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Halloween 2017 Prelude: Welcome to the Family

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Rex: The art of horror is truly an impressive piece of art. It takes many factors in order to create just that one, right jumpscare to make you fall from your chair.

T: And with both movies and video games using the horror for entertainment? You better have a soft floor. Because these to not only will scare the crap out of you, they'll make sure you won't get back up. Michael Myers, the bearer of the Thorn Curse.

Charlotte: And Jack Baker, the Daddy infected with the Mold.

Rex: I'm Rex, he's T, and that's Charlotte and we're here to analyze their abilities and weapons to find out who is the one to really watch out for in the darkness.

MICHAEL MYERS

Mikey by DeathBattleDino

Rex: Imagine being a normal child. You live with your sister, mother and father in a normal house until one day you start losing your mind. You get illusions in your sleep and voices telling you to kill.

T: That thought is reality to Michael Audrey Myers. 

Rex: After said dreams and illusions of events happening centuries ago, the six-year-old Michael was told to say that he hates people, and it went even further. On the 31st of October, Michael committed his first act of murder. 

Charlotte: He and his sister were alone in the house, with their parents being away. The sister called her boyfriend over and, instead of taking care of Michael, spent her time with him.

T: Looks like she forgot the first rule of horror movies: your younger siblings will fucking end you if you don't give them those Alpha-Bits from the top of the shelf. Honestly, they're pretty good, so I don't blame 'em.

Rex: After Mike's sister's boyfriend left, he went to the kitchen to grab a butcher knife, which apparently his family has in the house.

T: Pretty sure their parents predicted that he won't get those Alpha-Bits.

Charlotte: While wearing a clown costume that he used to go around the houses for collecting candy, he walked upstairs and murdered his sister in cold blood. After he was done, he walked outside of his house to wait until his parents come home and police grab him. 

T: He was put into Smith's Grove Sanitarium, where the psychiatrist Sam Loomis diagnosed him, saying that for the fifteen years Michael was in there, he barely moved or spoke a word.

Rex: Finally, Michael decided to escape. One day before Halloween in 1978 he carved the word "sister" on the wall of his room before breaking out and freeing the other inmates. He killed and disguised as a truck driver and proceeded to break into a hardware store to acquire knives, rope and his signature mask.

T: In that moment, Michael Audrey Myers died. In that moment, Michael Myers was born! B-but the, uh...the more terrifying version.

First Appearance: Halloween (1978)
Full Name: Michael Audrey Myers
Alias: The Shape, The Boogeyman, Evil on Two Legs, Casper the Friendly Asshole Ghost, The Butcher of Haddonfield, The Nightmare Man, The Mid-West Boogeyman, The Babysitter Killer, The Halloween Killer
Height: Unknown
Weight: Unknown
Age: Unknown
Gender: Male
Species: Human/Demon
Occupation: Mass Murderer
Alignment: Chaotic Evil



FEATS

Has a kill count of over 130 people
Has fooled the public to be dead multiple times only to return
Escaped the police many, many times
Escaped a mental asylum
Caused chaos in an entire town


PHYSICAL


Mike Strength by DeathBattleDino

STRENGTH

Cracked a window open with his palm
Stole a tombstone and killed someone with it in their own house
Choked a dog to death
Destroyed a closet door with a punch
Smashed a hammer's claws into a man's skull
Literally walks through a glass window, smashing it
Punches through wood with ease
Lifted a teenager and proceeded to stab a knife through him, pinning him to the wall behind him
Stabbed a woman in the back of the head and lifted her with only said knife
Broke down wooden door with a knife
Crushed a man's skull
Decapitated a woman with a single knife swing
Headbutted a window open
Can easily throw adult men around
Choked a man near to death and stabbed him with a farming tool
Knocked down a metal grate 
Stabbed his finger into a man's skull
Stabbed a woman with a shotgun barrel
Easily opened a man's neck
-Not only did he break it, the head was hanging on a piece of the guy's skin after he was done
-Can do so with one hand
Crushed an eye with a crayon
Slammed a man into a wall with enough force to break his skull and kill him
Lifts a large TV and kills a man with it
Picked up and walked away with a headstone weighing over half a ton
Managed to flip a car with difficulty
Cut off a man's head with a glass shard
The thing that finally killed him was being shot down by the entire police force

Mike Dura by DeathBattleDino

DURABILITY

Unfazed by putting his hand in scalding water for a long-ish period of time
Regularly tanks being stabbed by various objects such as needles or knives
Survived being shot six times and falling down from a balcony
Still standing after being shot in both eyes
Survived a point-blank explosion (Put him in a coma)

Unfazed by being stabbed with a fireaxe
Tanked chainsaw swings
Survived being hanged
Survived being shocked with electricity and set on fire
Still standing after being injected with multiple tranquilizers
Survived being hit with a truck
Gets right back up after being shot at point-blank
Survived being shot by a firing squad


SPEED & REFLEXES

Used to quickly disappearing out of sight
Dodged knives being thrown at him
Dodged knife swings during CQC

Appeared, was seen, posed a body on a chair and disappeared before the person that saw him could tell another person that was in the room with her
Ran straight at a woman and tackled her through the door behind her before she could fire a shot

Charlotte: 
Michael was given incredible physical prowess, his strength allowing him to stab people with blunt objects, including his finger.

