Description[]
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure vs. Dragon Ball. Now their evil will never die!
Introduction[]
Wiz: Kars, the leader of the Pillar Men.
Boomstick: Garlic Jr, the Mayakan master of the Dead Zone. It's often a guarantee that a villain will always want to make sure that their particular brand of evil will never die. But these two have actually managed to get that immortality! He's Wiz and I'm Boomstick.
Wiz: And it's our job to analyze their weapons, armour and skills to find out who would win a Death Battle!
Kars[]
Wiz: Long ago, there was a race of strange humanoids who evolved alongside humanity, with whom they shared only outward appearance. Due to a strange weakness to the sun, which would disintegrate them on contact, they were forced to live their lives underground.
Boomstick: It was pretty much a race of vampires then, or more likely, introverts. But one member of this species decided he wanted to get his share of Vitamin D, so he set to work in finding a way to circumnavigate this weakness.
Wiz: This was Kars, a genius among his kind, who created the Stone Mask which would go on to give Dio Brando his vampiric abilities. But before that, he used on himself in an attempt to remove his allergy to solar rays.
- Background
- Age: 102,000 years
- Height: 6'8
- Leader of the Pillar Men
- Creator of the Stone Mask
- IQ: 400
- Can play the "Too Be Continued" music on a woman's leg
Boomstick: It didn't work exactly. Might've if he'd made a Stone Suit instead of just a mask, but when initially putting it on, it's special spikes only went deep enough into him to give him some abilities niftier than that of his peers.
Wiz: Considering he slaughtered the rest of his race when they opposed his goals, that's a given. But he still had the Stone Mask, and with it, he not only gave his followers their own abilities, but even led to them creating the vampire race as a food source, since as life drainers themselves, they would get more of a meal from a well fed one.
Boomstick: In other words, vampires were cattle to the beings like Kars. They could drink blood with their fingers; Wamuu could absorb half a person's body just by bumping into them. Vampires could survive as just a head or reform from literal pieces; Esidisi could as nothing more than a nervous system. And of course, Kars was far stronger and faster than any sort of vampire. But they still carried the same weaknesses.
Wiz: Not just to sunlight, but also towards Hamon, which an entire clan of humans developed in order to combat Kars and his followers. Although successful in wiping out nearly all of the clan, they were forced into hibernation.
Boomstick: Around the structure that would go on to influence their namesake, the Pillar Men. Although considering the...revealing nature of their clothes, perhaps the "pillar" could also refer to something else...
Wiz: In time, thanks to the discovery of the Stone Mask and the research of the Nazis, Kars and his companions would be awakened, determined to complete their objective, no matter the cost. Unless that cost was living creatures that weren't humans, since Kars admitted he wasn't sure if he was superior to the likes of them. But that was the objective of his quest; to ascended over everything else. Not that he wasn't already the most dangerous being on the planet.
- Powers and Abilities
- Superhuman prowess
- Genius intellect
- Regeneration
- Absorption
- Shapeshifting
- Light Mode Blades
- Ultimate Lifeform
Boomstick: He has no need for weapons, because he already has them in his forearms! He can extend them with special bone attachments. Then, as you're blinded by the intense light they give off, he'll slice you up so fast you won't even know you're already dead. What's more, and whilst invisible to the naked eye, these blades are lined with teeth-like accommodations, which are the source of their intense sharpness.
Wiz: Masters of manipulating their own bodies, Pillar Men can contort themselves to slip through the tiniest gaps and even manipulate small pieces of removed flesh. And of course, their healing factors make them unnervingly persistent foes. So long as they have enough nutrition - i.e. other creatures - they can only be slain outright if their bodies are cut into 1cm pieces.
Popup: Even then, it's possible that Pillar Men could regenerate from little more than dust with sufficient strength.
Boomstick: But with Kars on the scene, it's you that's going to get sliced apart with those blades of his. In fact, a lot of people were! Or dissolved with the acid each cell of a Pillar Man carried. All so he could overcome his weakness to the sun.
Wiz: Oh, it wasn't just that. Whether it was a lifelong ambition or whether he was drunk on the power he had already been gifted, Kars also sought to become far more powerful than everything else, not like a certain other being who would profit from his work. The key to this dream; the Red Stone of Aja, which would empower the Stone Mask to truly undo Kars' limitations.
