1 00:00:00,930 --> 00:00:02,972 This is a Dynamike Network podcast. 2 00:00:24,750 --> 00:00:29,652 Hi and welcome to the Dynamic Duel Podcast, a weekly show where we review superhero films 3 00:00:29,912 --> 00:00:35,114 and debate the superiority between Marvel and DC by comparing their characters in stat-based 4 00:00:35,154 --> 00:00:41,116 battle simulations. I'm Johnny DC. And I'm his twin brother Marvelous Joe. And in this episode, 5 00:00:41,156 --> 00:00:48,019 we are doing a duel between the two landmass characters, Danny the Street from the Doom 6 00:00:48,059 --> 00:00:55,067 Patrol comics and Kercoa, a mutant from Marvel's X-Men comics. This matchup has been an idea 7 00:00:55,127 --> 00:00:59,751 that our executive producers came up with a while back. I never actually thought you would 8 00:00:59,831 --> 00:01:04,815 ever do it because the speculation is going to be weird for this one. Like I still have 9 00:01:04,875 --> 00:01:09,819 no idea how it's going to go down. We're going into uncharted territory here, folks. Somebody 10 00:01:09,859 --> 00:01:13,382 give us a Guinness World Record because I think we're going to be the first people ever to 11 00:01:13,462 --> 00:01:20,548 speculate on how a fight would go between two locations, not people or things to locations. 12 00:01:21,129 --> 00:01:25,872 No idea how that's going to work out. Right, yeah, wish us luck. Before the matchup, we're 13 00:01:25,892 --> 00:01:30,835 going to break down the comic book movie news from the past week, of which there was still 14 00:01:30,915 --> 00:01:36,539 not really any news thanks to the ongoing writers and actors strikes. We are going to talk about 15 00:01:36,800 --> 00:01:41,983 Ed Boon, the creator of Mortal Kombat, talking about a potential Marvel vs. DC fighting game, 16 00:01:42,303 --> 00:01:47,027 and that's about it. 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Yeah, this is an episode 38 00:03:38,429 --> 00:03:42,932 that I've been waiting for since the start of Max Destruction, so I'm super excited. But 39 00:03:43,012 --> 00:03:47,854 also be sure to tune into Senjou World, a new battle podcast featuring your favorite anime 40 00:03:47,894 --> 00:03:53,197 characters that drops every Thursday. Tune in this week to find out who had went in a fight 41 00:03:53,498 --> 00:04:01,198 between Hayato Ferengi from Kenichi, the Mightiest Disciple, and Yujirō Hanma from Baki. Visit 42 00:04:01,238 --> 00:04:05,059 dynamicpodcast.com or click the link in our show notes to listen to all the shows in our 43 00:04:05,099 --> 00:04:11,861 network. But with that out of the way, quick to the no prize! A no prize is an award Marvel 44 00:04:11,901 --> 00:04:16,923 used to give out to fans. Our version, the Dynamic Dual No Prize, is a digital award that we post 45 00:04:16,943 --> 00:04:21,584 on Instagram and in our email newsletter for the person that we feel gave the best answer 46 00:04:21,824 --> 00:04:27,358 to our question of the week. Last week's question was... Who's your favorite robot character 47 00:04:27,398 --> 00:04:32,619 from Marvel and DC and why? And that was coming off of the announcement of my and Jonathan's 48 00:04:32,699 --> 00:04:37,181 card game that we invented called Chronicle AI, which is about artificial intelligence 49 00:04:37,241 --> 00:04:42,162 robots. We got three answers total, so let's run down our two honorable mentions and the 50 00:04:42,182 --> 00:04:48,524 no prize winner. Our first honorable mention goes to Christopher Menotti, who said, Hi guys, 51 00:04:48,564 --> 00:04:56,186 Christopher Menotti. My favorite Marvel DC robot character is Red Tornado. Red Tornado is a 52 00:04:56,226 --> 00:05:04,628 great character that is not used enough. I think his powers are very unique for a robot. Robots 53 00:05:04,668 --> 00:05:09,790 tend to have a lot of the same powers. Plus, it's a lot of fun watching his character grow, 54 00:05:10,010 --> 00:05:15,772 especially in Young Justice, when he creates an alternate body to experience humanity. I 55 00:05:15,812 --> 00:05:21,573 think that's really interesting. Yeah, Red Tornado is very unique when it comes to other robots. 56 00:05:21,950 --> 00:05:27,433 Not many of them are elemental forces of nature like the Red Tornado, right? And the character 57 00:05:27,493 --> 00:05:33,297 was very well done in Young Justice, which was a callback to his mentorship role in the comic 58 00:05:33,377 --> 00:05:38,060 of the same title. Yeah, Red Tornado has always been this interesting mix of like technology 59 00:05:38,261 --> 00:05:42,503 and nature, you know? So there's always been that dichotomy within the character that I 60 00:05:42,523 --> 00:05:45,726 thought has been pretty interesting. If you want to learn more about Red Tornado, check 61 00:05:45,766 --> 00:05:51,029 out his dual episode against Sandman. It was basically wind versus earth powers. It was 62 00:05:51,049 --> 00:05:56,723 pretty cool. Yeah, our next honorable mention goes to Mitchell Smoothie, who said, Hello, 63 00:05:56,863 --> 00:06:06,065 Mitchell Smoothie here. And I would say my favorite robot is probably from Marvel, and it's the 64 00:06:06,225 --> 00:06:14,048 sinister Adaptoid. Due to his abilities to copy all the sinister six, he's just the best robot, 65 00:06:14,228 --> 00:06:19,889 taking the best parts of Super Adaptoid and putting them into his own spin. That's why 66 00:06:19,929 --> 00:06:26,033 he's just the best robot. and he is a robot. I checked it out. Thank you. Have a great day. 67 00:06:26,073 --> 00:06:30,917 Yeah, the sinister adaptoid is an adaptoid with the powers of the sinister six. I would argue 68 00:06:30,957 --> 00:06:36,562 that super adaptoid is actually better. The super adaptoid gave birth to the adaptoid after 69 00:06:36,762 --> 00:06:42,027 acquiring the power of the cosmic cube. And the super adaptoid itself was created from 70 00:06:42,267 --> 00:06:48,192 AIM, Advanced Idea Mechanics using a portion of their cosmic cube. Basically the robot can 71 00:06:48,292 --> 00:06:52,843 adopt any sort of power that it wants to. We're hoping to get a dual episode with Super Adaptoid 72 00:06:52,963 --> 00:06:57,725 against Amazo at some point, because Amazo is a robot with pretty much the same power too. 73 00:06:58,085 --> 00:07:04,348 That'll be a good one. Yeah, I remember Super Adaptoid from the Modok show and he was hilarious. 