Stephen King vs William Shakespeare, ghost haunt these men’s psyche, and we mean that both figuratively and literally, in a battle between two of the greatest creations of the worlds greatest writers, which of these mad, broken and ambitious men will come out on top?
(note: this shall stick solely to the original book and script of both, no movies or other stuff they’ve been in)
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Sheldon: Jack Torrance, the new caretaker of the overlook hotel.
Sans: Macbeth, mad butcher king of Scotland.
Deadpool: ambition corrupts, men go mad, and the supernatural have absolute power, all three of these are pretty damn good ways of talking about these men turned away from their previously good nature.
Sheldon: it’s time for some of literatures greatest mad men to go at it as we analyse their weapons, armour and skills (really this time, their both pretty damn human… until their not) to find out who would win.
All: A DEATH BATTLE
jack Torrance, possessed or insane?[]
Sans: for some men, life can be cruel and unforgiving, it can strip you down and test you over and over again.
Sheldon: for no man was this as true for than with Jack Torrance.
Deadpool: even as a kid his life was rough, his dad was a drunk and constantly abused his wife for the pettiest of reasons, of course, being a kid, he didn’t see it, he just saw his dad as a great man, and was confused when his brother left for the army just to get away from him.
Sheldon: of course, this’d only last for so long, eventually the abuse started hitting jack as well, and eventually he also left his father.
Sans: jack would go on to become a very good English teacher, he made multiple friends, got a wife called Wendy, and began to develop a drinking problem.
Deadpool: things started going down hill again, you see jack started to develop anger issues.
Sans: like when he insulted a kid with a stutter, and when that kid started keying his car, he started smashing his face into it.
Sheldon: those weren’t the only stuff, like when he and his pal had seemingly accidentally run someone over, or when he found his 3 year old son Danny in his home office, with all of his work on the ground around the kid, he became so angry that when he grabbed his sons arm… it snapped.
Deadpool: these actions caused him to finally stop drinking, but the damage had been down, he had lost his job and Wendy had been considering divorce.
Sheldon: but his friend from before was a saving grace, and apparently got him a job up at the overlook hotel.
Sans: the overlook is one of the highest rated hotels across the state, and considering it’s sheer size and grandeur, it makes sense why, even if it’s all the way up a mountain, of course it’s because of that that he had the job.
Deadpool: basically during winter it’d become way to dangerous to drive up there because of all the snow, so they gotta close up during that time, however it can’t exactly be left unattended, it’s got a massive boiler underneath that if left unattended will eventually cause the hotel to go up in flames.
Sheldon: so the hotel needed a caretaker to stay up there for those months it was left unattended, and that year, it was jack who got the job, so he, Wendy and his son Danny all went up to the hotel together for the winter months, they’d essentially be cut off from the world for that time aside from a radio.
Sans: which is extremely worrying, especially considering the last caretaker apparently went insane and killed his two daughters, but Jack was rather confident in himself and his family, he knew that he had his own book to write and keep himself occupied, and he had taught Danny plenty to the point were he was honestly rather a genius in comparison to other kids his age, meaning the prospect of no tv or anything wasn’t so worrying to the guy.
Deadpool: and for most of the first few months, things were pretty fine for the family… key word being most of.
Sheldon: rather strange stuff occasionally happened, there would always be an uneasy feeling at some point during the day, stuff occasionally was in different places though it was brushed off because of just how large the hotel was, oh and Danny’s “imagination” apparently occasionally got the better of him, from the fire hose chasing him, the hedge animals moving when unseen, and the constant message from his imaginary friend of a mirror with the word, redrum.
Sans: there was one point where a wasp stung Danny, they caught it in a container, and after reentering the room the container was filled to the brim with wasps, and after putting it outside in the cold for the night, rather than coming back to a bunch of dead wasps, Jack came back to an empty container.
Deadpool: things only got weirder when after a trip down to the boiler room, jack found an old book that revealed the true shady history of the hotel.
Sheldon: you see, bad things had seemingly always went on within the Hotels history, like the time a senator was shot to death in his room by multiple gangsters.
Sans: quite frankly, there were a lot of deaths that happened, a lot of people who went crazy within its halls, and i guess we can finally get to what you were all expecting, the overlook, is kinda alive.
Deadpool: not only that, but it was using Jacks absolute worst traits against him, constantly tempting him with alcohol and exploiting his own ambition with the promise of a higher up position, with only one thing required.
