The Great Comics Face-off game.

[Hyperion]

That's Captain Britain versus the Beefeater obviously!


Beefeater.

[Marv-El]

Union Jack vs. .....?

[JSayonara]

For England James! The Great Comics Face off: St George's Day Special!

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Viz | Ep3: Biffa Bacon | Comedy Blaps	powered by Aeva

Biffa Bacon is a cartoon character in the British comic magazine Viz.

Biffa (shortened from Bifferidge) and his family—Mutha and Fatha (real names Vermintrude and Basha Bacon) —hail from the Tyneside region of North East England and speak in the Geordie dialect.

The strip focuses on their surreal world entirely governed by physical violence where Biffa is constantly subjected to abuse by his parents - even being kicked in the groin by both of them.

Biffa appears to be a visual parody of the character Bully Beef from The Dandy although, unlike Bully Beef, Biffa is much more commonly a victim rather than a perpetrator of violence. His mother, even more rough-looking and masculine than his already tough father, bears a striking resemblance to Desperate Dan, a character from the same comic, including the pronounced stubble.

The characters were allegedly inspired by a real family observed by Viz editor Chris Donald in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne city centre, where the son began an unprovoked assault on another boy; the parents, rather than intervening, began shouting encouragement to their child.
As soon as it appeared the victim of the assault was able to defend himself the father joined in the attack that only ceased when police officers intervened.

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Roger Mellie - Celebrity Bumhole	powered by Aeva

Roger Mellie ("The Man on the Telly") is a fictional character featured in Viz magazine.
His catchphrase is "Hello, good evening and bollocks!", satirising David Frost's catchphrase "Hello, good evening, and welcome".

The character is foul-mouthed, an obnoxious misogynist who manages to maintain a career as a television presenter.
He is shown working on various TV networks and channels, the fictional Fulchester Television (FTV) and the BBC being his primary employers. He is the ostensible author of Roger's Profanisaurus, a parody of Roget's Thesaurus.

Viz's founder and main contributor Chris Donald has said that the character of Roger Mellie was inspired by the off-screen behaviour of Rod Griffiths, a 1980s Northern UK regional TV presenter but that Mellie is actually nothing like Griffiths in fact and other presenters have been worked into the character, including Look North presenter Mike Neville.

Born Roger Edward Paul Mellie in 1937 in North Shields, Roger was educated at Fulchester Mixed Infants, Bartlepool Grammar School, and the Oxford Remand Centre. He began his broadcasting career as a cub reporter on the news with Robert Dougall and shot to fame doing genital mutilation routines at the London Palladium. Recruited by Fulchester Television he became a popular TV personality and established his own production company, MellieVision. He often stays at his favourite lap-dancing club until gone three in the morning but lives in Fulchester with his 17-year old Thai wife and 15 Staffordshire Bull Terriers. He has had five previous wives (two 'accidentally' murdered), is undischarged bankrupt,a hopeless alcoholic, extremely sexist, right-wing bigot and a recovering cocaine addict.

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Zenith (Robert McDowell) is a British superhero, who appeared in the science fiction comic 2000 AD.
Created by writer Grant Morrison and artist Steve Yeowell, with original character designs by Brendan McCarthy, he first appeared in 2000 AD #536.

Zenith, real name Robert McDowell, is the son of two members of Cloud 9, a super-team of the 1960s who had been created by the British military but rebelled and became hippies and psychedelic fashion icons.
Zenith himself used his somewhat unreliable superhuman abilities not to fight evil but to promote his career as a pop singer.
Shallow, spoilt, self-centred and initially cowardly, he was reluctantly dragged into the struggle against malevolent supernatural entities known as the Lloigor or "Many-Angled Ones".

The British superhuman project "Maximan" had been developed from technology brought by defecting Nazi scientists in World War II, and the Nazis had developed it from knowledge given to them by the Lloigor.
The Nazis created "Masterman", but in fact the real purpose of the project was to create host bodies strong enough to house the Lloigor's spirits. Due to these circumstances, within this alternate history, Berlin was the target of the first nuclear weapon, not Hiroshima or Nagasaki, mainly because both the British and Nazi supermen were fighting in Berlin at the time.

The British superheroes came of age during the tumultuous 1960's, and promptly rebelled like many teens of that time.
Ultimately, Zenith's parents were killed, other members of Cloud 9 disappeared, and the few remaining (having lost their powers,) retreated into civilian life: Peter St. John, (Mandala) becomes a Member of Parliament for the Conservative Party, and Ruby Fox (Voltage) becomes a journalist and writer. Siadwell Rhys (Red Dragon) owns a pub in Wales - where he apparently spends much of his time drunk.

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Strontium Dog is a long-running comics series featuring in the British science fiction weekly 2000 AD, starring Johnny Alpha, a mutant bounty hunter with an array of imaginative gadgets and weapons.

