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* LawOfAlienNames: The villains are a warlike alien race called "Scrubb".
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* AliensAreBastards: Defied. The Scrubbs spend several panels discussing their (rational, if overblown) motivations in detail [[spoiler: and when their leader turns out to be a SoreLoser who can't even abide by the terms of a deal he set, they turn on him and overthrow him.]]
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* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: 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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* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: 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.him, especially when Rat'Lar's offer to let humanity live on as slaves of the Scrubbs gives him an HeroicSecondWind.
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* GeniusBruiser: Demonstrated by no less than three characters in the comic.
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* GeniusBruiser: Demonstrated by no less than three characters in the comic. Superman is not only a physical powerhouse but a GadgeteerGenius who can use his alien technology to whip up a time-dilation chamber to rapidly learn boxing and figure out how to use alien ships just by using his x-ray vision on them, Muhammad Ali is an extremely clever and cunning boxer who not only gets to show off the beauty and intricacy of his sport through detailed analysis of out-boxing techniques but the psychological warfare he wages on his enemies, [[spoiler: and both collaborate to come up with a very cunning plot to save the Earth when Rat'Lar tries to cheat.]]
* HiddenDepths: The Scrubb actually get a lot of characterization for what could've been generic "[[AliensAreBastards evil aliens]]" in an ExcusePlot. It's stressed that their culture reveres the ideals of martial honor and fair play, and that their desire to conquer or annhilate Earth is based in fear that human individualism combined with ingenuity could present a threat someday. Their genetically-engineered champion Hun'Ya, in particular, originally seems like a one-note DumbMuscle bad-tempered brute easily pushed around by Ali's taunts and teases, but [[spoiler: in the finale, he's the one who punches out Rat'Lar for trying to renege on their deal with the humans, and eloquently talks about how [[DefeatMeansFriendship Superman and Ali have earned his and his people's respect]] in the finale.]]
* HiddenDepths: The Scrubb actually get a lot of characterization for what could've been generic "[[AliensAreBastards evil aliens]]" in an ExcusePlot. It's stressed that their culture reveres the ideals of martial honor and fair play, and that their desire to conquer or annhilate Earth is based in fear that human individualism combined with ingenuity could present a threat someday. Their genetically-engineered champion Hun'Ya, in particular, originally seems like a one-note DumbMuscle bad-tempered brute easily pushed around by Ali's taunts and teases, but [[spoiler: in the finale, he's the one who punches out Rat'Lar for trying to renege on their deal with the humans, and eloquently talks about how [[DefeatMeansFriendship Superman and Ali have earned his and his people's respect]] in the finale.]]
* IHaveManyNames: The goddess Athena shows up to referee Ali's match with Hun'Ya, and it turns out that the Scrubbs also worship her under a different name as their goddess of victory. [[spoiler: In the finale, it's implied that seeing this living representation of the values of fair play and martial honor their culture holds dear inspires the Scrubb soldiers and Hun'Ya to overthrow Rat'Lar when he reveals himself to be a coward who won't abide by the rules he set himself.]]
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* SeriesContinuityError: Superman does not know a thing about boxing, contradicting ''ComicBook/AdventureComics'' #273 wherein Clark Kent learned to box.
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* SeriesContinuityError: Superman does not know a thing about boxing, contradicting ''ComicBook/AdventureComics'' #273 wherein Clark Kent learned to box. Of course, this is in the service of [[TheWatson letting Ali himself explain the fundamentals of the sport]].
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* WorthyOpponent: Hun'Ya, and his race in general, are so impressed by Ali and Superman's courage and will that [[spoiler: they turn on their evil ruler when he [[SoreLoser tries to annihilate humanity even though they won]].]]
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* {{Crossover}}: The Man of Steel meets the Greatest.
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* ThatWasntARequest: When Rab-Lar suggests that Superman and Ali fight each other over the right to defend Earth, Superman suggests ''him'' to butt out of their argument. Rab-Lar angrily shouts they will do what he says '''"...AND THAT IS FINAL!!"'''
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Cutting per discussion. I tried to rewrite it as a Punny Name actually based on the meaning of scrub not as a video game term, but honestly I couldn't come up with one that wasn't covered by the Law Of Alien Names
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* PunnyName: The warlike, antagonistic alien race called the "[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Scrubb]]" is pretty much self-explanatory[[note]]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 [[SoreLoser lose]] in a game, regardless if said established rules were allegedly fair or not.[[/note]]. Ironically, only their emperor acts like this while every other member is a ProudWarriorRaceGuy 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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* UltimateShowdownOfUltimateDestiny: The Man of Steel is pitted against The Greatest in an intergalactic boxing match.
