Poll: Green Lantern VS Iron Man

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This appears to be one of those subjects where intelligent discussion is discarded in favor of raving fanboys attempting to overstate the other side.

Itll be good to watch, since neither side will give in, but theres no point in discussing it.
 

Baron von Blitztank

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Stark will probably win the fight, but not the first battle.
I can see him losing the first few times in an attempt to research Green Lantern's powers and how he acts. Then he buggers off for a week or so and creates a set of LanternBuster armour and wins by using that.
 

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A Smooth Criminal said:
Daystar Clarion said:
Stark wins by virtue of being interesting.

Goddamn, DC heroes are boring as hell :D
Mutation, mutation, mutation, mutation, genius, mutation, mutation, mutation, mutation, god, alien, mutation, mutation mutation.

I'd hardly call Marvel heroes interesting compared to DC heroes.
I fail to see how someone getting there superpowers makes them more interesting, but then I don't read comic books. Maybe I need to read comic books but any other realm of fiction how you got power is not as important as what you do with it.
 

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As has already been stated, the ability to defeat another person from a different fictional universe does not make the more powerful character better, that relies on a huge list of varying subjective factors.

In this case, I would say that the Green Lantern would win, because Tony uses 100% mechanical and energy weapons, whereas the ring is a 100% magical item, working purely off his own imagination, which has much more versatility and power. His energy shield he projects has been shown to be able to protect from a lot worse than Tony's missiles, he can fly much faster (inter-planetary flight is peanuts to GLs) and attack with various combinations of energy beams and physical impacts from conjured objects that would knock Tony out of the Sky.

The odds are heavily stacked in the Green Lanterns favour, that doesn't necessarily make him a better character, just stronger in this instance.
 

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If Hal would get his head out of his ass and go beyond summoning giant fists with his God Ring then Iron Man is complete toast.

Disclaimer: I know fairly little about the Green Lantern.
Daystar Clarion said:
Goddamn, DC heroes are boring as hell :D
Except when they're well-written. Some of the stand-alone Batman and Superman stories totally transform them.
 

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A Smooth Criminal said:
Daystar Clarion said:
Stark wins by virtue of being interesting.

Goddamn, DC heroes are boring as hell :D
Mutation, mutation, mutation, mutation, genius, mutation, mutation, mutation, mutation, god, alien, mutation, mutation mutation.

I'd hardly call Marvel heroes interesting compared to DC heroes.
because the origin of their powers is absolutely everything about a character, thus every green lanterns being all the same.


green lantern wins
tony stark figure out a way to beat him (probably by forcing him to fight while low on power) and proceeds to incorporate the tech in the ring into his armor. stark proceeds to punch out the hulk.

and the lantern rings are not magical (unless we are talking alan scott lantern which we are not)

edit: hal jordan is the most boring user of a lantern ring ever. reality is his ***** and he makes giant fists. why not giant green tiger-shark-crocodiles?
 

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I hate green lantern with a passion. One of the dumbest super heros in my opinion, barely surpassing Aqua man...and even he has more potential in my opinion (More like Nemor ftw). Even so, GL would totally beat Ironman without any real compitition. Even before the whole yellow weakness was removed he STILL would have been Ironman even if stark had time to prepare...at least if he used his brain at all. He has nearly unlimited power and everything on the planet isn't yellow, so just use your powers to push/move etc tons of NON-yellow material into or around whatever Ironman decides to defend himself with and then crush him. Dead Yellow Iron man.

The only way Ironman could win is to come apon GL while he was sleeping pretty much.


Same with batman vs spiderman. Everyone is like (no way spiderman could beat batman). Knee jerk reaction to batman being so much more serious (most of the time) then spiderman. Spiderman though doesn't have many innate weaknesses and has many abilities that would nullify batmans strengths. He's WAAAAY stronger then batman (to the point that the bats natural hits shouldn't even phase him), he has spider senses to avoid being ambushed and give him an awareness of any traps or anything around him (darkness etc would not be a threat) and he has arguably better range weapons (Although perhaps with advanced warning bats could develop a solution that would desolve the webbing quickly, that still would not protect him from web sullets or web catapult attacks etc.

Bats best chance to take down spiderman would be to do so while spiderman was fighting someone else...with plenty of advanced warning and a huge trap that would be impossible for him to avoid (Basically lead him into a huge trap with a villian of some sort and then set it off once he could no longer escape.

Anyone one on one fight would pretty much always go to spiderman.

As far as DBZ characters vs marvel characters etc, it's hard to judge...but the number of heroes they have in the DC or Marvel universe that come near the power level of Super Sayans are very small (for a reason). DBZ is a bit rediculous in that way considering Piccalo early on when he barely has any power at all (compared to later) can just casually destroy the moon...and he's considered a total wuss by a Goku's brother (not even worth bothering with).

Yeah, how many total wuss super heros in DC or Marvel have the ability to casually destroy a moon?
 

