Captain America Vs. The Green Lantern

[MagicianCamille]

In light of the recent Vs. threads, I decided to make one that doesn't suck.

No crappy secondary "I'm an indecisive bastard and can't make a simple decision!" options, either you're for the Captain, or you're for the Lantern.

Sorry Desslock.

Who ya got?

[The Million Dollar Prons]

Captain America. He has that whoop-*** shield after all.

[Leader Desslock]

I would root for Green Lantern, but I'd have a hard time putting money on him. The man be beaten by the COLOR YELLOW, for Christ's sake. So as much as I'd hate to see a lame-o like Cap'n America win, I think he would.

[Powatanner]

Captain America is Marvel right?
And GL is DC?

btw Prons GL can make a shield 10x the size of Captain A's....
...and a sword, a hammer, a laser, and a eating utensil (aka fork!)
is there nothing he can't do!?

[Rain]

Captain Americaaaaa! God bless America.

[Powatanner]

Captain Americaaaaa! God bless America.
I think God's had enough of blessing America
doing that for over 200 years is a lot of hard work!
Besides that's why we have Prez. Bush!
(no matter how lame he is)

[MagicianCamille]

Please don't ruin this amazing thread with stuff about God and America and President Bush.

This isn't about any of that, this is about Captain America Vs. The Green Lantern. Further discussion of stuff that sucks(anything that isn't Captain America or The Green Lantern) will result in...stuff. So yeah.

I voted Green Lantern, I hear he beat up Spiderman once, no kiddin'.

[Mr. Saturn]

I may have to go with CapAm for this. Not only does he have that whoop *** shield but he's a SUPER SOLDIER with or without it.

On top of that he was in THE WAR with Wolverine. How badass is that?

[Powatanner]

Please don't ruin this amazing thread with stuff about God and America and President Bush.

This isn't about any of that, this is about Captain America Vs. The Green Lantern. Further discussion of stuff that sucks(anything that isn't Captain America or The Green Lantern) will result in...stuff. So yeah.
i'm sorry Camille. I will never post stuff again!
any way you're right Desslock. Your fact is funny yet true
but unfortuneatly for Captain A, he only has red white and blue on, and no yellow. so GL has no disadvantages when facing Captain America.

[CrossboneGundam]

You can't talk about Captain America without talking about America. That's like saying honey has nothing to do with bees.

I'll vote Captain America for the same reason as Mel. :D

[Evil_Koala]

Captain America. Hands down.

[The Million Dollar Prons]

btw Prons GL can make a shield 10x the size of Captain A's....
...and a sword, a hammer, a laser, and a eating utensil (aka fork!)
is there nothing he can't do!?

AND The Green Lantern formed an army of ring-carying soldiers to fight COMMUNIST SUPREMAN.

But Captain America STILL has a kickass shield and is one of the power players of the NEW AVENGERS, along with LOGAN AND SPIDERMAN. I'm still hoping they make an Ultimate Captain America series.

Not to mention the time Mary Jane complained that Spider-Man never introduces her to her friends, so he introduced her to Captain America.

Also, who can forget about BUCKY?! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bucky_%28comics%29)

[Leader Desslock]

i'm sorry Camille. I will never post stuff again!
any way you're right Desslock. Your fact is funny yet true
but unfortuneatly for Captain A, he only has red white and blue on, and no yellow. so GL has no disadvantages when facing Captain America.
Yeah... but think about it. CapAm doesn't have to WEAR the yellow. It can be anywhere. So just stop a moment, take a look around the room you're in, and see if you can't spot something yellow. I bet you can.

In the room in which I'm sitting, my left arm is resting on a yellow crossover cable right at this very moment. I have at hand a potential weapon against which Green Lantern is powerless.

Unless the fight takes place in Antarctica or on the Moon, I'm pretty sure a resourceful dude like Captain America will be able to find a piece of something yellow SOMEWHERE. Fighting in a normal place for Green Lantern would be like Superman trying to fight in a kryptonite minefield. It's gonna go well until he trips on the first yellow thing lying around. He's gotta be the only superhero who is actually vulnerable to slipping on a banana peel! Then it's all over.

All Captain America would have to do is lure Green Lantern over to the nearest yard sale or library, where he'll have an arsenal of National Geographic back issues to beat him with. That gold border on the cover would be GL's undoing.

GL's got style out the wazoo. He can hit people with gigantic fists, which is inherently funny. He's the only animated male with ready access to Big Green Hammerspace, too. But unless he captures CapAm and transports him to the Planet Of Nothing Yellow, it's only a matter of time until he gets owned.

