Welcome to the 2014 DC/Marvel Comic Character Tournament!
As the NCAA basketball tournament goes along, so will a series of polls matching various comic book characters against each other. This year, we're mixing it up. Instead of voting based on who is your favorite, you'll be voting on who you think would win in a fight.
The characters I am using are the top 32 characters on each of the DC and Marvel Top 100 Characters List from a couple of years back (with a few omissions - I removed characters who are not in the New 52 for DC). You might differ with some of the rankings or the brackets (a particularly tricky one is differentiating between the low end of "Heavy Hitter" and the high end of "Street Level"). Let's just take for granted that you will differ and save the time of saying, "A #6 seed? Character X should be a #4 seed!" or whatever, and just vote on what the Selection Committee came up with (especially since I'm not going to be changing anything).
Here are the four regions!!
MARVEL STREET LEVEL
1. Spider-Man
2. Wolverine
3. Captain America
4. Cyclops
5. Kitty Pryde
6. Daredevil
7. Iron Fist
8. Winter Soldier
9. Deadpool
10. Nick Fury
11. Mister Fantastic
12. Beast
13. Nightcrawler
14. Hawkeye (Clint Barton)
15. Jamie Madrox
16. The Punisher
MARVEL HEAVY HITTERS
1. Silver Surfer
2. Thor
3. Hulk
4. Doctor Strange
5. Magneto
6. Iron Man
7. Dr. Doom
8. Ms. Marvel
9. Jean Grey
10. Storm
11. Scarlet Witch
12. Emma Frost
13. The Thing
14. Rogue
15. She-Hulk
16. Luke Cage
DC HEAVY HITTERS
1. Superman
2. Darkseid
3. Wonder Woman
4. Green Lantern (Hal Jordan)
5. Supergirl
6. Flash
7. Shazam (Billy Batson)
8. Superboy
9. Green Lantern (Kyle Rayner)
10. Sinestro
11. Power Girl
12. Red Lantern (Guy Gardner)
13. Martian Manhunter
14. Swamp Thing
15. Aquaman
16. Zatanna
DC STREET LEVEL
1. Batman
2. Nightwing
3. Lex Luthor
4. Red Robin
5. John Constantine
6. Hawkman
7. Booster Gold
8. Batwoman
9. Huntress
10. Green Arrow
11. Batgirl
12. Black Canary
13. Robin
14. Catwoman
15. Joker
16. Harley Quinn
Here is the tournament bracket - click on it to get the full bracket and feel free to print it out if you'd like (I doubt it fits on one page though).
Each competitor has, let's say, a half hour to prepare (so it's not like the Hulk just walking up to Lex Luthor and smacking him - Luthor would be prepared), and can use whatever weaponry you figure would be typical for that character (so Punisher can use whatever guns you would expect him to normally use, but he can't go get, I dunno, the Infinity Gauntlet, or whatever). These are not "to the death" fights, by the way. And if a character is currently dead, just act like the fight happened while they were alive.
Here are the first two regions up for voting!