# Superhero Beat Down **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 1, 2010, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superhero-beat-down/548804 "2010-08-01T17:42:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Superhal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Superhal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superhal)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2010, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superhero-beat-down/548804/21 "2010-08-04T01:43:31Z")
> [@DocCathode](#): > > Kraven the Hunter beat Spider Man nearly into a coma then buried him alive. That was by plot device though. It was purely a set-up for the ending of that story, like how in Spiderman 1 Spiderman passes out after 1 whiff of Gobby gas. ---
**Author:** ![cosmosdan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a6a055/32.png) [@cosmosdan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cosmosdan)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2010, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superhero-beat-down/548804/22 "2010-08-04T01:47:24Z")
Karate Kid was beaten nearly to death by Nemisis kid ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2010, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superhero-beat-down/548804/23 "2010-08-04T01:50:54Z")
> [@cosmosdan](#): > > Karate Kid was beaten nearly to death by Nemisis kid What continuity is this? Last time I checked. Karate Kid was beaten completely to death by Nemesis Kid. His statue is in the hall of fallen Legionares. His wife, Princess Projectra almost killed Nemesis in revenge. ---
**Author:** ![Superhal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Superhal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superhal)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2010, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superhero-beat-down/548804/24 "2010-08-04T02:05:48Z")
> [@DocCathode](#): > > > [@cosmosdan](#): > > > > Karate Kid was beaten nearly to death by Nemisis kid > > What continuity is this? Last time I checked. Karate Kid was beaten completely to death by Nemesis Kid. His statue is in the hall of fallen Legionares. His wife, Princess Projectra almost killed Nemesis in revenge. [He got better](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karate_Kid_(comics)#2005_reboot), then died again. ---
**Author:** ![cosmosdan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a6a055/32.png) [@cosmosdan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cosmosdan)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2010, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superhero-beat-down/548804/25 "2010-08-04T02:09:41Z")
> [@DocCathode](#): > > > [@cosmosdan](#): > > > > Karate Kid was beaten nearly to death by Nemisis kid > > What continuity is this? Last time I checked. Karate Kid was beaten completely to death by Nemesis Kid. His statue is in the hall of fallen Legionares. His wife, Princess Projectra almost killed Nemesis in revenge. Hmmm I just looked at the comic recently but I don’t have it in front of me. I thought after a severe beating he flew into something and died in the explosion to save his wife’s home planet. ---
**Author:** ![Apollyon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/apollyon/32/4238_2.png) [@Apollyon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apollyon)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2010, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superhero-beat-down/548804/26 "2010-08-04T02:11:02Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > Sounds like the newer comics are more realistic. I guess “newer” is a relative term, but Doomsday and the Death of Superman storyline mentioned by others previously was in 1992, nearly 18 years ago. (At the expense of showing _my_ age… I was working in a comic shop when it came out; queue of fans lining up to pick up their black-bagged copies). OK, he didn’t _stay_ dead, but even so, the Man of Steel getting “killed” must be close to the ultimate butt whoopin. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![cosmosdan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a6a055/32.png) [@cosmosdan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cosmosdan)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2010, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superhero-beat-down/548804/27 "2010-08-04T02:13:04Z")
[In fact I’m right](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karate_Kid_(comics)) > [@](#): > > Wedded bliss did not last long. He and Projectra returned from their honeymoon to find that her planet, Orando, had been taken over by the Legion of Super-Villains. Val, Projectra, and several other Legionnaires were captured by the villains. When the heroes escaped to oppose the villains, Val fought their leader, Nemesis Kid. Nemesis Kid beat Val almost to death, and Val wanted to continue to fight so that he could die in battle—the ultimate honor by his cultural standards. But at Projectra’s urging, Val instead used his remaining strength to destroy the power source for the machines that were moving Orando into a strange dimension. In revenge, Projectra killed Nemesis Kid soon afterward. A memorial to Val was built on Shanghalla. Note that Projectra kills Nemesis Kid, not almost, but really dead. tappy tap tap tappity tap tap tippy tappity tap tap tap. {victory dance.} ---
**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:** [August 5, 2010, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superhero-beat-down/548804/28 "2010-08-05T15:45:49Z")
> [@DocCathode](#): > > > [@cosmosdan](#): > > > > Karate Kid was beaten nearly to death by Nemisis kid > > What continuity is this? Last time I checked. Karate Kid was beaten completely to death by Nemesis Kid. His statue is in the hall of fallen Legionares. His wife, Princess Projectra almost killed Nemesis in revenge. As I recall it, he was beaten terribly, then stole NK’s flight right (or rather stole his own back from NK) and flew into a stolen fusion power sphere to destroy it. He might well have died anyway, but the proximate cause of his death was, I’m sure, the collision. I think he did it as much as anything to keep NK from being able to say he killed him. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Scud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Tom\_Scud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Scud)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2010, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superhero-beat-down/548804/29 "2010-08-05T15:52:22Z")
Hercules was once so badly beaten by the Masters of Evil that he ended up in a coma; this did not please Zeus once he found out. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superhero-beat-down/548804.md?page=1)