74 00:07:04,968 --> 00:07:09,630 That's my only experience with him. But yeah, I think he's a fantastic robot. Thanks Christopher 75 00:07:09,690 --> 00:07:13,632 and Mitchell for taking the time to visit our website and record an answer. But the winner 76 00:07:13,692 --> 00:07:19,783 of this week's no prize is Travis Herndon, who said, Hey guys, Travis here. So my pick would 77 00:07:19,823 --> 00:07:25,267 have to be Baymax. I know he's not completely accurate, but he's still an iconic robot character 78 00:07:25,327 --> 00:07:30,671 after just one movie. From his design, from his voice, you can't hate Baymax. And if you 79 00:07:30,711 --> 00:07:35,154 do, well, you deserve to get throw-a-chopped. Not punch, but chopped for that comment. Yeah, 80 00:07:35,734 --> 00:07:40,538 I mean, if you don't like Baymax, who the hell do you think you are, right? Baymax is one 81 00:07:40,578 --> 00:07:45,961 of the most original, unique robot character designs in the history of robots, honestly. 82 00:07:46,454 --> 00:07:52,101 The way Pixar adapted him from the comic books where he was more of a techno shapeshifter 83 00:07:52,382 --> 00:07:58,290 to the film Big Hero 6 where he is like a cuddly balloon healthcare robot I thought was pretty 84 00:07:58,310 --> 00:08:06,118 ingenious. I mean, I don't like Baymax. Well you're a piece of shit then. Guess what? Prepare 85 00:08:06,138 --> 00:08:11,262 to get throat chopped. I'm just kidding. I like Baymax. I love the design, like you mentioned, 86 00:08:11,302 --> 00:08:16,886 of the character from the movie. Have they incorporated that version into the comics? No. No, they 87 00:08:16,906 --> 00:08:20,850 haven't. He's still like a metallic robot. Although, you know, they don't appear too much. Well, 88 00:08:20,870 --> 00:08:26,674 apparently Marvel Comics doesn't care for Baymax either. They've kind of relinquished the characters 89 00:08:26,714 --> 00:08:31,138 to Disney publishing, because Disney kind of took the characters in a direction that seems 90 00:08:31,158 --> 00:08:37,902 a little bit more iconic and lasting. Interesting. So congrats to Travis for winning this week's 91 00:08:37,942 --> 00:08:41,649 No Prize. If you the listener want a shot at winning your own No Prize, stay tuned to later 92 00:08:41,689 --> 00:08:45,938 on this episode when we'll be asking another question of the week. And now that that's done, 93 00:08:46,579 --> 00:08:47,380 on to the news. 94 00:08:53,046 --> 00:08:58,428 All right, this past week, ComicBook.com did an interview with Ed Boone, who is the creative 95 00:08:58,448 --> 00:09:03,791 director behind NetherRealm Studios, which is a video game production company behind the 96 00:09:03,851 --> 00:09:09,354 Mortal Kombat franchise. And they've also done video games like Mortal Kombat versus DC and 97 00:09:09,414 --> 00:09:14,597 the Injustice fighting video games. Ed has been talking for a while about how one of his dream 98 00:09:14,637 --> 00:09:19,640 projects would be a Marvel versus DC fighting video game. And that's pretty cool because 99 00:09:20,120 --> 00:09:26,291 it is also a dream project for us. Marvel versus DC fans. You know, that's the end all be all, 100 00:09:26,391 --> 00:09:32,595 I think, is a fighting video game between these comic book characters. And when Ed Boon talks 101 00:09:32,615 --> 00:09:38,358 about it, it feels more and more like it's within the realm of reality, you know? Hopefully we 102 00:09:38,378 --> 00:09:43,061 see this before we get too old, you and I, Jonathan. But it was interesting because like a while 103 00:09:43,081 --> 00:09:49,184 back, he posted a poll on Twitter asking fans what they hoped his next project would be. 104 00:09:49,684 --> 00:09:55,064 And one of the options on that poll, was a Marvel versus DC game, and it overwhelmingly won his 105 00:09:55,104 --> 00:10:00,968 Twitter poll, and nothing has been heard since, other than Ed Boon basically stating that it 106 00:10:01,048 --> 00:10:06,612 would be difficult to bring this into fruition. I mean, I kind of feel like if DC and Marvel 107 00:10:06,712 --> 00:10:11,195 don't agree to do this, they're just leaving the money on the table, right? Absolutely, 108 00:10:11,455 --> 00:10:16,579 yeah. I think with both film franchises struggling as well, this would be a great way to test 109 00:10:16,619 --> 00:10:24,141 the waters to see how eager audiences are for a Marvel and DC crossover. Yeah, it might be 110 00:10:24,161 --> 00:10:29,065 a good transition from like a cinematic universe to a video game universe in which they release 111 00:10:29,085 --> 00:10:32,928 a bunch of, you know, different spin-offs and stuff like that. I think that would be a hell 112 00:10:32,948 --> 00:10:37,632 of a good time. I'm gonna go ahead and read a quote from comicbook.com's interview with 113 00:10:37,792 --> 00:10:43,376 Ed Boon regarding this project in which he said, I mean, we did a number of games with DC characters 114 00:10:43,517 --> 00:10:47,720 with your kids and you're like, who would win in a fight? Mighty Mouse or Superman? Just 115 00:10:47,740 --> 00:10:52,531 these dumb different universe things. There's part of us that still has those immature conversations. 116 00:10:52,951 --> 00:10:57,334 To me, Spider-Man and Batman would be the coolest thing in the world. So of course we'd love 117 00:10:57,374 --> 00:11:02,196 to do that, but it's probably very difficult to jump that hurdle. To which I say, Jonathan 118 00:11:02,216 --> 00:11:08,660 and I have made it a weekly thing to have those immature conversations. It's so much fun to 119 00:11:08,700 --> 00:11:13,983 speculate on how battles between these characters will go. And even more exciting, I think, would 120 00:11:14,003 --> 00:11:19,185 be to actually play it out using a controller. Oh yeah, absolutely. We've mentioned this before. 121 00:11:19,542 --> 00:11:23,024 maybe once or twice on this podcast. That's the whole reason we even have this podcast 122 00:11:23,444 --> 00:11:28,708 is because we've been dreaming about a Marvel versus DC video game since we were teenagers. 123 00:11:29,008 --> 00:11:33,371 Legit, no lie, sometimes I like go to bed at night just dreaming up different ways that 124 00:11:33,391 --> 00:11:38,755 a Marvel versus DC video game could go. Usually in my dreams, it ends up something like Super 125 00:11:38,795 --> 00:11:44,579 Smash Brothers or the recent DC multiverses game. But I would settle for literally any 126 00:11:44,819 --> 00:11:49,546 version of this game. For real, I would take anything like Even like a Tetris version of 127 00:11:49,626 --> 00:11:54,349 it, I would take like a Pokemon like back and forth, choose your move, kind of RPG style. 