Contest Of Marvels (Thread 1)

[deathshead2]

Tri-Sentinel vs beta ray bill

They are both in class 100. But I think beta ray can win this. Why he can throw his hammer a few times control the nasty weather the alien world is getting from Galactus and when the tri-sentinel his healing himself beta ray can fly in rip it apart limb from limb and this toss his pieces into space. Were talking about beat ray hill as strong as thor and has fought Galactus.

WINNER-Beta ray bill

 

[Johnny Blaze]

Charles Xavier(POWDERMAN)

vs.

Thanos(BLAZE)

Not to sound harsh, though it will come out as such, but Xavier doesn't really stand a chance of defeating Thanos. Xavier's greatest weapon, his telepathy, would be useless against the Titan who is immune to mental attacks. Even Moondragon with the Mind Gem was unable to penetrate Thanos' psychic defenses. And Heather is an Xavier level telepath without the gem. Even when he has allowed someone to breach his mental defenses, he is an expert at psionic combat, having defeated both the strong willed Drax and Moondragon at the same time.

With his telepathy being rendered null, Xavier will be hard pressed to even stagger the Titan. Sure, he could bring in some Shi'ar weaponry as well as his exoskeleton to help him be more mobile (the suit he used in Fatal Attraction, which is an excellent X-Men story. If you haven't read it yet, get off your ass and get it ), but those weapons would do squat against him.
Thanos is in the top tier of the most physically durable characters in all of comics (not including cosmic deities and the like). He's survived an exploding gas giant without any problem. He's taken the best Odin could dish out and still was able to continue to fight. He's taken a blast from Tyrant (a being who kicked the crap out of the Surfer, Galdiator, Beta Ray Bill, and others at the same time) with only having burnt clothes. Tyrant was even surprised the Titan survived the blast that destroyed a large portion of the conqueror's fortress.
He's more than capable of handling anything Xavier could throw at him. Factor in his class 100 strength, cosmic energy manipulation, transmutation powers (he hardly ever uses this though), his genius intellect that rivals that of Richards and Doom combined, and poor Charles is space dust.

 

[Johnny Blaze]

Kang(BLAZE)

vs.

Captain Britain-Braddock(SPARTA)

Pretty good match up. Brian's has a definite strength advantage over the Conqueror as well as a speed one. But, Kang can easily even out Braddock's speed advantage with his teleportation, time bubbles, and sub-space portals. Normally I'd say Kang would summon the Growing Man to handle Britain for a while, which would be well in character. But, some would probably say that it would be against the rules, even though the GM is a resource of Kang in the same vein as Brother Voodoo's brother's spirit is. But, we'll leave the Growing Man out of it to avoid any possible arguments. Kang's more than capable of taking care of himself anyway.
Britain would need to take this fight into melee range since Kang has the definite advantage when it comes to ranged attacks. But, when Britain gets close, that puts him in danger of getting tagged by Kang's Cobalt Energy Glove (which I've brought up in past encounters). As I've said in the past, it's powerful enough to put Thor on his ass, so it would have no problem in taking down the good Captain.
Excalibur would be a problem for Kang. Even though it lacks it's reality warping powers (even if it had them, Brian wouldn't use it anyway), it's still dangerous and can cut through pretty much anything. Kang has litterly thousands upon thousands of worlds at his disposal for resources, including alternate versions of Earth that he's conquered. It's not far fetched at all to think that he hasn't had to deal with that powerful and famous sword at least once during his wars. He'd at least know enough to not take it lightly.
There are a number of things he could do to Britain if the Captain took a swip at him. Formost, he could open a subspace portal in front of the sword strike and a connecting portal behind Britain so he'd end up slicing himself. That is, if Captain Britain would resort to killing tactics, which I don't think he would (he is a noble hero after all).

Since I don't want to make a long winded speech of this, I'll start to wrap it up. With Kang's weapons (anti-matter shields, ability to call any weapon ever from the timestream to him instantly, Cobalt Energy Glove, gauntlet blasters, sub-space portals, time bubbles, etc), his scientific and tactical genius, his top notch hand-to-hand fighting ability (he did beat Captain America one-on-one before), and his nigh unlimited supply of resources from his time and dimension spanning empire he should have no problem taking Britain down before the twelve hours are up.

 

[wiegeabo]

Proctor vs New Son

This battle can end very quickly.

