User blog comment:TheVision185/Marvel vs. DC/@comment-1895174-20121209202709/@comment-1895174-20121209215539

1) I included villains when I made the comment about Batman. Without help from any of the Batman films: Robin (I'll only count one for the sake of argument), Alfred, Commissioner Gordon, Batgirl, Catwoman, the Joker, the Riddler, the Penguin, Two-Face, and arguably Mr. Freeze are well known characters.

But yes, they do have a good number of really popular characters.

2a) A character with any degree of superpowers is still a character with superpowers. And I agree that Marvel's characters are more well-rounded than DC's, I was just refuting the claim that Marvel's characters are more believable because they don't have superpowers.

2b) I wasn't saying Batman didn't have any superpowered villains, but that most of them don't have any superpowers. In addition to superpowered villains like Killer Croc, Ra's al Ghul, Poison Ivy, and Clayface, he also non-superpowered enemies like the Joker, the Riddler, Two-Face, Mr. Freeze, the Penguin, the Mad Hatter, Hush, Scarecrow, Black Mask, and ****load of mobsters.  I wouldn't consider Bane superpowered (although versions of him like the one in Arkham Asylum definitely are), but it's not worth arguing over.  And my description for Batman's rogues gallery wasn't "best" but "most well known".  Spider-Man may have the most well-known rogues gallery for any Marvel character, but it doesn't come close to how well-known Batman's is.  And yes, Spider-Man does have a large number of non-superpowered villains like: Kingpin, Chameleon, Mysterio, Shocker, Vulture, etc.  But the main point of my comment was to refute the claim that DC does not have non-superpowered heroes.

2c) For what it's worth, my definition of superpowered is any average human whose abilities are not the result of some special training or gadget. Anyone whose abilities are either the result of genetic tampering or any type of science accident, or is an alien/non-human with superhuman powers are superpowered.  So characters like Iron Man and Hal Jordan would not be superpowered while characters with really tame abilities like Spider-Man and Captain America would.