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Superman #2 featured the Superman of Earth-Two, while the Adventure story and this one were both set on Earth-One
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* SeriesContinuityError: Superman does not know a thing about boxing, contradicting earlier stories like ''ComicBook/Superman1939'' #2 and ''ComicBook/AdventureComics'' #273 wherein Clark Kent learned to box.
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* SeriesContinuityError: Superman does not know a thing about boxing, contradicting earlier stories like ''ComicBook/Superman1939'' #2 and ''ComicBook/AdventureComics'' #273 wherein Clark Kent learned to box.
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* GeniusBruiser: Demonstrated by no less than three characters in the comic.
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Clark Kent, Lois Lane and Jimmy Olsen are interviewing UsefulNotes/MuhammadAli when an alien suddenly appears. He is Rat'Lar, the Emperor of a warlike alien race called the Scrubbs who fear humanity's potential for war and destruction. Rat'Lar wants to propose a CombatByChampion 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.
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Clark Kent, Lois Lane Lane, and Jimmy Olsen are interviewing UsefulNotes/MuhammadAli when an alien suddenly appears. He is Rat'Lar, the Emperor of a warlike alien race called the Scrubbs [[PunnyName Scrubb]] who fear humanity's potential for war and destruction. Rat'Lar wants to propose a CombatByChampion 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.
* BewareTheQuietOnes: Besides his BattleCry, Hun'Ya doesn't speak until near the end of the comic, but [[TykeBomb he's bred in a lab and trained]] by the Scrubb to be their SuperSoldier. By the time he fights Muhammad Ali, the latter was pushed into a corner until he gains a HeroicSecondWind.
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* CombatByChampion: The Scrubbs 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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* CombatByChampion: The Scrubbs 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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** 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 HumansAreBastards (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 (besides the ones who're still following his orders), even his Champion, to turn against him for his dishonor and lies.
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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 HumansAreBastards (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 (besides the ones who're still following people, his orders), guards, and even his Champion, to turn against him for his dishonor cowardice and lies.dishonor.
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* HumansNeedAliens: 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 Scrubbs want 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. [[spoiler:Ali wins, but while he beats his alien foe, Superman deals with the Scrubb armada]].
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* HumansNeedAliens: 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 Scrubbs want 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. [[spoiler:Ali wins, but while he beats his alien foe, Superman deals with the Scrubb armada]].
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* PunnyName: The warlike, antagonistic alien race called "[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin The Scrubbs]]" is pretty much self-explanatory[[note]]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 [[SoreLoser lose]] in a game, regardless if said established rules were allegedly fair or not.[[/note]]. Ironically, only their emperor acts like this (and possibly those who would still obey his orders despite the heroes' fair win) while every other member is a ProudWarriorRaceGuy 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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* PunnyName: The warlike, antagonistic alien race called the "[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin The Scrubbs]]" Scrubb]]" is pretty much self-explanatory[[note]]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 [[SoreLoser lose]] in a game, regardless if said established rules were allegedly fair or not.[[/note]]. Ironically, only their emperor acts like this (and possibly those who would still obey his orders despite the heroes' fair win) while every other member is a ProudWarriorRaceGuy 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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* BoxingLessonsForSuperman: The {{Trope Namer|s}}. 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.
* BroughtDownToNormal: Superman is forced to box in the Scrubb's homeworld Bodace, a planet which circles a red sun which nullifies his powers.
* CombatByChampion: The Scrubbs 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 in 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.
* BroughtDownToNormal: Superman is forced to box in the Scrubb's homeworld Bodace, a planet which circles a red sun which nullifies his powers.
* CombatByChampion: The Scrubbs 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 in 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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* BadassNormal: Muhammad Ali, '''big time'''.
* BoxingLessonsForSuperman: The {{Trope Namer|s}}. Ali teaches Superman tobox, 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.
* BroughtDownToNormal: Superman is forced to box in the Scrubb's homeworld Bodace, a planetwhich that circles a red sun which nullifies his powers.
* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: 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.
* CombatByChampion: The Scrubbs 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 otherin 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.
* BoxingLessonsForSuperman: The {{Trope Namer|s}}. Ali teaches Superman to
* BroughtDownToNormal: Superman is forced to box in the Scrubb's homeworld Bodace, a planet
* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: 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.
