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Back on track. This round will end on Thanksgiving day as originally scheduled.

Once again whoever picked John Silver really didn’t understand the assignment.

Jack might not have too much experience with this, but I feel he's got a stronger base than a pirate from the 18th century

We used to make fun of that movie all the time at my first duty station, just the absurdity of it all.

I know nothing about this woman other than she must have back pain.

RVD points to himself and says his initials. Warrior: In my final meeting with the gods above as they spoke to me and hit me with the powers of the Ultimate Warrior, they told me to only breathe the air that smells of combat. Rob Van Damn, how must I prepare you must ask yourself, should I jump off the tallest building in the world? Should I lay in the lawn and let it run over me with lawn mowers? Should I go to Africa and let them trample me with raging elephants? Sink your claws into my organs, scratch into my tendons, bury your anchors into my bones for the power of the Warrior will always prevail!!! (except for naming RVD these are all actual Warrior quotes) Give me the hyped-up nonsensical ramblings of the Warrior over the laid-back nonchalant self-promoting of RVD.

If that's the case I'd have to give it to Heihachi. That stuff is just all kinds of no.

Yeah, I'm thinking he could literally squash Jericho. Jericho has the higher endurance but I could see Andra getting multiple pins at once to stay on top.

Disillusioned after a string of Halloween nights that felt too routine, Jack seeks a new thrill. Oogie, sensing an opportunity, emerges from his lair and challenges Jack to a "friendly game" to "spice things up" and determine who has the true spirit of Halloweentown leadership. The stakes: if Jack wins, Oogie is banished forever; if Oogie wins, Jack gives up his title as Pumpkin King and Oogie takes the throne. Oblivious to Oogie's treacherous nature and love for cheating, Jack agrees, seeing it as a harmless competition. Jack and a worried Sally (who had a vision of the disaster) go to Oogie's lair. The lair is decorated to look like a grand casino, all glowing with neon green light. Oogie presents the "Wheel of Misfortune" and the "Sacred Dice." Jack, ever the showman, confidently takes his turn. As Jack rolls the dice, Oogie operates the hidden mechanisms. Jack's rolls always seem to be "bad luck" results. He lands on "Guillotines" and barely dodges the swinging blades, or "One-Armed Bandits" that shoot real bullets at him. The townspeople watching start to worry. Each time, Oogie laughs and calls it "just a little bit of fun." Jack, growing frustrated and realizing something is wrong, demands fairness. Oogie, knowing he has Jack trapped, makes a final roll for the "throne." The dice are thrown, showing winning numbers for Jack, but Oogie hits his hidden switch. The floor beneath Jack opens into the pit of stew, and Oogie declares himself the winner by default as Jack falls. The townsfolk are stunned into silence and fear. Oogie climbs out of his lair and takes his place on the Pumpkin King's throne. Halloweentown quickly changes, transforming from a place of fun scares to a genuinely fearful, oppressive casino-themed town with guards at every corner. Every citizen of Halloweentown is in absolute misery and terror at Oogie's new reign as Pumpkin King, and try desperately seeking solutions to ending this reign of terror. Suddenly, Mummy Boy remembers his life as a boy in Ancient Egypt, and recalls a brave Pharaoh who would save the world by defeating evil in these mysterious contests known as "Shadow Games", and the citizens of Halloweentown hope that they can contact this brave pharaoh to battle Oogie Boogie at his own game and set them all free. Mummy Boy and the citizens of Halloweentown, desperate for help, use an ancient, but perhaps flawed, summoning ritual based on Mummy Boy's fragmented memories of the Pharaoh. The ritual doesn't transport them, but sends a psychic call through dimensions. Yugi Muto, in his world, feels a pull from the Millennium Puzzle. When he touches it, he and the spirit of the Pharaoh (Atem) are transported to Halloweentown (this can be explained as the Puzzle responding to a "Shadow Game" in progress, as all true Shadow Games involve high stakes and an alternate dimension).Upon arrival, Yugi wonders what strange place the Puzzle has brought him to, saying that it's perhaps another virtual reality simulation, similar to the one he and his friends once ventured in that was created by Kaiba, "except", he thinks to himself "except instead of Kaiba, this virtual reality world looks like it was created by Bonz!" Yugi and the Pharaoh meet with Mummy Boy and the other Halloweentown citizens. Oogie Boogie, learning of the "savior's" arrival, appears and formally challenges Yugi. Oogie scoffs at Yugi's "card games" but is intrigued by the power of the Millennium Puzzle and the concept of a "Shadow Game" where souls/stakes are real. He proposes a game in his lair, with the stipulation that if he wins, the Pharaoh's soul (and potentially Yugi's) is his to gamble with forever, and Halloweentown remains his kingdom. If Yugi wins, Oogie relinquishes the throne and is banished from Halloweentown forever! Yugi and the Pharaoh agree to the terms, understanding the power of a true Shadow Game where the losers suffer a real "Penalty Game". The environment itself becomes part of the game. The Game: "Shadow Dice Monsters" The game blends the core elements of both characters: Yugi's Duel Monsters and Oogie Boogie's love for dice and chance. A highly-modified version of Dungeon Dice Monsters (a game Yugi played in the anime/manga) which is run as a Shadow Game. The game takes place in Oogie Boogie's lair, which becomes the physical game board, a swirling arena of chance and danger. The Rules: Instead of Life Points, both Yugi and Oogie have a "Ba Gauge" (life energy/soul meter), similar to the ancient Egyptian Shadow RPG. Players use modified dice to summon "Monsters" and "Magic/Trap" effects (which appear as solid vision constructs, given the setting's inherent magic). Oogie uses custom "Boogie Dice" that are weighted (a classic Oogie move), but the Pharaoh's Millennium Puzzle can manipulate "fate" to sometimes counteract the rigged rolls. The environment is interactive; Oogie can use lair hazards as card effects, and Yugi's monsters can interact with the environment (e.g., using a Dark Magician to blast a trap or a Gaia the Fierce Knight to navigate obstacles). The ultimate penalty for the loser is banishment to the true World of Darkness/Shadow Realm, a fate worse than death.