In prep-time, seeing his opponent and name, Proctor tries to research him. If he fails, then he'll decide to take the safe rroute, opting to avoid confrontation with someone who appears to be glowing with energy. If he does find information on New Son, he'll just find out that the same plan is what he'll want to use.

So, the time for battle arrives and they appear on the landscape. Taking just a moment to see New Son's location, using his telepathy to try and muddle New Son's mind, Proctor teleports away, appearing behind New Son and driving the Ebony Blade into New Son's back, and out his front. He then strikes with all the energy he can muster hoping to put this being down.

It is only then that he realizes that rupturing New Son's body, and flooding him eith energy overloads him. As New Son crackes with barely contained energy, Proctor's eyes widen. Speaking a few well placed swear words, Proctor teleports as far as possible to avoid the explosion that rips New son apart.

Galactus takes a moment to look at the significant explosion that had just occured, but ignores it when he realizes there is no threat, turning back to the task at hand. He ignores the form of Proctor making his way back to the site of battle to reclaim his blade.

Proctor wins

 

[JewishHobbit]

New Sun Vs Proctor

A little too easy there W, I'll critique yours and then give my account.

First off, there's no way Proctor could know of New Sun, as they've never crossed paths, nor have they evern known anyone who's crossed paths. They are both world travelors, but there's many worlds, and the chance that they've randomly met on another world is slim. Thus, New Sun doesn't know Proctor either, and it's a level playing field. You mentioned that Proctor would telepathically mess with New Sun, confusing him, but remember that Proctor's telepathy is limited and that New Sun has the mental training of an X-Man, so that may be a little more difficult, though not impossible. And lastly, you have Proctor come behind him and stab him, and then teleport away during the explosion. Now let's remember that the first time he lost control of his powers it killed everyone on the planet, when he was pierced by Gambit and died, it destroied the entire planet that they were on. If this plan was to work on your part, Proctor would be dead the same time that New Sun dies, thus it would be a stalemate. Due to the ending, your plan simply wouldn't work.

Now my turn:

The two contestants appear, possibly near one another, possibly separately. Both men are the type to study their pray and to be patient, as aposed to rash. They won't dive into the battle. I believe that they would fine one another and begin to talk to each other in some "I'm superior to you" manor. The fight would start with Proctor firing a blast at New Sun, and New Sun may either dodge it, or be hit. Proctor would then pull the ebony blade and say something annoying about how he is Sersi's Gann Josin and that he's slain them from world to world and on and on. However, all it will take is for the New Sun to look at him. Proctor's arm and the blade charge and instantly explode. Proctor loses the arm in a bloody pulp, while the ebony blade falls to the ground (I can't say for certain that it could explode). Proctor screams and quickly dives for the sword with his other arm, grabs it, and darts through the frightened crowd, blood running down his side. He will begin to fear, as shock and cold numbness floods his body. He is losing much blood and cursing for his arm to heal already. He will probably strike down a few bystanders along the way who annoy him. He will then turn a corner and will run right into the New Sun. He will swing the sword, but New Sun will catch his hand and charge it, exploding it so that he loses everything below the elbow. Proctor stands there armless as the New Sun kicks him to the ground, the ebony blade falling. Proctor will shoot a bolt of energy at New Sun and will hit him, and NS will fall back. Having enough of this nuisance, New Sun will simply nod to Proctor, stand, turn, and leave. Proctor will try to reach his feet as suddenly he realizes that his mouth is glowing. His toung and teeth are charged and suddenly explode, blowing his brain to bits. He falls over dead as New Sun walks on through the terrified crowd.

Winner - New Sun

 

[POWdER-man]

Charles Xavier

Vs

Thanos

OK I will admit that this battle is nearly pointless. My opponent is correct, Thanos is so high up in the marvel character ladder, that even without the Infinity Gauntlet he is nearly invincible. (I think he should be removed from the list for next season BTW)

I have thought about this matchup for awhile and although Professor's powerful telepathy is nearly unsurpassed, I am unsure whether he would be able to beat Thanos. Although I do disagree with the comparison with Moondragon. Xavier has beaten nearly all of the most powerful telepaths in the universe. He was strong enough to beat the Shadow King, and he was strong enough to beat the Dark Phoenix in these scans.

So he is certainly no shmoe in that department, but I still wonder if it's enough. I guess that depends on if you believe Thanos's mental ability would be stronger than another infitely powerful being who's power is ALL mental, with the Dark Phoenix. Here he fights with every last effort until he has collapse himself into exhaustion, until he has beaten a foe which is a danger to everyone in existence. So I will leave that up to you, because it all comes down whether you believe if Xavier's telepathy would be strong enough or not. Either you do or you don't, there's no in between.

