Elemental Who Would Win!

[Violentvixen]

Almost Brilliant a helpful know-it-all smartass bird known in the lore of the Singing Hills novella series as a Neixin. Neixin are a special type of hoopoe who not only can speak but remember everything they hear and are used to archive the world. She's a great character with a real bond to the main character we follow through the book, the monk Chih.

She is on the cover of the first book and she and other neixin are on the cover of the 4th book.

Lazy repost, but basically Almost Brilliant has access to most known human knowledge AND bird knowledge and also has been recorded as having sharp claws and beak like a typical bird. She's definitely dive bombed and attacked people and I'm pretty sure her claws have drawn blood in the books? She wins this.

And Mothra.

 

[Mogri]

I could be contrarian here, but my first inclination was that the wings have this round, and I'll stick to that.

 

[Johnny Unusual]

Mothra and Almost Brilliant win

The Green Giant is eliminated from the competition.
Third Card​

The Invisible Woman

VS

The Thing

This definitely must have happened at one point. Multiple times. It’s Marvel Comics; every hero had to fight every other hero due to misunderstanding or difference of opinion at one point. But in all honesty, none come to mind. @Octo has read more FF than me so perhaps he can cite precedent.

All the same, this would be a big fight. Any fight between FF members are but both parties have both heavy defense and offense power. In the Thing’s case, a mix of a heavy hide and a never say die attitude means for even really strong fighters, The Thing is an extremely formidable opponent and one hard to take down. Meanwhile, the Invisible Woman has power force fields that have repelled very powerful enemy attacks which can also be shaped to trap or disable enemies. In addition, she can also turn invisible. She’s also been trained in unarmed combat by Iron Fist, the Thing and She-Hulk and though she couldn’t punch out the Thing, she does has an understanding of how a hand-to-hand combatant functions.

Fourth Card​

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Pazuzu ................................................VS .........................Titan


It’s deity vs deity. A heroic demon (kind of) vs. a somewhat neutral one. Both of very strongly tied to their elements and can do some real damage to their opponents. Note that in this battle, both are at one loss, meaning the next one that goes down goes down for good!

 

[Torzelbaum]

I think his aerial nature is going to give Pazuzu an edge in that matchup, unless Titan can manage to quickly and accurately hurl some boulders at his flying opponent as a means of offense. If not then Titan will most likely have to wait until Pazuzu lands before the T can counterattack.

 

[Violentvixen]

Tough ones. Going to go for Invisible Woman and Pazazu.

 

[Purple]

I think Invisible Woman has had way more power creep and also can take someone out of a fight non-violently so canonically more than likely comes out on top.

And we're talking about the Final Fantasy Titan, whose whole deal is making the ground give way under you and you're immune if you're flying? As Pazuzu does?

 

[Mogri]

Ben is not a clever man, and Titan can't hurt Pazuzu. I'm voting with the consensus.

 

[RT-55J]

Pazuzu beats Titan by simple typing logic, yeah. Mister T here doesn't have anything to counteract his inherent disadvantage.

The Thing is strong, yes, but the Invisible Woman's kit is exactly what you'd need if you wanted to have the power to outsmart the guy.

 

[Torzelbaum]

I wonder - since Ben and Sue are teammates then would they choose an alternate method of determining the winner?

 

[Kirin]

I’m pretty sure Titan has been known to throw rocks at things in some of the more cinematic entries where it’s not limited to a single move… but I’m still not sure that’d be enough to take out Pazuzu unless he took it by surprise, which seems unlikely in a tournament context. I don’t think I have any strong enough argument to go against consensus on these.

 

[Olli]

I wonder - since Ben and Sue are teammates then would they choose an alternate method of determining the winner?

If it comes down to non-physical skills, Sue wins for sure. She's the FF's ace in the hole.

As for the gods/demons, yeah, Pazuzu just feels right.

 

[Johnny Unusual]

Invisible Woman Vs. Thing is a Hell of a match but I think that Sue would be smart enough not to use her force fields in power vs power but using it to stop any attack from gaining momentum and holding him so he can't get the leverage to free himself.

Titan's power doesn't hit enemies with float and he disappears after doing his attack so Pazuzu.

 

[Johnny Unusual]

Invisible Woman and Pazuzu move on. Titan is eliminated from the competition.

Fifth Card

Hawkgirl
Vs.

Plants​

Again, bending the rules a bit to include an army but rules and bones are made to be broken. Hawkgirl vs one kind of every one of these dudes. This is tough. Hawkgirl has aerial maneuverability and agility and can disrupt magic with her nth metal mace (are these magic plants? I don’t know the lore). The plants are generally long range fighters and there are a lot of them with different powers. Can a Justice League/Justice Society member overcome the barrage and manage to get to these wacky weeds?



Note that Hawkgirl has a win under her belt but if the plants lose this one, they are out of the competition!

Sixth Card





Air Man

VS.

Lich

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An NES battle! Robot Vs. Wizard! That’s what we are here for. Air Man has an arsenal of little hurricanes to do some damage but the Lich has his share of spells. That said, the Lich is also used to fighting living beings so a robot is probably a whole new experience for him. Similarly, Air Man probably has never met a for real wizard before, much less a ghoul . Let the games begin!

 

[Torzelbaum]

From what I can tell Lich is neither resistant or immune to Air/Wind elemental attacks and might even take slightly more damage from them. I think Lich's sleep spells might not be able to affect Air Man. I think the same might also be true of Lich's Death spell. Lich's LIT2 might do more damage to Air Man but I'm not sure. I think Lich's ICE2 and FIR2 could damage Air Man but Air Man might be able to blow them away or possibly even blow them back at Lich. Lich is also a pretty large target so I think Air Man could hit him multiple times with each Air Shooter barrage. If Lich lands the HOLD spell then I think he could win the fight but the odds of that aren't in his favor. I think the odds ultimately favor Air Man.

 

[Torzelbaum]

Are the Plants able to aim in any direction? I feel like they might have a limited firing arc which Hawkgirl could take advantage of.

 

[Mogri]

Most of the plants can't aim up, and I'm not sure Air Man can fire down Lich fast enough to avoid NUKE.

Lich Girl

 

[Torzelbaum]

Is the Lich in the contest supposed to be the one from the Temple of Friends revisited / final dungeon / boss rush?

 

[Mogri]

That's how I'm treating it. I'm not sure it was specified.

 

[Kirin]

I feel like we usually give combatants their full repertoire / final load-out if they increase their capabilities through their own story, unless otherwise specified. And given that, I think I'm with Mogri in concluding that Lich's full arsenal of spells and abilities has some things in it that could probably do fatal damage to Air Man before Lich took enough tiny-tornado damage to go down.

Not real sure on the other card, that's an odd fight. Saying the plants can't aim seems a little too pedantic for my taste, in which case it comes down to whether Hawkgirl can dodge/neutralize/tank the plants' volley of ranged attacks long enough to fly-by and smoosh or break them all with her mace. That's assuming she can't just immediately, like, turn them all off because they count as nth-metal susceptible magically animated or something, but that also feels a bit too cheesy.