In my estimation, it's better than it looked in advertising. It's not perfect, but not bad. On Disney+ if you have that, obviously.

Haven't seen What If ... , but I do know that a big point of The Immortal's character arc is that the trauma he goes through actually compromises his leadership abilities.

Would be a rather short promo battle but I think Sabu is at least capable of generating excitement with some of threats of violence and promise of extreme action.

I think Jeff was sneaky (IIRC) while the Velocipastor was definitely not. based on the prompt, I'll go Jeff.

Sataro isn't just a beast on his own, but with his friends and students joining him, things might have gone differently in his own story. Cattleya is a weapons merchant, but she's not putting out the same firepower as Gojo.

Ya know, for being a human alone Adam did go head to head with Zeus. I wonder how much higher he could still go given training. Ainz is at the peak, I don't really think he can go any higher.

In her debut episode of What If, Kahhori's speech to the other people of the Mohawk tribe in the other dimension to fight back against the conquistadors especially after she attempted to solo them herself managed to convince them to fight back and win. Kahhori can definitely inspire people.

Funky Kong is with the DK crew. And the DK Crew don't miss, I don't know what to tell you. Have you seen their stacks of bananas? Assured Funky Kong victory.

I think Ember might be too much for him.

Split Decision!

Let's do it!

Zeff is more focused on just the kitchen he should have the skills to pull this off much easier than Roadblock.

The fans win. These two in their prime, in an Ironman match would be glorious. I see it going to sudden death overtime and I’m going the edge to CM Punk

Ric Flair has gone through multiple roles, Randy Savage was pretty consistent with his character through out.

So Freddy strikingin their sleep is great... until they aren't asleep. Remake Freddy does have some supernatural elements going for him, but he was interested in murder fast and simple not fear and capture. He had a personal vendetta against the group because they revealed his child abuse. He is pulled out of the dream world and has his throat slashed in real life somehow. Trevor has successfully murdered multiple times and gotten away with it. This speaks to better stealth, stalking, and killing in this environment as the dream world is not this asylum.

It'll be fixed tomorrow, these rounds will be deleted and a new round will start in it's place. Scores will be manually recounted.

A great Ben Grimm story, Boratz. Narratively speaking I think he has to win. Think he would win anyway, but still.

and in that movie, he was special forces busted to cook not a cook from pure talent or desire.

One advantage Alicia may have over McCoy for this terrain is that, IIRC, she was actually shown working as a defense attorney at some point in her show.

Except you're missing the point. The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles across the various iterations usually end up in this situation regardless of the factors, it's a common recurring theme. Regardless of the who, why and the how-- the Turtles are usually portrayed as being menaces to society either in the various iterations, be it from Bern from Channel 6 news in the 1980's cartoon, or in this case of the IDW TMNT series, the Foot clan and District Attorney Hale. Do you realize how many times Leonardo has to pull in Raphael from his fits of rage, or even keep the team together while also doing his best to mitigate the damage done in the fighting with either the Foot clan, other Mutants (Tokka, Rahzar, Slash, Leatherhead, Punk Frogs), or even extraterrestrial factors? Quite a lot. More so than what a mutant Turtle of the teenage variety would have to deal with. In the fighting with the Gestapo Foot clan (which is what I call Hale's Foot clan police), Leonardo had to constantly keep his brothers who were fighting amongst themselves in check, all while trying to mitigate collateral damage, and even undo the SCANDAL (which is what District Attorney Hale did) that painted the Turtles as you, oh, so eloquently put as Turtle Monsters. The IDW comics do show the Turtles being put in events where damage has been done either by accident, coercion (Hob did create the Mutagen Bomb and deceived Raphael, who TRIED to stop the incident last minute when he found out what was happening-- see the Mutant Town storyline), or inability to straight up stop and were painted as the bad guys. At this point, a situation like this is almost routine for Leonardo. Hell... Leonardo has even BEEN responsible for such a situation when he was brainwashed by the Shredder, became Dark Leonardo, served as the Chunin for the Foot clan for a while, which lead to the City Fall storyline where his brothers had to straight up fight him, undo the brainwashing which was done, and save New York from the Shredder before fleeing to Northampton. He's redeemed himself in the eyes of his family, friends, and more importantly himself. And now, after fourteen years of storytelling (a whole lot less in-universe), of being seen as a Turtle Monster, Leonardo is straight up embraced by the people of New York, Human and Mutant citizens alike.

