| Metro Man vs. Miss Power | |
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| Season 5, Episode 9 | |
| Air date | November 12, 2020 |
| Written by | I'm Lynda |
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Metro Man vs. Miss Power is a What-If? Death Battle by I'm Lynda. It features Metro Man from the Dreamworks’ movie, Megamind, and Miss Power from the Wordgirl from the Wordgirl television series.
Description[]
A hero from the movie, Megamind, and a villain from the television series, Wordgirl. It’s alien versus alien in a no holds barred battle to the death!
Interlude[]
Wiz: It’s a story as old as...well, comic books; a strange visitor from another planet who comes to Earth with powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men.
Boomstick: But these aliens don’t just fight with their fists, they also fight with their words.
Wiz: The first of these aliens is Metro Man, a hero from the Dreamworks’ movie, Megamind.
Boomstick: And the second is Miss Power, a villain from the PBS television series, Wordgirl.
Wiz: I’m Wiz, and he’s Boomstick.
Boomstick: And it's our job to analyze their weapons, armor and skills to find out who would win a Death Battle.
Metro Man[]
Wiz: It’s your standard pseudo-Superman story rehashed yet again. Metro Man was born on a distant planet that was facing annihilation by a nearby black hole. So, his parents bundled the baby into a small spaceship, and sent him off to safety.
Boomstick: As luck would have it, when his spaceship landed on Earth, it bounced into the home of a mega-rich family that could give little baby Metro Man everything that he wanted.
Wiz: Now, you might think that Metro Man would have become spoiled and self-centered. Well, in fact quite the opposite happened.
Boomstick: As Metro Manny...
Wiz: What?
Boomstick: Don’t interrupt, Wiz. Didn’t your mother ever teach you that it’s wrong to interrupt someone? Anyway, as Manny grew up, and learned to use his powers, he took on the role of protector of Metro City.
Wiz: Now, Metro Man...
Boomstick: Manny to his friends.
Wiz: No, you simply made that up. And don’t interrupt. Didn’t your mother ever...
Boomstick: [Getting chocked up] Don’t talk about my mother. That woman was a saint! A SAINT I TELL YOU!
Wiz: Right... Anyway, Metro Man is no wolf in sheep’s clothing, he is a tried-and-true hero who will always rush to protect his beloved Metro City from any kind of attack, especially those of his arch-nemesis, Megamind.
Boomstick: Now, Megamind is your common, everyday genius supervillain. He uses his bulbous head to think up underhanded schemes and create superweapons. So, the less said about him, the better.
Wiz: As for Metro Man, we only saw so much of him during the movie, but we did see even more of his successor, Tighten. You see, after Megamind defeated Metro Man, and thought that he killed him, he set out to create a new hero for him to fight. So, he took some of Metro Man’s DNA, and injected it into a normal man, giving him all of Metro Man’s powers.
Boomstick: And, even though Tighten took these powers and became a much bigger supervillain than Megamind could ever dream of being, we can look at the powers he showed off and figure that Metro Man also could have used them.
Wiz: Probably the most obvious of Metro Man’s powers is his super-strength. As a child, Metro Man easily picked up his school building, with one hand, and flew off with it. Much later, Tighten caught a falling skyscraper, and hurled it across the city, at the fleeing Megamind.
Boomstick: His second power is laser vision, and it’s so powerful that Tighten used it while flying to carve his name into swaths of Metro City. Oh yeah, and he can fly.
Wiz: Another power is his ability to move at super-speed. While contemplating his future, Metro Man was able to fly around the city, read books, eat lunch, and even fly a kite. All in the matter of about a second! That’s...pretty darn fast.
Boomstick: And last, but not least, he is nearly invulnerable. Tighten was able to take a beating from Megamind’s robot, and even a blow to the face from the arm of a mech suit, and suffer no damage whatsoever. Yeah, good old Manny might not be Superman, but he is a super...man.
Miss Power[]
Wiz: Miss Power came to Earth with her sidekick, Colonel Giggle Cheeks...
Boomstick: What? Seriously?
Wiz: Well, that was his name, but we’ll get to him later. Anyway, Miss Power travels the universe finding planets to conquer, and when she got to Earth, she decided that the way to conquer it was to team up with the superhero Wordgirl.
Boomstick: So, she and her pet monkey started working to subvert Wordgirl, and turn her into a villainous sidekick.
