Rumble Pants II: Sweet Sixteen
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!
The overall champ from the last bracket was Harley Quinn by a mere 8 votes! And now it’s time for an all new bracket.
For simplicity’s sake we’re starting at the Sweet Sixteen stage. 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 Elite Eight! If you don’t see your favorite characters in the tournament, don’t worry, we’ll be doing a whole new bracket after we crown an overall champ.
Villain Division
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Hero Division
Wow… I voted all Marvel. That’s not like me at all…
07 Jun 2007 at 5:24 pm
QuoteDo I have to bother voting in this or is it going to be fixed like the last one, wherein Harley was down by 2 percent (about 19 votes) until a site outage, after which she was miraculously up by 8 for the win?
07 Jun 2007 at 5:28 pm
Quotedr. dooms winning this.
07 Jun 2007 at 5:36 pm
QuoteSomething like this just reinforces that I’m a DC kinda guy… Can i campaign for Red Tornado?
07 Jun 2007 at 5:45 pm
QuoteYou don’t have to bother doing anything, but if want to vote… it is open to the public.
And if the admins wanted to fix the vote, we wouldn’t need to crash the site to do it. In fact, the site outage really inconvenienced us by delaying our flagship feature, Wednesday Number Ones.
07 Jun 2007 at 5:54 pm
QuoteThe last one wasn’t fixed. There were enthusiastic voters for both Harley and Squirrel Girl, and they tended to vote in large blocks at various chunks of time.
But c’mon… we’re doing this for fun. None of us are going to “fix” a vote anyway, but we’re certainly not going to do it when there are no consequences one way or the other.
07 Jun 2007 at 5:56 pm
QuoteDr Doom beats Wonder Woman for the win. (also predicted Darkseid to beat Dr Strange and we all know how that went)
07 Jun 2007 at 6:16 pm
QuoteA dragon in purple underpants has to win
07 Jun 2007 at 6:28 pm
QuoteI’m not going to predict on the hero side, but there’s no freaking way Doom isn’t going to slaughter everyone on the villain end.
07 Jun 2007 at 6:35 pm
QuoteWho’s been treated worse: Emo Red Tornado or The Vision? U-DECIDE!
Dr. Psycho Vs. Purple Man? I’m no fan of Dr. Psycho, but that’s STILL like pitting John Belushi against Jimmy Fallon.
07 Jun 2007 at 7:14 pm
QuoteThe Luthor/Doom is the toughest choice, or so I thought. Nice match ups here, the second round’s gonna be a killer…
07 Jun 2007 at 7:28 pm
QuoteCool choices this time!
All my picks are currently winning except Wonder-man, sorry just never got into Wonder Women, and Martian Manhunter.
07 Jun 2007 at 8:06 pm
QuoteThe cult of Squirrel Girl scares me.
07 Jun 2007 at 8:07 pm
QuoteMushroom? Do I have a long lost cousin? Anyways Dr. Doom SHOULD win, so Zatanna will probably win. I am rooting for Hulk vs. Dr. Doom finish cause that would be sweet! Also we should have an alter ego rumble featuring Bruce Banner, Peter Parker and Clark Kent etc.
07 Jun 2007 at 8:22 pm
Quote8 votes… ;_;
07 Jun 2007 at 8:28 pm
QuoteHow is the Purple Man beating Dr. Psycho? I can think of only one even remotely interesting Purple Man appearance which was in Alias. The last podcast must have prejudiced people against psychopathic dwarves.
07 Jun 2007 at 8:34 pm
QuotePurple guy who rapes college girls for fun vs midget who porks fatties.
Maybe it’s a wish fulfillment?
07 Jun 2007 at 8:39 pm
QuoteApparently a lot of Furries frequent this site:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furry_fandom
07 Jun 2007 at 8:49 pm
QuoteI voted for Purple Man because I liked his Alpha Flight appearances way back in the day.
07 Jun 2007 at 9:03 pm
QuoteI selected Doc Psycho, but it registered for Purple Man. Weird.
07 Jun 2007 at 9:10 pm
QuoteThe Purple Man works in strange and mysterious ways.
07 Jun 2007 at 10:03 pm
QuoteI will predict Doom, yeah I know way to go out on a limb with that pick.
And Zatanna for the final match up, cause ya can’t underestimate the power of hottie in fishnets.
07 Jun 2007 at 10:14 pm
QuoteI think you may be right, Gray…But by the Power Of Grayskull, why can’t it be Martian Manhunter vs. Doom? That would be a fight to behold!
07 Jun 2007 at 10:20 pm
QuoteI like the matches but for personality, wouldn’t Martian Manhunter fit more with Vision? I know, android vs. android but if that was the case, I would do Machine Man vs. Red Tornado (and didn’t they both have human girlfriends?).
07 Jun 2007 at 10:40 pm
QuoteGood Bracket!! lot of fun characters here. I was suprised at Doom totally owning Lex Luthor but thats probably more an indictment of DC’s lack of ability to write good Luthor stories than any Luthor hate.
One more thing, I must campaign for Vision who has been through some horrible stories, like the Byrne/West Coast Avengers and of course, everybodies favorite Avengers Disassembled. Lets put Vision through to the next round. Whaddya say?