* CombatByChampion: The Scrubbs 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
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* EvilCannotComprehendGood: After getting beaten to a pulp, Superman is taken from the ring in 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!
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* EvilCannotComprehendGood: After getting beaten to a pulp, Superman is taken from the ring in 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 HumansAreBastards (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 (besides the ones who're still following his orders), even his Champion, to turn against him for his dishonor and lies.
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* HumansNeedAliens: 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 Scrubbs want an Earthman to fight for Earth, not a Kryptonian (to which Superman replies he grew up in Earth and is a naturalized Earthman). At the end, Superman and Ali are forced to fight each other for the right to fight a boxing match against the Scrubb chosen. [[spoiler:Ali wins, but while he beats his alien foe, Superman deals with the Scrubb armada]].
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* HumansNeedAliens: 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 Scrubbs want an Earthman to fight for Earth, not a Kryptonian (to which Superman replies he grew up in on Earth and is a naturalized Earthman). At In the end, Superman and Ali are forced to fight each other for the right to fight a boxing match against the Scrubb chosen. [[spoiler:Ali wins, but while he beats his alien foe, Superman deals with the Scrubb armada]].
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* PocketDimension: 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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* PocketDimension: Superman builds a boxing ring and uses a Kryptonian Continuum Disruptor to transport himself, Ali 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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* PunnyName: The warlike, antagonistic alien race called "[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin The Scrubbs]]" is pretty much self-explanatory[[note]]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 [[SoreLoser lose]] in a game, regardless if said established rules were allegedly fair or not.[[/note]]. Ironically, only their emperor acts like this (and possibly those who would still obey his orders despite the heroes' fair win) while every other member is a ProudWarriorRaceGuy 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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* TornadoMove: 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 which catches the missiles, deviating their course into the ocean.
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* TornadoMove: 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 which that catches the missiles, deviating their course into the ocean.
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** Rat'Lar has a minor one when he orders his champion Hun'Ya 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.
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** 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.
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* WeNeedADistraction: 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 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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* WeNeedADistraction: 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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* VillainTeleportation: 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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* VillainHasAPoint: 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 who ignored the deadline.
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* VillainHasAPoint: 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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Clark Kent, Lois Lane and Jimmy Olsen are interviewing UsefulNotes/MuhammadAli when an alien suddenly. He is Rat'Lar, the Emperor of a warlike alien race called the Scrubbs who fear the humanity's potential for war and destruction. Rat'Lar wants to propose a CombatByChampion to determine the fate of human race's fate, with Muhammad Ali as the Earth's champion. Ali couldn't care less for their challenge, though, so that Rat'Lar asks if hundreds of ships surrounding Earth and 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 handle 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.
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 handle 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.
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Clark Kent, Lois Lane and Jimmy Olsen are interviewing UsefulNotes/MuhammadAli when an alien suddenly. suddenly appears. He is Rat'Lar, the Emperor of a warlike alien race called the Scrubbs who fear the humanity's potential for war and destruction. Rat'Lar wants to propose a CombatByChampion to determine the fate of human race's fate, with Muhammad Ali as the Earth's champion. Ali couldn't care less for their challenge, though, so that Rat'Lar asks if hundreds of ships surrounding Earth and 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 tohandle 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.
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
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Clark Kent, Lois Lane and Jimmy Olsen are interviewing Muhammad Ali when an alien suddenly. He is Rat'Lar, the Emperor of a warlike alien race called the Scrubbs who fear the humanity's potential for war and destruction. Rat'Lar wants to propose a CombatByChampion to determine the fate of human race's fate, with Muhammad Ali as the Earth's champion. Ali couldn't care less for their challenge, though, so that Rat'Lar asks if hundreds of ships surrounding Earth and ready to start an orbital bombardment are enough to change his mind.
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Clark Kent, Lois Lane and Jimmy Olsen are interviewing Muhammad Ali UsefulNotes/MuhammadAli when an alien suddenly. He is Rat'Lar, the Emperor of a warlike alien race called the Scrubbs who fear the humanity's potential for war and destruction. Rat'Lar wants to propose a CombatByChampion to determine the fate of human race's fate, with Muhammad Ali as the Earth's champion. Ali couldn't care less for their challenge, though, so that Rat'Lar asks if hundreds of ships surrounding Earth and ready to start an orbital bombardment are enough to change his mind.
