"If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing." ― Napoleon Bonaparte
Splendid, the Super-Swooping Flying Squirrel from Happy Tree Friends.
Captain Hero, the Protector of the Innocent from Drawn Together.
The concept of lifesaving heroics is a big contrast depending on who you ask, whether we as heroes should prioritize ourselves and save who we can, or dedicate all of our life to helping people when we have the power to do so… and sometimes, people might instead think that you should dedicate all of your power to yourself when you prefer. Of course, that kinda logic forms villains- but the idea of a selfish superhero isn’t a new concept either, someone willing to save until it interferes with themselves, and only then will they not care.
Using your inflated ego to boost yourself as a hero is something that not many heroes retain- but these two are some of the most carefree heroes who’ll take their own time over saving the lives of other people, with them taking more care about the status you get from heroics than actually being a good hero. But between these two, only one of these “heroes” would be able to take victory one another and improve their status as number one savior- whether Splendid will actually be able to prove his namesake, or if Captain Hero’s going to break expectations and exceed the super squirrel. Some sorts of hypotheticals you’ll only be able to figure out on a DEATH BATTLE!
Before We Begin…
For this blog, we’ll be using the original cartoon series for both characters, Happy Tree Friends and Drawn Together. In addition to this, we’ll be using extended information from both series, such as the Happy Tree Friends Collect ‘em All cards, or the Drawn Together Flash game for example. We’ll also (unfortunately) be referencing material from the Drawn Together Movie: The Movie.
To close this out, we’ll be unfortunately not reference extended material such as The Crackpet Show. While it’s not explicitly out of the line of canon, due to the lack of information online and not easily acceptable for our researchers, we aren’t going to reference material from it. This is similarly applicable to generally lesser known media such as the Drawn Together board game… mostly because we as researchers weren’t willing to spend fifty dollars on a trivia game that may or may not affect this blog.
Also, due to the nature of both series, we’d like an explicit content warning. Of course, while DEATH BATTLE itself maintains very serious topics, this blog will have to unfortunately bring up extensive gore, sexual themes including taboo topics, and vast numbers of dark humor, both in stereotypes, parody, and explicit language. Thanks, Drawn Together!
Background
Splendid
Although he’d mysteriously come to our world, the Super Flying Squirrel known as Splendid has became an icon all across the little town within Happy Tree Friends. Saving the world constantly, he’s brought happiness to all of the citizens of the world, purging the world of threats from meteors, tsunamis, or volcanoes. But sometimes, heroes can’t save everyone- and Splendid is a prime example of it. Usually taking precedence over himself even when he tries his best to save people, it seems like fate itself gets in the way of his heroics as people usually die… whether accidentally from his hands or the actions of others. Nonetheless, he’s noble enough to at least try to help these sorts of victims, ‘cuz that’s what heroes are meant to do.
With not much to talk about Splendid as a hero, besides the accidental killings, he’s a trusted ally you should depend on. Being friends with heroes out in deep space, recognized as an icon all across town, having his own fan conventions- he’s definitely an icon looked upon by all. That doesn’t mean you should trust him with your life, but it’s ultimately better to have the flying squirrel to swoop in and save you over others, right? I mean, compare this superhero to:
Captain Hero
From all over the animated universe, eight different cartoon characters live together inside of a single house- a plot that you’d obviously expect would cause a ton of conflict, especially with their personalities… but also the fact that they live under the eyes of a million cameras. With this creepy webshow, one wouldn’t expect that a “noble superhero” like Captain Hero would live in this sort of situation, and you’d be completely right. He’s not anywhere near close to noble, in fact. Born from the planet Zebulon, the man known as Captain Hero accidentally came to our planet through the misdirection of his escape pod that was aimed towards the Sun- causing it to crash into the Earth. Vaguely growing up on the Earth, Captain Hero has become a symbol for heroics all across the world because of his alignment with the planet- or, well, barely.
