User blog:Tomahawk23/Hawk&Thund Collab: Let's Play Pyramid! Joker Vs. The Expendables





The Expendables are about to face an opponent tougher then that which they have ever encountered, and probably ever will encounter, The Joker! The sadistic psychopathic clown prince of crime! The Nemesis of Batman! Joker will put the Expendables through a series of trials, casualties will be high, friends will be lost, the Joker will laugh! Can the Expendables push their way through Joker's mine field? Or will the Joker's mine field swallow them? The Expendables have seen the horrors of war, gone up against the scum of the Earth, they know pain. They know war. It's all they've known for decades. But has that prepared them for what they are about to face? It's the world's deadliest mercenaries Vs. the world's most dangerous madman!

THE DEADLIEST WARRIOR!!!!!!!!

The Situation
The situation basically revolves around the Joker sending the Expendables to various locations to accomplish various objectives he gives them all across Egypt until they finally get to meet him. Basically the Joker places several canisters of Joker venom all across Cairo, the capital of Egypt. He tells the Egyptian government they must hire the Expendables to stop him or else he will detonate all the canisters. Any government involvement or assistance of the Expendables will result in the detonation of the canisters. What the Egyptian government does not know is that Joker has planted bombs in the Great Pyramids as well as the Sphinx. He has also planted a bomb in the British Embassy, as well as taken a small office building hostage. Mad Hatter has used his mind control technology to force a town of 1,200 people to attack the Expendables when they reach the town. The Expendables will have to hold off a crowd of 1,200 armed civilians with all their firepower while Booker moves his way around the crowd to kill the Mad Hatter, freeing the town. Some of these will have twists in them, as Joker always loves a good twist.

Joker will be giving the Expendables further instructions after each objective is accomplished through various means. After accomplishing each objective they will find a clue leading them to his whereabouts. Joker will have people watching the Expendables, as well as video cameras in various locations where he and Harley Quinn will monitor their progress.

The Expendables will be moving around in their land rovers; mounted with M2 Browning Machine Guns. On their way to each objective the Expendables will be greeted with heavy resistance from Joker's gang as well as various militia and terrorist organizations he has hired. In order to allow the Expendables to move around in the city much easier, all of the militias Joker has hired will be committing random acts of terrorism. However the Expendables are still going to encounter the police in the city every now and then, just a lot less and they will not be able to put all their focus on them.

The Expendables will be in no position to necessarily make plans to take out the Joker. Their only way of doing this is to go along what he says, know that he could be lying at any moment, and to expect the unexpected which they will know based on his reputation. If the Expendables screw up with the bombs, it could mean death to all of them. Also, in order to damage Booker's performance, Joker will force Booker to always stay with the Expendables and not go off on his own. This will negatively effect his performance as he has made it obvious that he does not like to, and is not good at working as a team.

Quick note: The Expendables will have to go inside the pyramids to disarm the bombs. They will have to push their way through Joker gang to get in the pyramid, fight Joker gang already in the pyramid, and reinforcements will arrive once they are inside. Joker's gang will have farmiliarized themselves with the layout of the pyramids.

The Joker


Area of activity: Gotham City (Although he will also operate worldwide.) The Joker (Comics) is a homocidal maniac from DC's comic book series 'Detective Comics' and many various Batman and other DC comics. While The Joker's origins are clouded in mystery, it is speculated that he was just an ordinary man at one point, holding down and good job and supporting a pregnant wife. When he gave up his job to try being a comedian, he was a miserable failure. He soon became tied up with the wrong people, trying to earn money to support his wife and soon-to-be child. He became entangled with gangs, however violence, was not in "The Joker's" nature. One night, while at the bar with several members of the mob and planning their heist (In which the Joker at that point knew nothing about organized crime.), when police came to the bar. Anticipating they had been caught, the "Joker" walked over to them. But the news he received, was much worse than getting caught. He was told his wife was killed in an electrical short circuit while testing a baby bottle heater. The shock killed both her, and their child. Devastated, the Joker attempted to give up on pursuing the plan he had formed with the mob,but he was in too deep already. The gangsters forced him to go with it even though he no longer needed the money. The Joker was forced to pursue, even if his emotional state was in shambles. On the day of their plan, they met outside of a chemical plant. The mobsters gave him a helmet similar to that of the Red Hood's to hide his identity. They entered the plant and were quickly discovered by a passing guard. The guard ordered them to freeze. The mobsters fired at him and he ducked away just in time. The group fled and the guard immediately called for the police. The police gunned down the mobsters as they ran through the plant. The Joker meanwhile, walked out onto a catwalk. Blinded by his helmet, he struggled out over the passing pool of chemicals below. Suddenly, The Batman (Comics) arrived on the scene, expecting to have caught the Red Hood, he kicked him off the cat walk and into the chemicals below. The Joker stood and struggled to take off his helmet. He threw off the helmet and looked down into a nearby puddle of rainwater and smiled cruelely at his gree hair, red lips and white face. He had now become: The Joker.

