The Oldest of Battles

Before I begin, I would like to thank everyone that has shown interest in this debate format so far.  This edition is dedicated to Harry_Situation, who chose to debate me on one of the oldest and most important issues of the modern era: which superhero universe is supreme.

     Since the dawn of the comic book, mankind has been locked in a dramatic struggle to determine whether or not DC comics, with heroes such as batman and superman are supreme, or if Marvel comics has dominated the imagination and hearts of children and fanatics.(myself included in the later section.)  With our new age of technology, cinema, and social media though, the battle is finally over and marvel can be declared the supreme leader of all things superheroes.

     Since 2008, the Marvel cinematic universe(MCU) has produced a total of 14 movies, with the latest instalment of Doctor Strange just earlier this month.  The nature of this project was, and still is revolutionary to cinematic history.  No other film studio in the world has been able to create a universe of interconnecting and vastly different movies the way marvel has.  The closest thing to it is Fox's "Wolverine Universe", which incorporates both Wolverine and the X-Men.  On one side note, Wolverine and the X-Men are also still a part of Marvel Comics.  Fox just own's the movie rights.  Now granted, DC is trying to catch up to Marvel with it's eighth or so attempt at a cinematic universe.  This cinematic universe though is well, a failure.  

     The worst movie that the MCU produced over its eight year history was the Incredible Hulk.  It yielded about $263.4 Million in box office sales worldwide, and only has a score of 67% on rotten tomatoes.  By comparison, DC's best success at a cinematic universe, Man of Steel, was able to yield $668 million in box office sale, but only scored a 55% on rotten tomatoes.  Batman v Superman and Suicide Squad received a 27% and 26% respectively.  In short, Marvel's biggest failure was able to top DC's greatest success.

     Also, according to thetoptens.com, a website that generates top ten lists based on viewer surveys, we can generate a rough idea of each character is viewed in the eyes of the public.  Now, not surprisingly, Batman was ranked number one.  Even I voted for Batman.  Batman is the coolest superhero in the history of the world, and I don't care what all haters say about him not having superpowers.  I just see it as a sign that you are upset that you could be batman, but instead of mastering all the forms of martial arts, you chose to eat a snickers.

     Now that I've let that out, let's look back at the rest of the top ten list.  Of the remaining nine, only 2 DC characters made it to the top ten: Superman at number 3, and the Flash at number 8.  As for the proportion of voters, only 29% of voters chose a  DC character over a Marvel character.  Among those who voter for a DC character, more than half of them chose Batman.  Thereby, we can conclude that while DC does own the single best superhero in the world,  Marvel has a much more solid and popular fan base.

     As for Batman, DC has either made or given licence for the production of 43 movies involving Batman.  41 of them have been made since 1992.  This means that DC is making nearly 2 batman movies a year.  Not to mention, there are ten different tv series that revolve around Batman.  Looking at this it's easy to see that Batman isn't DC's trump card against Marvel.  Batman is DC's only play against Marvel.

     Thanks to 21st century technology the battle between Marvel and DC is over.  Marvel has a cinematic universe, a host of well know and liked heroes, box office sales, and a bright future.  DC has Batman.  I imagine that it will be only a matter of time before DC is forced to sell or declares bankruptcy.  Though this wouldn't necessarily be such a bad thing.  It could be very entertaining to see a Batman v Wolverine movie if Fox bought DC.

Thanks for reading you guys.  Don't forget to read Harry_Situation's rebuttal.  We both will be looking for you to favorite our arguments as a way of voting for the winner.  We will be accepting votes until 11:59pm tomorrow. 

PS  Just so that I'm not accused of plagiarism, I got all of my statistics from Rotten Tomatoes, the-numbers.com, thetoptens.com, and imdb.