| Humanity will pay for our wrongful damnation… | |
|---|---|
| Season | 2 |
| Season Episode | 7 |
| Air date | Some day… |
| Written by | Cheesypickles564 |
| Episode guide | |
| Previous Captain Boomerang vs The Sniper |
Next Han Solo VS James T. Kirk |
Dracula vs Magneto is a What-If? Death Battle written by Cheesypickles564, featuring Dracula from the Castlevania series against Magneto from Marvel Comics.
Description[]
Castlevania vs Marvel. To be shunned for what you are… to be tortured, tantalized, to even have your family brutally murdered, what do you do in response? These two revolutionaries won’t stop at anything to get their cause—annihilation of humanity.
Interlude[]
Puppy: Dracula, Castlevania’s immortal vampire lord.
Kitty: And Magneto, the mutant master of magnetism!
Puppy: These two were ruined solely for being what they were, and that really does something to a man.
Kitty: So they decided on the foolproof route—revenge! He’s Puppy and I’m Kitty.
Puppy: And it’s our job to analyze their weapons, armor and skills to find out who would win a Death Battle.
“Dracula Rises Into Death Battle!”[]
(Cue: “Illusionary Dance” - Castlevania: Rondo of Blood)
Kitty: The world of Castlevania is a crazy place, with creepy crawlers, jack-o-lanterns, and other spooks!
Puppy: It’s actually a lot more intense than that, but today we’re talking about one man’s fall from grace and into temptation.
Kitty: Enter Mathias Cronqvist, a strategic genius working under a band of knights, alongside his friend and descendant-of-future-archenemies, Leon Belmont. While away on a campaign, Math’s wife Elisabetha died of illness, causin’ him great despair…does this mean Mathias is single now?
Puppy: …Kitty…I’m not sure you’d want him anymore after we cover the path he went down. Mathias was so distraught that he went as far as to curse God and begin to meddle in the dark arts in order to gain his vengeance against his creator—vengeance that lied in the opposite of God, Chaos.
Kitty: So ya see, a legend long before the events we’ve covered states that for God to be the good, givin’ guy we know, he needs someone fully evil to add balance to the universe. This evil guy was the aforementioned Chaos, and he needed a champion—a messiah of the dark, if you will. Though Mathias fit the job description already, he also needed immense power!
Puppy: This immense power was sought in the form of the Crimson Stone, a powerful rock and a very elaborate plan I will talk about soon and—
Kitty: Emos and hipsters, remember to take notes.
Puppy: After gaining the Crimson Stone, Mathias would convince a vampire named Walter to murder his old friend Leon’s fiancé, causing him to kill Walter in retaliation. Finally, he’d manipulate Death itself to merge Walter’s soul and the Crimson Stone, giving Mathias the power of a vampire!
Kitty: Hmmm… does this sum it up?
Puppy: Good enough. Immense power and immortality had cost the heartbroken Mathias his humanity, and so he donned the new name, Dracula Vlad Ţepeş, otherwise known as Count Dracula. Kitty: Yeah, so now you see how all that spooky stuff from before ties into this, huh? Well this Dracula isn’t just a remake of Bram Stoker’s works, he’s actually a really badass vampire.
Puppy: But even with these new upgrades, Dracula could still feel love, which was made evident when he married a woman that reminded him of his past wife, a woman named Lisa.
Kitty: The two were a real Transylvanian power-couple, and they eventually had a kid named Alucard! Things changed though, when poor Lisa was accused of witchcraft and burned at the stake…wait, didn’t this already happen? I feel bad for this guy.
Puppy: Vlad’s anger eventually built up into not just a worsening hatred for God, but also hatred for humanity as well. This led to his powers growing and growing, which actually makes a really cool final boss! Whether he’s throwing you around with his telekinesis or evading your attacks with his teleportation, Dracula’s arsenal goes far beyond the simple sucking of blood.
Kitty: Vlad’s capable of flying, ripping victims apart with razor-sharp hands, blasting opponents with fireballs—you name it! He’s even capable of accessing many forms like a giant head, a giant demonic bird, and a…giant demon in general. Jesus…
Puppy: But his true ace-in-the-hole is his impeccable regeneration. Because of his existence as Chaos’ messiah—an antichrist if anything, Dracula is nigh-unkillable, meaning he’s capable of regenerating everything down to his entire body! That’s really impressive, even if attacks that completely annihilate him take, well, a hundred years to come back from.
Kitty: But offense-wise, Vlad’s most powerful attack is the Demonic Megiddo, a powerful attack that blasts everything in the vicinity with Holy Fire, a surefire way to win a fight.
Puppy: Alongside this, Dracula can make it rain acidic blood, pull meteors from the sky, heal his wounds with another person’s life energy, shapeshift into bats, and even possess others!
Kitty: With such a huge arsenal, I wonder how Drac ever actually failed…he probably could’ve gotten away with it too, if it weren’t for those meddling Belmonts.
