Who would win in a fight... Superman or PredAlien?
My some loves the Alien vs. Predator series. He has a friend at school and they talk about the movies all of the time. At home, I have the Blu-Ray disk of AvP: Requiem and on the cover is a nice picture of the PredAlien hybrid. I had to explain to my son that all aliens are hybrids but in AvP: Requiem, the hybrid is a particular bad-ass who is half-alien/half predator.
We also just got finished watching Superman : Doomsday and so the inevitable question was asked…
He asked, “Papa, who would win in a fight… Superman or the PredAlien from AvP: Requiem?”
I just shook my head. I said, “Giovanni, remember what I told you about baseball? You remember, the whole thing about the majors and minors? Those are leagues. Players in the minors are simply not as good, by and large, as their major-league counterparts. Say you put a minor league team against a major-league team and had them play one another. The minor-league team would be considered ‘out of their league’ for that matchup. It’s the same way with Superman and the PredAlien. What happens when Superman gets shot with a bullet?”
“It bounces off,” he replied.
I continued, “and what happens to an Alien when it gets hit with a bullet?”
“It gets hurt or gets blown up…. oh! I get it!” he exclaimed. “The PredAlien is in the minors and Superman is in the majors!”
I shook my head. “Actually, Giovanni. If Superman were in the majors then, for this matchup, the PredAlien would be playing Tee-Ball with Marco (my 4-year old son).”
He did not like that answer. He liked the PredAlien and though it was a cool and downright bad-ass monster. Knowing Superman could rip off one of it’s arms and use the acid blood like cologne left him a bit disillusioned.
This is, by the way, why Batman is way more interesting than Superman.