Despite being a notable symbol of heroics, Captain Hero is a misogynistic, violent, anti-social, psychopathic, murderous, corrupt, necrophilic, perverted, cowardly, horrible, disgusting, and vile criminal who uses his powers for his advantage, albeit he definitely doesn’t know any better besides his non-consensual behavior and his psychopathy. Conflicting all the time with his teammates and discovering both himself as well as his opposition against many of his crew- albeit he definitely enjoys some aspects- he’s shown to be one of the most villainous protagonists of the series, constantly taking lives and generally acting as one of the most selfish characters… quite surprising when everyone there’s the most selfish person you might ever know! Regardless, Captain Hero is an absolutely horrible superhero- but that won’t stop him from trying to swoop in and take his role as hero, even if you’ll ultimately have to save yourself more than be saved yourself.
Experience and Skill
Splendid
Splendid is a fairly experienced fighter, being able to match fighters on his caliber as well as having extensively taken combat, both saving the world daily and using extensive intelligence to do so- such as using a boulder to shut off a volcano, creating heatwaves by using goggles with his heat vision to take down opponents at a long range, using a hazmat suit to protect himself from radiation he couldn’t otherwise work around, etcetera. The flying squirrel superhero could work around and constantly one-up his direct contrast, Splendont, in a fight through using the environment to where he was able to match him overall generally well until the very end.
Captain Hero
Despite being very unintelligent and generally stupid, Captain Hero has shown a vast number of experience and skill within the bounds of combat. Besides being thirty years old or so and having gained his powers at a young age, implying his experience with said powers, he’s became a surprisingly renowned icon who formed a squad of superheroes for the globe and maintains contact with great superheroes across the world due to this connection. He’s shown extensive skill in saving people, the ability to casually wield firearms, both with immense precision and speed, and the constant ability to improvise when a situation calls for it, both in and out of combat.
Abilities
Splendid
Flight
As a Flying Squirrel, Splendid has the innate ability allowing him to fly which he can do at extreme speeds, shattering speed records with him being able to move fast enough to shatter the sound barrier, move faster than light, and even fly fast enough to shift time itself. Truly, one of Splendid’s more important capabilities, one of which he uses to swoop in to save everyone in the city.
Super Hearing
Consistently, Splendid is able to hear the screams of many people across the world, such as when Lumpy was stuck in many bear traps or when Giggles had fallen off of a cliff (seen above). He was able to hear the screams of Giggles across the town and in the forest when he was in a laundromat, leading to him to immediately attempt to help her and Cuddles when the latter was injured.
Heat Vision
Splendid has the ability of heat vision which he can use to superheat objects and destroy them, being able to overheat objects to cause them to explode or shatter them apart. At a long distance, he can project massive heat waves, and he can overclock it through glasses which generates enough heat to burn people alive and melt through concrete. By overclocking his vision with binoculars, he vaporized an entire lake with his heat vision from a long distance.
Free Breathing
Splendid is able to breathe underwater and in space for extended periods of time, such as standing in space for prolonged time to chase Lifty and Shifty across the city.
Ice Breath
Splendid can freeze over people with his breath, completely freezing them over. Having combined this with his heat vision with the intent to unfreeze them had turned Giggles into nothing but solid ice cubes.
Toxic Gases
sigh. Splendid can expel ‘gases’ that was able to melt Flaky, as well as affect the entire atmosphere at once. This led to people choking and going sick from his gas, with an accidental match setting the entire planet on fire because of Splendid.
Super Breathing
Splendid has an unnatural capacity for air, being able to blow up others by breathing into them or blowing up a punching bag with enough air that a single punch caused an explosion that reduced Mime to a skeleton. Splendid was also able to inhale with enough force to take the oxygen away from everyone in a convention building as well as crumple the building in itself as to put out a fire. By exhaling the air he took in, he completely destroyed the building and killed everyone present at the time.