As The Joker, he retained the well established name of The Clown Prince of Crime. The Joker often tangled with his arch nemesis, the much more serious, Batman. The Joker is not quite a gangster, but more of a madman. Yes he does hae hundreds of gangsters at his disposal. Almost the entire Gotham crime network is under his control. Criminals such as Killer Croc, Clayface and the Mad Hatter respect and will be willing to work for him. He is homocidal, insane and ultimately, brilliant. Despite his insanity, the Joker is an extremely intelligent person with a great tactical mind. He is also EXTREMELY brutal, although he has been known to bluff, he will always get what he wants, not matter what it means and no matter who he has to kill to do it. In his many battles against Batman, he has proven to be a rather profficient hand to hand combatant despite his weak appearance. The Joker is also immune to pain and all forms of poison and toxin.









Harley Quinn
Formerly the Joker's psychologist at Arkham Asylum, Dr. Harleen Quinzel fell in love with the Fiendish Clown prince of Crime, Becoming His Harlequin sidekick and Girlfriend, Harley Quinn! Armed with clown-themed weapons, two pet Hyenas, olympic-level Acrobatic, gymnastic skills and Martial Arts knowledge, not to mention a stunning beauty, this Crazed Vixen was already a formidable cute criminal before she was physically enhanced. All her physical abilities were increased to peak human levels, including her strength, which not only outclasses any Olympic level athelete's, but gives her the ability to floor any non-superpowered man with two punches or one kick. She also became immune to most toxins and poisons, including the lethal touch of Poison Ivy, her long time friend and ally. Though the Joker has had a history of acting cruelly to Harley, he is playing with a fire that may, an day now, burn him to Cinders!







The Mad Hatter
Obsessed from a young age with Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, Jervis Tetch, a skilled research scientist, embraced a delusion that he was the incarnation of a character in the story, the Mad Hatter. Using his hypnotic skills for mesmerism, Tetch as the Mad Hatter has committed many crimes, often themed around the book that inspired him and his love of hats and headgear, going so far as to plant his hats, ranging from pith helmets to bowlers, with mind control chips to amplify his hypnosis skills. Above all other headwear, he covets Batman's distinctive cowl and will stop at nothing to acquire it. (From Batman wiki)



The Expendables (represented by Hawk)
The Expendables are an elite team of the best mercenaries in the world. All with presumably strong military backgrounds. It has been stated that the group, or at least Barney Ross and former member, Tool, have been together for over a decade as it was stated that they were hired during the Yugoslav Wars.

The backgrounds of most of its members are largely unknown. However, it is known that Gunner Jensen was a Sweedish Sniper, Lee Christmas was in the SAS, Barney Ross was in Vietnam back in 1973, and Billy the Kid was a sniper in the Army in the Army back in Afghanistan.

The group holds a strong sense of trust for one another. Their training and trust has enabled them to take down entire dictatorships over night, rescue hostages, and take down a massive group of mercenaries while largely outnumbered.

The group excells in stealth. They were able to easily infiltrate a dictator's palace. Not just get into it without being detected, but kill several guards, and spill multiple canisters of oil without being detected. They were even able to get close to an airport armed to the teeth without being detected.







Barney Ross

Barney Ross is the founder and leader of the Expendables. Ross has been fighting ever since Vietnam. It is unknown when he started off or what unit he was in, but it was known that he was in Vietnam back in 1973. Ross has long earned the trust and respect of his teammates.

Barney is a creative warrior. An example of this would be him using a motorcycle to take down a helicopter, or having Hale Caesar pick up and throw a warhead at a helicopter while he shoots it.

He is a highly skilled leader and tactician. Effectively rescuing hostages from pirates, and taking down a small dictatorship while rescuing the dictator's daughter. He is an effective commander on the battlefield. Able to effectively and quickly issue orders to his teammates while under heavy fire. These orders almost always result the way they were suppose to.

Ross is an excellent pistol shooter. He is able to fire his Kimbers to the point where it may look like they are machine pistols, and still remain right on target. He is able to easily hit moving targets on the ground holding an assault rifle with one hand while on a zip line.

Ross' tactical vest is strong enough to take three AK rounds and not at all penetrate or incapacitate him due to kinetic damage.

