Versus Bracket
Versus Bracket
[A tournament bracket tree is shown with 16 participants each on the left and right side. From both sides toward the middle the brackets reduce to eight, then four, two, and one line where the latter join to a rectangle in the middle.]
[Left side:] Kramer - Kramer Ford - Ferrari The People - Larry Flint Joe - The Volcano King Kong - Godzilla Freddy - Jason Dracula - Frankenstein Alien - Predator
[Right side:] Marvel - Capcom Marge - The Monorail Justice League - Teen Titans Asterix - Caesar Batman - Superman Scott Pilgrim - The World Mega Shark - Giant Octopus Plants - Zombies

This comic shows a tournament bracket in which the initial matches represent works of fiction or non-fiction with "versus" (represented as versus , vs. , v , etc) in their names (e.g. Batman is initially matched against Superman in reference to Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice ).  The list includes 13 movies, 2 video games, and one television episode.  The works referenced are:
Assuming the tournament bracket reflects the results of each original work, the second round would result as follows:
The title text refers to the 2002 action film Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever , which is qualified to be in this tournament by virtue of having the word "vs." in its title, but as the film is regarded as one of the worst movies ever made , it has been defeated in a pre-entry match vs. "the passage of time" - it is thus not considered worthy of entry in the tournament.
Tournament brackets is a recurring subject on xkcd, most recently used in 2131: Emojidome and 2037: Supreme Court Bracket . The latter is especially similar to this comic, considering that it also extends normal "versus" situations to a second round. The first bracket comic, 1529: Bracket , prompted people to create a series of polls to determine the end results, much like Randall later did himself with Emojidome. Randall even made a reference to one of those polls in the xkcd Header text .
[A tournament bracket tree is shown with 16 participants each on the left and right side. From both sides toward the middle the brackets reduce to eight, then four, two, and one line where the latter join to a rectangle in the middle.]
[Left side:] Kramer - Kramer Ford - Ferrari The People - Larry Flint Joe - The Volcano King Kong - Godzilla Freddy - Jason Dracula - Frankenstein Alien - Predator
[Right side:] Marvel - Capcom Marge - The Monorail Justice League - Teen Titans Asterix - Caesar Batman - Superman Scott Pilgrim - The World Mega Shark - Giant Octopus Plants - Zombies
