Description[]
It's Pokémon vs Drawn to Life! These two nightmares take on each other in a duel to the Death. Will Darkrai destroy Wilfre, or will the Shadow Raposa envelope the Pitch Black Pokémon in darkness?
Interlude[]
Wiz: Since the dawn of civilization the fear of the dark has spread all over the human race
Boomstick: And from the darkness, evil arrives
Wiz: Darkrai, the Pitch Black Pokémon
Boomstick: And Wilfre, the shadow Raposa from Drawn to Life
Wiz: In this battle of shadow-born evil we will take Darkrai's video game, anime, and manga feats and abilities into account to try and ensure the fairest fight possible
Boomstick: He's Wiz and I'm Boomstick
Wiz: And its our job to analyze their weapons, armor, and skill to see who would win a Death Battle
Darkrai[]
Wiz: In the beginning, Arceus, the God of all Pokémon, created the Pokémon world and all the Pokémon that exist in it
Boomstick: Among those created include the Legendary Birds Articuno, Zapdos, and Moltres, the Creation Trio of Dialga, Palkia, and Giratina, and the Lake Guardians Azelf, Uxie, and Mespirit, along with a shit-ton of other duos and trios to list
Wiz: Among those are the Lunar Duo of Cresselia and Darkrai, the Pokémon that hold powers over the world's dreams and sleep
Boomstick: Darkrai is basically your classic boogieman made into a Pokémon, the mere sight of him would be more than enough to make the most emotionally hardened man piss his pants
Wiz: Although the interpretation of Darkrai differs from each Pokémon medium, most of the anime and video games have him depicted as a malicious nightmare causing monster
Boomstick: Which is probably the most obvious thing you'd assume appearance wise. Nobody would want to cuddle up to that even if someone had a gun against their head
Wiz: In the anime, Darkrai's appearances are much more like this, with him intentionally causing nightmares of the people of Canalave City, along with causing nightmares to some of Ash's Pokémon later on down the road
Boomstick: In some of the video games its even worse, with Darkrai wanting to plunge multiple dimensions in darkness, fucking with the Pokémon Mystery Dungeon's world in order to complete that goal, along with wanting to merge together Wish Park with PokePark in PokePark 2
Wiz: The anime movie and mangas, however, give an entirely different view on the Pitch Black Pokémon, as a misunderstood, gentle Pokémon who has no control over his nightmare causing abilities
Boomstick: This version of Darkrai tried to do good after being rescued by Alicia, a woman who helped an injured Darkrai a long time ago
Wiz: Not to mention this version only caused the towns nightmares and anomalies in an attempt to ward off Dialga and Palkia from the town, who were aiming to kill each other and could've possibly destroyed the town in their battle.
Boomstick: But as luck would have it, Darkrai's attempts failed to work. Which led to him having to directly face the two dimensional Pokémon
Wiz: All these different interpretations lead to many questions on what to account for Darkrai's feats. So for convenience, all canon sources will be composited for feats, this includes Pokémon Mystery Dungeon as it's confirmed that it exists within the Pokémon universe, just in a separate dimension
Boomstick: Darkrai is a pure Dark Type Pokémon, making him strong against other Dark Type Pokémon and Psychic Type Pokémon, it also makes him immune against any Psychic type attacks. Eat that Sylvia Browne!
Wiz: His own ability also makes him a... nightmare... to deal with. Huuuh?
Boomstick: Wiz, there's a reason I'm the funny one. Stick to being the unfunny nerd.
Wiz: Aw...
Boomstick: Darkrai's ability is Bad Dreams, which doesn't sound too bad, but it's a nightmare for sleeping Pokémon--
Wiz: Hey!