Wiz: Miss Power has a whole suite of super-powers, but her greatest is her ability to use words to find her opponents’ weaknesses and make them feel bad, taking the fight out of them.
Boomstick: OK, that sounds pretty lame.
Wiz: Perhaps, but for Miss Power, it actually works, or it did, until Wordgirl learned that she could take that power away by simply refusing to accept the bullying. But, among the many opponents that Miss Power faced, no other one was able to pull it off.
Boomstick: But, if you want to talk about some real, bad-assed superpowers I would say that her greatest is super-strength. With one stamp of her foot, she can shatter the ground under an opponent, causing him to drop in and get stuck. She can hurl boulders around like they were nothing. And, she even caught the foot of a giant robot that was trying to stomp on her, and she threw the robot a long distance away. Now THAT’s what I call a super power!
Wiz: Another power she has is the power of flight. She routinely hovers and glides around without effort, but when she wants to, she can fly at very high rates of speed. Indeed, once, she threw Wordgirl out into space, then she flew up and caught her; the entire flight taking only about one or two seconds. Then, she threw Wordgirl back at the Earth, and repeated the same performance, but in reverse.
Boomstick: This also demonstrated that Miss Power did not need to be able to breath, the entire time she was out in the vacuum of space, but she was even able to talk, and have herself be heard, out there!
Wiz: Another power that she demonstrated was the power to shoot laser beams from her eyes, which she used to melt a robot and even a large, high-tech weapon of some sort.
Boomstick: She was able to blow cold air at a truck, encasing it in ice and leaving it fixed to the ground.
Wiz: And, lastly, she was able to spin her arms at high speed, generating a vortex of air that she could use to repel items shot at her.
Boomstick: And what about that stupid name you threw out there before?
Wiz: Oh yeah, Miss Power actually has a sidekick by the name of Colonel Giggle Cheeks. He’s an intelligent, marmoset-like primate who has the power to stretch his limbs, like the Elongated Man from DC Comics, or Elastigirl from Pixar.
Boomstick: Overall, this package of powers adds to up to a pretty serious super-villain. She took on just about all of Wordgirls’ opponents at one time, and kicked all of their asses. So, she may be a bargain-basement Superman, but don’t take her lightly, she’s a capable opponent who knows how to get the job done!
Intermission[]
Wiz: Alright the combatants are set; let’s end this debate once and for all.
Boomstick: Its time for a DEATH BATTLE!
DEATH BATTLE![]
Pre-Fight []
In downtown Metro City, Metro Man flew down Center Avenue, his head swiveling left and right, as he searched for his archnemesis, Megamind.
When he got to Washington Avenue, he looked north, and as his head turned to look south, a steel girder flashed into his vision. The girder impacted on his head, sending him flying back up the street. Megamind’s amplified voice echoed after him, “Swing and a hit!”
Megamind, in his Big Battle Suit, stepped out onto Center Avenue, gripped the girder in his robot arms, and swung it, like a giant baseball player.
Metro Man skidded to a stop on the pavement, and then stood back up.
A look of determination bloomed on Metro Man’s face. He crouched down into a runner’s start position, and then shot forward.
He flew to the Big Battle Suit, caromed into it, and sent it flying up the street. The Suit slammed into a building, and collapsed to the ground. Then, the Suit stood up, and Megamind pointed its arm at Metro Man. The hand folded and shifted, and reformed into a sort of energy gun.
The gun fired at Metro Man, who flew out of the way. Megamind fired energy blast after energy blast at the turning and spinning superhero.
Suddenly, Metro Man shot forward, appearing right before the transparent canopy of the Suit. He pulled back his fist and punched the armored-glass canopy, creating a large hole in it. Then, he reached in, pulled Megamind out, and held him by the front of his tunic.
“Megamind,” he said to his foe, “haven’t you learned that evil will never triumph over good?”
Megamind smiled back at the hero, and said, “Ah, but I am so good at being bad that... Look out behind you!”
“Look out behind you?” Metro Man asked with a confused look on his face.
Suddenly, there was a crash, and Metro Man spun around to where a spaceship was landing, right on top of Megamind’s Big Battle Suit.
The caped crusader dropped Megamind, and looked at the space ship with a determined look on his face.
