User blog:Battlefan237/Losers Showdown : Spartacus vs. Captain Stingaree

Spartacus, the Roman rebel leader who just can't get any victories in DF ; Captain Stingaree, the single greatest Batman villain ever whose sheer absurdity puts Joker and Riddler to shame. In this battle between losers, who will prevail and who will descend ? It's all up to you !

Spartacus
"When a free man dies, he loses the pleasure of life. A slave loses his pain. Death is the only freedom a slave knows. That's why he's not afraid of it. That's why we'll win."

- Spartacus, Spartacus (1960 by Stanley Kubrick, the greatest movie director of all time and all realms)

Spartacus was a Thracian gladiator and the leader of the escaped slaves that fought against the Roman Republic in the Third Servile War.

Little is known of Spartacus's life before the events of the war, and most accounts are contradictory and rarely reliable, but most accounts on his origins agree that he was a Thracian mercenary who served the army of the Roman Republic, deserted, and was captured and enslaved as a gladiator.

Spartacus was brought to a gladiator school near Capua, where he was trained as type of heavyweight gladiator called a murmillo. Along with seventy of his fellow gladiators, Spartacus planned to escape the school. In 73 BC, Spartacus and his companions armed themselves with kitchen utensils, fought their way out of the school, and seized several wagons of weapons and armor.

The gladiators plundered the regions around Capua, freeing other slaves to bolster their ranks and defeating the Roman legions sent after them. Despite lacking proper military training, Spartacus and his army displayed remarkable ingenuity when facing the Romans, using local materials and unusual tactics to overcome their enemies. With these victories, more and more slaves flocked to join Spartacus's army.

Alarmed by the success of Spartacus's rebellion, the Roman Senate commissioned Marcus Licinius Crassus, the wealthiest man in Rome, with ending the revolt. Crassus marched eight legions against the slave army, and won several engagements, forcing the slaves to retreat into southern Italy.

Spartacus attempted to broker a deal with coastal pirates to have his army sailed to Sicily, but he was betrayed, and was faced with Crassus's approaching army and no way to escape Italy. Spartacus decided to bring the full force of his army on Crassus in a last stand, which resulted in Spartacus's death in battle and the execution by crucifixion of the surviving rebels.
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Captain Stingaree
"Ye' fooled me before brothers! But ye' shall not be foolin' ol' Captain Stingaree twice!"

- Captain Stingaree

Captain Stingaree, real name Karl Courtney, is a pirate-themed villain and one of the many insane criminals in Gotham City.

Born one of a set of quadruplets, Karl was always the black sheep of the family. During a psychotic episode, Karl donned an old pirate outfit and cutlass and renamed himself to Captain Stingaree. During his first outing, Captain Stingaree tried to uncover Batman's true identity. Somehow he became convinced that his brothers were Batman. Batman approached the Courtney brothers and asked them to pose as Batman and act as bait for Stingaree, this allowed the real Batman and the Flash to capture the Captain.

Stingaree eventually escaped from prison and joined the Secret Society of Super-Villains alongside Captain Boomerang and Captain Cold. He also got into a secret gay relationship with the Cavalier, which was used as leverage by Black Lightning to blackmail Stingaree into being a Justice League informant. Captain Stingaree was killed by Jeannette in Gotham City during a confrontation with the Secret Six, who snapped his neck.

After Doctor Manhattan merged the main universe with several other universes, Captain Stingaree was revived with a similar backstory. Though this time it was Gotham Girl who stopped him instead of Batman and the Flash.
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