Ross is also an excellent hand to hand combatant. He was able to defeat Jean Vilain, and almost defeat Dan Paine in hand to hand combat. Granted Ross had been strangled just before his fight with Paine.





Lee Christmas
Lee Christmas is Ross' second in command as well as the Expendables' knives and hand to hand combat specialist.

Christmas was in Britan's Special Air Service for an unknown number of years. It is quite clear that he and Ross have been friends for a number of years and likely founded the Expendables together. The majority of Expendables are probably original members, though this is not confirmed.

Over the course of the last two films, Christmas killed over 200 people. It is likely that over the obviously long period of time he has been doing this, Christmas' kill count is in the thousands.

L ike other Expendables, Christmas seems to have an interesting style of hand to hand combat that involves utilizing both knives, firearms, and their bare hands in one fight. Switching on and off, disarming their opponents gun and using it against them, using a gun in one hand and a knife in the other, and in other ways. He will go as far as to take control of an opponent's body and use the weapons he carries against his enemies. This style is rarely seen, unpredictable, unknown, and hard to follow. Christmas is able to throw knives extremely quickly and accurately. An example would be when he was able to draw and throw several kunais fast enough to kill several pirates before they could even get a shot off at him.

As a result of this skill set, he is regularly seen killing multiple people with his own hands, knives, and handguns in close quarters.



Toll Road
Toll Road is the Expendables' demolitions expert. Toll Road is notable for suffering from cauliflower ear and avoidant personality disorder.

Toll Road is a fantastic hand to hand combatant. He is most notable for using grappling combat. Powerful throws, tackles, takedowns, clinching, sweeps, and controlling the opponent's body. Toll Road will occasionally include some striking in his style.

Like other Expendables, in hand to hand combat, he often utilizes guns, his hands, and melee weapons at the same time. However, he mostly relies on his hands; and when he uses firearms, it's not usually a handgun. It's often an assault rifle.

His skill in hand to hand combat is good enough to kill Dan Paine. A 6' 2" giant and extremely strong mercenary. Toll Road, along with Gunner and Hale Caesar is arguably the strongest of all the Expendables. He is strong enough to easily pick up and throw Dan Paine who weighs 252 pounds.

His background is unknown beyond him wrestling in college.



Yin Yang
Yin Yang is the Expendables' martial arts specialist.

Yang follows a strict personal code of honor. He prefers to kill in less gruesome manners.

Yang belives that he works harder then the rest of the Expendables because he is smaller. He once said "Because they are taller, everything is harder for me. Why I get hurt, the enemies bigger".

Yang is probably the fastest runner in the Expendables; as well as the most agile.

Yang is possibly the best unarmed combatant in the Expendables. His skills have enabled him to effortlessly defeat 5 Nepalese guerrillas at once with his bare hands; 9 Nepalese guerrillas at once with frying pans; and arguably beat Gunner Jensen. What Yang lacks in physical strength and size, he makes up for through pure skill and speed.

He is also a skilled marksman. Able to hit targets while on the back of a fast moving shacky car.





Gunnar Jensen
Gunnar Jensen is the most, and probably the only unstable of the Expendables. He is an expert sniper; as well as an expert in the use of greande launchers and one of the Expendables' three strong men. Possibly the strongest.

Little of Gunnar's background is known. We do know that Jensen was a sniper in the Swedish Army. He was also a drug user up until the end of the first film where it was implied he quit and got therapy. It is also known that Gunner got a masters degree in chemical engineering at MIT. He then quit to be a bouncer.

Up until after the first film, Gunnar wasn't trusted by the other Expendables. He was often disobeying orders, doing things that could endanger the mission, demented stuff, among other things. He was strongly disliked by Yin Yang. After hanging a pirate and refusing to put him down, Gunnar was kicked out of the Expendables. He later attempted to kill the Expendables, however he was stopped. Soon after he got therapy, became a bit more stable (although he is still not very stable) and was invited back into the Expendables. He is now a trusted member and is seemingly close with Yin Yang.





Billy the Kid


Billy the Kid is the most recent member of the Expendables. He is there sniper, possibly the best sniper they've ever had. He respects and is respected by every member. Especially Ross.

Billy was a sniper in the U.S Army for 3 years in Afghanistan. Billy once got stuck in this valley, 30 Taliban pinned Billy and his men down. Him and his men scattered, and the rest tried to escape. They could not call in for artillery support due to civilians. Many died in combat. After 3 hours an Apache came in and saved them. When the commander of his base ordered all animals off the base, they shot a stray dog Billy adopted. He left after that.

