Some comments on AS and LV's match:
- As I said above in my discussion with Nightwing, I'm a little skeptical of someone with no past experience with Marvel mutants creating power inhibiting tech in only 24 hours, even with Xavier's library at their disposal. Could Xavier and Beast -- already experts on mutants -- whip up power inhibitors in 24 hours? But AS didn't question it, so I guess I won't argue.
- I'm not sure Forge would keep something as dangerous to mutants as the specs for an inhibitor gun in the X-Men's computer, as opposed to just his head. But if we accept LV's team has inhibitor collar tech, perhaps Engineer could convert it into a gun.
- Anyway, AS somewhat conceded LV would win the reg battles (although he didn't agree with how she did it in her writeup), so I'll assume those go to LV.
- With the meds, I'm not sure a duplicating Mimic isn't pushing him to uber, but on the other hand LV hasn't really questioned it. Engineer can clone too, apparently (I don't know her well), so I guess that kind of evens out. If we accept that she can make inhibitor guns, then maybe she'd take that battle.
- As for the ubers, I'm less convinced LV's team could win. Cable vs. Silver Surfer doesn't necessarily prove anything about Stryfe vs. Kayla -- not all cosmic powers are created equal. In particular, Surfer has exhibited a good bit of resistance to telepathy (for instance, resisting Moondragon with the Mind Gem in Infinity Crusade). Is Kayla telepathy-resistant? If not, that'd give Stryfe a big advantage.
- Also, I'm not very convinced on the takedown of Thanos. Yes, Drax beat Thanos, but Drax was literally
made to kill Thanos, and seemed to exhibit some unique Thanos-killing power in that issue. No one on LV's team has anything like that. Thanos has taken multiple shots from a crazed Thor and suffered only a bloody nose, so I'm not expecting Wonder Woman to do much -- but I do buy that she could survive a while against him just by virtue of the fact that she's much faster than Thanos, and after all that's all LV has him do. But I'm also not really convinced Jaine could take out Thanos even with others holding him in place.
So, I somewhat see the lower level battles going to LV and the higher level battles going to AS. Which would probably mean an overall advantage to AS. But that said, AS didn't really tell me how his ubers would win, other than saying "Thanos is too powerful for Wonder Woman and Kayla is too inexperienced for Stryfe." At least LV gave me something that was
specific enough that I could find fault with it.
So I guess I'll vote for
Lady Vader mostly on the basis of effort. I agree with AS that his ubers have more power and experience than Wonder Woman and Kayla, respectively, but just saying "My team is more powerful and experienced" and finding fault with LV's writeup isn't enough of an argument to sway me. It's possible that AS's takedown of, say, Wonder Woman would have been just as flawed, but since he's not really
telling me how he'd take her down, there's no way to judge.
I'm a little conflicted about this vote, because we
are trying not to penalize people for choosing to keep their writeups short, but summarizing the
entire Wonder Woman vs. Thanos battle with "Wonder Woman isn't strong enough for Thanos" seems a bit extreme. I could just as well write "Thanos isn't fast enough for Wonder Woman." It's not telling you much.