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When Bugs Bunny would make all of the contenders beg for mercy.

Bugs Bunny loses though

Irony posted...

Bugs Bunny loses though

Only if that's the funnier outcome. Which it isn't gonna be for anyone who is remotely serious or powerful.

Isnt it obviously someone from DBZ. Like whiz

Bugs Bunny vs One Punch Man?

Oreos74 posted...

Isnt it obviously someone from DBZ. Like whiz

There's an anime character called Dark Schneider from the series Bastard!!! that has a powerset written like a kid on a playground who just keeps making up powers because he refuses to lose.

Like... he literally has protection from being erased from existence. You can't go back into the past and kill him. He has 100+ magic shields, each completely immune to something different that each regenerate instantly. Even if you somehow manage to get through all 100 at once, you need to kill a very specific atom in his body to keep him from just regenerating. Oh, and he fights at like 1000x the speed of light.

So to the topic... the strongest is probably that guy.

KalimariX8 posted...

Bugs Bunny vs One Punch Man?

OPM couldn't even beat Popeye.

Tommy Pickles with screwdriver

Topics like these should probably exclude characters that ooze toonforce energy. Otherwise we're talking strictly characters like SpongeBob, Popeye, the Mask, Freakazoid, Arele, etc etc.

Looks like its a time for...QUAIL MAN!!

popeye solos. it was never going to be anyone else.

s0nicfan posted...

There's an anime character called Dark Schneider from the series Bastard!!! that has a powerset written like a kid on a playground who just keeps making up powers because he refuses to lose.

Like... he literally has protection from being erased from existence. You can't go back into the past and kill him. He has 100+ magic shields, each completely immune to something different that each regenerate instantly. Even if you somehow manage to get through all 100 at once, you need to kill a very specific atom in his body to keep him from just regenerating. Oh, and he fights at like 1000x the speed of light.

So to the topic... the strongest is probably that guy.

Bugs Bunny can do this
https://youtu.be/tJBeih6JZrs?t=39

https://www.deviantart.com/doctormoodb/journal/Popeye-tanks-the-universe-being-erased-Feat-836366273

Ho hum, the link says it all.

But what about The Mask

s0nicfan posted...

There's an anime character called Dark Schneider from the series Bastard!!! that has a powerset written like a kid on a playground who just keeps making up powers because he refuses to lose.

Like... he literally has protection from being erased from existence. You can't go back into the past and kill him. He has 100+ magic shields, each completely immune to something different that each regenerate instantly. Even if you somehow manage to get through all 100 at once, you need to kill a very specific atom in his body to keep him from just regenerating. Oh, and he fights at like 1000x the speed of light.

So to the topic... the strongest is probably that guy.

Characters that do not have the ability to beat being rewritten, erased from the story, etc. are irrelevant in the topic of "who is the strongest with gag characters included." Like, when his backstory is rewritten to be "he has the power to trip on fish" in a fight with Bobobo what exactly is he going to do? He is literally a normal person who just trips on fish a lot versus someone who has the power of "literally whatever the author writes."

ellis123 posted...

Characters that do not have the ability to beat being rewritten, erased from the story, etc. are irrelevant in the topic of "who is the strongest with gag characters included." Like, when his backstory is rewritten to be "he has the power to trip on fish" in a fight with Bobobo what exactly is he going to do? He is literally a normal person who just trips on fish a lot versus someone who has the power of "literally whatever the author writes."

I mean, literally every fictional character has the power of "literally whatever the author writes". Gag characters just get to play faster and looser with it by virtue of their medium.

Meaning any battle involving gag characters will come down to whoever's writing that particular battle and nothing more.

Reave314 posted...

I mean, literally every fictional character has the power of "literally whatever the author writes". Gag characters just get to play faster and looser with it by virtue of their medium.

Meaning any battle involving gag characters will come down to whoever's writing that particular battle and nothing more.

I mean, that's kind of the point to some extent. Yes the writers can add powers and whatnot but the idea is that they have a list of "this is what is even possible, this is what they can do right now, etc." as a way to keep everything on tone and so you really cannot say that, say, Superman can get the power to use magic because it is literally against one of his current characterization flaws. There is no scenario where you can have an official version of Superman in his current form with magic, it just doesn't work. Inversely gag characters can have their powers but, as you say, it can be a fast and loose kind of thing. Thus in the comparison basically all gag characters by default are a power tier above non-gag. Popeye can't shoot fireballs because of magic or something, but he can certainly punch fast enough to do basically the same thing.

And yes, you are correct in that in the battle between gag characters it basically boils down to who is doing the writing. That, however, has nothing to do with what I said before: it's all down to gag characters and not non-gag characters, which was my entire point. Which gag character is the winner is pretty much irrelevant in that respect because it all boils down into the person in question.

Squirrel Girl solos off panel.

OPM would def beat popeye, that amazing yt video be damned.

bugs is up there, he's just not as good at pure fighting.

Did they ever come up with a way to definitively beat Popeye?

Ed from ed edd n eddy rekts

Tom Bombadil

Haruhi is by far the most powerful

Reminder that Popeye has feats like blowing the sun out like a candle, regenerating from nothingness, and exiting his own cartoon.

ViewtifulJoe posted...

Did they ever come up with a way to definitively beat Popeye?

The only way to beat him is to keep spinach away from him. Even that's a crap shoot because kids in the audience of his cartoons have been known to toss him cans of spinach when he's in duress.

Yeah he can just will spinach into existence and doesn't need it for stuff like regeneration