Rumble Pants IV: 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!
As always, 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. The first round this time gave us some interesting results, with entirely Marvel heroes lining up against almost entirely DC villains. Heavy betting is on an Iron Fist/Joker skirmish at the finale, but there are plenty of wild cards in the match.
Remember, this isn’t just 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. These polls will close just after midnight on Sunday, August 26th.
Villain Division
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Hero Division
Captain Cold cannot lose! It’s a pipe dream that he can beat the Joker but Catwoman? Pull it together people!
20 Aug 2007 at 7:21 am
QuoteHmm..I picked a bunch of upsets this round and it doesn’t look too promising. I’m with MushroomJones, Captain Cold needs to pull this one out. Also, I’m looking for Black Widow to beat up on Iron Fist. I want a Black Widow/Spider-Woman round.
20 Aug 2007 at 7:59 am
QuoteI know this is a popularity contest, but Black Widow would destroy Iron Fist. He is not a dirty fighter. She will cheat and play all dirty tricks and he loses.
A Shang-Chi/Iron Fist match up would be cool.
20 Aug 2007 at 8:01 am
QuoteI gotta disagree, Palladin. Black Widow may be a dirty fighter, but Iron Fist is maybe the best martial artist in the Marvel Universe. I think it’d be a good fight, but he’d take her.
Shang-Chi vs. Iron Fist? Interesting, but because of mystical powers/training over actual Kung-Fu and spy skills, I’d give that one to Iron Fist as well. It’d be like Bruce Lee against someone out of a Hong Kong action movie… real skills vs. cinematic usually leans toward cinematic skill victory, because they can do cool, crazy, over-the-top stuff.
20 Aug 2007 at 1:12 pm
QuoteWhat last round tells us is that DC has better villians, and Marvel has better heroes.
And I think several of the previous Rumble Pants matchups back this up.
20 Aug 2007 at 1:14 pm
Quoteeltrtka over joker there’s a good story there
Catwoman over cold I just like her better
Black widow over IRON fist
Shi-chi way over Spider-woma
20 Aug 2007 at 2:57 pm
QuoteRegarding Black Widow vs Iron Fist, I thought of it as the Richard Morgan/Scienkiwicz Widow and she just had to beat IF. Probably because he’s a man.
20 Aug 2007 at 3:26 pm
Quotedoes the Joker even fight that well? I thought he was the type to send out his minions to do the dirty fighting.
20 Aug 2007 at 6:04 pm
QuoteRandy, I always kinda considered Shang-Chi and Iron Fist on level ground martial arts wise. The fist of iron thing is a gimmick in a way. Give Shang his props, he is able to take IF down. Black Widow is so underestimated. She would not be above slapping an explosive on IF’s back. She would win.
20 Aug 2007 at 7:02 pm
QuoteShang-Chi, while probably more skilled than Iron Fist in basic martial arts, is also prone to speechifying and DEEP CONTEMPLATION, so Danny Rand would likely knock his teeth out before he could get past “Once again I am called to play these games of-WWWWWWHHHHHHHHRRRRRRRFFFF!”
21 Aug 2007 at 9:10 am
QuoteI’m still mad that Iron Fist was completely taken out by that Shadow Priest friend of the Hulk’s.
Oh, and in the next round, can we have Rags Morales vs Rob Liefeld?
21 Aug 2007 at 9:30 am
QuoteIn the Black Widow vs. Iron Fist match-up I just see Fraction and Brubaker’s IF pulling away. Come on, mystical martial arts powers have to trump super-spy right?
Of course, this is from someone that had never read an IF story before the current take–so I’m sure there are years worth of stories where IF’s powers aren’t quite as impressive.
21 Aug 2007 at 10:11 am
Quoteoh man you hit my switch with this question and I admit my reading shows there’s no really good answer but since I like making lists so much here goes in the 1975-6 joker series the following stuff happens
1. IN this stroy he gets beaten up two face (wimpy)
2. he kills wille the weeper who was based on the old BULLET MAN BAD guy the weeper (DON’T know but feels wimpy
3. he TOTALLY WUMPS ass on CREEPER (THAT makes him tough as Batman right?
4 He gets beaten up badly by Green arow but falls off the Golden gate brigw with breaking any bones
21 Aug 2007 at 1:19 pm
QuoteHere’s my idea about the Joker’s fighting ability. If you’ve ever played a fighting game (Tekken, Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat, Killer Instinct), when you go up against an opponent that knows what he’s doing, then you know what to expect. He’s going to do the 15-20 hit combos, all of the special moves, and everything that’s already been established. When you go up against a “Button-Masher”, or an opponent that has never played the game, there’s a good chance that he or she’s going to kick your ass.
So, I guess what I’m saying is that The Joker is the button-masher of the DC Universe. He’s unpredictable, that’s why he’s such a big threat.
21 Aug 2007 at 3:17 pm
QuoteLOL. Yep, Dan has nailed it, that’s *exactly* why I vote Iron Fist over Shang Chi. Iron Fist is a man of action, Shang Chi is a man of angst.
And Nick, I love the Joker as button masher metaphor.
21 Aug 2007 at 4:48 pm
Quoteif the Joker kills 3 women in a row, will this get the attention of Gail Simone?
21 Aug 2007 at 5:57 pm
QuoteButton-masher? That’s hilarious.
22 Aug 2007 at 6:05 am
QuoteNo Wednesday #1s?
22 Aug 2007 at 5:56 pm
QuoteThey’re coming…It’s just been a rather busy day and it was harder than usual to coordinate and get the reviews done.
More than likely the article will be up later tonight.
22 Aug 2007 at 5:58 pm
QuoteThanks Nick (and rest of Panteon). I definitely look forward to and appreciate the Wednesday #1s feature. I especially appreciate that you guys do it for free. You guys are awesome. Keep up the great work on this site!
22 Aug 2007 at 6:52 pm
Quoteregardless of the voting, I think the comments that go along with it offer the most entertainment value. Where else does one get the button-masher theory of the Joker or the action vs. contemplation discussion for 2 martial arts heroes?
Oh, and go Catwoman!
22 Aug 2007 at 7:35 pm
QuoteI am button masher proof. I never had any gaming systems, but constantly beat my friend by just mashing buttons rapidly. He would get so frustrated he would switch to games that were more pick plays or racing which I sucked at.
25 Aug 2007 at 9:52 pm
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