posted
Flying brick + energy + military powers = potentially a step above WW, who relies on the lasso and deflecting things via bracelets for long-range offense. Don't get me wrong though, I still love WW!
PS I hate Carol's new look. I found the previous one perfect for her. The new one... I especially dislike the hair.
posted
I think her hair is pulled back? ... I originally thought it was some strange faux hawkish thing ....
From: Ninja Land | Registered: Nov 2004
| IP: Logged |
posted
Well, what apparently happened was it was just the short hair, but when they showed it to fans, there was a backlash about it. So Marvel went back and added back in the rest of the hair, albeit as a ponytail because it was the only way to add it to this particular drawing.
So: it was going to be short hair, but fans said they hate it, so now its long hair again.
From: If you don't want my peaches, honey... | Registered: Sep 2003
| IP: Logged |
Set
There's not a word yet, for old friends who've just met.
posted
1. Giant Man vs. Cannonball Pym cannot punch or shrink his way past Sam's impenetrable (inPymapable?) blast field fast enough to take the 'New' Mutant down, and a series of powerful meteor-like impacts leave him too staggered to formulate a more effective strategy. The bigger they are, indeed, the harder they fall!
2. Dr. Strange vs. Legion Legion telepathically assaults the Sorcerer Supreme, who rips the pair of them out to the astral plane, while protecting his body from the pyrokinetic flames called up by Xavier's son with the Seraphim's Shields. At first, Legion has the advantage, switching from power to power, gaining psychic strength from his multiple personalities and making for a difficult astral 'target,' but his fractured psyche is no match for this dimension's eminent magus, and the only question left on Stephen Strange's mind is whether or not to cure him, or leave him in this fractured state, while he's cradling the unconscious mind(s) of the stricken mutant.
3. Iron Fist vs. Nightcrawler Nightcrawler uses his patented round-robin, striking from all angles with his teleportation, and manages to daze Iron Fist with his lightning assault, before grabbing the martial artist and teleporting him a dozen feet straight up, hoping to finish him off with disorientation and a brief fall. Iron Fist manages to land passably well, with only a spained ankle, disorientation or no disorientation, and calls upon the lesser-known healing properties of the Iron Fist to recover, catching an overconfident Kurt in the midst of his next teleportational flurry of blows, closing his eyes and reaching out with his senses as he feigns being incapacitated by the fall, clobbering the mutant as he emerges from his dimensional rift, and laying him low with a single iron blow.
4. Black Widow vs. Domino Two hard, cold and pragmatic women, trained in covert operations and sneak attacks, vanish into the urban jungle, each seeking the other. The Black Widow's five (six?) decades of experience fall to the unpredictable luck powers of Domino.
5. Thor vs. Gladiator A clash of modern day titans ensues, but, for all his godly might, Thor fails to adapt to the speed that Gladiator brings to bear. He is nearly beaten in the first seconds of the clash, before he can muster his elemental fury, and staggers from the wreckage as Gladiator gloats. A seed of doubt is planted, and Gladiator spends the rest of the fight futiley trying to regain ground, and his faltering confidence saps his seemingly invincible might. In the end, still ragged from the near-loss at the fight's start, Thor stands victor.
6. Ms. Marvel vs. Mimic Carol attempts a desperate sucker-punch, to lay Calvin out before he can mimic her power, but is not fast enough. Her own powers combine with those of the Beast, Iceman, Cyclops and Marvel Girl, leave her little chance to overcome the mutant Mimic, who uses the strength and endurance of the Beast, as well as a thick coating of ice-armor, combined with Ms. Marvel's own superhuman resilience, to withstand her strongest blow, and retaliates with an optic blast that only serves to push her back, and give her more energy to use against him. He shifts tactics and resumes hand to hand combat, and too late she realizes that he is also draining the heat from her with Iceman's powers, leaving her suffering from hypothermia as he finishes her off with a double-fisted hammerblow.
7. Hercules vs. Namor Namor's arrogance proves his undoing, as he descends from the sky to meet the Olympian god of strength in hand to hand combat. While they are evenly matched, Hercules refuses to allow the Atlantean victory, and drives the two of them deep into the Earth's mantle with powerful blows, knowing that the molten magma will sap Namor of strength, leaving the victory in his hands. As consciousness fades, the Avenging Son thinks to himself, 'I should have thrown him into the middle of the Atlantic...'
8. Vision vs. M M's telepathic shenanigans prove no match for the Vision's synthezoid mental patterns, and his intangibility frustrates her attempts to bring her strength to bear. A blast of solar energy ends her frustration, as the Vision decisively ends their battle.
9. Sersi vs. Phoenix "If we go all out, we'll destroy this city." Phoenix notes. Sersi nods agreement, and holds out her fist. Jean smiles and does likewise, shaking her hand three times and ending on Scissors. Sersi has chosen Paper, and frowns. "Best two out of three?"
