The X-Men are iin a fortress. JLA, 10 miles away, are coming to the fortress to overrun it and destroy the X-Men. The X-Men know that they JLA are coming so there is no advantage of surprise or time to set traps or anything. Both teams must rely on their powers alone in this fight. However, the teams can begin their attack while far away.
X-Men:
Xavier (with powers obviously)
Storm
Jean Grey (No Phoenix Force)
White Queen
Rogue (with absorption powers and
Magma
Cyclops
Nightcrawler
Wolverine
Iceman
JLA:
Superman
Wonder Woman
Flash
Green Lantern
Batman
Martain Manhunter
Aquaman
Barda
Plastic Man
Cool. Everyone agrees with this? I've seen some furious debate on the internet before on match-ups like these. The PF was not involved in some of them and still there were very strong arguments on both sides.
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That's cool that you're trying to make fair fights. But this really is a curbstomp, and anyone who tries to make a case for the X-Men (w/o pheonix) either knows very little about comics or is biased toward Marvel so much that they can't be trusted.
You'd have to put beings like the Silver Surfer and Thor to the X-Men team to even come close to balancing it out. Oh, and removing Flash. I love the Flash, but he's just unfair in most battles.
They're just different-level teams. JLA are cosmic. X-Men are earth-based. It would be very difficult to make a fair fight if you wanted to keep a full roster for the JLA.
Any two of those on the JLA roster (except maybe Batman) could probably take out that team. They'd have to be well-written, but even some like Flash, MM, GL, etc. could probably solo them and telepaths are the only reason Supes couldn't.
Xavier
Storm
Sersi
Photon
Iceman
Hulk
Iron Man
White Queen
Invisible Woman
vs.
Superman
Wonder Woman
Flash
Green Lantern
Batman
Martain Manhunter
Aquaman
Barda
Plastic Man
I'd say Flash would have his hands full with Photon. I don't like Thor as I think he's boring, so I added Sersi. Hulk is now on the team as well as Iron Man.
__________________ Ann Nocenti writes on Storm: "At her command oceans rise, tornadoes destroy, rains pummel, breezes cool, sun dries, seas part!"
Actually, the addition of Photon does help the Marvel team, but not against Flash. He's still far too fast to be stalemated by her. The Flash can still take out every single member of the Marvel team by himself.
Now, if you take the Flash out, then you have a very good match-up here, I think.
Now you could definitely make a case for Marvel. Without analyzing it too much, I'd still give the edge to the JLA here because they still have the top 1-2 overall people in this fight (except maybe Photon)....but it's a close fight now and you'd probably get some decent discussion.
Now the only problem is that besides Iron Man, you've got no brawler on the Marvel side. Not that a brawler is necessary, but when you're up against Superman, Wonder Woman, Martian Manhunter, and Barda, well, you might need it. And well, Iron Man might as well be tickling them if he tries to actually confront any of them physically.
But yes, this is a much closer fight now. Photon could potentially do a lot of damage to the DC side. Iceman has more of a chance now, too, now that Flash is gone.
I correct myself. The SECOND problem with this is that the DC still GREATLY overpowers the Marvel team in terms of speed. If everyone is fighting to the best of their ability here, then DC still wins it. Flash may have been the fastest, but the others are still HELLA fast.
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