Two powerful ninjas with supernatural abilities go hand to hand with one another but in the end, who's the better and stealthier ninja?
Interlude:[]
Boomstick: There's always something as good as being super strong and fast but sometimes, it's better to have supernatural abilities to beat anyone you like.
Wiz: Like Psylocke, the psychic ninja of the X-Men.
Boomstick: And Ryu Hayabusa, the Dragon Ninja from Ninja Gaiden.
Boomstick: He's Wiz and I'm Boomstick!
Wiz: And it's our job to analyze their weapons, armor and skills to find out who would win, a Death Battle.
Psylocke[]
Wiz: It can be a tough situation to go through a transformation from your original self to a completely different person, whether it'd be gender, skin color or even height.
Boomstick: But that's not the case for some people!
Background:[]
- Height: 5'11/180 cm
- Weight: 155 lbs/70.31 kg
- Age: Unknown
- Weapons/Armor/Skills: Telepathy, telekinesis, mind control, enhanced senses, superhuman strength, speed and agility, skilled with various martial arts, has a killer instinct
- Hobbies: Mindraping, saving the world, kicking ass
Wiz: In the world of Marvel, mutants are often frowned upon and despite the long lasting efforts of the X-Men, the beef between humans and mutants led to several global catastrophes.
Boomstick: Hell, people even built robots just to exterminate mutants! Like that one dictator in World War 2!
Wiz: Enter Elizabeth "Betsy" Braddock, the twin sister of Brian Braddock AKA Captain Britain. Unbeknownst to the twins, they were born with the X gene. This gene is what gives mutants their powers and while it remains dormant when a mutant is a child, they do however start to become active when they hit puberty.
Boomstick: Wait a minute, isn't that from My Hero Academia?
Wiz: Not really but Betsy had one of the most common X genes which grants someone telepathy and various other mind based attacks. This means she could move around objects with her thoughts and even sense emotions.
Boomstick: Or even mindrape someone and make them go crazy like a 17 year old on drugs!
Wiz: Except, Betsy wasn't really known for doing anything like that at least until now.
Boomstick: Even still, that doesn't stop her from kicking ass!
Wiz: One day, Betsy met Charles Xavier who convinced her to join the X-Men, but on one fateful day, things got...a bit weird.
Boomstick: So basically, this Japanese assassin named Kwannon attacked Betsy and switched bodies with her.
Wiz: Yeah but luckily, she still retained her telepathic abilities and due to her new body, she had the skills of a ninja.
Boomstick: But best of all, she became a hot Asian chick with a sexy British accent!
Wiz: Yeah...right. Anyways, Betsy eventually became strong enough to take on the likes of Wolverine and Juggernaut with only a scratch. On one occasion, Betsy broke Juggernaut's helmet which is literally designed for resisting mental attacks, in fact, even Charles and Magneto couldn't break it!
Boomstick: And, she's kind of a psycho on the battlefield but is nice outside of it which is weird.
Wiz: Outside of battle, Psylocke was able to sense thoughts from across the planet and put an entire mob to sleep. She's also capable of absorbing the memories of at least 500 people and has the ability to generate psionic knives, shuriken's and katanas.
Boomstick: And she can shoot circuit neurons like a peashooter shooting peas!
Wiz: She's also been able to break Iron Man's Mark 85 armor with only a few blows and even broke Jean Grey's mind control, and Jean is consistently on the levels of Thanos and Thor.
Boomstick: Damn, you might think that nothing can stop her but if you do, you'd be wrong!
Wiz: Well, Psylocke doesn't have a lot of known weaknesses but she is shown to be quite reckless at times and is vulnerable to an onslaught.
Boomstick: Yeah but still, no normal human stands a chance against this psychic ninja.
Ryu Hayabusa[]
Wiz: Life is tough when the world is constantly being attacked by paranormal entities that are of various sizes and shapes.
Boomstick: But this one badass clan of ninjas and samurais think it would be the right idea to kill these monstrosities!
Background:[]
- Height: 5'10/178 cm
- Weight: 172 lbs/78 kg
- Age: 25
- Weapons/Armor/Skills: True Dragon Sword, Lunar Staff, Falcon's Talons, Kusari-gama, Shuriken's, Fiend's Bane Bow, Smoke Bomb, Vigoorian Flail, Eclipse Scythe, Tonfas, War Hammer, Howling Cannon, Dragon's Claw & Tiger's Fang, spear, nunchaku, bare fists, master of ninjutsu, master of karate, master of kenjutsu, master of kobudo
- Hobbies: Mountain climbing, traveling, kicking ass
Wiz: Trained from the very early days by his father Jo Hayabusa, Ryu became an honored legacy ever since he was a child and earned the title of being the greatest ninja of the Hayabusa clan.
