Welcome to Secret Crisis 2015
The Basics
Secret Crisis is a 64 hero/villain, single elimination tournament. Heroes and villains will face off in one on one battles, vying for the right to stand alone as the lone champion of the entire multiverse. You will decide who is worthy of this honor. You will decide how.
The Specifics
The 64 character bracket has been broken down into four 16 character regions. These regions are Marvel, DC, Villains, and GV10. The participants have already been revealed, and I will list them again in this thread for everyone to reference. On each day of the first round, there will be four matches: one from each region. And each day will have its own theme. Each match that day has its own stipulation or prompt that ties into that theme.
There are eight themes, presented here in alphabetical order:
- 2005
- Horror
- Musicals
- Pro Wrestling
- Rock and Roll
- Space
- TV Shows
- Young Adult Fiction
That playlist contains 32 songs: each song is tied to a specific first round match.
How Voting Works
Threads will be open at midnight central time. You will have twenty-four hours to debate and discuss each matchup in its own thread. After those twenty-four hours are up, I will open up voting, and introduce the next round of matches. Voting will be open for twenty-four hours, at which point I will announce the winners. Sounds pretty simple, right? Well, there's a bit of a twist.
Each match will have a youtube video attached to it that will fit the day's theme in some way. And every match will have a prompt or stipulation related to that video. In the first round, these prompts and stipulations are, generally speaking, there as a template for you to create alternate versions of the competitors. For instance, if the theme for a Batman/Superman match would be "the Fallout video games," I don't mean that the familiar versions of Batman and Superman are fighting on a battlefield inspired by Fallout, I mean that you should come up with Fallout versions of Batman and Superman and decide who wins.
The debate and discussion portion of the vote is for you to lay out your theory as to who would win and how. This is
very important. After we vote on who wins the battle itself, I will go back and find the person whose argument for the winning character received the most awesomes and agrees, and a couple of fun things will happen:
- That forumer will receive a special badger
- That argument will be accepted as canon for the entire tournament
So pull out all the stops. Post art, if you want, post a real in-depth argument, campaign for your favorite character and your favorite argument. I don't want this tournament to only be about "who would want to win in a fight." This forum is full of super creative and intelligent people, and this is an opportunity to just go nuts coming up with goofy elseworlds, and earn a really fun badger!
Anyways, when you feel you've made your best possible argument, be sure to add who you're backing in the post in the following format:
Winner: (Character Name)[color=red][b]Winner: (Character Name)[/b][/color]
ROUND ONE SCHEDULE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_d6d-E_DwQ
Posts
Created by: Stan Lee and Jack Kirby
Art by: Gabrielle Dell'otto
CYCLOPS
Created by: Stan Lee and Jack Kirby
Art by: Salvador Larocca
DAREDEVIL
Created by: Stan Lee and Bill Everett
Art by: Gabrielle Dell'otto
DR. STRANGE
Created by: Steve Ditko
Art by: Stuart Immonen
HULK
Created by: Stan Lee and Jack Kirby
Art by: John Romita Jr.
IRON MAN
Created by: Stan Lee, Larry Lieber, Don Heck and Jack Kirby
Art by: Adi Granov
THOR
Created by: Stan Lee, Larry Lieber and Jack Kirby
Art by: Olivier Coipel
WOLVERINE
Created by: Roy Thomas, Len Wein, Herb Trimpe John Romita Sr.
Art by: Leinil Yu
BLACK WIDOW
Created by: Stan Lee, Don Rico and Don Heck
Art by: Phil Noto
GAMORA
Created by: Jim Starlin
Art by: Steve McNiven
INVISIBLE WOMAN
Created by: Stan Lee and Jack Kirby
Art by: Steve McNiven
PHOENIX
Created by: Stan Lee and Jack Kirby
Art by: Stuart Immonen
SHADOWCAT
Created by: Chris Claremont and John Byrne
Art by: John Cassaday
SHE-HULK
Created by: Stan Lee and John Buscema
Art by: Ryan Stegman
STORM
Created by: Len Wein and Dave Cockrum
Art by: Victor Ibanez
THE WASP
Created by: Stan Lee and Jack Kirby
Art by: Daniel Acuna
Created by: Robert Kanigher and Carmine Infantino
Art by: Cliff Chiang
CATWOMAN
Created by: Bob Kane and Bill Finger
Art by: Terry and Rachel Dodson
HAWKGIRL
Created by: Gardner Fox, Dennis Neville and Sheldon Moldoff
Art by: John Cassaday
RAVEN
Created by: Marv Wolfman and Greg Perez
Art by: Julian Lopez
SUPERGIRL
Created by: Otto Binder, Al Plastino and Curt Swan
Art by: Mahmoud Asrar
VIXEN
Created by: Gerry Conway and Bob Oksner
Art by: JG Jones
WONDER WOMAN
Created by: William Moulton Marston
Art by: Cliff Chiang
ZATANNA
Created by: Gardner Fox and Murphy Anderson
Art by: Joseph A. Quinones Jr.
