It's time to answer that age-old question for good: who would win in a fight?
Ground rules: You'll be presented with character pairings. You should give your vote in bold along with a description of your rationale, which can be as brief or detailed as you like. If you change your vote, please edit your original post; either unbold your previous vote orstrikethrough. You can change your mind as often as you like until the voting deadline.
Character tiers: To avoid overly lopsided matches early on, characters have been grouped into rough tiers. I'm not familiar with all of your entries, and it's possible that some of these tierings are inaccurate. Don't worry about it. The tiers are just a convenience, and the lines will quickly blur. That said, here's our list:
SUPERMAN TIER
These are characters with world-wrecking superpowers. I also included the giant robots in this tier.
IRON MAN TIER
An unarmed human could probably not defeat these characters, regardless of strength or skill. All the kaiju ended up here.
SAGAT TIER
These are characters with some experience or skill in fighting.
BOB SAGET TIER
We would generally call these characters "noncombatants."
WILDCARD TIER
Depending on how the wind's blowing, these two can either slay gods or lose an arm-wrestling match. They will be paired entirely at random.
Format: We have 60 characters -- just shy of 64. That means four characters automatically advance to round 2, taken from the top tier. The rest will fight it out in round 1, where winners will advance to round 2 and losers will go to the losers' bracket, where we will determine the least strongest character of all. After the initial round, it's single elimination for both brackets.
Please note: I will do my best to represent all the characters you chose for this tournament of champions. That said, I'm not familiar with all of them. Please feel free to supplement my descriptions, and if you like, you can PM me with a writeup or with any details you think I should know.
Starting matchups are coming in just a minute!
Ground rules: You'll be presented with character pairings. You should give your vote in bold along with a description of your rationale, which can be as brief or detailed as you like. If you change your vote, please edit your original post; either unbold your previous vote or
Character tiers: To avoid overly lopsided matches early on, characters have been grouped into rough tiers. I'm not familiar with all of your entries, and it's possible that some of these tierings are inaccurate. Don't worry about it. The tiers are just a convenience, and the lines will quickly blur. That said, here's our list:
SUPERMAN TIER
These are characters with world-wrecking superpowers. I also included the giant robots in this tier.
- Gurren Lagann
- Goku
- Unicron
- Domon Kasshu + God Gundam (Mobile Fighter G Gundam)
- Maximilian Jenius + YF-29 Durandal Valkyrie (Super Dimension Fortress Macross)
- R-90 "Ragnarok" Hyperdrive System Fighter (R-Type III: The Third Lightning)
IRON MAN TIER
An unarmed human could probably not defeat these characters, regardless of strength or skill. All the kaiju ended up here.
- Inframan
- Steel (Sapphire & Steel)
- Optimus Prime (G1 Powermaster)
- Godzilla
- The foot (Monty Python)
- Wolverine (X-Men)
- Josuke Higashikata (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure #4)
- Darth Vader (Star Wars)
- Air Man (Mega Man 2)
- Avatar Korra (Avatar: The Legend of Korra)
- Samus Aran (Super Metroid)
- Joseph Joestar (young) (Jojo's Bizarre Adventure)
- Bomberman
- GLaDOS
- Haruko Haruhara (FLCL)
- Dalek (Doctor Who)
- Count Dracula
- Lt. Cmdr. Data (Star Trek: TNG)
- Mothman
- The Luggage (Discworld)
- Mega Man (Mega Man 2)
- Gamera (Heisei Trilogy)
SAGAT TIER
These are characters with some experience or skill in fighting.
- The Hammer Bros. (Super Mario Bros.)
- Shaquille O'Neal (Shaq Fu)
- Darkwing Duck
- Galford D. Weller and Poppy (Samurai Shodown)
- Sherlock Holmes
- Max Rockatansky (Mad Max)
- Egg Shen (Big Trouble in Little China)
- Whitney's Miltank (Pokémon GSC)
- Link (The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom)
- Bebop (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)
- Malenia, Blade of Miquella (Elden Ring)
- Ash (Evil Dead)
- Leona Heidern (King of Fighters)
- Julius Belmont (Castlevania)
- Y'shtola Rhul (Final Fantasy XIV)
- Caesar (Wargroove)
- Rush (Mega Man 3)
- Sif (Dark Souls)
BOB SAGET TIER
We would generally call these characters "noncombatants."
- Bugs Bunny (Looney Tunes)
- Miles O'Brien (Star Trek: TNG/DS9)
- Homer Simpson (The Simpsons)
- Bernard Bernoulli (Day of the Tentacle)
- The monster at the end of the book (There's a Monster at the End of This Book)
- Cosmo Kramer (Seinfeld)
- Droopy the Dog (Hanna-Barbera, et al.)
- Speedy Eggbert
- Flik (A Bug's Life)
- Michael Scott (The Office)
- Rincewind (Discworld)
- Missile (Ghost Trick)
WILDCARD TIER
Depending on how the wind's blowing, these two can either slay gods or lose an arm-wrestling match. They will be paired entirely at random.
- Kirby
- Haruhi Suzumiya (The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya)
Format: We have 60 characters -- just shy of 64. That means four characters automatically advance to round 2, taken from the top tier. The rest will fight it out in round 1, where winners will advance to round 2 and losers will go to the losers' bracket, where we will determine the least strongest character of all. After the initial round, it's single elimination for both brackets.
Please note: I will do my best to represent all the characters you chose for this tournament of champions. That said, I'm not familiar with all of them. Please feel free to supplement my descriptions, and if you like, you can PM me with a writeup or with any details you think I should know.
Starting matchups are coming in just a minute!
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