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* EarthShatteringKaboom: 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.
-->'''Rat'Lar:''' ''"You will meet in combat in twenty-four of your hours at a place of our choosing!! Should-- you-- refuse, your planet and all its inhabitants will be reduced to a smoldering pile of radioactive dust... AND THAT IS FINAL!!"''
-->'''Rat'Lar:''' ''"You will meet in combat in twenty-four of your hours at a place of our choosing!! Should-- you-- refuse, your planet and all its inhabitants will be reduced to a smoldering pile of radioactive dust... AND THAT IS FINAL!!"''
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->''"On our home-world we know you to be this galaxy's most warlike and savage people-- as we are in our galaxy. And this, too, we know... Of Earth's warriors, you, Muhammad Ali, are one of the best! We propose a test! We would pit our champion against your greatest, according to your rules!"''
-->-- '''Scrubb'''
''Superman Vs. Muhammad Ali'' was a ''ComicBook/{{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. He is Rat'Lar, the Emperor of a warlike alien race called the Scrubbs who fear the humanity's potential for war and destruction. Rat'Lar wants to propose a CombatByChampion to determine the fate of human race's fate, with Muhammad Ali as the Earth's champion. Ali couldn't care less for their challenge, though, so that Rat'Lar asks if hundreds of ships surrounding Earth and 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 handle 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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* BoxingLessonsForSuperman: The {{Trope Namer|s}}. 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.
* BroughtDownToNormal: Superman is forced to box in the Scrubb's homeworld Bodace, a planet which circles a red sun which nullifies his powers.
* CombatByChampion: The Scrubbs 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 in 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.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: After getting beaten to a pulp, Superman is taken from the ring in 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!
-->'''Rat'Lar:''' ''"You...Olsen! What's going on here? Where is that low-life loser? What hole has he crawled into?"''\\
'''Jimmy Olsen:''' ''"Er...If you're speaking of Superman...Muhammad Ali is taking care of him in his..."''\\
'''Rat'Lar:''' ''"What?! Why is Ali helping Superman? He's beaten him! What can Superman do for Ali now?"''\\
'''Jimmy Olsen:''' ''"I-- Uh-- don't think you'd understand."''
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Jimmy Carter is the incumbent president, and Muhammed Ali is one of the main characters.
* HumansNeedAliens: 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 Scrubbs want an Earthman to fight for Earth, not a Kryptonian (to which Superman replies he grew up in Earth and is a naturalized Earthman). At the end, Superman and Ali are forced to fight each other for the right to fight a boxing match against the Scrubb chosen. [[spoiler:Ali wins, but while he beats his alien foe, Superman deals with the Scrubb armada]].
* LawOfAlienNames: The villains are a warlike alien race called "Scrubb".
* OrbitalBombardment: 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.
* PocketDimension: 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.
* PowerNullifier: 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.
* PunctuatedForEmphasis: 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!"
* PunctuationShaker: The Scrubb Emperor is named Rat'Lar. The name of his chosen champion is Hun'Ya.
* RubberForeheadAliens: The warlike Scrubbs are green-skinned, big-foreheaded aliens; otherwise, they look right like humans.
* SecretIdentityChangeTrick: 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.
* SeriesContinuityError: Superman does not know a thing about boxing, contradicting earlier stories like ''ComicBook/Superman1939'' #2 and ''ComicBook/AdventureComics'' #273 wherein Clark Kent learned to box.
* ShockwaveClap: In order to stop a humongous tidal wave from striking Bermuda, Superman smashes his fists together. The ensuing shockwave immediately shatters the gigantic tsunami.
* SuperSoldier: Hun'Ya is a genetically-engineered Scrubb, born in a laboratory and bred by his race's best scientists to become the perfect warrior.
-->'''Rat'Lar:''' ''"Meet our champion, the one you must face in combat, very soon! His name, like his battle-cry, is Hun'Ya! Hun'Ya was born in a laboratory! He was molded by our scientists to be the perfect warrior! Hun'Ya has the toughest skin of any humanoid in the universe!"''
* TornadoMove: 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 which catches the missiles, deviating their course into the ocean.
* VillainHasAPoint: 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 who ignored the deadline.
* VillainTeleportation: 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.
* VillainousBreakdown:
** Rat'Lar has a minor one when he orders his champion Hun'Ya 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.
--->'''Rat'Lar:''' ''"Insolence...INSOLENCE...'''INSOLENCE!!''' You will pay, I promise you! You will be humiliated-- in front of your whole galaxy!!"''
