User blog comment:Lasifer/Terrordome: Gremlins vs The Puppets/@comment-2016768-20111005014015

Let's crunch the numbers and analyze both side's pros and cons:

One of the biggest arguments I see here is Six-Shooter vs. the Brain's M1911 and the Micro Uzi. Well, if you can get 36 shots off that's great! Especially because the Uzi can only hold 20 bullets and the M1911 maxes out at 7. However, those revolvers will be one pain in the ass to reload and even if Six-Shooter can take out his gun-toting opponents, the reload will kill him. Pistol whip my ass. It's okay but only as a last resort and won't do jack-squat against someone with a nail gun or bat claws. Plus, need I look to Jesse James vs. Al Capone for any more help? A six-shooter can't beat a tommy gun, forget an Uzi. Argue me accuracy all day, but Jesse James was accurate and his six-shooter still couldn't beat Al Capone's spray-n-pray. I am quite aware of the Gremlin's low accuracy, but guess what? With bullets flying willy-nilly you can't afford to stand for a clear shot. And then the Brain Gremlin. He's smart as heck. He is deadly with his M1911 and can average one more shot per clip than Six-Shooter and reload much, much quicker. In the end it's close, but when it comes to distance attacks the Gremlins have it due to sheer firepower and ease of reload.

Another argument I can bring up is Pinhead vs. the Electric Gremlin. Pinhead would have easily dominated this game and earned the puppets my vote IF HE WASN'T FIGHTING THIS GUY!!!!! The Electric Gremlin is insane but that's what makes him so zany and deadly. You literally can't touch him without short-circuiting yourself. He can hide the entire battle in a telephone line and then when the other Gremlins are dead and the Puppets try their victory cry, he pops out and zaps them to smithereens. The thing is, he has no substance other than electricity. No organs, no tissues, no flesh, nothing. Bullets go right through him. Metal just, well, "eggs him on." So now we have guns and electricity as the perfect killers that win it for the Gremlins. But I'm not done yet.

I will give the Puppets one edge: They don't have internal organs so I don't think they can feel pain. That's great and usually would be a huge factor, but the Gremlins are so ridiculously insane that pain is not a cause for fear or caution! Still, a well-placed bullet will drop a Gremlin; a Puppet, maybe not. I don't think it's all that dangerous when you have the mutated Gremlins, who don't have conventional methods of attack like bullets or swords. Trust me, the electric Gremlin will make one toasty puppet and the spider gremlin will get them caught in a sticky situation... geddit?

Overall, I think the Gremlins have it and my analysis backs up a big meaty portion of it. The rapid-fire guns and the quicker reload time negate Six-Shooter, and the mutated Gremlins serve as shock-and-awe and mass-destruction rolled into one package. The Puppets might not show fear, but the Gremlins sure show delight in their massacre, and the last thing each of those Puppets will see is a cackling Gremlin, roaring in delight at his mayhem.

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