User blog:Gliscor Fan/Popular Fight - Bad Connections 1: Zatanna vs Scarlet Witch & Gohan vs Superboy

Welcome to a new series I've been wanting to start up where I explain some stuff and debunk popular mythos about the said idea. Think of it as a "mythbusters" of ideas, but with popular fights that shouldn't really be popular.

These are all just me giving out my opinions on what should and should not happen, nothing in this should offend anyone.

Let me start with a popular idea that I hate to all hell.

The Good, the Bad, and the Mythos
The Good: The only good thing about this matchup is that it's basically a rivalry that goes outside the whole DC vs Marvel aspect, but that's about it. I'm not even sure why they really even have a rivalry, but it's there.

The Bad: Everything else. The connection itself is, at base, "Female Magic Users from DC and Marvel", and that's literally all they have in common. If you remove the "female" part of this, which shouldn't really matter anyway, you can get a lot of other characters fighting each other with the exact same basic connection. One such example is Dr. Strange vs Raven, which has the exact same connection. Just because it fits, doesn't mean it should be done.

The Mythos: Myth #1: "Zatanna vs Scarlet Witch is thematically perfect"

Reason it's a myth: If "Magic Users" was thematically perfect, then so would John Constantine vs Gambit, or Strange vs Raven. Neither of these make any sense, but are thematically "perfect" in that sense.

Myth #2: "Zatanna and Scarlet Witch have no better opponents."

Reason it's a myth: Both Zatanna and Scarlet Witch have opponents with actual connections that make more sense. Zatanna has Sister Grimm, a character who shares close to the same abilities as Zatanna and is also the leader of a team, like Zatanna's the leader of the JLD. Scarlet Witch has neither of those things.

and for Scarlet Witch, she has Raven. Yeah, Raven also has better opponents, but hear me out. Both Scarlet Witch and Raven have massive control over a certain kind of dark magic, and their fathers are both huge villains in their respective franchises. Both of these give more connections than Scarlet Witch and Zatanna have to each other.

Now, for the other thing...

The Good, The Bad, and the Mythos
The Good: It's Goku vs Superman 3 for the people who want Goku vs Superman 3, I guess.

The Bad: Well, first off, the common connection between the two is "sons of Goku and Superman" and is meant to be a follow-up to Goku vs Superman. However, that connection is complete bullshit.

The most true thing in that connection is that Gohan is the biological son of Goku. But Superboy isn't the biological son of Superman, nor is he really the adoptive son of superman. Superboy is a clone of superman himself that looks like a teenager, but Superman refers to him more as a brother than his own son, so the connection is completely wrong anyway. There's really no other connection to put to this matchup anyway.

The Mythos:

Myth #1: "Mystic Gohan > Superboy"

Reason it's a myth: First of all, here's something people keep forgetting: Magic is NOT a weakness of Superman or Superboy, they're just as vulnerable to it as anyone else. Their durability and strength is still there. It's just more vulnerable than other stuff.

In other words, Magic is not either of their kryptonite. It can kill them, yes, but chances are... it won't.

Now, let's get down to the question itself: Will Mystic Gohan be enough to kill Superboy?

The Answer: Not likely. Why? Mystic Gohan isn't magic.

That's literally just the dub name of Ultimate Gohan, Mightiest Warrior, Super Gohan, etc. In fact, the official name has nothing to do with magic. It's just Gohan at his maximum potential.

http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Potential_Unleashed

I'm not kidding.

And even in his max form, he was incapacitated by Beerus rather easily, a character who Superboy could give a hell of a good fight too.

That's actually the only myth I know of that keeps getting brought up.

Conclusion
In the future, I might do put up Hulk/Asura/Atrocitus vs Doomsday, but I need other suggestions and stuff, so let me know in the comments.