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ROUND THREE: FIGHT D: PRE-FIGHT DEBATE
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WONDER WOMAN – Amazon warrior
POWERS AND ABILITIES: Flight, super-strength, super-speed, highly developed fighting skills, enhanced hearing, enhanced vision, animal empathy, regeneration, sisterhood with fire, high resistance to magic
ROGUE – Leader of a team of X-Men
POWERS AND ABILITIES: Involuntary absorption of powers and memories through skin-to-skin contact, plasma blasts, flight, ability to view infra-red, immunity to radiation
CAPTAIN AMERICA – Leader of the Secret Avengers.
POWERS AND ABILITIES: Artificially enhanced physiology at the maximum human level; martial arts and hand-to-hand combat training; master tactician and field commander; has an indestructible shield
SHADE – Possibly immortal
POWERS AND ABILITIES: umbrakinesis (ability to control darkness) - ability to travel great distances in short amounts of time, and create constructs out of shadows
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C: Crystal palace: Massive alien dwelling, similar to the movie version of Krypton
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BUT HE HAS TACTICS
Partially because I want Rogue to fight Martian Manhunter.
Rogue isn't invulnerable and neither is Cap, so how are they going to move on?
Edit: No, he's pretty much just screwed, poor Cap, even I can't really conceive of a way for him to win, and I love the guy.
Of course, I don't think Rogue should have advanced to this round anyways.
Cap technically has no powers or something, Shade wouldn't really let Rogue touch him, and Stealing powers isn't helpful when your bones are shattered/ you are tied up with magic rope.
Even if she did still his powers, it'd be terrible for everyone. Several people died in a demonic massacre during the process that led to the powers being transferred into Shade's body, and I don't see why a similar event wouldn't occur with Rogue taking the powers away considering these are dark, supernatural forces. At the very least it would overwhelm her mind.
See: Ms. Marvel.
With enough damage, though, he can be incapacitated though presumably not killed. He was messed up pretty badly by a poison from a girl he trusted.
I'm sure there're other examples.
Yes, but Cap technically has no powers
Also, she won't really be able to touch the other two before defeat.
Also, Rogue wouldn't get Cap's skill and experience, only his raw strength and maybe a little bit of his memories.
Personality, abilities, memories.
She'd become a true blue American.
Part of what she does is take memories.
Also as Wonder Woman hits her in the face, she steals some of Wonder Woman's invulnerability, and as such doesn't die from the punch.
Damn Wonder Woman and all her exposed skin!
A shield to the back of the head to take out Shade isn't really enough, though.
We need Shade to advance people. Someone has to be around to take out Superman and Marvel.
Though I think there was an inter-company Battle Royale in an old issue of Wizard that ran a series of 1 on 1 fights and, based on reader votes, ended with Thor winning.
Not to mention the fact that it's not exactly something that has much to back it up.
I think the punches are just super-strength punches from magic not magic punches. The lightning, I think, is actual magic, which is why he got so hurt from just a couple shots of it in Kindom come.
Geebs: Not a huge advantage, which is why the fight would be a long one.
Like I said, though, wouldn't magical lightning have killed him? It really seemed like normal lightning boosted to insane levels. Wonder Woman's sword cut him like a normal sword cuts normal people, so magical lightning should've fried him like normal lightning fries normal people.
But, yeah. Debate. Wonder Woman knocks all three competitors out with a well-timed tiara ricochet toss. Old school win.
I don't know. They hurt him, but they don't kill him. Even with his weakness to magic, Superman's physiology has always made him EXTREMELY resilient to physical attacks.
Anyway, the Superman and Captain Marvel fight will play out like it always does in the comics:
A. Captain Marvel smacks Supes around for bit.
B. Captain Marvel gets bored and starts doing the "Shazam!" lightning thing.
C. Supes uses the last of his strength to cover Billy's mouth in-between shazams.
D. Supes bops Billy on the head and knocks him out.
E. Supes touches Billy in a no-no place.
I'm not so sure about that last part.
Then why does a simple prick from a magical sword pierce his skin? That doesn't really point to resilience.
Penis envy? I dunno.