[catachresis]

All these threads about band lineups have got me thinking similar but slightly more existential imponderables.

So is it

or

or

Yeah, I know. Easy question, Duran Duran would kick both their asses.

But I mean seriously if you got

to tag-team with Superman, don't you think they'd have a fighting chance?

[Don't grimace--your face will stick that way. Besides, I might have made this a poll.]

 

[applaudio]

I'd have to go with Coldplay. Or maybe Yoda.

 

[Uncle Erik]

It would be Batman.

More specifically, Adam West's Batman. The other Batmen are entirely too serious (especially that leaden, one-note Christian Bale) and Superman has never been campy enough.

Duran Duran does have 1980s hairstyles working in their favor here, however, their teenage girl heartthrob status mitigates that.

Boy George can certainly contend for camp value, though he has some artistic ambitions. I thonk you would need to add a larger factor, like Dragonforce, Poison, Gary Glitter, or the Meaty Cheesy Boys to top West's Batman.

 

[chud]

Radiohead is surely this answer.


On this board at least.

 

[Kirosia]

This man

 

[catachresis]

Guys, Guys! You can't be too reductive about this. It's not just about who is stronger, or who enjoys a larger fanbase of twelve-year-old girls, or forty-five year old girls (both sets to Duran Duran) or thirty-year-old boys (Dio--no contest, though BG's following is a significant percentile). It's not about who's got the best exposed vinyl underpants (Adam West? Thom Yorke?), or who has a haircut that could cut pennies and slice ripe tomatoes equally well (tossup Superman or DuranDuran Regular--not Unleaded). It's not about who you're most afraid of encountering while you're having a pee in a dark alley outside a bar late at night (question: is Batman the least threatening option here?).

It's about style. It's a certain timeless elegance -- un je ne sais quoi. It's the Louvre Museum, a Strauss symphony, a Bendel bonnet--Hell, it's Micky Mouse. It's the one you can count on to go ten rounds with Osama Bin Laden and bite off his ear lobe in the third.

Damn it, camp is not enough. He's got to be camp as Christmas.

If you're going to have to page through twelve issues of Crisis on Infinite Earths plus an Annual, there's going to be an awful pile of super-bodies at the end. Who's standing in the blood-red dusk at the pinnacle with his foot on top of Booster Gold?

 

[catachresis]

Quote:

Superman has never been campy enough.

Good lord, Erik, that's the most surprising opinion I've heard in a month of Sundays.

 

[applaudio]

Quote:

Originally Posted by catachresis /img/forum/go_quote.gif Good lord, Erik, that's the most surprising opinion I've heard in a month of Sundays.

Dude, there's no such thing as a month of Sundays.

 

[catachresis]

Quote:

Originally Posted by applaudio /img/forum/go_quote.gif Dude, there's no such thing as a month of Sundays.

Hmm. That might explain why I keep missing dentist appointments.

 

[DeusEx]

 

[El_Doug]

Barbra Streisand

 

[catachresis]

Quote:

Originally Posted by El_Doug /img/forum/go_quote.gif Barbra Streisand

That settles it. Though I think Liza Minnelli could have taken her twenty years ago. I wouldn't want to have been the janitor who would have had to mop the blood off of the ring either.

 

[roadtonowhere08]

catachresis: Imma let you finish, but Journey's Separate Ways (World's Apart) music video is one of the most powefullest things of all time!

 

[Uncle Erik]

Best exposed vinyl underpants?

That would be none other than Butt Boy, of Dread Zeppelin.

Tortelvis could hold his own, as well, in sheer camp value.

 

[Joelby]

I'm sorry fellas but Robert Smith from the Cure would kick the snot out of all those pansies.