L-M Classic: patsox834 vs. feverish.

Thanks to feverish for a great response. <"Spawn's suit is described as a separate entity, which violates the number of team member's."> No, the suit is apart of the character's constituency; the suit is essentially what makes Spawn who he is. <"Unfortunately for her Dracula is an incredibly powerfull sorcerer with much more experience in this field. Storm's abilities cause her great stress and exertion, by contrast the Count is not shown to exert himself at all with his weather control."> Dracula may be more experienced -- but Storm's raw power should be able to easily counteract that. When she decides to make the weather blistering hot, then there's not much Dracula can do, especially after this occurs, when he'll be left severely weakened, and at the mercy of my team. <"Spawn is undead, as such his loyalty belongs to Dracula."> Technically, no -- team members are "absolutely loyal" to the individual facilitating the aforementioned team, which means no matter Dracula's powers, Spawn still holds loyalty to me, unless someone on team feverish can "pull a Mewtwo" -- that is, use psychic powers such as telekinesis to manipulate Spawn's mind. Anyway, let's forget about the above point for just a second; let's assume my opponent's claim is correct (though I think I've shown how it isn't) -- why would Spawn stay loyal to Dracula? Spawn didn't stay loyal to entities much, much more powerful than Dracula could ever hope to be, namely Satan. Knowing this about Spawn, I really doubt someone who he is clearly much more powerful than could keep him loyal. <"When battle commences my opponent's team have no idea of the location of my team, who are at the opposite end of the city and will not be easy to locate. The Predator has his well known cloaking device, Dracula will be in his mist form and Monkey and Starks are fast enough to evade danger."> If this is what my opponent chooses to do, then I don't see getting them out of hiding too difficult -- remember, one of my team members (Storm) is capable of doing an awful lot with the weather; she could easily blow them out of hiding with winds, and maybe even a tornado. In fact, if I really wanted, I could just use Storm's ability to create tornadoes to make an F-5, which would essentially blow team feverish out of Kansas...err...New York; thus defeating them. Also, I do not think team feverish could locate my team easily at all. Remember, I have two members capable of teleportation (Spawn and Mewtwo), and another who can use the weather to move rather swiftly. <"Dracmist seeps into the sewers"> Who invited him, though? My understanding is that Dracula cannot enter...well, anywhere, unless someone invites him in. In fact, my opponent's canon confirms this: <"He is also unable to enter a place unless invited to do so; once invited, however, he can approach and leave the premises at will."> http://en.wikipedia.org... I don't really see Dracula as too difficult to defeat -- combine how much the sun weakens him and how he's repulsed by a mere crucifix, and, well...he's easily taken down. Those particular weaknesses make Dracula awfully vulnerable. Here's another quote from my opponent's canon that shows Dracula's very exploitable weaknesses: <"He is much less powerful in daylight and is only able to shift his form at dawn, noon, and dusk (he can shift freely at night). The sun is not fatal to him, though. He is repulsed by garlic, crucifixes and sacramental bread, and he can only cross running water at low or high tide."> Storm can easily make the sun shine down with great intensity. Putting together a crucifix wouldn't be too difficult, and...well, I'm going to assume that New York has places to buy food (wild assumption, eh?), which means that garlic is probably readily available, since it's relatively popular. In essence, my team can exploit the glaring weaknesses possessed by Dracula to make him useless in battle. <"Monkey's ability to "see through what others can not" extends to trickery"> Ah, but how many actual tricksters has he dealt with? Bugs Bunny mightn't be a demon nor a god, but his power is to deceive -- is that the same with the demons and gods who tried to pull the wool over Sun Wukong's eyes? And, well...if he was tricked by Buddha, who isn't even a trickster by trait, then I'd imagine someone whose power is tricking could manage to do it, too. Further, the fact that Sun Wukong *was* tricked only shows that, although it's hard, he is susceptible to tricks; thus, making him vulnerable to Bugs Bunny. <"If this recovered alcoholic has the willpower to avoid the lure of the bottle, he shouldn't have much trouble resisting the charms of a rabbit in a dress."> But again, this is Bugs' ability; he's a trickster. His talent, power, whatever, is to connive. So I think my opponent is putting forth an absurd oversimplification here. Sure, Stark might have will power -- but Bugs Bunny's power is to trick, which I think can overcome a strong willed individual. <"Spawn is the only one of team Patsox with superspeed and while every necroplasmic cell in his body fights the call to obey Dracula rather than Patsox, he won't be able to use it."> Ah, but I've shown that Spawn wouldn't at all want to obey Dracula, especially when Dracula has been rendered useless by my team. Therefore, this point by my opponent holds no validity; Spawn can still use his superhuman speed. <"Incidentally, even if Mewtwo had a chance to attempt mind controlling these two it wouldn't work. Starks has a psi-shield and Monkey's spirit is irrepressible."> I don't see where in my opponent's canon it says that Sun Wukong has such a spirit. As for a psi-shield...well, we're not talking about a mere sorcerer here -- this is one of the (maybe the) strongest Pokemon, and certainly the strongest psychic type. I see no reason why Mewtwo couldn't use the array of attacks he wields to dismantle this shield -- nor do I even see a reason that this shield can stop such powerful psychic attacks and techniques. Remember, if it can stop them all, then there really wouldn't be much of a limit, which would make Iron Man illegal. <"With Mewtwo out of the way and Spawn and Storm powerless and vulnerable, my entire team can move in for the kill and most of my defence strategies won't be necessary."> Ah, but I've already shown that this wouldn't be the case, which would put a pretty sizable hole in this point -- my opponent's strategy couldn't really work if Spawn was still alive and well, and Storm was still doing alright. Mewtwo would still be around, too. <"According to my opponent's source Spawn can only be killed by being "beheaded by a weapon of heaven" fortunately Monkey's staff is just such an item and with enough force he should be able to take Spawn's head clean off, baseball style."> For the purpose of this debate, that's non-canonical. The only abilities, powers, and attributes Spawn has are the ones I listed, and nowhere in what I listed does it say that Spawn can be killed with a heavenly weapon. Even if Spawn could be killed, he's capable of resurrection -- defeating Spawn by "killing" him isn't going to be an easy task, especially when you consider that another canonical attribute of his is immortality. Anyway, I'm running short on characters; I can't introduce any more ideas without going over the 8,000 allowed characters. So this will have to suffice for this round -- perhaps I'll put forth a couple ideas I have next round. Back to my opponent.