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**Lamuella** · 06-28-2005, 01:50 PM

the biggest difference between Marvel and DC is twofold:

1) Power. DC heroes tend to be more powerful. There are few mainstream Marvel characters as powerful as Green Lantern, for example, and almost none (outside of elder gods and so forth) as powerful as Superman.
2) Power source. Marvel has fewer sources of super power, and more central origins for that power. Few people are born with powers, most gaining them from artifacts (quantum bands), accidents (being bitten by a spider, gamma rays) or alterations (super soldier serum). Those that are born with super powers tend to be either mutants (X-Men) or non-humans (Namor, Skrulls). DC has characters whose powers come from similar sources such as wizards (Captain Marvel), lab accidents (The Flash), alien rings (Green Lantern), inventions (starman), being from another race (aquaman), but a much larger number of characters simply have their powers because they have their powers, or because of badly explained origins like "a strange meteor fell by my house". Also, more people are simply born superheroes. In short, there seems to be a lot more "super-ness" just floating around the DC universe.

06-28-2005, 01:50 PM	#23
Lamuella Forum Happy Cat Posts: 7,884	the biggest difference between Marvel and DC is twofold: 1) Power. DC heroes tend to be more powerful. There are few mainstream Marvel characters as powerful as Green Lantern, for example, and almost none (outside of elder gods and so forth) as powerful as Superman. 2) Power source. Marvel has fewer sources of super power, and more central origins for that power. Few people are born with powers, most gaining them from artifacts (quantum bands), accidents (being bitten by a spider, gamma rays) or alterations (super soldier serum). Those that are born with super powers tend to be either mutants (X-Men) or non-humans (Namor, Skrulls). DC has characters whose powers come from similar sources such as wizards (Captain Marvel), lab accidents (The Flash), alien rings (Green Lantern), inventions (starman), being from another race (aquaman), but a much larger number of characters simply have their powers because they have their powers, or because of badly explained origins like "a strange meteor fell by my house". Also, more people are simply born superheroes. In short, there seems to be a lot more "super-ness" just floating around the DC universe.