User blog comment:Thundrtri/Season 2 episode 6: Barracuda VS Nemesis/@comment-5232784-20130104034612

Gentlemen, let's broaden our minds...

1. Melee: On the one hand, Nemesis' laser knife can cut through metal, and would seem to be a very, very leathal device. However, it does not have the range of the Machete or the ease of throwing like the Hatchet (latter more arodynamic). Nemesis is good with a baton, however Barracuda is more familiar with the comabat uses of his melee weapons than Nemesis is. Plus, Barracuda has one extra melee weapon than Nemesis. However, Nemesis has speed.

Edge: Barracuda, due to better range, throwing capability of his hatchet, and more experience using his melee weapons as weapons

2. close, mid, long range weapons: The beretta is better than the Colt 45, the uzis will pack more heat and beter range than the shotgun, and are fully automatic, while the Nemesis custom assault gun and Barracuda's M60 are dead even. This makes the weaponry department outside melee to be even

Edge: Deadn Even

3. the X Factors:

Nemesis has speed and intelligence on his side; this will prove difficult for Barracuda to overcome. Barracuda is much stronger (and Nemesis, having peak human strength (possibly outclassing a world olympic weightlifter, like Batman who can press 1000 lbs above his head and bench that amount of weight in regular reps daily), and will be far harder to kill (the man is superhumanly tough, no matter if he is from the universe where there is (supposidly) no superhuman warriors (the man snaps chains and survives razorwire garrotes!), but he needs speed to be Nemesis, and this he does not have in comparison. However, he has a major advantage in both special forces training and combat experience, and if Nemesis puts him down momentarily, he might think he won and walk away, only to find Baracuda's arms gripping him in a bear hug.

In a purely weaponless hand to hand combat situation, things get interesting. One the one hand, Nemesis, like Batman, is a martial arts master, capable of taking down nealy 100 prison guards in riot gear and weapons (he took their billy clubs and used them on the guards). It is likely that, like Batman, he would know every discipline on earth. Yet Barracuda is not wimp in this category, knowing the self defense techniques of the Green Berets, which are bad news dudes. And, with his die hard body capable of surviving wounds that would kill a man, he may have a fair shot at taking down Nemesis.

Edge: Dead Even

4. Special weapons:

Barracuda has this won: the RPG is more practical in a actual combat situation than the gas, which would require considerable time to prep and ready.

Edge: Barracuda

Winner: I will say that Barracuda has a good chance of winning. It will be close, but I think that, after Nemesis beats him in the initial confrontation, that he will let his guard down and be cave in by a blow or blows from Barracuda.

BARRACUDA EATS NEMESIS