T: That's really not what I meant when I said "fingering".

Charlotte: My calculations and charts say that that's disgusting.

T: Come on, one of us has to be the comedy relief! Well, either way, Michael is known for his nigh-indestructibility. Aside from his strength, with which he can easily snap your neck, he can tank being stabbed, pummeled, shot in both of his eyes and being shot by an entire firing squad and simply be more pissed. 

Charlotte: Even with all of that, an explosion that leveled a room was able to put him in a coma, which still shows that while Myers is tough, he's not indestructible. He's also pretty slow and a big target. Kind of like T's ego.

T: YOU KNOW I'M SELF-CONSCIOUS.

Rex: Guys, please.

MENTALITY, INTELLIGENCE AND SKILL


Michael by DeathBattleDino

Personality

Literally emotionless and apathetic
Kills whoever and whenever he wishes
Silent, either mute or simply doesn't care enough to speak

Intelligence

Very intelligent, using whatever recourses to his advantage
Usually disables landlines and phone lines to prevent people from calling for help
Capable of disguising and playing dead if it gets him closer to his victim
Used an empty car to distract a guard to sneak into a building
A surprisingly good actor
Gave a bloody knife to an Asylum patient to pin the murders on him
Cut off a man's tongue, broke his fingers and put on his mask to fool the police into shooting him

Rex: 
Michael's kills are not mainly performed by his strength alone, but also his intelligence, which is one of his most important aspects.

Charlotte: Unlike your average serial killer, Michael actually bothers outsmarting his targets before killing them, hiding evidence or even disguising others as himself in order to escape. He is not messy with his kills and most often does it quickly and cleanly, so it takes others quite some time to realize they're in danger.

T: But that doesn't mean he doesn't enjoy some good ol' Halloween puppeteering. I personally always enjoyed scaring people. Michael is the guy that gets it.



T: Ha! Got 'em.

POWERS & ABILITIES


Surprising CQC Abilities

Can dodge quick knife swings and disarm his opponents

Stealth

Michael is an expert in stealth and a big portion of his kills are stealth kills
Can lower himself from a high ground silently enough to not be heard by a victim right in front of him
Mike Hf by DeathBattleDino

Healing Factor

Can heal from being shot, stabbed, shot in both of his eyeballs
The main reason Michael keeps living through everything people throw at him

Slasherportation

An ability often used by slasher horror movie characters
Michael can disappear and appear at will, either to scare the victim or surprise them
Basically horror-themed teleportation
Thorn rune

Curse of Thorn

A curse "given", for a lack of a better word, a  to a selected family by druids to prevent plague and drought from terrorizing their tribes
One of the family's member has to kill his family in order for the Curse to work
The Curse bearer gains inhuman physical attributes and immunity from death
-In this case, Michael
-"Immunity from death" means being resurrected after a year after actually being killed


WEAPONS AND EQUIPMENT


Knife by DeathBattleDino

Butcher Knife

Michael's most used weapon, seemingly the weapon of his choice

Michael uses virtually any object he can find as a deadly weapon, mostly preferring sharp objects


Rex: While Myers mainly uses a butcher knife to commit his murders, he can use just about anything that falls in his hands, including ropes, pitchforks, etc. etc. with which he enjoys stealth killing. He does so mostly by utilizing the technique known as Slasherportation, a horror-themed teleportation used by horror movie antagonists to scare the viewers. It's basically "oh, he's over there", but in the next moment, he appears in your face out of completely nowhere.

T: So, just a cheap way of jump scaring people. What is truly terrifying is that he can survive having the both of his eyeballs shot and still perfectly see, which hints at some sort of healing factor.

Charlotte: However, Michael's strength is not his natural. And instead, it was granted to him by an ancient tribe of druids, the curse going by the name of "Curse of Thorn". The druids need to curse some family in order to prevent plague and drought from being a problem in their tribes. Once the druids select a family, the curse possesses one of its members, but for it to fully work, he or she, needs to murder their family and only then will the druids' people be safe.

T: I mean, they could just create some antibodies for the diseases and make some kinda magic potion so nobody will get hungry. They could also go beat up Romans while they're at it. I mean, they're druids, right? They can do that kind of stuff!

Rex: Aside from superhuman attributes, Myers also gained "immunity" from death, which is about what it sounds. Every time Michael dies, he will come back. He's literally unkillable unless the curse is somehow taken off of him.

