I think these showings have been culled from a collection of around 90% of all Zealot's appearances, so they should be fairly comprehensive. ComicVine informs me that there is a three issue series from the 90's called Zealot, which I never even knew about. So I've made a capability thread about a character without ever having read that character's eponymous series. Such is life.
I made this thread after a user on the Battle Forums told me that Zealot would curbstomp Batman no matter how much prep he had, because apparently she's beaten Majestic. Seriously? Majestic? People think Zealot can beat Majestic?
That aside, here are her some of her best feats compiled in one blog post. Feel free to tell me if I've missed something or add it yourself if you have it.
WildC.A.T.S v1 #2: Friendly match with Warblade and Maul, where she outreacts Reno and kicks Maul in the gut hard enough for him to feel it. At that size, he's about a 40-50 tonner. She then punches one of the Black Razors hard enough for him to feel it on the same page where another Black Razor showed they were strong enough to hurt Maul in that form.
WildC.A.T.S v1 #8: Beats up some random guys in a bar fight.
WildC.A.T.S v1 #10: Kills a Daemonite (superhuman strength, durability, blah blah)
WildC.A.T.S v1 #12: Uses magic to revert Slag back to his human form.
WildC.A.T.S v1 #13: People who insist Zealot will slaughter everyone via uber deadly bolts of magic should pay attention here. Voodoo conducts psychic surgery on Zealot's soul to disable her magic. She does not have it anymore.
WildC.A.T.S v1 #36: Knocks Majestic back into a wall hard enough for him to put a sizable dent in the wall.
I am not entirely sure how she accomplished this. Might be PIS, might be Deathstroke-kicking-down-Legacy-in-Deathstroke #5. Anyways.
Backlash #31: A short fight with Backlash, one of the very best H2H fighters in Wildstorm. He remarks that he hasn't had a workout like this in a while, which can partly be attributed to him having avoided costumed heroics for a portion of his series, but given his caliber of skill it says something that he wants to see who's the better fighter between him and Zannah.
Wildcore #3: Another fight with Backlash. Marc gets the better of Zealot in H2H combat, she returns the favor in a sword fight. Which is how it should be.
WildC.A.T.S/Aliens: Zealot killing some xenomorphs from the Alien movies. This crossover is canon for Wildstorm, it takes place in between Stormwatch #10 and #11.
WildC.A.T.S v2 #5: Slaughters something like two dozen members of the Coda sisterhood, who are usually all highly trained assassins (the Coda culture revolves around the glorification of combat), quite a few trained by Zannah herself.
WildC.A.T.S v2 #23: Defeats Grifter while not....really....trying....all that much.
Wildstorm Summer Special 2001: Tosses an apple into the air, and then takes down some thugs in the time it takes for the apple to make its descent and then catches it. That's what, 3 or 4 seconds? How long does an apple take to fall?
WildC.A.T.S v3 #13: Fights another pair of Coda assassins. Before she reaches them, she takes a bullet to the arm and leg. Doesn't slow her down or indeed bother her at all, and she still manages to kill them with style.
Captain Atom: Armageddon #4: Zealot vs Captain Atom. Her kusar blade blocks one of his energy blasts. Note her comments about its capabilities. She manages to knock Atom off his feet somehow, and then gets KO'd by an exploding gas main.
Majestic #7: Another example of how sharp kusar blades are; they can pierce Majestic's skin.
Majestic #11: Zealot and Majestic vs Helspont. The same blow that knocks Majestic away is blocked by Zealot's blade; she dodges a punch from him and seemingly cuts his armor (or maybe just made a clanging noise) after Majestros softened him up a bit.
Majestic #14: Carves up a few members of the Shapers' Guild, who are all basically Warblade-lite:
WildC.A.T.S: Nemesis #3: Zealot vs Nemesis (another Coda warrior who can predict attacks and movements by sensing emotions around her, she's kind of a Mr. X/Cassandra Cain mix) in unarmed combat. It is roughly even more or less until Charis taunts Zealot about Savant's parentage; an angry Zannah starts to throttle Nemesis until Daemonites attack the stadium.
DC/Wildstorm: Dreamwar #3: This was a 2008 crossover between DC and Wildstorm, which is canon for the WSU. Zealot fights Batman, and the only reason Bruce even lasts that long is jobbing on Zealot's part (this crossover was filled with horrible writing, like Batman using knockout gas on Spartan and Grifter gunning down Dr. Fate). Still, she guts and beheads him.
Wildstorm Revelations #5: Another fight between Zealot and Nemesis. It's pretty short and even.
WildC.A.T.S v5 #16: While we're on the subject of capabilities, this is how a serious fight between Zealot and Majestic would go:
He'd slap her weapon aside and punch her head clean off. That's about it. I don't know where people got this idea that she can take down Majestic. She's good, but she's not that good.
WildC.A.T.S.v5 #25: Zealot vs Midnighter!
I don't really approve of using this showing to show off Zealot's prowess, mainly because in my opinion it's her best feat (or close to it) ever, so it may be too high-end a showing to serve as a definitive example of how good Zealot is on average. Anyway, she fights Midnighter H2H for 4 hours non-stop, and then they switch to fighting with weapons, where Midnighter is at a disadvantage because all he's got to counter a kusar blade is a staff. Zealot gets into his head a bit by taunting him about not being able to save his daughter, and then they're both trying to throttle each other until Maul intervenes. I just call this one a draw. Honestly though, Midnighter should have done better.
That's all I got.
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