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Originally Posted by ThaVirus
I'm kind of bringing this off track again, but "humanizing their superheroes" is probably the reason I think Marvel superheroes blow DC's out of the water. Obviously they're doing a good job of it now with Supes and Batman, but how can the average person relate to the Green Lantern, Wonder Woman, and the Martian Manhunter? On the other hand, you've got Spider-Man, the Hulk, and Iron Man on the Marvel side.
Moral of the story? Marvel> DC
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Oh, I think they can all be humanized. You really can't create a superhero who isn't humanized (at least, not a popular one). The reason people enjoy superheroes is because they can identify, empathize, desire to be them, whatever; if a superhero were literally "inhuman" they, and their exploits, wouldn't be very interesting.
I think Batman has always been humanized from the get-go. He was always just a regular guy, and even the first film with Michael Keaton did a good job on that. Wonder Woman, they actually did a decent job with the Lynda Carter TV series, I thought (for it's time, at least). Aren't they doing a Green Lantern film with Ryan "I broke up with Scarlett and thus am the stupidest man in the world" Reynolds?