Mr. Fantastic vs Plastic Man

Mr. Fantastic vs Plastic Man is the fifth episode of Fiction V. Fiction, featuring Mr. Fantastic from Marvel and Plastic Man from DC.

Interlude
Stretch Armstrong. Remember him? The toy that can stretch his limbs out? Well we got two superheroes that can do this, but better.

Mr. Fantastic

The stretchable leader of the Fantastic Four from Marvel

And

Plastic Man

The rubbery thief-to-superhero from DC

I'm Aipom and today I'm here to determine who could win a match of Fiction V. Fiction.

Mr. Fantastic
(Cue: CPS2 Originals - Mr. Fantastic)

As a child genius and gifted idealist, Reed Richards long desired to understand the universe for the betterment of mankind. Reed was assisted in his research by his best friend Ben Grimm until one science fair got Reed both a scholarship to Empire University and the attention of Professor Franklin Storm, director of the government-founded Baxter Foundation for young prodigies. Meeting Professor Franklin Storm's children and his rival Victor Von Doom, Reed managed to complete one of his childhood aspirations: A teleportation device, though it resulted with the assumed death of Doom. A few years later, Reed convinces the Storm siblings and Ben to join on an experimental space mission to confirm a theory if life on Earth was influenced by cosmic rays. But a miscalculation on Reed's part turned into tragedy when brutal cosmic storm battered the spaceship and its crew. The partial exposure to the cosmic rays caused Reed's body to become stretchable in any imaginable way. Intent to find a way to restore himself and his friends to normalcy, Reed and the others take resistance in the Baxter Building where they decide to use their powers to help people as the Fantastic Four. And of this group of four, Reed was the leader so he took on the superhero name, Mr. Fantastic.

Mr. Fantastic can stretch out his whole body at least 1500 feet and even make his limbs flatter so he can reach under doors. He can buff himself to gain superhuman strength, imitate the appearance of another person or object, change his shape in mid-combat to react against the enemy's attacks or even counter them (i.e. turning into spikes). He can also change his size and volume at will to grow into massive properties quickly, gaining a proportionate amount of strength in the process.

He can absorb explosions by closing them in his elastic flesh and can reflect kinetic energy of a ballistic blast like a trampoline, entangle his foes, change his appearance to match another's, turn himself into a parachute, glide by flattening his body enough and can carry the rest of the Fantastic Four, make his body soft to be like a cushion, can generate his body into any shape up to 1.7 cubic feet, turn specific body parts into objects like mallets and maces, go as thin as .0035 inches, can lower his body's cohesion to the point where he can flow through minute openings, turn his fingers into lock picks, turn his hands into fans, turn into a semi-solid liquid, and even knows hypnotism.

He can turn himself into a ball and ricochet off hard surfaces into opponents at high speed, wrap his body around opponents and suffocate them, can slingshot his body like a rubber band, slingshot others at high speeds, absorb physical projectiles and fire them back like bullets, and can expand his lungs to blow out a massive amount of air with great force.

With his stretchable body and high intelligence, he's virtually immune to physical injury and has a slight resistance to mind-control.

He went to university at the age 14, discovered the Negative Zone, created a Cosmic Cube, made a weapon that nullifies Cosmic Cubes, helped create Ragnarok, built an Anti-Galactus Mech, created a weapon that can kill Celestials, and created his own Ultimate Nullifier.

He can react fast enough to dodge meteorites that can move from 25,000 mph to 160,000 mph, beats the shit out of Doctor Doom, have dodged a triceratops that was running at 35 mph, and can move at the speed of thought which is 70-120 miles per second.

But he isn't perfect. He's vulnerable to the heat and cold and weak to energy blasts. And just like every scientist, he has trouble understanding magic and doesn't have a defense against it. If he stretches more than 3 miles, he can seriously injure himself and prolonged periods away from his team members will cause Mr. Fantastic to become powerless. And he's acts cold and distance to the other members of the Fantastic Four due to his scientific, methodical nature.

He did end up marrying Susan Storm, a fellow Fantastic Four team member and has stopped Doctor Doom from taking over the world on several occasions so maybe a hero made of bubblegum was just the hero we need.