Captain Hero
Super Speed
Captain Hero is able to move at immense speeds, appearing as a blur. He’s fast enough to travel at such speeds to where he can physically manipulate his speed as an object or travel through time by spinning the Earth at immense speeds- albeit he’s unable to exactly react to himself at these sorts of high-end speed usages.
Flight
His most notable ability is Captain Hero’s ability to fly, which he uses to soar around at immense speed. He can fly through the sky, space, etcetera, as well as being able to move even faster than you can blink! Of course, a hero like Captain Hero will always use his flight to get out of sticky situations- however, apparently, if his hands are bounded he can’t fly… which is weird, ‘cuz he doesn’t need to flap his arms. This sort of situation also works in the way that when he was put on the Naughty Stool, he couldn’t fly or do any of his heroic duties (as if he was doing them in the first place).
Laser Eyes
Captain Hero can shoot out lasers from his eyes, which can superheat objects or cut through objects with their heat alone. That’s about it.
X-Ray Vision
Captain Hero can use his X-Rays to look through or into objects, of which he typically uses for… bad purposes… allowing him to read or review things that are normally out of his vision. As per usual, his rays are able to over prolong periods of time give radiation sickness, such as giving Foxxy a brain tumor because he used it on her body so many times.
Immortality
With Captain Hero’s nature as an animated character, he can come back to life every episode and injuries like getting his brains blown out, getting erased, etcetera. He can even come back to life in a way that he’ll be replaced by the cast, such as when he beheaded himself as an example. However, after the Drawn Together show had been taken off the air, everyone in the main cast completely lost their immortality- including both from lethal injury as well as erasure.
Memory Manipulation
Not explaining this one. Just look at the gif.
Equipment
Splendid
Super Call
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By using a gadget on his wrist, Splendid can send out a call to the wider universe to call for his Super Squad to assist him in a fight if he’s physically overwhelmed, such as when he was crushed under the Moon.
Glasses
Nerd emoji parallels besides, Splendid wears glasses for the sake of increasing his heat vision or for disguising himself at work, which seemingly everyone in the story is fooled by. To mimic this effect to a stronger degree, Splendid can also use binoculars to go even further beyond and intensify his heat vision.
Hazmat Suit
Used to protect himself against his weakness, radiation, he wears a hazmat suit which completely protects him from it. However, he can still be pantsed in his suit due to (for some reason) the fact it doesn’t zip it up, making it easily removable by an enemy.
Captain Hero
Revolver
Lacking the intention to use his superpowers, Captain Hero bought a gun as a means of self-defense. He was even sexually attracted to it! After his power trip and going hunting, Captain Hero decided to buy a shit ton more of guns to kill thousands of wild animals- all for fun.
Steroids
Used to physically strengthen himself, which he’d become addicted to, steroids were a massive drug that basically beefs up Captain Hero, allowing him to physically overpower and kill the entire Drawn Together household. However, this comes at the drawback of even less intelligence and him being able to reach more constant roidrage- making him do rather stupid decisions and as mentioned prior senselessly killing.
Scuba Suit
Used to stealthily kill Foxxy and Princess Clara, he’s shown the ability to wield a scuba suit which allowed him to hide in the Drawn Together house’s hot tub.
Knockout Gas
In his suit, Captain Man wields knockout gas that he can use to, as the name implies, knockout people. He probably uses this to “pick up chicks”... if you know what I mean. Gross.
Feats
Splendid
Overall
The most iconic superhero across Happy Tree Friends,always “saving” lives for the cost of nothing.
Has saved many people across the town, albeit he usually causes destruction indirectly with his powers.
Nonetheless, a very noble superhero…
Not much to say here. Sorry. Oh yeah! He’s also able to disguise himself. Like Superman.
Although he hadn’t defeated him completely, was able to take on his evil counterpart and rival, Splendont.
Power
Able to easily uproot a tree with his strength.
Has five stars in Strength.
When vomiting and holding his mouth closed, he created an explosion that formed a small crater.
