Superman is Better than Batman

Geek History Lesson

Jason Inman

Film History, Visual Arts, Tv & Film, Arts

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Hollywood has unleashed the latest adaptation of The Man of Steel on the big screen. The Big Blue Boy Scout has been reinvented for a whole new generation of movie-goers. On this week's episode we reignite the eternal debate between Superman and his super friend - Batman: The Dark Knight. We explore their respective strengths, leadership styles, sidekicks, rogues galleries and more. Will be still believe this title by the end of the pod? Will you?! Listen to hear how we defend your fave!

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0:00.0	Is the narrative that Batman is better than Superman because he doesn't have powers tired?
0:17.7	Yes.
0:19.0	I don't know what else there is to say.
0:20.8	So I'm going to say hello and welcome to geek history lesson. I'm Ashley Victoria Robinson. Yes. I don't know what else there is to say. So I'm going to say hello and welcome to
0:22.5	Geek History Lesson. I'm Ashty Victoria Robinson. I'm Jason M. and welcome to your mind
0:27.2	university because this is the podcast where we dig into characters and constructs and ideas of pop
0:33.2	culture and a little bit less than an hour. And today, oh, today.
0:37.8	Today we solved it in under 30 seconds.
0:39.4	Today is a day you all have been waiting for for a very long time.
0:43.8	Today is a day where we're going to take one character from pop culture, another
0:49.5	character from pop culture, and we're going to put a V between them, and then we're going
0:54.0	to put a colon after both of then we're going to put a colon
0:54.6	after both of their names and then when we have to we have this conversation all the people
0:59.8	in the land shall say yo it is the dawn of the justice I think they're going to say that the power
1:06.2	dynamics of the DCU has been shifted forever. That's Black Adam.
1:12.5	Well, I still think it's funny.
1:14.2	It is what a stupid tag with.
1:19.4	Yeah, we're talking about Batman and Superman, a subject that we're all tired of.
1:21.2	I'm just going to say this.
1:23.5	If these were two women, I'd say, don't pit them against each other.
1:26.5	Collaboration over competition, but these are two men, so I'm going to say, let them fight.
1:28.1	Let them fight. Let them fight. We're here to talk about this, Superman and Batman, two characters that were never meant to be
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