Cyclops (leader, strategist and projectile expert)
Thing (durable powerhouse)
Iron Man (all around fighter, technology expert)
Invisible Woman (energy manipulator)
Wonder Woman (skilled fighter)
They are fresh and energized for each fight. Both sides have 1 hour preptime. Fight takes place in NYC.
1. Captain America, Black Panther, and Luke Cage
2. Wolverine, Sabretooth, and Omega Red
3. Venom, Carnage, and Spiderman
4. Hulk
5. Super Skrull
5. Juggernaut
6. DOS Doomsday
7. Thor
8. Silver Surfer
I sincerely disagree. Particularly for WW and Invisible Woman. And Tony with his recent upgrade.
Again, mediocre is like "C" or "not bad" or "average"
Steel is average.
Jade is average
Ms. Marvel is average.
A man who can connect with any technology in the world and stalemate the likes of Silver Surfer is not average.
A woman who regularly battles gods, channels the omnipotence of the Godwave, has a plot-device to end all plot-device weapon, and move tectonic plates is not average.
A woman who can blow a hole through Galactus and defeat nearly any opponent with a forcebubble in the brain is not average.
These guys are A-list....
Thing and Cyclops are average however....
Anywho, they make it to 8. WW is bogged down by her slow as hell teammates...
EDIT: Never mind, didn't read they have prep. They clear the gauntlet easily.
The only mediocre here is the Thing,
Cyclops has defeated Mr. Sinister who had manage to manipulate many other heroes and able to desintagrated many heroes fully with his vision.
Wonder Woman is The #3 in strenght in heroes of DC (not villians), adove is Captain Marvel and then Superman, has a lot of H2H and so on.
And I don't even had to say anithing about Sue or Tonny
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By all means, Thing is the only potentially "Mediocre" person on this list - and even thats debateable. Not even cyclops is mediocre, esp considering the potential of his recent upgrades.
This list (with the excpetion of Iron Man} is more along the lines of Underrated, or under-appreciated
Does anyone realize that emma mentioned to cyclops that he had a mental block probably due to the trauma of when he was a child, that restrains his power?
In a recent xmen comic. I think issue 190, cyclops was blasting bishop, which in turn released the energy against a sentinel. The sentinel said that it should have been able to stand up to 7 seconds of cyclops full blast before being damaged... but this mentally controlled cyclops blasted off the robots body part with one blast...
I'd say xmen are opening up the doors on making cyclops a more powerful character...
that and the end of the other recent xmen comic where it appears that cyclops is standing there, not wearing his visor, and isn't going crazy with his blasts. (he mentions something about not having claws. i forget the issue i have it at home)
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