Splendid was able to launch half of a large snowball over a mountain by hitting it with a treehouse.
Destroyed a building by accidentally crashing into it at immense speed.
Could lift up a massive boulder to block off a volcano.
Slammed a sperm whale into Splendont’s whale hard enough to send him flying and completely obliterating the whales in question.
Splendid can obliterate objects by flying, meaning that he maintains kinetic energy in flight which gets this high. (688.25 Tons of TNT to 49.66 Kilotons of TNT)
Lifted a massive oil truck and flew with it, having created a large explosion visible from space when he shot it with his laser eyes (101.4 Teratons of TNT)
Physically comparable to Splendont who pushed the Moon and slammed it into Splendid as an attack (5.7 Ronnatons of TNT)
Speed
Outsped a tsunami that was racing across the ground, which move at approximately 20 to 30 miles per hour on land.
Can create a sonic boom by flying, which he does rather consistently.
Flew into space at an immense speed towards the Moon (0.032c)
Able to react to and move in tandem with radiation which moves at the speed of light, reaching fast enough speeds to travel to the Moon in a short timeframe (0.32c).
Moved fast enough to reverse the Earth’s rotation and circled it several times, reversing time in the process (21c, likely Immeasurable)
Durability
Was able to withstand crashing into Lumpy which had seemingly instantly killed him.
Able to withstand an entire train slamming into his shoulder blade without any injury.
Withstood being hit by a big whale by Splendont.
Flew into an asteroid, destroying it in a single blow with his body that he was unharmed by.
Withstands getting hit by the entire Moon by Splendont, sending the two crashing down into the Earth (1 Zettaton of TNT)
Captain Hero
Overall
From birth, he was going to be destined to be the most boring superhero ever.
Formed the legendary League of Heroes, although he was banned because of his constant crime sprees.
Apart of the Drawn Together cast who’ve gone on many adventures, exploring politics, their sexualities, the world, and most important of all… exploring eachother.
Became one of the “protectors” of the Earth, defending it from evil.
𝓯𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓴iest superhero of all time.
At the same time, one of the worst superheroes of all time.
Power
Comparable to Toot, who shook the entire Drawn Together house with her dancing.
Other members including Captain Hero himself have performed similar feats within temper tantrums.
Was able to throw a fridge a long distance outside of the Drawn Together house, as well as busting down a wall in the process.
Can easily overpower members of the Drawn Together cast, such as Xandir or Toots, with his bare hands and
Could lift every gun on Earth at once (Around 4,000,000 tons with a kinetic energy of 5.61 Teratons of TNT)
Strong enough to have swung his home planet, Zebulon, into the Sun (287.7 Ronnatons of TNT)
Speed
Able to speed around the Drawn Together house, leaving a blur behind him as he does so.
Can move at speeds faster than eyesight, as if he’s teleporting around.
Able to react to gunfire fairly casually.
Outsped a city-destroying nuke by flying away (~1,000 m/s)
Travelled all around the Earth to collect every gun in the world (0.012c)
Jumped around the nearby area and into space in a short timeframe (0.15c)
Was able to spin around the Earth fast enough to reverse back time to the Big Bang (Immeasurable, 20:06)
Durability
Survived an explosion that caused a massive explosion around the Drawn Together house and killed Spanky.
Barely survives a large gasoline explosion that sets him on fire.
Could take multiple gunshots from Xandir, which he could shrug off albeit he’d been knocked heavily by them.
Survived after going back in time to the beginning of the universe and waited out until modern time with no signs of age or weakness.
Stuck his dick in a garbage disposal once.
… gave birth?? omfg.
Withstood constant punishment from Foxxy, such as having his guts torn out or beat with a golf club, so that he was able to eat food.
