Since the beginning of time itself, since the first words of recorded history; since man first stepped, blinking, naked, and scared from the darkness of nonexistence, and a bunch of grubby-fingered children clamoured around a magazine parlour reading comic books, realizing that different superheroes existed in similar continuities, a singular question has prevailed – a question consistently on every living being’s breath, continuing to drive scholars and plebeians alike to the edge of madness and beyond: “COULD BATMAN BEAT SUPERMAN??”
Yes, there’s something so very appealing about comic book heroes fighting each other. Notjust fighting – no, they do plenty of fighting - but fighting each other. It’s the kind of thinking that leads to a buzz of excitement when in, say, Joss Whedon’s The Avengers, Iron Man squares off against Thor. But they’re both Avengers, right? They’re not supposed to be fighting. It is, for all intents and purposes, a “what if” scenario – and yet, it’s the kind of scenario which has prevailed and stuck with popular culture and its audience for generations. More than heroes fighting villains, we clamour at the chance to see heroes fighting other heroes. So, here’s Injustice: Gods Among Us – an entire game dedicated to the notion of heroes fighting other heroes.
