- Contest of Champions II
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Contest of Champions II 
Cover of trade paperback for Contest of Champions II (1999).
Art by Michael Ryan.Publication information Publisher Marvel Comics Schedule monthly Format Limited series Publication date Sept. 1999 – Nov. 1999 Number of issues 5 Main character(s) Various Marvel super-heroes Creative team Writer(s) Chris Claremont Penciller(s) Oscar Jimenez
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Publication history
Contest of Champions II is a five-issue comic book limited series published from September to November 1999 by Marvel Comics. The series was written by Chris Claremont and pencilled by Oscar Jimenez and Michael Ryan. The series is unrelated to the original limited series of the same name - Contest of Champions - published in 1982.
Plot summary
A group of Earth's heroes are invited by an apparently benevolent race to participate in a series of contests against one another in exchange for advanced technology. This, however, is a ruse staged by the alien race the Brood. The Brood Queen plans to absorb the powers of the strongest heroes and channel them into the captive mutant heroine Rogue, who is infected with a Brood egg that will spawn another Brood Queen.
Courtesy of microscopic nanites, all the heroes (with the exception of Iron Man, whose armor's automatic life support systems protected him from infection) are drugged, and become indifferent to everything except the contest. The Brood Queen's plan is eventually disrupted by the hero Hawkeye, who was overlooked in the early stages of the contest, and Iron Man, who leads several defeated heroes against the Brood. The Brood are defeated and Rogue is cured by heroine Ms. Marvel, who convinces the Brood Queen to withdraw by convincing the Queen that she will kill Rogue if she does not.[1]
List of Conflicts
Opponent 1 Opponent 2 Winner Notes Iron Man Psylocke Iron Man Psylocke attempted to use her powers to create the illusion that she was still 'Lady Mandarin', but Iron Man used his armour's close-range defences to knock her out. Iron Man X-Force X-Force Iron Man was distracted by the discovery that Siryn had recently sustained damage to her larynx preventing her from using her powers long enough for Bedlam to get the drop on him Spider-Woman Human Torch Human Torch The Torch trapped Spider-Woman in a fire vortex and drained oxygen out of the resulting dome to suffocate her Hulk Mister Fantastic Hulk Hulk inhaled Mister Fantastic into his mouth, keeping him contained and trapped until he ran out of oxygen and fainted Human Torch She-Hulk Human Torch The Torch heated the air around them until She-Hulk passed out from heatstroke Storm Human Torch Storm Storm forced the Torch into unconsciousness with a continuous wind assault, leaving him with no way to win other than using a nova flame assault that could have killed her Cable Scarlet Witch Scarlet Witch The Witch's hex-spheres combined with Cable's time-travelling nature caused minor temporal rifts that drew in other-worldly heroes Lockdown and Rosetta Stone into the ship New Warriors Slingers New Warriors Objecting to the idea of a straightforward fist-fight, the two teams competed in a basketball game that the New Warriors won Spider-Man Beast Spider-Man Domino Power Man Domino Daredevil Firestar Daredevil Phoenix Justice Phoenix Hawkeye Wasp Hawkeye Colossus Iron Fist Iron Fist Quicksilver Gambit Gambit Black Panther New Warriors Black Panther Wonder Man Black Widow Black Widow Deadpool Generation X Deadpool Invisible Woman Iron Fist Invisible Woman Thor Storm Thor Thor literally took Storm's breath away by kissing her and inhaling her oxygen Daredevil Deadpool Deadpool Deadpool's unusual physiology due to his healing factor, combined with his constant talking and a fake baby, distracted Daredevil's heightened senses long enough for him to get the drop on his foe Black Widow X-Force Black Widow Thor Black Widow Thor A simple strike with Mjolnir ended the fight quickly Phoenix Thing Phoenix Fighting on the Blue Area of the Moon, Phoenix forced the Thing out of the perimeter of the combat zone and held him there until he ran out of breath Hulk Deadpool Hulk Hulk literally landed on Deadpool after dropping him through a hole in the ground Spider-Man Domino Spider-Man Spider-Man outstripped Domino physically despite their similar ability to predict the other's moves Black Panther Captain America Captai America Black Panther's internal resistance to the current conflict gave Captain America the edge he needed Wolverine Gambit Gambit Wolverine was distacted by the appearance of the Brood Queen- now in Rogue's body- long enough for Gambit to land a finishing blow. Footnotes
- ^ Contest of Champions #1 - 2 (Sept. 1999); #3 (Oct. 1999); #4 - 5 (Nov. 1999)
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