[Rain]

^ DITCHER ALERT.

Y'know, Powatanner. 'Course Captain America will be able to find something yellow. He's not dumb, unlike some people.

[The Million Dollar Prons]

All Captain America would have to do is lure Green Lantern over to the nearest yard sale or library, where he'll have an arsenal of National Geographic back issues to beat him with. That gold border on the cover would be GL's undoing.


Someone else actually knows what a yard sale is? =O

So, anyone catch the 1991 live action Captain America movie? I bet the new movie they're making is gonna be really good.

When Captain America throws his mighty shield,
All those who choose to oppose his shield must yield!
If he's led to a fight and a duel is due,
Then the red and the white and the blue will come through,
When Captain America throws his mighty shield!

[CrossboneGundam]

Yeah... but think about it. CapAm doesn't have to WEAR the yellow. It can be anywhere. So just stop a moment, take a look around the room you're in, and see if you can't spot something yellow. I bet you can.

In the room in which I'm sitting, my left arm is resting on a yellow crossover cable right at this very moment. I have at hand a potential weapon against which Green Lantern is powerless.

Unless the fight takes place in Antarctica or on the Moon, I'm pretty sure a resourceful dude like Captain America will be able to find a piece of something yellow SOMEWHERE. Fighting in a normal place for Green Lantern would be like Superman trying to fight in a kryptonite minefield. It's gonna go well until he trips on the first yellow thing lying around. He's gotta be the only superhero who is actually vulnerable to slipping on a banana peel! Then it's all over.

All Captain America would have to do is lure Green Lantern over to the nearest yard sale or library, where he'll have an arsenal of National Geographic back issues to beat him with. That gold border on the cover would be GL's undoing.

GL's got style out the wazoo. He can hit people with gigantic fists, which is inherently funny. He's the only animated male with ready access to Big Green Hammerspace, too. But unless he captures CapAm and transports him to the Planet Of Nothing Yellow, it's only a matter of time until he gets owned.

So, how does this work? Green Lantern sees the color yellow, and he's out? Or touched by it?

And green is a combination of blue and yellow...

[Gannon]

Unlike the others, I'm going to make my judgement based on the idea that Green Lantern and Captain A are actually going to FIGHT each other. So because of this, I'm going with Green Lantern.

Call me crazy, but I just don't see a guy that can fly, and has the ability to create pretty much any object he wants (not to mention long range capabilities), losing. But hey, that's just me.

And I'm pretty sure GL can avoid yellow while in battle with Captain A. It's called the sky ;).

[Gray]

I vote for Welshy. He's the Fat Guy you never see.

[Raziel_MGS]

Captain America would win I think

[Holy Knight]

In one of the comic books I have, Green Lantern closely ressembles rugged Snake of the Metal Gear video-game series. Captain America looks like some clean wuss in tight pants. I'm rooting for GL on this one for sheer week old Beard Power alone.

[Vaikyuko]

In one of the comic books I have, Green Lantern closely ressembles rugged Snake of the Metal Gear video-game series. Captain America looks like some clean wuss in tight pants. I'm rooting for GL on this one for sheer week old Beard Power alone.

Wow. You're basing this fight on appearances? Cap is one of the most revered and arguably powerful superheroes in all the Marvel Universe. He's been beaten, but not easily.

I agree with the general consensus: Cap would rip GL a new one (and Camille - I don't ever recall hearing about Spidey being beaten up by GL, got an issue number or crossover name or anything?).

[mecegirl]

The same could be said for GL Treize. He is an elite member of a group of intergalictic superheros after all. Hurrah for the Lantern Corps.

I have to admit that with the lantern it may depend on which one you are talking about. Since more than one man has been the lantern. But personaly I like the lantern better for no other reason than the fact that I think that his powers are cool. It's quite shallow but I have no other reasons. ^_^

[K' Dash]

The same could be said for GL Treize. He is an elite member of a group of intergalictic superheros after all. Hurrah for the Lantern Corps.

I have to admit that with the lantern it may depend on which one you are talking about. Since more than one man has been the lantern. But personaly I like the lantern better for no other reason than the fact that I think that his powers are cool. It's quite shallow but I have no other reasons. ^_^



His powers arent just kool, theyre better than Cap. America's. The cap. is a super soldier who has rock hard muscles that repel lasers, and he can jump really really high and hes got super strength. all GL has to do to stop all that is point his ring and put Cap. America in a Cage. I vote GL all the way.

