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Superman vs. Muhammad Ali (Comic Book)
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Superman Vs. Muhammad Ali was a Superman story by Dennis O'Neil and Neal Adams, published in All-New Collectors' Edition C-56 (April, 1978).Clark Kent, Lois Lane, and Jimmy Olsen are interviewing Muhammad Ali when an alien suddenly appears. He is Rat'Lar, the Emperor of a warlike alien race called the Scrubb who fear humanity's potential for war and destruction. Rat'Lar wants to propose a Combat by Champion to determine the human race's fate, with Muhammad Ali as Earth's champion. Ali couldn't care less for their challenge, though, so Rat'Lar asks if hundreds of ships surrounding Earth ready to start an orbital bombardment are enough to change his mind.Superman confirms that an alien army is surrounding Earth and insists that he should be the one to deal with them, since he is used to handling alien threats. However, Ali argues that Earth should be represented by someone who is an Earthman by birth. Rat'Lar comes up with an idea: they will box each other (in an environment where Superman is depowered, of course), and the winner will have the honor of boxing against the Scrubb chosen champion.The Man of Steel and the heavyweight champion think his idea is stupid, but Rat'Lar snarls back that it was not a suggestion. They will do what he says, or Earth will be reduced to radioactive dust.The story was republished as a deluxe edition in 2011. | |
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Punctuation Shaker: The Scrubb Emperor is named Rat'Lar. The name of his chosen champion is Hun'Ya. | |
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Humans Are Bastards | |
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Ironically, Rat'Lar's mindset is also what ends up screwing him over by the end of the comic. At the beginning of the comic, he successfully deceives his own people into believing that Humans Are Bastards (i.e. dishonorable and warlike) and that they deserved to be either wiped out or enslaved. However, his shallow understanding of strength (i.e. simply crushing his enemies into submission through force) and refusal to honor the rules he made after the heroes manage to win and prove their own mettle and strength leads to his own people, his guards, and even his Champion, to turn against him for his cowardice and dishonor. | |
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Villain Teleportation | |
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Villain Teleportation: The Scrubbs use dimensional portals to get around. Their coming is usually heralded by a flash of light or a bang and a pillar of smoke. | |
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Pocket Dimension | |
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Pocket Dimension: Superman builds a boxing ring and uses a Kryptonian Continuum Disruptor to transport himself, Ali, and the ring to a pocket mini-universe where time crawls. As they train, their ring is floating in a starry black void, surrounded by planetoids and comets. | |
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Badass Normal: Muhammad Ali, big time. | |
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Brought Down to Normal | |
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Brought Down to Normal: Superman is forced to box in the Scrubb's homeworld Bodace, a planet that circles a red sun which nullifies his powers. | |
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Punny Name: The warlike, antagonistic alien race called the "Scrubb" is pretty much self-explanatorynote In competitive video gaming terms, a "scrub" describes a person who enforces their idea of "balance", typically in a self-serving manner. Other times, they would complain about how the rules were "unfair" if they were to lose in a game, regardless if said established rules were allegedly fair or not.. Ironically, only their emperor acts like this while every other member is a Proud Warrior Race Guy who values the virtues of honor, self-sacrifice, and fairness and truly respected both the strength and mettle displayed by the heroes in the intergalactic tournament. | |
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Shockwave Clap | |
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Shockwave Clap: In order to stop a humongous tidal wave from striking Bermuda, Superman smashes his fists together. The ensuing shockwave immediately shatters the gigantic tsunami. | |
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Villain Has a Point | |
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Villain Has a Point: When Superman demands to know why they were summoned before their 24-hour deadline was up, Rat'Lar retorts they used a trick to buy themselves several weeks, ergo they were the ones who ignored the deadline. | |
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Secret Identity Change Trick | |
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Secret Identity Change Trick: As Ali is squaring off against an alien who has just shown up and manhandled Lois Lane, Clark Kent mumbles he is going to look for a police officer, and sneaks into a nearby alley to change clothes. | |
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Beware the Quiet Ones | |
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Beware the Quiet Ones: Besides his Battle Cry, Hun'Ya doesn't speak until near the end of the comic, but he's bred in a lab and trained by the Scrubb to be their Super-Soldier. By the time he fights Muhammad Ali, the latter was pushed into a corner until he gains a Heroic Second Wind. | |
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Earth-Shattering Kaboom | |
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Earth-Shattering Kaboom: Rat'Lar coerces the titular characters to fight a boxing match against each other and a second one against his own champion, under threat of commanding his fleet to fire all their missiles at Earth if they don't comply. | |
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Super-Soldier | |
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Super-Soldier: Hun'Ya is a genetically-engineered Scrubb, born in a laboratory and bred by his race's best scientists to become the perfect warrior. | |
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Villainous Breakdown | |
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Villainous Breakdown: Rat'Lar has a minor one when he orders his champion Hun'Ya to punch one hole into one wall to impress his rivals. Rather than feeling intimidated Superman and Ali just laugh it off, prompting Rat'Lar to scream and rant incoherently as Superman and Ali exchange "Is that guy serious?" stares. He has a bigger breakdown when Ali defeats his champion and Superman disables his fleet. | |
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Punctuated! For! Emphasis! | |
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Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: As Rat'Lar is trying to coerce Muhammad Ali into fighting his race's chosen warrior by revealing he is backed by the Scrubb armada, Superman shows up, confirms hundreds of ships are surrounding Earth, and he snarls: "And. I. Want. To. Know. Why!" | |
