User blog comment:Ekreture/The Count of Monte Cristo vs. Count Dracula/@comment-4661256-20140808012636

El Alamein's "That is not novel Dracula in the picture" Edges:

 Intelligence:  Okay, yeah, the Count of Monte Cristo is smart. We get that. I have an inkling of a feeling that you are overrating this intelligence by a wee margin, and severely underrating what Dracula is capable of. He is (at least) several centuries old - this is just counting his life as a vampire. He is immensely proud of his warrior heritage, which means he must have had at least a half-century of normal human life but even then he was a sword-swinging slayer. This means that he's going to have a lot of experience against a whole host of different opponents, both victims (prey) and actual combat-capable foes. He is a calculating killer - a master of psychological warfare. That may or may not affect the Count of Monte Cristo (which we'll get to later) but that speaks volumes for Dracula's intellect. Let's face it -Dracula is smart. There is no denying that, and to do so is really turning a blind eye to a huge portion of what makes him a warrior. Still, I'll take your word that the Count of Monte Cristo is basically the Batman of Alexandre Dumas' creation. Six months of planning is a lot, but it must have been based entirely on book research or else word-of-mouth accounts (of varying credibility/accuracy depending on the supersitiousness of the peasants) as Dracula himself would zealously defend his castle from prelimiary scouting. I am going to call it even. Dracula definitely has an advantage right off the bat - he knows his foe is coming and he can hone his centuries of past experience to his advantage. But if the Count of Monte Cristo can hold off long enough, it might be enough to deduce some of Dracula's weaknesses in his fighting style that could pay off in a drawn-out fight.

Edge: Even

 Physical Combat:  Dracula has a definite edge. He's a vampire - van Helsing himself said that Dracula was as strong as 20 men. On top of that, he is virtually immune to most forms of physical attack with most conventional weapons (notable exceptions including wooden stakes, iron and/or steel weaopns, wild rose, and holy water, to name a few), and even then it takes decapitation followed up with a stake to the heart to actually kill him. Now, I'm sure that the Count of Monte Cristo is smart enough to know what will and what won't hurt Dracula, but he's going to have a very limited arsenal with what can and can't hurt the vampire. Know what can hurt the Count of Monte Cristo? Everything. To top it all off, Dracula has superhuman agility and senses (being able to defy gravity to the extent of scaling walls and ceilings, which will play an enormous advantage in the confines of his own castle, a terrain he knows well, especially in the dark of night). Also, Dracula can shape-shift - into a bat (evasion), a wolf (assault), or fog (escape). If he's a fine mist, I'm pretty sure nothing can hurt him. He can also teleport - basically nobody's landing a hit on Dracula if the vampire has anything to say about it. Yeah, the Count of Monte Cristo has sword skills, but Dracula doesn't need weapons to fight - he's a one-man army on his own.

Edge: Dracula

WINNER: COUNT DRACULA

The Count of Monte Cristo is relying too heavily on others to fight for him - those vampire hunters are simple cannon fodder for the bloodthirsty Dracula, who will not take lightly to a brazen invader attempting to assassinate him. Dracula has far greater combat experience and a relatively comparable level of intellect, but when that is coupled with his vastly superior combat abilties - both for offense and defense - and his homefield advantage of fighting within the confines of his own castle (at night, no less, when he is at his most powerful) it would be only a fool who would challenge the vampire. It appears, in this scenario, that the Count of Monte Cristo, despite his alleged geniusness, is exactly that fool.