Puppy: You haven’t heard that name for a while, hmm? Because of Vlad’s impending plan to wipe out humanity, Simon Belmont, the ancestor of Vlad’s former-ally-turned-archenemy Leon Belmont, fought Dracula in order to save his captive wife! Simon’s holy weaponry eventually succeeded, but Dracula still left a mark on the world, and he would revive every hundred years.
Kitty: But despite all of these incarnations, Drac’s still powerful as before, as shown when his future incarnations like Soma Cruz could dodge light easily and tank meteors!
Puppy: Dracula’s weaker blows can break through stone effortlessly, and he’s far superior to the Time Reaper, who was capable of destroying every Castlevania timeline. He’s even created black holes, a feat that would require 66 zetatons of force!
Kitty: Even though he has his ol’ weak-spot head, Drac’s also incredibly durable, too. He can survive his two million ton castle collapsin’ on him, shrug off lightning strikes and blades-to-the-heart, and even the massive explosion of his own Dark Inferno attack.
Puppy: He’s moved faster than human eyesight can perceive, kept up with the personification of Death, who can travel large spaces in seconds to reach a victim, and react to point-blank crossbow fire and even beams of pure light! Vlad isn’t without fault, though.
Kitty: Yeah, your final boss always has to have the hard-to-exploit weaknesses that you spend hours lookin’ for! His head is his weak spot, as is his arrogance! He can’t come back from attacks that entirely annihilate him for a while, but he can only be permanently killed by holy weapons.
Puppy: But through countless rebirths and changes in society, Vlad Dracula’s name will remain as the pinnacle of true fear and terror.
Dracula: “One year... I gave you one year to make your peace with your God. And what do you do? Celebrate the day you killed my wife. One year I gave you, while I assembled my armies. And now I bring your death. You had your chance...”
“Magneto Fights for Mutantkind in Death Battle!”[]
(Cue: “Theme of Magneto” - Marvel vs Capcom 3)
Puppy: To be accepted into society despite your differences—that is the true meaning of equality. The word is a cruel place though, and many are not seen as the same.
Kitty: And one of the people that fits into that percentage of humanity was Erik Lehnsherr…er, Magnus Lehnsherr…Max Eisenhardt? How many names does this guy have?
Puppy: Many, my friend, many. But this tragic man’s alias is…Magneto.
Kitty: Huh…? Is he like a refrigerator magnet, or what…? Ugh…back on topic. Ya see, Max was born in the early 1930s with the “X-Gene,” a mutation that gives their host superpowers! It seems pretty damn cool on paper, but humanity also hated these mutants, and to make it worse, Max was a Jewish child during the time of Adolf Hitler’s rule. Harsh.
Puppy: As a teenager, Max was forced into the death camp Auschwitz, where he was separated from his parents and tortured alongside other Jews, but it was also there where he discovered his mutation’s ability: Magnetism.
Kitty: Yet again, a fridge magnet. Gonna need him to hold up my kid’s drawings…well, he escaped with both his future wife and a pocket full of brain-wracking guilt, but good for him, he had a daughter!
Puppy: …who was killed in an attack on his family, with Max unable to help her because of a mob preventing him from doing so. His wife left him soon after with guilt over the event, and he was left alone.
Kitty: Muh…? This guy can not catch a break…but he would later find peace with Charles Xavier, a powerful mutant psychic he met at a psychiatric ward. The two were natural best-buddies, becomin’ heroes together and hoping to create a society where mutants and humans could coexist!
Puppy: But after realizing how much humanity actually sucked, Magneto changed his mind. He wouldn’t live with filth, he would clean it.
Kitty: Hey, he’s becomin’ a lot like Hitler now…which is kinda ironic. But he kinda defected from workin’ with Charles…er, Chuck. We’ll call him Chuck. But from this point on, Magneto’s dreams of peace were gone. Instead, he would destroy all of humanity!
Puppy: But he needed a team, and a team he would find with a group of mutants that sympathized with his goal. This group was called “the Brotherhood” and consisted of quite a few members.
Kitty: We’ve got Toad, the villainous croaking mutant, Wanda and Pietro Maximoff, mutant twins with reality warping and super speed respectively, and Unus…the Untouchable? Peeper? …Random? …I was expected an all-star lineup, but this works…?
Puppy: Even then, Magneto would still push on for his goal with this team, but he also has a few powers to assist him as well.
Kitty: Ignore everything I said before, Magneto’s powers actually go far beyond simple fridge magnets. He can mock physics by bending and reshaping any form of metal, yeah, but because of the small amount of metal in human blood, he can manipulate that as well! Hell, he even has a few enemies that rely on metal, so couldn’t he have pulled Wolverine’s skeleton out of his body or just squished Colossus into a tinfoil ball? Y’know, if this guy thought even more about the possibilities, he could’ve gotten his goal a lot faster.
