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The first good-kicking of Main Man with some Main Man from DC Comics was one against Superman. In the story published in “Adventures of Superman” #464, a drunk Lobo spanks Man of Steel, who just gets rid of Main Man because he managed to fool him pretending he was dead. Fights between Lobo and Superman still appear in “Adventures of Superman Annual” #4, “Superman: The Man of Steel” #30, “L.E.G.I.O.N.” #63 and, more recently, “DC First” #1. In all magazines, Lobo looks as being an opponent with the same level of strength Superman has. To don’t extend so much, the combats descriptions can be checked in All Magazines section. Going on with the analysis of the Lobo fights against living beings with extreme strength, we can mention the Daxamite Lar Gand. For those who don’t know, in the DC universe the Daxamites are living beings whose strength is equal to Superman’s. Lar Grand was Lobo’s “fellow” in L.E.G.I.O.N. during some time and has confronted sometimes, as in interplanetary police comic book as in his own magazine (when he has already taken on the name Valor). Lobo has also already faced some of the new gods (race which the “omnipotent” Darkseid belongs to). One of his stronger representations, Big Barda, fought with Lobo in two magazines: “Justice League International” #21 and “Sovereign Seven Annual” #1. In both of them, she stood in the defensive position. At the first time the met up, for instance, Big Barda “ran away” from the fight because she managed to fool Lobo by sending him to the Earth through an “explosion tube”, a little after showing a great worry for the closing of Main Man (if you don’t believe in me, you can check the “Justice League” nº19 comic book, where she shows she's got a certain fear of Lobo)
Perhaps somebody asks: “Without the ring, Hal Jordan is an ordinary human, so, he would actually badly lose for Lobo in head-to-head; but isn’t the ring the most powerful weapon of the universe? The answer only would be positive if Lobo wouldn’t be “immune” to the ring powers. Several times he already went over barriers created by Green Lanterns and also explained he managed that because the ring's creations were made through the willpower and nobody posses more willpower than him. I haven’t made that up: It’s in the DC Comics’ official chronology! Obviously Lobo doesn’t always win (therefore, you can’t call me “apple-polisher"). However, most of the time Lobo has lost a fight (although in the majority he stayed only temporarily “unconsciously"), it was because something besides the struggle (for instance: Use of gas, electricity or magic).
After all this information, we at last can analyze such fight between Lobo and Wolverine. Of course it’s important to remember that who have decided the “DC vs. Marvel” mini-series wasn’t the scripter it was a by a vote among the readers. Wolverine’s victory therefore has obvious reasons: The mutant greatest popularity in relation to Main Man. Anyway, the fight result takes part of the DC Comics’ official chronology (I’m saying this several times because the Americans care a lot about such “chronology”). The scripter even could make up a better solution, however he only made both of them fight to each other behind a balcony (yeah, nobody has seen the fight itself) and, in the end, Wolverine arises to smoke a cigar.
However, wishing or not, this issue will keep tormenting the Lobo fans for the rest of eternity, since it’s improbable the Marvel’s "big bosses" will build a convent with DC for another fight between the two villains. After all, they don't want to see Lobo humiliating one of their main characters, isn’t it? text: Lucio Luiz
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of the questions most afflicts the Lobo fans is the following: How could Main
Man loose for Wolverine in “DC vs. Marvel” mini-series? This victory is
questioned even by those who like the mutant, although until today there occur
some "shock" between pros and against the victory theories of Wolverine.
However, before commenting on this fight particularly, let's analyze the
"official chronology" about the fights of Lobo with Universo DC characters.
DAfter these examples, it’s
hard to deny that the Lobo strength is, at least, equal to Superman’s. His
ferocity, therefore, helps to increase the danger of having him as an enemy. But
what can we say about heroes that have not only the brute force but also a
weapon? The best example can be Green Lantern, more precisely Hal Jordan. It’s
that I’ve meant, Hal Jordan, "the greatest of the Green Lanterns" as many people
say. In “L.E.G.I.O.N.” #47 magazine, mentioning only one, Lobo fights with
Jordan and destroys several “prisons” created by the Lantern’s ring.
Only two times (according to
the official chronology, I repeat), Lobo has lost a fight “physically”: One for
Vril Dox another for Wolverine. In the case of Vril Dox, the L.E.G.I.O.N. leader
has been knockouted after having been in a recovery chamber that has elevated
his strength to a level higher than the normal. In addition, in “The Last
Czarnian” mini-series it’s explained that, in the moment of this combat, the
radio Lobo kept turned on directly to his brain went off the air, making Main
Man instantly without his greater stimulus to the violence. In my particular
opinion, this was one of the worst excuses made up to justify something that
couldn’t have occurred (otherwise, we must admit Vril Dox, in that moment, he
would be able to defeat Superman, even he showed he had normal strength in all
L.E.G.I.O.N. stories).
The skeleton made of
adamantium and the factor of the cure could be an advantage for Wolverine only
if we didn’t consider Lobo has a factor of cure better than Wolverine’s in a
certain way (after all, even having his head cut off, for instance, Lobo keeps
alive, which certainly doesn’t happen with the mutant). In addition, observing
the Wolverine fights against Marvel’s characters with strength equivalent to the
Superman’s (Hulk, for instance), we notice that in the same conditions presented
in the mini-series, if the coherence would taken into account to define the
combats, Lobo would win Wolverine without great difficulties.