![]() ![]() Superman: John Williams’ triumphant horns in the original filmsīatman: Hans Zimmer’s Dolby-splitting bass synthesizers in the Christopher Nolan filmsĪdvantage: Depends on the darkness of your mortal soul. Superman: Reeve, Routh, Cavill et al.= zeroīatman: Keaton, Clooney, Bale, Affleck = 14. OSCAR NOMINATIONS AMONG BIG-SCREEN ACTORS Superman: Nerdy, outsidery Canadian/Cleveland boys in the ’30s (Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster)īatman: Streetwise, outsidery New York lads in the ’30s (Bob Kane and Bill Finger) Superman: Lex Luthor, Brainiac, Bizarro, Zodīatman: Joker, Riddler, Penguin, Bane, Ra’s al GhulĪdvantage: Batman – arguably the greatest rogues’ gallery in comics history. Poor, ever-grieving Batman has had to endure too many sidekick deaths by nefarious means. Superman: Kryptonite radiation, love of humanityīatman: No actual superpower, Catwoman’s feline allureĪdvantage: Superman. Superman: Super-flight, super-speed, super-hearing, super-intelligence, super-near-invulnerability, super-heat vision.īatman: Hand-to-hand combat a street fighter’s hard-won guile. Superman: The infant Kal-El’s parents rocketed him away in a capsule like a cosmos-Moses (“cos-Moses”?) before they died in the explosion of home planet Krypton.īatman: Young Bruce Wayne saw his own parents murdered before his eyes, while old enough to remember the psyche-scarring event.Īdvantage for lifelong mental torture as compelling narrative: Batman Superman: Earnest do-gooder (aka “The Big Blue Boy Scout”)Īdvantage: Superman. Superman: Bumbling, stumbling newspaper reporter Clark KentĪdvantage: Superman – those media connections pay off in times of trouble. ![]() The “Bat-Signal” looks impressive projected into the midnight skies over Gotham. ![]() Advantage: Depends of weight of Batman’s gadget-laced utility belt.īatman: Potential “helmet hair” from the cowl.Īdvantage: Batman. ![]()
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