Boomstick: Bad Dreams constantly damages a sleeping opponent until they snap awake, which normally takes one to seven turns to do so
Wiz: His move set is also very adept at making sure defending Pokémon will be put to sleep
Boomstick: His go-to move to start a battle is Dark Void, which not only puts the target to sleep, but also lowers its defense
Wiz: He also has the move Hypnosis, which also puts opponents to sleep, but without the lowering of defense
Boomstick: While in normal circumstances having Pokémon asleep just seems like a waste of time, those moves combined with Bad Dreams allow Darkrai to cash in on damage almost immediately
Wiz: Among Darkrai's other status attacks include Confusion, which obviously puts the target in a state of confusion, Double Team which increases his evasion and makes him harder to hit. and Nasty Plot, which raises his special attack
Boomstick: Now we can get to the good shit, attacks that actually do damage.
Wiz: Quick Attack, Shadow Ball, Psychic, and Shadow Sneak are simple attacks that deal basic damage to enemies, nothing too special about them
Boomstick: Foul Play does more damage the higher an enemies attack stat is, and Sucker Punch is a physical move that goes first every time
Wiz: Dream Eater is an attack that does damage to any sleeping opponent and restores 50 percent of Darkrai's health
Boomstick: Night Shade and Ominous Wind are unavoidable attacks, and both have a chance to raise all of Darkrai's stats
Wiz: Dark Pulse is a ranged attack that has a chance to make a target flinch if it makes contact
Boomstick: And finally Hex, an attack that does more damage based on how many status effects are afflicted on a target
Wiz: With this repertoire of moves and effective abilities, Darkrai can easily hold its own in a fight.
Boomstick: He's easily defeated two Dusknoir at once, and was one of the hundreds of Pokémon that had the pleasure of making Team Fuck-It blast off. He also was able to hold and blow back a falling Palkia and Dialga with his moves.
Wiz: The two dragon Pokémon weigh 1500 pounds and 440 pounds respectively. In the real world, the rule of thumb is that it takes 3.5 Newtons of force to send one pound into the air, so in order to catch and launch them both back up into the air, Darkrai would have exerted over 8,600 Newtons of force
Boomstick: Damn, thats alot of Newtons, and a large stomach ache to go with it
Wiz: Moving onto some more impressive territory, Darkrai was able to take on both Dialga and Palkia and survive after he sent them back into the air.
Boomstick: Those two are part of the Creation Trio, and can screw around the fabric of space and time, and although he was knocked on his ass, Darkrai was able to get back up within a matter of minutes.
Wiz: But even more impressive was his collapse of the Temporal Tower
Boomstick: Wondered why we brought up Pokémon Mystery Dungeon? This was why. He was able to distort the fabric of reality in PMD and managed to collapse the Temporal Tower, so he can rule the world in darkness. The only thing that stopped him was the player and their partner undoing that in the past, making Darkrai come to the past to try and do it again.
Wiz: Collapsing the Tower in the first place demonstrated just how powerful his distortion abilities were, with even the likes of Dialga being corrupted by Darkrai's influence and Palkia having no control to fix what Darkrai had done.
Boomstick: The Temporal Tower is 24 stories tall, and looks alot like the Leaning Tower of Piza, but blue and much taller
Wiz: Comparing the amount of stories the Temporal Tower has to the Tower of Piza, the Temporal Tower is about 3 times larger in all aspects. 558 feet tall, 43,500 tonnes, and an outer diameter of 150 feet. In order to collapse this structure, it would have taken, at minimum, 50 tons of TNT
Boomstick: And that was just by him fucking around with space and time
Wiz: More impressive when you realized that power stumped the Pokemon responsible for keeping up with time and space
Boomstick: Being said though, he was still beaten by what are basically 10 year olds with super powers and had his memory erased by Cresselia and Palkia when he tried to escape
Wiz: Right. While powerful in his own right, he can easily be outmatched by the likes of Dialga and Palkia, who were able to effortlessly block his attacks and knock him back to the ground, and as you said, was beaten by a couple of children.
