User blog:Elgb333/DW Horror Rematch: Vampires (30 Days of Night) vs Zombies (Night of the Living Dead)

 I was supposed to make and upload this on Halloween but due to my schedule, had to delay it. No matter since here it is. For a long time, many of us DW fans wanted to rematch those horribly innacurate and biased episodes from across all three seasons. And so far, many users who have done did a great job in reanalyzing their outcomes, even arguably doing a better job than Spike. Today on Deadliest Fiction, your old pal Elgb333 have returned to take the mantle of rematching probably the most unique yet also the most difficult match-up of them all.   Vampires: The blood-thirsty apex predator who terrorized Alaska for 30 Days!!! vs Zombies: The flesh-eating ghouls who shambled their way all throughout America!!! WHO IS DEADLIEST??? 

Vampires (30 Days of Night)
Vampires are one of the main races in the 30 Days of Night series. They are apex predators who rely on the blood of humans. The Nosferatu were once ruled by a "Council of Elders" led by Vicente. When the Council decided to make themselves known to the human race, humanity rebelled and persecuted most of their race. After a millennium, only a handful survived, led by Vicente.

In the series, vampirism is portrayed as a virus, one that can be spread through scratches, bites, and contact with vampire blood. The disease turns humans who contract it undead, gives them a mouthful of shark-like fangs and black eyes, as well as superhuman strength and speed, an aversion to sunlight, and superhumanly acute senses of sight, smell, and hearing. However, these senses can be weakened by extreme cold. Also, some vampires possess additional powers, such as teleportation, telepathy and the ability to disguise oneself. Vampires in the series differ in many ways from their mythological counterparts: impaling them with a wooden stake will not, on its own, kill them; neither will exposing them to garlic or even fire. They are extremely resilient, capable of withstanding grenades going off on their bodies or surviving after losing half of their faces to explosions. The only way to kill them is to behead them or expose them to the vitamins generated in direct sunlight, which sets them on fire and burns them to ash rapidly. Also, large amounts of ultraviolet light burn them and probably can kill them. But they can never stay dead for long; if blood hits their ashes they will regenerate.

Main= Razor-Sharp Teeth A vampire's jaws is filled with these razor sharp shark-like teeth they use to pierce through flesh and drink on blood. The bite force they have far exceed that of a normal human being, and mostly are used to pierce or tear off flesh to make their victims bleed.

Aside from their teeth, vampires are also armed with these elongated knife-like fingernails that is strong enough to kebab a person like spears, and rip them easily in half. One slash from these claws are enough to deface their victims, rip through their flesh or pin them in the torso. These claws are flexible enough for a vampire to hold improvised weapons, although not firearms for reasons unknown (either because their claws are too long for them to grasp a gun or because they are just too damn proud to use one).
 * -|Secondary= Claws

As an apex predator the vampire is honed by nature to be the perfect killing machine:
 * -|Physicality= Vampire Physique

Super Strength: Vampires are capable of lifting and throwing an adult man like a ragdoll. Just by grabbing a person through their necks or limbs is enough to immobolize them. A strike from a vampire is enough to go through a fleshy human body without a sweat. However, their physique do vary from vampire to vampire. Some vampires who were previously weak when they were alive, can be taken down by a fairly strong human, like that time when a Nazi general once outwrestled a vampire and decapitated him with nothing but a knife. Weak-bodied and children vampires are prone to this weakness.

Super Speed and Agility: Vampire's are able to move beyond that of peak-olympic humans, to the point that they can movie in blurs and strike a person without them knowing it. They are also very agile, able to leap from tall infrastructures. The vampire Vincente was even capable of leaping through the air to strike at a flying helicopter and make it crash down to the ground.

Superhuman Durability: Vampires have proven themselves to be very tough, capable of surviving gunshot wounds and physical injuries that would have killed a normal human 5x over, like when a vampire named Dane once survived being impaled on a pole on top of a skyscraper. It also helps that they have decent healing factor that allows them to heal from injuries, and in the case of Dane even reattaching his own hand. However, headshots from high caliber rounds and fire can kill them.

Intelligence: As apex predator they are smart and cunning creatures. Many vampires ten to work on packs during the hunt, creating strategies on how to take down their prey. They have successfully hidden themselves from humans for centuries, and like humans, can create societies and even organize wars.

In the series, vampirism is portrayed as a virus, one that can be spread through scratches, bites, and contact with vampire blood. The virus seems to be transmitted through the bloodstream and mainly affects living humans in a short amount of time.
 * -|Infection= Vampire Virus


 * -|Weakness= Various
 * Sunlight and Other Heat-Related Objects: The classic weakness of a vampire is sunlight, and any blood sucker caught in it will burst into flames or turn to dust in mere seconds. Not only that, but their weakness also crosses to that of flames or heat (as vampies can be harmed by fire and fire-related weapons like torches, flamethrower and incendiary rounds).
 * Cold: Although not much of a hindrence, a vampire's perfomance in battle can be reduced by low temperaature or snow. But their effects are minimal at best.
 * Not Actually Dead: Yeah I feel alot of nerds are going to argue me about this. But vampires in the 30 Days of Night aren't really "undead". They are immortal and they can regenerate from being turned into ash by a drop of blood, vampires' body still consist of working organs and a circulatory system. Hence why they still need to drink blood and spread virus through the bloodstream.
 * Pride: Probably a far more deadly weakness for a vampire is their overly proud nature. They would easily udnerestimate their enemies, charge headlong into battle without thinking, and disfavor the use of human weapons even if it would help in their cause.

