255: Summer Superhero Spectacular: Round One

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Arts, Tv & Film, Leisure

4.8 • 694 Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2015

⏱️ 153 minutes

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Summary

In celebration of the four days of Comic-Con 2015, we present a four-day celebration of silly superhero debates! We’ve seeded 64 heroes into a tournament that’s designed to find the most incomparable superhero of them all. Or something like that. The advocates are sometimes passionate and sometime disinterested, but that’s okay, because the judges are completely capricious.

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0:00.0	The incomparable summer superhero spectacular originally posted summer 2015.
0:14.0	Welcome back, everybody, to The Inconparable. Something very special we're doing, and by special I mean we don't know what we're doing, and it's's crazy and it's even worse than a draft. We have decided to perform this summer a tournament, if you will, of
0:27.4	comic book superheroes or superheroes in general, not all of them necessarily from the comics,
0:32.2	although almost entirely. Uh, 64 heroes will enter our arena and in the end, one hero will be crowned the incomparable superhero champion and it's all meaningless. Oh God, why are we doing this?
0:45.9	Here's how it's going to work. I am your host. I have consulted with a team of experts to create a 64 superhero bracket.
0:55.9	They've been ranked.
1:00.2	You should be able to find a link to the tournament bracket in the show notes.
1:09.1	And I have brought some of our fine panelists together to defend the honor of these heroes.
1:13.7	The way it's going to work is we have 32 pairings in the first round.
1:18.1	There were a couple of play-in games in honor of the NCAA for its ridiculous playing games in the NCAA basketball tournament.
1:20.6	But generally, we're going to have 64 teams, so 64 heroes, 32 matchups.
1:26.7	In this episode, each hero will have about a minute statement from an advocate of theirs.
1:33.2	And then a cruel panel of judges will decide the victor.
1:39.1	The cruel panel of judges are these two gentlemen.
1:42.8	Philip Michaels.
1:43.7	Hello.
1:46.9	Hello. Are you ready to be a cruel judge?
1:53.5	I have been training to be cruel all my life. And Steve Lutz is the other member of the judging panel.
2:01.3	Hi, Steve. Hello there, Jason. Although this may be the dumbest thing we have ever done, I will endeavor to be a fair and impartial judge.
2:07.4	Are we going to do a bracket for the dumbest thing the incomparable has ever done? Because that I'd listen to. Draft. I hear a draft. The stupid episode. The dump draft. I have opinions.
2:15.0	Next summer. Should Phil and Steve, who are both agreeable chaps, not be able to agree.
2:23.0	That may be the dumbest thing you've ever done.
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