Favourite Marvel/ DC superhero?

I read more DC than Marvel. That said, I have always liked Spiderman, and the run about a decade and a half ago when JMS (Of Babylon 5) wrote one of the books was great.

And, JMS also did a stint with Superman, who is my overall fav at DC, too. See the story titled Superman: Grounded. Excellent work, and as well, big props to All Star Superman, which includes perhaps the best moment ever where Lex Luthor works out just how wrong he's been.

So I know ALOT more about Marvel than DC.  If you're REALLY going to hold me to one per, I'm going Spiderman (Peter Parker) in Marvel and Supergirl (Kara Zor-El) for DC.  

X-Men was my favorite book growing up, but that's an ensemble.  Spiderman was my favorite single character.  He was nerdy like me so it was easy to identify with him and his issues.  And he had a great power mix that made him powerful enough that he could take down people above his weight class, yet he wasn't an invincible monster such that basic thugs were completely irrelevant...thought they were mostly irrelevant.

On the DC side, I only discovered Kara Zor-El when the TV show started but I ADORE her backstory and setup.  Unfortunately, I feel that neither the TV show nor any of the comics (I binged a bunch of her TPBs) do it proper justice.  

She should be the anti-Superman.  Superman is an alien who lost his planet and family, BUT doesn't actually have any business emoting any pathos from it because it all happened when he was so young he doesn't have any real connection to any of them.  His alien-ness is solely an explanation for his powers, and storylines that try to show it being more than that are being dishonest to the character (IMHO).  Because of his perfect childhood he grows up well adjusted and a beacon of hope.

Kara Zor-El is the opposite.  She's a character who grew up in a virtual paradise, a heaven.  She then lost all of those people, her culture, and all of the connections that we build up and call 'life'.  She arrives on Earth emotionally destroyed, confused, and lost.  She should be the 'What if...' for Superman.  She should dislike Earth, regarding it as primitive, backwards, and awful.  She would stay solely to be close to her only surviving relative. She's still a good person, but makes mistakes that don't live up to the perfect paragon that is Superman.  She should have anger (love the red lantern storyline), pathos, confusion.  She should use her alien knowledge to become wealthy, profiting while Superman does not.  She's the un-Superman.  Not to the point of being evil, but her character explores topics Superman can't because while she's as nearly omnipotent as Superman, she isn't the paragon of perfection.

But the books just want to do punch-ups and show her body off as cheesecake.  Which is boring.  If I want porn, I don't need it from comic books in this day and age.

Same person I've been saying since year 1. Kara Zor-El.

Miracle Man for Marvel,

Wonder Woman for DC

and, not that you asked

Uncle Scrooge for Disney

Marvel: the old (70s) Black Panther. No armor. Enhanced speed, night vision, exceptional hunting skills.

DC - Gotta go with Batman, but not the pretentious "I am vengeance, I am the night" Batman. (Sheesh, dude, you're not the night. OK?)