Rumble Pants I: Elite Eight
What is Rumble Pants? Well, the Panteon has decided to play at god once more. We take a few select comic characters and pit them against one another for our amusement, but we figured why keep the fun all to ourselves? So we decided on a format that would require your participation and will hopefully provide amusement for you at the same time. The format is a single elimination tournament with weekly rounds decided by you, the reader. Just keep reading to help decide the ultimate fate of some of your favorite comic characters!
This week it’s the Elite Eight! Just vote in each of the Villain Division match-ups and each of the Hero Division match-ups to keep your favorites in the tournament. Remember, this isn’t about who would be most likely win in each fight; it’s about who you want to win each fight and advance to the next round. Click the bracket thumbnail above to the side to see how the tournament has progressed so far. Next week will be the Final Four! If you don’t see your favorite characters in the tournament, don’t worry, we’ll be doing a whole new brackets after we crown an overall champ.
Villain Division
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Hero Division
You’re forcing me to choose between Steve Ditko’s greatest creations? YOU ARE MAD!
17 May 2007 at 1:22 pm
QuoteWould it ruin the fun if I threw out my prediction that Squirrel Girl’s going to beat out Darkseid in the finals, 64% to 36%?
17 May 2007 at 2:13 pm
QuoteI’ve never read a squirrel girl story so I went with Dr. Strange but she’s definitely garnering the “goof” vote it would appear…
17 May 2007 at 2:22 pm
QuoteG’nort was robbed.
17 May 2007 at 3:02 pm
Quoteoh Darkside breaks BULLSEYS BACK addamantine is unbreakable in the MARVEL UNIVESE.
penquin over Harly
Doc over squiel girl becuse I can’t stand that kind of humor.
Adam strange beats Ka-zar by buying him a suit
17 May 2007 at 3:25 pm
QuoteCome on Doc rally, style over goofy hyjinks, you are the Sorcerer Supreme man! Start acting like one.
17 May 2007 at 6:32 pm
QuoteSquirrel Girl can’t lose. It’s her power. She can beat ANYONE.
17 May 2007 at 7:29 pm
QuoteI thought her power was to talk to squirrels?
Just so you know, a vote for Squirrel Girl is a vote for furry victory… and a vote against the Sorcerer Supreme.
If you vote for Squirrel Girl, don’t come crying to me when Dormammu trashes your dimension… you’ll have only yourself to blame.
Otherwise, I think everyone I voted for is winning. I wanted to vote for Bullseye on general underdog principles, but I like Darkseid better, *and* he’s going to win just about any fight the two are in. I’ve seen both Harley and the Penguin used well and badly, so I went with who I thought would win (Harley) and with Adam Strange/Ka-Zar, well… I was conflicted. I like both characters, and again, my heart goes out to the jungle lord underdog, but, Strange is just cooler. Plus he’s got a jetpack and laser guns. Jungle lord is going down.
The Adam Strange/Ka-Zar match-up is the one in this round I’d most like to see in comics, though. It’s Buck Rogers knockoff meets Tarzan knockoff, and that sounds like pure pulp fun.
17 May 2007 at 7:38 pm
QuoteIt is also to beat anyone, she once beat Thanos.
17 May 2007 at 7:47 pm
QuoteEven Dread Dormammu will shriek like a little girl when a squirrel is running up his pants leg.
17 May 2007 at 7:57 pm
QuoteWell maybe Doc needs to get the crazed walking plot device, otherwise known as Wanda to say “No more Squirrels” that should take care of the problem.
17 May 2007 at 8:56 pm
QuoteWell, sure, but tons of people have beat Thanos.
I’d like to see Adam Warlock or Drax the Destroyer have a meaningful conversation with a squirrel.
By the way, for those of you thinking Darkseid is gonna walk with this one, let me just say this… it looks like his next opponent might be Harley Quinn. The woman who won the heart of sociopathic clown The Joker. I’m just saying, Darkseid’s powerful and all, but when was the last time you saw him go out on a date?
Harley might wrap him around her little finger.
17 May 2007 at 9:20 pm
QuoteI think this should go on a motivational poster with Squirrel Girl’s picture.
In fact:
17 May 2007 at 9:23 pm
QuoteAnd in the interest of balance:
17 May 2007 at 9:36 pm
QuoteI admit I voted for Squirrel Girl. I think that she might even face Darksied and beat him. Her power is to get us to vote for her, plus the sheer laughter of people just saying ” I’ll vote for her, Darksied will win anyway.”
Wish one of you great poster makers would make a Squirrel Girl for {rez 2008 one. That would be funny.
17 May 2007 at 9:56 pm
QuoteSquirrel girl over the fricking Sorceror Supreme? Jesus, no wonder he can’t hold down an ongoing series.
17 May 2007 at 10:00 pm
QuoteYou guys DO know that Burgess developed the Penguin’s laugh from being allergic to cigarrette smoke… that alone makes him much greater than Harley.
17 May 2007 at 10:14 pm
QuoteI can’t believe Strange is losing from someone called ‘Squirrel Girl’.
Come on, not even a girl with squirrel’s is cooler than Strange!
Strange’s the coolest, show them votes!
18 May 2007 at 3:50 am
QuoteIt’s awesome/crazy/awesome again that the race between Dr. Strange and Squirrel Girl is close, tied even. Going over Strange is one thing, but she’ll get smoked in the finals vs. Darkseid. Who are we kidding, this is Darkseid’s deal to win.
