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Battle of the Babysitters. Pepper's certainly had some ups and downs dealing with Tony, but I agree that Misato has had far more sh*t to deal with.

Comments galore? Loose Cannon is an awful character. He's the prototype for Jeph Loeb's actual Hulk run, which should tell you something right there. The best thing you can say about the character is that he was lucky enough to be briefly associated with Tommy Monaghan. Kudos for picking a seldom-used DC character from the 90's, but next time go for Jack Knight or Hitman or Thessaly or someone interesting.

Saying "it's being done nonetheless" is equivalent to seeing your house on fire, shrugging, and updating your twitter status. Grab a hose, man! Heh. Seriously though, I'm looking for an answer from a mod. WHO LET THIS HAPPEN!? OH NOES!

Dr. Strange's assistant Wong could solo Hogwarts. Yeah. Wong, who has no magical powers, but a lifetime of kicking the dark powers in the face without needing them. Look at the difference in their opponents. Compare a cheesecake like Voldemort to Dormammu or Mephisto. Now remember that Hogwarts barely survived a Voldemort attack, and that was with the assistance of luck, prophecy, and narrative convention. Dr. Strange regularly goes toe to toe with his villains and comes out no worse for the wear.

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A+ for concept. The idea for this fight is hilarious. Please make more fights. You have the Ivan stamp of approval.

http://www.electricferret.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=25722 I'm not upset, it's just... when did this become what the CBUB is about? Historical figures? Extant human civilizations? I very strongly remember one of the only mandates Serge ever gave, which was that characters need to be fictional. I mean, I could dig a Reign the Conqueror vs Brath match, or the Lost Valley Tribe (Turok) vs those scary dudes from Eaters of the Dead. Sure, that works. But a rehash of Deadliest Warrior? When did that become acceptable? I'm not angry, I just want to know what was the reason behind changing one of the only rules this site has ever held? (I'd be less critical if there weren't literally dozens of other options for fictional characters/groups which could be used instead.)

Wow. As much as Blackest Night was a shamelessly transparent grab for cash, playing to the lowest common denominator in storytelling, it will never touch the pure loathsome art prostitution of early 90's Image. (Plus, BN at least had the benefit of occasionally containing Larfleeze.) On the other hand you kind of have to feel sorry for Dale Keown, who made the choice to go from collaborating with Peter David on some of the best Hulk issues of all time straight to writing Pitt. Yeaaah... how'd that work out for you, Dale?

My first thought: Hot Damn this decade has been good to BA. I remember a time when I was the only person who gave half a shart about Black Adam, or at least the only person besides John Ostrander and Erik Larsen. Teams will divide roughly along company lines. This is good, because it's going to take all of these dudes working together to beat Mr. Majestic.

As much as I love John Steed and Emma Peel... you realize this is basically putting Cap, T'Challa, and Shang Chi against the equivalent of AIM goons with inferior technology?

I was really excited about this until I realized that he probably means a Marvel/DC superhero's day off. Blah. Fanfiction competition.

CBUB's version of Khazan is a giant floating asteroid with a very large flat surface, ringed with grandstands, encased in a God-Proof Sports Dome. If the ponies want it, they can have it.

Most powerful character in Marvel? Bob Iger. Obviously.

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The Vision is a ripoff of Red Tornado! Oh No! Getting back to the thread... Why do people like FPS games? I mean, I guess they're diverting for a while if all the players are in the same room and at roughly the same skill level, but if you don't have those exact conditions the game ceases to be enjoyable for me.

Has anyone namedropped The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay yet? It's a fictionalized account of two creators who, help usher in the age of the Superhero by creating one of the most popular characters of all time.

Goku is easy to argue for in a CBUB match. Too easy, in fact. It's kinda like being a Yankees fan- it means you don't really know anything about baseball. The character is as bland as they come- even on the standards of Shonen anime heroes he's got little to no personality. He's an idiot-savant, and his one and only useful talent is melee combat. Unfortunately the dial on that one ability got twisted until it broke off, leaving a really generic protagonist who is really, really supereffing good at magical alien karate-splosions and nothing else. In a CBUB fight Goku powered up to Super Saiyan would beat the tar out of Spider Man. Spider Man is far and a way more interesting, more popular, and a profoundly more versatile character, but it's easy to see the appeal of Goku to young or inexperienced match creators. Unfortunately DBZ backlash is second to none (there are more Twilight apologists than DBZ apologists) due to its ridiculous popularity. (And I think that's as close to Respectable Goku as we're gonna get.)

