Happy 2025 everyone, I realized something a while ago. I am someone who greatly loves both Horror and Cartoons, and one of the best examples of BOTH in my book is Courage the Cowardly Dog. Courage is in my top 3 favorite Cartoon series, up there with Ed, Edd n Eddy and Animaniacs, but somehow I have NEVER Done a Deep Dive into it for one of my blogs in the 10 years that I’ve been doing this, How did ACTUAL Death Battle Beat me to this Series? Well today I’m gonna super correct that as We analyze How to be OP in Courage The Cowardly Dog!
Stellar Tier:
The First and ONLY Tier in Courage the Cowardly Dog, which contains everyone from Courage himself to the most obscure of background characters. Which is kinda just one of those things that is bound to happen when your Main character is portrayed as being both a Low Tier AND a Top Tier from moment to moment in this show. He just scales to everyone and everyone scales to him. Characters in this tier are well into the Large Star level power rating thanks to Many, MANY Consistent feats such as Courage literally screaming loud enough to Shatter the Sun, The Shadow from episode 2 moving around a constellation and becoming the Shadow of a Star, The Racket Alien being able to hit the Earth hard enough to make it rotate around the sun 1000 times in seconds, The Star Makers and Whale literally making, moving and consuming stars like nothing, and the US Military having weapons including a Monster Ray that can travel to and destroy stars casually, and rocket fuel that Launched Eustace into space which exploded into a Constellation of stars, both of which characters have tanked. As Far as Speed is concerned, Courage has dodged lasers, Killed a robot who could travel ‘Many Lightyears’ in a short time and Took on an entire army of Tree Monsters, fast enough to physically traverse the universe according to them, and chopped them to pieces. He was able to keep up with The Shadow and The Living Comet, both of which can fly to different star systems in seconds with total ease, and he once Pedaled a Bike-powered ship into a different galaxy in a short time, requiring speeds Billions of times Faster than the Speed of Light. So Large Star Level, Billions C will be the range for counters here.
To Go over some common abilities of the verse, Basically every character can seemingly breathe both underwater and in outer space completely uninhibited. Characters in this verse all possess Elasticity to stretch their bodies around to crazy lengths. They can endure extreme temperatures, including Heat hot enough to rapidly melt wood and porcelain into liquid, and cold enough to freeze them solid in seconds. Plus they also have the strange ability to just spatially remove their own body parts with no damage, and autonomously control them and even plug them into other bodies. This enables all the characters to survive things like decapitation or being broken to pieces and reassemble themselves back to normal, and even possess other bodies by putting their head on it. But the most common trait shared by the characters is just how impossible it is to permanently kill these characters thanks to their Regeneration. Characters like Courage and Eustace have casually regenerated from being torn to shreds, reduced to skeletons, smelted into liquid, vaporized into ash or dust, and even, while digitized, being broken down into scattered pieces of Binary code. The greatest potential feat of Courage’s regeneration, as Death Battle Pointed out actually, was when Courage turned himself into an explosion which briefly dissipated into nothingness without even Ash remaining, which suggests a Low Godly Healing Factor. I Personally wasn’t sure about this feat since this is done through Courage’s own shapeshifting and not real Damage he endured and could just as easily be invisibility or something, BUT in that same episode Eustace actually Self Destructs and leaves nothing behind at all as well, which essentially proves it. Low Godly Healing Factors are the ability to regenerate back even if Every Aspect of your entire physical being is eradicated, often coming back from your disembodied soul or mind, meaning you would explicitly need a higher plane Hax to kill them. This is even consistent with how the Courage cast interacts with the most dangerous Physical Plane Hax, Transmutation. While Transmutation DOES work on them, the Courage cast has shown to eventually be able to turn themselves back to normal on their own, such as Courage coming back from being turned into a Helicopter, Muriel Coming back from being turned into a Washing Machine, some Random Boat Captain coming back from being turned into a Soda Machine, and Eustace coming back from being Turned to Stone, smelted into a Statue, and being transformed into a Slab, a Wrecking Ball, and an Alien Chicken Monster.