Boomstick: Not to mention that his Bad Dreams ability and some of the moves in his move set only work when his opponents are asleep, leaving them rather useless until Darkrai gets an opportunity to use Dark Void or Hypnosis
Wiz: Still, the Pitch Black Pokémon will stop at nothing to try and plunge the world into darkness, or try and stay away from others in other universes
Darkrai: I will seize control of the darkened world.... as its king!
Wilfre[]
Boomstick: There are many stories told in the world, but this one is special, this is the story of the Raposa Race
Wiz: Using his power, the Creator... created, the world of the Raposa, creating its planet, forests, sun, and the Raposa race itself
Boomstick: But that all changed when the Darkness came, when the Hell did God decide to invent evil?
Wiz: He didn't, that was the doing of one of his beloved creations, a Raposa named Wilfre
Boomstick: We're not even 2 minutes into his analysis and the Bible euphemism's are all over the place
Wiz: Wilfre was a well respected and admired Raposa living in the village of Rapoville
Boomstick: But then, for some reason, he started to wonder why Raposa weren't allowed to draw in the Book of Life. So one night he broke into Creation Hall and stole the Book of Life.
Wiz: He then went back home, and drew in the Book of Life
Boomstick: And wouldn't you know it, the Creator had a really good fucking reason why Raposa couldn't draw in it
Wiz: What came out from Wilfre's creations were horrid Shadow Walkers, devoid of anything good that the Creator inked into his own creations
Boomstick: Wilfre was then caught and was chased out of town, and in a fit of rage, he tore apart the Book of Life and threw the remaining pages at the feet of the Mayor
Wiz: Saddened by the destruction of the Book of Life, the Creator sealed off Creation Hall, and he wasn't heard from since
Boomstick: Wow, what a bitch
Wiz: Wilfre also went into hiding, but he did eventually come back to the village, but in a much different form
Boomstick: Now fully corrupted by shadow and darkness, Wilfre was now hellbent on destroying the Creator and "freeing" the Raposa from him
Wiz: The only thing that could stop him was the Creator's own hero, if he failed, Wilfre would claim the world as his
Boomstick: But that Hero didn't stop Wilfre from killing the Mayor and stealing the Book of Life
Wiz: It was then a final showdown awaited with the Hero and Wilfre
Boomstick: This being a "Good Guy Always Win" storyline, Wilfre was defeated, and it looked as if peace returned to the village
Wiz: Until one night, when a young Raposa girl named Heather found a chest on the beach, inside was a scepter, and when the rest of the village woke up, they were greeted with a familiar face.
Boomstick: That's right, Wilfre was back, possessing Heather like a damn Venom symbiote thing
Wiz: This time around, Wilfre was even more powerful, draining the color from the entire world and sending who remained at the village fleeing to the ocean
Boomstick: This time for sure Wilfre had the upper hand, but as per usual, the Hero was created and fucked up everything for him
Wiz: Once again, it was a battle for the ages, Light vs Darkness for ultimate victory
Boomstick: But as per usua--
Wilfre blasts Drew with a ray of color, and reduces him to the wooden mannequin he once was
Boomstick: Holy shit, he won?!
Wiz: That he did Boomstick. With the scepter in hand, the Hero didn't even stand a chance
Boomstick: Well, he must've ran home to Dad and complained, cause 5 minutes later, and a lot of prayer later from the Raposa, the Creator both brought back the Hero and destroyed the Scepter. Bitch move Creator, bitch move.