** He has a bigger breakdown when Ali defeats his champion and Superman disables his fleet.
* WeNeedADistraction: 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 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.
* YearInsideHourOutside: 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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->''"On our home-world we know you to be this galaxy's most warlike and savage people-- as we are in our galaxy. And this, too, we know... Of Earth's warriors, you, Muhammad Ali, are one of the best! We propose a test! We would pit our champion against your greatest, according to your rules!"''
-->-- '''Scrubb'''
''Superman Vs. Muhammad Ali'' was a ''ComicBook/{{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. He is Rat'Lar, the Emperor of a warlike alien race called the Scrubbs who fear the humanity's potential for war and destruction. Rat'Lar wants to propose a CombatByChampion to determine the fate of human race's fate, with Muhammad Ali as the Earth's champion. Ali couldn't care less for their challenge, though, so that Rat'Lar asks if hundreds of ships surrounding Earth and 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 handle 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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!!Tropes:
* BoxingLessonsForSuperman: The {{Trope Namer|s}}. 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.
* BroughtDownToNormal: Superman is forced to box in the Scrubb's homeworld Bodace, a planet which circles a red sun which nullifies his powers.
* CombatByChampion: The Scrubbs 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 in 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.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: After getting beaten to a pulp, Superman is taken from the ring in 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!
-->'''Rat'Lar:''' ''"You...Olsen! What's going on here? Where is that low-life loser? What hole has he crawled into?"''\\
'''Jimmy Olsen:''' ''"Er...If you're speaking of Superman...Muhammad Ali is taking care of him in his..."''\\
'''Rat'Lar:''' ''"What?! Why is Ali helping Superman? He's beaten him! What can Superman do for Ali now?"''\\
'''Jimmy Olsen:''' ''"I-- Uh-- don't think you'd understand."''
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Jimmy Carter is the incumbent president, and Muhammed Ali is one of the main characters.
* HumansNeedAliens: 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 Scrubbs want an Earthman to fight for Earth, not a Kryptonian (to which Superman replies he grew up in Earth and is a naturalized Earthman). At the end, Superman and Ali are forced to fight each other for the right to fight a boxing match against the Scrubb chosen. [[spoiler:Ali wins, but while he beats his alien foe, Superman deals with the Scrubb armada]].
* LawOfAlienNames: The villains are a warlike alien race called "Scrubb".
* OrbitalBombardment: 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.
* PocketDimension: 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.
* PowerNullifier: 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.
* PunctuatedForEmphasis: 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!"
* PunctuationShaker: The Scrubb Emperor is named Rat'Lar. The name of his chosen champion is Hun'Ya.
* RubberForeheadAliens: The warlike Scrubbs are green-skinned, big-foreheaded aliens; otherwise, they look right like humans.
* SecretIdentityChangeTrick: 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.
* SeriesContinuityError: Superman does not know a thing about boxing, contradicting earlier stories like ''ComicBook/Superman1939'' #2 and ''ComicBook/AdventureComics'' #273 wherein Clark Kent learned to box.
* ShockwaveClap: In order to stop a humongous tidal wave from striking Bermuda, Superman smashes his fists together. The ensuing shockwave immediately shatters the gigantic tsunami.
* SuperSoldier: Hun'Ya is a genetically-engineered Scrubb, born in a laboratory and bred by his race's best scientists to become the perfect warrior.
-->'''Rat'Lar:''' ''"Meet our champion, the one you must face in combat, very soon! His name, like his battle-cry, is Hun'Ya! Hun'Ya was born in a laboratory! He was molded by our scientists to be the perfect warrior! Hun'Ya has the toughest skin of any humanoid in the universe!"''
* TornadoMove: 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 which catches the missiles, deviating their course into the ocean.
* VillainHasAPoint: 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 who ignored the deadline.
* VillainTeleportation: 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.
* VillainousBreakdown:
** Rat'Lar has a minor one when he orders his champion Hun'Ya 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.
--->'''Rat'Lar:''' ''"Insolence...INSOLENCE...'''INSOLENCE!!''' You will pay, I promise you! You will be humiliated-- in front of your whole galaxy!!"''
** He has a bigger breakdown when Ali defeats his champion and Superman disables his fleet.
* WeNeedADistraction: 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 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.
* YearInsideHourOutside: 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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