User blog:Killermoves/Daredevil vs Question

 In the realm of Western comic books, none are as iconic when it comes to superheroes as masked vigilantes. While these street-level guys were not born of some alien planet sent to Earth before its destruction, intellectuals who came across immortal gods and sorcerers, nor are they hapless humans caught in some freak lab accident, they still make it up for their tenacity, ruthlessness, and an undying moral code in fighting criminals in every alley.

And today we will be pitting two of the most famous street level vigilantes (besides Batman and the Punisher) in a battle to the death.

Daredevil: The Man With No Fear

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Question: The Guy With No Face

Its Red vs Blue, DC vs Marvel, to decide who is... THE DEADLIEST WARRIOR!!!

Daredevil
Matt Murdock was only 12 years old when he was diagnosed with permanently blindness after saving a blind man from a swerving truck with radioactive material. However, at the same time Matt was also gifted with an extraordinary ability. After strolling down the street one day he realized all of his other senses have heighten into extraordinary levels, letting him see a world that nobody else can describe. As he grew older Matt graduated into law school and started to train in martial arts with a fellow blind man named Sticks. On the day before his law school graduation Murdock's father, boxing fighter Johnathon "Battling Jack" Murdock, was beaten to death by the oder of criminal gangster "The Fixer" after failing to lose a fixed-match. After the death of his father, Matt opened up a law practice with his long-time Franklin "Foggy" Nelson to help innocent people in the court of law all after the while masquarading as Daredevil, "The Man Without Fear". As Daredevil, Matt utilizes his fighting skills and heighten senses to fight off criminal scums in the streets of New York.

Weapons=
 * Multi-Purpose Cane: Daredevil's main weapon of choice. The Multi-Purpose Cane can be transformed into different kinds of weapons such as a baton, nunchuck, staff, and manrikigusari (a long chain-like weapon with two weighted ends). Its strong cable can be used as a grappling hook to swing from building to building, as well as catch and even grapple an enemy. Daredevil can use the cane as a melee and a throwable weapon. He can throw his baton with enough force to break concrete.
 * Daredevil Suit: Although Daredevil used a variety of costumes, his most iconic one is the red suit. The horns on his costume are antennae that can pick up radio waves, allowing him to tap into police scanners everywhere. Matt's current suit is also fully bulletproof, fireproof, and fully insulated from electrical attacks (although prolong damage and tougher weapons can penetrate through it).


