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Ignatz_Mouse
02/09/2005, 15:19
Welcome to the Marvel/DC/Indy Hunter Tournament of Champions!

The backstory:

A bored Mr Myxyzptlk, out wandering the multiverse looking for mischief to cause, runs into the Grandmaster and is fascinated. Inspired, he and Grandmaster decide to hold a very special tournament, to see whether the craftiest of the humans can face the most powerful. To that end, he finds amid the vast multiverse a world which just happens to contain all the beings in question, a hybrid universe when all these characters have co-exited all along.

The rules as follows:

Two opponents are chosen from the following list, and given 24 hours to prepare to hunt down each other. No contact can be made prior to that time, and certain handicaps may be placed on some characters at the whims of the two Game Masters in question. Each character is given the proper motivation-- fight or suffer unspecified terrible consequences-- but they are not expected to break from their own codes of ethics.

Characters may make use of whatever resources they have, including allies, up until the hunt begins-- but then must go it alone. Our gamemasters are patient, and they do not expect every hunt to resolve instantly into a battle. Traps may be laid, plots hatched, elaborate schemes set forth. The joy is in watching the two participants at work, be that battle or cunning.

If only one of the characters has an asterisk, that character is handicapped in the following way-- they get no advance notice of the tournament or who their opponent is. This effectively gives their opponent a 24-hour head start.

Voters are strongly encouraged to provide a synopsis

Other than corrections of fact, other people's synopses are off-limits for criticism!


Our contestants!

1. Batman
2. Lex Luthor
3. Superman*
4. Martian Manhunter*
5. Iron Man
6. Forge
7. Nick Fury
8. Reed Richards
9. Magneto*
10. Dr Doom*
11. Black Panther
12. Atom
13. Black Adam*
14. John Constantine
15. Dracula*
16. Captain Marvel (“Shazam!”)*
17. Ultimate Hulk
18. Ultimate Captain America
19. Flash
20. Dr Mid-Nite (Pieter Cross)
21. Deadpool
22. Spider-Man
23. Blue Beetle
24. Time-displaced Brainiac 5
25. The Fixer
26. Henry Pym
27. Abe Sapien
28. Venom
29. The Midnighter
30. Green Arrow
31. Deathstroke the Terminator
32. Mr Terrific (Michael Holt)
33. Prometheus
34. The Human Target



Remember, you can vote in any of this round's previous matches until the round ends... meaning nothing's settled just yet! Some of these past matches are one one vote apart!

Forge Vs Dracula: Forge
Henry Pym vs. The Midnighter: Henry Pym
Venom Vs a time-displaced Brainiac 5: Brainiac 5
The Fixer Vs Nick Fury: Fixer
Captain Marvel* (SHAZAM) Vs Prometheus: Captain Marvel
Deadpool Vs Constantine: John Constantine
Martain Manhunter Vs Blue Beetle: Martian Manhunter
Abe Sapien Vs Spider-Man: Spider-Man
Reed Richards Vs the Flash: Reed Richards
Dr Doom Vs The Human Target: Doom, in a surprisingly close match!
Superman Vs Ultimate Hulk: IN PROGRESS!


Well, I like to have two of these going at once, and other than the Superman/Hulk batttle, they seem to have died down, so time for the latest one: Black Adam Vs Deathstroke! Deathstroke will have 24 hours head start to plan and prepare, at which time BA will be alerted that he's in a tournament.

Starting time 10 AM (let's say Kandaq time, in the Middle East, where BA is living these days)


Let the hunt begin!

Ignatz_Mouse
02/09/2005, 16:10
Not a peep?

Can Slade, given time, outfox a similarly-ruthless opponent who is much more powerful?

SumYungGai
02/09/2005, 16:27
These guys are two of my favorite anti-heroes. I have to admit that I don't know who to vote for. On one hand, Slade has 24 hours worth of planning. That seems like a lot, but it took him months to plan the downfall of the Titans, and they still managed to survive. Slade did well against the League in Identity Crisis, but again he didn't succeed.

Black Adam doesn't get the planning time that Slade does, but has a vast reservoir of mystical wisdom to draw from. However, we know from the end of the Black Reign storyline, he can be drawn into an all out berserker rage that nullifies his wisdom.

I'm going to vote for Black Adam. He's a bad enough dude that he could take whatever Slade could plan in one day.

Rokk_Krinn
02/09/2005, 16:34
One thing to consider about Slade's much ballyhooed "Identity Crisis" battle is that even then he wasn't really wanting or prepared to deal with a knockdown to-the-death battle with, say, Superman. I also cast some serious doubts upon his plan for taking on GL as well and have called foul for the Flash takedown, but I digress. :)

Basically, Slade's about to have to go up against a magical brutal version of Superman (minus heat-vision) and who doesn't have the commonly used Kryptonite/Red Sun weaknesses. It's going to take a good story to get me to decide things will go in Slade's favour here.

SumYungGai
02/09/2005, 16:54
I have time: a scenario for a Deathstroke victory (note: still voting for Black Adam)

Slade puts the call in to Calculator for data on Black Adam and gets the lowdown on Black Adam's loss to the JSA in Khandaq. He gets an idea. It's a longshot, but it's his best chance. He puts his plans in motion before the appointed time for the duel.