Wiz: Wilfre was once again defeated, and at last, his reign of terror was finally silenced
Boomstick: Phew... that the story out of the way finally, now for the good shit
Wiz: Wilfre wasn't another random blip on the Creator's radar, he was an huge danger for the Raposa
Boomstick: It's not hard to see why either, no Raposa before or since had even dared to draw in the Book of Life, that took some massive balls to do
Wiz: After his corruption, he only got even more dangerous
Boomstick: Being a figure of shadow and darkness, Wilfre has some of the usual powers associated with it
Wiz: Wilfre is able to manipulate Shadow and create it, even corrupting other beings like Deadwood and turning them to his side
Boomstick: Wilfre can also fly, but on the downside of that, he is vulnerable to attack while flying
Wiz: And naturally as a Shadow, he can't be touched. Any attack made on him while is he standing still or floating in place will only go through him
Boomstick: So far he doesn't sound too impressive, but after he killed the Mayor of Rapoville, he got access to one of the most powerful items in the Raposa World's universe, the Book of Life.
Wiz: The Book of Life isn't just a silly collection of things the Creator made, this Book controls the fabric of reality of the Drawn to Life Universe. Remove any page from the Book, that item associated with the page will disappear.
Boomstick: Along with that, Wilfre can use anything that the Creator made for the Hero, mainly shooting stars and tridents
Wiz: There is also one creation Wilfre has stashed away in the Book of Life+ just in case, the Ultimate Creation
Boomstick: The Ultimate Creation is Wilfre's self-proclaimed greatest creation, a throne sitting on a cloud of darkness
Wiz: This thing can fire lightning at whoever is in the way, and can create a tornado that sucks in anyone in the room
Boomstick: But that shit pales in comparison to Wilfre's ultimate weapon, the Scepter
Wiz: Wilfre's Scepter is easily his most powerful weapon, capable of firing blasts of rainbow energy fast enough to tag the Hero, who is able to dodge attacks from a living sun and pilot a spaceship through space
Boomstick: Hell, that's not all. He can also summon Ghosts to help him fight, can disguise himself as others, and can create portals for him to travel through or to suck in others
Wiz: But most powerful of all, he can easily bring the world and those in it to an end with a simple raise of the scepter
Boomstick: That scepter is able to drain the color from someone or the area around Wilfre, leaving the area around him stuck in place and to those who have their color sucked away, a grey and lifeless husk
Wiz: That's not all when it comes to his power, if he is somehow killed, he always manages to come back, even after being wiped out by the Creator himself.
Boomstick: How he managed to do that? I ain't got a fucking clue.
Wiz: On that note, Wilfre is not perfect, even with the Scepter, he fell to the Creator's Hero twice
Boomstick: On top of that, he is also very arrogant and always underestimates his opponents, even shitting on the Creator and the Hero, only to be sliced apart
Wiz: But the Creator and the Raposa Race better watch out, for Wilfre will always pose a threat as long as he draws breath.
Wilfre: Aww, the poor little Hero who lost his color! Frail and weak! Just like the ones that believe in you… but do they really believe? They are too busy looking out for themselves. Risking everything for fame and glory… hoarding resources, and writing rules to support the structure, instead of the life it was meant to protect. Now, blinded by the beauty of creation, they have lost connection to the world that we create! The perfect storm is at hand, and with this scepter I will end your reign of tyranny once and for all!
Pre-Death Battle[]
Wiz: Alright the combatants are set! Let's end this debate once and for all!
Boomstick: It's time for a Death Battle!
Death Battle[]
Location: Wilfre's Wasteland
(Wilfre sits quietly in a candle-lit room, sketching in empty pages in the Book of Life)
Wilfre: Come on... one of my creations has to come out looking right
(He scribbles some more and eventually puts down the pencil)
Wilfre: It's perfect! Come my creation! Rise!
(A pool of shadow and ink starts to bubble, but it gets swallowed by an opening portal)
Wilfre: Huh?
(A black shadowy figure emerges from the portal, a red crest on it head, staring menacingly at the Shadow Raposa)
Wilfre: My creation... it's perfect!
(The figure floats in place, narrowing its one visible eye)
Wilfre: Now that little Hero is on his way! I want you--
(The figure's eyes glow)
Wilfre: AHHG!! (He holds his head in pain and a voice fills his ears)
???: I am Darkrai, and I am not yours to command. Your meddling with darkness has cause chaos in my realm, and I am here to put a stop to it!