The spaceship crushed the Suit beneath it, and settled on the wreckage. Suddenly, a blue-caped figure shot out of the ship and floated in the air.
“Greetings, people of Earth. My name is Miss Power.” She pointed back to the ship, where a door opened, displaying a marmoset-like creature at the controls. “And this is my loyal sidekick, Colonel Giggle Cheeks,” she added.
She floated over to Metro Man, and said, “We’ve come to Earth looking for...you, Earth’s greatest champion.”
Miss Power suddenly stopped, and pointed at Megamind. “Is that big, blue, bulbous thing really your head?” she asked.
“Um, yes,” Megamind answered timidly.
“Yikes,” Miss Power said, looking more than slightly revolted.
Then, she looked back at Metro Man. “Anyway, where was I?” She asked vaguely. “Oh yeah. Metro Man, you are Earth’s greatest hero, and I have come to team up with you to...um...fight crime.”
Metro Man had not noticed that Megamind had sneaked away and was about to disappear around the corner of a building. Suddenly, red lasers shot out from Miss Power’s eyes. They struck the building above the villain, causing a section of bricks to explode out and collapse, burying Megamind beneath them.
Suddenly, Metro Man shot forward and pushed Miss Power to the side, her laser-vision cutting a line of destruction across another nearby building.
“It might be necessary to use violence to stop a violent perpetrator, but good guys do not use violence when it is not necessary.” Metro Man announced.
“Listen, Metro Man, we have the power, and we must do whatever is necessary to take control of those who don’t do what we tell them.”
Metro Man cocked his head to the side, and said, “No, might does not make right. We must use our strength in the service of what is right, regardless of what we think and what we want.”
“Um, hello!” Miss Power responded. “That’s the whole point of having power.”
“No,” Metro Man reiterated. “The whole point of having power is that you can help anyone and everyone who needs help.”
Miss Power took on a thoughtful expression, and said, “Well, let me put it this way...”
Suddenly she shot forward like missile.
FIGHT! []
Miss Power impacted on Metro Man, sending him flying backwards, across the square and into a building.
Miss Power crossed her arms, and looked back at Colonel Giggle Cheeks.
“Well, that’s what I get for trying to work with a second-rater,” she told him.
Suddenly, Metro Man floated out of the building, brushing some dust off of his shoulder.
“You know, vandalism is defined as, ‘the willful destruction or damaging of property in a manner that defaces, mars, or otherwise adds a physical blemish that diminishes the property's value.’ I think that you are subject to two counts of vandalism. Will you come quietly?”
“With a second-rater like you?” Miss Power asked incredulously. “Listen, Metro Man, You’ve got the power to be a great superhero, but you’re almost completely untrained. You’ve gone up against some pretty low-watt villains, but against a first-rate superhero, you are going to get curb stomped. You need to place yourself under my instruction, so that you don’t get hurt.”
Metro Man gave the other a smile, and said, “All that is required for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing, and I do NOT intend to do nothing.”
Miss Power crossed her arms, and said, “Ugh. I gather that you think that all that is required for good to triumph is for good men to flap their gums. Well, let me teach you a lesson.”
Then, she shot forward, and delivered a titanic punch, sending Metro Man flying backward. She flew past him, and delivered a two-fisted punch to his back that sent him flying forward in the opposite direction. And then she flew past him again, and as he flew towards her, she wound up, and delivered a upper-cut that sent the hero flying up into the air.
She flew up into the air, and found Metro Man hovering high in the atmosphere, rubbing his chin.
“You’ve got quite an upper-cut there,” he said. “Try this on for size.”
Then, he flew at her, and gave her an upper-cut that sent her flying straight up. He flew up above her, interlaced his fingers, and when she got to his height, he brought a two-handed punch that sent her hurtling to the ground.
Miss Power few straight down, and smashed through the street, making a large hole.
Metro Man flew down through the hole, and found Miss Power sitting on some tracks for the Metro City subway. She had her face in her hands, and was weeping loudly.
”I can’t believe you hit a girl!” she cried.
Metro Man landed, and walked up to the woman.
“I’m sorry,” he said. “Are you hurt?”
Suddenly, Miss Power pulled her hands away, and fired laser beams from her eyes, right into Metro Man’s chest. Metro Man staggered backward, and fell onto the third rail. Immediately electricity began dancing all over his body.
Miss Power looked over at her opponent with a sneer.
