JCC How many years realistically could superheroes last?

For example if Batman AKA Bruce Wayne started his crime fighting exploits at the age of 25 how many years could he get?

What about Barry Allen as the Flash or Wonder Woman?

And without career ending injuries would it seem more efficient to pass the torch to someone else? Or let their name die with their retirement.

Now Superman's power would last long into his life even as an old man he still could be more powerful then Batman.

 

14000

 

Indefinitely until the genre becomes unprofitable.

 

Both Marvel and DC have any number of ways to get human limit heroes patched back up so their gonna last awhile. But like Wonder Woman? She's a demigod. She's got a loooooong while.

 

Realistically, it's said that Batman wouldn't last as long as the fiction makes out. Between the exhaustion and physical difficulties from all the injuries, Bruce wouldn't last a year. Superman could last a lot longer since due to his Kryptonian powers, he has excellent stamina. He can get by on one to two hours worth of sleep and go weeks without eating. The Flash family has it different because the Speed Force allows longer stamina and their bodies to health for most injuries, so long as the trauma isn't severe like a severed spinal chord. Wonder Woman is an Amazon and is much like a Kryptonian, but even she can be induced into having a heart attack, if she doesn't take sufficient rest breaks. This is due to the fact that a flaw for her is that she refuses to quit until she's won or has been soundly beaten. This was covered in "JLA: Tower Of Babel" and "Justice League: Doom".

 

Realistically, superheroes aren't realistic to begin with. They are often painted like gods when they clearly aren't and power is substituted for *talent* which muddles things even more.

 

I'm glad that could be cleared up.

 

A year, I give Batman at least seven to twelve years possibly. But at the same time is it possible that he would let some of his tech go to newer crime fighters in Gotham so he could take a vacation or two. But the reaction of Gotham itself would be interesting. Makes you wonder if his actions wouldn't spawn heroes from Gotham PD to take up crime fighting with the blessing of the commissioner.

Actually I don't see Wonder Woman as a regular superhero like Batman. I doubt she would really fight that much in any one city. Leaving the daily mess of crime fighting to other justice league members. She would hang back and only come out for the big fights. Thus giving her longevity.

Superman and Clark Kent are one in the same. As long as he has a job at the Daily Planet he would be fighting crime. Retirement would see less of Superman because he would be in his Fortress of Solitude all the time.

I don't see the Flash slowing down. No pun intended.

And I believe only Wonder Woman and the Batman would ever train their offspring to be the next hero.

 

Sometimes I ask myself how many threads realistically could beezel last.

 

these are the musings of a man devoid of a solid grounding in the world. deliberations with no aim, or goal, barely raising any interest. such futility. it's beyond futility. what is the point of such a discussion? what is the meaning of this?

 

Batman's career would last the same duration as boxing champions, NFL running backs, Olympic athletes: 2-3 years.

 

Considering how hard it is to become a professional/Olympic caliber athlete in the first place, that strikes me as an unrealistically short time period.

 

actually you are thinking professionally. if you think a running back, you have at least ten to twelve years maybe longer including high school and college. Which is why you would end up with a decade for batman. The only major issue I see with the Bats is going out on bad knees and a bad back from dropping down from all those buildings.

The guy may be a Billionaire but without good support in your boots one drop from ten feet will end your night real quick.

He must have spent a fortune on good boots. I want to know who was his cobbler?

 

I need a pair of impact absorbing boots.
OK, I think we can arrange that. What do you want them for?
Because...well....just because.....

 

I am going to go base jumping off El Captain.

 

I thought Beezel threads would be more entertaining to read while drunk.



Nope.

 

Ant-Man's career would last until someone steps on him.

 

Dark Knight Rises actually had a neat commentary on that. Basically, Bruce was Batman for about a year up to the Joker incident then bailed. When he goes to the doctor, the doc lays it out:

Doctor: I've seen worse cartilage in knees.
Bruce Wayne: That's good.
Doctor: No, that's because there is NO cartilage in your knee, and not much of any use in your elbows or your shoulders. Between that and the scar tissue on your kidneys, the residual concussive damage to your brain tissue, and the general scarred-over quality of your body, I cannot recommend that you go heliskiing, Mr. Wayne
Bruce Wayne: Right.

 

I've heard about a Douglas Adams story in which Superman tries to conceive a child...

...things didn't work out too well for a number of women, so I'm told.

 

When a beezel reaches a certain age it must begin asking the difficult questions.

 

from now on i'm going to picture beezels as a furry little tribble-like creature. i imagine there are like forty in a cluster of beezels, and together they form a complete mind. but we are stuck with only number 26 here, one lone fuzzy little beezel, somehow separated from his pack and struggling to form one fortieth of a thought.

 

Yeah, I'm blanking on the title, but there's an essay about that. Supposedly it would be impossible for Clark Kent and Lois Lane to have a child because Clark would kill Lois with the first thrust.

 

Again, physical exhaustion and wear and tear would get to him. Look at "The Dark Knight Rises" when you see the physical toll all the fighting, jumping and crashing about did to him. Realistically, he wouldn't be able to keep up the pace and one night, someone would overwhelm and kill him.

Diana fights everyday street crime, along with metahuman and alien threats. She's made Boston and Gateway City her home. So she would do the same thing in the real world.

Not really. Superman does more than fight crime as he helps out with disasters and helps people in other ways. He's helped deliver two babies, one of which was his own son and got another woman to a hospital to deliver there. He's stopped tsunamis, helped clean up earthquakes, rescued people from burning buildings and once a year, reads the letters sent to him and then goes out on Christmas Eve to do his best to help.

Barry Allen's children became the Tornado Twins.



His grandchildren; XS and Impulse/Kid Flash II.





Wally West's children, Iris and Jai West.