The most famous and respected of the Strontium Dogs is Johnny Alpha, whose mutant eyes allow him to see through walls and read minds.
He is responsible for such legendary achievements as destroying the Wolrog homeworld, leading the mutant uprising on Earth, and bringing Adolf Hitler to the future to face trial.
His legendary career and his assistance to mutants in trouble - such as donating a large sum of money to the Milton Keynes ghetto in "Mutie's Luck" - has made him an icon to Earth's mutants.
He is a highly skilled and dangerous fighter.

He is a highly dogged bounty hunter, never giving up in the pursuit of his quarry. While he does work for money, he possesses a conscience and will often take a job, forego payment or sometimes drop a job entirely: in "The Doc Quince Case", he immediately relented and rescued a man he'd hunted down.
He also can be extremely vengeful when angered, as shown by his actions towards Nelson Kreelman and Max Bubba.

He is the son of Nelson Bunker Kreelman, a bigoted politician who drafted the anti-mutant laws and gained power on the back of bigotry. Despised, abused and hidden away by his father, Johnny escaped at a young age and joined the Mutant Army, becoming one of its key leaders by age 17 and playing a major part in the mutant uprising of 2167.
He never revealed the identity of his father, changing his name from Kreelman to Alpha.

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Edwin Jarvis is a supporting character in the Marvel Comics title, The Avengers.
He first appeared in Tales of Suspense #59, and was created by Stan Lee and Don Heck.

Jarvis served in the British RAF during World War II and was its champion boxer three years running.
He later moved to the United States where he became manservant to the Starks (Howard and Maria) and watched over their mansion even after their deaths.

Anthony "Tony" Stark (the son of Howard and Maria) called the first meeting of the Avengers as Iron Man and donated the house as headquarters, so that it became Avengers Mansion.
Jarvis grew accustomed to the guests and served the Avengers for many years thereafter, acting as a father figure to some of the newcomers.
Jarvis was there, for the first guest to become an Avenger, the time-lost Captain America.

He was the only one to stay with the Avengers for their entire existence, a distinction not even Captain America can claim. As a result, Captain America has stated that Jarvis should be regarded as just as much of an Avenger as he is.

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Alfred Pennyworth is a fictional character that appears throughout the DC Comics Universe.
The character first appears in Batman #16, and was created by writer Bob Kane and artist Jerry Robinson.

The Pre-Crisis comics established Alfred as a retired actor and intelligence agent who followed the deathbed wish of his dying father, Jarvis, to carry on the tradition of serving the Wayne family.
To that end, Alfred introduced himself to Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson at Wayne Manor and insisted on becoming their butler.
Although the pair did not want one, especially since they did not want to jeopardize their secret identities with a servant in the house, they did not have the heart to reject Alfred.

Initially, Alfred discovered their identities by accident; while fighting a burglar in Batman #16, he accidentally hit a switch and opened a sliding-panel leading to the Batcave.
He is helpful to the Duo, following them to a theatre where they are captured, bound and gagged by a criminal gang, and rescues them after Batman attracts his attention by knocking a rope down before the crooks return.
This was revised in Batman #110 during his first night at Wayne Manor, Alfred awoke to moaning (Batman had been injured out in a field) and followed the sound to the secret passage to the staircase leading to the Batcave and met his would-be employers in their superhero identities.
As it turned out, the wounds were actually insignificant, but Alfred's care convinced the residents that their butler could be trusted. Since then, Alfred included the support staff duties of the Dynamic Duo on top of his regular tasks.

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Biffa Bacon
Johnny Alpha!!!!!!!!!!
Alfred Pennyworth

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V is a fictional character from the comic book series V for Vendetta, created by Alan Moore and David Lloyd.
He is a mysterious anarchist vigilante and freedom fighter, easily recognizable by his Guy Fawkes mask, long hair and dark clothing.

The background and identity of V is largely unknown. He is at one point an inmate at "Larkhill Resettlement Camp"—one of many concentration camps where political prisoners, homosexuals, Black people, Jews, Muslims, Indians and Pakistanis are exterminated by Britain's new fascist regime.
While there, he is part of a group of prisoners who are subjected to horrific medical experimentation, conducted by Dr. Delia Surridge, involving artificially-designed hormone injection. Lewis Prothero is the camp's commandant, and a paedophile vicar, Father Lilliman, is at the camp to lend "spiritual support".
All prisoners so injected soon die under gruesome circumstances, with the sole exception of "the man in room five" ("V" in Roman numerals). During that time, the man had some level of communication with Valerie Page, a former actress imprisoned for being a lesbian, kept in "room four", who wrote her autobiography on toilet paper and then pushed it through a hole in the wall.