Boomstick: It was super risky for him though, since the Stone could only be harnessed with sunlight. You know, the stuff that would turn him to stone?
Wiz: But with the correct timing, not to mention the right angle, Kars made use of the Nazis UV light to activate his mask. With their spikes burrowing into his skin and with the mask shattered upon serving its final use, Kars the Pillar Man was no more. Instead, he was Kars, the Ultimate Lifeform.
Boomstick: Aside from looking a lot more fabulous, Kars not longer possessed his weakness to the sun and could manipulate his cells to mimic the abilities of any animal on Earth, and do so to their highest possible degree!
Wiz: Kars will now also never age, has no need for food or sleep, can biologically evolve for any situation and can turn his body into the parts of others animals, their parts in other animals, or just straight up other animals.
Boomstick: Like a butterfly, or a squirrel! Grandpappy Boomstick always did say they were evil!
Wiz: But the most shocking new ability to Kars over any other was his new mastery of Hamon, energy generated by the human body via breathing to mimic the sun's very rays.
Boomstick: You know, the stuff zombies, vampires and Pillar Men have a fatal allergy to? When another vampire channel Hamon to commit suicide, he was dust within a second.
Wiz: Kars on the other hand was able to master the energy usage purely on the fact he had seen it done beforehand, and instantly became its most powerful practitioner, the Hamon he produced so intense it was compared to the surface of the sun itself. That's 10 thousand degrees Fahrenheit, and it's been described to be thousands of times stronger than Joseph Joestar's own Hamon, who was the JoJo to stand up to his plans.
Boomstick: Joseph was able to dodge a beam of light from the Red Stone itself and Kars alone has dodged UV light blasts. And being superior to vampires means Kars should be able to leave the likes of Dio in the dust.
- Feats
- Became the Ultimate Lifeform
- Escaped certain death by molten lava
- Dodged UV cannon light
- Generated Hamon hotter than the sun
- Slaughtered the rest of his race
- Defeated Lisa-Lisa, Van Stroheim, Joseph Joestar
Wiz: Who was able to keep pace with Silver Chariot at 15 hundred times the speed of light. And whilst DIO's skull was fractured by Star Platinum, he was able to survive the wound, and being superior to DIO Kars should be capable of outright shrugging off a similar hit.
Boomstick: And in much the same way, DIO in all likelihood wouldn't have been able to singe him with his eye beams, which split the sky with power worth 10 megatons of TNT.
Wiz: Kars is incredibly intelligent in battle, using misdirection to get in a vital hit and even managed to escape immolation in molten magma. He did this by creating an constant source of bubbles around himself, which maintained an air pocket around him, with more filling the gaps as each one was evaporated.
Boomstick: Before Ora-Oraing his way out of the magma pit and slicing off Joseph's hand with a sneaky move.
Wiz: All seemed lost for Joseph in that moment, until the greatest of all powers kicked in; the power of sheer dumb luck!
Boomstick: You see, Joseph had remembered to snatch away the Red Stone once Kars was finished using it, and when Kars went in to deal an ironic death with Hamon, Joseph brandished it in front of himself, producing a beam that made the volcano they were on exploded. And through Milo Murphy's Law, Kars was launched into the vacuum of space itself.
Wiz: His adaption turned against him, Kars was turned into a statue of stone to survive in the unhospitable environment. And so ended Kars, last and greatest of the Pillar Men, who eventually lost the spark of thought altogether. But to have described as the Ultimate Lifeform in a world soon to have been populated by Stands, and perhaps not at all had he remained on Earth, is still an overwhelming achievement for such a bizarre monster.
Garlic Jr[]
Wiz: Long ago, the position of Earth's Guardian was coveted by two individuals; the Nameless Namekian and the Makyan Garlic.
Boomstick: Don't know why the position of guarding Earth would be given away to an alien lifeform, who probably don't know what a safe Earth looks like, but hey, the position came with its perks. Like a racially-insensitively-designed man servant.
Wiz: In order to qualify for the position however, one had to have no evil intentions whatsoever. Unlike Garlic, the Namekian knew of the darkness that could compromise his chances, and so split himself into an evil and good half.
Boomstick: The good half, Kami, won the position with flying colours, and Garlic was not happy about it. So like an sore loser, he led an army to try and take the position for himself. His punishment? Trapped inside of a star or something.