Courage The Cowardly Dog takes place in Nowhere Kansas, a mysterious desert that is a Hotspot for weirdness in a way that would make Gravity Falls Blush. Courage is a small pink beagle who, despite being terrified, battles against the horrors that be to protect his adoptive family Muriel and Eustace Bagge. Despite his cute and cuddly appearance, Courage is an absolutely badass, supergenius cartoon hero who has quite a wild arsenal of impressive abilities that allow him to battle back these monsters. Courage can shapeshift his body into basically anything he can imagine, allowing him to disguise himself, turn completely invisible, Shrink himself down to cellular sized and back, amplify his own stats by making himself buff, change his state of matter into liquid or gas to travel through obstacles and have attacks travel through him harmlessly, and at one point even duplicate himself into 3 Courages. Courage is also a genius who could teach himself to fly a plane mid flight, become a fully licensed therapist in minutes, reconfigure a TV into an ultra bright laser in seconds to fry up a turnip monster, and build a super advanced Vacuum out of plane and windmill parts, that was powerful enough to not only insta clean a building sized mess, but suck in the Statue of Liberty, all in minutes. Skillswise, Courage is an expert sword fighter and super accomplished acrobat with advanced dexterity. He’s also a master martial artist to such a high degree of proficiency he overcame the Evil Empress in Hand to Hand combat, and she is a 4000 year old master of all combat. Also he has cartoon Duping powers so extreme that at one point he Duped a literal inanimate cannon ball with a disguise so thoroughly it stopped in mid air and flew around him. Courage can Teleport, Tunnel through the ground at crazy impressive speeds, Track the scents of others literally across the entire planet, and has Anti-Logia powers that let him pick up and carry a giant supply of water to his well, somehow trip a Tornado, and physically sew up a hole in the Ozone layer. He can howl to summon an army of Stat comparable Dogs from the surrounding area to aid him, and seemingly summon Mr. Mouse to take care of a problem for him at any time. Courage is a master Hypnotist, he’s mind controlled Eustace to think he's a frog, and then later made Muriel and Eustace regress to past life versions of themselves. His Hypnosis is so extreme it can even transmute its victim into what he convinced them they were, like when he Hypnotised Eustace to be the best most athletic version of himself, and later hypnotised a Dolphin to think its a Fish and his Trainer to think he's a Lizard and they both actually turned into a Fish and Lizard. Courage’s imagination can even leak into the real world, such as when he imagined a Light Bulb, whose heat allowed him to melt out of a frozen state, or when he seemed to turn Eustace into The Whip from his dream. Another power he commonly showcases is Immersion, able to digitize himself into his computer, travel from the computer through the Phone lines to Eustace’s Phone to grab something in the real world, and then go back in, and later exit the computer himself, giving him Digitization resistance. He later immersed himself and Muriel back to the farm through a Painting of it in France, and he and his Villain Le Quack were both able to make attacks from movies on televisions, come out from TVs to hit each other. Plus there's also a plethora of Magical Spells Courage has picked up over the course of the series that he can now freely use. Courage can Exorcise Demons out of people, Astral Project himself into Dreams to fight Nightmare creatures while his Body was still in the waking world, Lay Eggs that cure supernatural diseases, and use all the powers of the demonic magician Mondo, including teleporting things around him, transmutating stuff and pulling Eustace OUT from being immersed into the TV. Courage, and numerous of his villains have access to the Hammerspace power, allowing him to pull random objects out of thin air to aid him. Courage can pull out tons of simple objects through this including Ol Timey Cartoon Bombs, Chainsaws, Dog Sized Cannons, Welding Torches, Volatile Chemicals, an Alien Laser Gun that can disintegrate people on his tier and Computer, a sentient Desktop which can tell him basically any information about any thing he needs to know. Two objects in particular Courage kept with him he could potentially pull out through this include The God Bone, a giant Bone so irresistible to Dogs they will be forced to lick it until they die, and more impressively, The Dark Matter Meteor. The Dark Matter Meteor is the Source of all the creepy stuff that happens in Nowhere, just by its existence, and has the general ability to Warp Reality. It can be used to control Minds, Transmute matter, alter Gravity, Change the Weather, Force people to dance against their will, manipulate size to turn Courage into a Kaiju, and even affect the very animation style. That last bit leads into Courage’s Fourth Wall Awareness which allows him to see and be hit by the camera, block and interact with the Iris-In and talk to the audience directly. Resistance wise, Courage has shrugged off multiple diseases including an Alien Plague that forces you to beat yourself to death, lycanthropy from the Weremole’s bite, and the mental effects of the Curtains of Cruelty and Kindness, the God Bone, and the Hypnosis of Le Quack and the King of Flan.
