Super Heroine Smackdown Rules
It’s Smackdown time!
In the past few years, The Correctness has brought you the Superhero Smackdown, which was quite popular and contentious to some.Next was the Villains turn, and a bonus Team Smackdown. Then the Action Smackdown. All of these were presented with tasty sidecards brought to you by RobbieRobTown.
So this year, it’s the ladies’ turn, pitting 16 of your favorite comic book gals against each other for the prize: bragging rights.
To avoid some of the confusion of the past, we’re going to try and lay out the rules as clearly as possible, and refer you back to them when you’re confused.
1: HOW THE PARTICIPANTS WERE CHOSEN
Once we had the idea to use heroines, we spitballed for a while, asked our friends on facebook, and even asked you. We mulled over the possibilities, argued for a while, and then came up with the list.
2: ELIGIBILITY
All heroines from comic books were eligible, though we tend to stick to characters that the average person might be aware of.
4: THE BRACKET
The bracket was built by RobbieRobTown, after he grew tired of no one else doing it. He placed the candidates in the frame, made the picture, so that’s how it is.
That’s it. No masterminding, no intentional placements so as to give someone an advantage. Pretty much used the order we had them listed in with the above considerations.
5: NOTHING IS DECIDED
The fanboys on the net love to cry “FIX!!” at every opportunity. Nothing is fixed or decided. Each week, we’ll have 3 of weigh in on the fight at hand. Our rule is that we don’t read each other’s piece until we’ve already written ours. TBinns loves to read mine and then hack on me in his, maybe this time he’ll follow the rule (though I don’t think he’s ever changed his decision based on anyone else’s.)
6: THE FIGHT
Arena battle as usual. Contestants are made aware of one another 48 hours prior to fight. If a character is known for a weapon (sword, whip, gun, etc.), that weapon will be made available in the fight, at the top of a 10 foot 4×4 in the center of the arena.
Fight is to the death.
7: SEXISM
This will be the toughest smackdown yet. We’ll try hard not to be sexist, but we’ll call upon our readers to hold us to this. Exceptions might be made if it’s insanely funny, but again, we’ll leave that to the readers to determine.
So that’s that. Any changes or additions made after today will be date stamped.
