King of the Action! - Round 3 - With a Vengeance

[thedamndest]

Originally Posted by mitchables I disagree. Batman only got exceedingly high-tech in TDK. In Begins, he was a stealth-ass fucking ninja, largely. Sure, McClane can walk on broken glass and take out a building of clumsy German terrorists, but he was really obvious about it. Gruber knew who he was like halfway through the movie. Batman, on the other hand, took out Falcone's entire shipment gang and the big man himself and nobody saw a goddamn thing. BAD. ASS.

John McClane is just as stealthy as Batman, given his situation. Granted, he couldn't afford to spend years learning the ancient art of ninjitsu in a foreign land honing his body to become a human weapon, but for a man in the middle of a divorce who is caught in the crossfires of a German gang's plot to rob the Nakatomi plaza with only a handgun and WITHOUT HIS SHOES, I'd say he manages pretty well.

[mitchables]

Originally Posted by thedamndest John McClane is just as stealthy as Batman, given his situation. Granted, he couldn't afford to spend years learning the ancient art of ninjitsu in a foreign land honing his body to become a human weapon, but for a man in the middle of a divorce who is caught in the crossfires of a German gang's plot to rob the Nakatomi plaza with only a handgun and WITHOUT HIS SHOES, I'd say he manages pretty well.

Yeah, he manages pretty well. But then, for a rookie ninja fighting his insane mentor that has an army of super experienced ninjas at his disposal and a stolen weapon on a speeding train destined to blow up an entire city, I'd say Batman manages pretty well too. They're incomparable threats. McClane, in Batman's situation, would have been helpless against R'as Al Ghul. But Batman, in McClane's situation, would have had that building trussed up in no time and nobody would've had to die. Even if they were a smooth-talking, bearded douchebag.