Moondragon tryed on Thing and she got a paddlin for it.
Originally posted by darthgoober
Her and Mantis are basically two sides of the same coin as far as training goes so I wouldn't really say it's necessarily poor writing. Mantis has more abundant h2h showings, but that's just because Moondragon's psychic skills are what writers primarily look to showcase where she's concerned.To be fair, Cap's was having issues with his serum when they fought. I still think she'd win even if he had his serum, I just felt obligated to point out that he wasn't at 100%.
Cap was both without the serum and also acting under mind control at the time, so there is even more context.
As far as Mantis goes, part of the reason for her loss seemed to be she just didn't handle the fight psychologically as well as Moondragon did - they are probably pretty close in terms of skill. She kind of folded mentally when some of her usual moves didn't work against Moondragon who seemed familiar with them. Mantis also quickly got pinned by others who who were either familiar with her moves (Libra) or highly skilled across many different MA (Champion).
I think Batman has a better chance than Cap here, because he is a 'real' MA fighter. Yes, I know Cap is too, but he doesn't really fight that way as much on panel. Batman fights MA (comic book MA anyway) and this is going to be a comic MA skill fight.
I'd actually give Bats a bit of a majority here but Moondragon can take some wins.