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ROUND THREE: FIGHT A: RESULTS
Son of Beyonder
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YOUR WINNERS:
CAPTAIN MARVEL – Shazam!
SUPERMAN – Not a bird, or even a plane.
CAPTAIN MARVEL – Shazam!
SUPERMAN – Not a bird, or even a plane.
CAPTAIN MARVEL ---- 96 SUPERMAN ---------- 73 MAGNETO ----------- 53 BIGBY WOLF -------- -19
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whoever wins, we lose
still, I'm gonna give it to Cap and a toss up between Mags and Bigsy.
because no way in hell are they NOT gonna all three team up against Superman. I mean, he's fucking Superman.
Captain Marvel can easily beat Supes.
Fucking god. When is the last time either of them used super speed as their first tactic? Never. They only do it when i is a plot point. It is so amazingly out of character for them to move at the speed of light and take everyone out the second the fight begins.
Uh, he basically said that. And I don't think anyone can easily take down Superman, but whatever. What he's saying is that they wouldn't fight each other first.
And the two of them are more than capable of taking out Bigby and Magneto.
I don't know. Maybe I'm biased because I like him, but I honestly think Magneto could give Superman or Captain Marvel a run for their money. His shield has held under pretty epic strain, and if Magneto parks himself in the mall and plays whack-a-hero with the cars in the parking lot and he could wear them down to the point where one of the other fighters can swoop in for the easy kill. I also wouldn't discount a Magneto/Bigby team up (flying magic sword ftw) just on the "oh shit" they'll both feel.
There's going to have to be a certain amount of overconfidence for both Superman and Marvel, and Magneto is the kind of guy that'll jump on that and just keep pounding away.
I'm really tempted to vote Mags -> Marvel -> Supes -> Bigby
Captain Marvel I really don't know that much about, but from everything I've seen that's classic Superman. He always flies up and poses before delivering a stern moral lecture
Honestly though, I've never seen him start a fight without some sort of conversation, barring insane threats or repeats of recent fights. I can see him flying up, saying something like "Sorry about my kicking your ass in the next 30 seconds.", and taking a Buick to the face.
Captain Marvel and Superman go at it while Magneto easily handles Bigby (assume flying silver spikes or whatever you want). Magneto takes the Vorpal Sword from Bigby and flings it at the two powerhouses, who are distracted with each other. Superman gets sliced up, but Marvel just gets pissed and beats the hell out of Magneto.
1. Marvel
2. Magneto
3. Superman
4. Bigby
And yes, I am metagaming it, if that's the right word, because a final match of Superman amalgrams is just not very fun.
And like that's going to stop him.
It's Marvel and Superman, in that order.
I mean, they got video of him. They probably know how he works by now.
Okay, how do you get him to turn back? KC Marvel was a mindcontrolled Luthor puppet. I doubt the real thing would fall for something so stupid. Wisdom of Solomon and all.
Sure, the first one's going to just slap him into the ground. It's the next couple hundred that'll finish the job
Even Superman is going to lose steam getting jackhammered by a parking garage full of cars, who according to comic book logic must explode into impressive seeming fireballs on impact.
And, completely besides the point, I'd rather not see Superman advance. Like someone else mentioned, battle of the Super-clones is boring as hell. I'd like to see a mix of all kinds of powers, so if someone has a remotely legitimate chance at a win, I'd rather give it to them.
oh no, he has set a flame this ball of metal that i'm moving at his head at incredible speed. i had better douse these flames, lest they singe him.
A couple of dozen of exploding cars will probably annoy Superman, until he turns on his heat vision and just destroy every projectile that comes his way.
I mean, seriously, who thinks throwing cars at Superman will even bruise him?
And Son of Beyonder said Bigby used the vorpal sword in a previous fight, he can bring it into this one. So he could theoretically take down Marvel if he got the drop on him. Couldn't he?
I'm just trying to avoid the obvious Marvel/Superman win, here.
