Round 1, Match 3 results
Last week's fight turned out to be a pretty simple affair to decide. Nighthawk's first (text-only) story depicts him possessing at least potentially superhuman strength (e.g., he rolls a "huge boulder" over the entrance to a cave) and endurance (e.g., he performs the boulder trick after having pursued a Nazi airplane on foot!).Unfortunately, the fight parameters specify that we're looking at Night Hawk (Nope, not a mistake. The spelling of his name changes from the first story to the second) as he was depicted in All New Short Story Comics #1. By this time, wealthy playboy Jack Filan has become a lot more human. While he possessed no powers, Night Hawk was very strong and acrobatic.
Unfortunately for Night Hawk, however, he just doesn't demonstrate enough battle savvy to take down Cutthroat. Despite the fact that Daniel Leighton (Cutthroat) had no superpowers either, he did carry a range of weaponry other than his fists--chief of which was his adamantium-edged blade.
Furthermore, the principle appearance of Cutthroat we're supposed to be consulting (Captain America #395) depicts him as the lone-survivor of a free-for-all to the death between a skilled ninja (Deathstroke) and a super-powered brawler (Mangler).
Finally, given the fact that this fight breaks out on a playground, I think it's more than safe to assume that if Cutthroat could just take out Night Hawk on the basis of sheer fighting ability, he'd just seize a kid as hostage and force the hero's submission to save the child's life.
Sorry, Jack, but there's no other plausible outcome than: Cutthroat Wins!
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Round 1, Match 4
This week's fight brings our first non-human competitor as DC's Detective Chimp takes on the Golden Age Wizard by MLJ.
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| Detective Chimp as depicted in Day of Vengeance #3 (Aug 2005) |
Background on Detective Chimp
- Detective Chimp. Comicvine.gamspot.com
- All together now: Day of Vengeance #s 1-5. Comics Ate My Brain [blog]
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| Wizard as depicted in Miss Liberty #1 (1944) |
Background on Wizard
Setting
This fight takes place in a riverside city, interwoven into a majestic old-growth forest. The vast majority of buildings have been built with many natural elements to keep in line with the forests.
The skyline is littered with impressive skyscrapers and there is no place on earth with anything like this. Technology thrives here. New cultures have left their mark. What historically was a city of few cultures has grown into a large melting pot and it's this that unites the 5 million people to this day.
It's this multicultural identity that has truly left its mark. Hundreds of food carts, gastropubs and clubs offer a plethora of culinary choices and those who feel hungry for something else can enjoy concerts, musea, musical activities or one of the many other recreational venues.
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