MARVEL v DC

Spot on take in my opinion.  I prefer DC, though I'm not really knowledgeable about the true comic universes.  You nailed it with the villains.  The heroes in both are easy to wrap your head around, but the villains are always the guys/girls I like watching.  DC has some great ones.

Always liked Batman and the Punisher.  "Watchmen" was fantastic and terribly underrated IMHO.  That said, I knew nothing about Ironman until I saw the first movie, and it was an awesome watch.  I like what they are doing with the Marvel universe, but they've yet to provide me with a villain as interesting as the DC roster.

I watch for the villains most of the time, so DC gets the edge for me.  Really enjoyable to see both camps getting the treatments they are.  For example, I had no idea what "Guardians of the Galaxy" was going to be or who the characters were, but that was a lot of fun to watch.  DC and Marvel have like a Cold War going on...and we all get to eat the popcorn and enjoy!

Again, never read a comic book, though I enjoy seeing the stories on screen.  Certainly not a purist or expert.  Comic book movies tend to have awesome scores, so I try to check them all out regardless of critical acclaim, and am rarely disappointed.

Love both but Im going with DC since Batman is my favorite.

I like both equally.

I was never into comics so I have no take on that medium. Based purely on the movies, I'm going with Marvel because I prefer my superhero movies to be more fun than dark and gritty. Similar to how I view the Daniel Craig 007 era...while his movies are great action movies, they've never felt like Bond movies to me, no sense of fun about them. I have other genres I can turn to for dark and gritty.

They both suck. Adults should stop watching comic book movies and grow the f up.

“Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”





― C.S. Lewis

I prefer Dark Horse and Valiant to DC and Marvel...

Marvel wins for me for one big reason: DC's characters just feel old fashioned. Their names are very simplistic: Superman, Batman, Aquaman, Wonder Woman, Flash, etc.... whereas Marvel heroes have more creative names (Spiderman and Ironman aside): Hulk, Thor, Thing, Wolverine, Vision, etc.

Then there's the costumes: The whole "briefs on top of spandex with cape" look is quite outdated. I mean, Marvel's usual skin-tight outfits aren't that great either but they're still a bit more creative.

But the two above reasons are admittedly quite shallow, a bigger issue for me is this:

DC heroes feel like they're just a bunch of superpowers that were made into people whereas Marvel heroes feel like actual people who were given powers. Take Superman for example, he has a bunch of powers and he can be very heroic and stuff and people love him as Superman, but does anyone really relate to Clark Kent? Do we even care about Clark Kent? I mean, wearing glasses to hide your identity is just silly. Disappearing from work every other hour to save someone and still not getting fired just doesn't seem realistic. Compare that to someone like Spiderman, who's always late to work because he's busy saving people, who's always on the verge of getting fired and having a hard time making ends meet financially, well tihs hero seems more like a real person.

Another example: Batman. He's just a human, yet is a master detective, martial artist, scientist, inventor, hacker, engineer, chemist, physicist, medic.... basically if it's a human skill, Batman knows it. And he's constantly defeating heroes and villains who should be way more powerful than him. That's just not realistic nor is it relatable. Even his supposedly unbalanced psyche, he always seems to have it conveniently under control. Compare that with someone like the Punisher, now there's a guy whom you know is mentally unstable, and someone who's skillsets match his "I'm only human" character description.

I could come up with more examples but bottom line is: DC heroes are just too cliche and too old fashioned for me, whereas Marvel heroes feel like living, breathing characters.