User blog comment:Oshbosh/Halloween Battle: 7 Way Battle Between 7 Horror Warriors From 7 Different Forms of Horror/@comment-5422903-20121030221104/@comment-75.105.33.77-20121101235434

Hellboy was definately a contender. Lucy could've taken it too, but it came down to the warriors' temperments. While everyone else was trying to kill each other, Pious was minimizing the risk to his own person and setting his enemies up for defeat.

And before anyone brings it up, yes, Pious did lose to a mortal woman at the end of his game, but Alex was far from ordinary. Not only did she come from a family line that crossed Pious more than once in history, but she was also aligned with the Ancient that could defeat Pious's master. And, via the Tome of Eternal Darkness, she had access to most of the magicks that Pious could cast. It could also be inferred that Pious may have lost on purpose, albiet unconciously. In the final ending, we learn that Pious was as much a pawn as any of the other mortals manipulated by Manterok.

So, without the hindrances placed on him by the storyline, (and against opponents who couldn't counter his magicks) Pious reigns supreme.

(also more people voted for him)