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[trinityvixen]

Wow! Here's a shocker! I'm bored as nuts at work. I'm going to lunch to relieve said boredom. Have something to say? Something inflammatory for me to rant about? A funny story to share? Humorous website or strange thing in the news? Share! Discuss!

Let's start a fight! Rar! Let's play F, Marry, Kill! Interfandom Death Match!

Put up your dukes!
1) Remakes are better than originals most of the time!

2) Network television is worse than cable/satellite television!

3) Kids are stupid these days!

4) Old people smell worse than dog farts!

5) Books are an outmoded means of conveying facts, fictions, or information of a third sort I can't make start with F!


You want to screw, enfiance, or murder which of the following:

A) Heidi Klum, Tyra Banks, Kate Moss

B) British Prime Minister Tony Blair, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe

C) The stock boy, the checkout lady, the store manager

D) toothpick, toothbrush, dental floss

E) An American guy, a French guy, a Polish guy Wait, wrong time-killer...erm, uh, eh, George Clooney's hair, George Clooney's smirk, George Clooney's nipply batsuit


There can be only one!

!--Solid Snake, James Bond, Jason Bourne

@--BloodRayne, Dracula, Angelus

#--Link, Robin Hood, Dan Hibiki

$--Starbuck, Trinity, Zoe Washburne (HOLY FUCK, THAT IS SO HOT)

%--The Doctor, Rupert Giles, Lord Elrond (SO IS THAT)

Comments

[bigscary.livejournal.com]

1) Remakes are better than originals most of the time!

False! It's close to 50/50!

2) Network television is worse than cable/satellite television!
True!

3) Kids are stupid these days!
True, but meaningless! Kids are always stupid!

4) Old people smell worse than dog farts!
False! Nothing smells worse than smelly dog. Some old people smell pleasantly of cedar.

5) Books are an outmoded means of conveying facts, fictions, or information of a third sort I can't make start with F!
False! You suck!

! -- Snake!
@ -- Dracula, even in the others' respective settings!
# -- Link!
$ -- Starbuck!
% -- The Doctor, but then they settle their differences and team up! And not in that way, you pervert!

[chuckro.livejournal.com]

While I can see setting the bevy of good-looking older men against each other, there really isn't much contest between The Doctor, Rupert Giles, and Lord Elrond. The Doctor has been killed, what, nine times now? Alien or otherwise, he's toast.

And while Giles is resourceful, well-practiced, and protected by layers of tweed, Elrond is thousands of years old, a former soldier with greater-than-human martial prowess and magical powers. He'd kick ass all the way to Valenar.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Heeeee, good answers all! You win at life!

To be more serious, I agree: remakes have a 50% success rate at being better than originals; network TV blows, except for all the shows I'm addicted on them; kids are allowed to be stupid; old people occasionally don't smell bad; books rule!

The rest is just heresay. I would venture to guess you're right on all the symbol guessing, even that last one. I wish you'd meant it "THAT" way ::winkwinkwinkwinkwink::, especially if I'd said V instead of Lord Elrond. What the hell, Hugo Weaving can have me and anyone he wants even as Mitzi.

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

Which is a shame. Because Giles is adorable.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Ah, the academic approach. Well then, let us make fighting over this. Rupert Giles is like a warlock by the end of the series, isn't he? He's mad connected and researched and has access to obscene amounts of power. Not too shabby in a physical fight, though, okay, past his prime. Also? Extensive knowledge of weaponry and ability to use offensive/defensive spells in lieu of magical power outright.

The Doctor has increased healing abilities, an IQ that outstrips the other two combined in addition to general creativity and cleverness, advanced technology, can regenerate if fatally defeated (well done him--surprise attack from the former corpse plus a like +10 to enemy confusion), and is also in possession of an impregnable fortress with time-travelling capabilities. Also is known as the source of monsters' nightmares, so there's uh, whatchacallit? Psychological advantage. True, not offensive, not known to use weapons or be the aggressor without sufficient provocation and is reluctant to kill.

And Lord Elrond. Nearly immortal with few weaknesses, intelligence and wisdom and patience to apply both, exceptional soldier/general/leader means is able to wage war and call up resources for same, has previously defeated greatest evil threat to all of Middle Earth, healing abilities and magical skill.

You ask me? The three of the show up and immediately like each other far too much to ever have a problem that would lead to them fighting. More like, they'd bicker like old women and poke fun at the things they are each wrong about until the end of time.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Nothing will happen to Giles ::pets Mr. Giles::! Nothing! ::pets::

[chuckro.livejournal.com]

All right, and now for the important question: Voltron wielding the Blazing Garden Weasel versus Space Disembodied Elvis Head with Mesmerizing Eyebeams!