AQUAMAN
Created by: Mort Weisinger and Paul Norris
Art by: Paul Pelletier, Sean Parsons and Rod Reis
BATMAN
Created by: Bill Finger and Bob Kane
Art by: Neal Adams
CYBORG
Created by: Marv Wolfman and George Perez
Art by: Ivan Reis and Joe Prado
GREEN ARROW
Created by: Mort Weisinger and George Papp
Art by: Mauro Cascioli
GREEN LANTERN
Created by: Dennis O'Neil and Neil Adams
Art by: Jim Lee
MARTIAN MANHUNTER
Created by: Joseph Samachson and Joe Certa
Art by: Tom Mandrake
SUPERMAN
Created by: Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster
Art by: Gary Frank
THE FLASH
Created by: Robert Canigher and Carmine Infantino
Art by: Francis Manapaul and Brian Buccallato
Created by: Stan Lee and Jack Kirby
Art by: Mike Wieringo
GORILLA GRODD
Created by: John Broome and Carmine Infantino
Art by: David Finch
GREEN GOBLIN
Created by: Stan Lee and Steve Ditko
Art by: Humberto Ramos
LEX LUTHOR
Created by: Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster
Art by: Leinil Yu
MAGNETO
Created by: Stan Lee and Jack Kirby
Art by: Chris Samnee
SINESTRO
Created by: John Broome and Gil Kane
Art by: Ethan Van Sciver
THE JOKER
Created by: Jerry Robinson, Bill Finger and Bob Kane
Art by: Brian Bolland
ULTRON
Created by: Roy Thomas and John Buscema
Art by: Aleksi Briclot
ELEKTRA
Created by: Frank Miller
Art by: Mike Del Mundo
EMMA FROST
Created by: Chris Claremont and John Byrne
Art by: Stuart Immonen
ENCHANTRESS
Created by: Stan Lee and Jack Kirby
Art by: Walt Simonson
HARLEY QUINN
Created by: Paul Dini and Bruce Timm
Art by: Mike Huddleston
KILLER FROST
Created by: Gerry Conway and Al Milgrom
Art by: Tony S. Daniel
MYSTIQUE
Created by: Dave Cockrum and Chris Claremont
Art by: Ron Garney
POISON IVY
Created by: Robert Kanigher and Sheldon Moldoff
Art by: Stanley Lau
SUPERWOMAN
Created by: Gardner Fox and Mike Sekowsky
Art by: Alan Davis
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
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
Winner: Son of Beyonder
The number one rule of this whole enterprise is that there is a zero tolerance policy for being a giant asshole.
I don't think this is super necessary, but I want it here so I have something to point to. I want this to be fun, and I don't want to have to wander through a minefield of passive agressive and dickish posts.
Young Adult Fiction what what
Superman (83%)
Lex Luthor (83%)
Captain Marvel (76%)
She-Hulk (76%)
NO-PRIZE RECIPIENTS:
@Blankzilla Superman
@Matev Captain Marvel
@chiasaur11 Lex Luthor
@Fearghaill She-Hulk
And someone who will not be named/Accidentally hit self-destruct
As you file to your escape pods/I'll distract the alien hordes
And as I stare death in the face I know my sins will take me to hell :whistle:
So, as of now, the tournament is effectively canceled.
If anyone's interested, I'll post the themes for the rest of the first round matches, as well as the stuff I had started to sketch out for the next couple of rounds. And I'd like to say thanks to the people that did participate, because I really do appreciate it.
As far as the future of special things like this in Graphic Violence, I wouldn't anticipate any tournaments in the future, unless someone else comes in with a good pitch for one. If anyone ever wants to run a comics based event in the future, feel free to shoot me a PM. We've done some in the past, and even though this particular event didn't work, I'm going to keep the door open for other ideas in the future.
Anyways, I'll let @Son of Beyonder take us out:
I want to thank you @The Geebs That Knows Everything About Animorphs for all the hard work you put into it.
I can t really complain.
I would have loved to participate but with my schedual at the moment i wasnt able to do anything until the close of the initial battles and voting.
But thats not your fault, and i obviously am just one person.
But i greatly enjoyed all the entries that did make it in. So thanks to those all that were able to submit something!
Don't let this discourage you from trying out things to spice up GV in the future!
...On the other hand, all No Prizes are now massively increased in value.
Why I fear the ocean.
Thanks for running everything geebs, we all love you
Just wanted to say that @Blankzilla 's wrestling fic was glorious
Agreed, sad as it is I would have been a lot more involved in just a straight up versus fight tournament. I came in to look at round one with the intention of posting, but I don't know or care about pro wrestling so I checked straight back out. I really enjoyed the best of polls though, I've read a couple of new things because of them and everything has been great so far.