T: Y'know, I'm getting terrible Deadpool vibes here.

Mike Death by DeathBattleDino

WEAKNESSES

Slow in terms of actual movement

If killed, takes a whole year for him to come back


T: Well, even with Thanos being on his ass every time he dies, it still takes a whole year for him to actually come back, giving the previous targets prep time if they know that he will come back. Even if they don't, they'll still know how to get rid of him if they did it once already.

Charlotte: And while his slasher portation helps him get from point A to point B, he's still fairly slow in terms of actual movement and is an easy target for ranged weapons or simply more agile opponents. 

Rex: Michael isn't unkillable, but he is indestructible. Just remember that when 31st arrives, he'll be back when you least expect it.

("I met him... 15 years ago, I was told there was nothing left; no reason, no conscience, no understanding, and even the most rudimentary sense of life or death, of good or evil... right or wrong. I met this... six-year-old child with this blank, pale, emotionless face, and... the blackest eyes... the devil's eyes. I spent eight years trying to reach him, and then another seven trying to keep him locked up because I realized that what was living behind that boy's eyes was purely and simply... evil.")

JACK BAKER


Jack by DeathBattleDino


Rex: October 2014. Jack Baker alongside his wife and daughter, Marguerite and Zoe Baker respectively, was thinking about reinforcing the fence of his ranch due to the oncoming hurricane, which already destroyed his old house. At that moment, his son, Lucas, ran up to him, talking something about a tanker crashed in the nearby bayou. The next day, Jack went on to investigate.

Charlotte: What he discovered was not what he was expecting. While he did discover that the tanker was completely destroyed and found dead bodies, he also found two girls. Mia, an adult, who seemingly worked on the ship, and Eveline, a young girl. Jack decided to welcome them into their house until they would be able to return home. However, everything that could go wrong, indeed went wrong.

T: Turns out Eveline was actually a bio-weapon and as soon as she woke up the next day she infected every member of the family one by one, with Mia and Jack being the first two targets. Due to Eveline being a living fungus, the family shared a hive mind, which was completely under her control. Except, interestingly enough, Lucas and Zoe.

Rex: She made them house Mia and herself as extended family. If that wasn't enough, she forced them to capture tourists nearby and she turned them into the Molded creatures - monsters made of her fungal essence.

Charlotte: The family, except for Zoe, who remained the only sane member of the family and even tried to help the captured people escape, went insane and welcomed any and all people into their "family", if not straight up killing them and turning them into the previously mentioned Molded.

First Appearance: Resident Evil 7: Biohazard (24th of January 2017)
Full Name: Jack Baker
Alias: Daddy
Height: Unknown
Weight: Unknown
Age: 55 at time of death
Gender: Male
Species: Human (Infected with the Mold)
Occupation: Former Soldier, War Veteran, Serial Killer
Alignment: Chaotic Evil 


FEATS

Served the Marines in the U.S. military before his infection
Chased Clancy Jarvis and Ethan Winters the entire time they tried to escape even after suffering deadly wounds

PHYSICAL


Jack Strength by DeathBattleDino

STRENGTH

Can easily lift and throw around adults
Smashed a table to pieces with a shovel
Can casually slice a man's skull in half with a shovel with a light thrust
Can decapitate people with the top of an axe
Can knock people to the ground and stun them with a punch
Quite literally walks through wooden walls
Can rip the hood of a car off with his bare hands
Can cut off Lucas' arm with a normal kitchen knife in seconds
Can break a person's arm with one swift move
Can break a person's neck

Jack Dura by DeathBattleDino

DURABILITY

Barely fazed when shot in the heart
Can survive being slashed across the face with a chainsaw
Setting him on fire only makes him more of a smug bastard
Tanked being shot, stabbed, being set on fire and an explosion of a car in the timeframe of up to a minute and stood right back up
Claims himself that guns don't have much of an effect on him
-Which, to be fair, seems to be true


SPEED & REFLEXES

Can catch up to people in a very stealthy way without even being in close proximity
Can catch up to men running for their lives

T: 
Talk about an origin story! Well, with a pretty decent origin story come pretty decent powers. Eveline's infection, or "gift", as his insane self now calls it, gave him incredible strength and durability. He's much stronger and tougher than he looks, being able to snap a neck, break a neck, decapitate people by thrusting the blunt top of the axe into their throat and tearing off the top of a car. Jokes on you, I have a bike.

Charlotte: Jack's durability is also enhanced by a large margin, being able to shrug off gunshots and even explosions without much physical damage. Too bad T's ego can't be like that.

T: I'm gonna-

Rex: T, calm down.

T: I WILL TURN THIS PIECE OF JUNK INTO SCRAP METAL IF SHE MAKES ONE MORE JOKE LIKE THAT I SWEAR.

