HOWEVER, Stark Industries are still worse. By converting almost every peice of military equipment in the world, not to meantion the entirety of S.H.I.E.L.D. technology to his products, Tony Stark left a giant hole in our planets defense that allowed the Skrulls to invade all willy nilly. Good thing Norman Osborn is in charge now. He isn't so full of hubris as to base the entire world's defense on his tech alone.

So because of that, it gets my vote... even if Tony himself created a awesome power suit and took down the wrong doers.

@Balentius: Oh god, I wish I didn't even know about that.

@trujunglist: Bruce Wayne is a total kung fu master. The gadgets are nice, but if he and Stark get into a hand-to-hand fight in their underoos, Wayne would crush Stark.

... as long as he has his suit of high tech armor/weapons on...

Batman is just as much of a bitch without the suit as Tony is, but at least Tony has an excuse (ack, my heart!)

I've got no complaints with Leslie Bibb and Gwyneth Paltrow, however.

@zacwax: If I got wrecked by the Hulk, after a really stiff drink, I think the thing I would want most would be turned into a cyborg.

In the meantime, I had to make it a wordpress blog. I mean, I already have a real blog I don't update, but how can "Serious Cats and Melancholy Snacks" not be a blog?

Plus when his friend got wrecked by the Hulk, Tony took it upon himself to turn said friend into a cyborg.

@Rectilinear Propagation: That's going to be the first album from my non-existent band, "Couch-Bound Druids".

Sad to say, no... Searching Google for "iron man" slashfic will burn your brain forever.

eww...

Stark Industries FTW.

I have it on good authority through my SHIELD contacts that Tony's been heartless for *years*.

Oh god, did I just invent Iron Man cyberslashfic?

@Trai_Dep: Just enough, Trai, just enough.

@WelcomingFacebookers_GitEmSteveDave: Despite what that ideologue, Christopher Nolan would have you believe, Bruce Wayne would never allow his technology to be used for war. Bruce Timm has done some excellent documentary work showing that.

OK, let's see.. A multinational conglomerate ran by a seemingly wild billionaire playboy Bruce Wayne. (Keep in mind that his playboy appearances are a facade, they are to keep the hounds off the track of Batman.) This conglomerate has donated Billions of dollars to charities and provided thousands of jobs both national and overseas. As previous posters have mentioned, Mr. Wayne is anti-war, but will not hesitate to apply the company's talents to develop defensive systems if the need arises.

And then you have a milcorp that also has mastered "cool" fusion and is providing gigawatts of power to the community on the cheap. And develops weapons to sell to the military. The CEO being a genuine freewheeling playboy in this case, and seemingly only interested in the art of war.

I just heard that Facebook is hiring Lucius Fox as their new CFO.

Let's go talk some more about how the world is falling apart around us. Yay!

I would much rather give my taxpayer money to a bailout for Wayne Enterprises if it meant I got my own fully equipped utility belt with bat-a-rang.

@Yoko Broke Up The Beatles: I hate fun too! Let's go hang out and be deadly fucking serious!

@CumaeanSibyl: Stark uses a suit with a bunch of high tech weapons.

Bruce Wayne is a weapon.

Batman and Wayne, and, by extension, Wayne Enterprises are too full of win to lose. Plus, Lucius Fox works for them.

I hate broodiness.

Tony Starks'll leave ya headpiece hangin! WU! TANG! WU! TANG! WU! TANG! WU! TANG!

Although Wayne Enterprises paints a picture with a happy face and doing good for the community the fact is that all their production facilities are farmed out overseas, and their tricky accounting practices have gotten them out of paying billions of dollars in back taxes.

Stark Industries may produce weapons of mass destruction but those are jobs that are provided to hard working Americans.

Thanks. I was skeptical at first, but that market research is no joke. I already feel much better.

Boy, I'll be glad when April Fool's Day is done with on The Consumerist!

I get the joke, but also demand a cake and/or cat.

Stark hands down. They sold weapons to Al-queda.

where's the cake or cat?