Hammerknight has come up with what I think will be a very fun and interesting set of super-hero events which we're calling "Olympia Games" (ahem). He's put together an introductory poster describing what he has in mind (click to see it larger):
For those of you with problems getting to or viewing the poster, I'll try to retype the verbiage. And mega THANKS to Hammerknight both for the great idea, and for running it, he IS the man!
The First Ever Comic Book Hero OLYMPIA GAMES!
Contestants:
You get to pick who you want to compete. Pick a hero from any Comic Book Publisher. Then all you have to do is post your choices in the comment section below as follows: Hero's Name, Publisher, and the event you want to see them in.
The Events:
- Gymnastics, Combat Tactical Course
- Track and Field, 1000 mile Race
- Swimming, 1000 mile Freestyle
- Target Shooting, Combat Tactical Course
- Tug-of-War, Five Person Team
After all the suggestions are made I, Hammerknight, will gather it all up and set up the events. With Tug-of-War being a five person team event, I will make the team-ups from the more suggested heroes, so if you can't pick out five heroes for the team that you would like to see together, I am sure that other people will make some suggestions to help fill out the teams. Then we will post a Poll with the events and contestants listed. Then vote for who you would like to win the event.
Start making suggestions today and we will have the Voting start next Friday and post the winners the Friday after.
I hope I’m going this right…
» Spiderman, Marvel, Gymnastics
» Dynamite Thor, (I don’t know the publisher, so here’s the link to Jeff’s blog article. http://www.heromachine.com/2010/01/27/dy-no-mite/ ), Track and Field
» Aquaman, DC, Swimming
» Domino, Marvel, Target Shooting
» Hulk, Juggernaut, The Thing, Apocalypse, Gladiator (Shi’ar Imperial Guard); Marvel, Tug-of-War
Gymnastics:Spider-man, Marvel Comics
Track & Field: The Flash, DC Comics
Swimming: Aquaman, DC Comics
Target Shooting: Vigilante, DC Comics
Tug-of-War: Captain Marvel, Fawcett Comics; Superman, DC Comics; Thor, Marvel Comics; The Incredible Hulk, Marvel Comics; Lobos, DC Comics
Gymnastics: Daredevil, Marvel Comics
Track & Field: Quicksilver, Marvel Comics
Swimming: Namor the Sub-Mariner, Marvel Comics
Target shooting: Nick Fury, Marvel Comics
Tug-of-War: Hercules (Marvel Comics), The Thing (Marvel Comics), Superman (DC comics), Superboy Prime (DC) Galactus (Marvel comics)
That’s right, I have Galactus playing tug-of-war. Beat that.
Wait – just as I clicked “post” I thought of a quick change:
Target Shooting – the Saint of Killers (he never misses)(DC Comics)
Gymnastics: Rag Doll, DC (quadruple jointed FTW!!)
Track & Field: Silver surfer, marvel (he can manipulate matter, and put out the competition.)
Swimming: Superman, DC Comics ( As fast as a speeding bullet. It doesn’t matter where.)
Target Shooting: Bullseye, Marvel (Perfect aim, Have fun 🙂 )
Tug-of-War: Thor, Marvel, The Incredible Hulk, Marvel
Superman, DC, Apocalypse, DC, Spawn, Image comics
@The Nate: I almost wrote in Galactus for that one, but decided not to, since he’s not a “hero”…
Gymnastics: Captain America, Marvel comics
Track and Field: Kid Flash, DC comics
Swimming: Attuma, Marvel Comics
Target Shooting: Bullseye, Marvel Comics
Tug-of-War: Rulk (Marvel), Annihilus (Marvel), Darkseid (DC), Thanos (Marvel), Sentry (Marvel)
Gymnastics: Mr.Fantastic, Marvel Comics
Track and field: Makkari, Marvel Comics
Swimming: Tempest, DC comics
Target shooting: Batman, DC comics
…and everyone I can think of is up there for tug-of-war except Super Skrull, Marvel comics
Gymnastics: Dick Grayson, DC comics
Track and Field: The Flash (Wally West), DC comics
Swimming: Aquaman, DC comics
Target Shooting: Deadshot, DC comics
Tug-of-War: Batman, DC comics (Batman always finds a way)
Gymnastics: Batman, DC Comics
Track and Field: The Flash (Jay Garrick) DC Comics
Swimming: Namorita, Marvel Comics
Target Shooting: Deadpool, Marvel Comics
Tug of War: Incredible Hulk; The Thing; She-Hulk; Thor; Colossus, All Marvel Comics
[Quick question, which universe would these events be taking place in, as in MU, the speed force doesnt exist (ie Flash = Useless), in DCU, Flash easily beats Quicksilver.]
Tug of War: Juggernaut, Marvel
First off, all great suggestions.
Second it will be taking place in lets say a Olympic Universe that the Gods have created for the games, so there for any powers the hero has will work like it does in their own universe.
Third, The publishers are like a country, ie, USA, Japan,England, etc. So that means Marvel will be playing against DC, and any other publisher to see how many gold medals they can win. So for the Tug-of-War you can pick the complete team or just make suggests of who you would like to compete in it.
You can make as many suggestion as you want to. Help bring in ideas from other publishers then just DC and Marvel. It would be nice to see about four or more competing. Their can also be more then one from the same universe competing in the same event just like the real Olympics.
Also remember these are Heroes that believe in fair play so they hurt someone just to win.
One thing I did forget to put, Heroes can be living or dead. The gods have gathered them up to play the games. All heroes will be at the peak to level the playing field. So if there is more the one person that has been that hero write down which one you want to see compete.