Billy has shown time and time again to be able to easily and effectively pick off fast moving targets. He is extremely loyal to Ross and gets along with all of the Expendables.

Billy's youth and motivation allowed him to once run up an extremely steep hill with tough terrain while carrying a 30 pound rifle and a rucksack. Note (Spoiler): Billy died in Expendables 2. We could have it take place before Expendables 2, but then the Expendables couldn't have Booker as it was clearly stated that they had not seen Booker in years until 2. So whether we have it take place before or after 2, it doesn't make much difference. So we're just going to pretend that Billy lived so we can have him here.

Trent "Trench" Mauser


Trench Mauser is a long time mercenary and rival of Ross. Trench and Ross use to be on the same time together. It appeared that Trench was not in the Expendables, but in a group of mercenaries that Ross was in before he formed the Expendables. Beyond this his past is unknown, though it is likely he has been in the business as long as Ross.

He has been shown strong enough to easily rip off the door of a Smart Car.

Trench seems to have a strong knowledge of Geography. He knew about Vilena and the situation going on there where Ross didn't, and Ross is well aware of situations across the globe.

His primary weapon of choice is an AA-12.



Booker
Booker or the "Lone Wolf" is literally a one-man military campagin. He is, like Trench, not a member of the Expendables.

What do I mean by "one man military campagin"? Booker works alone. He works much better alone. But it isn't just that. It's that and the fact that Booker single handedly shot up around 30 Sangs in just 8 seconds. Booker stated that he had been shooting up Sangs for quite sometime. So Booker has been single handedly killing hundreds of these guys on a daily basis for a little while. While the entire Expendables were having lots of trouble getting out of there. Booker once said to Barney "You're going to need more men if you can expect to get out of here alive". But Booker only needs one man to stay in the area and kill the Sangs- him.

Booker will not be able to work to his full potential in this fight as Joker is forcing him to stay with the group. However, Booker may still be able to be very effective. At the end of Expendables 2, Booker showed up and worked with the Expendables. He later stated "Sometimes it's just fun to run with the pack". Booker still will not be able to be as effective as he could if he was allowed to work alone. He will get one chance though: When they encounter Mad Hatter.

Booker is extremely creative. He was somehow able to shoot 30 people; firing from opposite directions, and then destroy a tank by firing a rocket on a roof in just 8 seconds. Booker clearly created some sort of contraption in order to do that. How else would he have done that? It's possible he created it in just 2 minutes, considering that was when the Sangs showed up. Or he may have made it a while back in preparation for this.



Modified Land Rovers
These Modified Land Rovers will be the Expendables' main form of transportation. There will be 4 vehicles. Each vehicle holds two people. The fourth will make room for a third, or they will just use the motorcycle.

X-Factors
Team Joker/Expendables

Training/7/94

Joker, Harley, Mad Hatter Joker's gang, and his militias have no training at all really. They know how to handle firearms. Joker knows hand to hand combat. Joker's pretty slippery and unpredictable. when it comes to it. However, Joker really relies much more on his cunning and unpredictability. The Expendables have years of military training and experience. They can easily defeat 10 soldiers with either guns or in hand to hand combat. The Expendables strongly rely on their training and teamwork to win.

Creativity/98/85

In a sense of combat creativity, the Expendables are more creative. They used a motorcycle to destroy a helicopter. Threw a warhead at a helicopter then shot it. Booker even made a contraption that enabled him to shoot from multiple directions, even fire a rocket off a roof. However, Joker is overallmore creative and much less predictable (not that the Expendables are predictable). Joker really creates his own weapons and situations. The Expendables take what they find on the ground, and weaponize it. Joker creates new types of weapons that have never been thought of. Such as the acid flower or the cyanide pies. Joker creates these extremely unique situations and trials. The Expendables may dominate in a sense of combat creativity, but not overall.

Experience/90/88

Joker and the Expendables been at it for just as long. Decades after decades. Both fight on a regular basis. Joker's goons are young and inexperienced criminals usually. Joker takes this x-factor for one reason: While he's been at it for just as long, he's gone up against tougher opponents then the Expendables usually do. Batman, Mr. Freeze, Nightwing, etc. But here's an interesting twist: Joker, nor the Expendables have ever gone up against an opponent anything like each other. Joker never really goes up against well trained, creative, special forces like gunmen. The closest thing to that Joker's ever fought is a SWAT team, and one Expendable could drop a 5 man SWAT team like they were nothing. But the Expendables have never gone up against anyone as unpredictable, creative, and possibly insane like Joker. Nor have they gone up to anyone who's physically enhanced. That being Harley in this case. Both sides will need to adapt in order to win.