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Year Inside, Hour Outside | |
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Year Inside, Hour Outside: Superman uses a Kryptonian Continuum Disruptor to create a boxing ring where an hour inside was about a minute outside, giving them two months instead of twenty-four hours to teach Superman how to box. Unfortunately, the Scrubbs clue in on it and interrupt them after only about two weeks. | |
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Power Nullifier | |
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Power Nullifier: So that Ali can train him properly, Superman places in their ring a lamp box containing a fragment of a red sun which nullifies his powers. | |
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Genius Bruiser | |
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Genius Bruiser: Demonstrated by no less than three characters in the comic. | |
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Charles Atlas Superpower | |
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Charles Atlas Superpower: As seen with Ali's fight against Hun'Ya. Hun'Ya weighs heavier to the point of breaking the weight scale and is clearly above Ali in physical strength and endurance. Yet, Ali's lifelong training, experience as a heavyweight boxer, and relentless determination allow him to sandbag against Hun'Ya's powerful blows and turn the tables against him. | |
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Boxing Lessons for Superman | |
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Boxing Lessons for Superman: The Trope Namer. Ali teaches Superman to box since they'll have to fight under a red sun where Superman will be depowered; Ali trains Superman in a special gym in the Fortress of Solitude that can similarly neutralize Superman's powers. Downplayed in that while they intended to train him for two months, circumstances result in him getting only a single day of training instead. | |
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Series Continuity Error | |
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Series Continuity Error: Superman does not know a thing about boxing, contradicting Adventure Comics #273 wherein Clark Kent learned to box. | |
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Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny | |
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Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny: The Man of Steel is pitted against The Greatest in an intergalactic boxing match. | |
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Law of Alien Names | |
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Law of Alien Names: The villains are a warlike alien race called "Scrubb". | |
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We Need a Distraction | |
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We Need a Distraction: When Rat'Lar finds out about Superman's trick to extend his training time, he sends three robots to retrieve Superman and Ali whether they like it or not. Superman is under the debilitating effects of a red sunlight generator, so Ali runs among the legs of one robot and causes him to trip so that Superman can shut off the generator and get his powers back. | |
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Rubber-Forehead Aliens | |
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Rubber-Forehead Aliens: The warlike Scrubbs are green-skinned, big-foreheaded aliens; otherwise, they look right like humans. | |
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Tornado Move | |
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Tornado Move: Superman must stop a couple of giant missiles from blowing St. Louis up, but he cannot touch them. So, he uses his super-speed to create a massive vortex that catches the missiles, deviating their course into the ocean. | |
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Combat by Champion | |
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Combat by Champion: The Scrubb offer to pit their greatest champion against Earth's, winner take all. To decide Earth's champion, Superman and Muhammad Ali had to face each other on a planet orbiting a red sun to take away Superman's powers and make it fair. After Ali won, he faced the alien's champion in the ring. Ali won, but the aliens dishonorably tried to invade Earth anyway, only for Superman to reveal he anticipated their treachery and sabotaged their fleet. | |
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Humans Need Aliens | |
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Humans Need Aliens: Subverted. Rat'Lar wants to Ali fight their champion to decide the Earth's fate. Superman argues he is better suited to deal with extraterrestrial menaces, but Ali argues back the Scrubb wants an Earthman to fight for Earth, not a Kryptonian (to which Superman replies he grew up on Earth and is a naturalized Earthman). In the end, Superman and Ali are forced to fight each other for the right to fight a boxing match against the Scrubb chosen. Ali wins, but while he beats his alien foe, Superman deals with the Scrubb armada. | |
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Evil Cannot Comprehend Good | |
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Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: After getting beaten to a pulp, Superman is taken from the ring on a stretcher. When Rat'Lar demands to know where Superman has gone to, and he is told Ali has taken Superman to his room to take care of him, he becomes utterly confused. Why would Ali want to help a defeated enemy? He does get nothing from it! Ironically, Rat'Lar's mindset is also what ends up screwing him over by the end of the comic. At the beginning of the comic, he successfully deceives his own people into believing that Humans Are Bastards (i.e. dishonorable and warlike) and that they deserved to be either wiped out or enslaved. However, his shallow understanding of strength (i.e. simply crushing his enemies into submission through force) and refusal to honor the rules he made after the heroes manage to win and prove their own mettle and strength leads to his own people, his guards, and even his Champion, to turn against him for his cowardice and dishonor. | |
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Orbital Bombardment | |
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Orbital Bombardment: In order to force Superman and Ali to comply with his demands, Rat'Lar warns that his armada has surrounded Earth before ordering the obliteration of one whole city. One of his hundreds of ships fires two giant intangible plasma missiles, and although Superman is able to divert them into the sea, he still must deal with the ensuing tsunami. While he is busy, another ship shoots another couple of missiles and blows one island up before Superman can stop them. | |
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