Puppy: True, but there’s even more. He can fly by manipulating his magnetic field, create forcefields and weaponry out of energy, and he’s even capable of temporarily shutting off someone’s nervous system!
Kitty: It’s all thanks to magnets, bitch! He’s actually a lot cooler than I thought at first. Puppy, you’re smart, right? Can you just give me an X-Gene right now, and I can go around squishin’ up peoples’ cars!
Puppy: I’ve already tried that…you’re welcome for your ungodly alcohol tolerance.
Kitty: Oh…but Max can even pull metals apart on a molecular level and even pull apart their atomic structure…so in short, the police should really stop using bullets on him.
Puppy: And as if a myriad of powers wasn’t enough, Magneto also has a bit of equipment, too.
Kitty: Enter that crimson-and-purple suit we’ve all grown to love! While it may not look like much, Magneto’s ability to reshape metals allows him to also alter the properties of his suit, meaning he could make it more durable than Adamantium in the blink of an eye! Y’know, Adamantium, the super-powerful fictional metal that’s strong enough to tank full-powered hits from people like Thor!
Puppy: His helmet is just as impressive. It’s designed to protect him from attacks on his mind, which is especially helps him against that pesky Professor X, but that’s barely scraping the surface of feats Max is capable of.
Kitty: He can catch bullets moments before they hit him, and he’s even used a different galaxy’s magnetic pull to return to Earth from another galaxy in less than a day! Even when taken at face value, that’s faster than lightspeed!
Puppy: It’s even been stated that Magneto’s powers can work faster than the speed of thought, and that’s especially proven when he’s capable of fighting off people like Northstar and Quicksilver, who are both capable of moving much faster than light with ease, meaning that Magneto scales to speeds faster than 670 million miles per hour.
Kitty: That’s actually really impressive for such an old guy! But he’s also survived some pretty fucked-up things, just like Puppy lookin’ at himself in the mirror.
Puppy: Yes, it truly is—hey?! Well, Max has survived being attacked by pretty much every member of the X-Men, including the life-manipulating Phoenix and the sharp-tongued and sharp-clawed Wolverine. But, to be less vague, Magneto’s capable of surviving a direct blow to the chest from Cyclops’ earth-cutting Optic Blasts, and even shots from bullets powered by stars!
Kitty: He can also tank hits from Thor, Iron Man and even the Hulk, all three of which who can fight planet and even universe level beings! Of course, Magneto’s capable of impressive feats with his hands, too.
Puppy: Magneto can pull planet-destroying bullets out of their original path, and even attack with a force comparable to the sun itself! He’s even fought a weaker version of the Phoenix Force, who can effortlessly destroy planets. Of course, he has his weaknesses.
Kitty: Pullin’ all of this metal around actually takes a huge toll on his body, and when he’s severely injured, pushin’ himself too hard results in surefire death. But even though he’s really cool, Magneto eventually saw the error of his ways and shifted back to the humans-love-mutants mindset, eventually becoming a champion for the greater good.
Puppy: He may have changed, but Max Eisenhardt’s revolutionary mark on his world remains, and it truly shows the difference hate makes.
Kitty: Go get ‘em, fridge magnet!
Magneto: “I am no hero. Merely a man who has seen and done and endured what can never be forgotten or forgiven.”
Intermission[]
Puppy: Alright, the combatants are set, and we've run the data through all possibilities. Feel free to vote for who you believe will win in the poll: https://strawpoll.com/e2narK8wAgB
Kitty: But now! IT'S TIME FOR A DEATH BATTLLLLLLLLLLE!!!!
Pre-Fight[]
Southern Europe. The invitation said to meet somewhere in Southern Europe, and it took quite a bit of searching for Max Eisenhardt, better known as Magneto, to find where his mysterious host had invited him to.
Magneto stood in front of a large castle, the form only being able to be made out because of the shining light from the blood moon directly behind it. It was already suspicious, but the mutant was so intrigued by the invitation.
“Hmph.” Magneto sighed before walking towards the castle’s door and twisting his hand, bending the metal gate in a mockery of physics and throwing it to the side. The light of his crimson-coated suit faded as he entered the dark interior of the castle.
Chilling organ music and bat squeaks echoed through the large castle as Max’s heavy boots thudded against the carpeted ground. He looked around at the impressive interior, his eyes lying on an ancient piece of furniture. He sighs once more before continuing through the halls.
He stopped before another gate and squished it into a ball telekinetically just as easily as the first, eventually throwing it to the side and continuing into what appeared to be a throne room.
(Cue: Togatta and Fugue in D Minor)
Magneto stopped and looked at the sight before him. Candles in antique holders, impressive design, all complete with an ominous throne in the center, with a shady figure sitting upon it. Now there was one question—what was he invited for?
“I applaud you for inviting me to your…humble home, but now I may ask, why have you summoned me?” Magneto said with a hidden scowl, raising his open palm at his host.