 * -|Powers=
 * Superhuman Sensory System: Even though he is blind, being exposed to radioactive isotope has drastically increased his other senses superhuman levels. So much so that he needed the tutelage of a mentor named the Stick to control and enhance them. The radiation and training gave him superhuman touch, hearing, taste, and smell. He can hear a person's heartbeat at a distance of over twenty feet, or people whispering on the other side of a standard soundproofed wall. The rest of his skin is equally sensitive, enabling him by concentration to feel minute temperature and pressure changes in the atmosphere around him. His heightened senses allowed him to detect opponents even if they have disguised themselves or try to mask their own body signature (like odor, voice etc). Even with his senses of smell and hearing blocked, he can feel the presence of a person standing five feet away from him simply by his or her body heat and disturbance of air. He can detect if a person is lying, easily track other people even with tracks that are weeks old, and illusions have no effect on him.
 * A testament to the level of skill it requires Matt to even function would be seen when he fought Psylocke during the war between the Avengers and the X-Men, as she was overwhelmed when she tried to read his mind and found herself experiencing all the information he received through his superhuman senses, demonstrating the scale of psychological training required for Murdock to operate on a normal human level.
 * Radar and Sonar Sense: Matt can "see" the world around him in two ways. One is by tapping into solid surface and using the sound bouncing to see ala echolocation, and by emitting his own radioactive sonar waves which allows him to navigate without the need to use sound or to tap. These powers gives Matt a full range personal radar around him. Combined with his senses, Matt is able to perfectly map and construct his surroundings.
 * Telepathic Immunity: Combining both his indomitable will and a variety of mental resistance allows Matt to resist psychic intrusions and prevent his mind from being read. He's been able to resist the mind control of the Purple Man himself.
 * -|Physicality=
 * Peak Human Strength: Due to his control over his nervous system, as well as years honing his body, Daredevil is capable of feats such as tipping over a limo without straining, causally pick a man up and throw him, and easily break a man's leg and rupture skin with a single kick. He fought both Hyde and the Kingpin, who are known for their own strength, to a standstill.
 * Peak Human Speed: Besides his strength, his movement speed, agility and reaction time are also increased. He is capable of sprinting two city blocks in seconds, dodge automatic gunfire, and quickly hit a sniper with his billy club before he can fire. His greatest feat was when a gunman fired a pistol at him at point blank, and he was still able to react by quickly swatting the bullet back to the assassin. Even while injured, he could still deflect sniper bullets that Spider-Man could not.
 * Enhanced Stamina: In one iconic scene, Matt was able to hold his breath underwater for over 7 minutes. He can also physically exert himself for several hours before showing any signs of fatigue.
 * Enhanced Endurance: Although he can still be hurt and injured like a normal human being, Matt has an extremely high tolerance to pain. He can continue fighting even with serious injuries. He survived getting caught in a napalm explosion, resist the effects of a tranq dart, and getting shocked by Elektro. He survived scenarios such as falling off a multi-story building, getting hit by a car, getting burned by Typhoid Mary and even taking hits from the Kingpin.
 * Master Marksman: He is very skilled marksman who is capable of throwing his billy clubs with great speed and accuracy. Murdock also knows how to use most projectile-like weaponry such as throwing knives, shurikens, darts, bows and arrows, and firearms like sniper rifles in extreme situations.
 * -|Intelligence=
 * Highly Intelligent: Murdock's intelligence and brain functions have always been apparent; long before he was affected by radiation, his longterm midnight training, A+ morning schooling and little need of sleep is a testament to that. He is a talented lawyer who can manipulate and withstand tough mental arguments and a master detective and interrogator. However he is not perfect, as he has been outsmarted before by the likes of the Punisher (who personally owned him twice).
 * Stealth: He is a master ninjutsu expert and can easily sneak up on people. Sadly we don't see much feats of stealth from him but he's a trained ninja so there's that. Matt's martial skills are at a point where he was ranked by Stick as at least tenth degree black belt in ninjutsu, seeing as that was the art that Matt seems to have been trained in almost exclusively by Stick.
 * Highly Trained Martial Artist: Due to his former exercises with his father, and training with the master Stick, Daredevil has become adept in almost all forms of unarmed combat. He is adept in martial arts such as Boxing, Ninjutsu, Jui-jitsu, Aiki-Jujutsu, Savate, Taekwondo, Kung Fu, Judo, Krav Maga, Silat, Karate, Capoeira, Eskrima, Aikido, Greco-Roman Wrestling and Pressure-Point Combat (which can paralyze limbs etc). Besides unarmed combat, he is also talented in armed combat such as staff fighting, flail fighting, and projectile throwing. He's even fought the likes of Captain America and Wolverine.
 * -|Weaknesses=
 * Certain environments can affect his senses. Rain deadens his super smell and snow lessens the range of his radar. Most famous is his weakness to high-pitch sound. Ultrasound at 120 decibels can severely weaken him, though it still won't render him unconscious, but enough to scramble his radar.
 * He can't detect magically-invisible enemies, although he can sense their interaction with the physical environment. Sadly, he can't sense ghosts.

Question
The Question is the vigilante protector of Hub City. As an alter ego of famed reporter Vic Sage (who's actual real name is Charles Victor Szasz), the Question fights criminals and corrupt politicians in what is considered to be the most corrupt city in the DC Universe (even beating Gotham City). Vic grew up in an orphanage and saw first hand the poverty and the corruption that he and his fellow orphans had to endure. He started working as a reporter to focus on crime, all the while donning a costume to take down those he couldn't report or touch. The mask he wears to disguise his face is made of an experimental material called pseudoderm. Sage is driven by a deep personal quest for philosophical meaning, which has taken him through both objectivism and zen; in some versions he is portrayed as a paranoid conspiracy theorist. Aristotle Rodor is his closest friend and mentor, although his teachers have included Richard Dragon and Lady Shiva. Myra Fermin is his most frequent love interest. During 52, when Sage was dying of lung cancer, he trained Renee Montoya as his successor and she eventually replaced him.

