Superman or Thor? Who Won the 16th Annual DC/Marvel Tournament?

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It’s the 16th annual CSBG DC/Marvel Tournament! This time around, you voted on which DC/Marvel character would win in a fight!

In the past, I split the four brackets into “street level” for DC, “street level” for Marvel, then “more powerful characters” for DC, and “more powerful characters” for Marvel, but this time around, I’m just putting all of DC’s characters into two brackets, and the same with Marvel. So we’ll be getting some perhaps silly early matchups (like Superman vs. the Joker), but I think it’ll set up better later matchups in the Final Four (instead of the best of the weak characters having to beat an over-powered character).

The 64 superheroes were chosen from the top 32 DC and top 32 Marvel characters from the 2023 Top 100 DC and Marvel Character Poll that you all voted on. The selection committee then seeded those 64 characters from the most likely to win to the least likely to win and then created the tournament (I still eliminated characters like Lois Lane, as, well, come on).

Here’s the winner of this year where you voted for which characters you thought would win in a (non to-the-death) fight in the following match-ups.

Each competitor had, let’s say, a half hour to prepare (so it’s not like Superman just walking up to the Thor and punching him. Thor would be prepared), and can use whatever weaponry you figure would be typical for that character (so Thor can use whatever weapons you would expect him to normally use, but he can’t go get, I dunno, the Infinity Gauntlet, or whatever).

Enjoy!

I did Facebook polls this year. I don’t love it, since you have to have a Facebook account to vote, but unless you know of a free poll place that allows thousands of responses AND can be embedded on CBR, then, well, we’re stuck with these options. I created a hashtag that you can click on that will take you directly to all the voting posts.

I’ll go through all of the results first before declaring the winners!

How did we get to a finals of Superman vs. Thor?

First up, here’s how the Metropolis Region went!

First Round

Superman defeated Joker.

The Captain defeated Batgirl/Oracle (Barbara Gordon)

The Martian Manhunter defeated Green Arrow (Oliver Queen)

The Flash (Barry Allen) defeated 13. Robin (Tim Drake)

Swamp Thing (Alec Holland) defeated Poison Ivy

Green Lantern (John Stewart) defeated Lex Luthor

Green Lantern (Kyle Raynor) defeated Nightwing

In our first upset, Aquaman edged out Raven (it was a 9 beating an 8. That’s barely an upset)

Second Round

Superman defeated Aquaman

The Captain (Billy Batson) defeated Green Lantern (Kyle Raynor)

Martian Manhunter defeated Green lantern (John Stewart)

Flash (Barry Allen) defeated Swamp Thing (Alec Holland)

Third Round

Superman defeated Flash (Barry Allen)

Martian Manhunter upset The Captain (Billy Batson)

Fourth Round

Superman defeated Martian Manhunter to win the region

Here’s how the Asgard Region went!

First Round

Thor defeated Moon Knight

Silver Surfer defeated Ms. Marvel (Kamala Khan)

Doctor Strange defeated Deadpool

Captain Marvel (Carol Danvers) defeated Iron Fist

Iron Man (Tony Stark) defeated Black Panther (T’Challa)

Scarlet Witch defeated Wolverine (Logan)

Invisible Woman defeated Spider-Man (Miles Morales)

Spider-Man upset the Thing (again, though, it was a 9 beating an 8. That’s barely an upset)

Second Round

Thor (Odinson) defeated Spider-Man (Peter Parker)

Silver Surfer defeated Invisible Woman

Doctor Strange defeated Scarlet Witch

Captain Marvel (Carol Danvers) defeated Iron Man (Tony Stark)

Third Round

Thor (Odinson) defeated Captain Marvel (Carol Danvers)

Silver Surfer defeated Doctor Strange

Fourth Round

Thor edged out Silver Surfer (in the closest match of the entire tournament) to win the region

Here’s how the Westchester Region went!

First Round

Jean Grey defeated Hawkeye (Clint Barton)

Hulk (Bruce Banner) defeated Gambit

Magneto defeated Nightcrawler

Doctor Doom defeated Kitty Pryde

Storm defeated Mister Fantastic

Rogue defeated Daredevil (Matt Murdock)

Captain America (Steve Rogers) defeated Emma Frost, in the biggest upset yet

She-Hulk defeated Cyclops

Second Round

Jean Grey defeated She-Hulk

Hulk (Bruce Banner) defeated Captain America (Steve Rogers)

Magneto defeated Rogue

Doctor Doom defeated Storm

Third Round

Doctor Doom upset Jean Grey in a big upset

Hulk (Bruce Banner) defeated Magneto

Fourth Round

Doctor Doom upset the Hulk (Bruce Banner), as well, to win the region!

Here’s how the Paradise Island Region went!

First Round

Wonder Woman defeated Harley Quinn

Supergirl defeated Catwoman

Power Girl defeated Booster Gold

Flash (Wally West) defeated Robin (Damian Wayne)

Zatanna defeated Red Hood (Jason Todd)

Green Lantern (Hal Jordan) defeated Black Canary

Batman (Bruce Wayne) defeated Starfire in the NEXT biggest upset so far

John Constantine slightly upset Donna Troy

Second Round

Wonder Woman defeated John Constantine

Batman (Bruce Wayne) defeated Supergirl in the biggest upset of the whole tournament

Green Lantern (Hal Jordan) upset Power Girl

Flash (Wally West) defeated Zatanna

Third Round

Wonder Woman defeated Flash (Wally West)

Batman (Bruce Wayne) upset Green Lantern (Hal Jordan)

​​​​​​​Fourth Round

Wonder Woman defeated Flash (Wally West) to win the region

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Okay, so the Final Four was therefore Superman, Thor, Doctor Doom, and Wonder Woman

Final Four Results

Superman defeated Wonder Woman

Thor defeated Doctor Doom

And that led to our Thor/Superman match-up, the overall #1 versus the overall #3!

Who won the tournament?

Supeman defeated Thor 61% to 39% to win the tournament! This, I believe, is Superman’s, like, third or fourth time winning this thing. Good for ol’ Supes!

Okay, folks, I hope you had fun! Maybe next year we’ll have polling tech that can let me post the polls in the posts themselves! I’ll probably go back to movies or TV next year!

“}]] The 16th annual CSBG DC/Marvel Tournamen is over!! Here’s the ultimate winner of your voting on which DC and Marvel heroes would win in a fight!  Read More