“Why such a monotone demeanor, my friend? Your line delivery was so wooden, that you could drive it into my heart and kill me here!” The man on the throne chuckled, shifting forward and allowing himself to be seen in the dim candlelight.
He had pale skin, a thin mustache, and long gray hair. He was in a luxurious medieval tuxedo, all coming together to remind Magneto of the vampires in stories.
“But, truth be told, I have grown…bored of the norm. Normal blood doesn’t taste as exquisite as it had in my youthful years…” Dracula drags on, smirking and leaning back in his throne, playfully shaking the top of his wine glass with an open hand.
“And when I caught word of…mutants…I was intrigued. From that moment on, I wanted a taste of mutated blood.” Dracula stands up and throws his wine glass to the ground, shattering instantly and echoing throughout the throne room.
“Hmph. It is not a mere mutant you face…you hope to attack the Master of Magnetism, and get away with impunity?” Magneto yells, telekinetically pulling two metal candle-holders towards his opponent.
Dracula chuckles in response. “Master of Magnetism…? You are naught but a magnetic charlatan.” The vampire says before shifting his cape to the side and teleporting out of the attack path of the two candlesticks, causing them to smash into his throne.
Reappearing behind the mutant, Dracula stretches an open palm out. “Besides, I’ve saved room for dessert!” He chuckles before creating a fireball and blasting it towards Magneto!
(Cue: Symphony of Darkness - Therewolf Media)
Fight![]
Dracula’s bright fireball bolted towards Magneto, who was caught off-guard and struck in the back with a blow so powerful that it sent him barreling into Vlad’s throne!
The debris quickly cleared and Magneto rose to his feet, revealing his lack of significant damage. “A cheap trick, vampire.” He mutters before telekinetically lifting Vlad’s golden throne from the ground and molding it into a giant spike.
The Master of Magnetism scoffs before magnetically hurling the giant golden spike at the vampire, tearing straight through his chest and pinning him to the ground.
“A pitiful stake, mutant!” Dracula chuckles before dissipating into a swarm of bats that darts towards Magneto. The mutant’s eyes widen as he sees the massive clump of bats preparing to swarm him, and he creates a forcefield around himself to stop the attack.
Max Eisenhardt’s sight of the castle’s interior became blurrier and blurrier as bats swarmed the outside of the forcefield, attempting to break through the mutant’s defenses.
“I have had… enough!” Magneto yells, quickly expanding the forcefield and attacking the swarming bats, causing them all to reform into the Dark Lord, who staggered backwards with fatigue.
Magneto used his opponent’s vulnerable stage to his advantage by darting forward and grabbing the vampire by his neck and raising him into the air.
“This has been quite the dance, hasn’t it?” Dracula chuckles before disappearing, leaving a red mist behind.
“Again?” Magneto groaned, frantically turning around to find his clever opponent. He suddenly gasped and was overtaken by a blood-red aura, before violently punching his own chest.
“Why are you hitting yourself? Why are you hitting yourself?” Dracula’s disembodied voice repeatedly said inside of Magneto’s mind.
“Possession…” Magneto grumbles, straining his mind to force Dracula out of it. “You’re the one who’s hitting ME!”
Dracula rematerializes in front of Magneto, having been evicted from the mutant’s body. “On the contrary, Max, you’ve brought this upon yourself!”
The pompous Dracula wiggles his eyebrows up-and-down before sticking his open palm out and releasing another fireball in close range to Magneto!
Before the fireball could do any real damage, though, Magneto managed to manipulate the energy of the fireball and contain it in his hands. Struggling to hold the fireball, the mutant didn’t deliver snarky commentary, he instead released the energy in the form of a laser that split Dracula, and the floor behind him, in half.
Magneto didn’t expect this to be the end, however, and he was correct with that—as Dracula’s two halves stitched themselves together in an instant. The vampire smirked and prepared his next attack, mocking his opponent. “Humans never learn…”
Vlad snaps his fingers, and all at once, a large raincloud appeared over the two. “And now I’d like to know… have you ever seen the rain?”
With a flash of lightning, the raincloud began to rapidly precipitate small droplets of acidic blood, each one melting through the things they landed on. The Master of Magnetism looked at the sight with a grimace before raising his hand and calling all nearby metal to create a shield above him.
“Unfortunately for you, I am no human. I am a mutant!” Magneto yells, rapidly fortifying his defense against the acidic rain.
“But what is a mutant to a god?” Dracula yelled, as he teleported behind the mutant and held him in place with his own telekinesis. “Never leave yourself open!”
The vampire shifts his fingers to different sides, each movement sending Magneto slamming into the castle wall respective to the finger movement. “Gahh…!” Magneto yells, breaking free from the telekinesis and raising his hand at the eye of the blood storm. “Return to hell, impudent vampire!” Max Eisenhardt yelled, telekinetically taking hold of each blood droplet and pulling the metal out of each one, eventually squishing it all into a giant buzzsaw.