Weakness
Splendid
Despite his strength, Splendid remains a weakness to sources of special radiation that make him sick, causing him to vomit. Even the slightest contact causes him to become weak, although he will still keep his physical durability, and direct interaction with the dust of the stone had caused his body to rip apart and break out, excessively vomiting with enough force to burst his cheeks open and blow up. Due to Splendid’s usual hierarchy of power, he usually doesn’t put his full intent in a fight- especially should it interfere with his chores- which has left him open in the past to getting pranked and overwhelmed. However, once he puts his full self into combat, he’s usually smart enough to work around any conflict, which is why he’s only ever truly died once in the entire show. You know, compared to everyone else, who usually dies every episode.
Captain Hero
Captain Hero’s biggest weakness is his general stupidity, which leads to him taking absolutely unnatural routes in various situations for this reason. He’d first started using guns as self-defense explicitly because Xandir notes that he had powers in the situation, he was unable to read until his thirties and is generally illiterate, he had once nearly erased himself from existence by screwing around with himself, completely misinterprets the Drawn Together show as being a competition with a prize akin to other reality drama shows, and due to seeing the AIDS Walk fundraiser as a competition, he’d willingly brutalized hundreds of civillians for fun. This doesn’t even cross into his moral grounds which are comparatively worse than this, not even knowing that stealing, murder, rape, or gambling were against the law which led to him being kicked out of the League of Heroes. At some point, he’d even got into a phase where everything that was “super” had been something he tried to kill- including anything that sounded like the word. Besides this stupidity, Captain Hero is just a… horrible person lol. Not much to say beyond that.
Also, like all Supermen expy, he has a kryptonite! … which is playing sports.
Before the Verdict
We’d also, ultimately, like to credit u/Skulenta who’s Captain Hero respect thread helped a ton with research… otherwise, we’d have to suffer through the movies, a feat that none of our researchers could survive the torture of. It also made gathering clips much easier, both visually and for reference in this blog.
Immeasurable Speed
Both of these characters have very similar feats we qualified for immeasurable speed, however we’d like to dictate the differences between these feats and where it would place one another.
For starters, Captain Hero while he has the more innately impressive range, having travelled all the way through time, he explicitly does not scale to his own reaction speed should you have him at such a value. Not only is it described as him moving too fast, but Captain Hero’s own feat shows that he couldn’t react to the actual speed because he was unable to stop at the right time and accidentally went all the way back in time. Even more so, we were already giving Captain Hero the benefit of the doubt and saying that he actually scales to this normally- just because he should technically upscale since this was done with powers, admittedly in a wheelchair, however he doesn’t have any direct scaling besides presumptions here and being unable to scale to his own reactions with the speed. Comparatively, while Splendid’s feat is pushing himself and is already his fastest feat, he was able to explicitly stop moving at such a point in time that he was aware of when he went back in time to turn off the oven. For this reason, and Splendid having pushed himself to this degree before with Splendont implying characters can scale to similar regards of speed, the flying squirrel has a lot more grounds to scale to the immeasurable feat in question despite it not being as impressive as going all the way back in time to the Big Bang.
If you don’t take it as immeasurable for either, we also think that’s generally fair, hence why we had no problem not taking these feats into context. However, should you give both the same leniency, we believe that Splendid is much faster to this degree via distinctly scaling in his reactions to the immeasurable movement speed while Captain Hero verbatim could not react to himself moving at speeds allowing him to run through time and distinctly wasn’t some sort of specific climax, just a vague speed feat he performed across the series that is likely retconned or just ignored later down the line due to episodic concerns.
Verdict
Stats
For starters, let’s begin with stats. The most important part we want to cover is the general strength comparison, for starters.
At their various stat ends, these two combatants generally get similar numbers of Teratons to Ronnatons. Splendid took the advantage for starters in the low-ends, taking strength 20x over with the massive explosion he causes that could be seen from space as well as being one that he survived (101.4 Teratons of TNT) compared to Captain Hero’s kinetic energy output from grabbing all of the guns around the planet at once with his speed (5.61 Teratons of TNT). However, in higher ends, Captain Hero’s planet toss feat with Zebulon gave him a solid stat edge, with him reaching over 287.7 Ronnatons, while Splendid and Splendont’s Moon feat getting only 5.7 Ronnatons or so. This put their general strength gap at around 50.5x or so, meaning that a single blow from Captain Hero would be devastating to the super squirrel.
