I think Gladiator is a good candidate, particularly when you consider what happened to him against Hulk, Thor, the Phoenix Five in Avengers Vs. X-Men and later in Infinity Relativity against the reborn Hulk Amped Annihilus. Gladiator might as well carry a bat'leth.
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RadZoaSenior Member
I consider Gladiator more of a jobber than someone who worfs.
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CosmicCometSenior Member
Ben Grimm.
He is a career failure who gets his ass kicked so the rest of the F4 can have the shocked look on their faces on how strong their villain of the month is.
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Sin I AMMadame Mort
Alotta people mentioned are just straight jobbers. All the worf effect means is who is the strongest character that gets ktfo everytime a big bad shows up
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DarkSaint85Bonified abstract
Manhunter gets KOed by attempting to read the minds of the big bad the JLA show up to fight.
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Henry_PymUltron Bound
Superman, the guy is written like 80's Hogan
Lose first fight Crisis of faith Hanging and banging Beats same guy, usually fairly easily
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cdtmRestricted
Originally posted by Sin I AM Alotta people mentioned are just straight jobbers. All the worf effect means is who is the strongest character that gets ktfo everytime a big bad shows up
In that case, Kyle Rayner.
Made a white lantern, and what does he do? Make Hal and Sin look good.
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MagnonSenior Member
Most cosmics/abstracts. Eternity, Celestials, Galactus, and so on. Whenever Thanos, Magus, Beyonders, ... go on rampage those guys get stomped the first.
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TheLordofMurderSenior Member
Eternity or any of the cosmic hierarchy in Marvel...
Think about their win/lose record; they typically only fight beings they cant beat (although Order/Chaos kick the crap out of the Inbetweener wherever he gets loose)....
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TheLordofMurderSenior Member
Originally posted by Magnon Most cosmics/abstracts. Eternity, Celestials, Galactus, and so on. Whenever Thanos, Magus, Beyonders, ... go on rampage those guys get stomped the first.
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You beat me to it...
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TheLordofMurderSenior Member
Originally posted by CosmicComet Ben Grimm.
He is a career failure who gets his ass kicked so the rest of the F4 can have the shocked look on their faces on how strong their villain of the month is.
Excellent answer... 👆
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DigiForum Leader
Thor in Avengers books. I can think of like 3 distinct times where somebody utters the line "H-he just knocked out Thor?!?!" or something similar. It's not even implied. It's an explicit use of this technique, and doesn't include the times when the writers weren't so heavy-handed about it.