| Candyman vs Eric Draven | |
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| Season 1, Episode 10 | |
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| Air date | October 22nd, 2021 |
| Written by | LakuitaBro01.2 |
| Directed by | LakuitaBro01.2 |
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Candyman vs Eric Draven is a What-If?DeathBattle by LakuitaBro01.2
Description:[]
Candyman vs The Crow! Two vengeful spirits based in the midwest projects with affinity for animals clash in a bloody brawl! Will the Candyman shed the blood of the Crow? Or will Eric Draven prove natural selection to the bee covered man?
Interlude:[]
Wiz: The angry mob is one of the most dangerous groups of people. One action can set off a chain reaction that leads to horrible consequences for all of those involved.
Boomstick: From gang violence to old timey "kill first, ask later" lynchings, all walks of life can fall victim to one of these attacks.
Wiz: And such "walks of life" horror movie slashers are clashing head on today.
Boomstick: Candyman, the vengeful spirit of Daniel Robitaille.
Wiz: And Eric Draven, the Crow's Killer of Killers.
Boomstick: He's Wiz and I'm Boomstick.
Wiz: And it's our job to analyze their weapons, armor, and skills to see who would win a Death Battle.
Candyman:[]
Wiz: Daniel Robitaille was the son of a wealthy inventor from the late 1800s and had a bright future for a black man at the time. He was sent to best schools all across America and became known as a famous painter who knew just how to capture someone's status in a portrait.
Boomstick: Growing up to be a polite and well-mannered gentleman, he was commissioned by a wealthy landowner to paint a portrait of his daughter: a white virgin. And being the polite and well-mannered gentleman he is, she ended up pregnant with his child.
Wiz: Furious that his daughter had a child out of wedlock with someone he had hired, the father hired a lynch mob to chase down Daniel and kill him. They eventually tracked him down and overpowered him near the north end of Chicago where the young painter was horribly murdered in public.
Boomstick: They overpowered him, took his right hand off with a rusty blade, stole honey from the local apiary and smeared it all over him, then began to taunt him while chanting "Candyman" over and over as he sat there bleeding out. Then the BEES swarmed him and stung him to death.
Wiz: While the body of Daniel Robitaille was burned on a pyre later, his vengeful spirit lived on through legend. Literally. The mere mention of the name Candyman, along with the existence of the mirror he stared into as he was dying and his self portrait is what keeps him anchored to the world.
Boomstick: The world's most enigmatic serial killer: Bloody Mary's angry distant uncle!
Wiz: He's the ghost of a man who was killed for doing absolutely nothing wrong, Boomstick!
Boomstick: Doesn't seem to bother him that much as he enjoys putting an end to those who subject others to similar fates such as his. Plus that rusty old hook-on-a-stump he's carrying around gets to see a lot of use rather than just being an ornament.
Wiz: The Candyman is an enigmatic figure. He has many supernatural abilities, such as seemingly being a superhuman. He's tossed people through walls and windows effortlessly and once put his hook hand through a wall like it was butter.
Boomstick: Speaking of butter, that hook is razor sharp. Even a light press of the hook can cause bleeding and if enough force is applied then the hook can saw straight through the middle of the human spine. God that's fucking horrible to watch.
Wiz: However Candyman is not like Michael Myers or Ghostface where his only ability is to stab someone. As he is a vengeful spirit, he has a plethora of abilities at his disposal some of which being the ability to fly, throw people and objects around with his mind, and teleportation.
Boomstick: Candyman hasn't really been seen running or moving around a whole lot so his main mode of transportation is teleportation. He can appear from anywhere at any point he feels like, as well as going invisible and being unseen by even state of the art video software.
Wiz: He's able to mentally assault people with horrific images of his death or other misfortunes and can cast illusions such as seeing blood where water should be. But of course as a ghost the Candyman does have intangibility and can choose to phase through walls or even strikes from his attackers, but there's another layer to the Candyman's intangibility.
Boomstick: It's the Bees. Underneath that nice ass fur coat is a massive horde of bees that the Candyman controls. There are so many bees within his body that he once covered the entire city of Chicago in the little buzzers. He's nearly impervious to all harm because where his chest cavity and most internal organs would be is just bees, bones, and nothing else.
Wiz: And even the parts of his body that are exposed and able to be damaged can be regenerated, like the time he healed from having his cheek clawed open or his throat being stabbed. Even if he were to "perish", he'd eventually be able to come back eventually so as long as the two objects his soul's bound to are still intact.
