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Awesome Arena Tournament of Champions Week Two and Three Breakdowns

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Due to popular demand - by which I mean that I wanted to do this and four people told me to go ahead - I’ll be breaking down the events of each week’s fight.

I already did Batman vs Iron Man in the comments to the Week 1 Results post, which means that I owe you Martian Manhunter vs Flash and Thor vs Spider-man, so let’s get those knocked out and get me caught up.

Flash vs Martian Manhunter

I see this as a mostly defensive fight, with neither fighter landing many blows due to Manhunter’s ability to become intangible and Flash’s ability to vibrate his molecules to the point that he is, in effect, also intangible. The result is a battle full of skillful attacks that simply pass through their target.

The climax of the battle comes when Flash vibrates the oxygen molecules at a sufficient speed that they ignite around the Manhunter, taking advantage of his weakness to fire. Manhunter - barely - keeps his wits about him enough to launch a psychic attack making Wally see his children instead of J’onn. Wally, distraught at the idea of setting his children on fire, drops his guard long enough for J’onn to put his intangible fist into Wally’s skull.

J’onn then simultaneously splays his fingers and makes them tangible, scrambling Wally’s brain and ending the battle.

Spider-Man vs Thor

Spidey has the speed advantage and uses it to its fullest extent. He uses his web to snag Mjolnir and yank it away from Thor, taking away the god’s most-utilized weapon. Spidey then outmaneuvers Thor, continuously moving in from seemingly random directions, landing a quick combo, then swinging, jumping, or flat out running away before Thor can throw a punch.

This works at first and it seems like Spider-man just might pull off an upset, but Thor gets in a punch every five or six times Peter comes in close and that starts to have an effect on Spidey - he gradually becomes slower and clumsier and his spider-sense gets more and more muted, giving Thor more opportunities to connect with his attacks and a chance to slowly edge closer and closer to Mjolnir.

By the time Thor grabs his hammer, Spidey’s taken a lot of hits and is almost out on his feet. It’s a simple matter for Thor to crush Spider-man’s head like one of Gallagher’s watermelons.

And that’s how I see it, folks. Do you agree? Disagree? Let me know in the comments!

This will be a regular feature for the rest of the Awesome Arena Tournament of Champions. If the fights go the way I expect them to, the breakdown will most likely come with the announcement of the victor and the current standings. If there is an upset, the announcement and standings will go up first, followed as closely as possible by the breakdown.

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