To Talk about some other characters for a spell, Muriel is very consistently shown to have minor Gravity Manipulation, that lets her walk on ceilings, as well as being able to resist the Personality and Emotional Manipulation of the Curtains of Cruelty and Kindness with no effect. Eustace was also able to resist the respective curtains as well as more impressively, Dr. Zalost’s depression cannon balls, with the Doctor just stating Eustace is immune to emotions. Eustace also was able to use immersion to enter into a record player and come back after being sealed in place of The Thinker in a statue. Psychopathic asshole Di Lung, is a genius and mystical inventor, whose inventions include a potion that creates armies of Monsterous Severed Arms that chase after and attack people, a Magic Mirror that can spy on people, a Formula that can transmutate people into random animals, a launcher that can launch people around the entire planet, and most impressively, Mecha Courage, a robot who can outperform courage in combat and has tons of crazy and violent gadgets inside. There's a few Other Evils Supergenius’ in this series like Katz, who has an Army of Giant Spiders, gear that can transmutate you into random machinery and Logia jelly monsters, or Le Quack, who has the ability to hypnotise people, and many useful abilities he shares with Courage such as Hammerspace, Regeneration, Immersion and Absolute Plane interaction. Doc Gerbil, the Incredibly Creepy mad scientist, can also transmutate matter in various unspeakable ways, including a Vacuum can shrink foes down to the size of mice. The Great Fusilli can transform people into Puppets, The King of Flan was able to mind control everyone in Nowhere at once and Dr. Zalost can fire cannon balls that intangibly phase into people and rob them of their happiness, giving crippling depression so bad they can’t move. But the most dangerous of these Genius type characters is Snowman, formerly the last of a race of Sentient Snowmen from the north pole. He is so smart he was able to extract anti-melting genes from people to cure himself from melting in high temperatures, and later invented his signature weapon, the Snowfinger, which boosted his already impressive Cryokinetic powers to the point he could turn all of the desert biome of Nowhere into his new West Pole, with temperatures so cold lifeforms would become frozen in place instantly. Also, as a Snowman, his logia body will automatically regenerate from literally Anything as long as it's cold enough, as shown the his friends returned from being melted centuries ago once the Ozone layer was fixed.
There is a wide variety of Alien species seen in this show, including Agent SP-5, who can shapeshift her body into any form and spit corrosive acid, The Brain Aliens who can isolate and remove personality traits from people including Kindness or Fear, and Courage’s oldest foe, Chicken from Outer Space. This Chicken can instantly regenerate lost limbs and was even able to shrug off being turned into a headless, fried chicken dinner. He wields Ray Guns that can disintegrate whole mountains and transmutate objects with their light speed beams, and lays Eggs that transmutate anyone who consumes them into an evil chicken monster. This series is also host to a lot of different Ghosts. Ghosts in this series have a variety of standard powers including invisibility, levitation, intangibility and telekinesis, but more powerful ghosts have additional abilities on top of this. The three most powerful Ghosts in the series include King Ramses, an ancient Mummy spirit whose powers include Clairvoyance, Teleportation, Immense Hydrokinesis that can summon floods from Midair, Summoning an Evil Record player that deals damage based on how bad the song is, Transmutating people into part of an ancient slab, and most terrifying, summoning a Scarab Beetle swarm that can eat things down to nothingness in seconds. The McPhearson Phantom can Conjure any object or living creature imaginable and insert them into any location, including supernatural creatures like Finger Eating Termites. She can also Possess people, make things Spontaneously Combust with her mind, Detect the emotions of others, control water and liquids, and use Immersion to enter into things like Ink blots. And lastly there is The Spirit of the Harvest Moon, a Haunting floating head who has many powers already stated, as well as the ability to transmutate matter such as turning water into sand, or raise the temperature so hot it can actually Melt people to liquid. There's a Couple Gods in this tier as well, like the Goose God, who has control over various elements like Ice, Lightning and Clouds, and can manipulate and fill things with Life energy or take it away, like when he created and then destroyed an endless field of flowers. There's also The Storm Goddess, who has Control over Rain, Wind, Lightning and Clouds.