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Baron von Blitztank said:
Stark will probably win the fight, but not the first battle.
I can see him losing the first few times in an attempt to research Green Lantern's powers and how he acts. Then he buggers off for a week or so and creates a set of LanternBuster armour and wins by using that.
Didn't work against the Hulk.

wulfy42 said:
Yeah, how many total wuss super heros in DC or Marvel have the ability to casually destroy a moon?
Well, if we're only counting Earth based heroes (and I'm assuming Avengers/Justice League not the more obscure stuff) then most Marvel heroes can casually destroy planets. Going a little higher up Thor can easily destroy a star, or a solar system if he wanted to. Even farther than that Dr. Strange can casually destroy galaxies, and even universes if he bothers with one of his more complex spells. This isn't even counting things like reality warping, matter manipulation, time travel, and other broken powers that don't rely on outright destruction that the Marvel heroes can use to beat the shit out of DBZ guys.

Strange alone can easily beat the entire DBZ universe. Feel free to read this masterpiece on some of the things he can do.

DC's Justice League isn't as versatile, but they don't need to be considering practically everybody on it can destroy planets by sneezing on them. Plus, Green Lantern is around Thor's level, Superman is massively faster than lightspeed, and Martian Manhunter has insane telepathy. Dr. Fate is basically Dr. Strange with a helmet.
 

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This comes up whenever someone brings up "(Someone) versus (Someone from WH40K)" debates too. The things in WH40K are so huge in scale as to be self-parody; obviously they'd always win, even if just by throwing trillions of people at the problem until it goes away, but that doesn't make the party any less interesting within its' own universe.
Hal Jordan approaching? Fix bayonets!

OT: I just wanted to make a "Fix bayonets" joke. Buuut, eh, Tony Stark. Because they have no real reason to fight, and once they've got that out of the way I imagine Tony has the better spirits cabinet for the post fight drinks.
 

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Alaster Angelo said:
Kilroy17 said:
You could almost any DBZ character, especially the SSJs, and they would probably beat any other fictional characters but just because they are OP doesn't mean in their own universe they aren't interesting.
This is untrue. DBZ characters are laughably weak compared to several fictional characters. Though I do agree with you in the other point. Just because somebody can eat a galaxy or shake the universe doesn't mean they can't be interesting characters. Marvel's Journey Into Mystery has several powerful characters featured and it's easily one of the best pieces of fiction I've read in a long time.
Compared to who? This is a group of people who can literally destroy galaxies with a flick of the wrist. I'm seriously wondering what characters they're weak compared to.

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wulfy42 said:
Yeah, how many total wuss super heros in DC or Marvel have the ability to casually destroy a moon?
Well, if we're only counting Earth based heroes (and I'm assuming Avengers/Justice League not the more obscure stuff) then most Marvel heroes can casually destroy planets. Going a little higher up Thor can easily destroy a star, or a solar system if he wanted to. Even farther than that Dr. Strange can casually destroy galaxies, and even universes if he bothers with one of his more complex spells. This isn't even counting things like reality warping, matter manipulation, time travel, and other broken powers that don't rely on outright destruction that the Marvel heroes can use to beat the shit out of DBZ guys.
Thor can bust a planet. Strange I'm not really sure about, so I'll take your word. Hulk can throw a planet. And that's about all the big-name heroes off the top of my head who have any physical cosmic feats. So unless I've horribly missed something, it's not really true that most Marvel heroes can casually destroy planets. The absolute God-tier strongest guys can destroy a planet if you push them, but that's about it.
 

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Iron Man wins because who cares what Green Lantern can do, this is Iron Man we're talking about, and Iron Man is an interesting character.
 

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Green Lantern... Pretty foolish to think otherwise... Iron man's counterpart in DC is more likely to be Booster Gold... I really have not read any good justifications for Iron man on here(honestly I think people just picked Iron Man because of the movies), green lanterns are no longer weakened by yellow. And, if I had to pick a guy to go one on one with iron man from the lantern corps, it would probably Sodam Yat, basically has the same powers as superman with the lantern ring as well so...
 

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Drago-Morph said:
Compared to who? This is a group of people who can literally destroy galaxies with a flick of the wrist. I'm seriously wondering what characters they're weak compared to.
DBZ characters can't destroy galaxies with a flick of the wrist. Even if they could, the majority of Marvel characters make them look like a joke. Jean Grey once controlled every molecule in the universe, the Scarlet Witch decimated an entire species throughout a multiverse (a cluster of several universes), Reed Richards carries a Cosmic Cube (a piece of cosmic technology capable of reshaping the universe) with him, and Iceman is capable of reducing the entire universe to absolute zero temperatures. These are just a few Earth based heroes, I haven't even started with the Earth based villains, and I haven't touched upon cosmic characters (characters that make these guys look like chumps) at all yet.

Drago-Morph said:
Thor can bust a planet. Strange I'm not really sure about, so I'll take your word. Hulk can throw a planet. And that's about all the big-name heroes off the top of my head who have any physical cosmic feats. So unless I've horribly missed something, it's not really true that most Marvel heroes can casually destroy planets. The absolute God-tier strongest guys can destroy a planet if you push them, but that's about it.
Thor can destroy a star, such as the Sun. Dr. Strange is so powerful that Eternity, the abstract embodiment of the universe itself, once warned him that his power was a threat to the multiverse. Hulk can destroy a planet with sheer physical force. God-tier? These guys are the laughing stocks of the cosmic Marvel. The mid-tier guys in Marvel destroy multiverses by blinking.
 