Charlotte: smirks

T: Did-did you just smile? Oh, no, I'm not having any of that. I WILL have my revenge.

Charlotte: We'll see about that.

Rex: ...God damnit, guys.

MENTALITY, INTELLIGENCE AND SKILL


Personality

Insane and bloodthirsty
Surprisingly caring for his family, even after being infected
-His will to kill will rise if a member of his family is harmed or killed

Intelligence

Most of his melee weapons he built himself
Also designed a homemade grenade launcher (which he then built) 
and flamethrower

Military Training

Due to his experience in the Marines, should be capable of using firearms and possessing some hand-to-hand combat training

T: 
Moving on, Jack isn't dumb, in fact, he's pretty far from it. Even with his insanity and bloodthirst-ity, he is the one who built his melee weapons as well as a grenade launcher and designing a flamethrower. But, despite his skill with guns, he's still not all that clever in terms of using his wit. Kinda like Charlotte. Ha, got you!

Charlotte: .- .-. . / -.-- --- ..- / ... ..- .-. . / .- -... --- ..- - / - .... .- - ..--..

T: 
Heh...I, I'm sorry, what was that? Did your computer suddenly melt from the sheer amount of roast you just received?

Charlotte: That was Morse Code. You failed.

T: ...Can I-

Rex: No.

T: okay.

POWERS & ABILITIES


The Mold by DeathBattleDino

The Mold

Jack, like the rest of his family, was infected with Eveline's "gift", a fungal virus known as the Mold
Due to being the first to be infected, Jack's infection is the strongest out of the Baker family
The Mold grants him:
-Enhanced Strength
*Jack's strength is way beyond of what a normal human of his age and build should be capable of
-Enhanced Durability
*Jack is capable of tanking being shot in the heart and walking it off as well as multiple shotgun blasts and grenade explosions
-Healing Factor
*Jack's most notable ability
*Can heal bullet wounds in seconds
*Capable of regrowing limbs in minutes
*Was able to heal his brain being blown to bits with a point-blank gunshot in seconds 
*Was able to regenerate Jack from having the entire top half of his body blown up
-Longevity

Rex:
Eveline's previously mentioned "gift", the Mold, gave Jack what basically are superpowers. Which include enhanced durability, strength, longevity (due to the fact that fungal viruses don't really age) and his most well-known aspect: his healing factor.

T: The HF is basically his response to not dying. In his own words, "beats the Hell outta dying", to which I honestly agree when you're getting shot over and over again with a shotgun and grenade launcher.

WEAPONS AND EQUIPMENT


Shovel by DeathBattleDino

Shovel

Can stab, lift and throw people around with it
Can also be used to smack people

Axe by DeathBattleDino

Axe

Your standard, giant axe for your everyday murder needs

Roller by DeathBattleDino

Spiked Roller

A homemade melee weapon
Is absolutely fucking terrifying

Jack Shears by DeathBattleDino

Chainsaw-Blade Scissors

Even more terrifying
Half chainsaw, half rusty blade
Can quickly cut off a man's leg

T: 
But the real deal is what he deals his damage with. While he can sure deal some with his bare fists, he can still utilize your standard axe, shovel and a homemade spiked roller, but who cares about that when he has HOMEMADE SHEARS THAT ARE HALF CHAINSAW AND HALF A GIANT BLADE. I mean, look at that. It's beautiful. 

Rex: That's because Jack made them himself, alongside the spiked roller.

T: Really? Damn, I gotta make that myself someday.

Charlotte: I would certainly like to see that.

T: I'll see who'll be laughing after I'll decapitate you with god damn chainsaw scissors!

Charlotte: Good luck.


WEAKNESSES

Insane

Lacks combat smarts, simply going in with whatever weapon he has in hand
Will allow his enemies to recover after, say, cutting off their leg

Short-Tempered

Even though his healing factor can heal almost any damage, he can still be incapacitated by things such as extensive damage or having his brain blown out of his skull

Large amounts of damage done in rapid succession, such as being sliced with a chainsaw, can overload his healing factor and cause an explosion

Rex: 
But even this indestructible behemoth has his weaknesses. He is completely insane and goes in slicing and dicing with whatever he's currently carrying. Or, if he's not carrying anything, he'll just use his bare hands or grab anything around.

T: It's worth noting that he's pretty hot-headed and annoyed when things don't go his way. Wait...short temper, healing factor...where did I hear that one before?

Rex: That, combined with the fact that his healing factor can actually be overloaded and make his body explode make him for a person who prefers to attack weaker than those that can fight back well and he prefers to take them by surprise or use some of his tools either way.

Charlotte: The Baker family is not to be underestimated. The gift they recieved is with them always. REPLAYINGFOOTAGE. 

Jack Baker: Which - in a word - means; you're fucked!


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