Random Issue Battle

 An idea I heard and wanted to try, random issue battles are where you take two characters you really like; read one randomly selected issue of both and see who would win using ONLY feats from that issue. Scaling is allowed but only scaling from within that issue.

I'm going to try this idea out with my two favorite characters of all time; Sailor Moon and Superman. I'm expecting Superman to win, even though I think Sailor Moon probably wins if the two fight as they are currently. This is because Superman tends to have feats, and fairly substantial feats, of power, speed, and versatility in almost every issue. Even if they're low for him, or even pretty mediocre overall, that's definitely a boon in a challenge like this. Sailor Moon has feats in all those categories, but she doens't usually have that much in every issue. If Usagi wins this it would probably because it's one of the issues she gets a cosmic tier power feat, and it's a Superman issue where he doesn't get a cosmic tier power feat or any hax around a feat like that. On the plus side for Usagi, a Sailor Moon act is like twice the size usually of a lot of comic issues so there's more opportunity for feats. 

Randomized Sailor Moon Issue (Manga Act 1-60): I got Act 51, which is near the start of Stars. Alright I'm going to read it and list all feats from it that apply to Sailor Moon:

• Weakness: Usagi is suffering from PTSD in this issue (1, 2, 3)
• Senses the aura of the stars around Seiya. Identifies it as the same as the aura of the Guardian Senshi.
• Has an energy attack called "Starlight Honeymoon Therapy Kiss."
• Was comparable to Sailor Aluminem Seiren who at least reacted to the Starlights Attacks who came to the Solar System from another star system. As they are established as first year high school students this chapter, this means they came in a timeframe of at max 16 years and using nearest star system, this would be a speed of at least just over one quarter lightspeed. It's more likely this is an MFTL feat, but there's really not enough context to establish in this.

So in this act by itself Sailor Moon is relativistic, has aura-reading and an unknown type of energy attack, but has the likely not going to come up weakness of her PTSD. Not going to lie, I was not expecting a speed feat but no power feat, that's a bit out of left field.

For Superman's Randomized Issue, I'm just going to use a random issue of Action Comics, as it's his main series, and gone on since his creation. So far there has been 1,030 issues. Picking a random issue I get: Issue 667, which I think is early post-crisis-ish. That means Superman might not have any cosmic feats as the early Post-Crisis era was light on that stuff. Looking it up it's the July 1991 issue, 5 years into Post-Crisis which is not that early into it. 

• It is stated "I didn't think anything could hurt (Superman.)" It's also implied his fall was mistaken for a meteor. 
• Superman flies and demonstates enhanced hearing. States he has "invulnerability".
• Superman threw the Eradicator into the Sun, who reappeared much stronger, easily destroying a city block and beating down Superman. Superman gives Eradicator a good fight on Mercury, but needs to breathe every hour.
• Superman mustered all his strength to break free from the Sun's pull, using Mercury's gravitational field to build up velocity and fling him towards the Earth, a speed he states he has never flown that fast under his power, making the stars a blur, bringing up the possibility of flinging out of control past the Earth but instead slamming heavily into the Earth atmosphere. 
• The Eradicator overpowers a Kryptonian Warsuit.
• Superman holds up a Tenament building, although oddly he implies this is highly difficult for him.
• Jimmy Olsen implies can travel to the other side of the world quickly.
• Superman states he heals fast.
• It is stated Eradicator merged with the Sun's energies, responsible somehow for global disasters and triggering a change in the Sun's core.
• Superman demonstrates speeds fast enough to quickly go into orbit, and then to travel to another point on Earth like the Fortress of Solitude.
• Superman uses his heat vision.
• Superman hears Professor Hamilton's heartbeat not beating. 

As expected Superman has a far larger degree of feats, and in a larger number of categories. It's hard to really assess his power level in the comic as anything other then it's at least large building level (holding up a Tenament building with massive effort) and at most multi continent level Gave Eradicator a "good fight" on Mercury, Eradicator creating global disasters. Speedwise he does go at relativistic+ speeds but this seems to from using Mercury's gravity as a slingshot and it's made clear this is an unusally high degree of speed he was having trouble reacting at. His speed is at least massively hypersonic however from quickly flying into orbit and implied ability to quickly go to the other side of the world. He has low regen, heat vision, enhanced hearing, an survive in space for at least an hour, flight, and demonstrates skill and intelligence.

Fight:

While Sailor Moon is faster going by just these two issues, she has nothing suggesting she can get past Superman's durability. Most likely this fight goes on until Superman gets a lucky shot off with his heat vision using his super-hearing and his intelligence to calculate the angle. Usagi would be able to tell he's a kryptonian with a stellar energy via aura-reading, but this issue never brings up something like kryptonite, nor would Usagi have knowledge of that to get it and so she really has no way to hurt Clark.

Anyway this was a fun blog, and takes obviously very little research. If this does well, I was thinking of making this a weekly blog series. I may want to institute a rule that if a character has 0 feats, you can't use that issue, but I don't wanna make it so I avoid using issues with just low feats because that misses the point. I could do it with other characters, and could do "random episode battles" or "random level battles" for tv shows and video games. Feel free to say if you like this format, if you think I should do more, and if so what characters/matchups you'd like to see.