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Originally Posted by behindthemask

As far as the bullet thing, I'm making reference to vigilanties. As with comicbooks there's 3 kinds of hero's. There's the mutant kind born with super powers. There's the accident type where some explosion or walk down the wrong street ends up with super powers ex DD/PP. Then there's the vigilanty who has no power, but has resources and wants justice to be made where the police fall short. Punisher,blade, Batman all fit into this category. I'm just saying where as Blade and Punisher carry guns, bulletproof vests, they risk their lives and get shot. Where as batman has a rubber suit and batarangs, he's more liable to be dead from a gun shot then the other 2. I will say the s on superman's chest and bat signal are iconic, I'd be lying if I said otherwise. But batman/superman are the exceptions for me, as I grew up watching the cartoons, superman movies and batman tv show with Adam West. I would argue though that Captain america, spiderman, and IronMan aren't as iconic or near the same level, especially if you poll today's generation of readers. When I think Marvel I think, avengers, xmen and spiderman, when I think DC it's batman and superman.

To be fair, Batman's suit (Modern/currently) is pretty high tech. Even when it seems like it's cloth (Like The Animated Series), it's shown to have lots of gadgets and stuff installed in it to deal with a lot of situations.
Currently it's said to be composed of something simular to kevlar.
Also, your argument could be turned around to a lot of Marvel's non-powered vigilantes (And even a few of their powered ones, like Spiderman, who is usually portrayed as relying a lot more on luck than Batman).
I agree with Chris. When you start with either 'verse, there's a suspension of disbelief about such things that applies to both.

And in terms of iconography... this is not to say anything bad about Marvel, just how far DC is ahead of them. The only thing Marvel has that stands remotely close to Batman and Superman, in terms of iconic, is Spiderman. (Maaaaybe Hulk coming in a fairly distant second to Spidey.) Superman, Batman, Spiderman, and Wonderwoman (in that order) I dare say are the most iconic superheroes in the world, in history.
For all the rest, I agree that Marvel characters are more recognizable than DC characters, currently. But I also think a lot of that is due to media exposure overload. Marvel has been working their ass off over the last 15 years to market each individual character, and it's paid off bigtime.
Don't forget, in the early to mid ninties, Thor, Ironman, and Captain America were considered Marvel's C-List when it came to the public. Obscure x-force villains not only were more likely to get toys before those three, they did.
What's really hurt DC in that reguards, is Warner Bros. just will *not* put any faith into any one of their characters unless they're Batman or Superman. Flash, Green Arrow, Teen Titans, Wonder Woman could be superstars, if WB put the effort into them that Marvel has Cap, Thor, Ironman, and Spiderman.