David123

I voted Iron Fist. He seems like the easiest to make a great movie with, being just a martial artist with some chi powers. They could have Davos as the villain in the first movie and then set up a second film based on Matt Fraction's tournament arc. The Immortal weapons tournament would make an awesome movie.

In a real life fight strength and size mean a hell of a lot. In a comic book fight, where the characters have ridiculous levels of strength, realistically it would mean much less. A punch does two kinds of damage

1. The concussive force of having your head or body suddenly accelerated by the force of the punch.

2. The soft tissue damage of having flesh mashed into bone, or otherwise deformed by the blow.

Take two characters, say the Hulk and Namor, and have them both hit a punching bag as hard as they can. Now the Hulk is way stronger than Namor, but the absolute hardest you can hit something is hard enough to accelerate it to the speed of your punch instantly. It doesn't matter if the Hulk is 10 times stronger than Namor, or 10,000,000 times. If they are both moving the same speed and are both strong enough to accelerate whatever they are hitting, then they hit exactly as hard as one another. Realistically, against a human size and weight target, someone like Quicksilver would hit way harder than either of those guys. Faster punching speed is more relevant to the force applied than strength once you get into the higher levels. A Mack truck hitting you at 40 mph is going to do a lot less damage than a bowling ball at 400 mph.

Well if it's a realistic fight... Then Cyclops has about 80 lbs of muscle on her, and he's a judoka, while storm has shown no ground game ever that I am aware of. Weight classes exist for a reason, as do men's and women's division's. I think Storm would get taken down and choked out effortlessly. If on the other hand it's a comic book fight, then whoever the writer likes more?

I wanna hear Mr. Fantastic doing the bat voice. "WHERE'S THE BOMB"! Seriously if you are going to go for gritty and realistic, don't you need to have some source material to draw on for that? The FF have been around for like 50 years, and have been gritty and realistic for exactly 0 seconds out of that time...

I'll go along with the Serpent Society. I really like some of those guys, and they hardly ever get used. I wanna see Bushmaster, Black Racer, Puff Adder and Cottonmouth form a new Serpent Squad.

Anyone who's susceptible enough to tp for them to get him to stand still long enough for rogue to powersteal.

Grindhouse. From Heroes For Hire V2 #1 She showed up looking all crazy, then did absolutely nothing, got knocked out perfunctorily, and never was seen again. But I think she showed a lot of promise in that 1 issue she appeared in.

I think the standard of overpowered is when it starts to seriously impinge on a writers ability to generate any real sense of drama. Powerful character's are great. But when you ramp things up to a ridiculous level you limit your story possibilities. You get to a point where you are just telling the same story over and over again. Which is why don't they just use their powers and stomp everybody out? Thats why kryptonite is common as dirt, and why Thor seems to always conveniently forget about all his stupid powers.

I like comic book ridiculousness as much as the next guy. But I think it works much better when the character's have clearly defined powersets, strength and weaknesses. Powercreep is one of my biggest problems with comics these days.

Anyways, I give my vote to Flash. There is just no way you can make me believe anyone presents a credible threat to this guy. He could literally run around the earth, stop any and all crimes, solve all outstanding crimes, capture every supervillian, beat the hell out of every superhero just for fun, eliminate world hunger, pick up all the world's litter, cure cancer, and do everyones tax returns, all in less time than it takes Green Lantern to take his morning piss.

Well, I would agree with Fraction. He always seems to start out with good ideas and then lose steam. Bendis is another one. I find his dialogue very grating. It worked alot better when he was an indie darling, doing crime books. But I would have to say my my biggest one is Jeph Loeb. Ultimates volume 3 is one of the worst comic series I have ever read. Most of his other stuff is ok at best. And while I know people will cite his Batman stuff, frankly I don't think any of it is that good. The long halloween is wildly overrated, dark victory is very middling and hush is just awful. The only really good thing of his that I have ever read is superman for all seasons.