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is the name of three Creator/MarvelComics MiniSeries that featured superheroes being forced to fight against each other.
''Contest of Champions'' is a three-issue comic book limited series published from June to August 1982 by Creator/MarvelComics. The series was written by Creator/MarkGruenwald, with art by John Romita Jr. and Bob Layton.
The first limited series produced by Marvel, as well as [[UrExample the precursor]] to the concept of the CrisisCrossover. It was originally conceived as a tie-in to the next UsefulNotes/OlympicGames. Although the deal fell through, Marvel still published the story without any sports-related material. It was written by Mark Gruenwald, who included pages describing the various heroes in each issue, which began the concept of the "superhero encyclopedia" that would later be expanded into the ''ComicBook/OfficialHandbookOfTheMarvelUniverse''.
In its story, an immortal alien called The Grandmaster gathers all of Earth's superheroes and chooses some of them as pawns in a game with a mysterious hooded woman with the resurrection of his brother, The Collector (who was killed during the events of ''ComicBook/TheKorvacSaga''), as the prize, and all of humanity as hostages.
''Contest of Champions'' is a three-issue comic book limited series published from June to August 1982 by Creator/MarvelComics. The series was written by Creator/MarkGruenwald, with art by John Romita Jr. and Bob Layton.
The first limited series produced by Marvel, as well as [[UrExample the precursor]] to the concept of the CrisisCrossover. It was originally conceived as a tie-in to the next UsefulNotes/OlympicGames. Although the deal fell through, Marvel still published the story without any sports-related material. It was written by Mark Gruenwald, who included pages describing the various heroes in each issue, which began the concept of the "superhero encyclopedia" that would later be expanded into the ''ComicBook/OfficialHandbookOfTheMarvelUniverse''.
In its story, an immortal alien called The Grandmaster gathers all of Earth's superheroes and chooses some of them as pawns in a game with a mysterious hooded woman with the resurrection of his brother, The Collector (who was killed during the events of ''ComicBook/TheKorvacSaga''), as the prize, and all of humanity as hostages.
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An immortal alien called The Grandmaster gathers all of Earth's superheroes and chooses some of them as pawns in a game he's playing against a mysterious hooded woman - with the resurrection of his brother, The Collector (who was killed during the events of ''ComicBook/TheKorvacSaga''), as the prize, and all of humanity as hostages.
It was the first limited series produced by Marvel, as well as [[UrExample the precursor]] to the concept of the CrisisCrossover.
In its story, an immortal alien called The Grandmaster gathers all of Earth's superheroes and chooses some of them as pawns in a game with a mysterious hooded woman with the resurrection of his brother, The Collector (who was killed during the events of ''ComicBook/TheKorvacSaga''), as the prize, and all of humanity as hostages.
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[[caption-width-right:350:The first Contest.]]
is the name of three Creator/MarvelComics MiniSeries that featured superheroes being forced to fight against each other.
''Contest of Champions'' is a three-issue comic book limited series published from June to August 1982 by Creator/MarvelComics. The series was written by Mark Gruenwald, with art by John Romita Jr. and Bob Layton.
The first limited series produced by Marvel, as well as [[UrExample the precursor]] to the concept of the CrisisCrossover. It was originally conceived as a tie-in to the next UsefulNotes/OlympicGames. Although the deal fell through, Marvel still published the story without any sports-related material. It was written by Mark Gruenwald, who included pages describing the various heroes in each issue, which began the concept of the "superhero encyclopedia" that would later be expanded into the ''ComicBook/OfficialHandbookOfTheMarvelUniverse''.
In its story, an immortal alien called The Grandmaster gathers all of Earth's superheroes and chooses some of them as pawns in a game with a mysterious hooded woman with the resurrection of his brother, The Collector (who was killed during the events of ''ComicBook/TheKorvacSaga''), as the prize, and all of humanity as hostages.
The story was adapted as an episode of the animated series ''WesternAnimation/FantasticFourWorldsGreatestHeroes'', but using only characters from that series.
The series has two followups, ''ComicBook/ContestOfChampionsII'', and ''ComicBook/ContestOfChampions2015''.
