User blog comment:BeastMan14/House of Horrors, Part 1: Amahl Farouk (Legion) vs Pennywise (It)/@comment-3189283-20191002093229

Let’s see shall we

Physically Pennywise has a big advantage. He is superhumanly strong, fast and able to shrug off nearly any physical attack on him so any fight in close quarters is going to end badly for Farouk. However, let’s be real here Farouk is in no way going to let this be a physical contest so I’m going to focus on the psychic powers. Now at first glance both Pennywise and Farouk would appear to have a similar set of powers with both having Telepathy, Teleportation and Telekinesis (basically all the T-Powers you can think of). However, when you really look into it, it’s clear that Farouk is operating on a much higher skill level than Pennywise in all those areas.

Starting with Teleportation, Pennywise is limited to being able to teleport around Derry, in fact he is incapable of leaving the town. Farouk meanwhile can teleport basically wherever he pleases which will be handy should he get caught out by Pennywise as he can simply teleport out of the town and recuperate in safety. Moving onto Telekinesis and once again Pennywise seems quite limited as he can only control inanimate objects and only to a very small degree, far removed from Farouk’s feats of throwing people about and tossing objects miles into the distance. Now we get into Telepathy and this is where Farouk really dominates. He can create illusions and mind control people just like Pennywise can but on top of that he can also sedate people and steal their consciousness. Furthermore, being as powerful of a psychic as he is, I’m pretty sure he’ll see through Pennywise’s own illusions and tricks fairly easily and be able to work around them.

Both Farouk and Pennywise are also bringing their own unique powers to the battle as well as their shared abilities. Farouk has the ability to warp reality and Pennywise can shapeshift into whatever form he wants. Already just from that description you can probably tell that Farouk has the advantage but let’s look at it more closely. Farouk can warp the human body into dust or the forms of animals, create a shield to protect him from harm and perhaps most importantly he can resist efforts to weaken him which should enable him to bypass the mental attacks that Pennywise attempts on him as well as allowing him to see Pennywise even if he tries to stay invisible. Pennywise’s shapeshifting seems to be pretty handy until you realise that the forms, he turns into often make him weaker and are also not much use unless you can get close to your opponent which he’s not going to get much of a chance to do against Farouk. So, in terms of unique abilities Farouk also takes the advantage there. So, it’s clear from the above analysis that Farouk is bringing the more potent psychic abilities but honestly that isn’t the deciding factor here. Pennywise, while weaker than Farouk, is still a formidable mind manipulator and he has a big edge in physicality so if he gets in close Farouk will be in a sticky situation. No, what the actual deciding factor is this; Pennywise is only powerful against those who fear him. And guess what, Farouk is not going to be intimidated by Pennywise in the slightest. All it took to defeat Pennywise was bullying him verbally to weaken him enough to finally finish him off for good. Pennywise is used to picking on kids and feeding off their fear and even then, they were able to defeat him, albeit temporarily, just by overcoming their fear.

Farouk is a centuries old powerful psychic; he didn’t grow up in Derry where he could be manipulated and frightened by Pennywise and nothing Pennywise can do is really going to phase him much. He’s also far more experienced, having spent years and years fighting other mutants and psychics of similar power level and most times coming out on top. Now Book Pennywise also had exploits against powerful beings and for a longer time but movie Pennywise does not meaning the only opponents he’s faced are a bunch of kids and later on those kids grown up as adults, none of whom have any psychic powers and yet they were still able to beat him. Farouk is simply too powerful for Pennywise to handle and once Pennywise realises this he’s going to be the one living in fear.

Farouk: 4,500

Pennywise: 500