Wiz: But Garlic's legacy would live on, through his son and reincarnation, Garlic Jr.
Boomstick: Who was...really short.
- Background
- Age: Thousands of years
- Height: 3'0/8'0
- Species: Makyan
- Son and reincarnation of Garlic
- Leader of the Spice Boys
- Might be a fan of baseball
Wiz: True, but unlike Pilaf or the Red Ribbon Army leader, just because he was short, didn't mean that Garlic Jr was dangerous. Especially since he was able to succeed where even more iconic foes of Son Goku's and Piccolo's would fail; wishing for immortality.
Boomstick: Kind of short sighted to have attempted to kill the current Piccolo, since doing so would get rid of the Dragon Balls he needed for the wish but luck was on his side and the orbs persisted. And with them, Garlic Jr got his wish.
Wiz: Now as an immortal, Garlic Jr would now never age to death, if that was a concern before, and cannot be killed in battle. Any injury he gets with instantly seal up, like the massive hole he got blown in his stomach. Meaning that, whilst he may not be among the strongest of even the movie villains, it's basically impossible to keep him down for long, and that he can always outlast an opponent.
Popup: Since the Dead Zone movie and Garlic Jr saga are similarly non-canon to the original manga, they will both be taken into consideration when appropriate.
- Powers and Techniques
- Immortality and regeneration
- Flight
- Ki blasts
- Finger Beam
- Materialisation
- Sealed Light Beam
- Continuous Energy Bullets
- Death Impact
- Darkness Eye Beam
- Full Power Energy Ball
- Super Makyan
- Darkness Illusion
- Dead Zone
Boomstick: Or he can just last long enough to make use of his own techniques. Like any Dragon Ball character worth their grit, Garlic Jr can harness the natural life energy of Ki to levitate, enhance his physical abilities and of course, fire energy attacks. Like from his eyes, hands or even his own belly. And his Continuous Energy Bullet is a bombardment of Ki shots, and he can even combo three large spheres for an attack.
Wiz: The Sealed Light Beam is a pretty unique ability, as not only with it constrain around an opponent but it will also shrink them to a miniscule level. And he's able to harness magic itself to conjure up certain items.
Boomstick: In spite of his small size, Garlic Jr can actually handle himself in a straight fight, like by using his small stubby body as a battering ram.
Wiz: But Garlic Jr has a trick up his sleeve which increases his strength at the cost of his speed and actually makes him combat sized. His Super Makyan Form.
Boomstick: Now that's more like it! No wonder he didn't use his wish to grow in height, he's able to naturally. In this state, he's strong enough to overpower both Piccolo and Goku at the same time.
Wiz: Piccolo himself once blew up the moon with a relativistic beam early into the Dragon Ball Z run, which coincides fairly well with the loose-canon of the Dead Zone movie. And speaking of which, the Dead Zone is named directly after is the ultimate technique of Garlic Jr, and it might just be the most horrifying move of them all. With it, Garlic Jr creates a dimensional tear straight into a desolate pocket dimension and sends his foes tumbling into it, trapping them for all eternity.
Boomstick: It's a little like a black hole, but only in regards to its suckiness.
Wiz: You don't think it's a cool technique?
Boomstick: What? No, I do. I'm just saying it sucks.
Wiz: Literally, or...
Boomstick: Yeah, it literally sucks.
Wiz:...right now, I can't tell if you're just feigning dimness. Unfortunately for Garlic Jr, he ended up getting knocked into the Dead Zone himself, which was the worst case scenario for an immortal being like him.
- Feats
- Successfully obtained immortality
- Scales to moon-busting Piccolo
- Escaped the Dead Zone
- Corrupted Earth's population into brainwashed minions
- Regenerated massive holes in his body
- Defeated Kami, Piccolo, Goku
Boomstick: But fortunately, the wandering planet that was his home world, the Makyo Star, drifted close enough to Earth to let him escape. It empowered him so much, he was able to pull himself straight out, like a boss! And then he went and infected the world with a Black Mist that turned them into his thralls.
Wiz: At this point, Goku would be the most wanted individual to deal with Garlic Jr at this point, but since he was still heading home after handing Frieza his tail, it fell to the others to try and best him. And it wasn't easy, since the Makyo Star boosted his power level to at least that of Piccolo's, who had previously matched Frieza's Second Form.
