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Born Again · Flying Blind Joined: 04 Oct 2006 Posts: 55

Why does everyone say DD is like Batman? I think Batman is more like Iron man.

Solid Snake PAC · Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 4:03 pm Post subject:

DD: Father Killed as a child, grows up to fight crime, at one point written by Miller and others who had written for Batman at some point.

Batman: Parents killed as a child, grows up to fight crime, at one point written by Miller and others who had written for DD at some point.

there are SOME similarities between the two..but it's a few in general. Matt gets blinded by saving a life in return is blinded and given an "enhancement" of his remaining senses. Batman uses his wealth to fight crime. Matt helps those who can't be helped as a lawyer. Wayne is viewed as a bachelor, with all the attributes related to them at times. Wayne probably wouldn't become a hero if his parents hadn't been killed. That was his motivation. Matt was a hero before he became DD. Wayne trained to be Batman. Albeit...DD had training as well..but it wasn't to become DD. There's a lot of stuff that are similar but they differ in some big ways.

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rgj · Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 5:16 pm Post subject:

james castle · Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 8:50 pm Post subject:

Because of Miller.
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Solid Snake PAC · Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 9:27 pm Post subject:

well than, now that we're on the topic of it. In the original pre-Miller run Matt's dad died while he was in college? or is it a bit before? How old do you think Matt was in Man without Fear, as of his father's death?

rgj · Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 9:33 pm Post subject:

I think Miller had him at seventeen years of age, while Stan Lee had him as a freshman in college (not Colombia, too). Mark Steven Johnson was the only dolt that got it wrong. The way he wrote it you would think Matt would have ended up in foster care, most likely gowing up somewhere no where near Hell's Kitchen. MSJ sucks.

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Gee · Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 9:19 am Post subject:

i took my girlfriend to see the dd movie (well more like made her) and she told me after it that they got dd and batman mixed up, matt should be batman due to his senses and bruce wayne should be the man without fear due to his being fearless and having no powers. i suppose she has a point but i still like it the way it is.

matt and bruce are different in a lot of ways, bruce will plan everything, leave nothing to chance, dd would leap off a building and work out a plan on the way down. bruce is a spoiled millionaire, matt had to fight for everything. because they are gritty, orphaned, low powered, ninja trained characters they will always be compared, but they are certainly very different dudes.
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Born Again · Flying Blind Joined: 04 Oct 2006 Posts: 55

Yeah,I figured Stark's closer because of him being a millionaire with lots of high-tech gadgets.

james castle · Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 12:00 pm Post subject:

Batman is nothing like Iron Man.

That is all.
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DAREDEVIL · Flying Blind Joined: 07 Aug 2004 Posts: 15

I don't think Batman is anything like Iron man, he is morelike Moon Knight aesthetically and a little like DD because of his grittyness. Bruce Wayne isn't a spoiled millionaire he travel the world and lived like **** to understand the criminal mind and train martial arts to a certain perfection. The fortune made nothgin except some things like traveling and gadets easier so it dosen't make it spoiled.

And dude your gilfriend does have a very good point, Matt Murdock is powered like a bat and Bruce Wayne is a man without fear. I didn't knew Matt was blind as a young man (late teens), I always thought it was like in the movie at 12 or something like that.

Solid Snake PAC · Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 3:00 pm Post subject:

I wouldn't say Batman is spoiled, but as his persona Bruce Wayne for the public it could be viewed like that. I think Mazzuchelli put it best. The moment Wayne's parents died, Bruce Wayne was no more, he became the Batman that night figuratively speaking of course.

Gee · Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 8:57 am Post subject:

ok ok i admit, saying batman was spoiled may have been a little harsh. what i meant was that he has all the money he could ever want and at any time time in his travels etc he could have moved to the local 5 star hotel. this makes it easier to go through hardship.
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