Querl Dox vs Amadeus Cho
* Brainiac Five (Querl Dox) from Pre-Crisis continuity.
* 616 Amadeus Cho.
Round 1: They are given equivalent resources, twenty-four hours to build weapons and defenses, and then placed in the arena. No previously existing weapons, no Hulk powers.
Round 2: They are given equivalent laptops hooked into the same network. The goal is to hack into the enemy's laptop and crash it. First to do this wins.
Round 3: They are given a series of progressively more difficult cosmic equations. The first to get a wrong answer loses. If one contestant falls three equations behind the other, he loses.
Round 4: Unarmed hand-to-hand combat. No Hulk powers for Cho. No force field belt, etc, for Querl.
Round 5: Standard arena match. Querl gets standard equipment, including force field belt. Cho gets standard equipment for himself, plus he's a Hulk.
Bonus Question: One of the Plot Gods offers you your choice of either a Coluan 12th-level effector mind at the level of Querl (no risk of mental instability), or a hyper-mind at the level of Amadeus (no metabolism problems).
Answer for any or all.
Or just compare and contrast the abilities of the characters in a way that's illuminating.