Sheldon: he was to kill his son, why? You may ask, well simply put, Danny’s the only one the hotel actually cared about, it was just using Jack to get to him.
Sans: this is because of a special trait Danny held, known as a shine, a mystical force connected to all life within the world, or possibly even the uhh… multiverse.
Sheldon: yes, it’s implied that the shine may be the reason for multiple other things within the Stephen King mythos, from connecting the loser club to beat pennywise, granting a black man the ability to heal with his hands, and possibly giving a teenage girl the ability to take revenge on her entire town.
Deadpool: if you couldn’t tell, it’s rather different depending on the one who wields it, and heck, everyone does, it’s that small bit of intuition that everyone possesses, and within several it’s even stronger, heck even Jack himself has it, albeit a delayed effect.
Sans: Danny meanwhile was one of its strongest users, able to gain visions months into the future, and send telepathic messages across the entire country, hell it was his presence alone that woke the overlook up.
Sheldon: so it began manipulating Jack over the course of multiple months, turning him against everyone he used to be close with, until finally he turned against his very own family and attempted to kill them.
Deadpool: picking up an axe,
Sheldon: nope, in the book it was actually a croquet mallet.
Deadpool:… oh, well okay, picking up a mallet he went after Wendy and Danny, only for him to be locked in a pantry, left to stew with his festering thoughts of anger, until the hotel decided to release him again and he went after Wendy, only to then be stabbed in the lower back through the spine, and after a few seconds… keep going, but that should have at least paralysed him, if not caused a brain shutdown at least right.
Sans: well yeah, it would have, if jack was still in control, but upon that happening, he wasn’t, the overlook itself had taken over his body, forcing him to keep moving no matter what, to the point of smashing his entire face in to the point we’re all you’d see is a bloody pulp, and the many horrifying faces of the hotel itself.
Sheldon: which I guess means we should cover what the hotel itself has at its disposal, huh.
Deadpool: from living garden hedge animals, monsters that pull you into slides, a bunch of ghosts, a literal furry, an old lady in a bathtub, illusions of images and voices that target you specifically, heck the overlook kinda exists without time, the past and present within it are somewhat interlinked, but it’s kinda confusing.
Sans: but at the same time, it mostly uses jack to directly attack, i mean he can shatter someone’s jaw and bust through drywall with his mallet.
Sheldon: but, the hotel underestimated Danny and jacks relationship, Jack was able to temporarily stop what he was doing and get one last heartfelt message out to his son, and grant him enough time to remember the boiler.
Deadpool: yeah, under the hotel is basically this massive boiler that needs to be checked daily, if it isn’t, the hotel will likely get a bit… explody.
Sans: making a mad dash for the boiler, the creature that was once Jack Torrance gave Danny and his mum just enough time to get out, only for it’s body to be encased in flames as the entire hotel came crashing down, ending its reign of terror.
Sheldon: and so, despite the parental loss Danny grew up to be his own man, becoming successful in his adult life and helping other kids who also held the shine.
Deadpool: if there is a heaven, you can bet that Jack Torrance is smiling down at his son from there.
Jack Torrance: The world's a hard place, Danny. It don't care. It don't hate you and me, but it don't love us, either. Terrible things happen in the world, and they're things no one can explain. Good people die in bad, painful ways and leave the folks that love them all alone. Sometimes it seems like it's only the bad people who stay healthy and prosper. The world don't love you, but your momma does and so do I.
Macbeth, the mad butcher king[]
Sheldon: what would you do to have your way, to have the very world itself under you, to be the greatest man to ever exist.
Deadpool: for some, it would involve just about anything, one such man who shows this, is Macbeth.
Sans: born in Scotland in the 11th century, he would eventually end up a major part of winning a war, and would soon become duke, but before he found out about this, he met something no one would think possible, three witches.
fight[]
Hundreds of little daggers, if there was anyway to describe what his skin was feeling right now, that’d be an apt way to do so as the snow continued pelting his skin, loud crunches sounds out as he shielded his eyes, though doing so wouldn’t have mattered that much, he could hardly see a foot ahead of himself, his body was cold right down to the bone, something not helped by his currently worn armour, why would a man be wearing armour in weather like this, well barely an hour ago there wasn’t even a single sign of weather like this.