Whenever DC discusses Superman’s powers and vulnerabilities, magic is always listed as a weakness. I don’t think it has any increased effect against him, but a magic bullet would hurt him as much as a regular bullet would a normal person.

And agreed Tim. It’s all about the writing. I enjoy it when Bats and Superman try to one-up each other in subtle ways, as long as their eyes stay on the ball and they don’t break character by forgetting about the bad guys. Batman really does have some advantages over Superman, basically being a good version of Lex Luthor with Kung-Fu… and Lex is a very credible opponent for the boy in blue.

Hahahahaha!

Yeah, I didn’t write the article. They actually argued whether or not you could make a lightsaber using kryptonite as the focusing crystal. Meh. I think they were more thinking the force lightning the Sith use anyway, or any other number of horrible things you can do with the dark side of the Force.

Also:
“The most frightening thing about the Adam West Batman TV series was that it was a pretty accurate portrayal of the Batman comics of that time…”

We DO NOT talk about the silver age!

http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/bt/the-sage/comic/10632-retardsilverage

I didn’t think Superman was weak against magic, just not immune. If you magic up a fireball at him, it’ll have as much effect as regular fire. If you magic him into a frog, however, he’s a frog. Force choking, then, wouldn’t just get past Superman’s defenses. Other forms of magic, like transformations, teleportations, enchantments, would be much more effective than physical manipulation, like the force.

I actually think a lightsaber could be pretty effective, though. Cuts through pretty much anything physical.

I’m sorry, I don’t intend to make you waste this amount of time and attention or piss on other people’s fun. This happened anyway because of my error.
Hacker humour of the form, “Ha ha only serious!” has now been established as too unfamiliar to work here. The problem is that my criticisms and opinions were being taken much more seriously than I intended, and some of my jokes were mistaken for criticisms, which was my misjudgment.
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There was a thing on the net a while back that squared Superman against a bunch of different heroes and villains from other commercial enterprises. Being the geek I am my fave was Superman vs. a Jedi. Supes won cause jedis being the nice guys they are they wouldn’t use the force as a weapon, and a lightsaber wouldn’t hurt the man of steel. But Superman vs. a Sith? The sith won because he’d more than happily choke Superman with the force (which they argued was a form of magic, thus able to hurt Superman). Anyway, I actually like it when Superman and Batman get together cause if written well they really compliment each other. Batman has the brains and the billions to get shit done and Superman can break steel with his hands and melt shit with his eyes. There was a great comic once where Lois went missing and Superman was sick with some ubervirus so he got Batman to come help him find her. At one point they go into this bar to talk to some guys and Batman goes in first, starts threatening people and pretty much gets the whole bar ready to fight him, and you know he’s gonna win the fight. But then Superman just walks in and says “We need your help,” or something and everyone just falls all over themselves to help him out. Cause they know that he’s the good guy. The guy who will help you, even if you’re a drug dealing biker douche-bag, he’ll still help you, try to get you straightened out, try to do his best to make sure nothing bad happens to you. Batman would just kick your ass and throw you in jail. That whole comic was really well written, and there are a lot more like it. Like I said, they compliment each other when written well, and whoever wrote that video doesn’t write well. It was funny, but just played Batman up as a dude who has no idea what he’s doing but puts on a costume anyway, and Superman as a douchey fratboy with superpowers.

Heh heh. Someone had to say it.

Yeah. I’m not really seeing a rum cake in anyone’s future.

I would accept a rum cake.