128 00:11:54,930 --> 00:12:00,173 Anything! Anything Marvel vs. DC. Yeah, of course DC characters are in a fighting game called 129 00:12:00,213 --> 00:12:05,916 Injustice, which uses the same combat engine as Mortal Kombat. And the Marvel characters 130 00:12:06,036 --> 00:12:11,519 are commonly featured in the Marvel vs. Capcom video games, which uses a Street Fighter type 131 00:12:11,579 --> 00:12:16,518 fighting engine. So there's a lot of different ways that this game could go, but... That brings 132 00:12:16,578 --> 00:12:17,691 us to our question of the week. 133 00:12:22,230 --> 00:12:28,594 Pitch us your perfect Marvel vs. DC video game. What would it be like? Yeah, record your answer 134 00:12:28,634 --> 00:12:33,017 at dynamicduel.com by clicking on the red microphone button in the bottom right hand corner of the 135 00:12:33,057 --> 00:12:37,680 screen, which will prompt you to leave us a voicemail. Your message could be up to 30 seconds 136 00:12:37,720 --> 00:12:42,043 long, and don't forget to leave your name in case we include you on the podcast. We'll pick 137 00:12:42,083 --> 00:12:46,667 our favorite answer and award that person a Dynamic Duel No Prize that we'll post to Instagram 138 00:12:46,847 --> 00:12:50,589 and our email newsletter. Be sure to answer before September 2nd. 139 00:12:58,382 --> 00:13:01,926 So that does it for all of the news for this episode, now let's move on to the main event, 140 00:13:02,287 --> 00:13:07,574 where we find out who would win in a fight between the Doom Patrol member, Danny the Street, and 141 00:13:07,594 --> 00:13:09,537 the X-Men member, Krakoa. 142 00:13:24,618 --> 00:13:29,900 Okay, Danny the Street versus Kracoa. As we mentioned, this is a lead up to episode 350 143 00:13:30,621 --> 00:13:35,644 in a few weeks. That's going to pit the teams of the Doom Patrol against the Guardians of 144 00:13:35,664 --> 00:13:40,667 the Galaxy. When we and the executive producers were trying to think of the rosters for that 145 00:13:40,727 --> 00:13:47,150 team matchup, we figured that Mento was a good member to put on the Doom Patrol team. Although 146 00:13:47,170 --> 00:13:51,673 I don't think any of us loved that Mento is not a really well known member and he's kind 147 00:13:51,713 --> 00:13:57,369 of an asshole douchebag. He's just not a very good character, but everyone loves Danny the 148 00:13:57,409 --> 00:14:02,973 Street. You know, he's very popular on the Doom Patrol television series. And so when we were 149 00:14:03,013 --> 00:14:09,078 thinking of the idea of maybe we replace Mento with Danny the Street, I have to admit, I got 150 00:14:09,098 --> 00:14:13,021 a little frightened because I knew that more people were going to like Danny the Street 151 00:14:13,041 --> 00:14:17,825 than Mento. And sure enough, we voted to include him on the roster, which brings us to this 152 00:14:17,905 --> 00:14:21,814 episode. Yeah, of course, there's not a whole lot of people that Danny of the Street can 153 00:14:21,854 --> 00:14:27,096 go up against on Marvel. The most prominent, like, physical location other than Ego, the 154 00:14:27,116 --> 00:14:31,157 living planet, which we've already done a dual episode with him. But the other best example, 155 00:14:31,637 --> 00:14:38,320 I think, is Krakoa, the sentient mutant island that is the current home of the X-Men and all 156 00:14:38,360 --> 00:14:43,061 mutants on Marvel's Earth. Yeah, the closest thing we've done to two locations fighting 157 00:14:43,101 --> 00:14:48,459 each other is... ego, the living planet against Mogo, the Green Lantern, which was like a month 158 00:14:48,499 --> 00:14:52,600 ago. Yeah, but that was like relatively easy because the two planets are still, you know, 159 00:14:52,640 --> 00:14:56,821 like separate entities, you know, they exist within their own space and everything, but 160 00:14:56,901 --> 00:15:03,903 to like locations like a street and an island, how do you get them to fight against each other? 161 00:15:03,923 --> 00:15:08,364 We're going to figure it out. But to explain the methodology behind our duels, let's go 162 00:15:08,404 --> 00:15:15,119 to our sentient dual simulator, Alfred Jarvis, 9000 AJ 9K. Tell our listeners how you go about 163 00:15:15,199 --> 00:15:17,400 determining a winner in our dual matchups. 164 00:15:42,670 --> 00:15:47,273 from which the DC characters' statistics are extrapolated. Additional stat categories are 165 00:15:47,293 --> 00:15:53,519 included, such as range, damage potential, versatility and perception, in order to create a more detailed 166 00:15:53,539 --> 00:15:58,663 and accurate simulation. The results of the 1000 simulations provide a percentage of wins 167 00:15:58,703 --> 00:16:03,147 for each character. The contestant with the higher percentage is declared the victor, as 168 00:16:03,167 --> 00:16:08,512 they have a higher probability to win any given battle. In an equitable pairing, neither character 169 00:16:08,532 --> 00:16:13,231 should win 100% of the matches. The comic book stories have shown that there's even a way 170 00:16:13,251 --> 00:16:18,293 for Batman to defeat Superman, so the confidence rate of my method falls in line with the precedents 171 00:16:18,333 --> 00:16:23,375 that have been established in the source material. My mathematical simulations are without subjectivity 172 00:16:23,435 --> 00:16:28,777 or bias. Feats are not the sole consideration, nor are fan votes tabulated for determination 173 00:16:28,797 --> 00:16:35,320 of the winner. Thanks AJ9K! Before we run the simulations though, we like to break down each 174 00:16:35,340 --> 00:16:40,906 character's histories and abilities before improvising a scenario. on how we imagine one of the 1000 175 00:16:41,226 --> 00:16:46,088 simulations would play out beat for beat. Yeah, and I believe it's my turn to go first, this 176 00:16:46,128 --> 00:16:52,189 time with the Marvel character, so let me go ahead and tell you all about Krakoa. Two billion 177 00:16:52,209 --> 00:16:57,871 years ago, the very first mutants outside of the normal cycle of evolution thrived on Earth. 178 00:16:58,271 --> 00:17:03,633 One of these mutants was named Grov, a being who, along with their fellow mutants, formed 179 00:17:03,673 --> 00:17:09,200 a group called the Threshold. The Threshold was attacked by a group of undersea mutants 180 00:17:09,260 --> 00:17:15,063 called the Unbreathing, and Grove sustained heavy injuries in battle. Grove's mutation, 181 00:17:15,303 --> 00:17:20,486 which allowed them to heal through vegetative growth, transformed them from a wood-elf-looking 182 00:17:20,546 --> 00:17:26,770 being into a bark-covered creature much like the species Flora colossi, of which the hero 183 00:17:26,850 --> 00:17:33,258 Groot is a member. No longer resembling themselves, Grove changed their name to Okara. And though 184 00:17:33,298 --> 00:17:39,019 both the threshold and unbreathing mutants would eventually perish, Grove, now Okara, lived 185 00:17:39,199 --> 00:17:44,821 on, changing and growing through the millennia until they reached the size of an island, free-floating 186 00:17:44,981 --> 00:17:51,042 in the South Pacific. Several thousand years ago, Okara became an island home to a new generation 187 00:17:51,082 --> 00:17:56,004 of mutants led by Apocalypse, whom you can learn more about in our Black Atom vs Apocalypse 188 00:17:56,084 --> 00:18:05,272 duel. These mutants were attacked by an other-dimensional demon horde. to cleave Okara in half. Grove, 189 00:18:05,412 --> 00:18:13,118 which had become Okara, now became two separate beings, Oroko and Krokoa. Apocalypse sealed 190 00:18:13,198 --> 00:18:18,403 the dimensional breach, trapping the demon horde in their native realm, but sacrificing his 191 00:18:18,463 --> 00:18:25,329 fellow mutants alongside Oroko, half their home. This left Krokoa alone, once again existing 192 00:18:25,509 --> 00:18:30,593 as a free-floating island, now just a part of its former whole and without much of its former 193 00:18:30,653 --> 00:18:36,800 sentience. Years later, during World War II, Krakoa played a small role in the Pacific Theater 194 00:18:37,040 --> 00:18:42,163 when Nick Fury and his Howling Commandos stumbled upon the island and discovered it was sentient. 