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Pre-Fight Debate: Bracket 1
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Match A:
Joker
Powers: insanity, genius intellect, skilled with firearms and basic hand to hand combat
Equipment: 1 acid spitting flower, 5 Joker Gas Grenades, one pistol, and one million volt joy buzzer
Vs.
Typhoid Mary
Powers: Pyrokinesis, Telekinesis, insanity
Equipment: 10 throwing knives
Environment: deserted urban landscape
Match B:
Braniac
Powers: Vast intelligence and strength, energy manipulation
Vs.
The Riddler
Powers: Genius intellect, superior problem solving abilities
Equipment: 10 EMP Pulse Grenades
Environment: a maze, four miles across. The competitors will start at either side of the maze. Breaking through or flying over the walls will result in a disqualification. The first person to either defeat the other in combat or reach the center of the maze is the winner.
Match C:
The Mandarin
Powers:
terrible asian stereotype, skilled martial artist, 10 alien rings
* Left Pinkie — "Ice Blast," with which he could encase foes in bands of ice or create walls of ice to block pursuers.
* Left Ring Finger — "Mental-Intensifier," which amplifies the Mandarin's own mental energies and allows him to control the minds of others.
* Left Middle Finger — "Electro Blast," unleashing powerful lightning-like bolts.
* Left Index Finger — "Flame Blast," a flamethrower-like gout of flame.
* Left Thumb — "White Light," a laser-like beam.
* Right Thumb — "Matter Rearranger," which can rearrange the atoms and molecules of a substance. The Mandarin usually uses this ring to change the shape of objects, such as causing a giant stone hand to erupt out of the earth and grapple a foe. He has, however, used it to transmute the molecular composition of objects, such as changing the air around a target into a poisonous gas.
* Right Index Finger — "Impact Beam," a blast of concussive or gravitational force.
* Right Middle Finger — "Vortex Beam," allows Mandarin to control air and wind, allowing him to fly.
* Right Ring Finger — "Disintegration Beam." Unlike the others, this Ring requires a twenty minute recharge time between firings.
* Right Pinkie — "Black Light," which can create areas of absolute blackness.
Vs.
Doomsday
Powers: Ugly as hell, vast strength and endurance, resurrection.
Environment: a redwood forest. if doomsday is killed, the fight is over, regardless of his ability to resurrect.
Match
Venom (Mac Gargan)
Powers: superhuman strength, can stick to walls, can shoot webbing, limited shapeshifting
Vs.
Silver Samurai
Powers: can channel energy into inorganic objects, usually his sword, which allows it to cut through anything short of adamantium, teleportation
Equipment: Sword, 10 Shruiken
environment: inside a dormant volcano. there are lava pits throughout the environment. neither competitor is allowed to leave the volcano.
Joker
Powers: insanity, genius intellect, skilled with firearms and basic hand to hand combat
Equipment: 1 acid spitting flower, 5 Joker Gas Grenades, one pistol, and one million volt joy buzzer
Vs.
Typhoid Mary
Powers: Pyrokinesis, Telekinesis, insanity
Equipment: 10 throwing knives
Environment: deserted urban landscape
Match B:
Braniac
Powers: Vast intelligence and strength, energy manipulation
Vs.
The Riddler
Powers: Genius intellect, superior problem solving abilities
Equipment: 10 EMP Pulse Grenades
Environment: a maze, four miles across. The competitors will start at either side of the maze. Breaking through or flying over the walls will result in a disqualification. The first person to either defeat the other in combat or reach the center of the maze is the winner.
Match C:
The Mandarin
Powers:
terrible asian stereotype, skilled martial artist, 10 alien rings
* Left Pinkie — "Ice Blast," with which he could encase foes in bands of ice or create walls of ice to block pursuers.
* Left Ring Finger — "Mental-Intensifier," which amplifies the Mandarin's own mental energies and allows him to control the minds of others.
* Left Middle Finger — "Electro Blast," unleashing powerful lightning-like bolts.
* Left Index Finger — "Flame Blast," a flamethrower-like gout of flame.
* Left Thumb — "White Light," a laser-like beam.
* Right Thumb — "Matter Rearranger," which can rearrange the atoms and molecules of a substance. The Mandarin usually uses this ring to change the shape of objects, such as causing a giant stone hand to erupt out of the earth and grapple a foe. He has, however, used it to transmute the molecular composition of objects, such as changing the air around a target into a poisonous gas.
* Right Index Finger — "Impact Beam," a blast of concussive or gravitational force.
* Right Middle Finger — "Vortex Beam," allows Mandarin to control air and wind, allowing him to fly.
* Right Ring Finger — "Disintegration Beam." Unlike the others, this Ring requires a twenty minute recharge time between firings.
* Right Pinkie — "Black Light," which can create areas of absolute blackness.
Vs.
Doomsday
Powers: Ugly as hell, vast strength and endurance, resurrection.
