Last week's article is one click away..... Been a couple of weeks! Blame the chocolate eggs....
The Wildcards
4 Actors that weren't involved in Round 1 have been added for Round 2, based on comments from you, the CBM community! Those 4 actors are Bradley Cooper, Tom Holland, Cillian Murphy and Daniel Bruhl.
The Battle
Why don't we like the women in CBMs as much as the men? Likely it is because it is a male dominated industry, but I gotta say I was surprised with some of the results. Only Zoe Saldana, Anne Hathaway, Marion Cotillard, Michelle Pfeiffer, Margot Kidder, Tilda Swinton and Emma Stone have survived. So that's 7 women, and 57 men left.
The women that were eliminated? Jessica Alba, Chloe Grace Mortez, Ellen Bage, Natalie Portman, Anna Paquin, Kim Basinger, Hayley Atwell, Morena Baccarin, Jennifer Garner, Liv Tyler, Elizabeth Olsen, Famke Janssen, Margot Robbie, Viola Davis, Gwyneth Paltrow, Dafne Keen, Kirsten Dunst, Maggie Gyllenhall, Jennifer Lawrence, Amy Adams, Gal Gadot, Rosemary Harris and Halle Berry. So that's 23 women! 7 of the 30 women in Round 1 made it through, only 7! Portman and Johansson had desperately unlucky round 1 opponents which is disappointing, because Johansson has done some great work and Portman's V for Vendetta maybe the best performance by an actress in a CBM ever IMO. Lawrence and Robbie being knocked out? That surprises me.
Anyway.....
Pick one actor from each battle based on COMIC BOOK performances only (can include CBs outside Marvel/DC also). So no other works, just the comic book movies they were in. Just copy and paste in the comments, and feel free to leave blank if you don't want to/can't choose. The winning actor goes through to the next round, and the losing actor is eliminated.
1 1 Hugh Jackman v Willem Dafoe
2 Aaron Taylor-Johnson v Zoe Saldana
3 2 Heath Ledger v Bradley Cooper
4 Anne Hathaway v Hugo Weaving
5 3 Christopher Reeve v James Franco
6 Martin Sheen v Dave Bautista
7 4 Robert Downey Jr. v Liam Neeson
8 Gary Oldman v Tom Hardy
9 5 Patrick Stewart v Kevin Spacey
10 Jeremy Renner v Chiwetel Ejiofor
11 6 Michael Keaton v Michael Caine
12 Michael Fassbender v Jeremy Irons
13 Samuel L. Jackson v Morgan Freeman
14 Marion Cotillard v Russell Crowe
15 Henry Cavill v Jeff Bridges
16 Mark Ruffalo v Adam West
17 9 Michelle Pfeiffer v Tom Holland
18 Alfred Molina v Jackie Earle Haley
19 10 Tobey Maguire v Anthony Hopkins
20 Ben Kingsley v Aaron Eckhart
21 11 Ian McKellan v Cillian Murphy
22 Benedict Cumberbatch v Ben Affleck
23 12 Margot Kidder v Daniel Bruhl
24 Christian Bale v Tilda Swinton
25 13 Chris Evans v Colin Firth
26 Ron Perlman v Mark Strong
27 14 Ryan Reynolds v Terence Stamp
28 Paul Rudd v Robert Redford
29 15 Chris Pratt v Danny DeVito
30 Michael Shannon v Emma Stone
31 16 Tom Hiddleston v Viggo Mortensen
32 Sebastian Stan v Will Smith
Results from Round 1
Note we had a couple of ties. In this case, I picked one. Hope it was ok! Just felt the simplest way forward.
1 Hugh Jackman 38 defeated Jeffrey Dean Morgan 6
Aaron Taylor-Johnson 38 defeated Jessica Alba 6
Zoe Saldana 24 defeated Marlon Brando 18
Willem Dafoe 24 defeated Chloe Grace Mortez 20
2 Heath Ledger 43 defeated Stellan Skarsgard 1
Taron Egerton 21 lost to Anne Hathaway 22
George Reeves 6 lost to Hugo Weaving 37
3 Christopher Reeve 25 defeated James McAvoy 19
George Clooney 9 lost to Martin Sheen 32
Ellen Page 11 lost to Dave Bautista 32
James Franco 33 defeated Terrence Howard 10
4 Robert Downey Jr. 41 defeated Natalie Portman 3
Chris Hemsworth 16 lost to Gary Oldman 28
Tom Hardy 27 defeated Idris Elba 17
Liam Neeson 22 defeated Wesley Snipes 21
5 Patrick Stewart 30 defeated J.K. Simmons 11
Jeremy Renner 36 defeated Anna Paquin 7
Chiwetel Ejiofor 24 defeated Evan Peters 19
Kevin Spacey 31 defeated Kim Basinger 11
6 Michael Keaton 29 defeated Hayley Atwell 14
Tommy Lee Jones 2 lost to Michael Fassbender 42
Jeremy Irons 24 defeated Keanu Reeves 18
Morena Baccarin 3 lost to Michael Caine 41
7 Jack Nicholson 22 tied with Samuel L. Jackson 22
Eric Bana 19 lost to Marion Cotillard 24
Russell Crowe 36 defeated Jennifer Garner 7
Morgan Freeman 43 defeated Liv Tyler 1
8 Gene Hackman 15 lost to Henry Cavill 28
Elizabeth Olsen 14 lost to Mark Ruffalo 29
Adam West 24 defeated Famke Janssen 20
Jeff Bridges 36 defeated Burt Ward 8
9 Michelle Pfeiffer 36 defeated Val Kilmer 8
Alfred Molina 30 defeated Margot Robbie 14
Viola Davis 9 lost to Jackie Earle Haley 34
10 Tobey Maguire 29 defeated Edward Norton 14
Ben Kingsley 22 defeated Kevin Bacon 20
Karl Urban 17 lost to Aaron Eckhart 26
Anthony Hopkins 33 defeated James Marsden 10
11 Ian McKellan 39 defeated Clark Gregg 5
Benedict Cumberbatch 40 defeated Gwyneth Paltrow 3
Dafne Keen 19 lost to Ben Affleck 22
12 Margot Kidder 24 defeated Ray Stevenson 17
Christian Bale 37 defeated Don Cheadle 7
Nicholas Hoult 13 lost to Tilda Swinton 29
13 Chris Evans 43 defeated Kirsten Dunst 1
Ron Perlman 37 defeated William Hurt 5
Mark Strong 31 defeated Maggie Gyllenhaal 12
Jennifer Lawrence 11 lost to Colin Firth 30
14 Ryan Reynolds 35 defeated Scarlett Johansson 9
Anthony Mackie 12 lost to Paul Rudd 31
Robert Redford 38 defeated Richard Pryor 5
Andrew Garfield 21 lost to Terence Stamp 22
15 Chris Pratt 35 defeated Amy Adams 9
Michael Shannon 34 defeated Gal Gadot 9
Michael Douglas 18 lost to Emma Stone 25
Danny DeVito 25 defeated Rosemary Harris 18
16 Tom Hiddleston 43 defeated Halle Berry 1
T.J. Miller 4 lost to Sebastian Stan 39
Cesar Romero 21 tied with Will Smith 21
Viggo Mortensen 28 defeated Nicholas Cage 14