195 00:18:42,484 --> 00:18:47,606 Fury and Krakoa reached an agreement that allowed the commandos to leave the island as long as 196 00:18:47,626 --> 00:18:52,289 they kept its existence a secret. You can learn more about Nick Fury in his duel episode against 197 00:18:52,389 --> 00:18:58,573 Rick Flag. Eventually, Professor X telepathically discovered Krakoa via his power amplifying 198 00:18:58,613 --> 00:19:03,979 device called Cerebro. He sent his X-Men to investigate, but the island captured them. 199 00:19:04,359 --> 00:19:09,880 Professor X then sent additional mutant recruits to rescue the X-Men. Krakoa formed itself into 200 00:19:09,920 --> 00:19:16,482 a giant humanoid shape and attacked the mutants, but Polaris, a mutant with powers of magnetism 201 00:19:16,502 --> 00:19:21,424 like her father Magneto, used her abilities that were supercharged by Storm's lightning 202 00:19:21,764 --> 00:19:27,165 to interact with the Earth's magnetic field, and she launched Krakoa's landmass into space. 203 00:19:27,766 --> 00:19:34,047 While in orbit, Krakoa was captured by the enigmatic cosmic entity known as the Stranger. The Stranger 204 00:19:34,107 --> 00:19:38,969 took the island to its lap for study, however some spores of Krakoa had broken off prior 205 00:19:39,349 --> 00:19:45,170 and landed on Earth. One spore became a danger room-like training ground called the Danger 206 00:19:45,230 --> 00:19:51,712 Grotto, which was used by the Generation X mutant team. Another spore swallowed up 56 construction 207 00:19:51,732 --> 00:19:57,066 workers before it was stopped by the new mutants. And another spore... landed in the British 208 00:19:57,226 --> 00:20:03,347 Isles where the mutant team Excalibur defeated it. Eventually, a member of the Eternals race 209 00:20:03,448 --> 00:20:09,169 managed to free Kakoa from the Stranger's Lab in space and it returned to Earth. Professor 210 00:20:09,389 --> 00:20:15,591 X began working to reawaken the island's consciousness and reshape Kakoa into a paradise for mutants 211 00:20:15,931 --> 00:20:21,433 as it had once been thousands of years prior. He bioengineered new flowers on the island 212 00:20:21,473 --> 00:20:28,797 that produced chemicals that solved many of regarding antibiotics, longevity, and mental 213 00:20:28,877 --> 00:20:34,702 illnesses. Professor X offered these drugs to any country that recognized Krakoa as a sovereign 214 00:20:34,762 --> 00:20:41,007 mutant nation, transforming the island into a pharmaceutical titan and world power overnight. 215 00:20:41,027 --> 00:20:46,432 He also created flowers that could bloom into self-sustaining biomes anywhere in the universe, 216 00:20:46,772 --> 00:20:52,277 which also served as gateways to and from the main island. After a period of prosperity on 217 00:20:52,317 --> 00:20:57,763 Krakoa, where Professor X and Magneto seemingly achieved a compromise regarding human and mutant 218 00:20:57,783 --> 00:21:04,266 relations, Krakoa's other half, Arako, returned from the other dimension where it and its mutant 219 00:21:04,306 --> 00:21:10,089 residents had been trapped. Angry at Apocalypse for his actions several millennia ago, both 220 00:21:10,209 --> 00:21:14,710 islands chose a series of champions to represent them in a fighting tournament instead of an 221 00:21:14,830 --> 00:21:20,773 all out war. Ultimately, Krakoa's champions won the contest and Apocalypse was sent to 222 00:21:22,434 --> 00:21:27,297 while Arako was brought to Earth. Though the two island halves had finally gotten their 223 00:21:27,337 --> 00:21:33,341 chance to reunite, they had grown so different over the millennia that Krakoa and Arako decided 224 00:21:33,401 --> 00:21:39,645 to remain separate and unique. However, a new island of warlike mutants didn't seem feasible 225 00:21:39,725 --> 00:21:44,288 on Earth when the mutants of Krakoa had just achieved a semblance of peace with humans. 226 00:21:44,789 --> 00:21:50,293 Therefore, Magneto developed a plan to relocate Arako to Mars, where he would terraform the 227 00:21:51,842 --> 00:21:57,627 to accommodate that island and its mutants. Mars was then claimed as the first mutant world, 228 00:21:57,728 --> 00:22:02,893 with Arako serving as the new capital of the solar system. Back on Krakoa, which achieved 229 00:22:02,933 --> 00:22:08,819 a total population of approximately 250,000, mutantkind celebrated their new achievements 230 00:22:09,099 --> 00:22:13,584 with an annual celebration event called the Hellfire Gala. And that's as far as I'll get 231 00:22:13,744 --> 00:22:20,295 with Krakoa's backstory. Powers-wise, Krakoa is a sentient hive-mined landmass incorporating 232 00:22:20,455 --> 00:22:25,818 all vegetable and animal life forms that reside on it outside of its mutant inhabitants. It 233 00:22:25,858 --> 00:22:31,320 has full control of its mass and can terraform in any manner it chooses, including creating 234 00:22:31,400 --> 00:22:37,042 natural formations such as forests, volcanoes, and lakes, and unnatural formations such as 235 00:22:37,102 --> 00:22:42,905 massive tentacles, or a giant humanoid rock plant monster, or even small life forms that 236 00:22:42,965 --> 00:22:48,190 serve as an extension of itself. Krakoa can drain the life force out of any being that 237 00:22:48,230 --> 00:22:53,472 steps foot on its surface. And its biome can also survive in any environment, even the cold 238 00:22:53,632 --> 00:22:58,873 oxygen-less void of space, and it can create gateway portals allowing residents to travel 239 00:22:58,913 --> 00:23:04,255 between portions of itself. Krakoa has also demonstrated the ability to create a variety 240 00:23:04,295 --> 00:23:09,756 of chemicals via manipulation of its own natural chemistry. Though the island is conscious, 241 00:23:09,916 --> 00:23:15,766 it has limited intelligence and operates mostly out of instinct. That's Krakoa. That was pretty 242 00:23:15,966 --> 00:23:22,529 convoluted. I'm not sure it needed to be that convoluted. Well, that describes Hickman's 243 00:23:22,589 --> 00:23:28,812 run on X-Men to a T, right? I mean, Hickman threw in this entire mythology that he