They work together to defeat all threats.
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Today we'll be looking at the Justice League and The Avengers
to see which is the greatest superhero team of all time.
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Although a fight between the two teams would be awesome
we'll be looking at a variety of categories to determine the winner.
In one corner, we have the Justice League, created when DC Comics brought
their seven most popular superheroes together to form the team.
The original seven were Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern,
The Flash, Aquaman and Martian Manhunter.
Four of these guys had been published continuously since the 1940s
and the other three were instrumental in jumpstarting the Silver Age of comics.
Their first official origin story was told
in 1962's Justice League of America 9.
Unlike the Justice League, the Avengers weren't exactly Marvel's most well-known heroes.
The Avengers who came together in 1963
to defeat the evil trickster Loki were a mixed bag.
Hulk's first comic had already been cancelled.
Sure, the roster that was gathered together for the 2012 film
featured characters who were big by then but that was the movie.
If you stick to their original comic origins,
they weren't a team comic book legends just yet.
The original Avengers simply lack the iconic status and star power
that the Man of Steel and Dark Knight bring to the Justice League.
We're going to have to give this one to the Justice League.
Winner: Justice League 1 / The Avengers 0
Now that we've looked at its original core,
let's now take a look at the characters who were acquired later on.
DC went all out on the original team,
but that didn't leave much room for expansion.
A lot of the members added down through the years feel like they were strictly B-team.
Let's just say that a whole lot of the later members
are not superheroes most kids would have heard of.
Sure, you did have the likes of Green Arrow, Black Canary and Shazam.
Unlike DC, many of their most loved Avengers
came after the original squad was formed.
This list includes Black Panther, Captain America,
who became the leader of the Avengers,
Wolverine and of course Spider-Man.
While Justice League's founding crew is a lot more impressive,
the names that were added to the Avenger's roster further down the line
tip the scale in Marvel's favour.
Winner: the Avengers.
Whether it be a sports team and or a team of superheroes,
they need to learn to work together.
The Justice League are a diverse group of characters
that consist of gods, aliens, humans with powers, and humans without powers.
It's tough to find two members who have something in common.
Batman and Superman are known to have a love-hate relationship
based on their different ideologies.
Flash and Green Lantern have always been best buds.
And Wonder Woman has had a flirtatious relationship with most members in the group.
Still, the Justice League have more of a working relationship.
Some of the relationships in the Avengers kind of parallel those in the Justice League.
Just like the Justice League,
the Avenger's main leaders are a cynical billionaire and a big blue boy scout.
And – shocker – just like Batman and Superman, Stark and Roger's butt heads all the time.
What makes the Avengers different is that they have a lot more in common with each other,
as most of them behave more like normal humans
and don't let their capes and masks get in the way of building relationships.
It also helps that a lot of them were friends before joining the Avengers
like Iron Man and War Machine, and Captain America and Falcon.
While the Justice League may have been called Super Friends,
it's Earth Mightiest Heroes, who are actually friends.
For that, they take this round.
Winner: Justice League 1 / Avengers 2
Everyone knows that a hero is only as interesting as his villains are.
The Justice League has to fight loads of infamous bad guys,
like the maniacal Lex Luthor or the all-powerful Darkseid.
That's not even mentioning other threats like Anti-Monitor, Brainiac, and Starro.
And it's a common trend in the DC universe
is that the bad guys love to form groups of their own,
such as the Injustice League and the Crime Syndicate.
On the comic book pages,
the Avengers have enough baddies to keep themselves plenty busy.
They have to deal with the likes of Thor's jealous brother Loki,
who, in both the comics and films, brought the team together.
The horrific android Ultron is another villain made famous by the cinematic universe
and the sinister Norman Osborn is a major adversary to the Avengers in the comic books.
Even though the fierce foes sometimes join up, they don't do it with the same as DC.
In recent years, the Avengers may have the more recognised rogues gallery,
the villains and teams of villains the Justice League face off against
are just too menacing to ignore.
Winner: Justice League 2 / Avengers 2
For our final round, we look at which team has been more successful
at leaping from comic pages to the small and silver screens.
The Justice League's strength comes from their television appearances
where they captured the attention of children across generations.
First, they gave us the campy but fun "Super Friends" in the 70s,
then they gave us the epic "Justice League"
and "Justice League: Unlimited" in the early 2000s.
Not to mention the short-lived series Young Justice.
While an official Justice League movie won't come out just yet,
we have seen the world they are creating for it with
"Man of Steel", "Batman v Superman: "Suicide Squad".
Granted these movies are, let's face it, kinda bad,
they certainly haven't soured us to the Justice League
and we're looking forward to the future outings of DC's premier heroes.
The Avengers haven't done as well on the small screen,
although the cartoon "Avengers: Earth Mightiest Heroes" was fantastic,
it was unceremoniously replaced by Avengers: Assemble,
a show that did not live up to its processor's quality.
As for animated features, once again DC has Marvel absolutely trounced in this category.
Marvel has very few animated features based on the Avengers
and even less to write home about.
DC, on the other hand, has a whole host of great animated features
that we really wish the live-action movies would take a cue from.
The Avenger's real success has come from their fantastic movies.
With a huge host of blockbuster movies based around its members,
and the Justice League have a lot of catching up to do.
When it comes to television and animated appearances,
the Justice League takes the crown,
but in the cinematic department, The Avengers win by an absolute landslide.
As close as this round is,
we have to give the overall category and the match to The Avengers.
Winner: Justice League 2 / Avengers 3
So it looks like the Avengers were able to assemble and knock off
the Justice League with a tight victory of 3 to 2.
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