User blog comment:Arrow7000/Batman (Terry McGinnis) vs. Iron man (MCU)/@comment-143604-20120704193130

After a lot of thought and consideration, I'm going to throw my hat in with mah boi Terry. It'll be close, closer than any fight McGinnis has found himself in yet, but his tech is much more advanced than Tony's. While in the sky, Tony is going to have a major advantage because the Iron Man suit is much faster, deadlier and more manoverable than McGinnis' own suit, but this won't be a battle for supremecy of the skies. Batman's packing devestating weaponry that is just effective, it's effective against Tony in specific- his claws will be able to tear into the suit and do major damage, possibly even disturbing the chest reactor (which, let's face it, is a pretty obvious target even if Terry doesn't recognise what it really does.) which would be fatal quick without a replacement reactor. The bolas and gas will do nothing to Stark in his weaponized power armor, but his explosives, if placed well could prove to be a damaging blow in conjunction with his other skills. Electric charged weaponry is a bit of a gamble- we see in Iron Man 2 that Whiplash could damage the Mark V suit with his electric-charged whips, and actually shredded the armor just by wrapping the tendrils around Stark, but the Mark V is a stripped down "emergancy" suit that is obviously not nearly as powerful or as weaponized/defensive as the Mark VI. In the Avengers, Thor hits Tony with a blast of lightning that is far more powerful than what Whiplash could put out, and not only did it not do much to his armor, it actually supercharged him up. Now, I'm not saying that Terry's electric batarangs are comparable to the Thunderer's divine bolts, but I am saying that Tony's had a really inconsistant relationship with electric based attacks, but the Mark VI has a recorded history of being powered up by it, making it a potential threat to Bats as well. Honestly, the only way Terry is going to have a chance at all against his stronger, better air-controlling and smarter foe is if he can get up close, do major damage, and then vanish away. Fortunately, I think that Terry's good enough at this to recognize that his claws will do the most damage after a little fighting, and his invisibility combined with the Batman's natural affinity for stealth will allow him to perform these devestating hit and runs on the Iron Man weapon.

Iron Man's rockets and turn-and-burn laser are incredibly powerful weapons, but they're really not made for one-on-one combat. The rockets will be easy for Terry to dodge or shoot prematurally down, while the Turn-and-Burn is really made to deal major damage to a large number of enemies at once, and if this battle isn't in a secluded area, Tony won't risk killing innocent people to activate the lasers. His repulsors are easily strong enough to devestate anything in Terry's arsenal, and could really damage Terry himself. The Unibeam, on the other hand, is risky because of the extra few seconds it needs to charge up, but when this thing hits, it ''hits. ''Terry will be lucky to still have all of his suit functioning if he gets hit directly with the Unibeam. But like I said, the payoff is that Terry can take advantage of the attack's charge time to deal some damage of his own or prepare an escape for another hit-and-run. The question of this battle is whether or not Terry can keep out of Tony's sight, do the damage he needs to and avoid Stark's counter fire, because if Tony can actually get Batman in a position where he can start dealing damage, he's going to crush Terry with ease- his firepower is that much more overwhelming. In the end, I feel that Terry is close enough to Stark's X-factors and has good enough tactical skill in a fight to be able to quickly recognize what he needs to do, and how to hit Stark where it hurts and take out the armor.