[chuckro.livejournal.com]

Well, let's see what we can do with the rest of these...
!--Solid Snake, James Bond, Jason Bourne

Snake is prepared. Bond is sexy. Bourne is madder than hell and not going to take it any more. Property damage victory to Bourne, but all would escape to fight another day.

@--BloodRayne, Dracula, Angelus

Which Dracula? Actually, it doesn't make that much difference: Drac is constantly getting himself trounced by human protagonists, including getting killed with a bowie knife in the original novel.

If the question was Rayne versus Angel, she'd easily win because he'd be distracted by blonds and the need to brood. Angelus, however, is a badass laughing killer who Rayne's guns would do little against. He'd play cat-and-mouse with her until he got bored, then impale her on one of her owen weapons.

#--Link, Robin Hood, Dan Hibiki

Which one has a magic sword that can fire lasers? Which one has a shield that blocks arrows? Which one has been known to feed explosives to a creature several times his size? There's no contest here.

$--Starbuck, Trinity, Zoe Washburne (HOLY FUCK, THAT IS SO HOT)

There is no fight. There is only TV's latent bisexuality going POING!

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

::giggles:: You are a good sport. I guess I included Dracula above because I ran out of vampire refs, and I just included Link in a category with other fruity guys, discounting the fact that some ponces dressed up in tights are actually capable of doing stuff. Also, I'm not a huge Zelda fan, dunno if I've mentioned? As for the last there, yeah. Yeeeaaah.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

LJ ateth my reply. Basically, I dunno that either is the more effective. Being slashed in half is pretty final, I'd say, but if you're mesmerized into missing your whole life by eyebeams? Toss up. Either is effective on robobeasts, but that's not saying much. You could ask a robobeast to turn around for two minutes while you change into Voltron, you could probably kill it with a flick of the finger.

[viridian.livejournal.com]

I cannot believe you actually put Angelus in here as a serious option.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Who said it was? He's up against Bloodrayne and Dracula, who are both pretty poncy at this point.

Hey if I used the wrong vocabulary word you would have jumped on me too =-þ

[arcane-the-sage.livejournal.com]

Wizard or Male-witch, not warlock. If he had gone warlock then he would have gotten it on with evil Willow and the two them them would be wandering dimension killing everything.

Re: Hey if I used the wrong vocabulary word you would have jumped on me too =-þ

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I dunno, isn't Giles kinda malevolent? He was Ripper...

Ok, ok, so it's not your fault

[arcane-the-sage.livejournal.com]

Sadly I just noticed that in the Buffyverse your choice is vocabulary is indeed accurate (even if their use of it is not).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witch_%28Buffyverse%29

Re: Hey if I used the wrong vocabulary word you would have jumped on me too =-þ

[arcane-the-sage.livejournal.com]

Ummm....... Ok. Maybe I'm wrong about this, but from what I saw of Giles in his "second childhood" mode Ripper had little to do with malevolence so much as past-time. Sure he was a trouble maker, but I though what he did with Buffy's mom was more akin to what he did "back in the day". Think Grease or Crybaby.

[arcane-the-sage.livejournal.com]

There can be only one!

!--Solid Snake, James Bond, Jason Bourne
Winner: James Bond. It was a close match, but one of the crafty creations of Q comes through in the end to bring James out alive.

@--BloodRayne, Dracula, Angelus
Winner: BloodRayne. Both Angelus and BloodRayne take one look at Drac and Slay his ass twelve ways from sunday. Angelus turns to BloodRayne ready to fight and she responds by ripping open her clothes and going for his pants.......... It's Angelus!!! So he's figuring out ways to killer her once he gets off, not realizing the capsule of holy water in her mouth that she pops in mid kiss. Bye-bye Angelus from the inside out.

#--Link, Robin Hood, Dan Hibiki
Winner: Robin Hood. While Link and Dan Hibiki fight it out, neither of them realize they are being watched from the trees. Once one of them takes out the other, a well placed arrow downs the winner. Only one left standing is Robin Hood.

$--Starbuck, Trinity, Zoe Washburne (HOLY FUCK, THAT IS SO HOT)
Winner: Zoe Washburne. Trinity left powerless by the fact that she is not in the Matrix falls to a spinning backfist from both Starbuck and Zoe. Starbuck and Zoe fight it out for about 5 minutes before Zoe is knocked flat on her back. Starbuck goes in to finisher her, but had her charge broken by the knife from Zoe's boot sheath that slices through the sheath and into Starbuck (thanks to the bracing from Zoe's other leg). Zoe makes a passing comment before putting Starbuck out of her misery.