Boomstick: But Ryu soon found out his father was murdered but did that stop him? Hell no, he became the greatest role model for any ninja wishing to be just like the badass he is!
Wiz: Throughout his adventure, Ryu had quite the inventory which consists of weapons like swords, bows, scythes, shuriken's, staff's, Sais, tonfas, bombs, grappling hooks and much more. He's basically a human Swiss knife if you know what I'm saying.
Boomstick: But the coolest weapon in my opinion are the falcon's talons! They're basically his version of Wolverine's slaws which he can use to stab and slice anyone and anything he likes.
Wiz: He also has the Fiend's Bane Bow which can penetrate even a 40 mm bulletproof armor and can shoot consecutive arrows wave after wave.
Boomstick: Oh yeah, he also has that eclipse scythe which can kill anything it touches. Geez, how many more weapons does this guy have?
Wiz: At least one more, the Dragon Sword, a katana with the ability to vanquish evil when activated with the eye of the dragon. In this state, the Dragon Sword is said to gain the ability to cut through anything and can negate durability.
Boomstick: That kind of reminds me of that one guy with the tachyon sword.
Wiz: Silver Samurai?
Boomstick: Oh yeah! Now I remember him.
Wiz: Anyways, the True Dragon Sword has one security system, if anyone other than a strong willed Hayabusa attempts to wield it, the blade will feed on and eventually devour their soul, literally!
Boomstick: But outside of combat, Ryu is a magician and can control all elements, the elements as in earth, wind, fire and water, not the elements on the periodic table, that wouldn't make sense.
Wiz: These magical techniques are called Ninpo. They are used when Ryu channels the energy inside of him and can grant him multiple abilities, such as pyrokinesis, hydrokinesis, electrokinesis and cryokinesis.
Boomstick: Yeah with all those kinesis's, Ryu can basically blow shit up and burn everything. Damn, he's like if Superman and Wonder Woman had a baby!
Wiz: His Ninpo can also grant various other abilities such as regeneration and the ability to summon a clone of himself.
Boomstick: Yeah but hey, the dude's killed the Dark Dragon twice along with several other adversaries! Like Murai, Genshin, Yaiba, Alma and Doku! All of which have supernatural abilities as well!
Wiz: Keep in mind, Ryu Hayabusa is not invincible and can be killed should his Ninpo be overtaxed.
Boomstick: But other than that, there's a reason why they call him the ultimate ninja.
Pre-Fight[]
Wiz: Alright the combatants are set, we've run the data through all possibilities.
Boomstick: It's time for a Death Battle!
Death Battle[]
In the streets of Tokyo, a quiet temple with a graveyard can be seen. Suddenly, Ryu Hayabusa lands at the entrance of the temple and looks for the eye of the dragon.
Ryu Hayabusa: It's missing, that's strange.
On the roof of the temple, Psylocke can be seen watching Ryu Hayabusa before landing directly behind him.
Ryu Hayabusa: Who are you?
Psylocke: I'm Psylocke of the X-Men.
Ryu Hayabusa: X-Men!? Heh, I've heard many stories about that team, plus, were you the one who took the eye of the dragon?
Psylocke: Eye of the dragon? I don't know what that is but if you really think you can get that, you'll have to get through me!
Ryu Hayabusa: Oh, so you want to fight, huh? Well then, you're about to get what you wanted!
FIGHT!!!
Psylocke generates a katana and proceeds to have a duel with Ryu. As the two clash blades, Ryu punches Betsy in the face but Betsy didn't flinch and lunged at Ryu with great speed. To her surprise, Ryu ducked the blow.
Ryu Hayabusa: Heh, most people like you usually aim for the head.
Psylocke: Hm, so you're not a telepath? I think you'd be a great addition to our team.
Both Ryu Hayabusa and Psylocke have another duel but just then, Psylocke leaps back and throws 6 psionic shuriken's but Ryu dodges all of them before he throws 5 shuriken's at her, only for Psylocke to block all of them.
Ryu swiftly moves and grabs Psylocke from the back before doing an Izuna drop on her, causing her to have a minor concussion. As Ryu sees that Psylocke is in a vulnerable state, he grabs out the eclipse scythe before Betsy uses her telepathy to disorient Ryu for a brief moment.
Ryu Hayabusa: What was that?
Ryu looks around and notices that Psylocke disappeared but just before his hopes go up, Psylocke does a sneak attack. After Ryu gets hit, he grabs out the Fiend's Bane bow and aims it directly at Psylocke but Psylocke creates a barrier to block all incoming arrows.