developed 244 00:23:28,852 --> 00:23:35,054 that stretches from ancient prehistory to outer space. And it's a lot, you know, it's one of 245 00:23:35,094 --> 00:23:39,796 the most unique things about his run on X-Men and also one of the worst. It's almost like 246 00:23:39,836 --> 00:23:44,303 he brought in all these different elements and ideas that. don't necessarily fit the mold 247 00:23:44,343 --> 00:23:49,067 of the X-Men, but I still admire Hickman as a writer nonetheless. Just the whole thing 248 00:23:49,107 --> 00:23:55,072 of like, Krokoa being like initially a like wood elf that became a plant island that was 249 00:23:55,152 --> 00:24:00,537 split in two. Just make it a fucking mutant that was an island, period. That's all you 250 00:24:00,557 --> 00:24:04,841 need to say. Right, right, right. I think the biggest bullshit thing is that he decided to 251 00:24:05,341 --> 00:24:11,506 name the original land mass as an anagram for Krokoa called Okara. and then it split into 252 00:24:11,626 --> 00:24:16,230 Arako and Krakoa. It's just he didn't need to do that. You know, they didn't need to be rearrangements 253 00:24:16,290 --> 00:24:20,934 of the same six letters. You know, right. Right. How old is Krakoa is like Krakoa, like one 254 00:24:20,954 --> 00:24:27,359 of Stanley's old, like monsters like Fin Fum or something like that. Krakoa made its first 255 00:24:27,479 --> 00:24:31,903 appearance to my recollection in Giant Size X-Men, where we were introduced to characters 256 00:24:31,943 --> 00:24:36,527 like Storm, Nightcrawler and Colossus. Oh, really? That's cool. And you know what else is cool? 257 00:24:36,987 --> 00:24:43,232 Danny the Street. Let me get to his backstory. Danny the Street is a sentient, male, genderqueer 258 00:24:43,292 --> 00:24:48,817 pocket dimension that most often presents himself by appearing as a street full of macho military 259 00:24:48,897 --> 00:24:54,762 surplus stores and sports shops, but decorated with feminine flourishes such as frilly pink 260 00:24:54,822 --> 00:25:01,708 curtains and awnings. Danny is the last survivor of a dream dimension of pure imagination known 261 00:25:01,788 --> 00:25:08,133 sometimes as Wonderland, Neverland, or Oz that caught the sickness of the real world and fell 262 00:25:08,153 --> 00:25:14,958 apart. Since then, for decades and perhaps longer, Danny has traveled the world, warping space-time 263 00:25:14,978 --> 00:25:20,743 to integrate himself seamlessly into any location in search of the lonely outcasts of the world. 264 00:25:21,123 --> 00:25:27,429 Whether it's an alley in Hong Kong or a street in Toronto, Danny attracts those who feel unaccepted 265 00:25:27,769 --> 00:25:33,494 and gives them a place to live and feel welcome, often entertaining them with drag shows performed 266 00:25:33,554 --> 00:25:39,458 by the Perpetual Cabaret, a drag troupe who also lives on Danny. Danny's existence was 267 00:25:39,498 --> 00:25:45,559 eventually discovered by The Men From Nowhere, a group founded by Darren Jones who was obsessed 268 00:25:45,860 --> 00:25:51,341 with eliminating from the world any and all strangeness, peculiarity, or anything that's 269 00:25:51,381 --> 00:25:57,143 not essentially a white picket fan's 1950s sitcom, which is how he lived his life, going so far 270 00:25:57,183 --> 00:26:01,904 as to have his wife hit a laugh track button whenever he made a joke in his home. When The 271 00:26:01,964 --> 00:26:07,485 Men From Nowhere arrived on Danny, they began killing its citizens and breaking Danny's property. 272 00:26:08,054 --> 00:26:13,475 The Doop Patrol arrived and began being attacked by the men from nowhere as well. After bringing 273 00:26:13,515 --> 00:26:19,637 them down, Danny teleported next to Darren Jones' home and had the perpetual cabaret dress him 274 00:26:19,677 --> 00:26:25,579 up in drag just before his boss visited for dinner, which resulted in Darren being fired 275 00:26:25,639 --> 00:26:30,261 and his reputation tarnished after Danny teleported away. Sounds like the laugh track would be 276 00:26:30,381 --> 00:26:35,728 used a lot in that situation though. It was used in that situation, exactly. It was revealed 277 00:26:35,808 --> 00:26:41,651 one of Danny's residents was an amnesiac hero named Flex Mantallo, who had regained his memory 278 00:26:41,751 --> 00:26:47,034 after seeing the Doom Patrol come to the rescue of the citizens. Flex, attempting to rebuild 279 00:26:47,074 --> 00:26:52,337 his life, was captured by the Men From Nowhere along with the Doom Patrol member Dorothy Spinner 280 00:26:52,658 --> 00:26:58,381 and imprisoned in the sub-sub basement of the Pentagon. Danny helped the Doom Patrol rescue 281 00:26:58,421 --> 00:27:04,224 Flex and Dorothy, by teleporting himself into the Pentagon basement, after which Danny became 282 00:27:04,324 --> 00:27:10,407 the Doom Patrol's headquarters. Not long after, however, Danny was seemingly abducted by Mr. 283 00:27:10,487 --> 00:27:15,609 Nobody and the Brotherhood of Dada, villains of the Doom Patrol and outcasts in their own 284 00:27:15,669 --> 00:27:20,871 right, though it was revealed that the Brotherhood merely wanted Danny to take them away, which 285 00:27:20,912 --> 00:27:26,514 he was happy to oblige. When an evil entity known as the Candlemaker emerged from the mind 286 00:27:26,554 --> 00:27:35,500 of Dorothy Spinner, After healing from the ordeal, Danny eventually grew to form Danny the World, 287 00:27:35,860 --> 00:27:40,923 an interdimensional planet and became the home of several Doom Patrol members such as Crazy 288 00:27:40,963 --> 00:27:46,927 Jane and Negative Man for a time when they left the team. Danny the World was annihilated by 289 00:27:46,987 --> 00:27:52,991 the Gentrifiers, however, who had attempted to take him over. Leaving Danny as only a brick, 290 00:27:53,392 --> 00:27:58,675 Crazy Jane fled with him back to the Doom Patrol, which was based on Oolong Island at the time. 291 00:27:59,396 --> 00:28:05,640 After taking some time to heal, Danny eventually became Danny the Bungalow. He and Crazy Jane 292 00:28:05,680 --> 00:28:11,684 rejoined the Doom Patrol, during which time he returned to being a Street. In post-Flashpoint 293 00:28:11,724 --> 00:28:17,468 continuity, Danny the Street was revealed to be a teenager, who was discovered by Red Robin 294 00:28:17,528 --> 00:28:23,171 of the Teen Titans and recruited to infiltrate an organization known as Nowhere, which captured 295 00:28:23,251 --> 00:28:25,313 and experimented on young metahumans. 