(Cue: Stretch Mr. Fantastic Clip)

Plastic Man
(Cue: Plastic Man Theme from the Sounds and Stories of the Justice League of America)

Plastic Man was a crook named Patrick "Eel" O'Brian, an orphan forced to become a small time crook known for his safecracking skills and ability to slip away from capture. Lured by the dream of making it big with fortune, he got involved in a late-night heist at Crawford Chemical Works. But when Batman intervened, it caused a chain of events that resulted with O'Brian getting battaranged in the shoulder that got him doused with a large drum of unidentified chemical liquid. Though O'Brian escaped to the street, finding the gang ditched, he wandered the streets before learning that he gained the ability to stretch himself to any length and transform into any object possible. Whether it was out of guilt or not, Batman assumed full responsibility for O'Brian rehabilitation after he testified against Kite Man in a court of law. Batman vouched for him in front of the judge, the parole board, and later, the Justice League International. Joined by his bumbling sidekick Woody Winks, his hero identity's name misinterpreted by a reporter, O'Brian becomes the unlikely superhero, Plastic Man!

Plastic Man has the ability to stretch his body like play-doe and can turn into an object. Shovel, cash register, suitcase, a car, Batman, a ball, you name it, he can be it. He can even turn specific parts of himself into objects like his hands into massive mallets.

Plastic Man can control his density at will, becoming as dense as a rock one second and then as flexible as rubber in the next. There's no limit on how far he can stretch his limbs and body, he can shrink himself to inches and expand to the size of a skyscraper. Can become as flat as paper and turn his fingers into lock picks, open holes in his body, he can change the color of his body, and turn into objects with mobile parts like a car.

He can withstand corrosive, punctures, and concussions without sustaining any injury, resistant to blasts from energy weapons (Batman once mentioned that Plastic Man could presumably even withstand a nuclear detonation), and is bulletproof.

He can regenerate and/or assimilate lost or damaged, although he needs to be reasonably intact to start the progress. He was reduced to molecules and scattered across the ocean for centuries, only returning to his usual form after the rest of the League were able to gather enough of his molecules and restored 80% of his body mass, after which he began to regenerate what they hadn't salvage. He's even been stretched by Doomsday down to his base fibers and still survived.

He's the only member of the Justice League who could defeat a Jokerized Doctor Polaris, managed to convince Braniac to recognize him as a threat, almost killed Batman who can survive a hit from Superman, can still talk and survive the vacuum of space, spend 3000 years under the oceon existing as tiny pieces and remained completely sentient and cognitive the entire time, slowed down Fernus when the entire Justice League couldn't, is immuned by telepathy due to him no longer being organic, easily moved around with the whole Justice League holding him down, was able to break every super villain out of Regime's prison in just one day after retirement, and even Batman stated that Plastic Man has potentially be the dangerous man alive and you don't argue with Batman.

You're probably questioning why he released super villains when he's a hero. Well Plastic Man still has many criminal tendancies and can be easily tempted. And while we're on weaknesses, let's explain the rest. He's more concerned with being comic relief than the regular serious DC hero and he's vulnerable to extreme heat and cold.

While his role of hero may be questionable, he may be one of the last DC characters you wanna fight, because you won't be able to do any damage to this rubbery hero.

(Cue: DC Nation - Plastic Man Clip)

Fight
(Cue: Alarm Bell 1 Hour)

(It's midnight in a city, three men in ski masks run out of a bank while holding bags of money)

Man 1: Where's the getaway driver?

Man 2: He said he'd be here.

Man 3: Forget him! Let's just book it!

(Just then, a car made out of red spandex and flesh roll in. This car being Plastic Man)

Plastic Man: Sorry for being late.

Man 3: Where were yo-

(Plastic Man turns to his normal form and then wraps up the men with one of his arms)

Man 1: What the hell!?

Plastic Man: This was honestly a trick. Looks like you 3 are going behind bars!

(Plastic Man then makes the arm holding them into a jail cell with them in it, making them drop the money)

Man 2: Oh come on!

Plastic Man: Now if you don't mind, I'll be keeping this doe here.

Man 1: Screw you, man!

Mr. Fantastic: Stop right there!

Plastic Man: Huh?

(He looks around and sees Mr. Fantastic standing across the street)

Plastic Man: Who are you?

Mr. Fantastic: Mr. Fantastic. Now, return the money and I'll let you go easy.

Plastic Man: Easy, eh? Well let's see what you're made of, tough guy!

(Plastic Man turns his cage-arm back to normal, as the men fall)

Man 1: Screw this! Let's get out of here!

(The three men run off as Plastic Man and Mr. Fantastic throw a stretchy punch at each other, colliding in the middle of the road)

(Cue: Batman: The Brave and the Bold (DS)(OST) - Level (Gotham))

FIGHT!