Boomstick: You'd think that with this new boost in power, without Goku to stop, the Earth under his control and of course his complete immortality, Garlic Jr might have won in the ling term. But you'd also be wrong, because he decided to try using the Dead Zone a second time. No prizes if you correctly guessed he got trapped again, and with the Makyo Star blown up by Gohan, this time, there was no way out.
Wiz: But when you're a Dragon Ball villain to have achieved total immortality, you're a Dragon Ball villain who will have followed in the most successful steps of Garlic Jr.
Interlude[]
Wiz: Alright the combatants are set, time to end this debate once and for all.
Boomstick: It's time for a Death Battle!
The Battle[]
Setting: Garlic Jr's Castle
Garlic Jr sat in the lowest branches of his castle's tree, holding one of its fruits. He licked his lips and brought it up to his mouth, only for a flash of light to precede it falling to pieces in his palm just as he took a bite. He blinked and squawked in surprise when the entire tree ended up tipping over, and he pulled himself from the branches to see the culprit; Kars, the Ultimate Lifeform, walking away from his dickish handiwork.
Garlic Jr: Hey! You're going to pay for that!
Kars snorted as he continued walking.
Kars: The Perfect Lifeform does not pay for anything...
Garlic Jr: No? Well, there's a first time for everything!
FIGHT!
Garlic Jr shot towards Kars, intending to heat butt him where he stood. But the attempted attack fell flat when Kars had his blade re-emerge and slice Garlic Jr to ribbons, continuing on as his remains fell to the ground. What finally made him stop and turn around however was when Garlic Jr chuckled regardless of his state.
Garlic Jr: No ball, friend.
As Kars watched, Garlic Jr reformed and fixed him with a glare. When he shot forwards yet again, Kars unveiled both his blades, the light blinding the Makyan to slice him up a second time. Once again however, he regenerated and upon doing so, fired an orb of energy from his hands. Kars sliced it in half to let both these bits explode behind himself but Garlic Jr simply used this opportunity to successfully smash his skull into Kars' forehead. The Pillar Man grimaced in pain as he skidded backwards from the impact and when he stopped, Garlic Jr was suddenly right in front of his face, rapidly punching him in the face before driving a truly hard one into its middle. He smirked at his unstopped assault, but it faded when he realized he was moving forwards and not of his own violation; the flesh of Kars' face was dissolving the limb and he pulled away in shock. In doing so however, he backed into one of the Pillar Man's poised blades and by his own fault was impaled on it.
Kars smirked in sadistic amusement, prompting Garlic Jr to scowl and rise a blast of Ki into his eye. Kars cursed before he was suddenly spun around by Garlic Jr using the impalement through his body, sending him flying off with a sudden stop. Once Kars had landed on his feet, Garlic Jr flew into the air above him and rained down continuous energy blasts, which blew entire chunks out of Kars' body, including half of his face. He snapped it back around to glare at Garlic Jr as every injury healed before leaping high up into the air to the Makyan's level. His fist charged with Hamon, he drove it into Garlic Jr's face, sending him smashing through the wall of his castle's tower.
In the castle, Garlic Jr shook away the dizziness and looked through the hole for Kars, realizing he had vanished from sight. Suddenly, one of the metal grates leading into the interior of the castle was blown off, straight towards Garlic Jr. He blew it apart with a Ki shot but was unable to react to Kars leaping out of the tight crawlspace as a compressed mass. The Pillar Man swung his arm and sent out scales shooting at the Makyan like darts, which pierced Garlic Jr all over his body. His woes didn't end there, as the scales suddenly transformed into piranha, which burrowed further into his flesh. He pulled them from his body with shrieks of pain, before Kars' octopus tentacles grabbed a hold of him and dragged him down from the air to smash him into the floor.
Morphing his arm back into its normal state, Kars still wasn't finished and he sent out a scattering of red rose petals from his own body, which grew into a charging stampede of fanged wildebeest directed straight at his opponent. But the Makyan had a trick up his sleeve and he fired out rings of Ki, which not only bound each of the wildebeest but also shrunk them down. With childlike sadism, Garlic Jr jumped around on each of them, squashing them flat, before charging at Kars, generating a ball of Ki before himself. When Kars attempted to use his blades to block the attack, the ball detonated, blowing his natural weapons to pieces and making him stumble backwards. Garlic Jr laughed at his progress before hovering into the air.
