User blog comment:WinterSpider/Nightwing vs The Winter Soldier/@comment-17814994-20170117034607

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I'm gonna make this vote brief and give the edge to Nightwing with high difficulty. At first I thought that a military operative like Winter Soldier is going to destroy a plain street-level vigilante like Nightwing. He's also using lethal killing tools as opposed to Nightwing's non-lethal gadgets,a nd he's got that bionic arm that gives him superhuman strength and durability. But then again, Nightwing's fought against firearm experts and enhnaced cybernetic opponents before (he fought and defeated Amazo for crying out loud). And like all comic book battles, my comparison always boil down to feats.

Nightwing, definately fought a wider variety of powerful opponents than Winter Soldier. Yes, people like to point out that WInter Soldier has been assassinating people for half a century already, but we don't really know the quality of opponents he fought during that time. For all we know, all the opponents he's killed were low-ranking soldiers and harmless targets. He's basically absent during some of the greatest events in the Marvel Universe at that time. But Nightwing on the other hand? He was one of the key players in his own universe. And in the events that he's fought, he's gone toe to toe with godlike aliens, magic and superhuman and came out on top. He was the leader of the Teen Titans, and he became Batman on two occassions. Winter Soldier has nothing that can compare to these.

Experience is what will give Nightwing the victory here. I see a scenario where Winter Soldier will be hunting down Nightwing, but then gets suprised at the agility and intellect the young Batman possessed.