Have you ever seen a fight in a comic book that was just so outlandish, even for a comic book’s standards? One that had the victor win in such a way that it just seems impossible, even by comic book logic.
Squirrel Girl defeating Thanos does not count because that one occurred off panel, or out of comic.
These do not have to be where the victory itself was crazy, maybe just one particular feat was done by a character that it just comes off as totally outrageous.
I’ve pretty much given up reading comics except Fables (which an uncaring universe is ripping away from me).
Two things stand out in my memory that made me almost literally spit in disgust. ONE, Superboy Prime PUSHING Thanagar into a new orbit (and I haven’t forgotten that punching reality crap) and TWO, Black Adam throwing an aircraft carrier from the Indian ocean to New York and it still having live sailors aboard.
No one single event, but my biggie is the inflation of the Flash’s powers. He can run really fast. Also, he can run really fast. That’s it. Being able to run really fast does not enable you to walk through walls, or to make things blow up, or to travel to other universes, and I’m baffled at what would make anyone think that those things are in any way related to fast running.
Great fights: Batman takes out Guy Gardner with one punch.
Outrageous feats: the Punisher kills all the superheroes and villains in the Marvel Universe.
Interesting locale for a fight: Red Sonja defeated a swordsman…fighting inside the body cavity of a dead and rotting mammoth. Sonja, victorious, saying something about really needing a bath.
The Spider-Man Graphic Novel Hooky, with art by Berni Wrightson, has Spidey fighting the “Tordenkakkerlak,” the Thunder Cockroach, which, Hydra-like, gets bigger and uglier every time Spidey kills it. And few artists do “ugly” better than Wrightson!
I just read a Fantastic Four comic book where an ape traveling in a glass spaceship gained magnetism as a superpower, which he then used to pick up and throw human beings around.
By comic standards, the Flash being able to vibrate through solid objects is hard science, is what I’m saying.
In one Capt. America issue, the Kingpin fought the Red Skull hand-to-hand. As they fought, they debated over their ideologies. I can’t remember who won, but it was a memorable fight.
In Batman: The Cult, Jason Todd and a beaten Batman are surrounded by drugged-up sewer dwellers. Jason Todd’s response: “All right you sorry clowns, let’s party!”
I remember this one pretty well. The point of the story is that these characters’ power levels are far from consistent. Spidey, on a really good day, is a fair match for a drunken, sick or hung-over Firelord (or, a few issues earlier or later, a “doesn’t plan ahead very well” Juggernaut). This is also how Ben Grimm occasionally beats the Hulk, who is clearly stronger.
I don’t like having the Avengers beat the Celestials or the Beyonders shortly after having their asses handed to them by the Hood’s gang, especially when the Hood story is so much better-written.
Little me rolled my eyes at an old old Superboy scenario: Superboy flies to some distant solar system. The inhabited planet there has a problem- exactly half of the planet has some sort of killer jungle. So Superboy slices the planet in half, discards the jungle half, and brings over half of a similarly sized planet that’s jungle free and melds them together.
Ah, my favorite memmories of the F4. I don’t think the Thing ever won though. I got really worried when pebbles started to fly from the Thing. I think he had some good fights against Thor and Sub Mariner too?