07 Jun 2007 at 11:18 pm
QuoteVision had a human girlfriend too, but I can totally understand if you’ve wiped Scarlet Witch from your memory after Avengers Disassembled and House of M
07 Jun 2007 at 11:47 pm
Quotefor the heroes i hope Hulk wins, for the villains Dr. Doom
08 Jun 2007 at 3:24 am
QuoteAfter you blaggards voted for Squirrel Girl, I don’t know why I bother.
08 Jun 2007 at 6:41 am
QuoteThese tournaments are really fun, but it be cool if you did indie comic characters, such as grendel, the crow, nexus, saxon (mouse guard) and so on. Thanks for the best comic web site since the fourth rail.
08 Jun 2007 at 7:08 am
QuoteHow do I know the Dr.Doom that’s up against Lex Luthor isn’t just a DoomBot who THINKS its the actual Lord Doom?
08 Jun 2007 at 9:51 am
QuoteGo Zatanna!
I too am surprised at how badly Doom is handing Luthor his ass but, c’mon, the choice battle here is Fin Fang Foom vs Titano! That’s the one I’d fork over money to watch pay-per-view…
But in the midst of World War Hulk, the real question I ask, rather than who will win Rumble Pants, is “If you could trick any comics character or creator into a satellite and then fire it off into space, who would it be?”
[Cue Mark Millar jokes here...]
I vote Martian Manhunter. Or Judd Winick.
08 Jun 2007 at 9:55 am
QuoteI sseug yb eht etov annataZ si erom ralupop naht ew kniht.
How could the allegedly fan favorite, all-ready sold-out World War Hulk only be ahead by a relatively small margin. Was there a “Planet Martian Manhunter” series than sold more copies than “Planet Hulk”?
08 Jun 2007 at 10:07 am
QuoteHowever the Red Tornado/Vision match-up turns out, I’ll bet they both end up crying about it.
08 Jun 2007 at 10:31 am
QuoteWhy is Doom beating Luthor so handily? I think many of us actually like Doom. I know I like a good Dr. Doom story. He is a misguided megalomaniac. He believes he does stuff for alturistic reasons. Luthor has always been, in any incarnation, a scumbag. He is just an awful person with not redeemable qualities. You can see each side with the heroes against a great threat, but Luthor would sell them out in the middle of the threat. Doom would wait until his honor bound word was complete and then make a play for power.
Purple Man is remembered by many older readers as the father of Persuasion of Alpha Flight, many of us have no clue or connection to the Bendis character. Plus, P-Man might be better known than Dr. Psycho.
Why is there a different number of votes for all categories? It seems like they would be equal unless some abstain or some have figured out how to multiple vote and just pick certain fights.
08 Jun 2007 at 11:11 am
QuoteHarley’s win was fixed.
she recovered from a losin margin of 2% like that? bullshit.
08 Jun 2007 at 3:04 pm
QuoteSo now we have a contingent from the website ruffiesrule.com swaying the vote?
08 Jun 2007 at 4:39 pm
QuoteHmmm, Doom Vs Luthor: Doesn’t the character who’s been written the least by Jeph Loeb automatically win in a situation like this?
08 Jun 2007 at 4:52 pm
QuoteSaxon vs Grendel?!
08 Jun 2007 at 8:57 pm
QuoteIsn’t Martian Manhunter vulnerable to fire? For chrissakes I could kick MM’s ass with nothing more than a matchbook or a zippo lighter.
08 Jun 2007 at 9:02 pm
QuoteWow. I voted for way more Marvel characters than I usually do. I voted for Juggernaut because I really hate Doomsday. I voted for Purple Man because I think he’s an interesting villain (though I didn’t know about the rape bit). And I voted for Fin Fang Foom because you can’t deny the purple underpants.
The rest of my votes were for the DC characters.
08 Jun 2007 at 11:59 pm
QuoteI think Luthor is great, but it’s no surprise that Doom is beating the snot out of him. I mean, seriously, between the two of them, which would you be more scared of if the Emergency Broadcast System announced, “Citizens! Take cover, ___________ is headed this way and he’s pissed!”
09 Jun 2007 at 7:15 am
QuoteThat’s providing you even ever get to pull that lighter out, the guy has just about all of Superman’s powers, sure a few notches below Superman’s ability, which is still mega powerful, plus invisibility, intangibility and he’s one of the most powerful telepaths in the DC universe.
Besides that fire thing seems to come and go in intensity depending who’s writing him.
09 Jun 2007 at 7:16 am
QuoteThat’s providing you ever get to pull that lighter out, the guy has just about all of Superman’s powers, sure a few notches below Superman’s ability, which is still mega powerful, plus invisibility, intangibility and he’s one of the most powerful telepaths in the DC universe.
Besides that fire thing seems to come and go in intensity depending who’s writing him.
09 Jun 2007 at 7:21 am
QuoteYou know the horny fanboy vote will sway this in Zantana’s favor. I know I’ll continue to vote for Z.
Remember “Anatnaz selur!”
09 Jun 2007 at 11:47 am
QuoteWell, if Luthor somehow won, then we would know for sure Doom was using a Doombot.
09 Jun 2007 at 3:41 pm
QuoteWe have an indie round planned… and I think it’s going to be a lot of fun, although the name recognition may be less than with the others.
09 Jun 2007 at 10:49 pm
QuoteI think that’s the case with Fin Fang Foom, too.
10 Jun 2007 at 10:14 am
Quote10 Jun 2007 at 11:19 am
QuoteI kinda want Titano to win just so I can say “FIN FANG FOOM’S HEART… IS BROKEN…”
12 Jun 2007 at 4:21 pm
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