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DC KO Prediction Tournament

Final Fight!

Supergirl vs Wonder Woman

Who will win?

Supergirl

Wonder Woman

Voting ended onOct 15, 2025

Bracket

The full official bracket was unknown at the start of this tournament, so we're doing our own matchups.

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✨Glow Up & Downgrade🤢

WINNERS!!!

Through all the changes in costumes, backstory and personality we've got our winners. For better and for worse, these are the characters who beat out the rest. Congratulations and condolences!

Best Glow Up goes to:

Renee Montoya (The Question)!

Worst Downgrade goes to:

Roy Harper (Arsenal)!

- BUT WAIT -

Even though these were two individual tournaments, we MUST find out who is the ultimate winner!

FINAL BATTLE: Was the Glow Up better? Or the Downgrade worse?

Glow Up

Downgrade

Voting ended onAug 26, 2024

*Worse meaning more devastating of a downgrade

Keep reading for their info

Renee Montoya (The Question)

"BTAS Renee: A supporting character who's just there to play Good Cop to Bullock's Bad Cop. Not the worst starting point of all time, but she has, generously, half a personality, and could be replaced in almost every appearance by an unnamed stock character. Post-Crisis Renee: Greg Rucka took one look at her, went ""oh that's a suicidal lesbian and her creators just didn't notice"", then spent thirteen years putting her through psychological torment to rebuild her into a fascinatingly messy hero who understands that it is impossible to be both a good person and a cop. It's one of the (if not THE) best long term character arcs in DC - so few writers get a chance to do a slow burn on this scale, and she just kept getting better as it went. 10/10 for both the results and the glow up process."

Roy Harper (Arsenal)

New 52 hit everyone hard but Roy 🤢 What happened to my hot single father with decades of character growth? Oh his daughter never existed and he's hanging out with Jason Todd for some reason

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Roy Harper's downgrade didn't come all at once, but when it started it went downhill fast. After the failure of "Green Arrow/Black Canary", the editors decided to take the Arrow Family in a new and terrible direction and Roy was most notably affected. After "JLA: Cry for Justice" ended with him losing his arm and most devastatingly his daughter Lian, the downgrade took a worse turn with "Rise of Arsenal" where he is abandoned by everyone after his relapse and is manipulated by Cheshire to join Deathstroke's team in the latter "Titans: Villains for Hire". Then the "New 52" happened and Roy's achievements, character development, and the many relationships he's had including his daughter were retconned away. What was once a seasoned hero who once led the Titans and the Outsiders, a devoted single father and mentor to younger heroes, and a man who wanted to do as much good as he could was now a clingy manchild whose only friend- Jason Todd who is deserving of his own nomination for Worst Downgrade- openly and frequently puts him down with little to no pushback. Yes, even Roy's addiction was changed from heroin to alcohol and it's no longer Dinah Lance who stayed up with him during his withdrawal but Killer Croc who begrudgingly became his AA sponsor. Even visually Roy was done dirty by the New 52. Post Crisis, he was often designed with a thick build, compared to Nightwing's more acrobatic build. New 52, he's thin and kind of greasy looking, especially when drawn by Kenneth Rocafort. It's not until "Infinite Frontier" that he was given more of a solid build. Roy has recovered some since then, especially reuniting with Lian and looking much better, but the 15 years of bad writing and bad editorial decisions has certainly done a number on his reputation that readers who first saw him in "Red Hood and the Outlaws" are thrown by how wildly different he was before the "New 52".

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Presenting the WINNER of the DC "That Really Happened?!" Tournament...

Supergirl gets romanced by her horse

[ID: Two cropped comic panels in one image with two hearts. The first is Supergirl in plain clothes being kissed by a blonde young man. She has a cloud bubble showing an image of her in costume, and he has a cloud bubble showing a white horse with a cape. The second panel is of a horse, thinking "If I were a man... If I were free to tell her of my real feelings, for a girl like that, I'd even give up all my super-powers!" /END ID]

🎉 Congratulations to Linda Danvers and Comet! 🎉

This storyline was quite unexpected, and it seems to raise more questions than it answers. From the beginning when it won out over a new version of Supergirl falling in love with a horse-man (yes, again), this one became the one to beat.

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But let's not forget our Second Place storyline of...

Joker becoming the Iranian ambassador

[ID: Comic panel of Joker wearing a reddish pink head dress. He is turned to the side, smiling with eyes closed. He says, "I am proud to speak for the great Islamic Republic of Iran." /END ID]

It was a hard battle for second and third, and the two finalists duked it out neck-and-neck all week, but in the end Joker becoming an ambassador right after killing Jason was just weird enough to come out on top.

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And that brings us to Third Place...

Jason Todd: Tentacle Monster

[ID: Comic panel of Jason Todd turned into a large reddish brown monster with tentacles with a man's head and shoulders in his mouth. Jason says, "And now it's your turn!" /END ID]

Jason came in third, but his bizarre form still beat out all the rest of the competition throughout the previous rounds.

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Last, an honorable mention for the ones that didn't make it past the semi-finals to be ranked...

Carol Ferris' pregnancy

Monsieur Mallah and the Brain

Bob Haney's lack of canon knowledge when writing Donna

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A huge thank you to everyone who participated, from submitters to voters and all of you in between! This was a really fun one, and I look forward to what we get into next!!

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The DC Comics Best Dancer Tournament winner is...

Cassandra Cain!!!!!

She swept every single poll to become the undeniable champion of our little dance battle.

And our runner up who beat all the rest but couldnt quite match Cass' moves is...

Virgil Hawkins!

So congrats to our winners, and huge thanks to everyone who voted, reblogged and followed along!

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The WINNER of our tournament proving once and for all they THEY WOULD NOT FUCKING DO THAT is...

Anarky violently crashing a bachelorette party and teaming up with fascists to cause destruction!!

Sure, we can all agree if there's one thing Jason Todd wouldn't do, it's prevent someone from exacting vengeance on an abuser and tormentor like he did in Red Hood and the Outlaws. A lot of you pulled for him to take this one, but looks like it wasn't quiiiite out of character enough compared to what most of you felt was a blatant disregard for Lonnie's personality and motivations in Prelude to the Wedding.

Thank you everyone who submitted entries, everyone who reblogged our polls, and EVERYONE who voted! This has been a lot of fun and I'm looking forward to the next one.

And speaking of, keep an eye out in the next day or two for the announcement of our next match up, plus any mini polls (ie non-tournament polls) here and there as usual!