Boomstick: But who the hell knows where either of those things are at any time. Did we mention the fact that he once covered Chicago in bees?
Wiz: You already did, Boomstick.
Boomstick: Well I'm sorry. Those little bugs give me the heebie jeebies.
Wiz: In any case, Candyman is a complete narcissist with a god complex and due to the hive of bees hidden in his body he is highly flammable. With the aforementioned mirror and paintings keeping him alive, any one of the two being destroyed can vanquish him for a long amount of time.
Boomstick: Alright lets move onto Eric now PLEASE!?
Eric Draven:[]
Wiz: Lead guitarist for the band Hangman's Joke Eric Draven had it all. An aspiring career, a good outlook on life, and the love from his dreams. The one thing left was marriage, and sometime before the Devil's Night in 1992 he had proposed to his girlfriend Shelly.
Boomstick: With everything going smoothly it was bound to go horribly one way or another. The standard tradition for Devil's Night was to go around town egging houses and childlike vandalism to full blown parties and making money off of arson. Unbeknownst to Eric, Shelly was one of the tenants who actively refused to leave their loft.
Wiz: The gang leader, known as Top Dollar, ordered his henchmen to intimidate Shelly, but they ended up doing more than just that. They cut her, beat her, and assaulted her repeatedly in attempts to coerce her into agreeing. Eric showed up to the scene and was promptly murdered by the four assailants.
Boomstick: Eric was long dead by the time the police showed up to the crime scene, and Shelly soon followed after 30 hours of intensive care. The city only got worse over the course of the next year.
Wiz: For unknown reasons, exactly one year after his death, a magical Crow visits Eric's grave and brings him back to life. Now existing as a sort of zombie, Eric went to get revenge on those who wronged and murdered him and his fiancée no matter the cost.
Boomstick: Definitely the brain child of Kiss, Edgar Allen Poe, and Rob Zombie.
Wiz: As a Reborn selected by the Crow, Eric has several unique abilities to his disposal. The immortality he possesses for one is tied to the Crow. Should the Crow be damaged, he becomes vulnerable to damage, and if the Crow dies, he becomes susceptible to death.
Boomstick: But the Crow gives him some much needed benefits such as superhuman strength and speed along with invulnerability and the ability to regenerate!
Wiz: With pure strength alone Eric was able to break a gate and destroy a door with almost no effort. In terms of speed, Eric is able to pick up enough speed to run along rooftops and catch throwing knives with his bare hands.
Boomstick: And while he definitely can't teleport, he can move fast enough that it seems as though he's vanished if not directly looked at. An in terms of his invulnerability? He's face tanked an explosion and falls off of buildings.
Wiz: And even if he does become severely damaged, other Crows have regenerated from skeletons. Aside from being a superhuman, the Crow provides Eric with some more supernatural abilities such as the ability to see through the eyes of the bird.
Boomstick: It's a literal bird's eye view, but it helps a lot with attacks that Eric wouldn't normally be able to see coming. A couple other abilities Eric has are the ability to change someone's emotions and feelings like what he did to Sarah's mom Darla.
Wiz: The other ability is known as Pisonic Inundation, which is basically the memory dump from Doctor Who.
Boomstick: Nerd!
Wiz: That's what it is! With a touch to the head Eric can make others feel the 30 hours of pain that his fiancée had gone through!
Boomstick: Can it make you feel the 3 hours of pain you dragged me through at that science convention?
Wiz: My family gathering?
Boomstick: Off topic! Eric can make others feel the pain he and people he's close to all at once and as shown on Top Dollar it was enough to make his eyes explode! The real interesting bit about Eric is his fighting style, which can be summed up as "whatever's on the ground."
Wiz: Eric's been known to use several guns, most notably being the Smith and Wesson Model 629, a magnum, the Taurus PT92, a hand gun, and the Mossber-
Boomstick: The Mossberg 500 Cruiser! One blast from this shotgun beauty will leave a hole in your son's favorite turtle from your bedroom! Don't ask!
Wiz: Eric has used several other weapons like knives and a katana as well as some gasoline, a lighter, and explosives. Usually he does just fight with whatever he can find laying around, like a church spire for example.
Boomstick: While everything checks out for the 90s version of the Joker, Eric's only real weakness is a horrible one; he's absolutely screwed if the Crow is harmed.
Wiz: Normally, with Eric's Crow, it stay nears him while he's in combat which has led to others like Top Dollar and Myca realizing the connection between the man and the bird.
Boomstick: Granted it took a while for them to figure that weakness out, but when you're an unstoppable death machine with a 12 gauge I think your enemies would be more focused on you.