Wilfre: (he growls and closes the Book of Life, absorbing it into his shadow) You're not going to stop my overthrow of the Creator! (Wilfre grabs his scepter and holds it in front of him) Everything else be damned!
Darkrai: (he lets out a low growl and floats in place)
FIGHT!!!
(Darkrai dashes forward and presses his hands together. Using Dark Void, he unleashes orbs of shadow)
Wilfre: (He is hit by the orbs and falls drowsy, dropping to his knees and falling asleep)
Darkrai: (He unleashed Dream Eater and strikes Wilfre, who is sent backwards, still asleep)
(Darkrai floats towards Wilfre, who jerks in his sleep, being tormented by Darkrai’s nightmares)
Darkrai: Sleep you fool… forever
(Darkrai readies Shadow Ball and hurls it at Wilfre, but the shadow around him simply absorbs the shadow)
Darkrai: What?
Wilfre: (he snaps awake and scrambles to his feet) How dare you?!
(Wilfre flies towards Darkrai and whacks him with the Scepter, Darkrai recoiling in pain and growling)
Darkrai: (he disappears from sight)
Wilfre: So… you’re just going to hide and give up? You’re no better than the Creator, hiding in fear from my powers
(Wilfre raises his Scepter and fires a blast of color, hitting Darkrai and exposing his location)
(Darkrai gets up and faces Wilfre, raising his arms and his head crest glowing, a blast of an ominous wind was called, striking Wilfre)
Wilfre: (he shouts in pain and looks at Darkrai)
Darkrai: (his eye narrows and his crest glows again, disappearing again and becoming a shadow, aiming to strike Wilfre)
Wilfre: (he calls out and a trident forms in his hand, which he throws at Darkrai)
(Darkrai roars and gets forced out of his shadow form, stopping the attack in its tracks)
Wilfre: Aww, poor little demon, with a trident in its arm
(Darkrai pulls out the trident and breaks it, once again the crest on his head glowing. Wilfre tries to summon another trident but fails, looks like that attack was disabled)
Wilfre: Grr… so be it! Didn’t think I’d have to use this until the wittle hewo got here!
(Wilfre reaches into his body and pulls out the Book of Life, placing a page in it and absorbing it back into his shadow)
Wilfre: BEHOLD DEMON! MY ULTIMATE CREATION!
(A throne appeared from under Wilfre and rose him up into the air, a massive storm cloud appearing under it
Darkrai: (he stares up at it, almost unimpressed)
Wilfre: (He grins and fires a bolt of lightning, trying to strike Darkrai)
(Darkrai narrowly dodges the attack, and flies up to meet Wilfre in the air)
Wilfre: You are much more persistent than that Hero, I’ll give you that
(Wilfre fires more bolts of lightning, Darkrai either dodging or blocking the bolts with his own powers)
(Darkrai growls and the crest on his glows again, Darkrai is seemingly growing tired of fighting Wilfre)
Darkrai: (his eye glows purple and he attacks Wilfre)
Wilfre: Ahhg! Not again! (Wilfre holds his head in pain and Darkrai’s voice fills his ears)
Darkrai: Pathetic little creature, you have no power to beat me. On this day, I will prevail!
(Darkrai shouts and he raises his arms and thrusts them forward, striking Wilfre, knocking him off of his throne and through the ceiling, then falling back onto the ground)
(Darkrai disappears once more and teleports outside the castle, mustering his energy together)
Darkrai: (he closes his eyes and focuses his energy, the ground below him beginning to quake)
(The shaking grows stronger, and in a split second, the castle that him and Wilfre were just fighting in was now a pile of rubble)
Darkrai: Just like the Temporal Tower…
(Darkrai turns to float away but stops, he looks around him, and sees color fading away)
Darkrai: What is this…?