Environment: a redwood forest. if doomsday is killed, the fight is over, regardless of his ability to resurrect.
Match
Venom (Mac Gargan)
Powers: superhuman strength, can stick to walls, can shoot webbing, limited shapeshifting
Vs.
Silver Samurai
Powers: can channel energy into inorganic objects, usually his sword, which allows it to cut through anything short of adamantium, teleportation
Equipment: Sword, 10 Shruiken
environment: inside a dormant volcano. there are lava pits throughout the environment. neither competitor is allowed to leave the volcano.
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With that said, Joker/Brainiac/Doomsday/Samurai
I just can't see Gargan pulling through, he's too inexperienced with the suit (last time I saw him, mind you)
Also, Riddler is ten tons of fucked.
So many awesome villains.
Riddler should win.
Assuming the person has no hangups against killing, yes. A knockout is good enough to win, however.
Doom did his best to level the playing field.
Nothing short of a logical paradox will let him clench it.
And I also feel that the Samurai could win, because not only is Gargan inexperienced in the suit, but they're in a volcano, which could easily lead to fire, which fucks the symbiote up a bit.
My votes: Joker/Samurai/Doomsday/Braniac
B Braniac
C DOOMSDAY
D Venom
The thing is, it's a maze. They'll probably just run around and follow the left side of the wall untill they hit the center. And Brainiac can probably run faster.
Now if it was some sort of Literature or Mythological puzzle involved, Ed might have a chance. Something more human.
But hey, I dunno.
Oh shit, didn't even see the stipulation on that one.
But Nigma's still fucked. Genius < 12th level
Samurai chops his head off and dosen't even think twice about it.
One part says this:
While the little summary column part says:
Since Venom isn't made of adamantium, I don't suppose it really matters for our purposes. [/url]
The symbiote has issues with fire.
¯\(º_o)/¯
Man, Doomsday's such a lame character.
How do you stop Braniac with an EMP Grenade? Does it take only one?
In any case, I see Braniac using logic to deduce the proper course through the maze while Riddler uses his intuition. Since mazes are a human creation and Riddler is probably an expert on them, doesn't that give Riddler the advantage?
Silver Samurai can cut create a fissure in the ground by cutting through it with a missed shuriken, thereby sending a gush of lava onto Venom.
I don't know about Joker and Typhoid Mary. I guess it depends on who underestimates whom.
Is Doomsday immune to being disintgrated?
And Gargan's lost the Scorpion suit.
Five minutes later...
Silver Samurai.
Look, I don't like Doomsday, but the guy is just too fucking fast I think. I think probably he jumps out from behind a tree and rips Mandarin's head off.
If it were and open area, I'd probably go for Mandarin.
Doomsday took an extended energy barrage from the entire Justice Leauge and it didnt even slow him down. It was a shitty version of the Justice Leauge, but it was still a lot power getting rained down on him.
Couple that with the fact that Mandarin's "disintegration" ray was blocked by Iron Man's older, weaker shields, I dont think it will work on him.
Doomsday can take a shit fuck ton of punishment. I should check through my old Superman comics to see if anyone tried stopping him with a mental attack. I vaguely recall someone trying, but getting shut out for some reason or another.
Its probably a matter of reaction time, and it sounds like Doomsday is probably too fast.
Dude's mind is essentially, "Kill. Kill some more. Rinse, repeat."
Also, it's Mandarin vs. the thing that fucking killed Supes...
So if a disintegration beam is really strong enough to defeat him in one shot, then Mandarin. I guess it helps that Mandarin's magical ring-a-ma-bobbers are probably unlike anything Doomsday's ever felt, meaning he's got no defenses against them.
But I think the current version of Doomsday is like reforemed or some shit. So his brain is probably different than when he took on Supes.
I think New Earth reset him back to being a mindless murder machine.
I forgot about the Dr. Psycho shit. But Doomsday evolves to compensate for every weakness that is discovered in him. So does Psycho's mind control work the same way as Mandarin's?
Don't discount him completely. With his rings he's easily the most ridiculously overpowered villain in the marvel u.
Oh shit, I forgot about that. Doomsday might be too powerful if we don't gimp him like we did Hulk. Also, Mandarin's one-hit kill ring is hell of lame and should be banned.
Dude, Darkseid's Omega Sanction. You know, the guy not allowed anywhere near this tournament because he's an evil fucking God. Mandarin is like a hangnail compared to him.
The ring does have to hit. I've never seen it used before, but I assume that anyone known for their agility could successfully avoid it.
And what happened the first time he was hit by the Omega Effect?
I could see Riddler and Brainiac running into each other, Riddler using an EMP; then running ahead of Brainiac and fucking up the maze somehow/creating a false trail to confuse Brainiac. Or leave little clues behind him to lead him on a wild goose chase, while he makes his way to the center of the maze. He has 10 EMPs, thats 10 encounters he cna get away from and set things up.
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