The first series was also loosely adapted as the multi-part Season 3 finale of ''WesternAnimation/UltimateSpiderMan2012''.
The Contest appears in the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse film ''Film/ThorRagnarok''. After being stranded on the [[LandfillBeyondTheStars junk planet]] Sakaar, ComicBook/{{Thor}} is taken prisoner by The Grandmaster and forced to fight as a gladiator against ComicBook/TheHulk, who ended up there after the events of ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron''.
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!!Tropes used in ''Contest of Champions (1982)''
* AmbiguouslyBrown: Talisman is supposedly an Australian Aborigine, but is drawn as if he were a bald white man and colored brown.
* AnthropomorphicPersonification: [[spoiler:Death]].
* BalancingDeathsBooks
* BlatantLies: The Grandmaster promises Earth's heroes that he would never use them as pawns again if they won for him. He (or more likely, the writer) seems to have forgotten about this since.
* CaptainEthnic: Some of the International Heroes used can be seen as this.
* TheChessmaster: The Grandmaster. Not so much for his acts here, as for the later revelations of his true plan. (See ThanatosGambit below.)
* CosmicEntity: Both The Grandmaster and [[spoiler:Death]].
* ExcusePlot: It was all a means to show off Marvel's International Superheroes (for once).
* HonorBeforeReason: The Grandmaster [[spoiler:apparently.]]
* AHouseDivided: None of the heroes worked together, not even with their own teammates. This may have been just so they would be free to fight their rivals one-on-one.
** Some of the ethnic heroes refused to work together because of their national conflicts; e.g., the Egyptian Arabian Knight and the Israeli Sabra.
* LetsYouAndHimFight: The heroes needed very little provocation to fight each other. The matches were:[[note]]note that these fights were picked by the heroes themselves, not the game's players[[/note]]
** [[ComicBook/FantasticFour Invisible Woman]] vs Talisman
** Sunfire vs Darkstar
** ComicBook/{{Daredevil}} vs Comicbook/IronFist
** ComicBook/SheHulk vs Sabra
** Black Knight vs Arabian Knight
** ComicBook/IronMan vs Defensor
** [[ComicBook/FantasticFour The Thing]] vs Vanguard
** [[ComicBook/XMen Angel]] vs Le Peregrine
** ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} vs ComicBook/BlackPanther (with the former trying to *kill* the later!)
** [[ComicBook/AlphaFlight Sasquatch]] vs Collective Man
** ComicBook/{{Storm}} vs Blitzkrieg
** ComicBook/CaptainAmerica vs Shamrock
* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Every superhero on Earth, in fact, though only 24 (12 on each side) actually participated in the "game" and six of them were all-new heroes.
* MultinationalTeam: The playing teams can be seen as this, though the American heroes outnumbered the non-American ones. The latter were:
** Blitzkrieg (Germany), Collective Man (China), Defensor (Argentina, though erroneously indicated to be from Brazil), Peregrine (France), Shamrock (Ireland), Talisman (Australia), Sunfire (Japan), Darkstar (the Soviet Union), Vanguard (also Soviet), Sabra (Israel), Arabian Knight (Egypt) and Sasquatch (Canada).
*** Comicbook/{{Wolverine}} is from Canada, but most of the time works in the United States with the ComicBook/XMen.
*** Also in the X-Men, Comicbook/{{Storm}} grew up in Africa but was born in New York.
*** ComicBook/BlackPanther comes from his own fictional African country, Wakanda.
*** The Black Knight inherited the identity of a British medieval hero but was born in Massachusetts and is active in America.
*** Comicbook/IronFist is also an American raised in a [[TheShangriLa Chinese mystical land]], but now lives in America.
* OriginalGeneration: The heroes Blitzkrieg, Collective Man, Defensor, Peregrine, Shamrock and Talisman all were created for this series. (The other international heroes used had been introduced before.)
* PlotCoupon: The Globe of Life, whose four parts were hidden on four different parts of the Earth for the heroes to find. It was needed to resurrect the Collector.