Weapons=
 * Pseudoderm Mask: Made up of an experimental substance, the pseudoderm mask perfectly hides the Question's face, almost making it transparent while not hampering his ability to see and breath. Besides being a mask, pseuoderm also acts as a layer of defense, being able to hold off physical blows and even low-caliber bullets to the head (seen in the first O'Neil issue where the Question was badly beaten and shot and still had an intact face). It's also lead-lined to give another layer of protection and prevent Superman from using his x-ray vision on it. The mask's transparency is also pretty horrifying to look at for many, giving him a Batman-like power to scare people. It can only be removed with a special gas or spray.
 * Suit and Fedora: Vic's hat and suit is made up of special material that changes color when the same gas is applied. During the Brave and the Bold series, his suit is lined with bulletproof kevlar armor for protection.
 * Specialized Gas: At one point during the 52 series, Vic Sage ended up getting locked up by his enemies in a cell. He managed to escape by using a special gas to completely cloak himself from their eyes. And when they got close to investigate, he then promptly beat them up before finally getting out. It is unknown if this is the same gas he use on his face and suit.
 * -|Powers=
 * Dragon-Style Kung Fu: Vic Sage trained rigorously under famed martial artist Richard Dragon, who was the same guy who PT'd the goddamn Batman when Bane broke his back. Although Dragon didn't taught Sage everything he knew, the things he taught the Question was enough to turn him into a formidable fighter. He handled himself pretty well during his second fight with Lady Shiva, a female fighter who is faster than the Batman (although Sage still got his ass kicked in the end). Sage's kung fu allowed him to own militarymen, attack dogs and even an army of mutated animal men using only his body as a weapon.
 * Enhanced Senses: His training in dragon-style kung fu also taught him to detect small minute details around him. He can easily sense movement in the air even without the need to hear or see, making sneaking behind him difficult.
 * Zen Powers and Urban Shamanism: Throughout the years, the Question has adopted many forms of mysticism that basically translate to superpowers. His training with Richard Dragon has taught him chi-manipulation and mental techniques that allows him to be immune to pain and even help him heal wounds and broken bones. Along the line, he also learned street shamanism that gives him a multitude of abilities such as being able to track down people, spy on some individuals, see dead people, and give him some form of x-ray vision. He can even travel straight to the astral plane and basically become a ghost.
 * When he's in his astral form, he is basically invisible, intangible and invulnerable, but still able to operate machines, and even hurt and kill enemies.
 * -|Physicality=
 * Peak Human Strength: Sage is a pretty strong man for his age. Although not having traditional superhuman strength, he is still strong enough to break bone, bash through walls, and even kick a car hard enough to move it and disrupt someone's aim. He is strong enough to take on the superhuman Volk and another unnamed superhuman thug. His punches and kicks are strong enough to damage and knock down armored soldiers called the Subterraneans.
 * Peak Human Speed: Like many street-level vigilantes in the DC Universe, the Question can easily dodge automatic fire, catch up to a speeding car or a helicopter, and disarm other gunmen even if they have already drawn their guns. He was once fast enough to take out two guys before they can shoot him (and one of them was at his back). The Question can travel so fast, that two cops couldn't even follow him with their own eyes. His greatest feat however, was when he deflected several pistol fired from multiple directions with a meat cleaver.
 * Enhanced Stamina: Sage's drive to fight crime is so strong in fact, that the guy patrolled his city for thirty-six hours straight. He can continue his activities even with multiple hard injuries on him. He was even shot once but still kept on running. Hard blows to the head doesn't faze him anymore.
 * Enhanced Endurance: One clear example of the Question's durability happened during his first meeting with Lady Shiva. Their first fight ended with Lady Shiva defeating him and then letting her goons continue to beat him afterwards. They broke every bone in his body (ala Nicky Santoro) and shot him in the head before dumping his carcass into the ocean. But for some miraculous reason, the Question survived through sheer grittiness and diving reflex. This however, is just one of the Question's feats of durability, as he's survived being shot multiple times before, falling from high buildings, getting caught in nearby dynamite explosions, and hits from superhumans and master martial artists.
 * Master Marksman: Easy to say, the Question is one hell of a marksman. He's been able to use ordinary stuffs as accurate throwing projectiles like a lamp or a disk to disarm or knock out an enemy. He once used a gun to quickly draw and shoot someone who was going to slit his child's throat. He also knows how to use machine guns and rocket launchers.
 * -|Intelligence=
 * Highly Intelligent: As a world-class reporter, detective and vigilante, the Question has a very high fight IQ. He can easily tell if a person is setting him up, figures the identity of serial killers and piece together a crime scene. He once even persuaded a whole gang to turn against their leader, use subliminal messaging on a television set to trick an enemy, defeated the Riddler by using his own mental problems, and tricked the Mikado Killer to spare his life and stop his crimes.
 * His principles, overconfidence, and a large amount of Dunning-Krueger effect has affected his intellect and judgment before. For example, Sage once went to investigate a series of murders committed on African-Americans, and went on to believe that a racist private eye was behind the killings. Little did he knew that evidence didn't actually point to that racist nor was it motivated by racism.
 * Stealth: While not on the same level as Batman, the Question has used stealth to defeat his enemies. He can easily sneak up on a group of people, is a master of disguise, take out people stealthily, use dummies to trick his enemies, and even pull up a Batman. He can sneak up on some very talented people like Renee Montoya (even as she was looking at a reflective surface) and even Nightwing himself (who was trained by Batman and was one of the exerpt in stealth in the DC Universe.
 * Very Creative: Like his analogue Rorschach, the Question is pretty much capable of using everyday objects and even his own environment to defeat his opponents. He can operate machines to beat his enemies, use everyday objects as weapons, and even use the entire city to his advantage.
 * -|Weaknesses=
 * Of all the characters in comic, none has been as philosophical as the Question. He's had a rotating personality of principles that ranged from being an objectivist, to becoming a zen master, and then finally an urban shaman (basically a modern-day hippie). In some cases the guy's even been depicted as a conspiracy theorist. Basically, all of these beliefs turned him into somewhat a bit of a loon.

