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* '''Exaggerated''': Superio could pretty much [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu punch out any self respecting]] EldritchAbomination with the greatest finesse and elegance possible, but when up against the PersonOfMassDestruction Electro-Man, it's always either going to be a draw or the ''very slightest'' PyrrhicVictory Superio can get over Electro-Man.

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* '''Exaggerated''': Superio could pretty much [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu punch out expertly bitch slap any self respecting]] EldritchAbomination out of existence with the greatest finesse and elegance possible, but when up against the PersonOfMassDestruction Electro-Man, it's always either going to be a draw or the ''very slightest'' PyrrhicVictory Superio can get over Electro-Man.



* '''Justified''': As TheBerserker, Electro-Man has ludicrously high levels of {{determinat|or}}ion, which makes him so angrily laser focused on achieving his goal (more often than not pummeling Superio into LudicrousGibs) that he's capable of catching up with the usually fast paced action Superio brings in his fights, as Hellraiser couldn't even catch him while Superio literally flies circles around the big oaf. Not to mention, Electro-Man is prone to shooting out lightning wildly, and since electricity is pretty wild on its own, it means that Superio literally can't predict where Electro-Man's lightning is gonna hit him.

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* '''Justified''': As TheBerserker, Electro-Man has ludicrously high levels of {{determinat|or}}ion, which makes him so angrily laser focused on achieving his goal (more often than not pummeling his enemy, Superio in this case, into LudicrousGibs) that he's capable of catching up with the usually fast paced action Superio brings in his fights, as Hellraiser couldn't even catch him while Superio literally flies circles around the big oaf. Not to mention, Electro-Man is prone to shooting out lightning wildly, and since electricity is pretty wild on its own, it means that Superio literally can't predict where Electro-Man's lightning is gonna hit him.
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* '''Parodied''': After an epic buildup, it turns out neither Superio nor Electro-Man are remotely competent fighters, the former being a FakeUltimateHero and the later being an IneffectualSympatheticVillain. They fight to save face but it's a comical brawl in which neither one does much damage.

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* '''Parodied''': After an epic buildup, it turns out neither Superio nor Electro-Man are remotely competent fighters, the former being a FakeUltimateHero and the later being an IneffectualSympatheticVillain. They fight to save face but it's a comical brawl WimpFight in which neither one does much damage.
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* '''Parodied''': ???After an epic buildup, it turns out neither Superio nor Electro-Man are remotely competent fighters, the former being a FakeUltimateHero and the later being an IneffectualSympatheticVillain. They fight to save face but it's a comical brawl in which neither one does much damage.
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* '''Implied''': Superio remarks that he's met quite the RoguesGallery, but he offhandedly remarks that the only person to ''really'' give him trouble is that "wild, brazen kid who was dead set on nothing but bloody murder". We don't know who this wild, brazen kid is, but an imaginary image of a gargantuan brute appears.

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* '''Implied''': Superio [[OldSuperhero Superio]] remarks that he's met quite the RoguesGallery, but he offhandedly remarks that the only person to ''really'' give him trouble is that "wild, brazen kid who was dead set on nothing but bloody murder". We don't know who this wild, brazen kid is, but an imaginary image of a gargantuan brute appears.
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** Electro-Man's toughest enemy has been Hellraiser the Uncontainable, or another [[TheJuggernaut Juggernaut]] or [[TheBerserker Berserker]] type enemy. Superio couldn't even make a dent in Electro-Man if he tried.

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* '''Inverted''': Superio's toughest enemy is another FlyingBrick with similar feats of finesse and skill. Electro-Man couldn't even make a dent in Superio if he tried.

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Superio's toughest enemy is another FlyingBrick with similar feats of finesse and skill. Electro-Man couldn't even make a dent in Superio if he tried.tried.
** Electro-Man himself had been considered the biggest threat in the world through nothing but brute force and violent determination. Enter Superio, whose finesse allows him to prove himself to be a match (or possibly even more than) for Electro-Man.



* '''Played for Drama''': If Electro-Man has proven himself to be a match for ''Superio himself'', then Tarantu-Dude's in for one rude awakening once [[OhCrap he's the only superhero available against a country leveling supervillain]].

