Contest Of Marvels (Thread 1)

[Sparta*]

I think your forgetting that Enchantress defeated the Stepford Cuckoos just last round. They are three extremly powerful psychics, not just one. Also, Amora has the advantage of location...she has been to the Beyonders makeshift planet before during the Secret Wars, and she knows the overlay of the planet and what technology is available to her. Enchantress is an ageless asgardian God who has fought many battles in her time. She is extremly clever and caniving in her means, and is one of the most powerful magic users in Asgard. She has spells for all kinds of things, and there is no doubt she has one to defend against Jeans one and only offense, her psychic power. With that out of the way, Jean wouldn't stand a chance in hell. The spell could be as simple as blocking out the x-factor gene in Jean's cells...when it comes to magic, nothing is beyond Amora's powers. Also, she knows she will be fighting a mutant, so in her prep time she would brood over the countless malicious ways she could not only stop her opponent, but enjoy herself at the same time.

Amora's powers are not to be underestimated. She has nearly bested Thor on occasions, and her power alone is responsible for the creation of such heroes as Valkryie and Atlas which is no small feat. She has mind control powers that i'm going to argue are more powerful then Jean's, which means if it came down to it, and she did get bored of Jean she could just make her fold herself inside out or something, which she is crazy enough to do...especially when her vanity is threatened against another attractive female. She wouldn't hesitate to destroy Jean, while Jean would not want to kill Amora.

WINNER: ENCHANTRESS

 

[WOLVERINE25TH]

Enchantress
Blaze
Goblin Queen
Nico

 

[Phaedrus45]

*Enchantress (Like Sparta said, she did just defeat three Stepford Cuckoos. That's tough.)
*Siena Blaze (The cockiness of Hyperion would be his downfall, and you convinced me, Wolverine. This is the real underdog of this tournament, who has a chance to go all the way.)
*Goblin Queen (Why can't they bring back Mutant X?)
*High Evolutionary

 

[WOLVERINE25TH]

'Cause we got Exiles, which I think was a fair tradeoff.

 

[Phaedrus45]

After reading through some comics with High Evolutionary in them, I came to a conclusion that is very important in this battle: Prep Time. In Fantastic Four, Vol. 1, Issue #175, High Evolutionary used his prep time in getting ready for a battle with Galactus. Yep, HE went HEAD TO HEAD with Galactus, even using his intellect to make himself as large as Galactus is. SO, to think someone who is knowledgeable enough to use 24 hours to come up with a battle plan against a god-like being, like Galactus, would have any trouble at all in coming up with a battle plan against Nico is ridiculous. Eventually down the road, in five years or so, Nico might be a character who has more ability to fight in a contest of this magnitude. But, face it...this gal hasn't been around long, her matches have pretty much been in a group setting, she's frozen under pressure before, and she's just outclassed to the umpteenth degree. As I've said, my opponent knows he's down by eight points, needs to throw a Hail Mary from his own 30 yard line just for a chance to get a 2-point conversion in order to tie things up against the best defense in the game. (For those who don't follow football, that's a snowball's chance in hell.)

Winner - High Evolutionary

 

[wiegeabo]

Enchantress
Hyperion
Omega Red
I Don't Know

(darn, this last one is hard..........................................
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High Evolutionary

 

[Nightwing]

Enchantress
Hyperion
Omega Red
High Evolutionary

 

[POWdER-man]

Enchantress
Goblin Queen
Hyperion
...you made a good attempt JH although not as convincing as when you went up against Scorpion(you should go back) High Evolutionary

 

[Phaedrus45]

Results So Far:

Enchantress 5-0 over Jean Grey
Hyperion 3-2 over Siena Blaze
Goblin Queen 3-2 over Omega Red
High Evolutionary 4-1 over Nico Minoru

 

[JewishHobbit]

Holly crap, I forgot about the Jean/Enchantress match!! Dangit!!

Oh well,.... (and the Cuckoos are no Jean Grey thank you very much)

And Phaed, you play up High Evolutionary very well, but remember that you can quote the highlights of any character and make them sound great, but even the greatest characters get owned every once and a while. High Evolutionary prepared and went against Galactus? High Evolutionary went down with a single "sucker punch" by Sinister. The "god" can fall!