Now let's get to discussing the various different Magic users in this series, including The Magic Tree of Nowhere, a talking Tree who can use precognition to see the Future, and can warp reality to create any object, project entire movies from his leaves, and even use biological manipulation to give others diseases, though he Does have a weakness of being immobile. The Evil Empress is a 4000 year old master of Chinese Martial Arts, which granted her various magical powers including Levitation, Laser Vision, Telekinesis, Shapeshifting and Teleportation of self and others. Big Bayou is a giant, Highly Venomous cajun snake, who Knows potent Black Magic, able to remotely give someone horrible diseases, and send messages through said diseases, magically bind people into slave like servitude to himself, and potentially create armies of voodoo snakes to serve him out of his own shed skin. There's also Mondo, a magical demon with super advanced Teleportation abilities, able to teleport himself, others, and objects in basically any way he wants, as well as use Transmutation to turn people into several kinds of animals, a head of Cabbage, or curse Muriel to turn into a demon like him. Mondo can also Breathe Fire, and use immersion to do things like just Put Eustace into a TV where he could interact with whatever was on their tv set at the time. But the most powerful Magic user in the series is none other than Shirley The Medium.
Shirley is a Gypsy Chihuahua who can directly contact the dead, and summon spirits to speak through her. She has clairvoyance that allows her to find lost items, spy on people across the entire world, and know how to stop any supernatural entity. Shirley’s greatest power is her ability to Curse people, warping reality to make them suffer as she sees fit. She can both curse someone or lift other curses off of them from any remote distance away, and these curses can have whatever features she wishes. Some of her curses include, making people become plagued by an ever present raincloud or illusions of monsters, sealing foes inside of Music like that of Vinyl Records or CDs, Transmutating people into food, Mind Manipulation people into stealing from each other forever, and even summoning unstoppable taylor made monsters that can only be defeated through specific weaknesses she programs in them.
There's a handful of Elementals to note, including The Shadow, sentient Darkness that can Shape its body however he wants, attack people by harming Their Shadows, dealing the same effect to their normal body as a result, and is has a fear aura so strong, he could scare Nonsentient things like Ice Cream into melting into a puddle. The Fog being is an entity made of Fog that can flood an entire area with its mass and use Spatial Manipulation to make things disappear in the fog and keep people separated in it forever. And most notably, The Black Puddle Queen is an amphibious Water creature that can manipulate water and storms in any conceivable way. She can make dimensional portals via water, cast illusions, hypnotise people, sense what's happening around any water source, and turn her body into water, steam or even light refractions.
There's a few more random monsters running around so let's just go through them rapid fire to finish up. We got digital entities like Computer and The Virus who can Digitize people into software, The Mattress Demon who possesses people and can vomit turrets of slime, Weremoles that have crazy burrowing powers and can turn others into Weremoles with their bite, and The Pied Piper who can control whole armies of rats, OR people with his flute music. There's a Monster in Eustace’s Brothers Money box that can Drag you into a dimension made of Money, with no where to spend it, Big Toe, a mobster fungus who possesses those infected with it, and is immortal so long as people keep getting the fungus infection, A Mummy who could ensnare people in mummy wrappings, and a Vampire Cat who can Drain life energy from people even at a distance, as well as Shapeshift and Hypnotise people with a glance. And for our final 3 creatures we have Death, a Grim Reaper figure who has Death Hax that can kill anything on touch and Decay manipulation that can turn food into ashes. The SandMan, a Dream lord who can fly, hear the sound of people sleeping across the planet and hone in on individuals and most notably can steal one's ability to sleep and imbue it to himself or others. And Lastly, Mr. Nightmare, a Freddy Kruegar parody character who exists on the Mental Plane, able to control dreams like a reality warper, attack with clawed hands and somehow see the physical plane too while this is going on.