296 00:28:29,416 --> 00:28:35,957 Danny became a member of the Teen Titans, acting as the team's spy. Danny was later nearly destroyed 297 00:28:36,057 --> 00:28:41,498 by Nowhere and used the last of his strength to teleport the Teen Titans from Mystery Island 298 00:28:41,638 --> 00:28:47,619 to New York, seemingly sacrificing himself in the process and ending up as a mundane ally 299 00:28:47,679 --> 00:28:53,120 in the city. It was revealed later, however, that Danny had actually reverted to the form 300 00:28:53,160 --> 00:28:58,734 of a brick, which was found by Crazy Jane and the two traveled to the cosmos together. After 301 00:28:58,774 --> 00:29:05,519 being used as a weapon by an entity known as D to kill a god, Danny retreated to Earth and 302 00:29:05,579 --> 00:29:10,582 grew to become Dannyland, an amusement park. With the happiness he was able to bring the 303 00:29:10,622 --> 00:29:16,547 masses, Danny gained enough strength to create his own sentient life, bringing to life a comic 304 00:29:16,627 --> 00:29:22,451 character from the Danny-published Danny Comics named Casey, space case Brink, to see what 305 00:29:22,471 --> 00:29:27,554 she would be like in the real world. Unaware of her true nature, Casey was contacted by 306 00:29:27,614 --> 00:29:33,516 Danny and urged to reform the Doom Patrol when Danny land became threatened by an alien organization 307 00:29:33,856 --> 00:29:39,938 known as Vectra, who wanted to use Danny's new ability to create life in order to create cheap 308 00:29:40,078 --> 00:29:45,459 meat for their chain of intergalactic fast food restaurants. Taking on an additional form as 309 00:29:45,519 --> 00:29:50,841 Danny the Ambulance, Danny helped Casey find the Doom Patrol members to reform the team 310 00:29:51,181 --> 00:29:56,519 and together they defeated Vectra. When the Dupatrol member Robotman received an upgrade 311 00:29:56,799 --> 00:30:02,521 that caused him to become his own planet, Casey sacrificed herself to stop him, and she returned 312 00:30:02,601 --> 00:30:08,684 to being a comic character in Danny Comics. And that's Danny's history so far. Powers-wise, 313 00:30:08,984 --> 00:30:14,586 Danny is a sentient pocket dimension capable of warping space-time to teleport to any location 314 00:30:14,906 --> 00:30:20,188 and integrate his space seamlessly into it. Danny has a spatial sense that allows him to 315 00:30:20,248 --> 00:30:26,272 move to any location, in any universe, even some hidden or unknown areas. He's able to 316 00:30:26,312 --> 00:30:31,321 generate buildings, structures, and objects to fill his space, and the more inhabitants 317 00:30:31,341 --> 00:30:36,978 that exist within him, the stronger he becomes and the larger he's able to grow. potentially 318 00:30:37,078 --> 00:30:42,979 even to planet size. When these structures and objects are damaged, however, Danny is weakened 319 00:30:43,120 --> 00:30:48,981 and is unable to maintain his size. Recently, Danny has shown to be able to generate sentient 320 00:30:49,021 --> 00:30:54,163 life, though this requires a deal of strength. He is able to communicate with his inhabitants 321 00:30:54,503 --> 00:31:00,044 by telekinetically transforming the environment to form words, whether on a window display 322 00:31:00,345 --> 00:31:05,106 or even a puddle on the ground. That's Danny the Street. I gotta say that's every bit as 323 00:31:05,247 --> 00:31:10,751 whimsical and fantastical as I hoped it would be being familiar with the character on the 324 00:31:10,811 --> 00:31:15,875 Doom Patrol television series. Anytime Danny of the Street shows up on that show, I'm always 325 00:31:16,055 --> 00:31:21,680 thrilled because it's just such a unique concept, especially his method of communication. Just 326 00:31:21,700 --> 00:31:26,764 the way he expresses himself is quite brilliant actually. I think it's a truly unique concept. 327 00:31:27,144 --> 00:31:31,648 Yeah, he's really cool. I'm glad we're gonna include him on the team duel match that's coming 328 00:31:31,708 --> 00:31:35,471 up against the Guardians of the Galaxy. I feel like I have a better idea of how that will 329 00:31:35,511 --> 00:31:41,177 play out where it's an environment versus a group of superheroes as opposed to how this 330 00:31:41,217 --> 00:31:45,541 will play out where it's an environment versus another environment. But let's go ahead and 331 00:31:45,561 --> 00:31:46,121 give it a shot. 332 00:31:53,678 --> 00:31:57,080 Because now that we got their histories and abilities out of the way, we're going to speculate 333 00:31:57,120 --> 00:32:02,585 on how one of the 1000 simulated matches will go. The winner is determined by simulations, 334 00:32:02,725 --> 00:32:07,168 not the speculation, but it's fun to imagine how the fight could play out. Alfred Jarvis 335 00:32:07,209 --> 00:32:13,073 9000, what are the rules of our speculation? Well I should say there are no rules, other 336 00:32:13,093 --> 00:32:17,157 than the characters have no prior knowledge of the other going into the fight. All they 337 00:32:17,177 --> 00:32:21,700 are aware of starting out is that the other character is a threat that needs to be eliminated. 338 00:32:22,081 --> 00:32:27,409 For the speculation… The contestants will begin approximately 50 meters apart in a nondescript 339 00:32:27,449 --> 00:32:32,253 environment that will have no bearing on the match itself as no environmental statistics 340 00:32:32,273 --> 00:32:37,818 are considered in my simulations. The contestants must earn victory on their own merit. And since 341 00:32:37,858 --> 00:32:43,743 both characters are environments, we could go ahead and disregard what AJ9K said about environments 342 00:32:43,783 --> 00:32:48,887 not being a factor. But let's go ahead and get into it. Danny the Street and Krakoa meet on 343 00:32:48,907 --> 00:32:55,050 the battlefield and they are the battlefield as well. But who goes first? OK, so I'm assuming 344 00:32:55,330 --> 00:33:00,232 this match starts off with the environments, like the street and the island about 50 meters 345 00:33:00,272 --> 00:33:07,134 apart from each other, while the space around them is otherwise void and empty. But I think 346 00:33:07,214 --> 00:33:14,776 Danny is going to start by teleporting himself onto Krakow. So now this island has a bustling 347 00:33:14,896 --> 00:33:20,377 street in the middle of it. And am I allowed to have people on Danny the street? Would you 348 00:33:20,417 --> 00:33:27,081 say like? the perpetual cabaret maybe. I think like how usually in our duels the environment 349 00:33:27,121 --> 00:33:32,464 has no bearing on the characters. Here, the characters are gonna have no bearing on the 350 00:33:32,544 --> 00:33:38,648 environments. So the locations have to win on their own merits basically. Okay. So no people. 351 00:33:39,208 --> 00:33:46,272 Okay, let's say Danny teleports onto Krakoa and he's just gonna cause like one of the shelves 352 00:33:46,292 --> 00:33:51,815 in his army surplus store to break. So these boxes of kerosene fuel tanks are just going 353 00:33:51,835 --> 00:33:57,837 to roll out of the store into Krakow, which is going to cause this huge fire to break out 354 00:33:57,917 --> 00:34:03,239 on the island. And Danny's going to teleport away from that to prevent any damage to himself. 