Superhero Tournament Discussion Thread

Thanks to everyone for playing along. It got off to a sluggish start and I was wondering at that point if it would have the legs to go the distance but then people got on board with it and it picked up momentum.

Someone mentioned in the tournament thread about omitted heroes and there were some I had to leave out that were close to getting in. War Machine was one who nearly made it. Iron Fist was another. I tried to go for the most mainstream ones and ensure that the 'big' ones featured. Did I leave out anyone's favourites?

As for this round, I can give a teaser that there's one mammoth clash coming up which will see one big iconic character go out.

Gutted Deadpool went out so early - definitely thought he'd get to the semis at least. Also I missed Spawns matchup - love both him and The Punisher and it would've been close but I might have thrown a vote in there for Spawn. Probably wouldn't have made any difference though!

Beta Ray Bill came to mind as an omission but may not have been a popular choice with other people.

John Constantine maybe?

sonic85 wrote: »

Beta Ray Bill came to mind as an omission but may not have been a popular choice with other people.

John Constantine maybe?

John Constantine was involved but he had the unenviable task of facing Captain America in round 1. :pac:

brianregan09 wrote:

I'd be up for putting together a B tournament to go with you're super villian tournament ..

Theres loads Star Lord , the rest of the guardians, US Agent, Luke Cage, Iron Fist as you mentioned, and then you have some super villians who have been hero's too such as Red Hulk, Venom and others

Sounds good, but maybe best to wait until after the Supervillains one because as you touched on there will be characters that feature in that who will have been heroes too. Venom, Catwoman, etc.

PerrinV2 wrote:

Another possible future tournament maybe superhero's without superpowers?
e.g Batman,The Punisher,Rorschach

Also is the current tournament meant to be who is our favourite hero in each bout or who would win in a fight?
Cause if its a fight can't like Dr Manhattan click his fingers and disintegrate someone :pac:

Yeah I can see that tournament working well. Another one I was thinking of was best superhero movie as there have been loads in recent times. I'm sure there are a good few options that can be considered.

As for the criteria for getting through, that's up to each person really. Some have based their decisions on who they think would win in a fight, others on who they like the most, but it's up to you.

Brief_Lives wrote:

Imstunned Morpheus was eliminated... He's my main guy...
But I'll pick up the pieces...!

Thanks for creating it..
Have you a link to the wrestling one you referenced?

Yeah, this is the most recent one they did - 'Worst Wrestlemania':

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057582069

The user Omackeral tends to do them and I believe there is a new one about to start so keep an eye out for that.


Anyways I'll soon be posting the next tie in the round of 16.

Well done Mr.Nice Guy great Idea and great fun thank you.

Mr.Nice Guy wrote: »

I was actually thinking of a 24 hour time limit for the final just to make sure everyone got a chance to vote.

I'd be interested to hear everyone's thoughts on that.

Whatever you think would work best sounds good, as you've been doing a great job so far.

I might make the semi-finals the first to 5 votes to give a greater chance of people having a say.

I'll make the final a 24 hour time limit with the most votes taking the crown.

Some big casualties that last round. I was thinking Spidey might win the thing.

Who could beat who couldn't really work because some hero's are much more powerful than others. The final would probably end up being Superman vs Dr Manhatten.

sonic85 wrote: »

That was a great matchup between Wolverine and The Punisher! Was sure Castle was going to walk it at one stage.

I think i know who the winner is gonna be though before the final starts - I think it'll be no contest. I'm gonna have a hard time choosing between the two - toss of a coin really.

Roll on the final!

Yeah, same it's a toss up for the final for me, but I do love a good underdog story, so that could potentially be the decided for my final round vote.

sonic85 wrote: »

It was always gonna be Batman. Wolverine put up a good fight though!

Yeah I knew Batman would be in the final. Would have thought it'd come down to him and Spider-Man and if it had been Spider-Man, I think it would have been much closer, though I'd imagine Bats still would have edged it.

Cheers for that, br09.

I found a list IGN did of the 100 greatest comic book villains which I've found helpful; also, I have been checking over recent superhero films to confirm the antagonists in that. I've ended up with a very large list of supervillains - a lot bigger than the 64 I will limit the tournament to - so there will be notable omissions since it's unavoidable. I just hope I have the 'biggest' ones involved.

I've done the draw for the tournament and there are some big match-ups in there. I will post up the tournament soon. :cool:

TheKells wrote: »

Shocked at the lack of love for V for Vendetta....shocked!!

I thought that would be more popular too. I think this tournament could spring a few surprises.

Fairly shocked that Dredd lost to Zorro

Mr.Nice Guy wrote: »

Pleasantly surprised to see Mask of the Phantasm go through. That's one of my favourites and I felt it was likely to get knocked out.

DC might be crap at making there live action comic book movies but there animated movies are great.

Nervous Wreck wrote: »

They were up until tey started basing them on Geoff Johns' books. The Flashpoint Paradox was decent but everything since then has suuuuuucked.

That's true the last two years or so output has been really weak.

I'm gutted The Crow was knocked out by Batman (1989)... The Crow is my favourite superhero movie of all time. Luckily I haven t seen any of the sequels.. it remains incredibly awesome, brilliant dialogue, with the best soundtrack in a movie, bar none..

here's to you TinTin...... burn it up.. burn it up...

I can't watch this Guardians of the Galaxy vs Deadpool face-off... About to lose one of my favourites no matter which way the votes fall.

Although I knew it wouldn't win (and no more apt film for it to be knocked out by than CA: Civil War), but it's getting to the point where I think Avengers Age of Ultron may be my favourite superhero movie of all time. I like and respect it more each time I watch it. I love the character and performance of Ultron. The Vision is just beyond brilliant and his final speech with Ultron is amazing. I love the doomed romance between Banner and Romanov (their scene in Barton's house, particularly the extended version of it is insanely well-written and acted). Pretty much all the jokes and humour in it are on point for me anyway. I love the visions that Cap/Nat/Thor have and what they mean for those characters.

I'm a huge Joss Whedon fan anyway so maybe I'm predisposed to liking it, and I do recognise it has its flaws (particularly the proper ending to the Banner/Romanov scene being cut), but damn I just love the whole thing.

It was never going to win this competition, but I think it gets a much harder time than it deserves. Besides:

https://gfycat.com/FlimsyBriefGlassfrog (won't embed)

Sad to see Captain Planet exit the competition, but he lost to a worthy opponent.

Glad The Flash is doing well in this tournament - I was in the US a few years ago and randomly got to be part of a focus groups in Las Vegas for when they were introducing Grant Gustin as Barry Allen in Season 2 of Arrow (a good few months before the episode aired - it still had a lot of post-production editing that needed to be done at that stage), which was a pretty epic focus group to stumble in to.