L-M Classic: Clockwork v. Mongoose

In answer to my opponent's questions: The Green Arrow and Hiro Nakamura are my street-level characters. To quote the rules forum topic: "Each debater must have at least two street-level characters on their team... people who spend their time dealing with local adversaries AND/OR are essentially on a human level." Examples including Lelouch Lamperougue (http://en.wikipedia.org...), Spider-Man (http://en.wikipedia.org...), and Solid Snake (http://en.wikipedia.org...) are given as examples of street-level characters. Both Spider-Man and Lelouch possess extraordinary abilities; Solid Snake does not. However, all examples given are characters who are on a reasonably human level (as opposed to Apocalypse or Superman) and are characters who battle local adversaries (such as the Green Goblin in Spider-Man's case) as opposed to extremely powerful, intergalactic enemies. The Green Arrow plays the part of a vigilante, taking down local villains like Count Vertigo (http://en.wikipedia.org...). Street level characters can still possess significant technology (Snake, Master Chief) and skill, so the significant arsenal and abilities of The Green Arrow do not mean that he is not a street character; quite the opposite. As for Hiro Nakamura, his powers are reasonably limited, just like Spider-Man's or Lelouch's, and some main antagonists for him in the series include people such as Arthur Petrelli (http://en.wikipedia.org...). According to the regulations set out, both Hiro and The Green Arrow are clearly street characters. In response to my opponent's "unlimited" claims: Hiro's powers are by no means unlimited, as the time-stop is much less effective for those who possess superhuman speed, although they are still considerably slowed. Hiro often runs into a woman called Daphne who holds the power of enhanced speed, and her speed is shown to be comparable to Hiro within the time-stop. My opponent has further misconstrued the implications of The Green Lantern's ability. The simple fact that the comic book series can hold a plot shows that the Oan power ring has it's limits. On the Power ring link I gave earlier (http://en.wikipedia.org...(weapon)), there is even a whole subsection dedicated to "Limitations". To go more in depth, the willpower and creativity of the wielder greatly influence the potential of the ring; when The Green Arrow once used Hal Jordan's power ring to create a green-light arrow, the effort put into creating just one arrow left The Green Arrow exhausted. Only a righteous willpower can capably utilize the ring's potential. Furthermore, the ring can only tolerate so much power. When John Stewart tried to reconstruct a destroyed planet in Green Lantern V4 #26, he recieved a message telling him that his "willpower exceeds power ring capabilities." The power ring energy can only manifest itself in certain ways (as already listed in previous sources), so my opponent doesn't have to worry about Stewart "imagining" him dead. Lastly, my opponent has failed to differentiate a "New God" from a "god" in relation to Darkseid's abilities. Although I can't go into the many intricacies of the DC universe, it stands to mention that the forbidden godlike characters possess abilities that literally enable them to do anything TO anything (i.e. limitless matter and energy creation/destruction), while the New Gods are simply a very powerful set of superhuman beings that cannot die of old age. All New Gods, however, can be killed, and Darkseid has been killed (with difficulty) OBJECTIONS AGAINST MY OPPONENT -Several of my opponent's team members abilities are not actual abilities, such as James Bond's "extreme luck" ability and Gibbs' "speed-up time" ability. Such abilities are not listed anywhere in their respective canons or in the provided sources. -The strategy involving Master Hand reanimating toys is invalid, as this debate is a battle between the five team members, not the five team members and however many allies they can pull in. If Master Hand is permitted to reanimate Superman dolls, then my team wold be allowed to summon it's extensive list of allies, including tens of millions of Daxamites, the Green Lantern Corps and Apocalypse's Horsemen. -Hiro has never sent himself spiraling through time while attempting to stop time, as the time-stop is a relatively simple outlet of his powers. Hiro's powers have only ever faltered when using more complicated abilities such as teleportation or time travel. REFUTATION If Hiro's time-stop is not broken, team Clockwork is practically handed an auto-win. Although the time stop has not been adequately refuted by my opponent, I will now present further strategies that do not involve Hiro stopping time, including defensive measures. Firstly, we must realize that none of team Mongoose's team members can teleport. Thus, with the time before Team Mongoose would be able to locate team Clockwork, The Green Lantern would have accessed the Book of Oa, which includes everything that has and will happen involving members of the Green Lantern Corps. Thus, before team Mongoose can even locate team Clockwork, the latter will know of all their opponent's strategies. They will accordingly fail to fall into Agent K's trap at the Statue of Liberty. Once Master Hand reanimates the toys, Darkseid will use his mind-control abilities to possess most (if not all) of the minions. If any SuperMan dolls fail to fall under Darkseid's control, they can easily be eliminated by The Green Arrow's kryptonite arrow or by The Green Lantern's simulated Kryptonite radiations. Ganon's barriers will also fail because Darkseid, Apocalypse, and The Green Lantern can easily teleport all of Team Clockwork outside of such barriers. Using the Book of Oa, or simply by using the Oan power ring to scan for any life forces in NYC, the three secret agents on my opponent's team are eliminated. Master Hand and Ganondorf remain. The Green Arrow, Darkseid, and Apocalypse team up on Master Hand and work on subduing Ganondorf while The Green Lantern Teleports off and locates the Master Sword. Judging by the video provided by my opponent, it takes Captain Falcon (http://en.wikipedia.org...), not a particularly strong character, exactly one minute to defeat Master Hand; with the much more powerful members of Team Clockwork on the job, Master Hand's 300 HP would be gone in a matter of seconds. Then Apocalypse or Darkseid can teleport Ganon outside of NYC, or they can fend Ganon off until The Green Lantern returns with the Master Sword to eliminate Ganon. TEAM MONGOOSE: EILIMINATED Team Clockwork wins. remember that this above strategy is assuming that the time stop is not effective; my opponent has not yet been able to prove that it wouldn't be effective, so thus both this strategy and the strategy used in R1 by Team Clockwork still need to be refuted by my opponent.