Joker vs Red Skull

[MichaelC]

Month of prep for both sides.

[Beadle]

Does a Cosmic Cube basically count as standard equipment for the Skull these days?

Either way, his prep is generally operating at a global level rather than local shenanigans. Skull should get this.

[Pendaran]

Not really, he just likes to contrive to try and scam one from somewhere as his go to move.

The thing about Skull and prep though is.. his prep relies a whole lot on guys like Arnim Zola doing tech work, or in one case, convincing Doom to give him something from his junk drawer. He doesn't get to do that here.

That's not to say the Skull doesn't existingly own giant death robots and bombs and what have you that he could show up with, it's just that of himself he's unlikely to really invent anything new or adapt anything he has in a particular way as opposed to grabbing things already in his possession.

[MichaelC]

Well the intent of Skull is that he is a strategic and political genius, not a mad scientist type.

[Pendaran]

Sure, it just means that limited to of himself and his own tangible resources, he's more likely to use a month of prep to grab whatever things from one of his armories/bases and so forth.

Which, hey, still lets him show up in some kind of attack helicopter and with various giant robots and what have you.

[The Dog]

Wouldn't be the first time the Joker and Red Skull met.