Route 75 Presents: Who Would Win?

If you are like me (for your sake, I hope not), then you occasionally find your mind wandering into imaginative areas. For some people, their imagination can bring them new ideas about how they want to do things at work, live their lives, take care of their family, etc.

For me, it's kinda like an imaginary battle to the death. Yeah, that's how I roll.

I present to you, all three of you who read this blog (thanks, mom), the following:

Replicant vs. Terminator

Let's look at the two contenders:

1. Roy Batty (Replicant)


















Tale of the Tape:

Gender Male
Designation Roy Batty
Model NEXUS-6 N6MAA10816
Incept date January 8, 2016
Function Combat, Colonization Defense
Phys. Level A
Ment. Level A
Famous Quote "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I've watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser Gate. All those... moments will be lost in time... like... tears..in rain".

Roy's pretty bad ass (as you would expect a pre Blind Fury Rutger Hauer to be). He pops eyeballs, puts his head through bathroom walls, and he's fast. What makes Roy so different from the regular, tired landscape of robots, androids, and their relatives is his overwhelming desire to live. Roy feels pain, he winces, but he also has the ability to demonstrate nostalgia, remorse, and compassion. Roy's uniqueness, speed, and desire to live (not to mention he's pretty strong and highly intelligent) that make him a contender in this fight.

2. The Terminator













Tale of the Tape:

Gender Male (in this case)
Designation None
Model Cyberdine Systems Model 101/T-888/T-101
Function Infiltration, Assassin, Soldier, All-around Bad ass
Physical Characteristics Can withstand small arms fire, endoskeleton consists of network of hydraulic cylinder and servomechanisms (i.e. can crush your head like a paper bag).

The Terminator is the thing nightmares are made of. When I first saw the original Terminator movie, I had nightmares for a week. When I saw the second one, I went home and prayed we'd never get pulled into a nuclear apocalypse, and giant metal robots (that look like chrome death) won't fire lasers at my head. Needless to say, if you were targeted by a Terminator, it would not stop until you were dead. If it had to swim the Pacific Ocean to find you in Indochina, it wouldn't pop out of a bowl of rice (thanks, Pulp Fiction). It would come up, twist your neck off, then jam the bowl of rice down your neck hole. The Terminator is relentess, and unless you hit it with a Tomahawk missile, you're pretty much screwed. While the Terminator has a nearly limitless cache of knowledge within its computer system, the ability to adapt and "think on its feet" may cause problems. Toe to toe, however, a Terminator could destroy a replicant. Thankfully for Rutger Hauer, most fights aren't toe to toe.

Physical Advantage: The Terminator

Mental Advantage: Roy Batty

Speed Advantage: Roy Batty

Fighting Skill Advantage: The Terminator

Intangibles Push

Winner:

Roy Batty

I can imagine the fight, early on, consisting of the Terminator throwing Roy through some walls. The Terminator would use its size and strength advantage to the fullest extent, without being able to get the "killing stroke" in due to Roy's reflexes and speed. After he was bruised and bloodied, Roy would begin to use the terrain/environment to his advantage. Floating like a butterfly and stinging like a bee, the Replicant would be able to keep the Terminator off his game long enough to finish him.

Hope you enjoyed the first installment.