“A mere parlor trick!” Dracula yells back, teleporting out of the saw’s path and allowing it to slam into the ground of the castle, causing it to cut into his carpet and floors.
“Now witness real power!” Dracula smirks as he reappears midair, preparing to blast another fireball at his airborne opponent. Meanwhile, Magneto telekinetically molds the buzzsaw into a giant icicle shape, pulling it towards his opponent.
Dracula begins to laugh midair as he charges up a fireball, but he’s caught off-guard by Magneto’s metal stake piercing his abdomen and leaving a giant hole in that spot.
As Dracula’s corpse slides off the bloodstained stake, Magneto bolts towards him with flight and grabs him by the neck, eventually slamming him into the wall behind Dracula’s throne.
“Simply accept your fate, vampire!” Magneto sneers as he repeatedly forces his fist into Dracula’s already injured abdomen, but the vampire responds with a smirk. “You have been sentenced to death!”
Magneto stares in disappointment as Dracula’s open wounds simply seal themselves together, and all the blood on his luxurious clothing is erased. Dracula dissipates into red mist once more, and sudden screeches behind Magneto alert the mutant of oncoming danger.
The castle begins to shake, and Magneto turns around, only to see the walls burst open and multiple stone gargoyle and medusa heads rushing towards him, each individual head bearing bloodshot eyes.
“Enough of your cheap tricks!” Magneto yells with a grimace before flying to halfway the height of the throne room. He sticks his left hand out and places his right hand on the side of his head.
“Begone!” The mutant yells as his hand is coated in a purple aura, before a giant forcefield that covered the entirety of the back of the throne room shot out of Magneto’s hand!
Each stone head’s violent rush is halted by the forcefield, with each one crumbling on impact.
After a few moments, the onslaught of stone heads comes to a halt, allowing Magneto to close his open hand and dissipate the forcefield.
Magneto’s bated breaths and interrupted by Dracula reappearing behind him once more and chuckling. “You’ve caught on, haven’t you?”
The vampire beams with a smug look before snapping his fingers, creating a barrage of fireballs that all rush at Magneto.
Magneto levitates around the throne room at a fast pace to dodge the volley of fireballs chasing him. He stops midair and telekinetically halts all four fireballs before closing his hand into a fist, disintegrating each one. The mutant snarls and uses his outstretched fist to lift large pieces of silver from the ground.
"Hmph." Dracula looks around the vicinity, ignoring Magneto's attack. He leaps into the air to match Magneto's elevation and snaps his fingers, sending another sphere of hellfire at the Master of Magnetism. However, the silver pulled from the ground molds together in front of Magneto just in time to block the blow, before being sent forward and ensnaring Dracula. This swats the vampire out of the air and sends him and his opponent's metal trap bolting to the ground.
"Hnghh...raghhh!" Dracula groans as the metal tightens around his skin, eventually managing to power through and teleport away, suddenly rematerializing behind his mutant adversary. Instead of launching another clever attack, the vampire simply cocks his fist back, and before Magneto can process the moment, he delivers a gut-punch that sends Magneto darting away and through a stained-glass window.
Instead of taking time to recover, Magneto decides to analyze his situation. His eyes dart around in their sockets, looking for something he could use outside of the castle. In the darkness of the night, he managed to spy some nearby boulders, and using his geomagnetism, he lifts them from the ground and re-enters the castle.
"Back for more, hmm?" Dracula says with a smirk. "This is the most enjoyable battle I have had in a while!"
"I can assure you, I will not accept more of your tricks." Magneto slowly descends to Dracula's level, beginning to negotiate. "But you want blood, and I can give it to you in abundance."
Dracula, who was readying another attack, halts himself to hear more. "Go on."
Meanwhile, the boulders from afar are hovering towards the castle, while Magneto continues to divert the Dark Lord's attention from inside.
"We can assist each other in our goals. I will prove mutantkind superior, and you can wipe out all who resist, with your payment being in their blood."
"Intriguing--You have a dea--"
Dracula's agreement was interrupted by the large boulders smashing through the throne room and running into Dracula, leaving a large crater and crushing him completely, leaving only his pale head, which tumbles away with a stream of blood following.
"You fell for my diversion, vampire. I would never deal with a barbarian." The Master of Magnetism slowly hovers over to the Dark Lord's head, eventually crushing it with his foot.
Another round of Dracula's mocking chortling echoes throughout Magneto's head as he realizes how arduous a task killing Dracula will still be. The broken bits of the vampire's disembodied head raise into the air and stitches itself together, reforming the Dark Lord once more.
"Enjoying this, mutant?" Dracula chortles, raising his hand into the air. "Because this is your last dance!" Hellfire shoots in all directions, coating the entirety of the throne room's interior with flame. The force of the attack is enough to shake the very foundations of the castle, but the Master of Magnetism stands undeterred. "I beg to differ."