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Green Lantern is a cosmic being with the ring. It isn't even a match. Hal Jordan is not just a Green Lantern, he is legendary. I love Iron Man but Hal wins this.
 

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Drago-Morph said:
Alaster Angelo said:
Kilroy17 said:
You could almost any DBZ character, especially the SSJs, and they would probably beat any other fictional characters but just because they are OP doesn't mean in their own universe they aren't interesting.
This is untrue. DBZ characters are laughably weak compared to several fictional characters. Though I do agree with you in the other point. Just because somebody can eat a galaxy or shake the universe doesn't mean they can't be interesting characters. Marvel's Journey Into Mystery has several powerful characters featured and it's easily one of the best pieces of fiction I've read in a long time.
Compared to who? This is a group of people who can literally destroy galaxies with a flick of the wrist. I'm seriously wondering what characters they're weak compared to.

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Alaster Angelo said:
wulfy42 said:
Yeah, how many total wuss super heros in DC or Marvel have the ability to casually destroy a moon?
Well, if we're only counting Earth based heroes (and I'm assuming Avengers/Justice League not the more obscure stuff) then most Marvel heroes can casually destroy planets. Going a little higher up Thor can easily destroy a star, or a solar system if he wanted to. Even farther than that Dr. Strange can casually destroy galaxies, and even universes if he bothers with one of his more complex spells. This isn't even counting things like reality warping, matter manipulation, time travel, and other broken powers that don't rely on outright destruction that the Marvel heroes can use to beat the shit out of DBZ guys.
Thor can bust a planet. Strange I'm not really sure about, so I'll take your word. Hulk can throw a planet. And that's about all the big-name heroes off the top of my head who have any physical cosmic feats. So unless I've horribly missed something, it's not really true that most Marvel heroes can casually destroy planets. The absolute God-tier strongest guys can destroy a planet if you push them, but that's about it.

Yeah, Thor maybe could...but he doesn't really fly, just moves with his hammer, and he's certainly not as fast as a DBZ guy. The hulk also can't fly, not exactly sure how he would throw a planet unless he was standing on a bigger planet already, maybe he has, but then again hulk is kinda confusing in how he works, his strength/powers etc.

There are quite a few villians and super heros between marvel and DC that could destroy a planet, but my point was that in DBZ Piccolo early on was able to do so while being considered to have a puny power level. Thats kinda like saying Toad could destroy a moon with his tongue or something.

Lets look at a few match ups.

Green lantern vs goku: GL has nearly infinite power and could probably hit Goku with a planet or something to seriously hurt him...but he's not fast enough (not even superhumanly fast...to ever catch goku..and he's not invulnerable to damage. Guku would MT up to GL and knock him out instantly.


Superman: If he knew who goku was and how powerful he is...he could possibly power up in the sun to reach something aproaching Goku's power levels. In alot of ways Goku and superman are similar (which makes them a good match up) aa both would need to power up. Superman though had to power up for many years in order to move a planet...while goku could do it fairly casually. Even fully powered up though superman has a few weaknesses (besides kryptonite which we are not factoring in). He's fast.....very very very fast....but he doesn't have teleportation abilities like goku. He also has a wearkness to magic attacks of any kind, while goku has no weaknesses at all. Also.....Superman is a battery of a sort, powered up by the yellow suns radiation...he can "run down" over time if he uses his powers too much. Goku has no such limitation as his powers are self contained and not reliant on an outside source. Many times in the DBZ series Goku did strenuous activities for many months etc. Also as I mentioned before, Goku has a much stronger and MUCH wider range, range attack. Goku can make a blast the size of a planet with a million times the power of Supermans eye beems.

To me a real battle between them would have to be done IN the sun. This would give Superman an unending supply of power at extremely high levels. Goku would still win on speed, but superman might just really be invulnerably at that point as long as goku did not destroy the sun itself (Which he could do).

That of course is the real tricky part here. In any battle between them the damage and attacks would have to be so overwhelmingly powerful they would destroy everything around them. Neither of them would want to destroy planets etc though, which means they would have to fight way out in space....and in such a case superman would not have the yellow sun to replenish himself with (let alone to actually fight in). Now if they were just transported to a empty galaxy with a large yellow sun in it, goku could just then destroy the sun and win the fight..and not even worry about fighting superman.

Without the sun superman loses.
With the sun superman and goku destroy everything in the solar system until there is nothing but debrees left...and eventually destroy the sun.....so superman loses.

I don't see how superman could possibly win.
 

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Thor is faster than light. As is Green Lantern and Superman, they're billions of times faster than any DBZ character. Also, no DBZ character has been shown to be able to blow up a star let alone an entire solar system. You wanna talk about destroying a solar system?