Death Battle:[]
Chicago, Illinois
"Can't rain all the time."
Sarah was bored out of her mind. The rain had been nonstop for several days and she was stuck at home doing nothing. Her mother was acting like a mother so being in the house was bearable, but she wanted nothing more than to just go outside and go for a walk. The constant pattering of raindrops against her window and the setting sun just barely peaking through the clouds cast orange over her entire room.
As she laid there staring at the ceiling, she recalled some silly rumor kids at school were talking about. Apparently, if you went into the bathroom and said the name "Candyman" over and over 5 times, a man with a hook for a hand will appear before you. She thought about it over and over in her head until she decided enough was enough and went to get test it out. She walked into her bathroom, closed the door, and stared into the mirror.
"Candyman, Candyman, Candyman, Candyman, Candyman..."
She waited for a minute or so before giving up. It was just a rumor after all. She sighed and opened the door to her bedroom and peered out into the hall. The house was eerily quiet. Darla was off at work that night. Sarah yawned and headed towards the kitchen. She began to brew herself a cup of coffee and make herself a peanut butter and honey sandwich. As she opened the pantry to grab the honey, a single honeybee flew out of it. She was startled, but nonetheless let it fly away. Unbeknownst to her, the bee flew back towards the bathroom where a swarm began to form into the shape of a man with a hook.
She drank her coffee and ate her sandwich with her back to the hallway leading to her bedroom and bathroom. Hairs began to stand on the back of her neck and arms as she had the feeling of being watched. Heavy footsteps sounded from the other end of the house, causing Sarah to freeze completely, not even chewing her food. Then a deep voice rumbled.
"Sarah..."
The young girl panicked.
"Who's there?!" she whimpered.
She slowly turned her head to see a large man in a coat staring at her from the other end of the hall with several bees flying around his body.
"Sarah..."
"Who are you?!"
"I came for you..."
Sarah was paralyzed with fear as this mysterious, large man slowly took broad steps towards her. As he drew closer, he took his hands out from behind his back, one being normal, but the other had a large hook where the hand should be.
"Be my victim..."
Driven to tears, Sarah couldn't get her body to move on its own. The piece of sandwich in her mouth dropped to the ground as she began to violently shake in fear.
"I am the writing on the wall... the whisper in the classroom... without these things, I am nothing."
The hook lightly touched Sarah's cheek, yet the small touch was enough to cause bleeding.
"So now, I must shed innocent blood..."
The Candyman raised his hook in the air, prepared to bring it down upon the defenseless girl, but before the hook could make its mark, a man in white face paint seemingly materialized from out of nowhere and caught his arm. The Candyman looked towards the third party with a look of mild annoyance. It was a man in his late 20s covered head to toe in something that of metal band guitarist would wear.
"ERIC!"
Sarah screamed as she finally snapped out of her daze.
"Run! Now! Go!" he yelled back.
The young girl booked it out of the house and down the street, leaving the reanimated guitarist to square off with the urban legend. Candyman phased out of Eric's grasp and backed up across the room, eyeing the man dressed in leather. Eric eyed the man back as his guardian Crow perched upon his shoulder.
"Do you believe in me...?" the Candyman's voice echoed.
"Buddy I don't even know who you are."
"Oh... you'll believe..."
FIGHT!
Eric leapt forward with a right hook towards the Candyman's torso. The blow landed, but rather than hit meaty flesh, his fist seemed to go right through his stomach and into a swarm of bees which dispersed and covered the entire room. The Crow squawked and took off outside as the swarm centered around the two undead fighters. The Candyman swiped towards Eric and slashed his chest open, but as if nothing happened the guitarist slammed his head into his adversary's.
Daniel recoiled from the blow. When he recovered and looked up the assailant was gone, and the swarm of bees disappeared back into the coat of the spirit. He looked around his surroundings and then sunk into the ground on the prowl for Sarah.
Down the block, Eric had caught up to Sarah with the assistance of his Crow, albeit the Candyman was not far behind.
"Sarah, what did you do?!" Eric yelled.
"It was just a rumor! You say his name five times and he'll appear!" she replied.
"What's his name?"
"Candyman!" she yelled.
"Candyman?" he questioned.
"Candyman!" she yelled again.
"Candyman, his name's Candyman?" he questioned once again.
The man himself appeared from a brick wall having phased through it. A swarm of bees helping him fly towards the duo.
