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Readers Jody D. and Tim B. separately asked me this question in the last couple of weeks, so I guess it is something that is on the mind of the people. So let's find out who has actually stopped the "unstoppable" Juggernaut over the years!

Okay, first off, I'm omitting examples of the Juggernaut losing due to mental attacks once his helmet is taken off, like from his first battle with the X-Men in X-Men #13 (by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Werner Roth and Joe Sinnott)...



And I'm omitting examples of when the Juggernaut was specifically powered down (which has happened many times over the years, particularly when writers write him as a hero - heroes tend to be powered down because as villains, they need to take on multiple heroes, while as heroes, they tend to work with OTHER heroes, so they need to be a bit weaker).

We're just talking characters who have stopped Juggernaut when the Juggernaut was at normal strength and without using the cop out of telepathy.

Another common way of defeating the Juggernaut is teleporting him away, like in X-Men #33 (by Roy Thomas, Werner Roth and John Tartaglione).



I guess that probably doesn't count as "stopping" the Juggernaut, either. That's how Doctor Strange dealt with him when he fought the Juggernaut early on.

The Hulk fought the Juggernaut in Incredible Hulk #172, but before things could be decided one way or the other (the Hulk did succeed in taking the Juggernaut's helmet off), the X-Men abruptly show up and defeat Juggernaut themselves, but Professor X's mental powers have already proven to be successful against the Juggernaut with his helmet off, so that doesn't really count for anything.

In X-Men #103 (by Chris Claremont, Dave Cockrum and Sam Grainger), the Juggernaut is simply taken off the board by him diving into the ocean to save his buddy, Black Tom...



Spider-Woman #38 (by Claremont, Steve Leialoha and Bob Wiacek) is an interesting tale, because it sure does seem like this motley crew of Spider-Woman, Colossus, Angel and Storm DO sort of stop the Juggernaut, don't they?









I mean, they captured his friend Black Tom right by him and he didn't do anything to stop them, so does that suggest that exploding that ship around him DID temporarily stop him? I sort of doubt it, but at the same time, that is precisely what it looks like, right?

In Amazing Spider-Man #230 (by Roger Stern, John Romita Jr. and Jim Mooney), the Juggernaut was famously stopped by some wet cement...





I dunno if that counts as a clean "stop."

Uncanny X-Men #194, then, by Chris Claremont, John Romita Jr., Dan Green and Steve Leialoha seems like the first official "stop" of the Juggernaut, when Nimrod (who Claremont was trying to establish as a major threat) took the Juggernaut down pretty easily...





Go to the next page to see the next time the unstoppable Juggernaut was stopped...

Psylocke used telepathy to take the Juggernaut out in Uncanny X-Men #218 (by Chris Claremont, Marc Silvestri and Dan Green)...



(I see that I should have just omitted this one - I was showing this as an example of a win that didn't count because it was via telepathy, but I can see that it looked like I was trying to count this as a legit win)

In Thor #412 (by Tom DeFalco, Ron Frenz and Joe Sinnott), Thor uses a godblast on Juggernaut and knocks him backwards, but the fight is cut off by the ground collapsing under the Juggernaut (they then defeat him by the traditional "teleport him away" trick...





In the rematch, Thor almost defeated the Juggernaut by disconnecting him from his magical powers, but that wouldn't have counted if he had won, right (the powers came back right before Thor was about to win)?

In DC vs. Marvel #1 (by Ron Marz, Dan Jugens and Joe Rubinstein), Superman knocks Juggernaut down. He does not knock him out, though. The Juggernaut has gotten knocked down a lot over the years. I am not counting every time someone managed to startle the guy. Just when he is outright knocked out.



Maybe Superman THEN won, but they conspicuously did not show it.

Then, in Uncanny X-Men #322 (by Scott Lobdell, Tom Grummett and Dan Green), we saw the Juggernaut suffer his worst defeat yet, as Onslaught (the psionic creature formed by Magneto "infecting" Professor Xavier) knocked the Juggernaut clean out...





Reader Mike Haseloff reminded me that during Unlimited Access #1 (by Karl Kesel, Pat Olliffe and Al Williamson), Wonder Woman and Spider-Man defeat Juggernaut by slamming Mantis into him...









In Incredible Hulk #457 (by Peter David, David Brewer, Cam Smith and Andrew Pepoy), the Hulk has been powered up by Apocalypse, and this super-powered Hulk was ABOUT to KILL the Juggernaut when he was distracted (and Juggernaut got the heck out of there)...



Since the Juggernaut wasn't actually officially out of it, I didn't count it, but if you'd like to, you can do so.

During World War Hulk, the gem decided not to work for him, so he got beaten by the Hulk.



He "made up" with the gem and he then went to try to take on the Hulk, but the Hulk decided to avoid a fight at that time.



In Amazing Spider-Man #627 (by Roger Stern and Lee Weeks), Captain Universe knocked the Juggernaut out...





I believe that that is the last clean "knock out" of the Juggernaut.

Lots of the gem choosing others and stuff like that, though.

There ya go, Jody and Tim! If anyone else has a question they'd like to see answered, drop me a line at brianc@cbr.com or bcronin@comicbookresources.com (they both feed into the same inbox, we just got fancy new e-mails when CBR officially added the cbr.com domain).