Although there is nothing physically wrong with him, Surridge theorizes that his mind had been warped by the experimentation. Still, his actions seem to maintain a twisted logic. The experiments actually yield some beneficial results: he develops Olympic-level reflexes, increased strength, and incredibly expanded mental capacity (as demonstrated consistently throughout the novel, V is a genius in the fields of explosives, martial arts, philosophy, literature, politics, hacking, music, chemistry, and, as stated by Dr. Surridge in the graphic novel, gardening).

Over time, the man is allowed to grow roses (violet carsons) and raise crops for camp officials. The man eventually starts taking surplus ammonia-based fertilizer back to his cell, arranges it in bizarre, intricate patterns on the floor. He then takes a large amount of grease solvent from the gardens. In secret, the man uses the fertilizer and solvent to make mustard gas and napalm. On a stormy night (namely, Dec. 23rd in the novel or Nov. 5th in the film), he detonates his homemade bomb and escapes his cell. Much of the camp is set ablaze, and many of the guards who rush in to see what happened are killed by the mustard gas. The camp is evacuated and closed down. He adopts the new identity, "V", and dons a Guy Fawkes mask and costume. V then spends the next five years planning his revenge on the fascist government, building his secret base, which he calls "The Shadow Gallery". He then kills off most of the over 40 surviving personnel from Larkhill, making each killing look like an accident. However, he saves Prothero, Lilliman and Surridge, (the three most responsible for the experiments on him) for last, showing only the remorseful Surridge a bit of mercy by injecting her with a painless poison in her sleep.

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The Beefeater is a fictional character, a comic book superhero published by DC Comics.
He appeared in his civilian identity as Michael Morice in Justice League International Annual #3, and debuted as Beefeater in Justice League Europe #20.

The Beefeater was introduced in the pages of Justice League Europe #20, typical of the farcical treatment given to the superhero genre in the 1980s and 1990s Justice League comics, the Beefeater is similar to the rude and pompous Basil Fawlty, a character in the British television sitcom Fawlty Towers.
He is Britain's hero using a power-rod used by his father (The Beefeater of the Second World War), to try to protect Britain, but instead causes havoc as he goes.

Michael Morice is a staff member at the Justice League London embassy.
Supporting him is his wife and Esteban, the latter of whom has a poor grasp of English.
Michael finds the original Beefeater's costume and power-rod in the attic.[1] After accidentally blowing a hole in the attic floor, he is confronted by his wife, who dislikes the entire deal.
Michael argues that the Beefeater has a long heroic tradition, such as fighting alongside General Glory in World War II.
His wife, like most people, believe General Glory's adventures to be fictional comic book events, which is exactly what Glory's superior officers had wanted. Furthermore, she believes that the original Beefeater flubbed his first mission and spent the war in a Bulgarian prison, only later to use the 'stick' for tricks down at the pub.

It is not made clear which version is correct, especially with the subterfuge surrounding Glory. Michael, ever determined, leaves the embassy while his wife is trying to have Esteban contact Maxwell Lord, the current League boss. After donning the costume he decides to join Justice League Europe, however the JLE Embassy's security system saw him as a threat and attacks him. The JLE, Kilowog and Beefeater try to defend themselves from the security system, leading to the destruction of the embassy itself.

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Bacon (simply for being Bacon, as I've no idea who either of them are)
Johnny Alpha
Alfred
V

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The Knight aka Cyril Sheldrake is the name of two fictional comic book superheroes who are properties of DC Comics.

Percival Sheldrake debuted as the Knight in Batman #62, and was created by Bill Finger and Dick Sprang.
Cyril Sheldrake debuted as the Knight in JLA #26, and was created by Grant Morrison and Howard Porter.

The second Knight first appears in a group shot of the Ultramarine Corps at the end of JLA #26.
The subsequent appearance of the Corps in JLA Classified establishes that he is Cyril Sheldrake, who inherited both the title of Earl and that of the Knight when his father was killed by his archenemy, Springheeled Jack.
The second Knight rides a motorbike, and has a squadron of miniaturized Spitfires under his control.
He is assisted by the third Squire, Beryl Hutchinson.
He appears, alongside the Club of Heroes, in Batman #667-669 and, with the Squire (Beryl), in Batman #679.

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Captain Britain (Brian Braddock), briefly known as Britannic, is a fictional character, a superhero appearing in the comic books published by Marvel Comics.
Created by Chris Claremont and Herb Trimpe, he first appeared in Captain Britain Weekly, #1.

Born and raised in the small town of Maldon, Essex and educated at Fettes College in Edinburgh, Brian was a shy and studious youth, living a relatively quiet life and spending a lot of time with his parents and siblings (older brother Jamie and fraternal twin Elizabeth).
The family were an aristocratic one who were no longer rich enough to fraternise with their former academic peers, leaving Brian (too proud to fraternise with lower classes) a lonely child who immersed himself in the study of physics.