"Why yes... I am the Candyman..." he spoke as he suddenly took off towards Sarah with his arms wide open. Eric quickly grabbed a board with a broken nail in it and slammed it into the head of the Candyman, stopping him in his tracks.
"That's a STUPID fucking name!" he yelled as he kicked the nail further into the specter's head. The tall spirit got to his feet and pulled the board out of his head as the wound stitched itself back together before their very eyes. Just before it closed a single bee flew up and into the air away from them. The two had a stare off, but the tension was broken as Eric reached over his shoulder and slammed ANOTHER Candyman onto his back with the one in front of him disappearing.
The bodyslammed Candyman phased into the ground and disappeared once again.
"Eric how did you-" Sarah began as he shushed her.
"A little birdy told me."
Looking through the eyes of the Crow, Eric had saw it was an illusion cast by the Candyman and that he had been sneaking up behind him. The Crow, which was nearby watching the fight, shook itself a little. A tiny, little honey bee had hitched a ride on its back.
Once again the Candyman had manifested, making the two friends run into a nearby warehouse to escape. His floating body approached with open arms as the duo slid underneath the garage door of the warehouse and slammed it behind them. On the outside, the Candyman sunk his hook into the aluminum door and began to tear it open with physical strength alone.
"You can not run, Eric..." he said as he poked his head through the door.
BANG!
The roar of a 12 gauge rattled off the walls of the alleyway as the Candyman stumbled over backwards. His face was completely mashed as if someone took a cheese grater and whittled it down to his brain. Eric hoisted the 12 gauge over his shoulder and grimaced as the body began to twitch and reform its face, prompting him to grab Sarah by the arm and book it further into the warehouse. They were cut off by none other than Candyman in the next room.
BANG!
The shot was deafening and aimed right at the Candyman's stomach. This time he barely moved as the pellets went through him with minimal damage. Eric looked seriously confused, but the specter, seeing this, did him a favor and undid his fur coat, revealing his exposed bones and bee hive living in his stomach.
"Dude what the hell!"
The bees covered the entire warehouse as Sarah ran out screaming. Candyman turned to chase her but the exit was suddenly cut off by a stream of flames, making him duck away out of fear. The bees went crazy as Eric continued to douse his surroundings in gasoline, much to the chagrin of the other undead man in the room. The Candyman was able to get out before the entire warehouse went up in flames and Eric was able to rendezvous with Sarah again. It had finally stopped raining.
"Bug man's afraid of fire."
He passed Sarah a lit torch and the two began to make their way towards the docks where cartels and gangs hung around constantly. Awaiting them there was Candyman himself, who was lightly brushing hot ash off his fur coat with his hook. The left side of his face was scarred with flame and bees fluttered about, seemingly healing the wound.
BANG!
The specter vanished before the spray of pellets could reach him. Eric looked around wildly, but quickly fired a shot over his shoulder with his handgun, catching the Candyman in the throat with a bullet. He stumbled back and clutched his throat.
BANG!
One bullet to the chest.
BANG!
Another to the hip.
BANG!
One to the groin...
BANG!
...And one to the kneecap, putting the Candyman on the ground. Eric ripped open the lid of a nearby container and dug through it, finding a grenade, and returned to the spirit, who was still healing his wounds. He crammed the grenade down his throat and pulled the pin.
"Eat this motherfucker!"
The explosion completely engulfed the Candyman, and the force of it blew Draven back, skinning his back as he skid across the black top. He shook off the pain. The pain, he thought, was unnatural. He reached under his shirt and touched his wound. It hadn't healed yet. Nearby, the Crow shook itself again, but this time a single, dead honey bee fell from its back and onto the ground in front of where the Candyman was blown up.
Or so they thought.
From a nearby shipping container the man himself stepped out completely unharmed. He had phased through the explosion and survived. Eric, annoyed, took the torch from Sarah and tried to bash his foe over the head with it, but before he could hit him the sky opened up with a downpour and extinguished the torch.
The Candyman laughed as he slashed Eric's kneecap open, causing him to fall to the ground. He could only watch as the Candyman abducted Sarah and flew away with her with ease, despite her shouts of terror and flailing body. The Crow took off following them as Eric's regeneration kicked in and he too began pursuit. Through the eyes of the Crow, they had gone towards the projects of Chicago, and Eric knew exactly where to go.
Unbeknownst to Eric, however, his Crow was flying through more bees then it should be, especially at the time of night and in the rain.
