re: Official Comic Book Hero Tournament (Round III) Results In!

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Agree and disagree. For some of those guys it's like leaving Superman out. As much as we wanted to do it, it just didn't feel right (and same for Batman, for different reasons, but instead of leaving him out, we really rigged the tournament away from his strengths.).

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agree with respect to superman being boring and overpowered. he is beatable as evidenced by the large number of characters that have beaten him.

is there an arbitrary cut off where we stop including people because they are too powerful? absolutely. Is Superman right up against that line? absolutely. And FWIW we probably bent the rules to keep him and the flash in the competition

Batman annoys me. He's eminently entertaining as the Dark Knight and belongs in the universe where he takes on characters like the Joker, Riddler, Bane, etc. But he really has no place next to the more powerful characters of the Justice League. Like someone said in an earlier thread (maybe it was Scruffy) the writers for Batman have tried to make his super power the ability to take down other super heros... which isn't a super power and doesn't make any damn sense.