2024 DC/Marvel TV Tournament – Who Won? WandaVision or Batman?

It’s the 15th annual CSBG DC/Marvel Tournament! This time around, you will be voting on which is your favorite LIVE ACTION (so no animated options) DC/Marvel TV series!

In the three years since I last did live action TV shows as a theme for the tournament, the amount of new DC/Marvel TV series released has been really impressive. Back then, I had to REALLY stretch to get 64 options by including TV movies and failed pilots. This time around, I have MORE than 64 choices (earlier, Secret Invasion and Inhumans lost in a play-in game to get to the 63rd and 64th spots on the tournament). I wonder how much harder it will be to do a tournament in four years’ time! Will there be, like, 100 DC and Marvel TV shows by then, or will they all have slowed down a bit, with the loss of the CWverse and Marvel cutting down on its Disney+ shows? I guess we’ll find out!

The selection committee is a mixture between IMDB’s user rating, and the past success (or failure) of a show in the last time I did this tournament. So, for instance, DC’s Legends of Tomorrow doing well back in 2019 means it has a higher seed this year. I’ve always mixed things up a bit with the newest shows on the list, those I played it by ear a bit.

You picked your favorite TV show from the following matchups! The winner is announced now!

Use this hashtag to find the posts on nuTwitter – #csbgdcmarvel24 I don’t love using nuTwitter for the polls, but unless you know of a free poll place that allows thousands of responses, then, well, we’re stuck with nuTwitter.

First, let’s do a recap of the tournament up until this point before we see who won!

We begin with the Hell’s Kitchen Region!

In the first round, Daredevil defeated DMZ 96% to 4%.

Sandman defeated The Secrets of Isis 89.5% to 11.5%.

Legion defeated Shazam 58% to 42%.

Arrow defeated Echo 76% to 24%

The Adventures of Superman defeated Superboy 85% to 15%

Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman upset iZombie 66% to 34%

The Defenders defeated Batwoman 75% to 25%

The Falcon and Winter Soldier edged out She-Hulk, Attorney at Law 50.9% to 49.1%

In the second round, Daredevil defeated Falcon and Winter Soldier 84% to 16%

Sandman defeated the Defenders 70% to 30%

Lois and Clark had its second straight upset, defeating Legion 53% to 47%

Arrow defeated The Adventures of Superman 70% to 30%

In the third round, Daredevil defeated Arrow 69% to 31%

Sandman ended Lois and Clark’s Cinderalla journey 60% to 40%

In the fourth round, Daredevil edged out Sandman 55% to 45% to win the region.

Westview Region

In the first round, WandaVision defeated Iron Fist 90% to 10%

The Flash (2014) defeated Cloak and Dagger 83% to 17%

Lucifer defeated Helstrom 85% to 15%

Jessica Joens defeated Krypton 80% to 20%

Supergirl defeated Pennyworth 82% to 18%

Hawkeye defeated The Human Target 87% to 13%

Doom Patrol defeated Agent Carter 52% to 48%

Stargirl defeated Swamp Thing 61% to 39%

In the second round, WandaVision defeated Stargirl 74% to 26%

The Flash (2014) defeated Doom Patrol 61% to 39%

Hawkeye upset Lucifer 74% to 26%

Jessica Jones defeated Supergirl 58.5% to 41.5%

In the third round, WandaVision defeated Jessica Jones 58% to 42%

Hawkeye upset The Flash 53% to 47%

In the fourth round, WandaVision defeated Hawkeye 62% to 38% to win the region.

Tulsa Region

In the first round, Watchmen defeated Birds of Prey 79% to 21%

Peacemaker defeated Bodies 91% to 9%

DC’s Legends of Tomorrow defeated Gotham Knights 88% to 12%

Superman and Lois defeated Runaways 70% to 30%

Wonder Woman defeated Swamp Thing (1990) 86% to 14%

Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. defeated The Flash (1990) 64% to 34%

Moon Knight upset Constantine 62% to 38%

Ms. Marvel upset The Amazing Spider-man 62.5% to 37.5%

In the second round, Watchmen defeated Ms. Marvel 65% to 35%

Peacemaker defeated Moon Knight 62.5% to 37.5%

Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. upset DC’s Legends of Tomorrow 52% to 48%

Wonder Woman upset Superman and Lois 55% to 45%

In the third round, Wonder Woman upset Watchmen 52% to 48%

Peacemaker defeated Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 53% to 47%

In the fourth round, Wonder Woman continued with her upsets by upsetting Peacemaker, 56% to 44% to win the region

New York Region

In the first round, The Punisher defeated Y the Last Man 80% to 20%

Loki defeated Powerless 89% to 11%

Batman (1966) defeated Naomi 94% to 6%

Gotham upset Preacher 57% to 43%

The Incredible Hulk defeated The Gifted 71% to 29%

The Titans upset Black Lighting 70% to 30%

Smallville defeated Sweet Tooth 77% to 23%

Luke Cage upset Blade the Series 88% to 12%

In the second round, The Punisher defeated Luke Cage 57% to 43%

Loki defeated Smallville 64% to 36%

Batman (1966) defeated Titans 69% to 31%

The Incredible Hulk defeated Gotham 66% to 34%

In the third round, The Punisher barely edged out The Incredible Hulk 50.2% to 49.8%

Batman upset Loki 53% to 47%

In the fourth round, Batman upset The Punisher 68% to 32% to win the region.

This led to the final four!

WandaVision edged out Daredevil 54% to 46%

Batman defeated Wonder Woman 59% to 41%.

So that led us to a #1 seed (WandaVision) against a #3 seed (Batman), and a nice Final Four with some mixture in it, two #1 seeds (Daredevil and WandaVision), a #3 seed (Batman) and a #5 seed (Wonder Woman). Much different than my Star Wars tournament over at Pop Culture References where the Final Four was FOUR #1 seeds!

The winner of the finals was…WandaVision over Batman (1966) by about 75% to 25%!

Congrats, WandaVision fans! WandaVision was a #1 seed against a #3, so it was definitely the favorite, but it is still impressive that it beat another #1 seed in Daredevil to GET to the finals! Congrats to Batman for doing some upsets of its own on the way to the runner-up for the tournament!

Thanks to everyone for voting, and I’ll see you again next March!