Originally posted by TheKahn
Let's say that the Fantastic Four have had it with the hero business and go tear-assing through New York City on a murderous rampage. Neither team gets prep and everyone has their standard equipment. Now can you assemble a team of 4 to stop them with these limitations (most of which I stole from the last tourney
)?
The Caps/Rules
*strength and durability/killability at or below the Thing
*Mach 10 speed or slower
*energy projection at or below Iron Man
*no magic, intangibility, teleportation, telepathy, time manipulation, matter/energy manipulation, immortality, or ability to transfer consciousness
List your team and state how they would beat the evil Fantastic Four if you can.....
Here are my four characters:
1) Dr Midnite
2) Plastic Man
3) Killer Frost
4) Sebastian Shaw
The problem I am facing is:
a) Find where the Invisible Woman (from hereon IW) is, since after all she can turn invisible.
b) Find a way of negating her forcefields and taking her out of the fight.
c) Deal with Reed
d) Deal with a super-brawler like the Thing.
e) Deal with a heat-generator at the level of the the Torch.
Here is my plan:
i) Dr Midnite has various lenses that allow him to see even though his vision is nigh-absent. One of those lenses is an 'ultra-sonic' lens, and thus IW is not longer invisible. When she goes invisible she is bending light around and having it pass through her, but she is still SOLID. Ultra-sonics are basically sonar, so she will show up like a Christmas tree at a Buddhist temple to Dr Midnite.
ii) At which point Plastic Man goes to work, wrapping himself all around IW (who will obviously have her protective bubble up). Now, even if she extends it to its maximum PM will just extend with it, and if she contracts it he will simply contract with it. I wonder how long she can survive without air in that lil' bubble of hers (in my opinion sooner or later she will die just like Unus the untouchable died, or a more recent example how Magneto defeated Cannoball by encircling him in metal and waiting until he was too exhausted to 'blast').
iii) Here comes Johnny boy, obviously not too excited at what is happening. There steps Killer Frost, who has the ability to absorb external heat sourcs and turn them into supreme cold. Guess what Johnny boy is .....a very hot external heat source. He powers up Killer Frost by losing his flames.
iv) Now, what is Killer Frost to do with all that cold surging through her (courtesy of our dear, departed, friend Johnny)? Well, there is Reed trying to snake his way into the fight. In Tower of Babel Plastic Man was frozen and shattered, and if that could work against a shaper like PM imagine what it could do to someone like Reed! Suffice to say Reed becomes an elongated popsicle. If Killer Frost decides to be mean she may opt to shatter him as well, but that would not be necessary. Sadly Killer Frost is a sadist, thus bye-bye Mr Fantastic. It was nice knowing you. Adieu.
v) Ol' Ben is obviously not laughing by now. He is annoyed as heck and thinks it is clobbering time. At which point Sebastian Shaw decides to accomodate him, and stands in front of the Thing. Ben clobbers Sebastian, only to realize that his blows have no effect. In fact the more he hits Seb the stronger Seb gets. Unknown to Grimm, Sebastian Shaw is getting stronger, and not only that but suffering no damage.
At this point Seb could just stand there and receive Ben's punches (he's not getting hurt at all, the only effect is that he is getting stronger ...he could technically just stand there 'til kingdom come making squiggly faces at Ben), or he could trade punches with Ben, or he could just have Killer Frost (who has long finished dealing with Johnny and Richard) to come and 'cool off' Ben, or Dr Midnite could throw one of his blackout bombs at Ben and make him not see.
A whole host of options at this point.
Anyways, the fight is over, and my team heads over to my headoffice to collect a fat check for a job well done. I might even throw in a bonus if they do it in under 10 minutes.
Fin.
