is ICONIC.
ReplyAgreed. Spidey's foes historically fall under the "science experiment gone wrong" category. Batman villains have categorically better backstories.
ReplyBatman villains have stronger themes. Spidey's villains are just wacky for the most part.
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