Steel Cage Death Match #492?

Question

X-Men vs. The Justice League of America.

Who wins, who dies and will Ted Nugent have any effect on the match?

Wow WQow Wow... You folks know your stuff. I can't wait to see other scenarios,

So far it's between Bradley P and Iridium, unless I decide to base it solely on emotions.

Answer 1

Nobody dies, JLA wins. DC's JLA are the best of best, archtypes, almost gods on Earth. X-men are troubled, have human problems and only a few boast invulrability, and none at Supe's or Wonder Woman's levels. Even Dark Pheonix would fall to the JLA. They are fastest, strongest, smartest, and so on...they are to perfect.

Answer 2

Well, that would depend on *which version* of each, and there are way *way* too many honking combinations of each team to definitively say, one could rig it either way in terms of seeing either a League win or an X-Men win....

So, rather than do that, I'll just describe the best *match* possible. The Classic Seven Justice Leaguers (according to Grant Morrison) versus The Seven Best Byrne/Claremont era 1980s X-Men.

Teams are:

League:
--Superman
--Batman
--Wonder Woman
--Flash (Wally West version)
--Green Lantern (Kyle Rayner version)
--Aquaman (trident hand version)
--Martian Manhunter

X-Men:

--Cyclops
--Phoenix (pre-Dark-Phoneix, Green Uniform Jean Grey)
--Wolverine (tan/orange suit, just so folks don't laugh)
--Storm
--Rogue (with the Ms. Marvel powers, strength, flight, etc.)
--Colossus (pre-injuries at the hands of the Marauders)
--Nightcrawler

In one-on-one test matches, Superman and Phoenix end up being the only clear winners, the other match-ups end up being too close to call: Batman/Wolverine (stalemate, neither can take the other out), Storm/Wonder Woman (ended from repeated fouls/dirty fighting on both sides), Flash/Rogue and the rest end in mutual, double knock-outs, except for Martian Manhunter/Nightcrawler, which was stopped when the referees realized neither of these guys was going to fight, and instead saw fit to debate one another on the merits of Posting Comic Back Issues Online versus endless reprinting in black-and-white.

But yeah, only two things were clear: Phoenix owned Kyle Rayner like *that*, and Superman all but *recycled* Colossus.

In the final, all-on-all Cage Match of DOOOM (tm)....?

Too many casualties on both sides (assuming that the control chips work and *force* the heroes to go all-out and try killing one another whether it is *in character* or not) to tell early on, the match has to be stopped at the end as folks realize there just IS NO Steel Cage Strong Enough to contain a pier-six brawl between a psychotic, deranged (and no longer vulnerable to telepathy courtesy of the madness) Superman and Dark Phoenix.

Which of course, peeves off the home crowds at Mojo World and Apokalips something fierce as folks had *bets* going on and everything, damn it....*lol*

(oh, and Ted Nugent isn't relevant at all since he's too busy running away from the hordes of screeching "fans" led by a smirking Kitty Pryde and an even *bigger* smirking Plastic Man, go figure)

Answer 3

Well tough to beat Bradley P's response, but I guess it's who gets their strategy underway fastest.

Flash is the wildcard for DC. Quicksilver proved that a speedster can damage the X-Men, and Flash is faster. He can do damage to Nightcrawler, Jean Gray and then Cyclops.

If Rogue can get a hold of Flash or Superman...it's all over. She takes out either one, then goes for W Woman and the other. Colussus over Batman, Cyclops over Manhunter, Storm over Aquaman.

However, if Kyle can retain Rogue in a green shell, then she's out, and JLA start to roll. Superman over Colussus, Manhunter over Wolverine, etc.

Storm beat WWoman in the Marvel v DC of 1996, which was so dumb I left it on the shelf.

Ted Nugent is from Detroit City, which means he favors DC. He puts a guitar over Wolverine's head. It only momentarily stuns him, and then we get to see what Cat Scratch Fever really means. BUT, it's enough of a distraction that JLA takes the title.

Answer 4

Justice League would win, nobody dies, & Ted Nugent would be a victim to either side if he intervened in any way.

Answer 5

I've always been a bigger fan of marvel than DC so I'd have to say X-men.

No one would die, because none of those heroes have it in them to kill anyone.

Ted nugent would play both theme songs, and rock the place after the match.

Answer 6

X-Men, no one can beat The Phoenix when she is at her highest level.