(Wilfre’s own voice echoes from the area)
Wilfre: Hehehehe… little clueless ghost, you like many others have failed.
(Darkrai turns around and sees Wilfre, scepter held high)
Darkrai: (he growls and launches attacks, which only go right through Wilfre, and the shadow attacks only absorbing into his shadow)
Wilfre: Have you not learned already? You can’t hurt me
(Darkrai continues to launch attacks, only to get blasted with a beam of color, knocking him to the ground)
Wilfre: (he grins, raising the scepter in the air, draining even more color from the area)
Darkrai: (he gets up, and his once again greeted by a blast of color)
(Wilfre holds the attack and walks towards Darkrai, the Pitch Black Pokémon struggling to stay upright)
Wilfre: Get one thing straight here, in this world, in this universe, I AM GOD!
(Wilfre unleashes a massive blast of color, Darkrai getting sent flying in the air. Wilfre flies up to greet him and slams him with the scepter, knocking him back to the ground)
(Darkrai struggles to get back up, but stops, looking at his hand. It was going gray like the environment around him)
Darkrai: Wha… what is this?!
(Wilfre lands in front of Darkrai)
Wilfre: Your doom
(He raises his scepter once more, and in a few seconds, Darkrai is turned into a grayed out figure, locked in place)
Wilfre: (he brings out the Book of Life and goes to the page he scribbled on, tearing it out of the book and crumpling it up) Back to the drawing board then…
K.O!!!
(Wilfre stands at the ruins of his castle, while the Hero inspects what looks like a statue representing Darkness in the Wasteland)
Results[]
Boomstick: Stone cold Wilfre, stone cold
Wiz: While Darkrai was much stronger in direct combat and definitely had more variety in his move set, Wilfre edged him out in all other categories
Boomstick: For starters, neither of them proved too impressive in a fight, both often being losers that lose convincingly. Wilfre by the Creator incarnate and Darkrai by Dialga, Palkia, Cresselia, and two basic Pokémon in the form the PMD player and partner
Wiz: While warding off Palkia and Dialga for a little bit sounds impressive, Wilfre was able to beat the Hero at his strongest, only failing when the Creator intervened
Boomstick: Not to mention that there really wasn't a way Darkrai could hurt Wilfre. Most attacks usually go through him when is standing still
Wiz: Even then, in the first Drawn to Life, its implied that the only way Wilfre could have been killed was by using the Legendary Sword, without it, the Hero would have stood little to no chance. Add to the fact that many of Darkrai's attacks used shadow in some way, it wouldn't have done anything to Wilfre even if they made contact.
Boomstick: While Darkrai did have the power to collapse a 24 story tower and survive a fight against Palkia and Dialga, Wilfre held his own against the Creator's Hero, which is literally an extension of the Creator, with all the power that comes with it too
Wiz: Wilfre also had two aces in the hole, the Book of Life and the Scepter
Boomstick: The Book of Life could have instantly wiped Darkrai out of the fight with just a simple scribble or page removal, and the Scepter is basically a damn cheat code for Wilfre
Wiz: Particularly with its power to fire the beams of color. As stated before, the Hero has able to react to the rays of a living son and pilot a spaceship in space, giving him a reaction speed at least twice the speed of light. So to hit the Hero with those beams is no easy task
Boomstick: Darkrai failed to show he could dodge similar attacks, leaving him easy pickings for Wilfre
Wiz: The scepter also had the advantage of it not being able to be destroyed by anyone but the Creator himself, leaving Darkrai at a major disadvantage out the gate
Boomstick: Wilfre also had the ability to just suck out Darkrai's color, effectively killing Darkrai within a matter of seconds
Wiz: In the end, while Darkrai proved a versatile and hearty fighter, he could not evade the instant damage capabilities and the toughness of the Shadow Raposa
Boomstick: Darkrai almost had it, but Wilfre ended up drawing up the victory
Wiz: The winner is Wilfre