User blog:Battlefan237/Thousand-year gap : Li Kui (Water Margin) vs. Leatherface (TCM)

Homicidal maniac is a common type of characters seen across fiction. From ancient Chinese classics to 80s slasher flicks, psychopaths with murderous intents have always been cast in for different purposes. Today, we have two of the most iconic characters of this type. One from the east, one from the west, one from ancient China, one of modern day America. Will Leatherface continue his rampage, or will Li Kui overcome the time gap and tear the chainsaw murderer apart ? Let's see.

Li Kui
Li Kui（李逵） is a fictional character in Water Margin, one of the Four Great Classical Novels （The other three being the Romance of Three Kingdoms, Journey to the West and the Red Chamber) in Chinese literature.

Described as a muscular man with a dark complexion, a reddish-yellow unibrow, and fiery eyes, Li Kui earned the nickname "Iron Ox". However, he is more popularly referred to as "Black Whirlwind" for his berserk behaviour in combat and dark complexion. He has a bad temper and a strong penchant for alcohol, and is known to be a hardcore gambler.

Many parts of Li Kui's background remained unclear, however, what is known to us is that he fled his hometown at a young age after committing brutal murders and became a warden in nearby county, where he met Song Jiang, a leader of a group of outlaws. Recognizing Li's brutality and fighting skills, Song recruited him. Later on Song's outlaw group developed into a large bandit organization and eventually started rebelling against Song Dynasty. During this period of time, Li Kui acted as an enforcer and played a key role in many of the rebel group's heists, ambushes and clashes with other bandit forces.

As the enforcer, Li is particularly known for his brutal style and pathological thirst for violence. While other rebels take killing as tasks, mostly won't kill until necessary and feel reluctant in killing by passers, Li takes killing as fun, enjoys killing and is notorious for murdering innocent by passers in gruesome fashion, qualifying him as one of the earliest psychopaths in literature.

Weapons

 * Iconic - Twin Axe : Li's signature weaponS in the original book and modern day game adaptations. They are essentially a pair of woodcutting axes, with the slightly larger blades.The original book didn't dig deep into the stats of the weapon, but it was implied that the axes resembled common woodcutting axes, but maintained slightly larger blades.
 * Backup - Fists: Li Kui isn't really known for using any other weapons. But he's a skilled brawler and has a good record of beating up other outlaws and bandits in fist brawls.
 * Blunt - Gun : Basically a crude handmade wooden staff commonly used by the rebels forces. Approximately 3 feet in length.

Leatherface
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