Comic Books throughout the years have become a crucial piece of pop culture and have introduced the population to many famous superheroes such as DC’s Superman and Batman, Marvel’s Spider-Man and Wolverine, and Image’s Spawn. Many of us as children were asked the question, “If you could have one superpower what would it be?” and a lot of if not all of us would base our power on our favorite superhero. But now the question comes… Who is Eaglecrest’s favorite superhero? In the coming weeks, we shall find out. Vote below for your pick.
Round 1:
Day 1:
Day One of the bracket featured many notable matchups and also featured many great games
between two superheroes. Here are the day one recaps. Iron man beat Black Widow by a score of 35-6. The two Avengers fought in a great fight to start, but Iron Man was just too much for the Spy, and he moved onto the next round. Doctor Strange managed to beat Cyclops in a 30-10 battle. Cyclops and Doctor Strange are two rare cases of heroes who are seemingly plagued by their powers. So this matchup was a good one to watch. But ultimately the Sorcerer Supreme would win.
Wolverine would destroy Punisher with his claws by a score of 35-5. This was rather expected since Wolverine is one of Marvel’s poster characters when compared to Punisher but it is hard to say that it was entirely shocking. Realistically Punisher could have been shutout, but 5 votes? That is a win for Punisher. The Flash would beat his Justice League partner Green Lantern by a score of 32-7. Same case as with the previous Wolverine matchup. The Flash is one of DC’s stars compared to Green Lantern. So, it was just a reasonable win for Barry Allen.
In a matchup of revolutionary Women heroes, Wonder Woman would beat Captain Marvel 24-15. Funny enough Captain Marvel was ahead for a long time, until the night before voting closed, Wonder Woman surged back and won. Valiant Battle between the two though.
In arguably the most predictable matchup of them all Batman beat Hawkeye in a 40-2 blowout. Personally I am a huge Hawkeye fan, but there was just no way he was getting past arguably the most recognizable Hero in comic book history. 2 votes for pity, but Hawkeye is unfortunately just too irrelevant.
In the final two matchups of Day 1, Superman would beat Moon Knight 33-10. Kind of crazy to think of how much of a fight Moon Knight put up. 10 votes against THE Superhero is an impressive feat for the Knight. Meanwhile, in our closest matchup of the day, Nightwing would upset Thing. It went back and forth for a long time, but Nightwing was able to pull ahead very late and would end up winning.
Day 2:
Day two featured the rest of the matchups in round 1, which included notable fights such as Captain America vs Storm, and the highly anticipated debut of Spider-Man facing Cat Woman. Scores varied as we had some blowouts and some close games once again. Here are the recaps from the final day of round 1.
Hulk managed to beat the lone representative of Image Comics in Spawn by a final score of 27-5. Spawn surprisingly led in the first few hours of the polling but once voting kicked off, Hulk was able to take off and win it by that final score. Spawn is one of those rare cases of a superhero who people don’t know appearing in a known hero bracket, and it isn’t for any reason in particular, people just don’t know as much about Spawn when compared to a hero such as the Hulk. Deadpool was able to beat Green Arrow by a score of 31-2 in a massive blowout that may or may not highlight the prominence of Deadpool. Green Arrow may be unknown to many nowadays but Deadpool having a highly-rated movie coming out during the summer is more likely the reason why he won. Nonetheless, though Deadpool is moving on.
In another of the predictable matchups, Aquaman beat Wasp 26-6. The fight was really undisputed as it took a while for Wasp to receive votes, and by the time she did Aquaman was already up big, so just real dominance displayed by Aquaman, to beat Ant-Man’s sidekick. To wrap up the left side of the bracket, Thor beat Beast 25-6, which comes as a bit of a shock considering that Beast is seemingly more recognizable than Thor. Movies may play a factor though because Beast has never really been in a position to succeed cinematically compared to Thor who has become one of the most popular characters in the MCU, hopefully, Beast will be back soon with Marvel’s X-Men in the future of their film plans.
In the most anticipated match of the tournament so far, Spider-Man finally makes his debut, beating Cat Woman 30-2. No need for commentary here, Spider-Man is arguably Marvel’s Poster character, so it is no wonder he beat such an obscure character as Cat Woman. Meanwhile, while still a blowout, Captain America beat Storm 25-5. This would’ve been one that could’ve gone either way and it was arguably the best matchup of round 1. But like Thor vs Beast, Storm just hasn’t been in a position to succeed against such a popular character like Captain America.
In a battle of DC heroes, Robin beat Shazam 20-10. In a head-to-head fight, Shazam would destroy Robin, but as far as being iconic goes, Robin takes the cake. He is by the majority, the most well-known Sidekick in comic history, meanwhile Shazam (AKA Captain Marvel) isn’t even the most popular Captain Marvel in the bracket. To wrap up round 1 we had a fitting duel. Ant-Man vs Hellboy was the closest fight in the first round, but Hellboy managed to win it 18-15. Spawn may have been voted off, but Hellboy ensured that comics other than Marvel and DC could still win. Since he is facing off against Batman next don’t expect to see Hellboy crack the Elite 8 but it is a feelgood story, knowing that people still care about comics other than Marvel and DC.