User blog comment:GSFB/Samson vs Cerberus (Greek Myth)/@comment-5232784-20130430022649

I somehow got my last attempt to vote erased, so this is my second and very irritating try

1. melee weapons

Samson's jawbone and Canaanite sickle sword are impressive, savage weapons, but neither can pierce or crush the super-strong flesh and bone of Cerberus, while his canine and tail snake jaws can easily pierce his flesh, with the canine heads not doubt capable of crushing Samson's very bones.

EDGE: Cerberus

2. Long range

While Samson's sling, unlike the roa of Cerberus, is an actual deadly weapon, the stone will not even fase the mutant mongrel. It would be like trying to use a sling and a stone on the Incredible Hulk or the Thing; the flesh is way too tough, super-durable. Meanwhile, the howls of Cerberus could make even Samson studder.

EDGE: Cerberus

3: Special

Strength: both are unfathomably strong. Cerberus had to be bound by adamantine chains by Hercules in order to bring him up to the serface, since no earthly metal was strong enough to hold him. And Hercules had to wrestle the hound into submission, showing a super-good strength for the three headed hellhound.

However, Samson has strength like Hercules: in folklore, he was said to be so strong that he could move two mountains the way you can move two pebbles in your hand! Samson ripped the great gateways from a Philistine city and walked with them for miles, all by himself. And of course he brought the temple of the Philistine god Dagan down, slaying thousands. If anyone in the Bible was strong enough to pull this off, Samson is.

Humans, though very weak compared to other animals, do have one muscular advantage: muscle endurance. Though our muscles are not built to enforce great amounts of power like a Chimpanzee's or a Lion's, they can outlast any of them, because they sacrifice a massive eruption of brawn for the capability to use their muscles in contraction longer than animals like Lions or chimps. Compare superhuman strength with human muscular endurance, and Samson can hold his muscles to work longer than Cerberus. So Samson wins the muscular endurance factor.

While Samson has human intelligence, Cerberus has snakes for hair, and each mouth, both viper and hound, has poison. Hercules survived wrestling with Cerberus up close despite this amount of venom, but then Again Hercules wore the Nemean Lion's skin, rendering him immune to most of the snake fangs and their dreaded venom.

Still, i give this to Samson: intelligence is better than venom. And if you combine this with better muscle endurance...

EDGE: Samson!

I give this to Samson, due to better muscle endurance and intelligence. Even monstrously strong or venemous creatures can be overcome by human intelligence (elephants, snakes, whales can be hunted successfuly by man), and in this case, both are probably about the same in the physical strength department, at least: at the most, Samson will have the advantage here.

SAMSON-SUCKERPUNCHES-CERBERUS!