Funny / Contest of Champions (2015)

• Outlaw shooting Hydra!Moon Boy in the head in the first issue with one of his "mercy bullets".
  Iron Man: Was that a good idea?
  Outlaw: Seemed like one at the time. Not sure now. Story of my life, if I'm honest.
• Iron Man and Maestro's first meeting.
  Tony: How's it going, future Banner? You still one of the good guys?
  Maestro: Banner can't take your call right now. Please leave your message at the sound of a thousand femurs breaking. (cracks his knuckles)
  Tony: ...Okay. Wrong Hulk.
• The introductory blurbs for characters are pretty funny.
  Iron Man. Iron Man.
  Stick. Ninja grandpa.
  Ares. Yes that Ares.
• Ares nailing Maestro between the uprights. Please note that Maestro is wearing a full suit of armor made by a gamma-empowered Tony Stark, and he still somehow felt it.
• Upon entering the arena in issue 3, Gamora tells the team not to do anything that could give away their position. Ares, looking to pay the Sentry back for killing him, screams for them to face each other before Gamora can even finish her sentence.
• The absurdity that is Hulk!Rick Jones. Imagine a mish-mash of Hulk Speak and outdated 50's greaser slang.
• Upon first seeing the alternate universe Madame Hydra, who has weird tentacle appendages sticking out of her head, Night Thrasher calls her "The All-New, All-Different Dr. Octopus" making a playful jab at the large number of Affirmative-Action Legacy heroes introduced in the ANAD series.
• Issue 6 reveals how the Contest came to be. Turns out the Elders of the Universe showed up and started fighting over it, right up until the Grandmaster did what he always does:
  The Possessor: Don't say it. Don't—
  The Grandmaster: I propose...a game.
  The Possessor: I hate you.
• Maestro readying up to fight the Grandmaster for his piece of the iso-sphere, which he declares will be fun. Four and a half minutes later:
  Maestro: All right. That wasn't fun.
  Grandmaster: Thank you.
  Maestro: I think you broke my arm. And some ribs.
  Grandmaster: Glad to hear it. I'm just going to lie here and let my spine reattach for a while...
• From issue 7, Outlaw explaining to Jake Gallows why he quit as the "British Punisher":
  Nigel: All right. It just... got too much, yeah? All of it. I mean, for a start, there was this serial killer...
  Jake: Serial killer?
  Nigel: Went round killing greengrocers. He'd pose them—the corpses—with little bits of lettuce.
  Jake: Lettuce...?
  Nigel: Little bits shaved off the end of the lettuce, yeah. Horrible. And that was just the tip of the iceberg. Eh? Eh?
• Issue 8 has Night Thrasher announcing his plan to get everyone out of prison; hacking the systems. An indignant Madame Hydra starts yelling that he can't just declare he'll "hack" something and expect it it work... as NT does just that.
• Issue 9 has Bullseye (an alternate Elektra), angrily muttering to herself in Greek. Then White Fox and Ares respond - since White Fox is trained in multiple languages, and Ares is Ares.
  • Meanwhile, Outlaw doesn't speak Greek, and has no idea what anyone's saying.
  • Then the joke breaks the fourth wall when the comic refuses to translate the Greek they're arguing in.
• Outlaw's reaction to Penance:
  "...I just want to get home to my cat."
• Issue 10: Outlaw is confronted by an alternate version of Frank Castle, who demands at gunpoint the truth. Outlaw quickly explains everything. And Frank believes it instantly.
  • Frank shooting Jake Gallows in the middle of his speech. Why?
  Outlaw: Frank-
  Frank Castle: Wearing the skull. Didn't approve him.
• Outlaw getting referred to as "Pirate Punisher".
  Nigel: It's Outlaw, right? Outlaw! Cor, never meet your heroes—
  Guillotine: You picked that shirt, my friend.
• Any time anyone points out how stupid or dated Night Thrasher's gimmick is, only for Dwayne to immediately upstage them and prove, dumb or not, his gimmick is effective.
  Bullseye: (throwing her sais at Night Thrasher) I don't believe this. You're riding into battle on a skateboard? It's... it's ridiculous!
  Night Thrasher: (blocking the sais with said skateboard) I don't care. It's what works.