I would have to pick Marvel, since I have always thought that it was more interesting than the DC Universe. But either one would be exciting!
I’ve always said that DC had the better heroes and that Marvel had the better villains.
Even if I can’t get powers myself, I can still study the physics behind the powers. I probably wouldn’t get any further than the in-universe guys at Star Labs or whatever, but even trying to get further would be the ride of a lifetime.
Hey, it’s the comic book universe. According to the apparent rules of such places, you’re only a horrific laboratory accident away from superpowers!
They’re both murderously insane hellholes, from my perspective. One of which has suffered at least four or five catastrophic universal collapses/resets within my lifetime.
On the plus side, the afterlife—a “good” one—demonstrably exists in both universes. The bad news: this still does not seem to be a completely foolproof for escaping the unending storm of the world of the living.
I can honestly say that either universe would probably be an improvement over the Warhammer 40k Universe…but not by nearly enough.
That’s the plot of DC’s short-lived TV series “Powerless”.
I think they are both equally terrible. If you have super-powers, you are doomed to a life of constant conflict and unpredictable violence. If you don’t, you are (at best) a helpless bystander caught in the crossfire or (at worst) doomed to suffer a hideous death.
I know the ‘Marvels’ comic tried to depict life as a civilian as being some kind of miraculous experience, as if they are surrounded by unexpected wonders. I don’t buy it. The reality is that it would be like living through 9/11 every single month.
Anybody see the new “Tick,” where Arthur watches his father die, and then the superheroes get murdered right in front of him? And he spends the rest of his life traumatized? Yeah. That.
And I think the absolute WORST part would be that you’d just be walking around the city and every time you look up and see Thor or Superman flying through the sky it reminds you that you are one of the worthless herd whose life doesn’t ‘count.’
The best possible strategy would be to spread your legs for the first superhero you meet, because then at least you get top priority for being rescued. (Seriously, Superman is an asshole.)
Yeah, let’s go live in Riverdale.
If I lived in a comic book universe, I would be one of those panic-stricken scurrying hapless civilians running around like ants when some alien blew up a skyscraper with an alien ray blaster. I would be the one running down the street right into the edge of the panel, a closeup, with open mouth in a rictus of terror.
And do you consider that a good thing or a bad thing?
I’m staying home.
I think (though I admit I’m unsure) that my life expectancy might be higher in the DC universe.
I’d choose the DC universe, then get a good sniper rifle, head to Gotham, pick off the Joker. Then to another city, another major villain…
It’d be my way of contributing.
Gods and aliens falling from the sky, flying mech suits battling on Santa Monica boulevard, supersoldier experiements destroying the Bronx and blowing up Mann’s Chinese Theater and the United Nations, rogue Nazi science divisions burrowing deep within secretive government agencies to send flying platforms to spy on and eliminate millions of people, a genius billionaire playboy philathropist who can’t help himself from repeatedly building murderkilbots bent on human extinction, a Celestial who has seeded every inhabited planet in the galaxy with his ego, multiple religious fanatics who seek to destroy all life, and a guy named “Ant-Man”. Not to mention a “Hell’s Kitchen” which seems to cover all of midtown Manhattan run by murderous crimelord and ‘protected’ by a ninja-trained blind lawyer, a private detective with a drinking problem, and a douchy rich kid, while the Bronx is a battleground for illegal arms sales and Brooklyn is a ground zero for a psychotic vigilante’s personal war. The only place I would want to live in the Marvel Cinematic Universe is Wakanda, even if they do patronize me and refer to me as “colonizer”.
Still better than DC, where thousands of people die every time Henry Cavill sneezes or Bruce Wayne gets in a tiff with a petty criminal.
Stranger
Make mine marvel. While i won’t develop powers i probably know enough to at least get some tech and reverse engineer it. There are plenty of street level heroes and villains so there is no reason not to pick up a night job maybe walk the grey line and rob enough to pay for the hero shit. It would be fun and as long as you’re a hero or villian you can’t permanently die so it seems the safest choice.
whut?
IF I could study in Wakanda after it opens up to the world, and IF I could have some pleasant very private time with Thor and Peter Quill (not at the same time, however, as they’d be more interested in comparing their physiques than in pleasing me), then the MCU. Otherwise, I’ll stay here, thank you very much, for the same reasons cited above – they offer pretty much nothing for regular people, except sudden death from aliens or superheroes battling each other.