Both of these male character can be described as “American billionaire, playboy, philanthropist, and owner of major company in perspective city” (Badgett) and to add to their common adjectives they both lost their parents in accidents. Another way that the Marvel Comics and DC Comics can be compared is that some of their character have gone through ‘freak’ accidents that gave them their powers. Give or take the Arrow from DC Comics, the Arrow or Oliver Queen was in a boat accident that stranded him on an island where he had to learn to use the bow and fight against people for five years in Hong Kong and Russia and on Lian Yu, the island where he got his bow and arrows from along with his ‘hood’ that he used to wear, in order for Oliver to stay alive he had to learn to fight and kill unless he wanted to die himself when he finally made it back to Star City he began to take out bad people in his city. As for Marvel a superhero that went through a freak accident is Captain America, Steve Rogers went into the army and when in the army he was experimented on to make him really strong, the experiment had worked and he later in his life he was frozen in the Atlantic after a plane crash when he came out he became the first Avenger and he fought crime in his city. However as the characters of the Marvel and DC comics are very similar and they both are there for the same reasons they have many contrasting points between
Both of these male character can be described as “American billionaire, playboy, philanthropist, and owner of major company in perspective city” (Badgett) and to add to their common adjectives they both lost their parents in accidents. Another way that the Marvel Comics and DC Comics can be compared is that some of their character have gone through ‘freak’ accidents that gave them their powers. Give or take the Arrow from DC Comics, the Arrow or Oliver Queen was in a boat accident that stranded him on an island where he had to learn to use the bow and fight against people for five years in Hong Kong and Russia and on Lian Yu, the island where he got his bow and arrows from along with his ‘hood’ that he used to wear, in order for Oliver to stay alive he had to learn to fight and kill unless he wanted to die himself when he finally made it back to Star City he began to take out bad people in his city. As for Marvel a superhero that went through a freak accident is Captain America, Steve Rogers went into the army and when in the army he was experimented on to make him really strong, the experiment had worked and he later in his life he was frozen in the Atlantic after a plane crash when he came out he became the first Avenger and he fought crime in his city. However as the characters of the Marvel and DC comics are very similar and they both are there for the same reasons they have many contrasting points between