So after all that, what would be some good strategies to use? Some common problems are the need to destroy the characters past what they can regenerate from, essentially meaning Higher plane hax are necessary, especially with all the incorporeal ghosts around. They also need to be able to hit at least up to the Mental Plane as characters like Mr. Nightmare are a thing to consider. With common powers in this verse including Transmutation and Disease Manipulation not actually having a physical body to affect yourself would be a great strategy to use against them. The Character also would need some strong mental defenses to deal with the various mind control and manipulation powers this verse can dish out. And they also need to have a wide variety of dimensional movement options given all the various ways there are to just seal you away, that takes me into my first counter.
Hecate:
Hecate, the Witch of The Moon from Saint Seiya would excel here. While not a super high tier character from her verse, Hecate has awoken her Seventh Sense, which others have used to destroy Stars with just one hit, putting her in the same raw power tier as the Courage cast. Speedwise, Hecate is over 105 Million times the speed of light from a direct feat of reforming her body in minutes after being reduced to Stardust spread over 1,000 Lightyears. While this is notably Slower than the Courage cast, as the very nature of that feat should imply, Hecate is REALLY Hard to kill, basically turning herself into the Sun Wukong of the series. Hecate has an Immortal Lifespan, is completely self sustaining, not requiring Food or Oxygen to live, and has insane regeneration, able to actively restore herself on the Atomic level using her cosmos, and even passively return from complete destruction so long as The Moon’s Light exists. While this isn’t quite as impressive as the unconditional Low Godly regen some of the Courage Cast sports, it's still good enough to mean basically no one in the entire series can kill her with raw force, as being a few times stronger than someone isn’t nearly enough to Atomize them, which requires closer to a Billions of times power difference. Hecate is extremely intelligent, being a millenia’s old trickster who has matched wits with the literal gods of Wisdom and Time, and Has been in multiple fights in the past as well and thus shouldn’t have much of a problem matching the impressive mental stats of the verse. She is proficient in the use of Cosmos, which essentially allows one the ability to Manipulate Atoms, giving her the ability to Atomize enemies and completely control the Atoms of her own body, the latter of which is extremely important as it essentially means the super common Transmutation ability this series loves to use has no chance of working on her as she can just prevent her atomic structure from being altered or restore it back to normal. Cosmos also allows the user to hit and interact with intangible entities up to and including the Conceptual Level, such as when the Saints battled the personification of Mankind's sins, so any of the Ghosts, Spirits, Logia monsters or Dream creatures are not going to be able to phase through her attacks. Hecate can Fly using her broom, Teleport herself, shapeshift into a Crow, Reflect attacks Back to sender which would be devastating against those that require them to use their powers like Dr. Zalost, Mondo, The Gods and possibly even Shirley depending if it works on curses, and she's even unlocked both the Sixth and Seventh Senses. The Sixth Sense grants her a suite of Psychic powers including Telekinesis that can be used to induce paralysis, which helps to cut down on their speed advantage, and the ability to sense incoming threats even from other dimensions. Unlocking this most likely means she has strong mental defenses as well which should be at least high enough to prevent any of the various mind control abilities that could be thrown at her. The Seventh Sense on the other hand, allows the user to resist Law Manipulation, preventing them from being warped along with the rest of reality, which would protect Hecate from being manipulated by Courage’s Dark Matter Meteor, arguably the series’ biggest threat. The Seventh Sense also compensates for any of the lower 6 senses the person may have lost, including their Mind as that is what the 6th sense is, so even If some of the Mind Manipulation abilities would affect Hecate, she does not actually need her mind to continue fighting. So Hecate can Survive their physical attacks, shrug off most of their direct hax like Transmutation, Death Hax and Mind Manipulation, and score hits on them via her Paralysis, Anti-Intangibility and Attack Reflection, but how could she actually kill them? Even atomic scale destruction doesn’t mean anything to a Low Godly Healing Factor, and even Conceptual Planar attacks might not be enough to work considering they are able to interact with Metafictional Stuff. But that's where we get Hecate’s best magical spell, the ability to create an illusion that traps people and causes them to walk in circles forever. This was able to work even on Shun, one of the legendary Saints of Athena, and a more impressive feat of mental manipulation than any Courage character has broken free from, which Should be able to trap them. That said Hecate isn’t completely invincible in this verse as the various Sealing Powers such as immersing her into Media are definitely not something she's ever had to defend against before. And while things like her Psychic Super Senses and potentially the power of Miracles could allow her to avoid being trapped in one, if someone lands this they win. For a safer option,