He coats his hands in magnetic energy and powers through the hellfire to deliver a deadly punch, but the vampire teleported away before he could do so. As soon as the vampire reappeared, Magneto flew to him to attack, but to no avail. This cycle continued for a few moments until Magneto stopped in place and thought. "I can feel your presence!" He yells before psychically holding the vampire as soon as he re-entered his sight, and throwing him through the very gates to the throne room.
Dracula regained his footwork almost instantly and slid down the carpets before the throne room, not faltering once. "I believe it's time to take you seriously, charlatan!" Dracula bellowed before priming a series of light beams, each one targeted at his opponent, who had just entered his view. This beams fire off instantly but are halted before their target, who manipulates their energy to send them back at their very summoner, who snaps his fingers and reverts the blow again. This is repeated faster and faster until the sheer force of the stalemate cracks the walls and the flooring!
The deadlock was adjourned when Dracula teleported away from the beam's path and behind his determined foe, tapping his shoulder to get his attention and following up with a sharp backhand, making Magneto vulnerable and allowing Dracula to catch the mutant in a choke hold.
Instead of mocking his opponent with a snarky reply, Dracula quickly leans forward and attempts to sink his teeth into the neck of his opponent. Magneto groans and closes his fist, altering the atomic structure of his own suit and making it hard enough to prevent the vampire from taking his blood. "You will never succeed, vamp--"
But Vlad persisted, allowing him to break through the metal and get a quick taste of the mutant's blood, but it was brief-- for Magneto shoved him off and followed up with a subsequent energy blast that sent Dracula further down the castle halls.
"Exquisite! I must have another taste!" Vlad happily yelled, leaving Magneto unsure if he was mocking him or legitimately complimenting him. This confusion didn't stop the Master of Magnetism from attacking, though, and he rips pieces from the castle walls and launches them at Dracula, who plows through each individual one with his head before swinging at Magneto with his razor-sharp claws, leaving a bleeding gash across the mutant's chest. "HNGAHH!"
"Pitiful." Dracula chuckles, licking his clawed fingers for every drop of blood spilled on them. "Where's the challenge, where's the drama? I wouldn't even waste my time for a fight like this if it weren't for your... delicious blood."
"You are a vain man... a devil, even." Magneto says between his heavy breaths, sealing the rip in his suit together by hardening the metal. "And you are a devil I must exorcise!" the mutant quickly bolts towards his opponent and starts to wail on him with psychic-powered punches after psychic-powered punches, each blow hitting with more force than the following. Dracula is forced onto the defensive from seeing such a confident display of power, and he prepares a punch of his own, this one powered by hellfire. The two butt fists, but Dracula powers through with an attack strong enough to set Magneto's suit on fire and send the mutant into the air.
"I am not a man, but I am not a devil either-- I am a GOD!" Dracula chortles, teleporting before the disoriented mutant. His sneak-attack wasn't enough to catch Magneto off-guard, however, and the mutant manages to ensnare the vampire with his telekinesis. "Begone!" Magneto yells, manipulating the energy of his own telekinetic trap to electrocute Dracula in place before forcing another energy-coated fist into the vampire's gut, causing him to explode into a swarm of bats.
"Pity...I could actually feel that one, lapdog." Dracula's voice mocked Magneto once more, only slightly infuriating the Master of Magnetism. Magneto shifts his gaze skyward as every individual bat transforms into a clone of the Dark Lord, each one cocking their arms downward and laughing in sync. Magneto had little more than a millisecond to prepare himself for the barrage of fireballs that would blast into him, creating a large crater in the castle floor!
As the debris settled, it was revealed that Magneto's feet stood planted in the ash-laden ground, with the mutant having protected himself with a perfectly-timed forcefield. He closes his fist and morphs the energy from the forcefield into a glowing purple disk that he throws to the side. The disk is driven firmly through the torsos of each individual clone, eventually dissipating a split-second before each clone's bottom halves cleanly fall from their upper counterparts, decorating the ground with their blood.
As each clone disappears, Magneto notices that his enemy was not among his clones--realizing that he could be anywhere. His suspicions did not assist him, though, as Dracula fell from the sky in a bat-like manner, delivering a speedy foot-dive to the mutant's chest and sending him staggering backwards. "You surely didn't expect that, did you?" Dracula verbally toys with his opponent before grabbing him again and sinking his teeth into another vein, causing Magneto to widly spasm to get his opponent away from him.
"Hnghhh...you are a fool!" Magneto bellows, managing to force Dracula away from him for a second time. "Let this be a lesson--" Dracula tried to retort, but he was caught in place by Magneto's telekinesis. The Master of Magnetism stretches his other hand out, and Dracula begins to feel a bubbling sensation in his body.
"The blood you were taking...the blood you needed for survival...has lead to your downfall. The irony." Magneto monologues as the cocky vampire lord stumbled to his feet, gasping for air.