“You see?” she demanded. “You are untrained, and vulnerable. You should never have fallen for a trap that obvious.”
Metro Man grabbed hold of the third rail, and heaved. The electricity stopped, and Metro Man stood, holding an eight-foot length of rail.
"I rather dislike damaging public property," he declared, "but needs must, when the devil drives."
Then, he pulled the steel beam back, and swung it forward. The mighty beam struck Miss Power, and sent her flying up the subway tunnel.
"Swing and a hit!" Metro Man declared. Then he smiled to himself.
He turned, bent down, and put the rail back in its place. Electricity arched and danced across his body as he reattached it into its place. Then, he turned and flew off, up the subway tunnel.
Metro Man flew out of the end of the subway tunnel, and into the bright sunlight. He landed, and looked around; Miss Power was nowhere to be seen.
Suddenly, Colonel Giggle Cheeks landed on his back, and immediately wrapped his super-elastic arms and legs around the hero.
Metro Man rose up into the air, and began to spin. He spun faster and faster, quickly becoming just a blur. Colonel Giggle Cheeks flew off of the hero, and crashed into a street light, his elongated arms and legs splaying out on the ground.
Quickly, the hero flew over, grabbed the flaccid limbs, and tied them in a knot around the pole.
“Let that be a lesson to you,” he said. “Keeping company with those who flout the law will always lead you into trouble.”
The Colonel looked around, and began making a whining sound.
Miss Power shot out from between two buildings, and slammed into the man.
She floated un into the air, and announced, “First terrorizing women and children, and now attacking a harmless, little animal. Aren’t you ashamed of yourself?”
Metro Man opened his mouth to answer, when suddenly his opponent’s eyes blazed red, and laser beams shot out of them. He quickly activated his own laser beams, and the beams met into a hot ball of energy that flared to life between the two.
Screaming in frustration, Miss Power dropped her beams, and flew towards the hero, dodging and whirling around his eye beams.
The two supers collided in the air with a boom, and began grappling.
Metro Man grabbed a hold of Miss Powers’ cape, and began to turn in a circle.
Faster and faster he spun, until he and his opponent appeared to be nothing more than a blur.
Suddenly, he let go of the cape, and Miss Power flew through the air towards the ground, towards her spacecraft.
There was a mighty explosion when Miss Power Smashed into the ship, and pieces of the ship went flying left and right.
Metro Man descended through the dust and smoke, to hover right above the wreckage. There he saw Miss Power up against part of the main body of the spaceship. A yard long spike of metal was thrust through the woman’s back, and out her chest.
Miss Power looked down at the spike, raised her hand, and gingerly ran it through the gore on the metal.
She looked up at Metro Man and said, “But...but...I can’t lose. I never lose...”
Then, she collapsed.
K.O.! []
Metro Man looked down sadly at the dead super.
“’To whom much is given, much will be required,’” he stated. “You were given great powers, and you could have done great good with them. But instead you chose to act selfishly, and you paid the price.”
He looked over at where Roxanne Ritchi and her camera man were standing, and added, “Let that be a lesson to you children.”
Metro Man crouched down, then he shot up into the air, and was gone.
Results[]
Boomstick: Ohhhh. That must have hurt!
Wiz: It was a fierce battle, but it really could only have ended one way.
Boomstick: With Miss Not-All-That-Powerful stabbed through, like a butterfly on a cork board?
Wiz: Well, maybe not that exactly, but in fact this was a far from even battle.
Boomstick: Both supers had pretty similar powers – super-strength, laser vision, near-invulnerability, flight, speed – Metro Man simply had a double helping of everything compared to Miss Power.
Wiz: While Miss Power was strong enough to lift up a giant robot, and hurl it away, Tighten could lift and throw a gigantic skyscraper.
Boomstick: And while Miss Power could melt a machine with her laser vision, Tighten was able to burn his name across a city from the sky.
Wiz: Any while Miss Power could move between space and the surface of the Earth in about two second, Metro Man could move around Metro City, eat meals, read books, and spend all sorts of time thinking, during a blink of an eye.
Boomstick: Metro Man was simply more powerful by every measure. Get the point? Miss Power certainly did!
Wiz: The winner is Metro Man.
Next Time[]
It’s vampire hunter versus vampire when we present Abraham Lincoln vs. Barnabas Collins!