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* '''Played for Drama''': If Electro-Man has proven himself to be a match for ''Superio himself'', then Tarantu-Dude's in for one rude awakening once [[OhCrap he's the only superhero available against a country leveling universe corroding supervillain]].
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* '''Lampshaded''': ???This exchange:
--> '''Superio''': At last, my greatest foe, Electro-Man! Only the most elegant, beautiful, and graceful fighter deserves the most brutish, crass, and unrefined slugger! Have at thee!
--> '''Electro-Man''': Oh yeah!? Only the [[AccidentalInnuendo strongest deserves the prettiest]], I can agree widdat! BringIt, Superio!
---> '''Superio''': I hope you don't mean ''me'' as the prettiest... Though, even if you do, I'm still not going to go out with you on a date, you know?
---> '''Electro-Man''': [[GayBravado Ah, fuck. Eh, whatever, it was]] [[WorthIt worth a shot.]]

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* '''Subverted''': ???
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** It looks like Superio and Electro-Man are squaring up... But Superio swiftly shoulder bashes into Electro-Man, knocking the brute down and out.
** It looks like Superio and Electro-Man are squaring up... But Electro-Man fries Superio to a crisp, leaving the cape out on the floor, down and out.
* '''Double Subverted''': ???(From both) The supposedly defeated one gets up, and calls out to them.
--> '''Electro-Man (from Subverted 1)''': Hey, asshole! Where do ya think yer goin'? [[TheGlovesAreOff I was just warmin' up]]...
--> '''Superio (from Subverted 2)''': Hey, you there! Where do you think you're going? [[TheGlovesAreOff I was just warming up]]...



* '''Enforced''': Superio hasn't had a sufficient enough villain to match him as of late, and since it's in the same universe, the writers decide to give [[SpiderManSendUp Tarantu-Dude]]'s most fearsome villain yet, Electro-Man, an upgrade from NobodyToNightmare in a bid to get the viewers reading. And what better way to get his status up than through invoking this trope?

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* '''Enforced''': Superio hasn't had a sufficient enough villain to match him as of late, and since it's in the same universe, the writers decide to give [[SpiderManSendUp Tarantu-Dude]]'s most fearsome villain yet, Electro-Man, an upgrade from NobodyToNightmare FromNobodyToNightmare in a bid to get the viewers reading. And what better way to get his status up than through invoking this trope?



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* '''Exploited''': ???
Paul Dyson, the local SmoothTalkingTalentAgent, urges Electro-Man to chase Superio, and once the two are fighting, Paul profits off of Electro-Man's success due to being an equal match for Superio.
* '''Defied''': ???The two are often separated during any BigBadassBattleSequence, pretty much preventing either of them from even meeting in the first place.

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* '''Straight''': [[FlyingBrick Superio]]'s toughest enemy yet has got to be TheBrute [[ShockAndAwe Electro]][[EmpoweredBadassNormal -]][[BoxingBattler]], considering just how scary he is both with ''and'' without his superpowers, as he's always going to be BroughtDownToBadass even if one takes away his electricity. It's like taking [[TheJuggernaut Hellraiser]] [[RedBaron The]] [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Uncontainable]] and giving him a HairTriggerTemper ''and'' ShockAndAwe powers, and Hellraiser is already a pretty scary individual.

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* '''Straight''': [[FlyingBrick Superio]]'s toughest enemy yet has got to be TheBrute [[ShockAndAwe Electro]][[EmpoweredBadassNormal -]][[BoxingBattler]], -]][[BoxingBattler Man]], considering just how scary he is both with ''and'' without his superpowers, as he's always going to be BroughtDownToBadass even if one takes away his electricity. It's like taking [[TheJuggernaut Hellraiser]] [[RedBaron The]] [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Uncontainable]] and giving him a HairTriggerTemper ''and'' ShockAndAwe powers, and Hellraiser is already a pretty scary individual.



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Superio has equal amounts of trouble with his RoguesGallery.
* '''Enforced''': ???Superio hasn't had a sufficient enough villain to match him as of late, and since it's in the same universe, the writers decide to give [[SpiderManSendUp Tarantu-Dude]]'s most fearsome villain yet, Electro-Man, an upgrade from NobodyToNightmare in a bid to get the viewers reading. And what better way to get his status up than through invoking this trope?