[Gaming_Bum]

I have to say in a fight green lantern would win, but I prefer captain america.

[Loopy]

The Green Lantern>All.

[emotoaster]

GL all the way, I'm a n00b though so can some one explain how GL can get killed by a color?

[Yakura Shima]

i barely know both of them.
captain planet wins with his lovely rainbow ray!

[The Million Dollar Prons]

GL all the way, I'm a n00b though so can some one explain how GL can get killed by a color?


Well, it was a joke, wasn't it? Desslock?

[Vaikyuko]

Not really...GL really can be killed by the color yellow. Sinistro (I think that was his name; it's not important), the Yellow Lantern and villain or w/e, has killed him before using the power of the yellow ring, but the color yellow itself actually does have negative effects on GL.

And K' Dash, you have no idea what you're talking about. Cap has the standard super stuff - super strength and agility and such. Technically he is not a superhero but the peak of human performance and the only unstoppable aspect of his is the shield, made from Vibranium (the strongest alloy in the Marvel Universe, stronger than adamantium). I also still say that Cap could probably take down GL regardless - after all, no one knows what the effects of the ring would do to his shield, if anything. Since this is a pointless duel anyway unless Marvel & DC already covered it in a crossover, I could say the shield could rebound out of the "cage" that holds Cap, ricochets off the wall, and decapitates the Lantern, and for all that it matters, no one could argue against or for that, since there's no proof.

I still say Cap would win though. XD

[Leader Desslock]

Well, it was a joke, wasn't it? Desslock?
Not at all. Don't you remember watching the SuperFriends when you were growing up?

While testing a flight simulator, test pilot Hal Jordan found himself transported to a crashed UFO where he was met by a dying alien. Before he died, the alien gave Hal a green ring and a uniform. Hal discovered that Abin Sur had been part of an intergalactic peacekeeping force known as Green Lanterns. Directed by a blue-skinned race known as the Guardians of the Universe, the Green Lanterns used special rings which allowed them to fly, survive in space, and do nearly anything the bearer can will. These rings were limited only by a 24-hour time limit (after which it needs to be recharged) and a weakness against anything yellow.
http://www.hyperborea.org/flash/hal.html

Sure, it's not Wonder Twins lame, but it's still a pretty glaring flaw in an otherwise cool superhero.

[MagicianCamille]

Since this is a pointless duel anyway unless Marvel & DC already covered it in a crossover,

Wouldn't it be the other way around? If they've already fought what's the point of discussing who would win?

Wait though, I have a 6-inch tall yellow cup in my room right now, does this mean I could defeat The Green Lantern?

[Leader Desslock]

Wait though, I have a 6-inch tall yellow cup in my room right now, does this mean I could defeat The Green Lantern?
The Green Lantern would be as susceptible to the 6-inch tall yellow cup as any other human being. So if you know how to kill an average person with that 6-inch tall yellow cup, you can kill Green Lantern with it too. You can even use it to defend yourself against his ring attacks, if you know how to do that.

It's kind of like... I dunno... hit Superman with a chunk of granite and he'll just laugh. Hit him in the head with a chunk of kryptonite, and he's gonna feel that in the morning.

[Danju]

I vote Captain Planet.

[MagicianCamille]

The Green Lantern would be as susceptible to the 6-inch tall yellow cup as any other human being. So if you know how to kill an average person with that 6-inch tall yellow cup, you can kill Green Lantern with it too. You can even use it to defend yourself against his ring attacks, if you know how to do that.

Something you seem to forget about normal human beings: They can't fly.

Hitting Uncle Ralph with a yellow cup would be a lot easier than hitting the Green Lantern.

[Leader Desslock]

Something you seem to forget about normal human beings: They can't fly.

Hitting Uncle Ralph with a yellow cup would be a lot easier than hitting the Green Lantern.
Well yeah, but it's not like you're Captain America, either. It'd be easier for Captain America to hit a flying target with a yellow cup than it would be for you to do it, I assume.

[Vaikyuko]

Well yeah, but it's not like you're Captain America, either. It'd be easier for Captain America to hit a flying target with a yellow cup than it would be for you to do it, I assume.

The man can navigate on randomly moving platforms through hails of flechettes coming at him from every direction - he also has an accuracy with the shield capable of hitting a hand sized button in an area he could never otherwise reach (source: random Avengers comics; Spider-Man: The Revenge of the Sinister Six). Hitting the GL isn't the problem, naturally. :P

[MagicianCamille]

Well yeah, but it's not like you're Captain America, either. It'd be easier for Captain America to hit a flying target with a yellow cup than it would be for you to do it, I assume.

