The Great 'Which Universe Would I Rather Inhabit' Tournament, Round 1, Match 7

The Great 'Which Universe Would I Rather Inhabit' Tournament, Round 1, Match 7

Firefly vs Marvel

Oh dear Firefly,

Cancelled in your prime.

Is this your moment?

Is this your time?

What’s that Marvel?

You want to win?

You’re ready to battle?

Then let us begin!

Universe of space travel, troubled teenagers and Reavers vs Universe of superheroes, troubled teenagers and people whose first and last names start with the same letter.

The Firefly universe is set some 500 years or so in the future, where humanity has expanded beyond the solar system to colonise distant planets. A war between the evil Alliance (well, they do experiments and stuff, and our heroes don’t like them so that really makes them evil) and the Independents (the Browncoats, two of whom serve as primary characters) saw the Alliance victorious, and so our merry crew lives on the borders doing smuggling runs and the like to try and stay afloat. It’s a fairly grim universe, with the threat of the (incorrectly, as they turn out to be real) mythical Reavers in this outer rim of civilisation. Slavery is tolerated if not actually legal, and the law is often dealt with like they would in the old Wild West, rather than the usual science fiction staple of a more advanced and ‘civil’ way of life. Yep, it’s a grim place, but there’s the old advanced technology that I’d be sorely tempted by.

The Marvel universe is set in the modern day, and has untold numbers of superheroes, supervillains and mutants, and so it’s a place where I could potentially save the world, if I got me some of those super power-things. It’s a much more dangerous universe on the whole than ours (attacks on cities with untold levels of destruction seem to occur on a twice-a-week basis), but that just means there’s all the more chance to be a hero. Or a villain, if you prefer your action spiced with the dark side. Not me though – I’m lawful good and damn proud of it. There are alien invaders and mythological gods in the flesh, and humanity seems to have a much more advanced grip of technology than in our universe. I like my advanced technology, as the previous rounds have shown, although they haven’t invented the holodeck yet. Unless S.H.I.E.L.D. are hiding it in a basement somewhere. There would be a lot of ‘Fury’ if they were to ‘Nick’ it. Heh. That joke really had no place there, and doesn’t even make sense, but I had to make It really, didn’t I. No? Well, agree to disagree.

So it’s another sci-fi vs fantasy style matchup, but more similar to Red Dwarf vs Heroes than Star Trek vs Middle Earth. And with that in mind, I can confirm that the victory goes to Marvel. Like anyone who knows anything about anything, I love Firefly with all my heart. In a world where injustice and dubstep run rife, it’s great that justice is finally being with Joss Whedon’s skill as one of film and televisions greatest writers being recognised with the success of The Avengers. Firefly is up there with his greatest work, but it’s the chance of gaining powers and becoming a superhero vs the fact that you would probably either end up poor in the outer territories or oppressed on the more affluent ones that sees Marvel ascend the tournament into the next round.

Winner: Marvel

Red Dwarf	Heroes
Heroes
Buffy	Buffy
Battlestar Galactica
Star Wars	Star Wars
Aliens
Elder Scrolls	Elder Scrolls
Terminator
Narnia	Ultima
Ultima
Star Trek	Star Trek
Middle Earth
Firefly	Marvel
Marvel
DC
Doctor Who