Carrie Kruegar:
Carrie from The Amazing World of Gumball series. Carrie is physically relevant to Gumball, which isn’t that impressive for power with even his most generous feats ‘only’ being Planet level, but is great for speeds cause Gumball, Darwin and Sussy were able to jump into what appears to be the center of the Galaxy in about 5 seconds, which puts her right in the perfect speed range here at Billions of times lightspeed. Carrie is a Ghost and is naturally an intangible entity who is actually so intangible that even characters with metafictional interaction like Gumball and Darwin cannot touch her, meaning the only Courage characters that COULD harm her are other Ghosts. Carrie’s Body is not made of matter, in fact it is said to be made of nothing at all, unable to show up in mirrors or photographs, and thus will not be able to be transmutated, as even Gumball who has really high end matter manipulation powers cannot manipulate her body. Carrie is an incredibly wise spirit, being 327 years old, and able to recognize Curses on site and knows numerous Witchcraft spells to combat them, she is shockingly well prepared for this series. Like most Ghosts, Carrie can Levitate, turn herself invisible and use Possession, something that should be effective on most Courage characters as Ghosts in Gumball can even possess Other Ghosts. But Carrie has a little bit more advanced abilities than just that. She can Teleport herself and others, use Telekinesis for attacks and defense, and cast illusions to mess with the characters super senses, making her extremely hard to pin down. Ghosts in Gumball have the inherent ability to Immerse themselves into forms of Media like Film or Photos, and Carrie can freely create dimensional portals or even teleport to and from the Underworld at will, making her pretty much impossible to seal away and totally able to use this power against them. Carrie can also seal beings in Energy fields using circles of Pepper, and use various incantations to rip someone's spirit out or even remove aspects of someone's personality like Jealousy or Love, similar to The Brain Aliens, which would be potential oneshot hax against many of these characters. Additionally if given access to a Spellbook she could potentially pull out other powers including Time Travel, Matter Manipulation or Necromancy. That said, It is unknown how Carrie would react to multiple of the Hypnosis attacks in this verse and while stealth is her strong suit, if she gets blindsided by one of those its possible she could lose
The Darkness of Th’Gol:
Th’Gol from Invader Zim is a true cartoon terror who certainly fits the tone of this series. Originally the Darkness that encompassed All of existence before the Big Bang, Th’Gol was weakened by the universe's Light and sealed away on our very Moon. But even in this weakened State, Th’Gol is on par with Entities who can Kick the Earth into the freaking Sun in seconds and comparable in speed to Irken Tech that can fly to the other side of the universe in 6 months. This puts Th’Gol on the lower end of power, but still able to keep up with these characters. Th’Gol is darkness itself, and His body is completely impossible to physically harm or interact with, even GIR who is capable of grabbing everything from Dark Energy to Meta Dialogue Boxes, seemingly cannot touch him, so The Courage cast likely cannot as well. Th’Gol is unable to be Transmutated, due to lacking Matter of any kind, and cannot be Mind Manipulated, due also to not having a mind, Heck he cannot even be Death Haxed cause he is a deathless entity. Th’Gol is also known for his ability to Consume Souls, apparently being able to do so to the entire Earth all at once if given the chance, and Soul Hax surprisingly doesn’t come up as a thing Courage characters have or resisted, giving Th’Gol an easy way to potentially kill every character including the Ghosts, possibly all at once. Only a few beings such as various killer robots could survive this, and they certainly wouldn’t beat Th’Gol in a prolonged fight. Now Th’Gol does have a weakness, that being Very Bright light weakens and could even destroy him, But, the Courage series doesn’t have a super easy way to capitalize on that, Even the Star Makers stars are very small in terms of light generation. Now the one really Dangerous thing this verse has to use on Th’Gol is the same thing that could potentially stop Hecate, Sealing. We know Sealing would be pretty effective on this entity that was successfully sealed for 1000 years. But that gets into what I think might be his greatest asset here, stealth. As seen with the Shadow in ep 2, The Courage cast has a hard time detecting entities that are just Made of Darkness. If he goes to attack the Earth it's actually quite possible no one will notice until it's too late and he takes everyone's souls for a GG. That said, obviously the threat of being sealed somehow or someone making a powerful light device are ways he could be defeated. For someone more safe…