355 00:34:03,780 --> 00:34:09,702 Okay. So Krakow has this fire going on it, but it's going to terraform and it's going to divert 356 00:34:09,782 --> 00:34:15,564 a river that's flowing through the island over to the fire to put it out. And then once it's 357 00:34:15,704 --> 00:34:21,359 out, Krakow is going to divert the river again. to wherever Danny has teleported and the river's 358 00:34:21,379 --> 00:34:25,641 gonna flood Danny the street. And the flash flood is basically gonna tear everything apart. 359 00:34:25,961 --> 00:34:31,524 I cannot think of her signs and small buildings. Except one of the signs is gonna read F-U. 360 00:34:31,924 --> 00:34:38,148 It's gonna be like, oh shit. Okay, so Danny's definitely hurt by this and he's gonna become 361 00:34:38,648 --> 00:34:45,043 Danny the boat. No, no, Danny the pirate ship. And on this pirate ship are cannons and that's 362 00:34:45,063 --> 00:34:50,086 going to allow Danny to begin firing cannonballs in all directions that are just going to tear 363 00:34:50,126 --> 00:34:56,489 through Krakow as Danny sails down the river. Okay, but Danny the pirate ship now has to 364 00:34:56,529 --> 00:35:01,932 navigate through the series of large jagged rocks that Krakow puts in the river's path. 365 00:35:02,352 --> 00:35:07,675 So the pirate ship is going to be crashing and breaking apart all over these rocks and then 366 00:35:07,835 --> 00:35:09,376 oh no, it goes over a waterfall. 367 00:35:13,718 --> 00:35:19,642 Okay, I mean, Denny's sustained more damage, so he's going to shrink again and transform 368 00:35:19,983 --> 00:35:26,827 as he falls into Denny the fighter jet, because now he's pissed off. Can he turn into a fighter 369 00:35:26,867 --> 00:35:32,171 jet? Yeah, he could turn into a vehicle. Like he was once Denny the ambulance, right? Though 370 00:35:32,211 --> 00:35:38,796 he probably can't pilot himself, but you know, that's what autopilot is for. Okay. So he's 371 00:35:38,816 --> 00:35:43,563 gonna be just like tearing through the sky. with Highway to the Danger Zone playing a full 372 00:35:43,583 --> 00:35:49,386 blast, and he's gonna begin firing missiles at the Krakoa surface. I do have to say, this 373 00:35:49,406 --> 00:35:55,449 is very uncharacteristic for Danny. He's normally very peaceful. You just made him mad. I mean, 374 00:35:55,489 --> 00:36:00,532 it's no holds barred action, so you gotta do what you gotta do. Right, so Danny's a fighter 375 00:36:00,572 --> 00:36:08,196 jet, but Krakoa is gonna manifest this large volcano on its surface, which is gonna erupt 376 00:36:08,216 --> 00:36:14,128 a mass of lava and ash into the air. and that's going to blind Danny while he's flying and 377 00:36:14,148 --> 00:36:18,732 just burn him with the lava. And that's going to cause him to crash into the mountainside 378 00:36:19,253 --> 00:36:24,578 and die. Well, actually, you know, Cucurro is going to see the plane go into the smoke, but 379 00:36:24,598 --> 00:36:31,484 he doesn't see Danny emerge because Danny teleports away to another part of the island, it's like 380 00:36:31,504 --> 00:36:38,254 a flower meadow as Danny, the flower meadow. And from here, while he's camouflaged. he's 381 00:36:38,274 --> 00:36:44,657 going to gather strength from the life force of Krakow itself to become Danny the super 382 00:36:44,697 --> 00:36:49,540 highway. And this thing is going to stretch across the entirety of Krakow. It's going to 383 00:36:49,580 --> 00:36:55,403 be full of like massive diesel trucks that are all running and they're just polluting Krakow's 384 00:36:55,443 --> 00:37:03,088 environment. Oh no pollution. So earthquake basically all those streets and vehicles are 385 00:37:03,108 --> 00:37:07,162 going to come crashing down because Krakow is going to generate an earthquake. that just 386 00:37:07,382 --> 00:37:14,185 swallows everything up in this massive tremor. Okay, so Danny's underground. Let's say now 387 00:37:14,225 --> 00:37:21,808 he becomes Danny the mine. Okay, and mines are full of explosives. So let's say that happens. 388 00:37:22,088 --> 00:37:27,230 The explosives are going to detonate just blowing up like a huge chunk of the island. And now 389 00:37:27,270 --> 00:37:32,652 Danny is going to teleport across the island as Danny the pit mine, just causing explosions 390 00:37:32,832 --> 00:37:38,270 all over the island and causing it to cave in on itself. That's pretty good. Shit. Okay. 391 00:37:38,310 --> 00:37:44,272 All right, in order to stop the explosions from happening, Kracoa is gonna have to catch Danny, 392 00:37:44,452 --> 00:37:51,634 as it were, right? So when Danny the Mine teleports to a new underground location on Kracoa, before 393 00:37:51,654 --> 00:37:56,355 he sets off the explosives, Kracoa is immediately gonna send him up to the island's surface, 394 00:37:56,935 --> 00:38:04,077 and waiting for Danny there are a group of large stone golems with like giant stone clubs that 395 00:38:04,137 --> 00:38:09,576 just- proceed to beat the ever loving shit out of this pit mine, rendering everything to dust. 396 00:38:09,636 --> 00:38:16,580 I don't even know what that looks like. Okay, I mean, if Danny gets hit by a bunch of stone 397 00:38:16,600 --> 00:38:22,824 clubs, he's hurt for sure. So I'm gonna say he just teleports away, which is gonna cause 398 00:38:22,864 --> 00:38:27,966 the space time that he occupied to fold back in on itself. And that circle of golems that 399 00:38:27,986 --> 00:38:33,329 were surrounding him hit and destroyed themselves, all right? Oh, and also I didn't mention this. 400 00:38:33,846 --> 00:38:39,910 but those mines were uranium mines. So chunks of uranium are all over the island, just poisoning 401 00:38:39,930 --> 00:38:46,255 the shit out of it and just making everything die, essentially. Meanwhile, Danny, he's hiding 402 00:38:46,355 --> 00:38:52,399 out as like a small underground radiation-proof bunker, just waiting for Kakoa to succumb to 403 00:38:52,419 --> 00:38:58,784 the poison. Okay, well, I mean, in the comics, the US did atomic bomb testing in the South 404 00:38:58,804 --> 00:39:04,788 Pacific Ocean near where Kakoa lived. And actually that was what Professor X theorized turned 405 00:39:04,828 --> 00:39:10,994 Krakoa into a sentient mutant. What? Was that radiation? Dude, that's so much better than 406 00:39:11,054 --> 00:39:15,938 what Hickman came up with. Yeah, that was actually Krakoa's origin story before Hickman wrote 407 00:39:15,978 --> 00:39:21,743 the new backstory. Wow. I'm pretty sure Krakoa has been around radioactivity before and survived 408 00:39:21,803 --> 00:39:27,509 just fine. So I don't think Danny's attempt to poison Krakoa with uranium will do anything. 