Touch'e mon blue.

[Sendo Takeshi]

This fight really depends on which GL you're talking about because Hal Jordan is no longer immune to the color yellow. So if thats the case: GGPO Captain America.

[Midoriko87]

Wait, I'm confused. I thought the GL's rings had no affect on yellow-coloured objects. However, now we're talking like yellow is the GL's Kryptonite... So, what's really good (Hey, I watch TV)? And, is that rule still valid? Like, way back when (don't ask when), Supes was susceptible to lasers, but as time went by and new writers stepped in, he's buffed up.

[Sendo Takeshi]

Wait, I'm confused. I thought the GL's rings had no affect on yellow-coloured objects. However, now we're talking like yellow is the GL's Kryptonite... So, what's really good (Hey, I watch TV)? And, is that rule still valid? Like, way back when (don't ask when), Supes was susceptible to lasers, but as time went by and new writers stepped in, he's buffed up.



Well, it was recently retconned in the new Green Lantern books. All of this was an effort to bring back Hal Jordan to life after he became Parallax and damn well near destroyed the world.

See Parallax was a sentient being that thrived off fear. So amazingly enough, he was yellow and thus the color yellow became an instant weakness. Parallax was later thrown into Oa's power battery and imprisoned within it for eternity.

As a matter of fact, go get the paperback of "Green Lantern: Rebirth". It was written by Geoff Johns and completely retcons Hal's insanity and everything that had to do with Parallax. Believe me, its a great read.

[Gannon]

So I guess were all going to pretend that GL can't ALSO MAKE A SHIELD. While were at it, let's just throw the advantage of being able to fly and hit from long-distance versus a pretty much all close-range opponent out the window too.

[MagicianCamille]

Already discussed both advantages, read the thread.

Besides, Lantern is winning. Ya know though, I hope nobody is voting Lantern as a part of some incredibly lame attempt at being anti-America. That'd be the lamest thing since those people who posted "Fascism" in that "What kind of government is America?" thread.

People need to vote Lantern because Lantern rocks.

[Ikari Warrior]

I voted green lantern. I like him more, so he wins.

[animeotaku99]

IF there was a movie Captain AMerica would win because he is essentially the United States in Spandex wearing man form, and America can never lose according to Hollywood

[Haro!]

I vote captain america. He beats people down with a shield, thats more than enough for me.

[Ikari Warrior]

People need to vote Lantern because Lantern rocks.

I voted Green Lantern because I think Captain America's super-amazing shield-throwing ability blows. I'm not anti-America, I love my country, but GL simply has cooler powers. I don't care about being weak vs. the color yellow. What's Captain America's weakness? From what I gather, he's not very "super", kinda like Batman. No invincibility, no ability to fly. Just his own human intuition. If Cap has no super powers, then all GL needs to do is entrap him in his green bubble (like I've seen him do to protect himself and others), carry Cap to the ocean, and let the bubble fill with water. Or make a giant hand and crush Captain America.

For as many Yellow-object-related ways there are to beat GL, you kinda have to bear in mind that Captain America would be as suceptible to these "weaknesses", the color of the object/energy/whatever in question being irrelevant.

[MagicianCamille]

The more I read of Green Lantern and the more ridiculous this poll gets. XD

Green Lantern would SO win. I'll create another Super Hero Vs. thread next time I feel like making a thread, probably a year or two from now.

[xAndronicusX]

If the Capt starts to lose, he can just pull the ol' Darkhelmet "May the best man win" routine aka "The Oldest Trick in the Book", take the ring off GL's finger and toss it down a drain. Capt. wins.

[cyborgaaron]

America is slowly going to hell. Besides that I voted for green lantern because hes always been kick ***. Iv'e never been much of a fan for Capt America

[MagicianCamille]

If the Capt starts to lose, he can just pull the ol' Darkhelmet "May the best man win" routine aka "The Oldest Trick in the Book", take the ring off GL's finger and toss it down a drain. Capt. wins.

Pssh, Green Lantern would make a big green hand with his ring and Captain America would have to shake THAT.

GL's no fool.

[Ikari Warrior]

we're talking comic books here, not spaceballs :P

[Gray]

Spaceballs is one of my all time favorite movie's. "Evil will always win, because Good is Dumb"

Anyway, I voted Lantern because Strength and a Shild isn't all that new. And "America" ain't in it's Prime anymore anyway.