Been awhile since we've seen a match for you, Confession. Good set-up and good CBUB Match debut for Ms. Pope. You have the characters from both Scandal and, from what I can tell from info I've looked up in recent years, Tekken. Oh, I don't know. People still talk about Scandal a good amount, and the entire series is currently on Tubi. As for the match, I've seen my share of Scandal eps myself (especially from the final season), and while Olivia's OPA crew is definitely capable in combat, the likes of Anna Williams may be too much for them alone to save Fitz from. Maybe Sobieska could assist, since she may be at least somewhat familiar with Anna?

Happy to see you post a match again. Even though I haven't watched Scandal it was popular enough for me to know the gist of what it was about. I was curious to see how you were going to tie it to the Tekken world and didn't even think about Lidia and Anna's assassin for hire nature. This was very entertaining. The only things I would point out it to remember to delete the match prompt telling you to enter your setup and you probably don't need to pause the story to point out Nina. The people who know that name in the first place will recognize that the voice is hers as soon as she refers to Anna as her sister. Good fight.

Hi and welcome to the forums of Comic Book Universe Battles and Fantasy Powers League! (The latter is currently a work in-progress though) Unfortunately I'm not a very active member of the site - or rather, an on-and-off member who's only gotten more actively of late, but I'm sure @IKA would gladly answer any queries you have about the site!

It seems as though Storm got 3/4 of the votes with Claude being the outlier here. I would agree with Gemini the most here.

Let's have the AI get their votes in

As powerful as Storm is I have a hard time picturing her taking down a kaiju, especially a top kaiju like King Ghidorah.

Great as awlays Boratz. I am also taking Alice in this fight.

my dude is ready for an adventure

Agreed but there was also legit evolution in his character from his heel antics in WCW to the "Lie Cheating and Stealing" babyface who had perfected the character to the point that not only was he more successful than he had ever been, he also developed his own wrestling match sequence created solely off the strength of his character work. A wrestling sequence that to this day is still known as the "Eddie Guerrero spot".

Once again Ganthet's best challenge. He's initiated many first contacts over the millennia and as a Guardian he is good at the galactic safety aspect too

Hey, @Magnamax, @SSJRuss, @Michael Lovecraft, @ThePhenomenalOne, @Dr_Manhattan_88, and others? The Draft has started, and since it's currently still wide open, y'all might wanna come in and start debating for your picks. Also, out of curiosity, @IKA, weren't some A.I.'s also going to "participate" with teams?

Problem should be resolved, let me know. Thanks!

Shenron has the secret to mass gains. Check out how he went from a skinny twig to Mr. steal you girl in these before and after screenshots.

Might as well give this a try ... Super Soldier is said to be an amalgamation of Superman and 616-Cap, but he actually has pretty limited feats and in-universe hype due to the Amalgam Comics having such a short run. Ultimate Cap is said to be "tactically off the scale" and there's "no one in existence" Ultimate Nick Fury would rather lead the Ultimates. He once managed to counter and evade the attacks of the other Avengers quite effectively. And even once Ultimate Steve was finally subdued, he revealed that it was really a trick to save his son.

Oswald?1? What a pull. A creative and heartfelt setup with the most intimidating a blot has ever been, lol. Kind of want to pick Oswald but even the setup details Walt seeing Mickey as the future so I'm going with the mouse.

I would think that being hunted down by Santa Clause would leave a more lasting impact on the townspeople's psyche.

Largely depends if this takes place during the daytime where the stronghold is completely covered from sunlight or at night. But Abigail is not someone to take lightly. Centuries of combat, a one girl assassin that was explicitly stated she's the hitman for her gangster lord father (who is implied to be Dracula of all people) and she's not above using improvised weapons either. Examples of her brutal feats.

Since people like seeing Farah art, here's one of her stealing the Mare-A-Lisa