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Message: <blockquote data-quote="buzzard" data-source="post: 1115186" data-attributes="member: 3003">How about we approach this from a stat based point of view. Let's look just at the super powers used by Supes and Captain Marvel. Super StrengthSuper SpeedInvulnerabilityFlightSuper IntelligenceSuperman adds heat and x-ray vision, but if I made each up using a point buy game system, the two would look damned similar. Spiderman is not even remotely similar. Sure we have super speed and strength, but that's it. He does the web thing both swinging and shooting. He climbs walls and has a 'spider sense'.All of which are quite different. Captain Marvel has a majority subset of Supes powers, and nothing else. Much of what you list as commonality between Supes and Spiderman are core to the genre (secret identities, costumes). Now of course the origins, dispositions, and motivations are all quite different. I guess it just depends on what is the more important stuff. The court decided that there was too much in common. Tough luck for Fawcett. buzzard</blockquote>