2.23.2007

Round 1 Match 32


Toddler Fruitcakes vs Vintage Cheesecake!
Teletubbies: I am very envious of the Teletubbies. I would love to live in their world, where it is always nice weather, robotic vacuums keep your house tidy, and everything gets repeated to you four times. Very cool indeed.
Betty Boop: Perhaps the first example of a female character taking control of her sexuality. "Live-action" examples of Mae West, Madonna, or Britney come to mind, though I'm not sure that crowd really helps her out.
Criteria: What is cooler, a band of infantile surreal mouse-monkeys, or a flirtatious flapper who knows how to shake her money-maker?

Round 1 Match 31


Super-Cutesy vs. The Mouse that Roared!
Powerpuff Girls: Upstart superheroes who broke the traditional molds and labels, and brought a whole new demographic into their genre. So, like the Dixie Chicks, but with superpowers.
Mickey: The ultimate in franchise branding icons, next to perhaps Ron McD. There is no denying the House of Mouse's power in our world.
Criteria: Unless there is a huge backlash sentiment against Mickey's corporate success, (and before anyone throws stones on that basis, remember there is plenty of swag out there with Powerpuff Girls on it), I predict a cakewalk for the House of Mouse. Think I'm off-base? Prove it through your votes!

Round 1 Match 30

Blind Date Battle!
Wolverine: The perfect template for the anti-hero. Probably the most popular superhero created in the last 30 years, yet at his core he is a homicidal lunatic.
Wonder Woman: Like her opponent, a character of dichotomies. To many she represents female power, and liberation from stereotypes, yet she wages those battles in a skimpy bathing suit.
Criteria: Logan and Diana agree to meet for coffee at a neutral ground Starbucks after chatting for weeks on "supermatchmaker.com". Discuss.

Round 1 Match 29

It's David vs. Goliath! Good vs. Evil! A true battle of epic .... uh, yeah right.
Buckaroo: Perhaps he fits better in the first season of ironi-cool icons, but anyone who has talked movies with me knows that Buckaroo Banzai is totally cool. Forget Star Wars 7-9. Forget Wonder Woman. Forget even Watchmen. The movie everyone truly needs to campaign for is the sequel that was announced at the end of this masterpiece, "Buckaroo Banzai Against the World Crime League." That's cool.
Darth Vader: The fall and redemption of Anakin Skywalker is perhaps the most poetic story in modern pop culture, (notwithstanding our disappointment in the prequels). Vader is one of the most iconic pop culture images ever created. Just take a stroll through any comic/sci-fi convention floor. It's better than an Elvis festival.
Criteria: Real bad draw for the renaissance man of action. He is outgunned and outclassed. But stranger things have happened here at the 'Clash, and Buckaroo has gotten out of tougher scrapes than this before. Like the time Hanoi Xan captured him, and strapped him to a... but I digress. Game On!

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