I'll start.
My favorite fight was the Superman/Doomsday epic battle in the Death of Superman story.
Why did I like it? Well, Superman FINALLY met his match. In Doomsday, he faced someone who made him seem mortal and vulnerable. The fight was LONG...and there was a lot of action. Also, I liked the fact that there was no cheap gimmick used to end the battle as sometimes is the case. It was a fight that left the reader satisfied, with both fighters giving their all. There was no PIS to ruin it.
Thor versus Jorgumand, the World Serpent
Come on! A fight composed of an entire issue of two page spreads? Thor hitting someone so hard he breaks EVERY BONE IN HIS BODY? Sound effects with seventeen "o"s in them, like "SKRATHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM"!? What's not to love?
Batman versus Promotheus, round two
"PROFESSOR STEVEN HAWKING!"
'nuff said.
The entire freakin' planet versus Mageddon
Okay, Animal Man, Steel, and Wonder Woman come up with a plan to use the Purple Ray, disseminated through the Easter Islands' heads to give everyone on the planet Superman-level superpowers, powered by an inter dimensional super-speedster who "Ran perpendicular through time to the one place anyone made a stand against this thing!"
"We're making superhumans?" "With lightening and with chemicals!"
"Wonder Woman?" "And the armies of man, foretold in prophecy! We must not lose!"
That is how you write a f*cking comic book.
Lucifer versus Fenris the Wolf
A severely weakened Lucifer takes on the embodiment of destruction in a battle to decide the fate of all universes, in a brawl before the throne of creation. AWESOME.
Galactus, Namor, Iron Man (in the Red Ronin Armor) and Black Bolt versus the Third Celestial Host
A battle that is, at times, both SWEET AS HELL, and heartbreaking.
Batman versus Luthor in Dark Knight Strikes Again/Spiderman versus the Sinister Five in Reign
Same ideas in both of these. Two of my favorite heroes versus the principles of neo-conservatism? SIGN ME UP!
Swamp Thing versus the Great Evil Beast
After the armies of Hell, The Phantom Stranger, The Spectre, and Etrigan the Demon fail to even slow the GEB, Swamp Thing's sacrifice wins the day. As usual, brilliant work out of Mr. Moore.
Blue Beetle versus the Reach
"We never stood a chance."
These are just the ones that came in to my head when I sat down to write this. I'll probably have more.
Fernus vs Plasticman (epic scale without making everything cosmic)
AdamWarlock vs Omega (great use of cleverness against completely overwhelming force)
Wally vs Zoom (moving so fast Superman doesn't have time to react, ending with Zoom staring at his girlfriend's death for years)
WWH vs Everybody (cause he's the goddamned Hulk)
EarthX Asgardians vs Celestials (just because Loki got to say "no. no. no. you're not really dead. we've talked about this."😉
Spider man vs Venom (the issue where Venom kidnaps Spider man and hunts him on an island)
Orion Vs Darkseid- their fights are always classic
Spawn vs Malebolgia- who could forget the image of Spawn holding malebolgia's head after Angela is killed.
Infinity Gauntlet- Thanos plowing through earths heroes.
My top five:
1. Elektra vs. Bullseye in DD Visionaries Vol.2 (when he killed her... that was an amazing, brutal, heartbreaking and dramatic fight)
2. Ultimate Captain America vs. Herr Kleiser in Ultimates Homeland Security (talk about ownage. From both sides)
3. Daredevil vs. Punisher on the roof in the Typhoid Mary saga (very realistic-looking) OR their bloody finale brawl at the end of the DD vs. Punisher storyline (where they both got seriously messed up.)
4. Superman vs. Doomsday in Death of Superman (epic.)
5. Batman vs. "Jason Todd" in Hush (left me gawping, basically.)
I agree with Martian Mind that Batman vs Red Hood was really good ✅
I like, to name a few, in no particular order.......
Daredevil vs Bullseye in Daredevil #181
Wolverine vs Sabretooth at the climax of the morlock massacre
Spidey's first fight with Molurn
Xavier vs Magneto in the first arc of Ultimate X-men
and several others, but my favourite fight scene of all is The Ultimates vs the Chitauri/Skrulls at the end of the first volume of Millar's run on Ultimates. It has absolutely everything ranging from full scale alien invasion being withheld by the avengers and the army, navy and air force. You have ultimate Cap and Samuel L Jackson, I mean Nick Fury vs an evil Nazi alien and you have Thor vs the end of all creation!!!!! Brilliant!!!!
Originally posted by Etrigan
My top five:1. Elektra vs. Bullseye in DD Visionaries Vol.2 (when he killed her... that was an amazing, brutal, heartbreaking and dramatic fight)
2. Ultimate Captain America vs. Herr Kleiser in Ultimates Homeland Security (talk about ownage. From both sides)
3. Daredevil vs. Punisher on the roof in the Typhoid Mary saga (very realistic-looking) OR their bloody finale brawl at the end of the DD vs. Punisher storyline (where they both got seriously messed up.)
4. Superman vs. Doomsday in Death of Superman (epic.)
5. Batman vs. "Jason Todd" in Hush (left me gawping, basically.)
Your first two are on my list 😱 Great minds think alike 😄