(They both retract their arms and Mr. Fantastic slings another punch)

(Plastic Man ducks as Mr. Fantastic's fist hits the wall)

(Plastic Man wraps around Mr. Fantastic's arm like a snake and slithers around his arm towards Mr. Fantastic)

(Mr. Fantastic swiftly reels back his arm to bring Plastic Man closer)

(Mr. Fantastic makes himself buffer and makes the arm with Plastic Man on it too small for Plastic Man to be wrapped around)

(Mr. Fantastic makes his other arm bigger and jacked, then slams Plastic Man)

(Mr. Fantastic attemps to flatten Plastic Man but then he turns himself as hard as stone)

(Mr. Fantastic's hand bounces off of Plastic Man)

(Plastic Man makes a pipe in his mouth, makes his hands and arms buff with anchors on them, charges up his arm, then punches Mr. Fantastic with a laugh)

(Before landing, Mr. Fantastic turns himself into a ball and bounces around)

(Plastic Man turns his hands into mallets and goes after Mr. Fantastic with only his hands and head)

(Mr. Fantastic bounces around in the streets as a ball)

(Plastic Man constantly swings at Mr. Fantastic but constantly misses)

(Mr. Fantastic bounces off the pavement and slams into Plastic Man's chest)

(Plastic Man's chest stretches out like a rubber band and slingshots Mr. Fantastic)

(Mr. Fantastic returns to his normal form and stretches his arms and legs out, planting them into the ground and buildings next to him)

(Plastic Man stretches his top half at Mr. Fantastic with his mallet hands and attempts to squish Mr. Fantastic's face)

(He squishes Mr. Fantastic's head but then Mr. Fantastic's body retracts and wraps around Plastic Man's upper half)

(Mr. Fantastic attempts to suffocate Plastic Man but Plastic Man expands the size of his body and slams it onto the ground)

(This forces Mr. Fantastic off and makes him let go)

(Plastic Man returns his upper half to its normal size and twists his body around)

(Mr. Fantastic lays on the ground with his limbs stretched out as Plastic Man twists himself)

(Mr. Fantastic retracts his limbs and then slings his arms to the top of two buildings)

(He then shoots himself up right before Plastic Man stops twisting around like a rag)

(Plastic Man stretches his legs up to where Mr. Fantastic went and releases the twist with his arms straight out with fists, turning him into a punching Beyblade)

(Mr. Fantastic gets caught in the spinning fists as his limbs flail about)

(Plastic Man starts tilting downward into the ground)

(Mr. Fantastic reaches out and grand Plastic Man's head and pushes it downward)

(Plastic Man's fists of furry start going upward right before Mr. Fantastic let go)

(Then Plastic Man flys up like a spring, stopping the spinning and releasing Mr. Fantastic by shooting him into a building wall)

(Cue: Batman: The Brave and the Bold (DS)(OST) - Level (Science Island Battle))

(Plastic Man comes raining back down as a ball, aiming at Mr. Fantastic)

(Mr. Fantastic hops off the building and turns his arm into a tennis racket)

(He waps Plastic Man back up into the air as Plastic Man comes back down)

(Mr. Fantastic smacks him again a few times)

(As Plastic Man falls back down and Mr. Fantastic attempts to hit him again, Plastic Man turns into an anvil)

(Mr. Fantastic stretches out his fingers right before Plastic Man lands on him)

(He wraps his fingers around Plastic Man as an anvil)

(But Plastic Man turns himself into a jack hammer and constantly hits Mr. Fantastic in the face)

(Mr. Fantastic lifts Plastic Man higher above him so Plastic Man couldn't hit him)

(He then slams Plastic Man into the pavement)

(Mr. Fantastic then lifts his arms up and combines them together into a fly swatter)

(Plastic Man returns to normal as Mr. Fantastic's fly swatter hands comes dropping down onto him)

(Plastic Man turns his hands into stop signs and pushes back the swatter)

(Plastic Man overpowers Mr. Fantastic and pushes him back)

(Mr. Fantastic turns his fly swatter hands into the plow part of a snow plow and pushes Plastic Man back)

(Plastic Man turns his lower into a spring and bounces up above Mr. Fantastic)

(Plastic Man stretches his arms and grabs Mr. Fantastic by the shoulders)

(He keeps expanding his arms and pushes Mr. Fantastic to the ground and grags him across the street)