However, strength isn’t the only statistic to track. Beyond the prior high end immeasurable feat that Splendid takes blatantly as an advantage, Captain Hero and Splendid had a ton of general feats to compare. Him travelling around the Earth got around 0.012c, a value of which Splendid’s own lowest end got higher than in 0.032c. With this, Captain Hero’s other space travel feat, which got around 0.15c, Splendid’s own space flight feat had gotten up to 0.32c, both cases getting at least around twice as faster in Splendid’s favor. However, this hadn’t even brought up Splendid’s travel feat which, should you not take it as immeasurable at first glance, had gotten up to 21c, a value that had gotten 140x faster than Captain Hero’s fastest speed feat. This meant that while Captain Hero’s strength was devastating enough to blow apart Splendid, the difference in physical power was absolutely overtaken by Splendid’s much greater difference in speed that would allow him to at least work around any punch that Captain Hero threw out.
Overall, both very consistently took advantages that were blatantly superior to one another. Without Hero’s planet tossing feat, Splendid was indeed much stronger, however he was distinctly much weaker when taking into factor Hero’s Zebulon feat. Yet, despite this strength advantage, this hadn’t helped much against Splendid, of whom got up to 21 times faster than light compared to Hero who got around 15% the speed of light, and at worst had been around 3 times faster. This makes it very easy for Hero to end a fight in a single physical blow, however he has distinctly no way to catch up to Splendid who holds such a big advantage in speed.
Arsenal and Abilities
These two are a lot more direct in their capabilities through their arsenals and innate powers. Thus, this is one of the more easier lists to cover, simply due to how they use these aspects of their toolkits.
With their own arsenals, these two carry a few items that could both help a ton- or otherwise not do a lot. Captain Hero’s guns, steroids, and Scuba Suit were all one-off accessories that he’s since abandoned using out of his character- however, his knockout gas could likely be something he’d carry on his person, simply judging his personality of being… one of those kinds of people. Comparatively, Splendid’s glasses and binoculars were something he carried on his person, especially the former, meaning he could amplify his lasers freely in the fight. Should you allow sorts of support, Splendid also does have the means to call upon his friends to support him in a fight at dire points should he have problems fighting against Captain Hero. Assuming Captain Hero would be willing to use all of his sorts of equipment, his steroids could statistically amplify him, his guns are something he can easily land precise gunshots with even on accident, and his scuba suit allows him to actually match Splendid’s capabilities to fight underwater if needed.
Speaking of abilities, both were very similar in their general capabilities. Both could fly, move at high speeds, shoot lasers from their eyes, and had extrasensory or enhanced sense capabilities which made it very easy for the two to play around attempts to hit stealthy blows. However, Captain Hero had a lot more useless capabilities with his superpowers, like his memory erasure, compared to Splendid’s extra powers. With his super breathing, he could suck the air out of Captain Hero’s lungs, he could breath lightly on Captain Hero to completely freeze him over, he could accidentally… gas Captain Hero to melt off his skin, etcetera. While Captain Hero’s survivability has allowed him to withstand this sort of torture, with the lack of his immortality because of Drawn Together’s ending, we have no exact medium to say how much comes from the Toon Force that now doesn’t work anymore or if it’s his literal survivability. Thus, we likely think that these sorts of combat capabilities would be very useful against Captain Hero, even if he could withstand the sorts of stuff like getting his flesh ripped off.
Ultimately, Splendid retains stronger abilities than Captain Hero. Not only does he retain more generally similar abilities but also has abilities stronger than Captain Hero’s including his breath attacks, while Captain Hero has nothing that exactly matches this capability in the same way. Compiled with the capabilities of durability negation with his heat vision and cold breath combo, his generally stronger capabilities with his heat vision combined with his equipment that Captain Hero likely can’t counteract, etcetera… there’s a ton of ways that Splendid could overtake Captain Hero with his powers that the latter couldn’t do much about.