18 May 2007 at 5:57 am
QuoteHmmm … I think Randy’s got a point. I’ve been voting for Darkseid, but I’ve been *enthusiastically* voting for Harley!! If it comes down to those two next round, suddenly the whole “vote for who you want to win” thing becomes important to me. Would I want to see Harley kick Darkseid’s a$$? Yes. Yes I would.
18 May 2007 at 8:08 am
QuoteI hope we see Adam Strange vs. Dr. Strange. (I wonder if they’re related?)
18 May 2007 at 8:59 am
QuoteSo, I guess that really good BKV Dr. Strang minseries didn’t do the man any good at all with the fans.
Meanwhile, Adam Strange vs. Ka-Zar is essentially the classic “Cavemen vs. Astronauts” debate so memorably on Angel. I voted for Adam because he can fight like anything, but I don’t think he wins just because he has a laser.
18 May 2007 at 9:56 am
QuoteYou know that would be cool, the batlle of the Strange, Super science vs. Super Magic, it would be a classic.
Doc Strange is currently a little ahead, though that one is still too close to call, only one that it is at this point.
18 May 2007 at 10:33 am
QuoteRead yerself some more comics, foo’. Squirrel Girls can beat anyone!
18 May 2007 at 11:40 am
Quotehow could yuo make me choose between squirrel girl and strange? i went with dr strange and now its 50/50
18 May 2007 at 1:43 pm
QuoteSquirrel Girl’s no longer the underdog anyway. Squirrelgirl ALWAYS wins because she’s “ALWAYS” the ‘underdog’. “LOL SHE BEAT DOOM! LOL” faggotry and the like. No, here my good sir, here Dr. Strange is the underdog.
He’s an intelligent and sophisticated character up against the biggest fan-plot armor character around. I think she could probably even hand Wolverine his ass at this point in a fight. (Note: Fight. Not Nuking. Unless she had some sort of…acorn…shield…)
18 May 2007 at 2:13 pm
QuoteRandy wrote:
That poster rawks! Forget Iron Man vs. Captain America, Civil War should’ve had Squirrel Girl and Dr. Strange leading the respective sides.
18 May 2007 at 3:18 pm
QuoteGrayPumpkin wrote:
Except for the 198 most popular squirrels that inexplicably survive the purge.
18 May 2007 at 3:24 pm
QuoteAs long as Dan Slott’s writing her.
I dunno, I find Squirrel Girl’s whole “plot device” thing more annoying than funny, which is one of the reasons I voted Dr. Strange.
18 May 2007 at 3:34 pm
Quotejust the fact that the penguin was played by Burgess Meredith will make him conquer all comers!
18 May 2007 at 3:43 pm
QuoteSquirrel Girl is fucking lame.
18 May 2007 at 4:33 pm
QuoteWell maybe if it had been Burgess Meredith vs Harley Quinn…
18 May 2007 at 4:55 pm
QuoteThe fact that Dr. Strange, the SORCEROR SUPREME is tied with none other than Squirrel Girl (wtf?!?!) makes me want to slap you all with a wet noodle. Stephen just gets no respect these days, the poor guy.
19 May 2007 at 5:52 pm
QuoteIt’s because of the comics section at 4chan. They’re obsessed with Squirrel Girl and they’re spamming the poll so that Squirrel Girl wins. I voted Strange.
20 May 2007 at 5:30 am
QuoteThere should have been seperate tourneys for men and women, because its hard to decided between picking the cute chick or the badass guy. Then again, it would probally sink into even more nerd-rage if there was an all girl bracket and Harley/Squirrel Girl/Tigra/Wonder Woman were matched up.
20 May 2007 at 6:49 am
QuoteIt will probaly be squirl girl VS harley quinn in the end
20 May 2007 at 6:51 am
QuoteYep, looks like there’s probably some voter fraud going on (notice dr. strange v squirrel girl has far more votes than the others).
20 May 2007 at 11:20 am
QuoteOr just a community of nerds that loves Squirrel girl :3
20 May 2007 at 11:35 am
QuoteOne would hope. Because if people are actually taking the time to change their IPs and vote more than once to spoof a silly Internet fan contest with absolutely no consequences for anyone…
Well, that’d just be the stupidest thing ever.
20 May 2007 at 6:20 pm
QuoteI fail to see how that is not funny.
21 May 2007 at 11:27 am
QuoteWhat I meant was, yes there is a community out there. I am from it. No we are not cheating, at least not that I know of. I myself only voted once. Well actually twice, because I voted at work and at home.
21 May 2007 at 5:48 pm
QuoteThis reminds me of those rainy Sundays of my youth when I would use the original Marvel Super-Heroes RPG (remember? the one with the little standees of all the characters) to create a tournament of all the heroes in the set. I would rank them by their power levels and have them go one-on-one until there was a final winner. I seem to remember that the flying, energy-beam-shooting characters always did best (for instance, Capt. Marvel, Monica Rambeau-version) Poor Mr. Fantastic always seemed to be the ranked dead-last and would have to battle the Silver Surfer or some other uber-character in the first round!
22 May 2007 at 2:57 pm
QuoteWhy isn’t Apocalypse or Darkside here =o
23 May 2007 at 10:05 pm
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