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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Felon" data-source="post: 3397500" data-attributes="member: 8158">Interesting choice of examples. The Infinity Gauntlet and its follow-ups does a good job of showing how the Marvel superhero community is inept at handling complex problems. Cap is all nice and defiant--to borrow a line from Braveheart, "it's easy to admire uncompromising men"--but was he all that effective? Not really. He and the rest of the heroes are just brawlers, completely out of their element in a situation where a frontal assault is pointless. They wind up manipulated into being cannon fodder for Adam Warlock (in Gauntlet) and later on for Thanos himself (in War & Crusade), and ultimately are pretty irrelevant in the conflict. One mini-series after the next, they drew in the audience, then wound up sidelined while Warlock and Thanos resolve everything.This is one area where I think DC's got a superior cast of heroes, because they actually, because they actually seem to be able to strategize and then launch an effective attack that combines both frontal assaults and covert tactics. (And just to be clear, that last bit is intended to address the inevitable snappy retort that facetiously asks what we expect from superheroes other than brainless brawling)</blockquote>