Suddenly, Psylocke generates another psionic katana to have a duel with Ryu but Ryu manages to deflect one of the blades. Eventually, Ryu finally found the eye of the dragon and placed it into his sword.
Ryu Hayabusa: Say your last words.
Psylocke: *smirks*, oh really?
Psylocke and Ryu Hayabusa have another duel but this time, the duel is shown from a fixed angle where both a purple (Psylocke) and red (Ryu Hayabusa) aura seem to be clashing.
Ryu Hayabusa: Oh you've done it.
Psylocke creates a barrier but the enraged Ryu Hayabusa breaks it.
Psylocke: Kochou Gakure!
Psylocke sends out a flurry of psionic butterflies to Ryu but Ryu uses his Ninpo to destroy all incoming projectiles before attempting to stab Psylocke.
Psylocke then puts herself in a drill like position and strikes but Ryu manages to block Psylocke's body with the True Dragon Sword.
Ryu Hayabusa: Enough!
Ryu Hayabusa violently kicks Psylocke and sends her flying for a brief moment before the two menacingly stare at each. As the two menacingly stare at each other, they both charge and leap into the air. As Ryu Hayabusa tries to slice her, Psylocke disorients him and bisects him in half.
As Psylocke leaps back onto the ground, Ryu's bisected corpse falls onto the ground.
Psylocke: It's finally over.
Results[]
Wiz: Talk about an old-fashioned ninja fight.
Boomstick: Oh yeah, those kind of fights.
Wiz: Both Psylocke and Ryu Hayabusa were extremely skilled and were relatively even in most stats, and Ryu certainly had the speed advantage.
Boomstick: I guess so but in this fight, strength and speed don't even matter. What matters is how their abilities worked on one another.
Wiz: Needless to say, Ryu didn't actually have many ways to counteract mind-based attacks and even when he did fight people who had such abilities, he still had a hard time fighting them one on one.
Boomstick: Well I guess it all comes down to who was stealthier and I gotta say, Psylocke's got this one in the bag.
Wiz: While Psylocke didn't have quite the inventory like Ryu, her ability to track thoughts and emotions certainly helped her with keeping track of Ryu Hayabusa's ninja precision and stealth.
Boomstick: Yeah but Ryu once caused an entire mountain to blow up which is around 500 million tons of TNT or 33,000 Hiroshima bomb's.
Wiz: Let's look at Juggernaut, a prominent member of the Brotherhood of Mutants.
Boomstick: Remember him? He's the big dude wearing a helmet.
Wiz: At his peak, Juggernaut was able to shake an entire country and although it's not specified, we'll assume it's the United States and given the size and diameter of the US which is around 3.7 million miles square, we can estimate the blow to be around 3 trillion tons of TNT! That's as as powerful as 60,000 Tsar Bombs!
Boomstick: And Psylocke has almost always been proven to be his better, like literally! She even broke his helmet and ultimately bested him in a battle!
Wiz: And given Ryu's vulnerability to psychic attacks, he did not have good way of putting down Psylocke for good.
Boomstick: And Psylocke's psychic attacks certainly gave her the title and while Ryu may have better weapons, he was never gonna be able to take down someone who's equal in power to a brute that can destroy a country.
Wiz: In the end, Ryu put up a good fight but was ultimately outmatched by Psylocke's superior strength, magic and stealth.
Boomstick: It looks like Ryu's spirit will be 'dragon' by God.
Wiz: The winner is Psylocke.
Psylocke (Winner):[]
+ Physically stronger
+ Telepathy could counter most of Ryu's abilities
+ Had plenty of ways to finish the fight
- Physically slower and smaller arsenal
Ryu Hayabusa (Loser):[]
+ Physically faster
+ Bigger arsenal
- Couldn't counter telepathy
- Physically weaker
Trivia[]
- The connections between Psylocke and Ryu Hayabusa are that they are both prominent members of their respective teams (The X-Men and Hayabusa clan respectively) and are ninjas with supernatural abilities. Both have served someone of greater power (Professor X and Jo Hayabusa respectively), both are well known for their ability to shred through entire armies, both have appeared in beat 'em up arcade games released in the 90's (X-Men: Mutant Apocalypse and Ninja Gaiden II: The Dark Sword of Chaos) and are representatives of popular fighting games (Marvel vs Capcom and Dead or Alive respectively).
- This is also a battle of opposites, as Psylocke is a female who fights mentally on the battlefield while Ryu is a male who fights physically on the battlefield.