Who Has More Characters, Marvel or DC?

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Well as far as I can see Marvel has four characters:

1. The awkward adolescent who no matter how powerful they are, still has trouble with girls. This is basically most of the superheroes even Thor. I mean how many comics did the God of Thunder (before he was demoted to demi-god) used to batter super villains with his mighty wrath whilst at the same time mooning over his unrequited love for Jane Foster? Or Spider-Man - oh poor awkward Peter Parker who had to choose between two super-models because he was so incompetent. What? And take the X-Men: you'd think that Jean Grey was the only woman in the world because everyone had a thing for her - including Professor X.
2. There is the female counterpart which is every single female character in the Marvel universe who constantly moon over the hero of the comics. So there's the aforementioned Jane Foster, Pepper, Jean Grey, etc, etc. I remember in an interview how Stan Lee once admitted to wanting to write more romantic comics but no one was interested in buying them and I thought "more romantic - is that possible?" Marvel was worse than Mills and Boon.
3. The arrogant genius whose pride caused him to fall from grace and then had to claw his way back to redemption. This is Iron Man and Dr Strange and, recently, Ant Man. To some extent, it may also include Hulk because Bruce Banner is forever whining about what a terrible thing it is to be the Hulk.
4. And finally, the ordinary guy who knows they're a freak and deals with it because they know that their outward difference doesn't define them as much as their internal character. This is The Thing and Howard the Duck. I freely admit it: this is my favourite character because it's least like a stereotype and more like real people

DC has 3 characters:

1. The friendly, reliable neighbourhood cop: Superman, Green Lantern, Wonder Woman, the Legion of Super Heroes, blah, blah, blah.
2. The dark hero: Batman and the Shadow (a precursor to Batman). Perhaps you could add Ghost to this although her "One man killed me, so all men are bastards" whining does bore me. is there going to be a plot twist where she finds out that a woman was repsonsible but still goes on blaming men for her problems. Could someone please buy her some Big Girls' Pants?
3. Then there's Robotman from Doom Patrol, at least in the beginning. Here was an ordinary guy who woke up one morning to find his brain in a fish bowl operating a machine - and he freaked. Then after he had learned to handle the situation, he continually struggled to keep his humanity despite having greatness thrust upon him. In a lot of respects, he and The Thing are almost the same character.

Much as I hate to admit it because as I'm a big DC fan but Marvel has more characters. Of course, that's only true if you accept the male and female awkward adolescents as separate characters.