Garlic Jr: A real shame you can't fly, because you look really small from where I am!
He fired three balls of energy, which exploded as Kars weaved around them.
Kars: You have yet to learn little gremlin, that there is nowhere on this planet that I cannot tame! And that includes your precious heights!
After dodging the third blast, Kars' arms became wings and he launched himself up into the air after Garlic Jr, colliding directly with him and sending them smashing back out into the open air around the castle. Whilst airborne, the two traded attacks - Kars slashing with his hardened wings and Garlic Jr using his martial arts - which collided together, creating shockwaves in the atmosphere.
Kars: And in all honesty-
He flew over and to behind Garlic Jr to avoid his eye beams, delivering a vicious double-kick to his back that sent him spinning.
Kars: -No matter where you are, you always look rather small to me!
With a flap of his wings he shot towards Garlic Jr, his head-horn aimed ahead of himself for a direct collision. It came within an inch of hitting its target before Garlic Jr transformed, increasing in both size and muscle mass with the resulting burst of energy knocking Kars back. The now-massive Makyan loomed over the Pillar Man and smirked down at him.
Garlic Jr: Wanna pitch that line of thinking a second time?
His fist struck Kars' face, sending him flying backwards and costing him his wings. From there, Garlic Jr unleashed his Darkness Illusion combo on the Pillar Man, which ended with the grabbing of the back of the head to smash him in and out through the castle with quick flight. After making several holes in his own home, Garlic Jr hurled the battered Kars up into the air before appearing above him to grab him by the wrist; hauling him up, he headbutted him viciously and repeatedly. But as he went for another, Kars suddenly slipped from his grasp, detaching his hand and leaving it in Garlic Jr's grasp. With a morph of goo it was suddenly a fanged squirrel and it leapt to burrow into the Maykan's stomach. But before it could get in too far, Garlic Jr unleashing a blast of Ki from his stomach. Once the squirrel had been vaporized, he shot down towards the still falling Kars.
Garlic Jr: For all you're tricks, you're no match for my mastery of Ki!
Kars cocked his head to the side as he fell.
Kars: Ki you say?
He landed on the ground-
Kars: You mean like THIS!
-and he fired a blast of the life energy from his cupped palms, which sheared away Garlic Jr's upper body as he yelled in shock, his own Ki falling to the intensity of Kars' own. His remaining lower half crashed to the ground, where it eventually regenerated his upper half, although he was panting in absolute shock and horror, especially when he saw Kars striding towards him, Ki radiating off himself.
Garlic Jr: Oh no...oh no, oh no, oh no! I am not letting from pretty boy get the better of me!
He stood back up and raised his hands to the sky, and the Dead Zone formed behind himself. It's vacuum effect was instantaneous and Kars found himself being sucked forwards. He grimaced at the pseudo-black hole and dug his toes into the ground to anchor himself. But Garlic Jr smirked and fired beams from his eyes which seared through Kars' ankles and wrecked his foothold. The Pillar Man was yanked forwards straight towards the Dead Zone and Garlic Jr smirked as he watched him go overhead.
It vanished when he saw it wasn't Kars at all, but instead an outline made of crab shell, which had taken his eye beams to the ankles. He snapped his gaze back in front of himself and found Kars was standing right before him. With a serene smirk, Kars raised his hand and flicked the Makyan in the forehead, a burst of Ki from the flick sending him flying towards the Dead Zone. With a scream, Garlic Jr vanished through the portal, which sealed shut with him forever inside.
Kars: Why my dear friend...you made it just too easy.
KO!
Outcome[]
Boomstick: Guess we should call this a Fate-Worse-Than-Death Battle, especially since Garlic Jr has to live being a Dragon Ball character who didn't win.
Wiz: I'm sure this outcome was very unexpected but we do actually have a strong explanation for this. With the way it working being similar to the age-old classic of an unstoppable force meeting an immovable object. Only Kars and Garlic Jr actually shared this position through a variety of factors.
