Welcome to the 12th Annual CSBG DC/Marvel Character Tournament!This time around, you will be voting for your favorite DC or Marvel live action television series and TV movies. Amusingly, this was also going to be the tournament last year, so the delay has changed the list dramatically, as WandaVision, Superman and Lois and Stargirl all debuted AFTER last March! Notably, though, I will not be including Falcon and Winter Soldier, as its FIRST episode only dropped TODAY, so that seems like too little to actually cover for something like this. The rankings were mostly determined by the use of IMDB user reviews, which turned out to be EERILY in line with the voters back in 2019 when we did superhero cartoons (the first time I can recall a tournament where all four #1 seeds made it to the Final Four). This time around, I made a few more changes, as it was just way too unreasonable for Batwoman, for instance, to be the lowest rated show out of ALL of the shows listed. So I made some judgment calls occasionally with the rankings.After the shows were all ranked, they were split into four different regions. In the early rounds, we'll do two regions a day.This is the third round and here are the first two regions and the match-ups! Simply choose which show you like better. The voting concludes roughly 48 hours from right now! I'm sorry that the voting is over Twitter, but the site that I had used for embedded poll voting for YEARS was purchased by someone else and it no longer is an option. If you know of another good and free embedded poll site, please let me know, I'd gladly use it in the future. For now, we're stuck with Twitter polls.

WESTVIEW REGION

WandaVision beat Titans, 81% to 19% and Arrow poked holes in Superboy, 87% to 13%

Our first matchup pits the recent Disney+ streaming series, WandaVision, starring Elizabeth Olsen and Paul Bettany as Wanda Maximoff and Vision from the Avengers films, about Wanda's grief taking the form of a town transformed into a sitcom reality, while the government tries to discover what is happening to the city and we learn that perhaps another force is taking control of the situation that Wanda has created versus Arrow, the series starring Stephen Amell as Oliver Queen, a vigilante who slowly turned into the superhero known as Green Arrow, and went from being a lone avenger to being the leader of a team filled of heroes. The series launched the series of interconnected superhero shows known as the Arrowverse (who are now trying to go by a different name now that Arrow's run has finished)

Lucifer edges out Superman and Lois, 51% to 49% and Batman took care of Luke Cage, 59% to 41%

Next is Batman, the hit ABC TV series starring Adam West as Batman and Burt Ward that became a sensation in 1966, with two episodes each week, with the first episode ending with a cliffhanger and the second one resolving the story, leading to the series appearing TWICE in the top 10 TV series for the 1965-66 TV season. The series lasted three seasons, with the third season introducing Yvonne Craig as Batgirl as it reduced to just one episode per week vs. Lucifer, starring Tom Ellis as Lucifer, who has given up Hell for Los Angeles, where he serves as a consultant with the LAPD. Laura German plays his LAPD contact and Tom Welling later joined the cast as Cain. The series ran for three seasons on Fox and then Netflix picked it up for an additional three seasons

HELL's KITCHEN REGION

Daredevil knocked out the Defenders, 90% to 10% while Agent Carter edged out Stargirl, 67% to 33%.

Our first matchup features Marvel's Daredevil, one of the only Marvel Netflix series that actually lasted three seasons (before Netflix and Marvel severed their partnership in the creation of Marvel shows on the popular streaming service). The show followed the blind lawyer, Matt Murdock (Charlie Cox), who gained super abilities when he lost his sight and his law partner, Frankin "Foggy" Nelson (Elden Henson) and their client turned secretary, Karen Page (Deborah Ann Woll) as Matt becomes the superhero vigilante known as Daredevil to take on the Kingpin (played by Vincent D'Onofrio) and the evil Hand vs. Agent Carter, which saw Hayley Atwell reprise her role as Peggy Carter from Captain America: The First Avenger and the One-Shot short film that showed Carter as a founding head of SHIELD as she deals with being a woman agent at the Strategic Scientific Reserve (SSR) during an era where women were not typically seen as peers by the other agents. It ran for two seasons on ABC, with James D'Arcy playing Edwin Jarvis, Howard Stark's family butler (and Dominic Cooper occasionally reprising his role as Howard Stark from Captain America: The First Avenger).

Jessica Jones beat Gotham, 70% to 30%, while Smallville scored a "super" upset over Adventures of Superman, 68% to 32%.

Finally, we have Jessica Jones, the other Marvel Netflix series to reach three season, which stars Krysten Ritter as the title character, who had tried to make it as a superhero before she was then terrorized by the villainous Killgrave. Once he was finished with her, Jessica dealt with her trauma by drowning her sorrows in alcohol as she becomes a private investigator. However, when Killgrave returns, Jessica is forced to confront her past and perhaps take on a more heroic future, as well, while her best friend (and adoptive sister), Trish Walker, was also undergoing her own journey to try to become a superhero, even if her journey was a bit more fraught and tragic vs. Smallville, which starred Tom Welling as Clark Kent, who discovered his super abilities as a teenager and the rest of the series is following Clark and his friends as he slowly but surely embraces his destiny as he becomes Superman by the series finale (a number of other superheroes showed up before the series ended). The series lasted for 10 seasons on The CW