Basic Trope: A rivalry where the only match for The Ace or the World's Best Warrior is The Berserker.
- Straight: Superio's toughest enemy yet has got to be The Brute Electro-Man, considering just how scary he is both with and without his superpowers, as he's always going to be Brought Down to Badass even if one takes away his electricity. It's like taking Hellraiser The Uncontainable and giving him a Hair-Trigger Temper and Shock and Awe powers, and Hellraiser is already a pretty scary individual.
- Exaggerated: Superio could pretty much punch out any self respecting Eldritch Abomination with the greatest finesse and elegance possible, but when up against the Person of Mass Destruction Electro-Man, it's always either going to be a draw or the very slightest Pyrrhic Victory 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 Badass Normal Bruizer (who was the previous identity of Electro-Man before getting empowerment by electricity), even if guys like Captain Patriotic could make light work of him.
- Justified: As The Berserker, Electro-Man has ludicrously high levels of determination, which makes him so angrily laser focused on achieving his goal (more often than not pummeling Superio into Ludicrous Gibs) 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 Flying Brick with similar feats of finesse and skill. Electro-Man couldn't even make a dent in Superio if he tried.
- Electro-Man's toughest enemy has been Hellraiser the Uncontainable, or another Juggernaut or Berserker type enemy. Superio couldn't even make a dent in Electro-Man if he 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.
- Subverted:
- 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'? I was just warmin' up...Superio (from Subverted 2): Hey, you there! Where do you think you're going? I was just warming up...
- Parodied: After an epic buildup, it turns out neither Superio nor Electro-Man are remotely competent fighters, the former being a Fake Ultimate Hero and the later being an Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain. They fight to save face but it's a comical Wimp Fight in which neither one does much damage.
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted: Superio has equal amounts of trouble with his Rogues Gallery.
- 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 Tarantu-Dude's most fearsome villain yet, Electro-Man, an upgrade From Nobody to Nightmare in a bid to get the viewers reading. And what better way to get his status up than through invoking this trope?
- 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 strongest deserves the prettiest, I can agree widdat! Bring It, 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: Ah, fuck. Eh, whatever, it was worth a shot.
- Invoked: Electro-Man, sick of being Tarantu-Dude's primary villain all the time, goes through some personal Training from Hell in order to be taken more seriously as a threat than to have a chump like Tarantu-Dude be his arch enemy.
- Exploited: Paul Dyson, the local Smooth-Talking Talent Agent, 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 Big Badass Battle Sequence, pretty much preventing either of them from even meeting in the first place.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Implied: Superio remarks that he's met quite the Rogues Gallery, 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 immediately realizes that the situation they're in is swiftly turning south, and soon enough, Superio loses a lot of street cred. After all, how can The Ace struggle so badly against someone considered to be Unskilled, but Strong? 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 take a dive.
- Reconstructed: Any sort of doubt on the two is swiftly cast aside once Superio unleashes his Dangerous Forbidden Technique and Electro-Man friggin' no sells it. Everyone who's ever seen the Dangerous Forbidden Technique 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 Just a Kid. Well, a kid with serious temper tantrums who also happened to ingest so much human growth hormones that he can pass off as a 23 year old linebacker, but still Just a Kid. 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 he's the only superhero available against a universe corroding supervillain.
- Played for Horror: The very day Electro-Man defeats Superio is a day that everything Superio stands for is swiftly corroded into a Crapsack World.
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