409 00:39:28,129 --> 00:39:33,575 And if- Danny's now a bunker, Kakoa is just gonna drain the life force out of Danny the 410 00:39:33,615 --> 00:39:39,817 Bunker and reduce him to, you know, Danny the Rivet. And then Danny the Nothing, cuz he's 411 00:39:39,857 --> 00:39:46,778 dead. But like, if Kakoa wasn't actually mutated via radiation, then we don't know actually 412 00:39:46,818 --> 00:39:52,960 if it was exposed to it, right? Like that was just a theory. True. I say Professor X's theory 413 00:39:53,280 --> 00:40:00,011 was wrong, and that Kakoa was never exposed, and that Kakoa Well, Danny survives off of 414 00:40:00,391 --> 00:40:08,298 spam and Tang. Well, let's go ahead and leave the match there. Either Danny poisons Krakoa 415 00:40:08,358 --> 00:40:15,564 with uranium by becoming uranium mines teleporting all over the island, or Krakoa drains the life 416 00:40:15,604 --> 00:40:21,749 force from Danny as the island can do with any life form that exists on its surface. Let's 417 00:40:21,789 --> 00:40:25,312 go and find out which of these scenarios happens by inputting the character stats, running the 418 00:40:25,352 --> 00:40:32,325 simulations and coming back with a winner. 8G9K, hit it. Inputting data, running calculations, 419 00:40:32,785 --> 00:40:38,750 processing results, simulations complete. I think actually that speculation went better 420 00:40:38,830 --> 00:40:44,414 than I thought it would because with Krakoa, I just had to come up with these natural disasters, 421 00:40:44,534 --> 00:40:49,778 essentially, considering Krakoa is a natural landmass. So it was easier than I thought it 422 00:40:49,798 --> 00:40:54,321 was going to be, honestly. Yeah, it wasn't too bad. The stats were not easy, I would say. 423 00:40:54,521 --> 00:40:59,781 And They're very different from any other characters that we've done before. Things like movement 424 00:40:59,841 --> 00:41:05,665 speed were interesting. We said that Danny, since he could teleport, was much faster than 425 00:41:05,685 --> 00:41:11,189 a Krakow who's essentially stationary. Neither of these guys evade and their fighting skill 426 00:41:11,249 --> 00:41:17,254 is basically non-existent. Yeah. The stats that Krakow really shined in where Danny wasn't 427 00:41:17,354 --> 00:41:23,682 quite up to snuff were durability and damage. Yeah. Danny could get. injured pretty easily, 428 00:41:23,782 --> 00:41:28,945 you know, even just by breaking one of his glass panes. And he's not very offensive. So his 429 00:41:29,005 --> 00:41:34,668 damage stat category was much lower than Krakoa's. However, in addition to speed, Danny also excelled 430 00:41:34,828 --> 00:41:39,631 in intelligence because we said Danny's a little bit smarter than Krakoa, who largely operates 431 00:41:39,691 --> 00:41:44,574 off of instinct. But we said that Danny was also more perceptive. Yeah, thanks to a spatial 432 00:41:44,614 --> 00:41:49,677 sense that allows him to teleport to locations and find people. Danny definitely has this 433 00:41:49,697 --> 00:41:56,117 like psychic readout thing going where he knows exactly what form to take wherever he's teleporting 434 00:41:56,157 --> 00:42:01,681 to. So we accounted for that in his perception. But both can perceive largely everything that 435 00:42:01,881 --> 00:42:08,565 occurs within them. Right, exactly. Both Krakoa and Denny are highly versatile, able to do 436 00:42:08,665 --> 00:42:13,189 essentially anything they want with their own existence, which makes them highly adaptable. 437 00:42:13,589 --> 00:42:18,972 With all these stats in mind and their disparities and similarities accounted for, Jonathan, who 438 00:42:18,992 --> 00:42:22,510 do you think is walking away with the win on this? I personally think Danny the Street is 439 00:42:22,530 --> 00:42:27,954 going to win just because he's, you know, faster and smarter. Instagram disagrees with me, apparently. 440 00:42:28,454 --> 00:42:33,977 Sixty nine percent of them chose Kercoa as the winner in the poll that we did there, which 441 00:42:34,017 --> 00:42:38,800 is a lot. I was surprised actually. I was surprised just because, you know, Kercoa has never been 442 00:42:38,960 --> 00:42:44,463 seen in live action before, whereas Danny the Street has. So you think that Danny the Street 443 00:42:44,483 --> 00:42:49,414 is actually more popular than Kercoa? I would have assumed so. I think a lot of people are 444 00:42:49,434 --> 00:42:55,077 taking land mass into consideration because an island is a much bigger size than a street. 445 00:42:55,497 --> 00:43:00,180 True. But like Danny the street can accommodate for that. He could become the size of a planet 446 00:43:00,220 --> 00:43:05,083 if the circumstances are correct. You're not wrong. But I have the results here. Hey, you 447 00:43:05,143 --> 00:43:15,409 are, sir. The winner between Danny the street and Krakow is Danny the street. Yes. Which 448 00:43:15,729 --> 00:43:25,412 surprises me. Honestly, yeah Danny the street out of 1000 matches won 573 of them or 57.3 449 00:43:25,912 --> 00:43:32,654 percent of the time whereas Krokoa only won 427 or 42.7 percent of the time the biggest 450 00:43:32,674 --> 00:43:38,075 disparity within their stats was speed because Apparently Danny the street can just teleport 451 00:43:38,155 --> 00:43:43,337 all over the place wherever he wants That speed advantage of Danny's cannot be overcome by 452 00:43:43,497 --> 00:43:48,779 Krokoa's durability and damage And then you have like the intelligence thing kind of putting 453 00:43:48,839 --> 00:43:53,543 Danny a little over the edge. I called it. Honestly, I think another way this fight would really 454 00:43:53,583 --> 00:43:58,707 play out is that Danny would sense how lonely Kerrkoa is just as the solitary island and 455 00:43:58,767 --> 00:44:04,891 become a planet for him to occupy itself on. I thought he would just drown the island. It 456 00:44:04,931 --> 00:44:08,914 is pretty interesting the way it played out. I just think about how much damage like these 457 00:44:08,974 --> 00:44:14,338 creatures that Kerrkoa manifests could do to a street. But in the end. that was unable to 458 00:44:14,358 --> 00:44:18,580 help Karkoia get the win, especially when he considered that Danny could have created his 459 00:44:18,760 --> 00:44:24,002 own life to combat those monsters as well if he chose to. I don't know. These stats are 460 00:44:24,042 --> 00:44:27,944 like largely theoretical and I guess there's like a thousand different ways the match could 461 00:44:27,964 --> 00:44:32,285 have gone. It's just that Danny wins slightly more of them. Boom. That's right. But that 462 00:44:32,305 --> 00:44:35,667 does it for this duel. Let us know what you thought about the results by writing to us 463 00:44:35,727 --> 00:44:43,318 at dynamicduelpodcast at gmail.com or by visiting us on Instagram or X. 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