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Son of Beyonder

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8AIZbw3RfQ

http://itsalmo.st/#secretcrisis

Son of Beyonder

On May 1st, 2015, it begins. Sixty-four comic book characters. Four “regions.” One champion.

Secret Crisis 2015

What is Secret Crisis?

Secret Crisis will be a sixty-four character comic book tournament. We’ve had those before, but it’s been a long time, and the aftermath of the GV10 awards seems like a really good time to start one, doesn’t it? It’s a single elimination 1v1 tournament, with four themed regions.

How will this work?

It’s going to be different from every other tournament that’s been run here, for one. GV is not the same place it was when these were around the last time, and in the interest of my sanity, I’m putting some twists on this to discourage the more intense forms of comic book nerdery and/or render them ridiculous. You know, kind of like the Glorious Edict. Each day of the first round, there will be four 1v1 matches, one from each section of the bracket. Each match will have a prompt or challenge. For example, you might be asked to imagine the combatants as pirates. Then, it is up to YOU what happens next?

What does that mean? It means that, along with voting, your posts and arguments will have a say in how the match happens and the actual power level of each character. Post your arguments in the debate threads, and the argument with the most reactions (that’s agrees or awesomes) will be accepted as canon for the rest of the tournament, IF your argument is for the character that ultimately wins the match in the poll. We’ll be handing out badgers for people who win these mini-contests, and a special badger for the forumer that ends up with the most at the end of the tournament.

What’s all this about themed brackets?

There are sixty-four characters in this, and to ensure we have a wide range of character types, I split the bracket into four groups of sixteen. Each group contains eight men and eight women, as well. The bracket themes are: Marvel, DC, Villains, and GV10.

Okay, who is in this tournament?

Wouldn’t you like to know? I have to hold something back, the tournament doesn’t start for another two weeks, and I still have a bit of hyping to do. I’ll be unveiling the bracket shortly. Keep in mind that by keeping this bracket to 64 characters, you are going to be missing some of your favorite characters.

What the hell was up with all those tweets and videos?

I think there’s enough info in this post to work out what those are about, but you will absolutely know what they’re for once we kick this tournament off.

BlankZoe

YOU'RE EVEN WEIRDER THAN YOUR DAD WAS

BlankZoe

(Thank you Geebs Son of Beyonder)

Elderlycrawfish

I am 4000% down for this, yesssssss.

Bucketman

Who won the last one? Wasn't it Boy Blue from Fables?

DJ Eebs

Thor won the last one.

BlankZoe

If I remember right it came down to Thor vs. Martian Manhunter with a lengthy debate over whether or not J'onn could lift Mjolnir

DJ Eebs

the final four were Thor, Superman, Wonder Woman and the Shade, jeez, guys

Centipede Damascus

We gotta get Spectrum and the Blue Marvel in this one.

Son of Beyonder

The roster's already finalized! I'll give a hint for one of the "regions," though: there's a reason the Best New Character and Best Character Revival categories were the first categories

BlankZoe

The Geebs That Knows Everything About Animorphs wrote: »

the final four were Thor, Superman, Wonder Woman and the Shade, jeez, guys

Well I know that Mjolnir debate absolutely happened!

Son of Beyonder

Here's the master thread for the first tournament we ever had: http://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/7596/tournament-central-beyond-rulesdome-and-more/p1

Warning: the forums have changed a bit since 2006

Matev

Oh my gosh, an internet comics fight! It's like I've been training my whole life for this moment!

BionicPenguin

I seem to recall arguments about whether Shade could make shadow spikes (or something) that could pierce Superman's skin.

Matev

Well, Superman's allergic/weak to magic, so how is that even an argument?

Son of Beyonder

https://twitter.com/SonOfBeyonder/status/588964668179406848

#11daysremain

UnbrokenEva

Did Thor win because Beta Ray Bill wasn't in the competition, or...?