(Mr. Fantastic wraps his arms around Plastic Man's and roughly pulls him closer)

(Mr. Fantastic turns as flat as paper and slips under Plastic Man)

(Plastic Man falls onto the ground and Mr. Fantastic spins his legs together into a drill and drills into Plastic Man's back)

(Plastic Man makes a hole tho where Mr. Fantastic was gonna strike him)

(But Mr. Fantastic unwraps his legs and spin kicks Plastic Man)

(Cue: Batman: The Brave and the Bold (DS) (OST) Level (Science Island Tech))

(Plastic Man lifts himself up and refills the hole he made in himself)

(He turns into a house and falls on top of Mr. Fantastic)

(But Mr. Fantastic turned himself into a ball and Plastic Man bounces off of Mr. Fantastic)

(Plastic Man turns to normal but with his fists as mallets)

(Mr. Fantastic turns into his normal form but with his fists as mallets too)

(They swing at each other, either missing or hitting the ground)

(They collide mallets as if they were blades)

(Plastic Man shoots a finger out of one of his mallet hands and pokes Mr. Fantastic in the eye)

(Mr. Fantastic flinches and moves back, covering the eye Plastic Man poked)

(Plastic Man squishes the sides of Mr. Fantastic)

(But Mr. Fantastic slightly pushes back Plastic Man's mallet's from squishing him)

(Mr. Fantastic pushes Plastic Man's arms into the buildings on the sides)

(Plastic Man runs backwards with his arms still stuck)

(He then jumps and fires himself like a slingshot at Mr. Fantastic)

(Mr. Fantastic stretches his body up, avoiding Plastic Man)

(But Plastic Man rebounds back, aiming himself at Mr. Fantastic)

(Mr. Fantastic goes back onto the ground and retracts his arms so Plastic Man goes flying into the air)

Mr. Fantastic: Maybe that'll get rid of him.

(Mr. Fantastic turns away but then he hears a helicopter)

(He turns around and sees Plastic Man as a helicopter)

Plastic Man: Don't think that yet, buster!

(Plastic Man flys above Mr. Fantastic and turns into a massive anvil)

(Plastic Man falls onto Mr. Fantastic and flattens him)

(Cue: Fantastic 4 Game Soundtrack - Travel 2)

(Mr. Fantastic starts trying to push off Plastic Man)

(Mr. Fantastic is just able to push off Plastic Man onto his side)

(Plastic Man, still as an anvil, is pushed onto his side. But he fires out his feet and kicks Mr. Fantastic in the head)

(Mr. Fantastic falls onto the ground. But his upper half and arms stretched out and grabs Plastic Man's legs)

(Plastic Man returns his body and kicks his legs into the air, along with Mr. Fantastic)

(Mr. Fantastic stretches his arms straight down and grabs Plastic Man's neck and pulls him upwards)

(He then lands on his feet and slams Plastic Man onto the ground)

(Plastic Man stretches his arm out and grabs Mr. Fantastic's chest and slams him into the ground)

(He drags Mr. Fantastic across the ground and tosses him foward right before getting back up)

(Mr. Fantastic turns into a tire and rolls back at Plastic Man)

(He rolls into Plastic Man's chest and knocks him back onto the ground)

(Mr. Fantastic rolls in place on top of Plastic Man)

(Mr. Fantastic grindes Plastic Man into a pile of skin and a head with a tile track on his uniform)

Plastic Man: You're paying for my dry cleaning, bud.

(Mr. Fantastic sighs and does a u-turn towards Plastic Man)

(Plastic Man tosses himself over Mr. Fantastic in order to dodge)

(Mr. Fantastic turns to normal and shoots his arm at Plastic Man)

(He punches Plastic Man in the face)

(Then Plastic Man wraps his glob of a body around Mr. Fantastic's arm like in the beginning of the fight)

Mr. Fantastic: This again?

(Mr. Fantastic slams his arm, along with Plastic Man, into a building)

(Plastic Man lets go off Mr. Fantastic arm and flops onto the ground)

(Mr. Fantastic stretches his body out into the size of a building)

Plastic Man: So we're pulling out the big guns now, eh?

Mr. Fantastic: I'm ending this, criminal!