Of course the other thing Charles has would be his Mental blast, which is like any other blast, would hit their opponent just like a sonic or energy blast. This would be quite effective and powerful and if done quick enough could catch Thanos by surprise. Although, I am not positive this would be powerful to take the Titan down for good, probably not. At the most it would catch him off guard and possibly knock him down, but that would be just delaying the inevitable.

Than I come to my last and final strategy. This one like anything against Thanos is a long shot. But it was a longshot when he had the Infinity Gauntlet and it was a longshot when he had the cosmic cube, and he was beaten in both instances from that longshot. The other thing is that I have read in more places than one, that Thanos is predisposed to finally lose in the end. That subconsciously he has/wants to lose. If this the case than he can't win the tournament.

So Xavier in his prep time will come to the conclusion that there is no way for victory against Thanos. At first this might be a somber realization but he will come to the final conclusion that he must do what he has to do, what he has always done. Putting the greater good above all. This is a chance not only to defeat Thanos but to end the suffering to the aliens on the planet that Galactus consumes.

Because of the close relationship between Lilliander and Xavier, the x-men have an access to a great deal of their advanced technology and weapons which they have used for the Danger Room, the Blackbird and the X-Mansion to name a few. So because of this close nature it wouldn't be any problem for him to acquire further weapons, in which my opponent agrees he would be able to obtain. Although, I would again agree with my opponent in the fact that he would be unable to obtain anything handheld that would be able to really harm Thanos. That's why Xavier will do what he must and that is to take out a great threat to the universe. With Shiar technology that is capable of destroying a whole planet, Xavier could at least obtain a nuclear type explosive bomb that would destroy antything in it's immediate area.

I would see this match handed this way. Xavier will appear on one end and Thanos on the other with about only a 100 m away. Xavier will immediately go to his astral form and with this form he will talk to Thanos. Thanos, although a brute is not uncommon in communicating with lesser beings. They will discuss many topics including evolution, history, war and politics. However eventually Thanos will tire of this and since Xavier poses no great threat to him he will not rush to Xavier's body. Meanwhile, Xavier's astral form will soar away from this close area. Now the location was said to be a planet so there doesn't seem to be a limit to how far you can be apart as long as as Xavier stays on th planet surface. When Thanos reaches Xavier's body, he will probably scoff at this weaker species and smash his body into the ground. At this point he would have activated the bomb unknowingly installed in Xavier's hovercraft and this will vaporize anything in it's immediate vicinity. If the Shiar have technology to vaporize a WHOLE planet I am sure they have something that would be destructive enough to annihilate Thanos. Unless you believe Thanos is more indestructible than a whole planet.

So now you probably thinking, "What does this do?", Xavier and Thanos have both been killed, so it's a draw. BUT think about this when voting, how many powerful telepaths have you seen be able to materialize from pure energy form? How many telepaths have you seen create their own body? There's Shadow King, Cassandra Nova, Kid Omega, to name only a couple of powerful telepaths. Actually even Xavier has done it before. He has survived death and he has survived as being only pure energy. So I may ask, why can't he do it again? If history is to repeat itself like it's been done and proven again and again, powerful telepaths are capable of returning from death, returning and forming a body, and never truly dying.

So because of this, even though Xavier's body has been destroyed, his mind and astral energy is not. So he has live past this match while Thanos has been vaporized from the nuclear explosion.

As unlikely as it is, you can't deny it's a possibility..

WINNER BELIEVE IT OR NOT Charles "Professor X" Xavier

I mean look at Xavier...he will do what he has too...

 

[WOLVERINE25TH]

TRI-SENTINEL vs. BETA RAY BILL

One thing to remember is Loki created the Tri-Sentinel, so it has a certain infusion of Asgardian magic associated with it, which means it can have some effects on Bill.

The most important aspects are the multiple layers of shields and regenerative properties the sentinel has. Even if Bill could get through the shilding, he still needs to find a way to significantly damage it before either it or the shields regenerate. Also, the most absolute way of destroying the sentinel was to expose the vibranium inside to eat it down. Since we've ruled out the omnipotence factor of prep time, that means Bill would have to rely on a happy accident for that one.