"You were right before. You are not a man--but you are not a devil or god either. You are a worm, so squirm under my boot." Magneto coldly says before manipulating his own blood, which was inside of Dracula, to push out. Dracula roared in agony as his skin was ripped open from the inside, with blood spewing from each hole. Magneto releases Dracula from the telekinetic hold to free his right hand, which he points skywards. He slowly pulls an asteroid from orbit and towards Europe.
"Hnghahah! This pain... I LOVE it!" Dracula chortles as his body is ripped open and his blood decorates the ground. "You are welcome..."
Dracula's cocky demeanor falls as he roars in even more pain. His shifts his head towards Magneto, slowly questioning the mutant.
"Welcome... to what...?"
"You are welcome to DIE!" Magneto yells before the asteroid enters the vampire's view. Magneto shields himself with a forcefield as the giant mass of rock rams into Castlevania, leveling the entire castle. The last thing heard before the annihilation of the castle was Dracula's bloodcurdling scream, which echoed throughout the entirety of Europe.
...
"Hmph." Magneto scoffs as the dust settles, looking upon the ruins of the once-mighty castle. He turns to fly away, but he is interrupted by a loud rumbling coming from the wreckage.
"HRGRAHHHH!" A loud roar erupts from the ruins, the very force of the scream pushing the wreckage away from the source. Within was a massive heap of flash, rapidly twisting and growing. It eventually molded into the form of a reptilian beast--Dracula's true form. The beast's limbs materialized on the bleeding stumps that resulted from the asteroid crash, and his fangs and claws glimmered in the moonlight. It snarled and looked down at the Master of Magnetism, who could only stare skyward in fear.
"Your fate is sealed, mutant... now, you DIE!" Dracula's much deeper voice spoke through the beast, who stuck it's hand downwards to grab Magneto.
What was once an equal clash of abilities was now an impressive display of Dracula's even more powerful attacks as the vampire slashes repeatedly at the mutant, leaving Magneto peppered with gashes across his body.
Despite his injuries, Max Eisenhardt pushes his defense by creating another forcefield around himself so he can heal his own ailments. Dracula begins a slow trudge forward, monologuing as he raises his clawed hands above his head. "Hiding behind a shield, hmm? You coward!"
A sphere of hellfire is born in Dracula's hands, and with a monstrous roar, the reptilian Dark Lord smashes it into Magneto's forcefield, vaporizing the defense in a splendor of flames and magnetic energy. An upwards slash to Magneto's chest sends him staggering into a boulder and draws more blood from the mutant. Dracula releases another demonic howl, the sheer force of the yell pushing Magneto further back and shattering the mutant's crimson helmet, leaving the shards in his skin and cutting through his flesh.
"You...brazen...demon!" Magneto yelled between his panting. He raises his hand and calls forth multiple hunks of metal before flinging them all at his reptilian foe. Each one impales Dracula, but the vampire lord merely shrugs it off and raises his clawed hand to deliver another slash, but Magneto bolts out of the way in time, leaving the slash to dice the boulder behind him into pieces. Magneto begins to fly around Dracula in a spiral, weaving through quick claw slashes and fireballs. Eventually, the vampire catches on and grabs Magneto mid-flight, raising him towards his face. "Despair on you, mutant!"
He throws Max Eisenhardt into his mouth, with the mutant fighting back by prying his reptilian mouth open with a forcefield. "Hmph...I will be the one to give you despair...in the name of mutantkind!" Magneto groans as Dracula's bit tightens. The vampire uses his soul steal to weaken the mutant even more and seal his wounds together.
"Men and mutants are much the same--both miserable piles of secrets!" Dracula's jaw pushes down harder and harder, with Magneto straining to hold his defense together.
"Do not compare me to human scum!" Magneto's hands flash with energy and the forcefield becomes strong enough to free him from Dracula's jaw, breaking it in the process. Magneto falls back down into the wreckage and looks up, seeing the tendons on the beast's face reconnect, almost as if no damage had been dealt in the first place. "Mere prattle." Dracula's demonic eyes bead down at Magneto before the vampire swoops in and grabs the mutant, his claws cutting through his suit. His wings spread out and he slams Magneto into the wreckage, only releasing a short chortle before darting across the wreckage, dragging the mutant, who was screaming in agony, along. He raises the heavily-injured Magneto into the air before throwing him into the sky, his silhouette blocking the blood moon's light.
"Have at you!" The beast bellows before swinging an arm upward, releasing pillars of flames towards the midair mutant. In quick succession to the attack, Dracula speeds off into the air, delivering a perfectly-timed slash at Magneto, leaving a violent spectacle of blood being drawn before the moon. Magneto's barely-conscious body falls to solid ground below, with Dracula landing a second after.
"When will you end this? When will you lay down and accept your fate?" The beast mocks as he slowly approaches the mutant, raising his arm to deliver a fatal slash. "It's almost... admirable. But so be it...tonight, the Master of Magnetism FALLS!"
Dracula's swipe is caught mid-swing as Magneto weakly sticks his hand out, telekinetically catching the clawed hand in place. "Is...is that so?" He staggers to his feet, continuing to retort. "The Master of Magnetism will never die!"
