Magnethead said:
Surely a few seconds of Superman's heat vision through the mouth, and it's fight over?
This is one of my major issues with Superman: We saw the guy holding up a goddamn oil rig. Well, a pretty big ass piece of it. This guy levels buildings by CASUALLY tossing another guy (Zod) through it. Man of Steel also depicted him as ridiculously fast, dodging fire from A10 warthogs. He also shrugged off being shot by said warthogs quite literally without a scratch on his armor, or hair out of place. The rounds fired by A10s shred tanks. TANKS. And then didn't even scratch superman's costume. Realistically, and they are going "realistic" (as can be) in this universe, WTF can batman and that armor possibly do against the Superman that we saw in Man of Steel? There's no way he's strong enough to go toe to toe with superman, and there's no way he's fast enough to keep up with him. Yet we're supposed to look at that and think "Oh man...it's on now." No, it's not. Not unless this universe finds a way to neuter Superman, which is what they always have to do. There is no way Batman can match the Superman that we got in Man of Steel without some artificial, contrived, plot convenient limitations put in place.
I'm curious to see how Wonder Woman plays out as well ie "are they going to put her physically on par with Superman," and will it be thru "genetics" or "mysticism." If the Rumors about The Rock playing Shazam/Black Adam are true, then DC may not be as timid about introducing the "magic" route as Marvel was with chaulking Thor up to "magic is science we don't yet understand." But back on point, I'm most curious about how they will have these two go toe to toe, if it does come to that. They may go the "Superman has subconsciously started holding back after seeing all the destruction in Metropolis" route, but wouldn't he still do just enough to disable Batman quickly, and effortlessly, before things are allowed to escalate? And wouldn't that make the posturing with the laser eyes no more than a gesture of machismo? So many questions...