Offensively, the Sentinel has the arsenal of three infused with Asgardian magic at its disposal. Plus, its super computer-like brain can calculate and project scenarios at which to strike out against Bill and take him down. Cables to ensnare, different lasers to harm. Also, consider its abilities to override technology, it's possible that given sufficient time it could find a way to hack into Bill's systems (he is a robot, you know) and wreak havoc from the inside out.

Three Sentinels. Three attributes. Three-times the trouble. Bill will have his hands full.

WINNER: TRI-SENTINEL

 

[POWdER-man]

BTW how you can vote for Thanos? He is SO DAMN LAME.....

Come on!!!....."Oops I let go of my cube"..

Thanos is TRULY too tricky for his own good....which fits nicely with what I said that Thanos is predisposed subconsciously to be defeated.

And there is Thanos being carried to the squad car by the beloved NYPD.....oohh look at me, I am so scary I get pwned by a hole in the ground.

Winner (just because of the fact that Thanos is so lame) Professor X

 

[wiegeabo]

New Sun Vs Proctor

A little too easy there W, I'll critique yours and then give my account.

First off, there's no way Proctor could know of New Sun, as they've never crossed paths, nor have they evern known anyone who's crossed paths. They are both world travelors, but there's many worlds, and the chance that they've randomly met on another world is slim. Thus, New Sun doesn't know Proctor either, and it's a level playing field. You mentioned that Proctor would telepathically mess with New Sun, confusing him, but remember that Proctor's telepathy is limited and that New Sun has the mental training of an X-Man, so that may be a little more difficult, though not impossible. And lastly, you have Proctor come behind him and stab him, and then teleport away during the explosion. Now let's remember that the first time he lost control of his powers it killed everyone on the planet, when he was pierced by Gambit and died, it destroied the entire planet that they were on. If this plan was to work on your part, Proctor would be dead the same time that New Sun dies, thus it would be a stalemate. Due to the ending, your plan simply wouldn't work.

Now my turn:

The two contestants appear, possibly near one another, possibly separately. Both men are the type to study their pray and to be patient, as aposed to rash. They won't dive into the battle. I believe that they would fine one another and begin to talk to each other in some "I'm superior to you" manor. The fight would start with Proctor firing a blast at New Sun, and New Sun may either dodge it, or be hit. Proctor would then pull the ebony blade and say something annoying about how he is Sersi's Gann Josin and that he's slain them from world to world and on and on. However, all it will take is for the New Sun to look at him. Proctor's arm and the blade charge and instantly explode. Proctor loses the arm in a bloody pulp, while the ebony blade falls to the ground (I can't say for certain that it could explode). Proctor screams and quickly dives for the sword with his other arm, grabs it, and darts through the frightened crowd, blood running down his side. He will begin to fear, as shock and cold numbness floods his body. He is losing much blood and cursing for his arm to heal already. He will probably strike down a few bystanders along the way who annoy him. He will then turn a corner and will run right into the New Sun. He will swing the sword, but New Sun will catch his hand and charge it, exploding it so that he loses everything below the elbow. Proctor stands there armless as the New Sun kicks him to the ground, the ebony blade falling. Proctor will shoot a bolt of energy at New Sun and will hit him, and NS will fall back. Having enough of this nuisance, New Sun will simply nod to Proctor, stand, turn, and leave. Proctor will try to reach his feet as suddenly he realizes that his mouth is glowing. His toung and teeth are charged and suddenly explode, blowing his brain to bits. He falls over dead as New Sun walks on through the terrified crowd.

Winner - New Sun

In defense of my writeup, I state that finding information about each other is not necessary. If Proctor could, that would be great. But even without any info, the fight still progresses the same way.

Now, both appear on the planet. Proctor sees a guy literally glowing with energy, a riot of fleeing aliens, and Galactus himself destroying the planet. That fact alone tells Proctor he doesn't have time to mess around if he wants to survive. So the battle proceeds instantly.

I said Proctor would try to use his telepathy on New Son, not that it would necessarily work. He may even try his tk to knock New Son around to try and keep him off balance. And even try telepathically ordering the aliens to attack and distract New Son.

At this point, Proctor wants to finish the fight instantly becuase of Galactus, and because he might just see aliens attacking New Son just spontaneously explode. A good hint that Proctor better make this quick. So he goes with a teleport, stab, and overload. Not knowing that New Son's death would wipe out the planet. So he teleports to "safety". New Son explodes, and the energy spreads out to encompass the planet. But there is a time, no matter how short, between New Son's death and Proctor's. During this time, Proctor has won the fight and is transported to safety for use in the next round.

