# Cage-match: Who's the toughest of the super-hero girlfriends?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [April 19, 2006, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cage-match-whos-the-toughest-of-the-super-hero-girlfriends/353390 "2006-04-19T23:47:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2006, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cage-match-whos-the-toughest-of-the-super-hero-girlfriends/353390/21 "2006-04-20T04:12:08Z")

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What does [Mercy Graves](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercy_Graves) count as? Supervillainess proper? Possible love interest? Disqualified for having an animated origin?

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**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2006, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cage-match-whos-the-toughest-of-the-super-hero-girlfriends/353390/22 "2006-04-20T04:48:42Z")

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> [@Tengu](#):
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> And the one who’ll win the fight is the one who’s smart enough not to rush into a fight she can’t win blind just because she knows Superman’s out there.
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> That isn’t Lois.

That’s irrelevant, since this fight is a no-warning no-prep fight, they essentially DID end up getting rushed into it, even if they didn’t rush into it themselves, thus the one with the most experience in that sort of fight would win, so the fight is in Lois’s favor 😉

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**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2006, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cage-match-whos-the-toughest-of-the-super-hero-girlfriends/353390/23 "2006-04-20T04:50:29Z")

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> [@Mississippienne](#):
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> Bethany Cabe, easy. She was Tony Stark’s gorgeous, redheaded, bodyguard/girlfriend. A bruiser!

I can’t believe I forgot Bethany C–not only a bruiser, but, as drawn by Bob Layton, unbelievably hot. I retract my vote for Lois and throw my support to Ms. Cabe.

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**Author:** ![drillrod](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@drillrod](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drillrod)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2006, 10:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cage-match-whos-the-toughest-of-the-super-hero-girlfriends/353390/24 "2006-04-20T10:32:33Z")

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Since in any real fight, the most important thing is mental, i.e. the willingless to inflict damage upon your opponent, I have to think that **Jean Loring** would be the last one standing.

That chick is crazy.

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**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2006, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cage-match-whos-the-toughest-of-the-super-hero-girlfriends/353390/25 "2006-04-20T12:07:14Z")

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> [@drillrod](#):
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> Since in any real fight, the most important thing is mental, i.e. the willingless to inflict damage upon your opponent, I have to think that **Jean Loring** would be the last one standing.
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> That chick is crazy.

Stole mine! Gotta remember, Jean Loring is probably the only superhero girlfriend/wife/ex-wife who’s ever killed another superhero girlfriend/wife/ex-wife.

Although now, of course, she’s orbiting the sun sans space-suit…

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