User blog comment:TheDarknessRises/Bond Villains vs Dark Knight Villains/@comment-4661256-20130216182948

El Alamein's "007 Theme Song" Edges:

 Oddjob vs. Scarecrow:  Interesting comparison - you've got the physically fit Oddjob who's more than a match for Dr. Jonathan Crane in any hand-to-hand fight. The hat is a wildcard that could surprise the Scarecrow, but the Scarecrow won't let the fight come down to a hand-to-hand melee. He can incapacitate his foe with his fear toxin and then dispatch him with his handgun. Plus, Crane's handgun has a larger magazine capacity.

Edge: The Dark Knight Villains

 Jaws vs. Bane:  I don't understand why you nerfed Bane so much here - he used weapons besides his fists and a handgun, for crying out loud. Bane may be a tactical genius, but he's been given vastly inferior weapons - Jaws can't stack up to Bane in a fist fight or in a gunfight, but make it a rifle vs. a pistol and you're spelling out a different story. Unfortunately for Gotham's reckoning, going up against an M16-toting madman is going to prove too much for him when all he's got is a bloody 9mm.

Edge: Bond Villains

 Silva vs. the Joker:  Honestly, Silva was the Bond villain that impressed me the most - he was able to take down MI6 from the inside out and he nearly killed Bond - on several occassions. He's got a well-developed plan and he's mentally and physically capable of doing whatever necessary to escape - he burst out of prison with armed guards two feet from him, he escaped via subway disguised as a police officer, and then he ... well, I won't spoil the ending. Joker was an overrated villain and his insanity makes for an interesting psychological case but not for an effective fighter.

Edge: Bond Villains

 Le Chiffre vs. Two-Face:  Two-Face might not kill Le Chiffre if the coin lands the wrong way - and that's all the opportunity his foe needs to finish him off. Two-Face's greatest weakness is his only discernable personality trait - and this will be his undoing.

Edge: Bond Villains

WINNER: BOND VILLAINS

Make it another scenario and you might see the Dark Knight villains winning - but not against these criminal masterminds. Batman fights freaks and society's rejects, but Bond fights terrorists and highly dangerous public enemies. The level of dedication to their cause and the lethality demonstrated by the Bond villains puts them on a whole other level above that of Batman's foes - ultimately cartoonish and fictional, they don't stand a chance against men who could very well exist in real life.