Winner - Nico Minoru




My Votes
Jean Grey
Hyperion
Goblin Queen
Nico Minoru

 

[JewishHobbit]

I would also like to remind everyone of the vast arsenal that Nico comes with,..... her imagination is her limit. I layed down a detailed plan,.... but Nico could come in as simple as "Time Misplaced" and the High Evolutionary would suddenly become misplaced from time and out of the match,... a 1 second match and she removes a God. If she prepares herself with the "Like A Ghost" idea that she has 24 hours to think of and memorize (not hard, even for those as mentally challenged as Phaed likes to make Nico sound ). And a reminder is that she becomes as if a ghost, invisible to eyes, minds, scanners, etc. This wouldn't be tough for her to think of as she has 24 hours to see all the equipment and know that she may be able to be scanned. Also, she sees her foe is in armor, and would probably compare him to Iron Man, who has scanners. Visibility is a given, and she knows of psychics, as two members of the pride were telepaths,... so it makes sense that she would encompase it all and protect herself from ths unknown, but powerful looking foe. With this, it would give the H.E. a tough challenge in finding her,... and that's something he can't prepare for, as he wouldn't have known it would happen. While he works on find her and figuring out how to do it, she can sneak up on him and simply give off a one second spell that would end the match,.... stuff like the earlier mentioned "Time Displaced' spell. Or she can instantly get back to the orignal plan of "Amnesia" with "Dust to Dust" to dearmor him.

She can pull this off, and even though she's slipped when put on the spot suddenly in the past,... she has 24 hours to prepare for this,... so she won't mess up this time, she'll be ready.

Winner - Nico Minoru

 

[Johnny Blaze]

Enchantress
Hyperion
Goblin Queen
High Evolutionary

 

[Sparta*]

Goblin Queen
Hyperion
Enchantress
Nico

 

[Phaedrus45]

I would also like to remind everyone of the vast arsenal that Nico comes with,..... her imagination is her limit. I layed down a detailed plan,.... but Nico could come in as simple as "Time Misplaced" and the High Evolutionary would suddenly become misplaced from time and out of the match,... a 1 second match and she removes a God. If she prepares herself with the "Like A Ghost" idea that she has 24 hours to think of and memorize (not hard, even for those as mentally challenged as Phaed likes to make Nico sound ). And a reminder is that she becomes as if a ghost, invisible to eyes, minds, scanners, etc. This wouldn't be tough for her to think of as she has 24 hours to see all the equipment and know that she may be able to be scanned. Also, she sees her foe is in armor, and would probably compare him to Iron Man, who has scanners. Visibility is a given, and she knows of psychics, as two members of the pride were telepaths,... so it makes sense that she would encompase it all and protect herself from ths unknown, but powerful looking foe. With this, it would give the H.E. a tough challenge in finding her,... and that's something he can't prepare for, as he wouldn't have known it would happen. While he works on find her and figuring out how to do it, she can sneak up on him and simply give off a one second spell that would end the match,.... stuff like the earlier mentioned "Time Displaced' spell. Or she can instantly get back to the orignal plan of "Amnesia" with "Dust to Dust" to dearmor him.

She can pull this off, and even though she's slipped when put on the spot suddenly in the past,... she has 24 hours to prepare for this,... so she won't mess up this time, she'll be ready.

Winner - Nico Minoru

Yeah, Nico can prepare with what she believes is going to happen...but, she doesn't know where she's going to be sent to or the terrain. She could prepare for a week, month or year...but, the fact remains she is young and inexperienced. She doesn't know what she'll really be facing in such a powerhouse as HE. Plus, one psionic blast would take her out before she got a chance to finish her last dust. It would be no problem for my character to build something to detect her presence wherever she is. He can use flight to find her or detection or anything. And, while her imagination is her limit, from what I've seen so far, that imagination is pretty limited. (Wow, last issue she thought of a magic carpet to ride on...sounds like something a kid would think of.) Then, you make her use a spell by saying "Like A Ghost." Now, if she was really to make herself like a ghost and unable to be sensed....maybe she just killed herself. (Plus, ghost have been sensed in the Marvel Universe before. And, to be like a ghost isn't something to toy with. She might end up in a different plane of existence.)