10. Spiderman vs. Northstar It's all his spider-senses and superhuman agility can do to keep Peter from getting clobbered by Jean-Paul's super-sonic flyby attacks, and he throws webbing desperately in all directions, knowing that the speedster can't risk hitting even a thin strand at such speed without being messily dismembered. Northstar floats above this dangerous zone and ponders his options, trying to find a safe route to the spider, in the center of his web. He surges forward and stops suddenly, hurling the wall-crawler back with a thunderous sonic boom of displaced air, leaving the Spider-Man momentarily tangled up in his own webbing, only to have dozens of strands of webbing near him snap back from the shockwave and entangle him as well! Spider-Man carefully uses spider-strength to peel himself free, while Northstar remains hopelessly ensnared, a victim of his own cleverness.
11. Quasar vs. Havok Quasar's hard-light shields barely block the awesome cosmic power of Havok, and attempts to contain the mutant in a bubble of solid force and light, which Alex promptly shatters his way out of. Wendell instead focuses his energy into the tightest shield possible, while causing light tendrils to come at Havok from behind, slaming into him and knocking the breath from him as they wrap around him and begin squeezing him. Another omnidirection blast of mutant's seemingly inexhaustible energy, and Quasar's light constructs are again shattered like glass, as Havok proceeds to blast him out of the sky.
12. Crystal vs. Polaris A gust of hurricane force wind barely turns aside the barrage of magnetically-propelled debris that threatens to overwhelm the Inhuman royalty. Twisting the winds into a tornado, unable to match Polaris' raw magnetic might, Crystal turns the force of the storm of steel and iron sideways, inching ever closer. She knows that she has to end this, and shifts a fraction of her concentration to cause the air around Lorna Dane to erupt into intense flames, weakening her magnetic powers, and breaking her concentration. Crystal hurls herself into the air, with the negative pressure of her impromptu tornado, allowing it to collapse as she does, so that tons of metal slam into the place she was standing, and as she descends on a zephyr, she causes earth and stone to rise up in dozens of tiny missiles, to stun and batter the mistress of magnetism, whose heat-weakened magnetic defenses prove no match for the non-metallic projectiles.
[ May 09, 2012, 10:02 PM: Message edited by: Set ]
Registered: Aug 2006
| IP: Logged |
Giant Man beats Cannonball Dr. Strange DESTROYS Legion !! 6 to 0
THE FIRST OF TWO TIES! Iron Fist vs. Nightcrawler
Black Widow beats Domino Thor RUINS Gladiator !! 6 to 0 Ms. Marvel spanks Domino 5 to 1 Hercules defeats Namor Vision takes out M 5 votes to 1 poor Sersi is one of the only losing Avengers and big. Pheonix 5 to 1
TIE NUMBER TWO Spider Man and Northstar
Quasar beats Havok and ... Crystal totally tears Polaris up. 6 to 0.
AVENGERS DOMINATE ROUND 3.
Avengers 9 X-Men 1
2 TIES T.B.D.
So with a tie breaker the X-Men can only save face, otherwise with 2 outta 3 rounds the AVENGERS take it.
so sad X-Men.
From: Ninja Land | Registered: Nov 2004
| IP: Logged |
posted
I vote X-Men twice, Northstar and Nightcrawler are just too fast, and Nightcrawler has a sword. Spiderman's danger sense can't coordinate against multiple teleports.
X-Men x 2!
From: Ninja Land | Registered: Nov 2004
| IP: Logged |
Set
There's not a word yet, for old friends who've just met.
posted
Spider-Man vs. Nightcrawler Nightcrawler is fast, and sneaky, but Spider-Man's danger sense is precognitive, and he can move fast enough to dodge bullets. Dodging someone who doesn't have superhuman agility isn't even a contest, and Nightcrawler eats a facefull of fist.
Iron Fist vs. Northstar Northstar's not an idiot, he knows better than to get up close with a groundbound martial arts master, and instead flies by Danny Rand at several times the speed of sound, sending the kung fu billionaire playboy hurtling into the nearest building. Resisting the temptation to finish him off with his patented 'hundred punches in a second' technique, Jean-Paul circles around and ends the fight with a second sonic boom, just to be sure.
Registered: Aug 2006
| IP: Logged |
posted
There was a reason I didn't put Spiderman and Nightcrawler together in the beginning ....
I'll call it ... Spiderman and Northstar
This ends the finale round of Avengers vs. X-Men ...
AVENGERS 10 X-MEN 2
and with 2 rounds to the Avengers ... the Avengers have soundly beat the X-Men.
THANKS everyone for playing! It was fun!
From: Ninja Land | Registered: Nov 2004
| IP: Logged |
Set
There's not a word yet, for old friends who've just met.
posted
The Avengers, by dint of being such iconic and developed characters (and cherry picking various other iconics from other teams, like Dr. Strange, Spider-Man and the Thing) I think have it all over the X-Men.
A different sort of match-up, between the Young Avengers and the New Mutants, would be very different, as the New Mutants have had decades of development over the Young Avengers, and even formerly hapless characters like Cypher have gone on to become major butt-kickers, while the Young Avengers biggest gun is Wiccan, whose powers aren't as reliable, and nature isn't as ruthless, as the New Mutant's resident mage, Magick.
Same for the New X-Men vs. the Avengers Academy kids. Hellion, X-23, Elixir, Rockslide, Dust, etc. may well rout Reptil, Mettle, Stryker, Hazmat, Finesse, etc.
Registered: Aug 2006
| IP: Logged |
Hyperpath: Email this page to someone!
Printer-friendly view of this topic | Subscribe To Topic