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* '''Invoked''': ???Electro-Man, sick of being Tarantu-Dude's primary villain all the time, goes through some personal TrainingFromHell in order to be taken more seriously as a threat than to have a chump like Tarantu-Dude be his arch enemy.



* '''Implied''': Superio remarks that he's met quite the RoguesGallery, but he offhandedly remarks that the only person to ''really'' give him trouble is that "wild, brazen kid who was dead set on nothing but bloody murder". We don't know who this wild, brazen kid is, but an imaginary image of a gargantuan brute appears.
* '''Deconstructed''': Due to how much Superio struggles against someone who's essentially just Hellraiser with an attitude and electric powers, people stop seeing him as this almighty powerhouse that everyone not on his side [[TheDreaded immediately realizes that the situation they're in]] [[ThisIsGonnaSuck is swiftly turning south]], and soon enough, Superio loses a lot of street cred. After all, how can TheAce struggle so badly against someone considered to be UnskilledButStrong? Electro-Man isn't safe, either; He's doubted as a good villain simply because he was only a threat to a low level hero, and his doubters fully believe he paid Superio to [[ThrowingTheFight take a dive]].
* '''Reconstructed''': Any sort of doubt on the two is swiftly cast aside once Superio unleashes his DangerousForbiddenTechnique and Electro-Man '''''friggin' {{no sell}}s it'''''. Everyone who's ever seen the DangerousForbiddenTechnique before definitely knows that it's the real deal ''and'' that it ended the careers of plenty a villain, but for Electro-Man to ''shrug it off'' swiftly cements this rivalry as a classic.
* '''Played for Laughs''': Electro-Man's not even a full grown man, he's JustAKid. Well, a kid with serious temper tantrums who also happened to ingest so much human growth hormones [[YoungerThanTheyLook that he can pass off as a 23 year old linebacker]], but still JustAKid. This makes Superio a comical laughing stock.
* '''Played for Drama''': If Electro-Man has proven himself to be a match for ''Superio himself'', then Tarantu-Dude's in for one rude awakening once [[OhCrap he's the only superhero available against a country leveling supervillain]].
* '''Played for Horror''': [[EvilOnlyHasToWinOnce The very day Electro-Man defeats Superio is a day]] that everything Superio stands for is swiftly corroded into a CrapsackWorld.



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'''Basic Trope''': A rivalry where the only match for TheAce or the WorldsBestWarrior is TheBerserker.
* '''Straight''': [[FlyingBrick Superio]]'s toughest enemy yet has got to be TheBrute [[ShockAndAwe Electro]][[EmpoweredBadassNormal -]][[BoxingBattler]], considering just how scary he is both with ''and'' without his superpowers, as he's always going to be BroughtDownToBadass even if one takes away his electricity. It's like taking [[TheJuggernaut Hellraiser]] [[RedBaron The]] [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Uncontainable]] and giving him a HairTriggerTemper ''and'' ShockAndAwe powers, and Hellraiser is already a pretty scary individual.
* '''Exaggerated''': Superio could pretty much [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu punch out any self respecting]] EldritchAbomination with the greatest finesse and elegance possible, but when up against the PersonOfMassDestruction Electro-Man, it's always either going to be a draw or the ''very slightest'' PyrrhicVictory Superio can get over Electro-Man.
* '''Downplayed''': Superio is pretty good, but not the best, which is shown by him struggling to put up a fight against a currently BadassNormal Bruizer (who was the previous identity of Electro-Man before getting {{empower|edbadassnormal}}ment by electricity), even if guys like CaptainPatriotic could make light work of him.
* '''Justified''': As TheBerserker, Electro-Man has ludicrously high levels of {{determinat|or}}ion, which makes him so angrily laser focused on achieving his goal (more often than not pummeling Superio into LudicrousGibs) that he's capable of catching up with the usually fast paced action Superio brings in his fights, as Hellraiser couldn't even catch him while Superio literally flies circles around the big oaf. Not to mention, Electro-Man is prone to shooting out lightning wildly, and since electricity is pretty wild on its own, it means that Superio literally can't predict where Electro-Man's lightning is gonna hit him.
* '''Inverted''': Superio's toughest enemy is another FlyingBrick with similar feats of finesse and skill. Electro-Man couldn't even make a dent in Superio if he tried.
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