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Let's face it, one or both of these guys are going to move on. I can see justifying one or the other losing, but thinking that Magneto and Bigby can somehow beat both of them is a massive lapse of logic.
Well, any non-relativistic speed. But, yeah, Magneto couldn't really hurt those guys.
So Bigby's pretty much toast. Magneto might pose more of a challenge, but Supes and Marvel are both smart enough to realize it's more productive to tag team him and advance as a pair than to hammer away at each other.
I'm putting Big Blue ahead of the World's Mightiest Mortal; they may be roughly equals in physical power, but I've always thought Superman had a slight speed advantage, and he certainly has his heat vision, freezing breath, and sensory powers to give him the edge over Captain Marvel.
One way or another, we'll see at least one 'superman analogue' in the final round. Why shouldn't it be Superman himself?
Magneto
Superman
That’s how I see it.
Huh?
Now, What would most likely happen is Marv and Supes, but that would make it look like the final battle is basically Marv, MM, WW, and Supes, which is boring and not the point of this thing. So I deem that, as master of magnetism, Mags can own the lightning.
So it's Mags and Supes, just to make this somewhat interesting.
Mags can take up that sword and use it against supes, who each and every time I've seen him fight he holds back and takes a beating first.
Mags and Marvel advance.
I mean, really, if throwing enough cars at them would actually stop them, that's...pretty dumb.
BUT:
Here's the fight:
Superman WILL use his super-speed when he knows something can hurt him, as shown above. So Magneto is not getting that sword anywhere NEAR Superman without hiding it somehow. Perhaps in a storm of other metal stuff like cars and such.
Which assumes of course that Bigby gives the sword up without a fight. Magneto does NOT friggin start the fight with the vorpal sword. He has to acquire it, which takes time and effort. Who's to say Marvel and Supes don't get to Bibgy first and make a wolfskin cloak out of him? (And chuck the sword into the sun)
Even if Magneto and Bigby team up instantly, the vorpal sword is their ONLY trick, and Superman knows this. The ONLY way either Magneto or Bigby can sneak into second is: A lucky (or sneaky) vorpal sword hit on Superman
Barring the vorpal sword, either Marvel or Superman could take the Bigby+Magneto teamup alone.
Anyway if you guys wanna metavote that's totally cool, just don't lie to yourselves. Supes and Marvel WILL team up and are strong favorites for this round. I'm open to ideas, but if the vorpal sword is the only way Magneto or Bigby could advance, I'm just not seeing it.
1. Captain Marvel
2. Superman
3. Magento or Bigby Wolf (whoever Marvel/Supes get last)
4. Magneto of Bigby Wolf (whoever the teamup gets first)
EDIT: crediting my quotes, added a little stuff
I refuse to go with teamups especially this late in the tournament. So Marvel takes out Superman and then Magneto takes out Bigby. Then for good measure Mags stabs Superman in the heart with the Vorpal Sword while hes on the ground and before Marvel can kick his ass.
Yea, teamups made sense in the first round, with 8 people in a match. 2nd round, there might've been a couple (can't remember if I did any other than MM/GL vs IM/Thor), but at this stage I'm not doing anymore teamups. Won't be long now til there can be only one.
Based simply on power level and what the characters are likely to do there is no real option other than Marvel and Supes. Now bring in fanboism and the general hatred of superman that seems to exist in this tournament (if you didn't want people this powerful you shouldn't have let them in in the first place) only one of them will probably advance.
Cap faster than Supes. Marvel was the only one fast enough to keep up with the Flash.
For the record, I said having Superman-level guys in this was going to cause problems back in nominations. People put them in anyways since I guess having big name guys in it outweighs not being able to tell who's going to win from day 1.
Ah, I wasn't around here for the nominations, didn't start reading till about mid-way through round two, so I didn't know where people stood on these guys being in the tournament. I don't think they should be in this tournament either as it is just so obvious they'll win unless they fight each other and they won't fight each other until other competitors are gone seeing as how most of them are friends from JLU and know that leaving themselves vulnerable to other competitors while fighting each other is just a bad idea.