Who’d win?
If I may pre-empt what will undoubtedly be an otherwise unrestrained adolescent tittie-fest, please, anyone who opened this thread for the explicit purpose of telling us how much you like the big breasteses and how unimaginably turned on the notion of watching two cartoon women with big breasteses fighting would make you, consider it assumed.
The last Phantom Lady I know of was the one from Action Comics about 15 years ago, who didn’t seem to have much going on in the way of powers other than being able to walk upright without lower back spasms from hauling around her enormous bazooms. And she may have had some sort of hologram gun. If that’s the same Phantom Lady who’s under consideration here, that Black Canary wins, no contest. If there’s a different PL, what are her powers/abilities?
I don’t remember that one having any sort of hologram gun. She did have the usual black light ray though, which also granted her some invisibility powers.
Oh, and I believe she had a taser as well.
That is the second Phantom Lady, Delilah “Dee” Tyler, who was a protege of the original Golden Age heroine, Sandra Knight. She apparently had similar powers to the original, consisting of “black light rays” on her bracelets that allowed her to fade into the shadows, and a sexy costume meant for distracting her foes.
After her short run in Action Comics Weekly (written by Len Strazewski and drawn by now-infamous writer Chuck Austen), she appeared in James Robinson’s Starman comic (my all-time favorite series) during the “Grand Guignol” storyline, as one of the heroes who helped Jack Knight protect Opal City when it was under siege, along with the Shade, Bobo Bennetti, the O’Dare family, Elongated Man and Sue Dibny, and Black Condor. Interestingly, the original Phantom Lady, Ms Knight, was a cousin of the original Starman, Ted Knight, and aunt of Jack Knight. (This was a retcon done by Robinson, or perhaps Roy Thomas before him, since Starman was a Golden Age DC character and Phantom Lady was published by Fox, and then Quality Comics.)
Anyway, the new Phantom Lady joined the new Freedom Fighters, consisting of Uncle Sam (who went by “Patriot” for a while), Human Bomb, the second Black Condor (the one seen in Starman), the second Ray, and Damage. She was most recently seen in Infinite Crisis #1, where she and the Freedom Fighters got their asses handed to them by Luthor’s Society, and Deathstroke apparently killed Dee, impaling her on his sword.
“Using her amazing body like a set of pontoons, the Bat-Lady skimmed across the surface of the lake!” Jerry Lewis in Artists and models.
We should probably specify which version of the Black Canary would be involved in this melee.
I vote for Black Canary the Younger – a world-class martial artist, with or without the sonic scream.
PL vs. BC
Whoever wins, we [del]lose[/del] win big-time!
I think Black Canary would probably win this one, I think.
Great fight! Watching this one (any incarnation of B.C. versus any incarnation of P.L.) would certainly “push all my buttons!” Especially if it ended in a knockout (well, fights between comic book characters generally do!) and the winner then tied the unconscious loser up!
OK! Time for that cold shower!
Joy: Power of Fishnets by Alex Ross!
Phantom Lady died last week in Infinite Crisis #1.
My money’s on Black Canary.
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Phantom Lady? Never heard of her. I kinda know Phantom Stranger (whose power seems to be being so bad-ass that he needs to be taken out immediately otherwise he could end the problem with a snap of his fingers). Isn’t the 5th dimensional girl from Legion of Super-heroes also called Phantom Lady?
Here we go.
I’m going with Dinah. Invisible or not Dinah will still whoop on her. Now if we were talking 5th dimensional Phantom Lady Dinah might have to break a sweat, but she’d still win.
Suffering Sappho! Somebody call Superdickery!
I dunno…Canary sr isn’t exactly a slouch there, either.
Overall I have to give this fight to Canary, but that might just be having very little knowledge of Phantom Lady.
You’re thinking of Phantom Girl (Later called Apparition…and Phase…), who’s from Bgztl, not the Fifth Dimention (the home of Imps and Thunderbolts).
And Tinya, under any name, could totally kick either Dinah or Dee’s ass.
Dinah. No contest.
BC’s one of the top ten martial artists in the DCU. Now, she can’t hit what she can’t see, but she doesn’t need great aim to use a canary cry.
Besides, one doesn’t learn martial arts mastery without learning how to fight blind.
I’m just hoping it goes the distance.
Interestingly, the Golden Age Phantom Lady comics were drawn by Matt Baker, one of the first African-American artists to make it in the comic book industry. They often had a salacious element, where Sandra Knight ended up in bondage and had to escape. Frederic Wertham cited her comics as one of the corruptors of youth in the now-infamous Seduction of the Innocent, but I like to think those kinky Phantom Lady comics from the '40s inspired a pin-up model named Bettie Page '50s, a lovely girl who had similar raven tresses and a penchant for bondage.
IN THE '50s, I meant. IN THE '50s.
Not that that story should be taken seriously in the least. We still don’t know if Infinite Crisis will annihilate itself at the end. Besides, if you have a “skulk in the shadows” character walking out into the middle of a room full of the world’s craziest badasses, that’s the sort of unlikely lapse that makes most Batman comics since 1988 into toilet paper.
No way. In order to inflict any harm on Canary Phantom Girl has to become solid, even if just her fist for an instant. At that instant Canary grabs and tosses her. No matter which world she lands in she’s gonna land hard. Even if she uses the Legion ring to fly at the last moment, eventually she’s gonna get tired. Phantom Girl is just out matched here.
I’m working under the assumption that Phantom Girl is a decent martial artist, but nowhere near either Canary’s level.
Lapse? Walking out into the middle of the room? They were ambushed. Set up.
Not really anything you can do to prevent it when you’ve got Cheetah (Flash-like speed and animal senses) and Deathstroke on your case. It was a horribly one-sided fight, but that was the point, and there’s nothing to say we “shouldn’t take it seriously”.