User blog comment:BeastMan14/Malcolm Reynolds vs Han Solo/@comment-217.155.33.225-20131005002613

In my honest and unbiased opinion, Mal not only wins hands down, but he wins eyes shut.

In a battle between these two smugglers, Mal and Han would both shoot first at close distance. From long range, Mal always has the upper hand with a shot.

Mal:1 - Han: 0

As far as combat goes, Mal is pretty much considered the best fighter hand-to-hand, as he's trained in fighting both out on an open field and in a secluded confineds. Han was merely trained as nothing more than an assasin for the use of eliminating threats to the Imperial Senate.

Mal: 2 -Han : 0

Now here we get to spaceships. The Firelfy Serenity is a transportation vessel that has no offensive/defensive capabilities, outside of it's speed and decoy boobies. The Millenium Falcon is the fastest ship in the rebel fleet, and has weapons on it's side. So naturally we'd all think it would achieve this round, right? Well... this is where I really have to the continuity freak that I am, and state the Falcon is at best really just a three/four man crew consisting of Han, Chewie, Leia, and the lesser extent of Lando (probably). While Serenity has the additions of Mal, Zoe, Wash, Jayne, Inara, Kaylee, Booker, River, and Simon. They therefore have more people on board, to deal with these things, and contrary to typical assumption, most of them are capable fighters. Now we know also that if it was down to a chase sequence across the 'verse. Han wouldn't be able to take this so easily. As he has trouble navigating his way through things such as asteroid belts, and keeping his ship concealed for two long. Mal more than knows how to do that, and has outwitted the alliance with incredible ease, making his way past spacecrafts of equal size to cruisers the size of a Stardestroyer all in one massive fleet armed warships. So he could easily get the better of Han in what's considered the formers strength, and the latters weakness. Not to mention, if they get through to a plannet of some description, they'd be able to keep themselves concealed with ease.

Mal: 3 - Han: 0

In a battle between crews, it's no different to one-on-one. To defend each others ships on the ground to preserve cargo, Han would be going all-out to protect her. But while the rest of his crew would try to get the job done, they're fighting for just their survival, whereas Mal's entire crew would be beyond the definition berserk trying to protect their home. The Falcon soully has the love of her captain. Serenity has the love of her entire crew. Some (Kaylee, Inara, and River) would probably go as far killing anyone who so much as makes a snide remark, let alone fires a blaster.

Mal: 4 - Han: 0

My scenario of the following on the ground of Shadow:

Jayne would get the better of Chewie, with more experience in combat, and being able to apply mercenary skills to best him.

Zoe and Inara would both work together, or just as well individually to show Leia how real soldiers fight in wars, and what a real beauty of the battlefield is all about.

Lando, would be waiting for the right time to strike, and by then he'll have missed a real oportunity to deliver some damage. Booker, and Kaylee would be able to give him a shot to the area where he's crouching to keep him secluded and strategising for a few minutes, and River would probably be able to get a chance use her powers on Lando to get him to run out screaming that he's got voices in his head. Then someone, (most likely Mal or Jayne) would shoot first and say "...No... just a slug."

Han would go berserk at that point and try to retalliate at his attackers to create, a death sentence for the scum that took his cew from him. Mal would instruct his crew to lure him away, from one side of their defenses, and bust the Falcons fuel tank, cockpit, or whatever they could hit from the other to prevent him from his escape ride. Now Mal has Han's ride dead in smoke, he's caught him in an emotionally compromising situation. He takes advantage of it all by shooting Hans blaster out of his hand, just before he can effectively fire in retalliation. He then has his crew close in on him and they don't allow him to get an edge of distance. After being emotionally compromised, and Han is given the oportunity to walk away. He refuses with an absolute detest for Mal and his crew for what they've done to his friends, his love, and his ship not knowing which one's the most painful to lose. Mal see's the defiance in his eyes. He then feels pitty for someone as emotionally crippled as he was in Serenity Valley. He orders his crew to search him, and then challenges him to unarmed combat to see who's really the more determined of the two.

And as it states in my first point on hand-to-hand, Mal would win this by sheer experience and more variety of situations in which he's been trained to combat his foes. He'd beat Han down within about two minutes of them swapping blows with Mal not going beyond light bruises, and Han recieving several cuts and most likely a fractured arm. He'd win by delivering a single blow to the face, a kick to his gut, and finally an elbow to kneck and boot to the floor combo. Then he'd move away after seeing Han's hot tears of rage and call his Doctor, Simon Tam, to take him on board to medi-bay. Simon makes his way to Han as Mal makes it back to where he left his coat and revolver. He then hears the sound of Han leap up to attack Simon, and turns around to shoot him to the head.

The aftermath would be Mal looking out to the window of his ships holding deck, with Zoe, Inara, and Kaylee together. They'd been waiting for the captain to give the order to take flight. He'd spent about 25 minutes waiting as the was beginning to set.

Kaylee is the first to ask the question, "Captain... why ain't we goin'?"

Inara who knows how Mal tends to think, and Zoe, who'd seen the look of Sorrow on his face at Serenity after the Unification War, both look at her with a pair glances that indicate it was best to keep quiet. Kaylee takes this harder than intended, and is visibly upset. Inara wraps an arm around her affectionately, and kisses her on the head then gently rolls her hair through her fingers to show that they weren't mad at her, just cautious of Mal's current state.

Zoe then pats her shoulder, and says "Don't worry li'l one. It's alright." Mal looks over at his three female crew members and see's how Kaylee is looking remorseful at her question. He then speaks,

"I've just been thinking, in a voice that only a war veteran has the experience to really affect himself into speaking the way he does in this tone. It made Kaylee jump, yet Inara and Zoew acted nonchalantly."About that man, Han Solo... He lost everything he was fighting for... and it reminded me of what happened for us," he nodded towards Zoe.

Zoe, looked at her old war buddy with an awkward expression. "Mal," she asked in a surprisingly similar tone that made both Inara and Kaylee jump.

"He looked into my eyes with the same defiance for his crew and ship, that I have for mine. The only difference between us is that, is that he clearly didn't have friends that felt as attatched to that old hunk of junk as we do our home." Mal's face looked visibly much darker than it had been a few minutes ago. All three of those in his presence were feeling awkward now due to the tension that had built up in them all. "So in a way... he was like... me in the sense he wasn't gonna to let anyone take the sky from him. But... at the same time, he was livin' in a fools paradise for lettin' himself believe that he actually had it all. When in actuality, he'd already lost it..." There was a silence for a few seconds... then Inara was the first to speak.

"Mal," she said in dibelief.

"Captain," said Kaylee in a surprised tone of voice that made her sound half scared by what she'd heard.

"Captain, I..." said a speechless Zoe.

Mal smiled weakley, and said in that same battle-scarred voice, "We shouldn't be fightin', with guys like that. For we all know how they must feel."

Jayne then passes upon the stairway to the centre of the main balcony of the cargo hangar.

""JAYNE!" Mal shouts in his usual, captains, comanding voice, making the three in his presence jump in shock.

Jayne looks down and asks, "What Mal?"

"Tell Wash to get this baby in the air, we're going!"

""Finally" Jayne shouted!  "I thought we'd never leave this Gorram wasteland!" He ran into the cockpit to call Wash to get flying.

Mal turns out to see the dust of a sandstorm in the distance, and smiles as he is seen from moutside of Serenity holding deck window rising into the air and blowing their way to into the sunset.

The last thing we see is the crew of the Millenium Falcon as a spirit, board the spirit of the Falcon herself. and flyin off in the same direction as Serenity, as a symbol to show that no man could take the sky from either of their captains.