Undaunted by his opponent's newfound morale, Dracula rushes in for another slash but is forced back by Magneto's telekinesis. "RAGHHHH!" The bestial vampire roars, holy flames bursting from his mouth as he pushes forward against the telekinetic hold.
"Grahhh...the Dark Lord will not be held back so easily--I will not die until I have my full vengeance against GOD!" Dracula roars, his reptilian skin conulsing and tearing underneath the pressure of the telekinetic hold. "And now, for a SPECTACLE!"
Dracula manages to raise his clawed fist, which begins to spew out holy flames. The released fire all begins to ball up over Dracula's hand and create a giant sphere of holy flame, which Dracula snaps his fingers to release. The massive ball bolts downwards and increases in size, leaving Magneto in utter shock as the massive ball of destruction gets closer. This was the Demonic Megiddo.
Magneto squints his eyes, stretches both hands out and plants his feet into the ground. With all of his energy, he began to hold the Demonic Megiddo back as Dracula watched in enjoyment. "Nemo me impune lacessit..." Magneto mutters, straining to hold the attack in place. Without warning, the sphere grows in mass and overpowers Max Eisenhardt's telekinesis, crashing into the wreckage and creating a blast large and bright enough to be seen from outside of the Earth.
The crater from the asteroid crash was now even deeper, and alone stood the bestial Dracula, who scoffed and walked away.
...or so he thought.
The dust settled and the stagnant Magneto was still in place, granted he had some major injuries, but he held the Demonic Megiddo's massive amount of energy, concealed in a firey orb that burned through his gloves.
"Now here is a proper exorcism, vampire!" Magneto yells, releasing the latent energy in the form of an ever-expanding laser beam that engulfs Dracula, burning him down, layer-by-layer.
Before his demonic eyes, the former Mathias Cronqvist sees his life pass through them--everything from his time as a human to his lovers, he had truly realized that his path was unnecessary. In death, he was free from Chaos, but was he truly free from his actions? Purgatory would be his final judge.
His bestial form faded and he was left as a vampire. Count Dracula closed his eyes for the final time as he was fully disintegrated.
Magneto, who was exhausted from releasing so much energy, scoffs and stumbles backwards. He slowly takes off and leaves the former Castlevania behind.
KO!
- Ending Screen A: The heavily injured Magneto sits in a dark room, playing a game of chess with his ally-turned-enemy-turned-ally-again, Professor X. He recounts the events of his battle to the psychic, who listens intently.
- Ending Screen B: The crater that was once Castlevania held nothing inside but a pile of soot that was Dracula. A soft wind blew and scattered the dust.
Results[]
Kitty: Hey, that ending was a lot more somber than I thought it'd be. What gives?
Puppy: These two held multiple advantages over the other, with Magneto taking most physical stats. Both were capable of lightspeed feats, but Magneto had also proven faster feats a lot more consistently than Dracula had.
Kitty: Yeah, when your opponent can fight people like Thor and tank star level bullets with ease, it seems a lot more clear cut. But Dracula had both an arsenal advantage and impeccable regeneration on his side, meaning Magneto would have a lot of trouble gettin' rid of him.
Puppy: And here's where things get tricky. Dracula has in-canon only died to holy weapons, which Magneto didn't have at all. So he should've taken it easily, right? Even with that, Magneto's energy manipulation means he'd be able to revert Dracula's holy-based attacks like the Demonic Megiddo or his plain holy light and fire attacks.
Kitty: Don't spit out what you can't chew! And even if Dracula didn't use those attacks, Magneto would still be able to create an attack capable of completely atomizing poor Drac, which would give him the win by conventional means, even if Drac wasn't permanently dead. Of course, Dracula's arsenal would keep him on his toes, but Magneto's tanked far worse and even has counters to a few of his things.
Puppy: Blood rain? Magneto can manipulate the metal in blood. Energy attacks? Magneto could throw those right back.
Kitty: And even if Drac managed to suck his blood, Magneto would still be able to use that to his advantage, even if it meant being an unwilling blood donor.
Puppy: Dracula was a mighty and versatile foe, but compared to Magneto's superior stats and counters, he was simply blown out of the water.
Kitty: It's Eisen-hard to take in, but against Magneto, Dracula's efforts were all in Vain...ia.
The winner is Magneto.
Next Time on Death Battle…[]
Captain Kirk: “You know the greatest danger facing us is ourselves, an irrational fear of the unknown. But there’s no such thing as the unknown — only things temporarily hidden, temporarily not understood.”
Han Solo: "Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid."
Trivia[]
- The connections between Dracula and Magneto are that they were two once decent men who were ostracized from society due to who they were. Later on, they wage wars on humanity and have a bond with their archenemy (Alucard is Dracula’s son and Professor X was a former ally of Magneto). They also later become the very monsters they wanted to destroy
- The track name for this matchup would be “Night of the Mutant”