Zombies (Night of the Living Dead)
Zombies, originally called Ghouls, are a race of human beings who, sometime after death or infection, have risen up and roam the Earth. While they began as Haitian and African myths involving magic bringing back corpses of the recently deceased to use as slaves and hitmen, the Zombie myth has gone through numerous revisions and updates as it became more widespread.

The current accepted pop-culture version of the zombie was the one made famous by the George A. Romero 1968 film, Night of the Living Dead. Slowly moving, but inevitable as the Death they bring with them, these zombies slowly make their way across the Earth in search of living victims to hunt down and devour, and to spread their disease to all they consume.

Main= Bone-Crushing Teeth The main weapon of a zombie is their teeth. Their mouths may be similar to that of living humans, their lack of pain or inhibition allow them to bite harder. Deadliest Warrior compared a zombie bite to a rotweiler but this was just stupid and nonsensical. Zombies in the Night of the Living Dead Universe are capable of crunching and crushing through bone with ease.

The second most common weapon for them is their hands, which they used to literally rip a human limb from limb. Since the zombie virus granted the zombies strength that exceeds that of human beings, their hands are capable of gripping and crushing, as well as literally ripping off limbs in both the movies and respected media. They can easily crush a human skull like a watermelon or pull of a person's arm like a plastic toy. In both the film and the comics, zombies are capable of using their hands to grab weapons and even bludgeon a person to death with their fists or stomp them with the foot.
 * -|Secondary= Zombie Hands


 * -|Physicality= Zombie Body

These rotten, stinking corpses have bodies that varies from each other, depending on their decomposition level. Nonetheless, almost all exhibit:

Superhuman Strength: Zombies are basically capable of wrestling a normal human to the ground with ease. They have enough strength to basically break bone, rip through limbs and bash through a barricade. Some zombies are even capable of lifting a person over their heads and throwing them.

Varied Speed and Stealth: Its almost universal that most zombies suffer from rigor mortis, or the rigidity and reduced mobility of the body due to decomposition. They mostly move by shuffling or shambling ala zombie walk. Most zombies rely on stealth to take down their prey, with some using their rigor mortis to walk almost silently to their victims, or lay down and wait in a secluded spot to ambush their prey. These tactics are the main reason why these zombies manages to still pose a threat to humans even with slow speed. Throughout the franchise, there have been some zombies who's been able to run faster than an average ghoul, like the Hinzman ghoul who can run down a human or an automobile. But these types of zombies are few and rare.

Superhuman Durability: Zombies can pretty much survive anything you can throw at them, from bullets, melee attacks and explosions. Shooting them with firearms is useless, and trying to stab them in their body is suicidal. Although they have decomposing bodies, a unique feature of the zombie body is their ability to be invulnerable to the effects of decay, season and time. They can survive even with missing organs, limbs and lack of blood and oxygen (hence why zombies can survive underwater or underground). The only way to kill a zombie is by destroying a specific part of their brain that keeps them alive.

Nigh-Unlimited Stamina: Zombies does not feel hunger, pain or tiredness, their lack of emotion and will allow them to pretty much persist in their hunt. They have unlimited energy and cannot feel fatigue or loss of interest. They will hunt you down as long as their decomposing bodies allow them to.

Zombie Intelligence: While zombie fiction have portrayed them as mindless ghouls who have lost virtually every form of cognitive thinking, the original Romero Zombies of the first film did have some form of intelligence, being able to open doors, use weapons such as rocks and tools, and can throw objects as projectile weapons. As the series progress, some zombies have evolved and shown to be able to use firearms, ride horses, create their own society and even plan wars and strategies (an example of this was Big Daddy Zombie from Land of the Dead). While the majority of the zombies are still mindless ghouls, these "smart zombies" have shown a knack of leading their brethren when a battle arises.


 * -|Infection= Zombie Infection
 * Contrary to popular belief, it is still unsure whether the Romero zombie outbreak is caused by virus, radiation, or some supernatural phenomenon. Normally a bite or a scratch from a zombie is enough to turn a person into a zombie, but it is not really needed since anyone who dies in proximity of a zombie apocalypse will turn into the Living Dead. The zombie infection however, only affect living and dead human beings (since there are still no evidence that showed it can affect animals), but it is up to you if it can affect humanoid species or beings that were formerly humans.

Rigor Mortis: The rigidity adn stiffness of a zombie's body greatly reduce their speed and agility. Romero zombies who can run are very rare, and these zombies lack the ability to climb.
 * -|Weakness= Classic Zombie Weakness

Fire: Flames are capable of damaging a zombie and keeping them at bay, although it takes them for it to actually affect them, and even so the reduction in performance is quite slim.