Holo-Jane:
Yup, she's back after all this time! Holo-Jane from the OK KO Series is a Level 3 Hero and should scale to Rad casually making a Continent sized crack on Planet X just by shaking hands with his Grandpa, or how he can react to characters with speeds Billions of times the speed of light, like Cosma who can travel to a different Nebula instantly. This is considerably weaker than the Courage Cast, but still fast enough to react to their attacks. Holo-Jane is a sentient Hologram, which already means she would not be able to be Transmutated due to lacking any form of matter to harm, cannot be mentally manipulated due to not technically having a mind, and cannot be Death Haxed due to lacking actual lifeforce, but she takes her nature way further than that. Holo-Jane is an image made of light, floating in the gaps between reality. This enabled her to realize she is a fictional character in a cartoon world, and gave her the ability to float into and out of different layers of Realness at will. Holo-Jane can make herself a nonexistent fictional character within the context of her world, or make herself More Real than the world she currently inhabits, allowing her to take apart the series she's in on the Metafictional plane. Not only would this make any attempt at Sealing her by the Courage cast completely useless, allow her to score hits on any intangible entity, and BFR people into other dimensions they likely cannot return from, but it also lets her knock characters back into the storyboards of the cartoon and even destroy their outlines. The Various Low Godly Healing Factors The Courage Cast can sport are impressive, but Metafictional Existence Erasure is definitely a bit outside of its paygrade. Now with the Courage characters ability to see and interact with Meta stuff like the Iris in at the end of episodes, means it IS possible for them to see and grab her and potentially stop her that way. But Holo-Jane’s Meta Spatial Manipulation is significantly more advanced than their own, Allowing her to interact with you from other planes of existence, manipulate perspective so that her opponent can’t be physically close to her, or enter into the Background art that characters cannot move through. The Courage Casts Metafictional Manipulation is a LOT more Basic than Holo-Jane’s and we’ve never seen them do anything other than see and touch it, so they would not be able to replicate these things. So if Holo-Jane plays this with any caution, there's essentially no way the Courage Characters can even affect her and she’d eventually delete everybody. But of course, she IS Holo-Jane afterall, for someone who feels more fair, my ultimate counter is…
Mega Man (Star Force)
Okay lastly we have Geo Stelar, the Mega Man from the Star Force series. Geo was powerful enough to battle the villain Sirius, who was able to telekinetically move a Supermassive Black Hole across the galaxy. He was also fast enough to directly travel from Earth to Sagittarius A in the center of the Milky Way at Billions of times the speed of light, making him the first and only counter I found who can actually match the Courage Cast in a fist fight. As an FM-ian/Human Hybrid, Geo’s Body is made entirely of EM Radio Waves, making him a data being naturally invisible and intangible to any normal physical object. This means he would be impervious to the Transmutation powers naturally found in this tier as he literally isn’t made of matter to alter. He also has several high end feats resisting Mind Control, Possession and Death Manipulation making him really difficult to effect at all through many of the common hax that keep coming up. Geo is able to completely control and corrupt any form of technology and would have no trouble taking care of characters like the Alien Robots, Computer or the Virus. His ability to enter into technology and exit from it also means he most certainly won’t be able to be sealed away into media by Mondo or Shirley. Geo has three powers that would be especially helpful to use against these characters offensively, the first being his attack reflection with his Reflect Battle Card to send any dangerous projectiles back to sender, The ability to Stop Time on a Metafictional Level given how he was able to Freeze the Tutorial of the game as a joke on the player, and the ability to use cards like Mirror’s Edge and Darkness Hole to kill these characters past their ability to regenerate via Sealing their Souls or Erasing them from Existence respectively. Ultimately, This Mega Man has exactly the right gear to do the job.