DJ Eebs

That might very well be the reason

Son of Beyonder

Roster reveals start today! Here are a couple hints for the 16 participants you'll find out about today:

• They are from the GV10 "Region."
• Four of the characters appeared in the original superhero tournament
• One character appeared in the original supervillain tournament
• Twelve characters hail from the Marvel universe
• Two characters have the same name
• One character inherited their name from another character in this batch of characters

BlankZoe

Gonna guess that last clue means Captain and Ms. Marvels

Dex Dynamo

Blankzilla wrote: »

Gonna guess that last clue means Captain and Ms. Marvels

I was thinking Kate Bishop and Clint Barton, tying together the last two entries

UnbrokenEva

I like the idea that only 5 are carryover from previous tournaments , 11 new combatants

Balefuego

Yeah this is way more interesting if we do it without the same old mainstays

(There's still time to remove superman and batman Geebs)

Turambar

so is the tournament to find out who would win in a fight or just who we like more?

Langly

I remember really, really wanting taskmaster to go the distance.

Turambar

oh right, I'm bad at reading

anyway, push Spider-Man!

DJ Eebs

I think there's a decent mix of people who were in last time vs people who weren't. I had a couple of guidelines I was sticking to that forced some new blood in, and as for the mainstays...there's some things in place there that should make them fun, too, I think.

Son of Beyonder

AMERICA CHAVEZ


Created by: Joe Casey and Nick Dragotta
Art by: Jamie McKelvie

BATWOMAN


Created by: Geoff Johns, Mark Waid, Grant Morrison, Greg Rucka and Ken Lashley
Art by: JH Williams III

CAPTAIN MARVEL


Created by: Roy Thomas and Gene Colan
Art by: Jamie McKelvie

HAWKEYE


Created by: Allan Heinberg and Jim Cheung
Art by: Jim Cheung

MARIA HILL


Created by: Brian Michael Bendis and David Finch
Art by: Leinil Yu

MS. MARVEL


Created by: Sana Amanat, Stephen Wacker, G. Willow Wilson, Adrian Alphona, Jamie McKelvie
Art by: Adrian Alphona

SPIDER-WOMAN


Created by: Jason Latour and Robbi Rodriguez
Art by: Kris Anka

SQUIRREL GIRL


Created by: Steve Ditko and Will Murray
Art by: Erica Henderson

Son of Beyonder

ATOMIC ROBO


Created by: Brian Clevinger and Scott Wegener
Art by: Scott Wegener

BLUE BEETLE


Created by: Keith Giffen, John Rogers and Cully Hamner
Art by: Cully Hamner

HAWKEYE


Created by: Stan Lee and Don Heck
Art by: David Aja

IRON FIST


Created by: Roy Thomas and Gil Kane
Art by: David Aja

LOKI


Created by: Stan Lee, Larry Lieber and Jack Kirby
Art by: Stephanie Hans

ROBIN


Created by: Grant Morrison and Andy Kubert
Art by: Dustin Nguyen

SPIDER-MAN


Created by: Brian Michael Bendis and Sara Pichelli
Art by: Dave Marquez

WINTER SOLDIER


Created by: Joe Simon, Jack Kirby, Ed Brubaker and Steve Epting
Art by: Steve Epting

Fencingsax

Can we... can we just have all of them win?

DJ Eebs

by advocating for socialism, I think you're saying you want the winter soldier to win

Fencingsax

Wait, can we start with the comic nerding? Cause I need to know if the Arena operates under Robo's ridiculous science megaphysics, or more standard superhero stuff.

Fencingsax

Also, I remember the bitter fight about whether Batman could take on Elijah Snow, or if that suit only counted because he had spent his entire life just trying to counteract Snow, and so it was irrelevant to the debate at hand.

DJ Eebs

I'm certainly not going to stop any nerding out, I mean, provided it doesn't turn into people yelling at each other over nonsense

Solar

Atomic Robo, Blue Beetle, Ms Marvel and America Chavez seem to be the front-runners

Of them all, if Blue Beetle uses his full capability he would be able to beat everyone involved I think, but not sure

DJ Eebs

hmm but have you considered the boomerang arrow

Ringo

SPECIAL BONUS ROUND: PINK GAMORA VS GREEN GAMORA

:P

Turambar

putty arrow, bro

Zavian

I think technically Squirrel Girl would win against anyone by default. I mean, she has in-continuity beaten Thanos and Galactus, right?

Solar

fuck that "joke" though