Winner - High Evolutionary

 

[Harlekin]

Enchantress
Hyperion
Goblin Queen
High Evo

 

[Midnight Ice]

Goblin Queen
Hyperion
Enchantress
Nico

 

[JewishHobbit]

Yeah, Nico can prepare with what she believes is going to happen...but, she doesn't know where she's going to be sent to or the terrain. She could prepare for a week, month or year...but, the fact remains she is young and inexperienced. She doesn't know what she'll really be facing in such a powerhouse as HE. Plus, one psionic blast would take her out before she got a chance to finish her last dust. It would be no problem for my character to build something to detect her presence wherever she is. He can use flight to find her or detection or anything. And, while her imagination is her limit, from what I've seen so far, that imagination is pretty limited. (Wow, last issue she thought of a magic carpet to ride on...sounds like something a kid would think of.) Then, you make her use a spell by saying "Like A Ghost." Now, if she was really to make herself like a ghost and unable to be sensed....maybe she just killed herself. (Plus, ghost have been sensed in the Marvel Universe before. And, to be like a ghost isn't something to toy with. She might end up in a different plane of existence.)

Winner - High Evolutionary

Keep in mind that way back in the first round we decided that a person would know their opponant going in (basically an image, but no detail). So she'd see the armor and think powerhouse like Iron Man, and just by looking at the guy he looks dangerous, she'd use common sense. I always imagined the 24 hour prep time being on location, the two people would just never run into each other, but if you want to take that away, alright, but that would also limit the High Evolutionary, as he'd show up in this alien and far advanced tech. place and would have to learn how it worked. He's advanced, but he's not God. If something is foreign, it's foreign, he'd have to learn how it works to use it.

The LIke a Ghost trick would take care of the Psionic attack, as he couldn't find her. And she's done more advanced spells than "carpet ride" Remember the spell that made the guy fall apart into blocks like legos that will rebuild in two hours with no harm to the fella, that's pretty creative, not to mention that it was just off the cuff, for such a niave bimbo I'd say that's pretty good. And while I agree there could be some dangerous aspects to "Like A Ghost" aparantly Nico's not smart enough to think that through and would do so anyhow and would end up protected just fine Nonetheless, the match would go as planned and the H.E. would fall.

Winner - Nico Minoru

 

[Phaedrus45]

Updated Results:

Enchantress 9-1 over Jean Grey
Hyperion 8-2 over Siena Blaze
Goblin Queen 8-2 over Omega Red
High Evolutionary 6-4 over Nico Minoru

 

[Phaedrus45]

So she'd see the armor and think powerhouse like Iron Man

That would be her first mistake. Iron Man and HE are nothing alike. She wouldn't know about his psionic powers, his vast intellect, his ability to make technology that would find her on this planet in prep time. (The same technology that would locate another being...the only other being on the Secret Wars world...would also show where she was while she's in her "ghost form." zap...zap...down for the count goes nico.

Winner - High Evolutionary

 

[JewishHobbit]

As I was saying with the Iron Man comment, she would think "Iron Man" and prepare for the possibility. Everyone who knows heros (which the Runaways seem to) knows Iron Man can scan stuff, so she'd do the ghost spell to cover that type of thing, so he wouldn't be able to scan her. Also, if they show up on the world at the same time, after the 24 hours preptime, the tech would be alien, so he'd have to figure it out before he can build anything, and that would take time. If Nico gets the drop on him, she owns this match. And she doesn't know the man, so she'd assume the worse, and his intelligence would be a part of that. She can take it!

Winner - Nico Minoru

 

[Phaedrus45]

Voting Is Over!

 

[JewishHobbit]

Well, my little Nico has finally bitten the bullet, but I must say, she was my pet project, and it took the freakin' High Evolutionary to beat her, and that was just by a hair. So I'm proud.... expect her to be on my draft list next season

 

[Phaedrus45]

BRACKET 1,

Match 3:

Charles Xavier(POWDERMAN) bio



vs.

Thanos(BLAZE) bio




Match 4:

Kang(BLAZE) bio



vs.

Captain Britain-Braddock(SPARTA) bio

 

[Phaedrus45]

BRACKET 2,

Match 3:

Tri-Sentinel (WOLVERINE) bio



vs.

Beta Ray Bill (DEATH'S HEAD) bio




Match 4:

Proctor (WIEGEABO) bio



vs.

New Son (JH) bio

 

[Phaedrus45]

LOCATION:

Ok, someone gave me an idea by mentioning Silver Surfer's homeworld. (And, while I love the idea of the Lost island, I don't want those who don't watch the show to be out in the dark.) With the help of The Watcher, each contestant will be transported to an alien world that is being destroyed by Galactus. Each contestant knows they are not allowed to change the events around them, as it could cause damage to the future of everyone's lives. (Those aliens running around them are going to die, no matter what. You cannot save them!) You have 12 hours until the world will be destroyed...at which time, if you think your characters would still be fighting, you will be transported to an already ravaged world that has been sucked dry, but given oxygen for you to fight.