Sorry about the add ones here I should of remembered to include everything but I didn’t. This is the first ever so any suggestion that all of you have for the games are welcome. I do believe that a blind vote would be better so that it will be more of a surprise when the winner is announced.
Jeff, since everyone’s putting in villians, can I make a new list?
Don’t ask me, ask HK, it’s his show.
Gymnastics: Nightcrawler (Marvel) Beast (Marvel)
Track and field: Daphne (9th wonders, if that’s useable), Rogue (Marvel, she could steal superspeed before the race. :P)
Swimming: Namor (Marvel) Aquaman (DC)
Target shooting: Iceman (Marvel), Spike (Marvel), Thor(marvel), Bullseye(Marvel), Storm (Marvel)
Tug of war: Hulk (Marvel), Dr. Manhattan (DC comics), The Comedian (DC comics), Niki Sanders (9th wonders. would that count since the comic book itself is based in the show?)
BTW, let me know if those 9th wonders aren’t applicable
Isia and I were just talking. Because a couple of Villains were suggested, should we include Villains or should it be Heroes only? And if we do include Villains should we have each universe have a Hero and a Villain team. Example “DC”-Heroes and “DC”- Villains, “Marvel”- Heroes and “Marvel”- Villains.?
@Superfan, if the (th Wonders is a comic book publisher then they can be used.
Everyone keep making suggestions, I’m keeping track of them and writing down how many times a hero gets suggested and that way if I have to narrow it down I will go with the ones that have the most suggestions.
Well, here’s more suggestions since 9th wonders is applicable.
Gymnastics & Target Shooting: St. Joan A.K.A Monica Dawson (9th wonders)
Tug of War: Helllboy (Dark Horse), The Goon (Dark Horse)
Swimming: Blue (Dark Horse; in the comic hellboy)
gmynastics and target shooting: black widow ( Marvel)
Tug’O’War: HUlK (marvel), superman (DC)
swimming: Tempest(DC)
Gymnastics: Mr. Fantastic (Marvel Comics)
Track/Field: Flash (DC Comics)
Swimming: Namor (Marvel)
Target Shooting: Bullseye (Marvel)
Tug-of-War: Hulk (Marvel) Galactus (Marvel) Thing (Marvel) Ego the Living Planet (Marvel) Hob Goblin (Marvel)
I’m new to writing comments so hi Everybody! I think we should be able to put in villians. It would make it better.
I’ll nominate a team from the manga series One Piece:
Gymnastics: Monkey D. Luffy
Track & Field: no starter
Swimming: Arlong
Target Shooting: Ussop
Tug-of-War: Boogey, Woogey, Oimo, Karsee and Oz(if a 200 foot tall horned devil zombie is eligible for the contest)
and if Oz is excluded from Tug-of-War they’ll only have four men at the ropes and Luffy D. Monkey as the fifth man trying to convince Boogey and Woogey to pull in the same direction.
Hammerknight: I don’t see too much of a problem having the villians and heros in the same catagories. You probably don’t need to go through the trouble of creating two parallel olympics. That being said, here’s my new roster (you can choose to disregard the first one if you want):
Gymnastics: Spiderman, Marvel Comics
Track & Field: Black Flash, DC Comics
Swimming: Aquaman, DC Comics
Target Shooting: Deadshot, DC Comics
Tug-of-War: Blob, Marvel Comics; Darkseid, DC Comics; Superman, DC Comics; Galactus, Marvel Comics; Primus, Marvel Comics (yes, the planet-robot from Transformers, he’s in a comic, he counts!)
Oh! I just thought of another change! Replace Deadshot with Sniper from Yu Yu Hakusho, Shueisha Comics.
gymnastics, Combat Tactical Course : spider-man
Track and Field, 1000 mile Race:zoom(dc comics)
Swimming, 1000 mile Freestyle:namor(marvel)
Target Shooting, Combat Tactical Course:dead pool
Tug-of-War:hellboy,superman,sandman (marvel),wonder woman,
It is looking great so far. Remember don’t limit yourself to just one choice let me know who you would like to see. I think it’s going to be a very good game with all the suggestions so far.
This is what I have for Publishers so far:
DC, Marvel, Dark Horse, Fawcett, Shueisha, Image, and 9th Wonder.
Does anyone what to suggest more publisher(which I’m using instead of countries)?
Does anyone have anything to say about the ones we have so far?
Let me know because I’m going to try and do a rough draft within the next day or so. So Let me know who you want to compete.
We need more Shueisha characters! All we have so far is one from me, and Legatus’s entries. For people who are wondering, Shueisha makes most of the characters in the Shonen Jump comic books…
Thanks Gero. All and any help is welcome.
More 9th wonder suggestions
Target Shooting: Noah Bennet, Lauren Gilmore (9th wonder)
Tug of War: Knox, Mohinder Suresh
Gymnastics: Santiago
Swimming: Bianca Karina, Donald Essex
Track and Field: Edgar
Gymnastics; Bulletman, Bulletgirl (Fawcett)
Track: Master Man (Fawcett)
Target; Golden Arrow, Commando Yank (Fawcett),Green Arrow (DC)
Tug-of-War: Hercules, Thor, Atom Blake, Diamond Jack, and Paul Bunyan (Fawcett)
Tug-of-War:
John Constantine, Vertigo
Papa Midnight, Vertigo
The Phantom Stranger, Vertigo
Didi/Death, Vertigo
Morpheus/Dream, Vertigo
Okay now we have some Vertigo people, lets see if we can get some more to compete in the other events.
Just typed up the Gymnastics event for Friday. We Have Seven publishers for the event. DC, Marvel,Fawcett, Dark Horse, Image,9th Wonder, and Shueisha. I didn’t come up with anyone from Vertigo for this event. There is still time to be heard for the other events.