After the death of his parents (Sir James and Lady Elizabeth) in what seemed to be a laboratory accident, Brian takes a fellowship at Darkmoor nuclear research centre. When the facility is attacked by the technological criminal Joshua Stragg (alias "The Reaver"), Brian tries to find help by escaping on his motorcycle. Although he crashes his bike in a nearly fatal accident, Merlyn and his daughter, the Omniversal Guardian, Roma appear to the badly injured Brian.
They give him the chance to be the superhero Captain Britain. He is offered a choice: the Amulet of Right or the Sword of Might. Considering himself to be no warrior and unsuited for the challenge, he rejects the Sword and chooses the Amulet. This choice transforms Brian Braddock into Captain Britain.

It is later revealed that Braddock is only one member of a much larger, inter-dimensional corps of mystical protectors.
Every Earth in Marvel Comics' Multiverse has its own Captain Britain who is expected to defend that version of Britain and uphold its local laws.
They are collectively called the Captain Britain Corps. Captain Britain protects "Earth-616" of the Marvel Universe.

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Nemesis the Warlock is a story created by writer Pat Mills and artist Kevin O'Neill which appeared in the pages of the weekly comics anthology 2000 AD.
The title character, a fire-breathing demonic alien, fights against the fanatical Torquemada, Grand Master of the Terran Empire in Earth's distant future, and his attempts to exterminate all alien life.
Grotesque, hyperbolic and violent, the series possesses a dark wit and biting satirical intent.

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Rogue Trooper is a science fiction strip in the British comic 2000 AD, created by Gerry Finley-Day and Dave Gibbons.
It follows the adventures of Rogue, a G.I. (or Genetic Infantryman, a genetically modified, blue-skinned, manufactured elite soldier) and his three comrades' search for the Traitor General. His comrades are in the form of biochips (onto which a G.I.'s entire personality is downloaded at the time of death for later retrieval) and are named Gunnar (mounted on Rogue's rifle), Bagman (on his backpack) and Helm (on his helmet). He is genetically engineered to be immune to almost all known toxins. He can submerge in strong acid unaffected, and is able to withstand a vacuum in his bare skin.

The story is set on a planet, Nu-Earth, where a perpetual war between the Norts and Southers is being fought. During the war all forms of chemical and biological weapons have been used poisoning the planet and the troops of both sides must live in enclosed cities and only venture into the outside if wearing protective gear known as "chemsuits". The Southers have, through genetic engineering, developed a race of warriors who are immune to the deadly atmosphere and will therefore be superior troops. The Souther High Command deploy their secret weapon, the Genetic Infantry, in an airborne assault but a traitor has betrayed the secret of the G.I. to the Norts and they are massacred during the drop. This is known as the Quartz zone massacre.

Rogue, the only surviving G.I., goes AWOL in order to track down the Traitor General responsible. Along the way he thwarts numerous Nort schemes, discovers and inadvertently destroys the only portion of Nu-Earth not contaminated by chemical weapons, and is betrayed by every female character he encounters.

Rogue is immune to all toxins, diseases, and acids with two exceptions: An entirely new plant is discovered after permafrost is melted in an arctic zone, which renders him unconscious, and in the flashback story "Cinnabar" a retrovirus is engineered specifically to target his immune system, making him susceptible to all other Nu-Earth hazards, ultimately forcing him to wear a chem-suit himself. In a lighter moment during the Fort Neuro series, Rogue was also shown to have difficulty breathing when in a staff car full of officers from the "Rom" sector, who in anticipation of a good night out with the neighbouring "Scan" sector, had applied too much aftershave.

The biochips are infected by a latent malady unknowingly contracted whilst passing through the Neverglades area of Nu Earth. The unnamed condition renders them susceptible to "Enzyme E disfunction", which causes their newly re-gened bodies to disintegrate, leaving only their bio-chips remaining.

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The Beefeater
The Knight
Rogue Trooper!

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Mellie

Johnny Alpha

Alfred Pennyworth

Beefeater

Knight (and Squire!)

Rogue Trooper

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Knight
Rogue Trooper

[Scot Eric]

BACON
(because I like Kevin, Francis and the food so much)

ZENITH
(because as I grew up watching television, it was originally on a Zenith TV)

ALFRED
(from Alan Napier to Efrem Zimbalist Jr, and Michael Gough to Michael Caine...as well as almost 70 years worth of stories -- Alfred Pennyworth kicks ass in all media)



V
(solid Alan Moore story, decent if not spectacular film, and those creepy as fuck masks still show up everywhere)

CAPTAIN BRITAIN
(because I don't give a fuck about the other one, regardless of how popular he may be with current readers)

ROGUE TROOPER
(because I think I've heard of him)

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