The time approaches and Black Adam is apprised of his role in the tournament. He applies his wisdom to the situation and understands what Slade is going to do to beat him. he flies to the temple dedicated to the tomb of his beloved family. Deathstroke is already waiting there.

"I'm sure you've already determined what it is that I have done", snarls Slade.

With murder in his eyes, Black Adam retorts, "Perhaps not the specifics, but yes, I know what you will attem . . ."

"Not attempt", Slade interupts, "it's already done. The temple is wired to explode ten seconds after the 'duel' begins. Only I can stop it."

"This is not a duel. It's . . ."

"Enough", interupts Slade a second time, "you know you can't beat me in time, and you won't find anyone with the competence to locate and disarm the bombs before they go off. Are you ready for my terms?"

With a voice of gravel, Black Adam mutters, "You know I will kill you for this."

"Only if you can catch me", quips the mercenary, "You will now prostrate yourself before me, with your cheek to the ground. When it is time, I will grind my heel into your face and you will declare that I have beaten you."

"And if these terms are unnacceptable to those who hold our reins?", queries the beaten monarch.

"Then the temple and I go up in smoke and I will still have beaten you. Now get down on the ground!"

"Very well. Count your days--you have made the deadliest enemy of your life this day."

Rokk_Krinn
02/09/2005, 17:02
I don't think Black Adam lost to the JSA in Khandaq though. Captain Marvel convinced the JSA they were wrong to be there - that the Khandaqians wanted Teth there - and made the team withdraw. In other words, not really sure there'd be any information on a "temple defeat" of Black Adam for Calculator to store in a database.

Good story though. You really captured Slade's personality in your scripting. :)

Ignatz_Mouse
02/09/2005, 17:43
Both 'em are nicely done.

One advantage Slade may have, is that he coudl probably hide for more than the 24 hours and take longer to prepare, if he needed to. If he's actively prepping, the GMs have no issue with delaying the conflict. It is a hunter scenario, after all. Slade may stretch out his game quite a while. I'm not sure what BA woudl do to flush him out-- although I am sure he would try.

Q99
02/09/2005, 18:08
This is like the Prometheus Vs. Marvel battle, except with no non-physical weapons.


Black Adam wins

Q99
02/09/2005, 18:13
Also, doesn't Adam have the rest of his 'team' to guard his people in his absense? Not that DS is too much of a 'threaten the innocents' type.

Darth Sabre
02/09/2005, 18:28
I think it would take Slade to pull off an incredible surprise to beat Teth. His family is the only thing to which Teth is acountable to, and his only real weakness.

So I could see the destruction of his family's temple being a good way to get to him. Unless Slade can trick him into calling the wizard's name, to change him back to Theo.


However, I think Black Adam wins this fight. I'm not sure there's anything physical that Slade can do to him. I don't think that Teth, would want to mes around with just putting him down, because of how dangerous Slade is, given time to adjust or regroup.

Magnito
02/09/2005, 18:32
Slade could do alot with the prep time, but not enough to take out the guy. My vote...
BLACK ADAM

batfink
02/09/2005, 18:47
As a side note, if Black Adam was forced to speak the Wizard's name, being thousands of years old would he just turn into dust?

malchyor
02/09/2005, 19:01
ya know...it's odd. even with the wisdom of solomon running through him, black adam went and used his powers for murder and all in that black reign storyline. does that seem odd to anybody, or is DC catching on to the success of wildstorm's Authority?

anyway, i give this one to black adam. he just went on a huge killing rampage and took over a nation, offing anybody who got in his way. he's not about to relent just because slade has set explosives around a memorial to people who are already dead. this may not be the wisdom of solomon, but if he started taking orders from anybody who came through and threatened him, he'd be sending the exact opposite message that he's set himself up to deliver.

Black adam beats the pulp out of him and then hangs his lifeless body hanging from a pole to deter others. the scenario or planning really don't matter. BA is just too brutal and powerful for anything to stop him (aside from other gathered folks at least as powerful as him AND at least willing to go to his lengths).

Goose
02/09/2005, 20:00
Im gonna vote for Deathstroke, i feel that with prep time there is nobody short of cosmicly powered that he cant find a way to defeat, as the story showed, not all defeats have anything at all to do with getting beat down. Slade can and will defeat Black Adam.

Phishead
02/10/2005, 13:06
Originally posted by malchyor
ya know...it's odd. even with the wisdom of solomon running through him, black adam went and used his powers for murder and all in that black reign storyline. does that seem odd to anybody, or is DC catching on to the success of wildstorm's Authority?

Black Adam does'nt have the wisdom of Solomon. It's an older god whose name I can't recall but I am pretty sure it's not Solomon.
Oh Teth fot the win.

Q99
02/10/2005, 15:04
Im gonna vote for Deathstroke, i feel that with prep time there is nobody short of cosmicly powered that he cant find a way to defeat, as the story showed, not all defeats have anything at all to do with getting beat down. Slade can and will defeat Black Adam.

You know, he's not Batman.


What he does with preperation is set-up a favorable situation to use his advantages as well as possible, generally including an ambush. But he still does the actual job physically or with explosives, he only has mundane equipment unlike Bats. If explosives can't hurt Black Adam and nor can Slade's sword, then Slade can't really do all that much.

Ignatz_Mouse
02/10/2005, 15:13
Black Adam, 5-1