Marvel tends to be a higher power universe where DC is more high character.
Really? I have always thought the opposite. Though I have not read comics in a long time so maybe it changed. But to me DC was always about absurdly broken cardboard characters.
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How did you come to this conclusion?
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I am not HermitIX, but I’ll give you my answer because I think I might know at least in part where he or she is coming from:
DC to me seems to operate in two tiers – one I’ll call “Gothamesque” and one I’ll call “Justice Leagueesque.” In the former, things are pretty gritty and low powered, with characters relying on their wits, skill, and technology to face impossible odds. It is of course called Gothamesque because Batman started the trend and most “Gothamesque” characters are part of the extended Bat-family, including Catwoman. They aren’t ALL “Gothamesque” though-I’d say “Secret Six” is a “Gothamesque” book even though there’s only one Bat-family character present (Bane)-in that most (but notably not all) of the characters are low on the scale of metahuman ability and there’s a lot of reliance on wits for the characters’ survival. Where there are metahuman abilities, they tend to be either powerful but circumstantially limited (Jeannette the Banshee’s powers are nasty, but she loses her mind when she activates them so she doesn’t pull them out very often); or subtle enhancements (Scandal Savage’s improved physical ability). “Gothamesque” stories also tend to deal with localized problems and villains-fighting organized crime or a specific powerful villain doing a specific thing.
The “Justice Leagueesque” tier involve characters that are more like demigods-just operating on a high, sometimes cosmic power scale. Superman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern to name the most well known examples. These characters are insanely powerful, and tend to take on “save the world” kind of stories on a regular basis.
Now to be fair, these “two worlds” do collide and often frequently (so we get Batman serving on the Justice League), but there still is the feel (from my point of view) that there are essentially two distinct settings that take place in the same universe.
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Marvel on the other hand, operates to my perception (and I admit I read less Marvel so I’m not as familiar with it) where all the characters generally speaking operate in what would more or less be a middle ground between DC’s two extremes. Nearly everyone seems to have a power, even if they are largely a skill based superhero, and Black Cat is in fact an excellent example of that. While there still is a continuum of power-some Marvel heroes have a very limited ability scaling all the way up to near godlike power like Magneto, the larger majority tend to operate in the middle. The godlikes and the gritty detectives do exist, but far more at the fringes.
If you are a DC Reader who focuses on reading DC’s “Gothamesque” stories, Marvel by comparison will seem to be a higher power universe. If all you are familiar with in DC are the “Justice Leaguesque” stories, Marvel will seem grittier and lower powered.
Having read both Marvel and DC, all I can say is I personally prefer the character development I see in DC, regardless of power levels, but I tend to read fringe books like Birds of Prey and Secret Six where character drama is important. The only Marvel book I read currently is X-Men Legacy, which I plan to drop because I can’t figure out what the hell is going on even though I’ve been reading the book since issue 1 because of all the damn crossovers, and it just feels like one cosmic explosion after another with a cast of superpowered “thousands” where no one ever gets much time to be developed. So based on MY subscription list, the DC Comics are gritty and character driven and the Marvel comic is high powered and all about saving the world with low character development. (I will note, to be fair, that X-Men Legacy started off character driven even though it was often high powered and had a discernible plot within itself, which is why I read it, but it’s lost that.) I know full well based on another’s preferences and what they might subscribe to, someone might have exactly the opposite impression of the two companies. In the end, I doubt they’re much different, less so than most of us would like to think.
And with that derailing TL;DR, I’m off to bed.
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