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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Arlough" data-source="post: 5905516" data-attributes="member: 79335">More than anything, that is the author's narrative control that makes them all shine.  Realistically, Captain America and Black Widow should, together, be able to engage and hold off one moderate threat, Iron Man another, while the Hulk engages many moderate threats and Thor manages the BBEG.Edit: I forgot Hawkeye, like most people will.Hawkeye can either engage with one moderate threat that isn't focused on fast or ranged, or possibly up to 10 low end threats (minions), given his ranged abilities. Still, I don't think he would be able to nullify these threats and go help the others, he could only engage them preventing the small frys from mucking up the important battle.Green Lantern also has the weakness of being not that imaginative or bright.[sblock]<img src="http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l288/Chiasmata85/scansdaily/All-StarBatmanRobin08-18.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />[/sblock]Imagine if the Batman had that ring. Oh wait...[sblock]<img src="http://media.comicvine.com/uploads/6/60055/1464918-17___awesome_batman_green_lantern_overpowered_super_heroes_super.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />[/sblock]Green Arrow really is just a trick shot.Batman has the weakness of being quite literally mad, as well as operating outside of his power class frequently.And Superman's weakness is having ever escalating enemies because he is as much a god as Thor.That and a rare element from a single planet light years away that blew up less than a century ago is somehow available to every criminal on the planet with the wherewithal to buy shoulder fired RPGs.  You'd think Krypton was actually a blown up by a shaped charge designed to send it through a wormhole directly to earth given how common it is on the planet and how quickly the rocks got here.Of course every episode can, because they must.  Plot armor equalizes everybody.  Also, it should be noted that each of these characters has their own comic where they operate at levels more closely tied to their abilities.  Even the Batman rarely engages beings of a higher tier outside of crossover comics.I would say that the only way you can have this large of a power gap and give everybody a reason to shine is by contrived circumstance where the more powerful characters are disabled for whatever reason and it is left up to the (comparative) <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plebs" target="_blank">plebs</a> to take care of things.</blockquote>

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