* RedheadInGreen: The Irish superheroine Shamrock has a green costume and flowing red hair.
* TheReveal: [[spoiler:Death]] kept her identity secret until the last issue, though fans of the ComicBook/AdamWarlock series might have recognized her earlier.
* SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale: The unknown rival tried to entice her team by offering to extend the existence of Earth's sun by a million years if they won. Unfortunately for her, the sun has still about a ''billion'' years left so a million would be an insignificant addition. Not to mention that humanity might not even exist by the time it winks out.
* SeriesContinuityError: The plot got resolved only because the writer forgot ''who was on whose team'': [[http://bullyscomics.blogspot.sg/2010/10/whoops.html It would have resulted in a draw otherwise.]]
* ThanatosGambit: It was later revealed (perhaps {{retcon}}ned) in an issue of ''ComicBook/TheAvengers'' that the Grandmaster [[spoiler:knew what the price for reviving his brother was all along; in fact, ''that'' was his true plan: to die so he could be allowed into Death's realm--to take it over]]! Then it's inverted. After the Grandmaster was defeated by the Avengers, [[spoiler:Death exiled him from her realm forever, thus giving him what he ''really'' wanted from the start: ''true'' immortality]].
* UnbuiltTrope: Today, a story like this would most likely be a massive event. At the time of publication, the modern CrisisCrossover did not exist, hence this is a crowded three issue miniseries.
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[[caption-width-right:350:The first Contest.]]
is the name of three Creator/MarvelComics MiniSeries that featured superheroes being forced to fight against each other.
''Contest of Champions'' is a three-issue comic book limited series published from June to August 1982 by Creator/MarvelComics. The series was written by Mark Gruenwald, with art by John Romita Jr. and Bob Layton.
The first limited series produced by Marvel, as well as [[UrExample the precursor]] to the concept of the CrisisCrossover. It was originally conceived as a tie-in to the next UsefulNotes/OlympicGames. Although the deal fell through, Marvel still published the story without any sports-related material. It was written by Mark Gruenwald, who included pages describing the various heroes in each issue, which began the concept of the "superhero encyclopedia" that would later be expanded into the ''ComicBook/OfficialHandbookOfTheMarvelUniverse''.
In its story, an immortal alien called The Grandmaster gathers all of Earth's superheroes and chooses some of them as pawns in a game with a mysterious hooded woman with the resurrection of his brother, The Collector (who was killed during the events of ''ComicBook/TheKorvacSaga''), as the prize, and all of humanity as hostages.
The story was adapted as an episode of the animated series ''WesternAnimation/FantasticFourWorldsGreatestHeroes'', but using only characters from that series.
The series has two followups, ''ComicBook/ContestOfChampionsII'', and ''ComicBook/ContestOfChampions2015''.
The first series was also loosely adapted as the multi-part Season 3 finale of ''WesternAnimation/UltimateSpiderMan2012''.
The Contest appears in the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse film ''Film/ThorRagnarok''. After being stranded on the [[LandfillBeyondTheStars junk planet]] Sakaar, ComicBook/{{Thor}} is taken prisoner by The Grandmaster and forced to fight as a gladiator against ComicBook/TheHulk, who ended up there after the events of ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron''.
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!!Tropes used in ''Contest of Champions (1982)''
* AmbiguouslyBrown: Talisman is supposedly an Australian Aborigine, but is drawn as if he were a bald white man and colored brown.
* AnthropomorphicPersonification: [[spoiler:Death]].
* BalancingDeathsBooks
* BlatantLies: The Grandmaster promises Earth's heroes that he would never use them as pawns again if they won for him. He (or more likely, the writer) seems to have forgotten about this since.
* CaptainEthnic: Some of the International Heroes used can be seen as this.
* TheChessmaster: The Grandmaster. Not so much for his acts here, as for the later revelations of his true plan. (See ThanatosGambit below.)
* CosmicEntity: Both The Grandmaster and [[spoiler:Death]].
* ExcusePlot: It was all a means to show off Marvel's International Superheroes (for once).
* HonorBeforeReason: The Grandmaster [[spoiler:apparently.]]
