Wonder Woman vs Champion of the Universe

[Agent Z]

Round 1: Champion has the Power Gem.

Round 2: No Power Gem.

Diana is post crisis and has the Hephaestus sword and the Lasso of Truth.

[Sharpandpointies]

Blitz and beatdown, unless she wants to take the easy path by blitz and lasso. Champion, as I recall, has little to nothing for speedfeats.

[grampagen]

Blitz and beatdown, unless she wants to take the easy path by blitz and lasso. Champion, as I recall, has little to nothing for speedfeats.

I would agree that this is easily the outcome of Round 2. Champion, despite his title, isn't the most skilled fighter if it's outside of the boxing ring, either.

Scenario 1 might be a little murkier. The augmentation of the Power Gem allows him to take hits from Thanos - a marked improvement from getting his ribs broken by The Thing unaugmented - and if sufficiently angered Champion could throw a punch strong enough to cause a chain reaction which destroys a planet. He also doesn't lose the Gem unless he consiously surrenders it, like she can't just snatch it off of his forehead.

I mean, still doesn't bridge the speed issue, but just saying, can she put him down?

[nj06]

Scenario 1 might be a little murkier. The augmentation of the Power Gem allows him to take hits from Thanos - a marked improvement from getting his ribs broken by The Thing unaugmented - and if sufficiently angered Champion could throw a punch strong enough to cause a chain reaction which destroys a planet. He also doesn't lose the Gem unless he consiously surrenders it, like she can't just snatch it off of his forehead.

I mean, still doesn't bridge the speed issue, but just saying, can she put him down?

In regards to scenario 1: Can the Lasso of Truth make Champion submit/surrender the Gem?

[Pendaran]

Champion, even when he finally figured out how to draw on the power gem more than unconsciously (and considering what other people have done with just the power gem, still kind of incompetently by comparison to be real), could still only get by in fights where his opponents were forbidden from using anything of their powers that was not strength and durability.

Blitzed, end. Especially in scenario 2.

The thing about the fight with Thanos is that, as Thanos himself narrated, Champion was in a sense actively drawing on the gem to make himself increasingly even more powerful than it already made him as the fight happened, even if he didn't realize he was doing so. He doesn't get the time to do that here, so it's kind of moot.