User blog:Drayco90/Marvel vs. DC- The Red Skull vs. The Joker

The multiverse is constantly shifting. Moving about in erratic patterns of irregular ways as if guided by the hand of some bored and careless deity, playing with us for their own amusement. Sometimes, the multiverse shifts in ways that cause collisions. Often, these collisions are minor at best. Someone or something might accidently fall from one universe into a parallel one. But once in a great while, two universes are set on a path determined for collision, and from this collision comes a joining. When two universes, both very different and yet unmistakably similar, come together, only one can remain. Who and what survives this fusion? Well, that's not in the hands of mere mortals to decide. For when two universe collide, only the Deadliest may survive...

This week on Deadliest Fiction- the villain battle royale continues, when two of the most demented madmen in the multiverse step into the Killing Fields. On one side is the Red Skull, the nazi arch-nemesis of Captain America and a villain so disgustingly brutal, vile and evil that almost none of the other villains in the Marvel Universe will even interact with him. On the other side, the Thin White Duke, the Harlequin of Hate, the Clown Prince of Crime himself... The Joker, nemesis of the Batman and horror of Gotham. When two men this brutal enter the ring, only one thing is certain- only one of them will be walking back out of it. And who will that be? It's up to you to decide who is...The DEADLIEST WARRIOR.

Red Skull
The Red Skull uses a variety of hard-hitting military weaponry- preferring to use weaponry unleashed during his younger days in the second world war. His primary weapon is the iconic handgun of the Third Reich- the Luger P08 Handgun, a weapon that he keeps on his person even now decades after the Reich's fall. When the fight moves into close range territory, his cloned body's super strength and classic Trench Knife skill make short work of near any foe. From longer ranges, Johaan has access to a HYDRA designed Pulse Rifle- while not incredibly lethal on its' own, the cosmic cube-powered gun allows him to blast enemies around, disarm them and keep them stuned, while his MG-42 Machine Gun can terrorize his foes as they try to flee from him. His most deadly weapon by far, however, is a customized handgun used to dispense his lethal Dust of Death, a poison gas that will cause his foes' very painful death and mutilates their faces into a horrific red skull.

Skull has had decades and decades of intense training and experience, beginning as a youth in the Third Reich, as the Red Skull he became one of Hitler's most loyal and destructive hounds of war. When he was brought back to the modern times, like his nemesis before him, Red Skull had trouble adapting- espicially since his Nazi heritage caused most other villains to refuse contact with him. Nonetheless; Skull formed his own criminal empire by himself, and while his death would come once again, his legacy continues to haunt the world to this day in the form of his daughter Sin.

The Joker
Where the Red Skull prefers more professional, tried and true weaponry, the Joker prefers his weaponry to reflect its owner- unstable, unpredictable and insane. His main choice in firearms are a set of Revolver Pistols, one of which fires flags reading "BANG!", as an obvious gag. Despite the joke nature of the weapon, even it is lethal- the flags are razor sharp weapons that can be fired from the gun after they are deployed...once the Joker is finished laughing at his opponet's reaction to the gun. The other Revolver is a simple, traditional one, when he needs to put a bullet in a problem. In closer ranges, he relies on his Electric Joybuzzer, a lethal electric shock weapon in his palm, to devestate unwary foes, while he has also taken to using a crowbar, in part to screw with Batman due to the memories the image of the Clown with a crowbar drums up. At longer ranges, the Joker has a deck of playing cards, razor sharp and capable of slashing through flesh with ease- a Joker equivalent to the batarang, and when he needs to put down a problem from very, very far away- the Joker's modified IMI Tavor TAR-21 with smiley-face laser sight can be used to snipe. His special weapon is a violent poison, Joker Venom, contained in a large metal canister that needs to be broken open to use. The Venom will cause anyone in the blast except the Clown himself to collapse, literally laughing themselves to death, as their face is warped into a twisted image of the Joker.

Joker has little combat training, and no martial artist, but he has spent many decades fighting to the top of the crime world, even dominating meta-humans, thanks to the aid of his lunatic mind and unorthadox methods. One oft-forgotten skill of the Joker is that the man actually possess a genius-level IQ- all of his strange and fancy gadgets, vehicles and biological warfare weapons were skillfully created by him, and he is able to often out-think and plot around Batman; often times their confrontations are less like normal fights, and more like a massive pile-up of gambits, plans, emergancy back-up plans and last second improvised chances on both sides. It is actually very possible that if it weren't for his crippling insanity, he would be one of the most intellegent minds in the DC Universe.

