In "The Wrong Side," I examine comic book fights that were particularly notable in the wrong side winning (or at least that the fight wasn't won the "right" way). This really isn't a big deal, of course, as it doesn't really matter if the "wrong" person won a fight. But it's fun to talk about! Here are our past editions of the feature.

If you want to suggest a fight for future inclusion in this feature, drop me a line at brianc@cbr.com. Don't suggest a fight in the comments!

Reader Appu G. wrote in with this one!

First off, as always, on the first page, we determine the power level of the people involved in this discussion to set up the fight and on the second page, we look at the fight. The way we check their power levels is usually to see how well they do when they fight Spider-Man, as he is so strong that he beat up Firelord and the X-Men, all by himself!

So we'll look at how Spider-Man did against the Red Hulk. They fought in Incredible Hulk #600 (by Jeph Loeb, Ed McGuinness and Mark Farmer) and it did not go well for Spider-Man...

Regular Hulk breaks free and breaks up the fight on the next page. Now clearly, Spider-Man would have broken free and kicked Red Hulk's ass on the next page if Hulk Classic did not interfere, that's obvious and doesn't really need to be stated, but it is still important to note that Red Hulk did very well by himself there. So that is a huge point in favor of the Red Hulk. I mean, that's Spider-Man there! He's in the same league as the WASP (they both took down the X-Men easily during Secret Wars, after all).

Okay, but how has Spider-Man fared against Domino? Domino has luck powers that make it difficult for anyone to "tag" her, because her powers literally work as sort of telekinesis, so if you, say, shoot a bullet at her, the bullet will sort of move AROUND her.

And yet, even with that in mind, Spider-Man beat her pretty darn easily in Contest of the Champions II #4 (by Chris Claremont and Michael Ryan)....

So Spider-Man did better against Domino than he did against the Red Hulk. That seems to be significant.

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Domino and Red Hulk actually fought each other kind of in the past. In Hulk #14 (by Jeph Loeb and Ian Churchill), Domino accidentally discovered the Red Hulk's secret identity. He decided he had to kill her then...

Her luck powers preventing the Red Hulk from catching up with her seems to be totally fair play to me. That's all good.

In the end, though, when Red Hulk puts together a team to find her, she counters by calling in X-Force to help her...

In the end, Red Hulk cuts a deal with Domino. He'll keep quiet about the fact that an Avenger (Wolverine) was running a black ops murder squad and Domino will keep quiet about the Red Hulk's secret identity.

Anyhow, a few years later, they faced off against each other during Avengers vs. X-Men. Ed McGuinness wrote and drew the battle in AVX Vs. #6 and it involves Domino using pressure points to take the Red Hulk out...

However, Appu argues (and I think Appu is correct) that, "The pressure points doesn't make sense since she is nowhere strong enough to affect him with her hits."

I think that's a legit critique. Domino doesn't have super strength, so even wielding a traditional hammer, it is unlikely that she would be able to hit the Hulk hard enough to affect the pressure points. This is basically the same exact critique of the classic Batman/Hulk fight way back when...

In other words, your traditional "pressure points" arguments don't work with giant super invulnerable monsters like the Hulks.

Domino winning through some sort of luck would be fine by me, but I don't think this luck works out.

Okay, that's it for this installment of The Wrong Side! Thanks to Appu for the suggestion! If anyone else has an idea for a comic book fight that you think was resolved the "wrong" way, drop me a line at brianc@cbr.com!