Tertiary Factors
This was a really small section between these two, simply because it was really obvious. Captain Hero is a really stupid combatant, chopping up a lot of his own skill feats to dumbluck, however he does show at least sorts of combat improv alongside his fighting. Splendid does a lot of improv, too, though, and has at least kept up or one-up those who would be comparative in his skill both with improvisation and skill. Both also share a ton of relative experience, with admittedly Captain Hero being more world-renowned as a hero and Splendid being tied to a small town, however Captain Hero has lived a bit longer plus him likely having lived for an entire millennia verbatim means that he’s at least a bit more experienced even if he had been doing almost nothing for that entire timeframe. Captain Hero’s stupidity does admittedly help a bit though given his strength edge, meaning he’ll likely be able to obliterate Splendid and would in-character try to do that regardless, but Splendid’s usage of improvisation through the environment and his powers can easily read whether or not Captain Hero is stronger, what he needs to do in the fight, etcetera.
Conclusion
“Unintelligible gibberish.”
Advantages:
Vastly faster, likely even under highest ends.
More skilled in combat and better at combat/environmental improvisation.
Greater range and laser usage.
Can bypass Captain Hero’s durability to pull off a kill.
Could likely shrug off Captain Hero’s guns, assuming they don’t scale to physicals.
Disadvantages:
Much weaker.
Likely won’t realize Captain Hero is stronger until they directly fight.
However, Splendid’s exact fighting style could allow him to see Captain Hero’s strength edge.
Acrophobia for some reason??
HTF Fandom
“Friends, I have killed one of God’s most intelligent and innocent creatures… And I liked it.”
Advantages:
Much stronger.
Could possibly match speed with highest ends
Knockout Gas could easily take Splendid out of the fight, if he inhaled it…
Stupidity could make it really easy to land a blow because it’s convenient...
Disadvantages:
…But, he’s really, really, really stupid.
… would likely be too stupid to think ahead to do this.
No way to circumvent Splendid’s durability negation tactics.
November 14, 2007
The movie.
These two superpowered heroes were very capable in fighting through various ways, and the two having their own distinct combat edges made this debate a bit of a struggle. Captain Hero blatantly took the strength edge, however with Splendid blatantly taking the speed edge, it made the whole debate a toss-up. With Splendid’s combat style being centralized around not getting physical unless he truly wants to inflate his ego, he likely would pull off his superpowers, and if he has to get physical it’s very unlikely he’d ever get directly physical. Captain Hero’s own ego would likely push him to try to go for a physical blow- and should he actually believe in Splendid’s own superhero visual, admittedly, he might try to gun down the Squirrel. However, with Splendid’s vast speed edge and his Super Hearing, it makes landing a sneaky blow on him very unlikely especially since unlike other circumstances he wouldn’t be caught off guard just by standing there. Ultimately, even with Captain Hero’s strength edge, Splendid has a way to completely circumvent his durability, whether that’s boiling him to death with his binocular-amplified heat vision, turning him into ice cubes through combo-ing his icy breathe and lasers, or… farting on him and melting him to a skeleton… many of which being done through very casual instances of Splendid’s powers.
For this reason, Splendid’s cunningness, better speed, and means around Captain Hero’s strength edge made it more reliable for this squirrel to swoop down and destroy this bore of a superhero, saving us from his… you know. ‘Intentions’. The winner is Splendid the Flying Squirrel.
Final Tally
Splendid (9) - Chris, HyperSsonic, DoRitto, iceking, Liquid, hade, Sr-Fish, Fiction, Rei
Captain Hero (2) - 𝓑𝓪𝓭𝓽𝓲𝓶𝓮32, snaggler (Pity vote)