Red Skull
While the efforts of Red Skull have often failed due to the intervention of Captain America, the Red Skull does not have any single defining moments that one can point to and say "this is what makes him so threatening.", but rather every single thing he does is in of itself noteworthy for it's violent and devious nature. He has a tendancy to slowly murder his victims with his deadly gas to the sound of Chopin's Funeral March, which the Marvel Universe has come to identify as his personal theme song. The Red Skull's very prescence on the field of battle will also strike hearts into every single one of its combatants- a feat that puts him on the same level as beings like Galactus and Annihilus.

The Joker
The Joker's most noteworthy feats are so infamous, that they are well-known even to people who do not read comic books. Within a short time frame of one another, the Joker committed two horribe atrocities against the Bat-Family. First, the Joker savagely assaulted the second Robin, Tim Drake, with a crowbar in front of his own mother. The Joker's violent assault shattered Drake physically, and the boy died as a result- a fact that the Joker has no qualms about bringing up to taunt his brooding arch-nemesis, often lauding it as the Bat's biggest failure. Then, he kidnapped the daughter of the GCPD leader and the original Batgirl, Barbara Gordon. He violentally beat her, and finally shot her in the spine, shattering it and permenatly crippled her- forcing her to retire as Batgirl and live the rest of her life in a wheelchair. Though she became Oracle instead, and the attack failed to break Jim Gordon as he hoped, these acts left very deep and very permenant scars on Batman's world.

X-Factors
Red Skull - The Joker

120 - STRENGTH - 60

The Red Skull is currently in a cloned body of Captain America, with all of the super-human strength that comes with that. Meanwhile, the Joker is hardly even a hand-to-hand fighter, relying more on his knowledge of his foes and sadistic unpredictability to win close-up battles, and almost never wins straight-up fisticuffs for a reason.

82 - INTELLEGENCE - 90

The Red Skull is no slouch when it comes to out-thinking his foes, and is a very cultured man despite his humble beginning and lack of major schooling- however the Joker has a genius-level IQ that is only slowed down because of his insanity. The Joker thinks on a level that puts him equal to Batman and Lex Luthor, while Schmidt... does not.

87 - TRAINING - 12

The Red Skull was part of a brutal training regiment in his youth, and while the details of it are unknown and even varied from account to account, the fact remains that it transformed Johaan from a boy who could barely fight some thugs to a man who could easily go toe-to-toe with men like Captain America, Nick Fury and Namor. The Joker had no real training before becoming the Red Hood, and relies on his experience in stead of training.

100 - EXPERIENCE - 100

The Red Skull fought in a major World War from start to finish and lived to tell about it- that gets you a massive boost to this factor, period, but in addition to that he has also spent many years fighting super humans, gods and armys. The Joker has done much the same, but while he has never fought in war, life in Gotham is akin to living a war every day- a war that the Joker and his personally-constructed criminal empire are dominating. While Skull has spent numerous decades dead in between his moments, the Joker has spent all of them alive and kicking meta-human ass, even defeating high level powered members of the Justice League.

23 - CREATIVITY - 100

Joker takes this easily for one reason- he's a clown who uses weapons like razor playing cards, acid flowers and plots out some of the most unique and creative crime sprees in DC history- possibly the biggest advantage to insanity is the creativity that is oft born of it. Red Skull, meanwhile has lived his entire life in the shadows of a single man he could never live up to, and relied on Arnim Zola for scientific upgrades and weaponry.

65 - DEXTERITY/SPEED - 67

These are both men who move and react in the time of an average man with heavy excersize. The Joker gets a few extra points because he wears a custom suit as compared to the military dress uniform preferred by Skull- he has a very slight bit of extra arm movement in that suit jacket than in the military jacket. (Anyone else who has ever been in ROTC can back me up on this one.)

100 - WEAPON SKILL - 89 

Red Skull is a military professional with his weapons and has been using this classic arsenal for decades, allowing him much more time to hone his skill with them. The Joker, meanwhile, is a surprisingly good shot, but his insanity leads him to want to toy around with people much more and his weapons have a bad habit of going bad at the worst possible times due to their unpredictable nature.

100 - BRUTALITY - 100

Both of these men are as brual as a person can get, so much so that they barely even qualify for the term "human" anymore.

The Battle
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