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Originally Posted by bmorr

better hope its not a time bullet.

Don't we all?

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Originally Posted by Snowflakian

Except for one problem. He doesn't make weapons anymore. Only defensive measures that can't be used for offensive aggressive acts. That's Tony's current mantra. His Stark weapons can also be dismantled easily with a killswitch that he has designed into them for when they get out of hand. Something bruce could easily take advantage of.

You're also assuming he would even know about the killswitch or how to access it. Why would he logically assume that Tony built a killswitch into his tech? Sure, he would try to find a way to stop it, but I doubt it would be as simple as that.

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Wayne wins based on that alone, and yes he is the better business man all around when you compare their companies. Tony is a tad arrogant with his futurist views, Bruce is more of a realist and adapts faster to incoming data while tony needs time to think to create a solution.

Bruce is no business man. He has other people run his company and acts as a figurehead. Sure, he may keep tabs on everything, but his focus is on being Batman and stopping crime, not running a multi-billion dollar corporation. I really doubt he would lead the charge to win another government contract, unless it had to do with national defense. Even then, it wouldn't be about making money.

And as mentioned earlier, public knowledge of his support of vigiliantism won't win him any favors when it comes to government contracts.

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On the batman ironman front, Ironman tries the screamer attack, bruce turns on sound dampeners in his belt from previous villians that have had similiar powers, or similiar heroes that he has preperations for if they went rogue. While tony would need to create a new device to deal with bruce, bruce would just adapt to what he had on hand to any occasion.

Why would Tony need to create anything special? His armor has a multitude of weapons and defensive systems that can handle almost any situation, including taking down a grown man wearing tights and a cape.

You're also assuming that Batman would be going into the battle with prior knowledge of his opponent. Ignoring that this thread is about a boardroom battle, no one said how the setup for a Batman/Iron Man fight would work. If they just met and had to fight, you're assuming Bruce's reaction time would be faster than Tony's.

If they had months to research and prepare, then Tony would have probably already designed contingency plans for dealing with Bruce, just as Bruce would have done for Tony. I do agree a pre-planned battle would take a lot longer and be more of a crap-shoot.

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Intelligence isn't always who can create the best new thing, but how you can apply what you do have. Short of the full on armory going after bats, tony doesn't stand a chance, and even with that, batman probably has a signal jammer that'd work with modulation to stop them. Same as he would probably be able to get a computer virus into starks system, possibly even a variation of the same polymorphic one that took down brother eye.

Unless Bruce got someone else to write it, I don't see how. Bruce is not a computer programmer or a hacker (unless there's been yet another retcon to his skills set). That's Oracle's territory. And who says Tony's current armor is even hackable? It's physically a part of him now, which means his mind plays a part in its defense. For all his faults, I'm pretty sure Tony made the armor inpenetrable to hackers and/or viruses (he just can't stop those pesky spam messages).