The run down, deconstructed buildings Sarah had been hoisted off to echoed with the sound of the rain outside. It was deafening, and Sarah's screams could only barely make it out past the cascade. but it was enough for Eric to hear. He bolted into the run down two story building, soaking wet and absolutely pissed off. The large foyer of the building gave a clear view of the spirit and his prey.
'Candyman! I'll fuckin say it a thousand times if I have to! Get your ass down here and let her go!"
The sound of the rain seemingly began to quiet down as the Candyman descended from above, leaving Sarah behind. The two began to square off one last time. The specter slashed towards Eric again, but the reborn caught the blow with his hand and socked his foe in the face. The Candyman stumbled as he was quickly pumped with lead pellets from Draven's Mossberg.
As Eric went to reload, the Candyman quickly slashed the shotgun clean in two, or at the very least cutting the barrel short.
"Thanks for the sawed-off shotty!"
BAM!
The shot nearly shook the neighborhood. The Candyman was blasted through a nearby wall and struggled to get up as Draven pulled the pin on another grenade and chucked it into the gut of his foe. Before the spirit could move, it went off, spraying blood and bee all over the walls, ceiling, and ground. Draven fell to his knees, relieved.
He turned to look up at Sarah, who sat there terrified, unmoved and staring just past Eric.
"Sarah? What's wrong?"
Eric hadn't realized it, but the sound of the rain had slowly been replaced with the ear splitting buzz of massive swarm of bees. A single bee stung Eric on the back of his wrist, and when he dusted it away and looked at the mark, it hadn't healed.
"Oh no..."
He turned to look at the doorway. The silhouette of the Candyman was cast by an outside streetlight, and he stood there unmoving.
"What... what are you?"
"I am a rumor..." the Candyman began, "...a rumor that will prove itself to be real."
Just then the Candyman unclenched his fist, revealing the dead body of a crow which dropped lifelessly to the floor. Eric's eyes widen. The poor thing was covered in bee stings, and it looked like its body was pierced with a hook. He gritted his teeth in defeat and lashed out, running down the spirit. Daniel merely sidestepped and placed a hand on Eric's shoulder.
"Rest now... Your sacrifice has been heard..."
"My... sacrifice?" Eric questioned as the Crow's abilities began to leave his body.
The Candyman spun him around and sliced his throat clean open, spraying blood all over him and his coat, and followed up with hooking his weapon through the jaw of the guitarist and ripping it clean off. Eric laid lifeless before the Candyman.
KO!
He turned towards Sarah and slowly floated up to her. She sat there paralyzed with fear as he got an inch away from her face. Rather than stretch his hook arm, he extended his normal hand and touched her face, wiping away the blood and tears streaming down it.
"No tears, you'll live..."
But the eyes of the spirit turned black as he cocked his head.
"As long as you tell everyone..."
Results:[]
Boomstick: F-f-f-fuck THAT! Why'd bee man live?
Wiz: Eric Draven and the Candyman are highly resilient supernatural entities. Both have shown off similar feats with Candyman barely having strength and Eric having speed by quite a bit. Eric had a huge advantage in his arsenal, being a pyrotechnic which exploited one of Candyman's main weaknesses, and he definitely had better regenerative capabilities.
Boomstick: But when it came to their abilities, Eric had almost nothing going for him. Sure he was an impervious superhuman who could see through the eyes of a bird and make others feel his pain but that was about it.
Wiz: The Candyman could create illusions to throw Eric off, teleport around, phase through attacks, summon bees to aid him. While most of Eric's arsenal was enough to harm Candyman, it didn't matter much if he could just avoid it.
Boomstick: But the biggest question is how would they kill each other? They're both immortal and said immortality is linked to outside sources, how could they win? Well, it's a lot simpler then you think. See, Candyman has TWO objects he's bound to that he doesn't carry with him where as Eric has ONE animal that follows him wherever he goes.
Wiz: With the Crow following Eric around wherever he goes and Eric inadvertently using it for combat purposes, it wouldn't be long for the Candyman to notice the coincidences between the man and bird, especially when he controls a massive horde of bees.
Boomstick: And it's not like the undead man and black bird combo hasn't been figured out before, because it has by at least a dozen people over different versions of the Crow. Either the fight comes to a stand still or Candyman eventually finds a way to kill Eric's Crow in which countless bee stings would be enough to kill that bird dead.
Wiz: Eric Draven was a formidable foe, but the Candyman's superior strength, supernatural abilities, and keys to his immortality proved too much for the Hangman's Joke guitarist.
Boomstick: Much like the first time I've ever gotten stung by a bee, Eric's jaw dropped.
Wiz: The winner is the Candyman.