Proctor wins

 

[Phaedrus45]

VOTING MAY BEGIN!

 

[WOLVERINE25TH]

Thanos
Kang
Tri-Sentinel
New Son

 

[POWdER-man]

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that not only is Professor X a powerful telepath, he also has a remarkable ability to improve his psionic powers. Bringing Cerebro alone would enhance his powers by tenfold and he could possibly use his prep time to strength cerebro's power even more.

WINNER PROFESSOR X

 

[Harlekin]

Professor X (At first I was going to go for Thanos, but after a lot of back-and-forth, I've found the actions Powder has described seem very characteristic of both Thanos and Xavier for me. I think that, ultimately, his strategy is viable, and he has a shot.)
Kang
Tri-Sentinel
Proctor

 

[Harlekin]

Damn, two minutes later and I've come to regret my vote. However, I cannot change this vote, I do believe Thanos can win, through a method that neither has discussed but is in Thanos' arsenal, and can not be ignored. Blaze will undoubtedly know what I am talking about however, in his rebuttal.

 

[Phaedrus45]

*Thanos (At least Thanos finally had some competition. And, Powder, I seriously think you were a snake oil salesman from the wild west in a previous life. Damn, you almost had me convinced.)
*Kang
*Beta Ray Bill
*New Son (Once before I didn't vote on a match, because it was a draw in my opinion. This is that type of match. I see them both dying on this planet, and Galactus would be royally peeved when his planet blew up. But, every vote counts now...and I have to give it to New Son. Either way, you guys told a great story. Man, here are two more characters that Marvel should do something with.)

 

[POWdER-man]

Th....Charles Xavier (give it to the handicap...:up)
Kang
Tri-Sentinel(Wolves gave a better argument)
... New Son (that is a hard matchup and worthy to see any day)

 

[POWdER-man]

*Thanos (At least Thanos finally had some competition. And, Powder, I seriously think you were a snake oil salesman from the wild west in a previous life. Damn, you almost had me convinced.)

Hey a longshot is still a possibility...

 

[Sparta*]

Proctor
Captain Britain
Tri-Sentinel (good debate Wolverine )
Xavier (Wow......just wow)

 

[Johnny Blaze]

The Moondragon comparison is a fair one. She's a telepath on a planetary scale without the mind gem, just like Xavier.

As for the bomb strategy...yes, Thanos can survive a planet exploding attack. He's done it before. He's survived attacks that would instantly vaporize most beings with only some damaged armor and clothes to show for it. And that's not including the personal force fields he pretty much alway has on hand in a fight. Forcefields that are strong enough to withstand a blast from Omega, a being twice as powerful as Galactus. And it was a blast meant to kill the Titan. Any kind of Shi'ar bomb, even if it was a planet killer, would not put the Titan out, let alone kill him.

And I was wondering if you were going to post some of the images from those old Spidey comics.
But you left out the Thanos Copter.

And I do agree that he should be left out of a second tournament. He's just too damn powerful. Got too many things going for him and no real weakness at all.
After all, there's a reason why he's ruled Too Uber in the DTL.


Oh, and as for his subconscious desire to lose thing, that only happens when he has ultimate power. Deep down he does not feel worthy enough to weild the power (be it cosmic cube or the Infinity Gems), so he sets himself up to fail. In this tourny he has no ultimate power, so he's good to go.

 

[POWdER-man]

Aww, but when you say shields and Forcefields and such, would he have them on just to smack a cripple....that would seem like overkill...

 

[POWdER-man]

BTW I could not find a copter pic...that pic is so damn hard to find.....

 

[wiegeabo]

All these matches are so close. So hard to choose...

Proctor
Tri-Sentinel (I'd want to see this fight)
Kang (I'd want to see this one too)

This last one is so hard to choose.
Thanos (but Powder...you had me so close. made me go back and forth plenty of times)

 

[POWdER-man]

You guys are just discriminating him because he's in a wheelchair.....come on, give the guy a break....he is in a wheelchair, you can't vote against him....he's just too handicap...

Don't make me bring in Jim "The Hammer" Shapiro and sue your asses for disability discrimination....

 

[wiegeabo]

You can sort of put me in the same boat as Harl. I'm wishing I had voted for Xavier now. So we'll just pretend he voted for Thanos, I voted for X, and it works out the same anyway.

 

[Phaedrus45]

Not sure if it's the same with the others, but the pictures you have of Thanos are blurry, Powder. Like they didn't finish downloading.