User blog comment:Captain James Rogers/Justice League V.S. The Avengers/@comment-4446176-20121215205703/@comment-3317214-20121217031247

As to what would actually happen, yes, that's what I'm saying.

There's so many variables, so many things could happen, it could go either way, which means that the writer of the story has a lot to play with, they can choose who wins for the sake of plot. However, if we want to try and determine who we think will win, we look at it by saying, "oh, he'd be good against him, he's stronger than him, he's got a weakness to this so the other guy will beat him", etc - Analysing the different one-on-one possibilities. And we use that to determine who we think would win.

That's the most plausible way of figuring out "which team will win", because the way the battle would actually work if you could stick the Justice League and the Avengers in a ring is impossible to predict.

Now, when someone asks "which team will win", you don't think to yourself, "Oh, I'll just analyse the multiple possibilities of singular-combatant physical engagements, and determine which contingent has the highest probability of acheiving victory in said engagements, and therefore, predict the outcome of the battle." No. We just look at who's there and say, "Well, he's good against him" a bit and pick our favourite.

That's why everyone here is talking about "DC Character A" vs "Marvel Character B", as opposed to Justice League vs Avengers.