I don’t follow this stuff at all.
but how can there be a superman vs. batman?
how could batman POSSIBLY put up a fight against superman?
Kryptonite and power armor.
Easy. Batman is the world's greatest detective and inventor (In fact, D.C. used to stand for Detective Comics, in tribute to Batman). He can create kryptonite that can kill Superman.
Also, Superman is a liberal. Superman fights evil on behalf of everywhere and doesn't have moral clarification. Batman, on the other hand, is a conservative. He sees the flaws in the system and protects the powerless from the powerful.
I’m in the same boat. Growing up with Christopher Reeve as Superman was my exposure and that was pretty much it. Maybe the occasional Batman & Robin re-run from the 60’s.
I never read comic books so I never got into the Marvel vs. DC ‘war’ and have no allegiance to either. It’s like when people go into the weeds with PC vs. Mac, Ford vs. Chevy, .45ACP vs. 9mm.
But that’s the thing, to make Superman vs. Batman plausible you have to be the type to buy into the mythology. You have to go into the weeds. As far as I’m concerned Superman can only be stopped with Kryptonite. So unless Batman has that then it’s no contest. But you see what I did there? I have to get all involved in the story to make it plausible.
Batman cheats.