Boomstick: In terms of the ones everyone can understand, speed was firmly held by Kars. He's surely faster than vampires like DIO who can react alongside 1500 times lightspeed stands, and even if he was only at lightspeed via dodging UV light, a beginner Piccolo's beam only reached the moon at 54 percent lightspeed (Zamasu Chan). This would let Kars avoid any of Garlic's attacks.
Popup: Garlic Jr could only match Piccolo later in the series, when he was on par with 2nd form Frieza, with the Makyo Star. Even then, SS Goku only reached 1050 times the speed of light according to AKM sama.
Wiz: And the most surprising thing was, that in terms of power, Kars could actually get the better of Garlic Jr.
Boomstick: No way!
Wiz: The proof lies in Kars' own mastery of Hamon; Hamon is an energy created by a user through the capabilities of their own bodies, mainly their breathing. It's not too far of a stretch to compare it to Ki, which is dependant on a user's physical level, as Goku's physical training enabled it to increase in power. And Kars was able to master Hamon just from the fact he watched others do it, and so it's highly likely that Kars could master Ki if he survived long enough, which his speed would certainly enable.
Boomstick: Plus, his Hamon was far stronger than Joseph's, so his Ki would have been as well.
Popup: It's worth noting the Mayko Star is said to increase a Makyan's power by a hundred-fold, whilst Kars' boost in Hamon power over Joseph is described as thousands of times stronger.
Wiz: And with his higher mastery of the natural life energy, Kars could use it to increase his physical defenses to help weather Garlic Jr's own attacks, which would normally be enough to kill someone with even Kars' normal regeneration, since completely damage from molten rock submersion would have eventually killed him.
Boomstick: And it's not like Kars would run out of fuel for those techniques or his original ones, since he could feed off the ever-regenerating Garlic Jr with any part of his body. So Garlic Jr couldn't have outlasted him with his immortality. And now perhaps for the most controversial question; how did Kars win when Garlic Jr's immortality was ultimately more effective than his?
Wiz: The answer to this lies in Garlic Jr's own signature technique, the Dead Zone. It was an absolutely terrifying and efficient technique for the Makyan to use against his foes, but also for his foes to use against him. In both of his appearances, Garlic Jr ended up trapped inside the dimensional void, and still resorted to the technique even after getting stuck the first time. And hell, it's not like the heroes strategized to use it against Garlic Jr, since Gohan simply blasted him once to launch him into it.
Boomstick: But with Kars' 400 IQ and brilliant battle strategy and quick thinking, there's no way he wouldn't think to turn the Dead Zone against its master, especially since he has an eye for near-death situations. Sure he may have gotten launched into space, but that was only through Joseph Joestar's instincts and sheer luck. Since the fight would otherwise end in a stalemate, with Garlic Jr's regeneration and Kars' speed and adaptability, it was inevitable the little gremlin would bust it out sooner or later.
Wiz: Even if this fight had taken place when the two of them hadn't reached their immortality, the outcome wouldn't change aside from Kars being able to kill Jr much more easier, since his superior speed and flesh dissolving cells would be in essence an insta-kill. Garlic Jr may have the impressive feat of achieving Dragon Ball immortality and having a technique many would quake in their boots at, but Kars had the raw intelligence, vital speed and unique biology needed to turn the battle in his favour.
Boomstick: He totally wasn't in the Zone.
Wiz: The winner is Kars.
Next Time[]
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Trivia[]
- Connections: Both are vampire-like inhuman entities who serve as villains in anime series. Both have successful obtained immortality thanks to special relics; the Stone Mask & Red Jewel and the Dragon Balls respectively. Both have also created armies of dark beings and lead groups of the same species. Both have also fought against others over certain disputes (Kars battled the rest of his kind due to his experiments, whilst Garlic Jr's previous incarnation Garlic contested with Kami to be Guardian of Earth) and both have ended up stranded in voids (space and the Dead Zone respectively). Both are also the enemies of the descendants of their series' first main heroes (Jonathan Joestar's grandson Joseph and Goku's son Gohan respectively) and made a return in extra-canonical instalments; the anime-exclusive Garlic Jr. Saga and the light novel Jeorge Joestar respectively. Ironically, whilst Kars would be killed by the rays of the sun until becoming the Ultimate Lifeform, Garlic Jr draws power from the Makyo Star.
- Animation Style: 2D.
- OST Idea: 'The Pillars of the Zone', referring to Kars and Garlic Jr's Dead Zone.