X-Factors
Training= It's difficult to say which between these two have the better training. Daredevil has an advantage because he was trained by himself, his dad and by the Stick since he was a young boy. His training with Stick gave him numerous knowledge in various forms of martial arts. The only problem is that most of his training are focused mostly on physical combat and controlling his upgraded senses. The Question is mostly self-taught before receiving training from Richard Dragon. His training was very short compared to Daredevil's, but make it up for it by variety. Not only did Richard taught him physical martial arts, but also in magical/mystical techniques such as chi manipulation, etc.

Of the two, Daredevil seems to have a larger pool of iconic enemies he has fought to a standstill. Like seriously look at his fight record; the guy has fought Black Panther, Punisher, Taskmaster, Iron Fist, Captain America, Sabretooth, Winter Soldier, Deadpool, and Wolverine and Moon Knight to a standstill. He's even outshot the villain Bullseye who is known for his superhuman accuracy. Matt has duelled the Kingpin, a guy who can easily smash concrete, numerous times.
 * -|Experience=

The Question also has his fair share of battles with human and superhuman opponents, but his is far fewer than Daredevil's. The Question's greatest feat in combat was when he took on Lady Shiva for a second time (and even in that he still got his ass kicked). The only infamous individuals in the DCU that the Question has fought were Lady Shiva, Volk, Psychopomp, Riddler, some Alien Invasion, and that's about it. He did once met and creeped out Superman once, but it's up to you if this is an achievement or not.

For all his achievements, Daredevil's career can be described by two words: fists and kicks. There's no denying that Daredevil has fought more opponents than the Question but most of them were slug fests. While he has a tactical mind and has defeated opponents through strategy, most, if not all, of his achievements were done either in the court or in a fistfight. While being a warrior focused mostly on physical combat is cool and all, it will leave said warrior in a pinch if he's up against an opponent who doesn't do "traditional sock em-up" (which isn't that good for Daredevil since the Question's astral form is basically untouchable by Matt's martial arts).
 * -|Versatility=

The Question has done feats that are more varied than Daredevil that consist not just fistfights but also mental and supernatural battles. He himself has tricked cunning serial killers, outwitted the super-smart Riddler, killed Psychopomp in a astral-psychic battle, and even stalked friggin Nightwing himself (who's a master of stealth personally trained by Batman).

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 * Battle takes place in a neutral urban setting of Los Angeles. The battle takes place at night, and the city is filled with buildings for the two to jump along to and martial arts schools and gun stores to get weapons.
 * This will be the Question before his body finally deteriorated due to lung cancer, and Daredevil during the Avengers v X-Men War.