(Mr. Fantastic slams his fist onto Plastic Man)

(Plastic Man gets smushed, but he wraps himself around Mr. Fantastic's hand and then hops off)

(Plastic Man starts to expand his size to Mr. Fantastic's size)

(Once Plastic Man reaches Mr. Fantastic's size, Mr. Fantastic slingshots a fist into Plastic Man's face)

(Plastic Man grabs Mr. Fantastic's arms and pulls him over himself)

(Mr. Fantastic falls onto a few buildings as Plastic Man lifts him over)

(Mr. Fantastic buffs his arm up and fires his fist at Plastic Man)

(He his Plastic Man in the chest and pushes him far back)

(Mr. Fantastic, destroying buildings in the process, pushes Plastic Man back a few miles)

(Eventually Mr. Fantastic starts to weaken his push and Plastic Man grabs onto Mr. Fantastic's arm)

Plastic Man: So you have a limit, huh?

(Plastic Man strengthens his arms and tugs on Mr. Fantastic's arm, forcing Mr. Fantastic to Plastic Man)

(Mr. Fantastic reaches Plastic Man and starts minimizing to regain strength)

(But before Mr. Fantastic could recover, Plastic Man wraps him in his own limbs with a bow to tie it up)

(Plastic Man turns one of his arms into a baseball bat and throws Mr. Fantastic up)

(Plastic Man hits Mr. Fantastic with his bat-arm, hard enough to fire him into space, causing Mr. Fantastic to suffocate in space)

Plastic Man: And he's out of here!

Result
(Cue: Batman: The Brave and the Bold Walkthrough - End Credits 1/2)

K.O!

(The rest of the Fantastic 4 looks for Mr. Fantastic as their powers fade and Plastic Man shrinks down to normal size and tries to run away, only for Batman to catch him)

Well we can't call them the Fantastic 4 anymore, can we?

This is really hard to decipher. The hardest part to find was who could actually hurt the other.

Let's talk about speed first. Mr. Fantastic can can dodge meteorites, which move between 25,000 mph to 160,000 mph, while Plastic Man is fast enough to release everyone out of prison. Mr. Fantastic is much faster.

But Plastic Man makes up for it in strength. Plastic Man was still able to move with ease while the whole Justice League holds him down, and Wonder Woman and Superman have moved the sun before. Mr. Fantastic has held the entire Fantastic 4 before, and The Thing is 226.8 kg. Not nearly as impressive as the Justice League holding down Plastic Man with him still being able to move.

Mr. Fantastic is smarter though, going to university at the age of 14. Plastic Man is smart but not that smart.

Plastic Man is more durable, existing as cells at the bottom of the ocean for 3000 years. He lost 80% of his body mass and still remained sentient. While Mr. Fantastic being able to withstand explosions is impressive, Plastic Man took a missile. And surviving as only 20% of his original body mass while still being alive shows that he has a healing factor and far better than Mr. Fantastic's if he had one.

Mr. Fantastic is more experienced than Plastic Man, having more years of combat due to Plastic Man being under water for 3000.

It all comes down to one factor, who has more control over their powers? And it seems like Plastic Man does. Everything is exactly similar with their powers except that Mr. Fantastic can only stretches to 1500 feet (0.284 miles) while Plastic Man can stretches as far as he wants.

Mr. Fantastic was smarter, faster, and more experience but Plastic Man was stronger, more durable, better regeneration, and had more control over his powers.

That battle was just Fantastic.

The winner was Mr. Fantastic!

Trivia

 * The connections between the two is that they are both stretchy heroes from rival comic franchises. They are both older characters and both are sometimes seen as dislikable. Mr. Fantastic is a hero and Plastic Man is sometimes a hero and sometimes a villain.
 * This is also a legacy matchup
 * Mr. Fantastic vs Plastic Man is the first Marvel vs DC fight of the series
 * Mr. Fantastic is the first Marvel character
 * The next two was Miles Morales and Deadpool
 * Plastic Man is the first DC character
 * The second was Harley Quinn
 * Mr. Fantastic vs Plastic Man is the second episode to not have a custom background on the Amino
 * The first being Yang vs Bakugou and the third being Monika vs Giffany
 * The ending was made up on the spot and accidently was fitting due to Mr. Fantastic getting his power in space.
 * Mr. Fantastic vs Plastic Man was the third episode to get featured on the Death Battle Amino
 * The first two were Waluigi vs Papyrus and Star Butterfly vs Steven Universe. The next seven was Yuno Gasai vs Genocide Jack, Izuku Midoriya vs Miles Morales, Monika vs Giffany, Crona vs Shiro, Clementine vs Ellie, Ninja Brian vs Dr. McNinja, and Ban vs Deadpool.