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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 dunno, man. I would say that Punisher, Batman, Daredevil, Spider-man and other heroes who don't have bulletproof flesh are all equally subject to the same discrimination of being able to be shot by bullets and killed. Yeah a couple of them have "heightened senses" but that doesn't make them bulletproof and one must be willing to allow for some fantasy to allow for them to dodge a hail of machine gun fire from multiple angles or possess armour of a grade capable of deflecting that much of a barrage. Blade gets stabbed all the time but survives because of his part vampire healing ability. Batman doesn't exactly come out of his battles without a scratch. He bleeds, he gets cut, he gets shot. Remember Knightfall? He had his back broken and was out of action for a while. And he only wears a rubber suit in the movies, that's what the suit is really made out of in real life but we're told that it's made of bulletproof material.

All I'm saying is if you're going to say that Batman should be easily killed with a single bullet after a few issues, then so should Punisher/Spider-man/Daredevil/Nick Fury/Antman/Huntress/Tony Stark/Black Canary/Green Arrow. How would they fair any better than Batman other than the fact that they're Marvel characters? I don't think Batman would fair any better than that list in a real life situation, but it's a comic book. When you start saying, "It's cool but sucks because he should be dead by now.", I feel then that should open up ALL comic book characters to be evaluated equally. I don't want to turn this into a "Batman vs. Punisher, who is better" discussion, though, because I like both characters.