%--The Doctor, Rupert Giles, Lord Elrond (SO IS THAT)
Winner: The bottle of elven wine. The three of them look at one another wondering how it was that they ended up in this position. They decided to put aside such nonsense and they all sit down at a table drinking, telling stories of the glory days. In the end they are all left pissed drunk and passed out on the floor with only the last bottle of elven wine left standing.

Re: Ok, ok, so it's not your fault

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Yes, my choice of vocab rules! Also, I didn't actually think that warlocks had to be evil to be male witches. I have no problem with that term being used interchangeably--along with the term "witch"--to apply to men of magic on either side of the light/dark force. Wizard is cool, I don't have a problem with it, but I don't get a necessarily evil vibe from warlock. Warlock just seems to be a rogue wizard, really.

Re: Hey if I used the wrong vocabulary word you would have jumped on me too =-þ

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I dunno. He smothered the guy who Glory was sharing a body with because Buffy couldn't kill him. He also killed Ethan, if I remember correctly. Giles is a bad mofo. Don't mess with the Librarian!

Re: Hey if I used the wrong vocabulary word you would have jumped on me too =-þ

[arcane-the-sage.livejournal.com]

I don't know. That's hardly outside the realm of the "Test" watchers make all slayers go through. I took that to be just the same level of "badass-ery" necessary for all watchers.

Re: Ok, ok, so it's not your fault

[arcane-the-sage.livejournal.com]

That depends on whose definition of warlock you use. Some use the just to mean male witch (but at the same time this usage is usually in line with the school of thought that witch = evil). Another meaning of the word would be oath breaker (in a magical context) which describes someone who would sell out his own family for personal gain. Yet another meaning for warlock is demon (showing that to become a warlock is to become a force of evil). Most common usages of the word warlock implies a dark/sinister magical wielding male usually up to no good. Not exactly how Giles was acting in that eps (druid would have also been a better term given the earthy nature of his magics).

Re: Hey if I used the wrong vocabulary word you would have jumped on me too =-þ

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

The "test" was to kill a vampire without powers, not to kill a human being who wasn't directly threatening you. Giles did that to the Glory-bodied guy. I think Giles is harder-core than you give credit for. Remember, some watchers are like Wesley: wussies.

Re: Ok, ok, so it's not your fault

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Druid works pretty good for Giles, too. He's big with the mystical learnings and whatnot besides. I'd say he was more a shaman after a fashion. He really is a wicca, though, so I dunno why I bother trying to get any other label on him. Wicca are witches, and some wicca are guys, so they're really witches, too, I guess.

^_^

[arcane-the-sage.livejournal.com]

Wicca are witches, and some wicca are guys, so they're really witches, too, I guess.

Yup ^_^ Nailed it on the head there.

Re: Hey if I used the wrong vocabulary word you would have jumped on me too =-þ

[arcane-the-sage.livejournal.com]

LMAO. What's so funny about that statement is how he evolved in Angel. As for Sunnydale Wesley, while he was technically a watcher the rest of the council had injected themselves into the everyday goings on that all he was really doing is being there stoolie. At the time though Wesley wouldn't have even paused to kill off anyone........ he would just have a black ops team come in and do it for him.

Besides a better example of how bad-ass Giles really is would be when he was about to go after Angelus for killing his girlfriend of the time (I forget the name of the computer room teacher). Now there he was ready to raise hell.

Re: ^_^

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Good because that's a lot less confusing. Settled ::dusts off hands::

Re: Hey if I used the wrong vocabulary word you would have jumped on me too =-þ

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Better, I'd say was when Angel, for whatever reason, had to go see Giles for info after he got out of hell, and Giles pulled a crossbow on him first and then let him in the house. Awesome.

Re: Hey if I used the wrong vocabulary word you would have jumped on me too =-þ

[arcane-the-sage.livejournal.com]

I don't know. Given what Giles knew about Angelus and the fact he still wanted to go head to head against him, that seems more bad ass than pulling a crossbow on Angel in self defense.

Re: Hey if I used the wrong vocabulary word you would have jumped on me too =-þ

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I think going after him is hard core, absolutely, but taking a weapon out to talk to him as Angel and going "I don't really need a reason, you know. I ash you? I claim PTSD, and everyone feels bad for me, you pasty idiot bastard."? That's AWESOME.