[MagicianCamille]

And "America" ain't in it's Prime anymore anyway.

Which is incredibly relevant to the thread oh wait no it isn't.

It's worth pointing out that GL can make a shield that can apparently handle some level of YELLOW. So the Captain really doesn't have any advantages here at all. :lol:

[Gray]

Which is incredibly relevant to the thread oh wait no it isn't.

It's worth pointing out that GL can make a shield that can apparently handle some level of YELLOW. So the Captain really doesn't have any advantages here at all. :lol:

Yea you know, except they guys name is Captain AMERICA. But, since this thread has nothing to do with Captain America, I guess youre right.

[Jabberwock]

Well, it was recently retconned in the new Green Lantern books. All of this was an effort to bring back Hal Jordan to life after he became Parallax and damn well near destroyed the world.

See Parallax was a sentient being that thrived off fear. So amazingly enough, he was yellow and thus the color yellow became an instant weakness. Parallax was later thrown into Oa's power battery and imprisoned within it for eternity.

As a matter of fact, go get the paperback of "Green Lantern: Rebirth". It was written by Geoff Johns and completely retcons Hal's insanity and everything that had to do with Parallax. Believe me, its a great read.
I voted GL, too, b/c there is a time when the GL ring was invulnerable to near everyhing (go Batman for figuring out a way in the Tower of Babel and Deathstroke in Identity Crisis). But with Hal Jordan's rebirth and Parallax once again being imprisoned in the Oan Power Battery, wouldn't that logically make the GL Corps once again susceptible to the colour yellow?

I haven't kept up at all with the GL series, but I was curious how putting Parallax back where he came from magically negated the weakness after having affected them for so long.

Oh, and CapAm is cool, but only the best tacticians can stop the most powerful weapon in the Universe. So, the question lies, can Captain America hold his own against either Batman or even Deathstroke?

EDIT: Sense errors.

[mecegirl]

^ Wait arn't the Cap and GL a part of two differnt companys. Cap is marvel and GL is DC so of course Cap can't do anything against Batman different comic company. Unless they chose to do a crossover. @_@

[quaze6]

no contest, definatly green lantern

[Jabberwock]

^ Wait arn't the Cap and GL a part of two differnt companys. Cap is marvel and GL is DC so of course Cap can't do anything against Batman different comic company. Unless they chose to do a crossover. @_@
Yup. Very true, mecegirl, but crossovers have been done and this is a matter of speculation that can interest anyone who likes the characters of both universes. ^_^

[Sendo Takeshi]

Oh, and CapAm is cool, but only the best tacticians can stop the most powerful weapon in the Universe. So, the question lies, can Captain America hold his own against either Batman or even Deathstroke?

EDIT: Sense errors.


Well, the Corps is invulnerable to yellow now because of Hal. Hal basically told them to man up and then the color yellow won't own them hard. Overcome fear and yellow is just another color. Thats how they managed to survive against Parallax.


As for Captain America vs. Batman or Deathstroke. Well, Batman would have to use Preptime™ and since Cap is from another dimension the properties of Preptime Batman™ are negated in this case. As for Deathstroke, he uses 90% of his brain functions. So Cap wouldn't even be able to last 2 seconds with Deathstroke because his thought capabilities are a lot quicker than any normal humans. And his reflexes are just too hard to top.

[Jabberwock]

Two points:

First, I agree with you in terms of Deathstroke.

Second, Batman's already beaten Captain America in their encounter during the Dc vs. Marvel comics. And without Preptime™ even! All ya need to do is remember that the Cap can't swim. :lol:

http://www.loyno.edu/~melarosa/Pictures/BatvsCapAm.JPG

[Sendo Takeshi]

Two points:

First, I agree with you in terms of Deathstroke.

Second, Batman's already beaten Captain America in their encounter during the Dc vs. Marvel comics. And without Preptime™ even! All ya need to do is remember that the Cap can't swim. :lol:

http://www.loyno.edu/~melarosa/Pictures/BatvsCapAm.JPG



I completely forgot about that. For some reason I tend to forget that DC vs. Marvel existed.

I wonder if Cap is scared of ice?

[mecegirl]

Woot GL rocks.

So they did do a crossover It all makes since now.

[The Million Dollar Prons]

I also enjoyed Spawn-Batman.

[Solid_Snake]

Green Lantern.

/End thread.