Most lopsided fantasy fight ever…
On par with Hulk vs Nacho Libre :eek:
That would be Cryptonite.
The first post-Crisis Action Comics Annual (and ostensibly only the second time Superman and Batman met) touches on this, though it’s not Dracula but a female vampire. she’s getting the upper hand on Supes with hypnotism or something and has already managed to rake his chest with her claws when Bats stakes her from behind.
I find it a tad ridiculous that a wooden stake could fatally penetrate her body but Superman couldn’t just rip her in half with the casual effort of tearing a sheet of paper, but whatever.
Semi-related is are several entertaining Robot Chicken sketches in which a vampire is run over by a car or a werewolf is pulverized by a Gatling gun. Technology (including science-fiction concepts like Superman) is the undoing of popular myths, their kryptonite if you will.
Is there a name for the phenomenon where you enter a thread to post something, find out it is a zombie thread, then find that you in fact already made the exact same post you were planning to make?:smack:
Is it related to reading a zombie thread from the beginning, laughing at post #31, then realizing you yourself wrote it six years ago?
Consistency.
Dracula. He’ll just sleep the whole thing off until there’re no superheroes left.
If he really did die. The evidence that he faked his death is rather compelling.
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[li]He was stabbed by a bowie knife at sunset, when his powers would manifest.[/li][li]Unlike every single other vampire in the book, he crumbled into dust. We already know that one of his powers is transforming into dust.[/li][li]Harker could not have beheaded him with one swipe of a bowie knife. There is a reason that executioners’ axes are so heavy. It is very difficult to remove a head from the body. It is far more likely that Harker’s knife struck just as Dracula was transforming into dust.[/li][li]It takes more than a simple stabbing and beheading to kill a vampire. The vampire has to be staked into the grave, the head removed, the mouth filled with garlic, and the head placed face down. Arthur pounded the stake into Lucy for several grueling minutes. Do you think it would be easier to kill a master Vampire of Dracula’s stature than a fledgling?[/li][li]We do not have the luxury of a omniscient narrator in Dracula. We only have the eyewitness account of the scene from Mina, who was under Dracula’s thrall at the time.[/ol][/li]
Dracula’s not dead. He’s biding his time, having learned from his mistakes.
Poorly wrought, my valiant squire. Behold:
"I could not have endured the horrid screeching as the stake drove home, the plunging of writhing form, and lips of bloody foam. I should have fled in terror and left my work undone. But it is over! And the poor souls, I can pity them now and weep, as I think of them placid each in her full sleep of death for a short moment ere fading. For, friend John, hardly had my knife severed the head of each, before the whole body began to melt away and crumble into its native dust, as though the death that should have come centuries ago had at last assert himself and say at once and loud, “I am here!”
… the death of Dracula’s wives. They, too, crumble to dust.
Also, Harker had a Kukri knife, not a Bowie … Morris had the Bowie. A Kukri will sever a head, but I believe a thorough throat slicing, in tandem with the Bowie through the heart is sufficient to kill Dracula by day.
Dracula is really dead.
Well, yeah, but is he still active?
Appreciation of genius.
He’s passed on. This Vampire is no more. He has ceased to be. He’s expired and gone to meet his maker.
He’s a stiff … bereft of life. He rests in peace … pushing up daisies.
His metabolic processes are now history. He’s off the twig. He’s kicked the bucket. He’s shuffled off his mortal coil, run down the curtain, and joined the bleedin’ choir invisible.
He’s dead.
I have to ask: what is Superman’s “defeat” condition, in Dracula’s mind? Does he want to kill him, or TURN him?
The latter, of course, would be interesting, if for no other reason than Superman is supposed to get his powers from the sun. Would a vampirized Superman be quickly left powerless, or would the transformation perhaps alter the manner in which he maintains his powers (i.e. could he now sustain his super-abilities from feeding on the living)?
I learned from the battle against Goku that Superman has mental defenses now, and cannot be mind controlled. Without that, I don’t really think old Vlad has a chance, unless he turns some of Superman’s other foes. He’s not going into this blind, remember, as he’s fought Supes before.lm
And Supes is not going to suddenly fly Drac into the sun or anything. He’s always been rather proportionate in his responses. Okay, maybe whiny Supes from the new 52–I haven’t kept up with that.
BTW, Supes always wins because he’s good, for all you people who say it depends on the writer.
Bambi vs. Godzilla
No, no, he’s pinin’.
Bambi isn’t as strong as you think, I say the big lizard has a decent chance.
What sort of talk is that?
He’s not dead, he’s pinin’ for the fjords.