User blog comment:Legendary slam bam/Who is better?/@comment-1857213-20121024202514

Difficult question that can be taken a couple different ways. Who's the better Super Hero? As in talking 'who is the better man', then the answer is Captain America. His desire even before he gained his power was to serve his country and fellow man. He was willing to put his life at risk to achieve what he could not do on his own.

Now, who is the better Super Hero, as in who is just simply the best? Iron Man. He is more adaptable to the times and has a greater appeal to the crowd as a whole. Tony Stark lacks the rigidity to his moral compas that Captain America seems to posses, and is willing to bend the rules more often than not. His motives started selfish, and still retain a bit of that nature, He is delightfully egotistical - quick to toot his own horn, so to say, but one of the first to laugh at himself. He has the knowledge and resources to access a dizzying array of technology to apply to his purposes and bring his brain-children to life. And at the core, he has overcome more than Captain America. CA is this epitome of Man, and all he should be. Good, honorable, just - Superman, if you will, just homegrown. Tony, on the other hand, is every-man - or, more realistically, what every-man dreams he could be. The last one anyone would peg as hero material, yet here he is!

So, in conclusion, I personally would have to say Iron Man - via Tony Stark - is the better Super Hero simply in the fact that he is the more engaging, interesting, and effective of the two. Sorry, Cap!