User blog comment:MrPacheco101/Break Battle Extravaganza!: Dexter Morgan vs. Hannibal Lecter (TV Series)/@comment-143604-20130630050005

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While Hannibal is proficient in dealing with people in a fist fight, Dexter Morgan is a skilled practitioner of martial arts and is a more experienced fighter. In a close up fight, its likely that Dexter would recognize Hannibal's style of aiming for pressure points and weakpoints in the human body, allowing Dexter to get a feel for how his opponent fights more easily, and his knowledge would allow him to take advantage of this to deal additional damage to Hannibal. While both killers use very similar tools in combat, Dexter is specifically cited as an expert at using weapons such as knives and blades, implying a far greater finesse and skill with them than his cannibal foe, meaning that when wielding blades and tools, Dexter will have a natural edge. Hannibal still puts up a serious fight for the category, however. His high tolerance for pain allows him to take blows Morgan may be expecting or even relying on, allowing Hannibal to pull off a surprise attack of his own that could deal major damage. Lecter also possesses greater knowledge of his surroundings mid-battle, which will help him avoid stealth attacks and ambushes from Dexter, and will allow Lecter to turn the environment in battle to greater degrees. Nevertheless, Morgan's superior skill with his weapons and his hand-to-hand technique, mixed with stealth skills, will allow him to take the battle in physical confrontations.

When it comes to raw knowledge, Hannibal is operating a greater level than his foe. Hannibal is smarter, with his genius level intellect, allowing him to out-think Morgan. Lecter also possesses a greater ability to manipulate, preying on the emotions of people and the nature of human psychology to twist events to his benefit, which can be applied even mid-battle, to encourage mistakes in Morgan's plans and attacks. That said, Morgan is no slouch in intelligence himself, and will be able to keep up with Lecter's mind-games. Dexter is a master strategist, with his mind working in a way more practical for taking down a foe like Lecter.

Overall, I have to side with Dexter Morgan as the Deadliest Warrior. Morgan's the better fighter, with more ways to kill and more experience doing so, while still being able to keep up with Hannibal's mindgames.