E.Favata's Comic Book Movies

Mister Sinister 5-0

Round #2, Match #28

Arcade

Origins:
A combination of evil genius and hitman, Arcade affects a manner of dress and speech that makes him appear to be a comedic character. This is part of his overall theme, which extends into his preferred method of murder, an underground funhouse of colorful deathtraps, usually decked out in cheery colors and disguised as an amusement park, which he has dubbed "Murderworld". Arcade's back-story, up to and including his real name, remains largely unknown even to this day. This is mainly the result of his knack for escaping once he has been defeated. According to the man himself, he was born into an extremely wealthy family and lived for much of his early life in, depending on the telling, a ranch in Texas or a mansion in Beverly Hills. At the age of either eighteen or twenty-one, again depending on the telling, his allowance was cut off by his father, who declared that he did not deserve it. In retaliation, Arcade murders his father, thus inheriting all of the man's vast estate. Given his propensity for deception, this origin story can hardly be taken at face value.

Now independently wealthy and free to do as he pleased, Arcade became a freelance assassin, traveling across the world, killing people in rather mundane fashions, and amassing even more wealth than he already had. He quickly grew bored with doing business as an ordinary hired killer and resolved to find a way to continue his work in a manner more suited to his sensibilities. Discovering an aptitude for technology, Arcade designed and built his first Murderworld, a subterranean evil lair disguised as a very deadly amusement park. From this base, and with the help of two mysterious assistants named Miss Locke and Mr. Chambers, he reemerged as the world's most expensive hitman. For the price of $1 million (actually a token sum, since Arcade doesn't need the money and, in any case, never turns a profit), he will tailor Murderworld to exploit the specific weaknesses of his target and then watch, with unconcealed glee, as they are killed by the variety of colorful deathtraps strewn throughout the facility. However, one of his "gimmicks" is that he always deliberately leaves each target a small chance of survival. In one instance, when the girlfriend of one of his captives begged him "If you're going to kill them, at least have the decency to do it quickly, painlessly!" Arcade laughs and replied, "Decency's dull... besides, miss, your way, they're dead and that's that. My way, they've got a chance. Not much of one, but a chance." This sets Arcade notably apart from most other villains who use deathtraps; while most villains believe that their death machines are infallible, Arcade likes to give them a chance on purpose, for the sport of it.

Powers/Abilities:
Arcade has no superhuman powers but is a bona fide genius with knowledge of technology far ahead of conventional science, particularly in the fields of robotics and mechanical and electrical engineering. Usually when he appears to be captured, it turns out to be a robot.

Vs.

Harley Quinn

Gotham City Sirens:
uch later, a supposedly reformed Harley finds herself back in Gotham City. After receiving a large sum of money from Selina Kyle for her aid in dealing with Hush, Harley ends up living with Ivy, who is slumming in Eddie Nigma's apartment. When Ivy takes Selina to their home after rescuing her from a crazed supervillain wannabe named Boneblaster. Seeking to make a name for himself, Boneblaster followed the girls to Eddie's apartment and attacked them. Harley, Ivy and Selina defeat him, but Eddie's apartment is destroyed in the process. Selina then obtains a new living space in the form of an abandoned animal shelter and invites Harley and Ivy to stay with her, stating that girls like them should stick together. Harley and Ivy agree, but first drug Selina and ask her to tell them who the Batman is. Selina, her mind protected thanks to techniques taught to her by Talia al Ghul, gives a fabricated tale of multiple Batmen. Ivy and Harley believe her, though Harley is skeptical, postulating through her psychiatric background that a single man could be the Batman if he underwent some sort of "sever childhood trauma."

She ignores her thoughts temporarily to go shopping, and encounters a bunch of hooded thugs who had kidnapped Bruce Wayne and were trying to get away in a red vehicle. Harley leaps onto the car and defeats the thugs, in thanks for Bruce signing her parole papers in the past. Unknown to her is the fact that "Bruce" is actually Thomas Elliot (Hush) who was masquerading as the billionaire. She goes with him amicably as he thanks her for saving him. When she sends Selina a phone message with a photo of her with "Bruce," Selina realizes that Harley was with Hush, and rushes to help her with Ivy in tow. When they arrive at the cafe where Hush and Harley took the picture, all Selina and Ivy find is Harley's phone next to a stabbed harlequin doll.

Powers/Abilities:
Even though Harley doesn't have any actual powers, she is still an impressive fighter and is skilled with many weapons and gadgets. She also has immunity to all poisons thanks to Poison Ivy's potion.

Harley Quinn.

Arcade

he would win because he has a whole arsenal at his disposal. he has taken on the x-men. harley quinn has a few guns and isn't very smart.

I agree, I'm voting Arcade as well.

Arcade, because of what Comicfreak Returns said.

Arcade 5-4

Round #2, Match #29

Solomon Grundy

Powers/Abilities:
Solomon Grundy has superhuman strength and endurance. His strength has varied greatly through the years, for instance, in the Long Halloween story arc, Batman beat Grundy, while at various points his strength is on par with Superman's. He is virtually indestructible thanks to the elemental energy that imbues his form with pseudo-life. He is nearly invulnerable to physical, magical, and energy attacks and he is not affected by fire or cold. He has proven highly resistant to the effects of the original Green Lantern's power ring (which is attributed to his part-plant essence; originally because he had absorbed plant matter from the swamp, and later because he was a partial "plant elemental" like Swamp Thing). He does not need to eat, sleep, or breathe. Grundy possesses a healing factor. While he has occasionally been destroyed, he has always returned to life sooner or later, though often with different personalities and powers.

Vs.

Absorbing Man

Powers/Abilities:
Crusher Creel has the magical power to duplicate the properties of anything he touches - gas, liquid, solid or even energy sources. This transformation also extends to the clothing and ball and chain that Creel was wearing when the potion took effect. For example, if Creel touches titanium, his body; clothing and ball and chain would take on the appearance and properties of titanium. If the object is large (e.g., a building), Creel can absorb sufficient mass to attain the same height. Creel also retains his intellect and capacity for speech and full physical movement (although the character's first attempt at absorbing water cost Creel his sanity when he drifted apart) and can reform if his body is damaged in any way whilst in altered form. Creel's overall power increases in direct proportion to the strength of the material absorbed. There appears to be no limit to what Creel can absorb, as he has absorbed properties of bronze, (Cocaine WTF???), Odin's Cosmic Bolt and later cyclonic storm; diamond; glass; light; rock, silk and soil; spikes; steel; Thor's Uru hammer Mjolnir; water; and even the properties of Asgard itself. In the second volume of the title She-Hulk Creel demonstrated that he can now apparently combine abilities.

Absorbing Man

simply because he can absorb anything and make himself a metal fist and beat the crap out of the brain dead soloman grundy.

Absorbing Man.