User blog:Battlefan237/The Pursuit of Perfection: Professor Pyg vs. Herbert West

For hundreds of years have humans been seeking to achieve perfection. Today we have two individuals that take the idea of perfection to extreme. Lazlo Valentine, the hog-themed villain of Gotham City that deems the normal appearance of human body blasphemous, and conducts unholy experiments on his victims to cure their imperfection. Herbert West,Lovecraft's most underwhelming creation (according to Lovecraft himself) who manages to eliminate mankind's most obvious imperfection - death, in the most bizarre way possible. In this duel between mad scientists seeking perfection, who will win ?

Herbert West
"We can defeat death! We can achieve every doctor's dream! We'd be famous! And live lifetimes!"

- Herbert West when creating reanimator Herbert West is a fictional character created by H. P. Lovecraft for his short story "Herbert West—Reanimator".. There have been several film adaptations of the story including Herbert West as played by Jeffrey Combsin the Re-Animator (film series) which include the 1985 Re-Animator film and its two sequels, Bride of Re-Animator and Beyond Re-Animator.

Being the inventor of a special solution that when injected into a main artery of a recently deceased person causes the body's mechanical, living functions to return, West dedicated his life to bringing the dead back to life. However, most subjects that have undergone the "re-animation" process have turned violent and, after failed attempts to return to their own graves, have terrorized the communities into which they were reanimated. Frustrated by his failed projects again and again, West would eventually go mad and resort to murder to gain "fresh" specimen for his experiment, creating chaos with his experiments where ever he went.

Short Range= Several syringes filled with tranquilizers. West uses them to tranquilize his victims. For the purpose of this battle he'll be packed with three of them. An iron pipe used by West in the second movie. He used it to defeat a reanimator charging towards him via a single powerful swinging to the head. For the purpose of this battle we will render this weapon 80 - 100 cm in length. A shovel whose head is sharpened for the purpose of decapitation. This weapon is West's most iconic tool of death which he used on several occasions and with great skills, being able to knock down a man with one strike and chop off his head with ease. A normal M1911 used by West in the second movie. West, while not really an expert marksman, is able to use it with passable accuracy, judging from the fact that he was able to fight off several reanimators with this pistol. A piece of cloth treated with a chemical which causes instant cardiac arrest when inhaled. Police officer Chapham, a relatively strong man, was killed by it instantly. Reanimators, as suggested by their obvious name, are products of West's research and failed attempts in resurrecting the dead.
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Professor Pyg
"Pyg will make you perfect !"

- Lazlo Valentine

Lazlo Valentin's past is unknown. Allegedly, he was a chemist for a secret organization Spyral, who created a powerful thought-damping drug that mimics the effects of Alzheimer's disease. Trapped by their technology, he escaped the only way he could - a schizphrenic break, and a new persona named Professor Pyg. Escaping, he formed the Circus of the Strange. It is unknown what happened next, but apparently he was approached by Doctor Hurt and convinced to "share his vision" with Gotham City.

Pyg moved the Circus of Strange to Gotham, announcing the "Year of the Pig". Pyg started the campaign of making people "perfect", as his minions (Dollotrons). He then captured Robin. All of this is part of Dr. Hurt's plan.

Pyg then tries to introduce an addictive "identity destroying" drug into the city via his Dollotrons. The drug is sold to various different gangs and mobs who use it to control prostitutes. However, Batman quickly puts an end to this - he rescues Robin and subdue Pyg and capture all of his Dollotrons. Pyg is arrested and taken to Arkham Asylum. From then on this psychotic criminal remained in Gotham as a regular foe for the Caped Crusader, constantly creating chaos in the city and acted as the mastermind behind several grand schemes, while occasionally messing with other heroes of DC.

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