Tao Pai Pai. If the Red Ribbon Army can do it, I'm sure it can't be THAT hard. Heh. Future Bulma could've built Gohan a robot arm if they didn't live in a flashback.

Superboy Prime punched his way through multiple universes, and at one point he hit reality so hard there is a separate wikipedia page just to keep track of all the stuff that he magically changed because... Comics, Everybody! All these crazy universes operate on their own internally consistent logic, and Everything sucks out of context. That's my major problem with CBUB- you have to take the characters out of context to use them in matches, which tends to highlight Goku's personality problem (he really is the Rainman of super space karate,) and downplay the cool stuff about the Dragonball universe: talking animals are not only a part of everyday life, they're elected to public office. (Suck it, Oz and Narnia!) There are also flying cars, cybernetic limb replacement, a one-world Government, a mankind that flourished in spite of the existence of dinosaurs, and insane-o Capsule technology means you can carry a refrigerator or a car or an entire house in your pocket, easily. The DBZ universe has lots of cool features, that get overlooked because at the end of the day fans only care about the most vanilla hero of all time punching aliens.

CBUB itself. heh.

I'd like to be able to rate all a characters' skills and abilities on a numerical scale, and be able to assign a definite number to each character- i.e. Superman is a 217, Wolverine is a 144, Robin is a 79, etc etc. Ideally, this system would help find unexpected compatibility in match creation, i.e. "oh man, Hitman and Taskmaster are both in the mid 90's, that would be a good match." Sites like the Marvel wiki use a simple grid to track characters' abilities along a small range of stats, but the 1-7 range (reminiscent of the old Overpower card game) could use some more refinement and I feel like certain characters, such as Forge aren't well represented by the limited existing stats. So here is the task: Design a more expansive stats/powers system. Do you differentiate between abilities that achieve the same result (i.e. acrobatic training, natural agility, and precognition all allow a character to dodge more effectively- do you rate them differently?) How many tiers are acceptable- strength is easily quantifiable, would you come up with a similar metric for durability or rate it on an arbitrary 1-n scale? How do you differentiate between breadth and depth, i.e. a psychic who can cause minor hallucinations in a room full of people vs one that can fully mind control only one person at a time? What about skills and training? Tools and weapons? How do you make allowances for things like reactive powers, shapeshifting, regeneration, duplication, and all the other oddball powers that are out there? Is such a ratings system even possible?

Guys... maybe he meant Ben Reilly Spider-Man vs Azrael Batman?

Few things. 1. Blue Beetle is an AMAZING character, with an appropriate name for his pulp origin. Just because isn't "DEATHUNT-9000," or some equally overblown nonsense doesn't mean he isn't one of the best characters to ever grace the page. Ted Kord is a genuine hero with heart, and like the best Spider Man stories Blue Beetle's book underscored his sensitive, inquisitive nature and made compassion a weapon. 2. Any opinions about color schemes are predicated on a "last-five-years-are-the-only-comics-that-matter" mentality. Jack Kirby could mix red, green, and/or blue all he wanted and still create visually striking characters (See also: Any number of Asgardians, New Gods, Legion members, etc etc.) Quite often amazing costumes are destroyed by "modern" interpretations. Harley Quinn's original costume is beyond perfect, it is probably the best Bruce Timm design of all time. Her Arkham Asylum/Arkham City costume makes her look like a Juggalo Prostitute. 3. Leonardo decapitated Shredder. Maybe don't include him on the "Boy Scout" list.

In the last five years, Image has produced more books of consistent quality than Marvel or DC, but a lot of that has to do with Robert Kirkman.

I can't see any image, and the link gets me a "forbidden" message, but I'll assume you posted that old joke picture from John Byrne's blog about what Rob Liefeld's take on Watchmen 2 would be. It's spot-on for what it is intended to be: a parody of how Image-style excess can ruin even the most interesting characters (remember what happened to Doctor Fate?) I can't imagine anyone looking at that image and having any reaction but derisive laughter.