* AHouseDivided: None of the heroes worked together, not even with their own teammates. This may have been just so they would be free to fight their rivals one-on-one.
** Some of the ethnic heroes refused to work together because of their national conflicts; e.g., the Egyptian Arabian Knight and the Israeli Sabra.
* LetsYouAndHimFight: The heroes needed very little provocation to fight each other. The matches were:[[note]]note that these fights were picked by the heroes themselves, not the game's players[[/note]]
** [[ComicBook/FantasticFour Invisible Woman]] vs Talisman
** Sunfire vs Darkstar
** ComicBook/{{Daredevil}} vs Comicbook/IronFist
** ComicBook/SheHulk vs Sabra
** Black Knight vs Arabian Knight
** ComicBook/IronMan vs Defensor
** [[ComicBook/FantasticFour The Thing]] vs Vanguard
** [[ComicBook/XMen Angel]] vs Le Peregrine
** ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} vs ComicBook/BlackPanther (with the former trying to *kill* the later!)
** [[ComicBook/AlphaFlight Sasquatch]] vs Collective Man
** ComicBook/{{Storm}} vs Blitzkrieg
** ComicBook/CaptainAmerica vs Shamrock
* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Every superhero on Earth, in fact, though only 24 (12 on each side) actually participated in the "game" and six of them were all-new heroes.
* MultinationalTeam: The playing teams can be seen as this, though the American heroes outnumbered the non-American ones. The latter were:
** Blitzkrieg (Germany), Collective Man (China), Defensor (Argentina, though erroneously indicated to be from Brazil), Peregrine (France), Shamrock (Ireland), Talisman (Australia), Sunfire (Japan), Darkstar (the Soviet Union), Vanguard (also Soviet), Sabra (Israel), Arabian Knight (Egypt) and Sasquatch (Canada).
*** Comicbook/{{Wolverine}} is from Canada, but most of the time works in the United States with the ComicBook/XMen.
*** Also in the X-Men, Comicbook/{{Storm}} grew up in Africa but was born in New York.
*** ComicBook/BlackPanther comes from his own fictional African country, Wakanda.
*** The Black Knight inherited the identity of a British medieval hero but was born in Massachusetts and is active in America.
*** Comicbook/IronFist is also an American raised in a [[TheShangriLa Chinese mystical land]], but now lives in America.
* OriginalGeneration: The heroes Blitzkrieg, Collective Man, Defensor, Peregrine, Shamrock and Talisman all were created for this series. (The other international heroes used had been introduced before.)
* PlotCoupon: The Globe of Life, whose four parts were hidden on four different parts of the Earth for the heroes to find. It was needed to resurrect the Collector.
* RedheadInGreen: The Irish superheroine Shamrock has a green costume and flowing red hair.
* TheReveal: [[spoiler:Death]] kept her identity secret until the last issue, though fans of the ComicBook/AdamWarlock series might have recognized her earlier.
* SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale: The unknown rival tried to entice her team by offering to extend the existence of Earth's sun by a million years if they won. Unfortunately for her, the sun has still about a ''billion'' years left so a million would be an insignificant addition. Not to mention that humanity might not even exist by the time it winks out.
* SeriesContinuityError: The plot got resolved only because the writer forgot ''who was on whose team'': [[http://bullyscomics.blogspot.sg/2010/10/whoops.html It would have resulted in a draw otherwise.]]
* ThanatosGambit: It was later revealed (perhaps {{retcon}}ned) in an issue of ''ComicBook/TheAvengers'' that the Grandmaster [[spoiler:knew what the price for reviving his brother was all along; in fact, ''that'' was his true plan: to die so he could be allowed into Death's realm--to take it over]]! Then it's inverted. After the Grandmaster was defeated by the Avengers, [[spoiler:Death exiled him from her realm forever, thus giving him what he ''really'' wanted from the start: ''true'' immortality]].
* UnbuiltTrope: Today, a story like this would most likely be a massive event. At the time of publication, the modern CrisisCrossover did not exist, hence this is a crowded three issue miniseries.
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