Description[]
Steven Universe vs. God of War. They've been misused by the people they've loved and it was their minds that payed the price.
Introduction[]
Boomstick: Not every psycho starts out as one. A person can be driven to become one through a harrowing event or symptoms of PTSD.
Wiz: And even through incidents of betrayal and isolation. Like Spinel, the childhood playmate of Pink Diamond.
Boomstick: And Baldur, the Norse God of Light. 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.
Spinel[]
Wiz: Through the perspective of her son Steven Universe, we all came to the belief that Rose Quartz, founder of the Crystal Gems and leader of the Rebellion to save the planet Earth, was the ultimate paragon of kindness, strength and compassion. But like Steven, we were all slow to learn that it wasn't as black and white as all that.
Boomstick: Primarily because Rose Quartz had a massive secret; she was Pink Diamond, the youngest of the ruling Gems called the Diamonds, who was eager for a planet colony of her own to rule.
Wiz: But before inheriting the Earth to rule and then later save, Pink Diamond left something behind. Or should we say, someone.
Boomstick: Or maybe it should be classified as 'something', because that's what Pink Diamond saw as her playmate, Spinel.
- Background
- Age: 6000>
- Height: Est. 5’
- Pink Diamond’s playmate
- Made to stand in place in a garden
- Inspired by old-rubber cartoons
- Has an uncanny resemblance of Jenny Wakeman
Wiz: If the Diamonds where considered gem royalty, then little Spinel fulfilled the role of court jester, entertaining Pink Diamond for many a long carefree session.
Boomstick: And apparently she was a special model as well, with a perfect cut gemstone in the shape of a heart. Why it was that way? I have no idea. Must have been a trend or something.
Wiz: Ironic, considering that the word spinel is derived from the Latin word for spine. So there's your fun fact of the day. Speaking of fun, that was pretty much Spinel's modus operandi towards Pink Diamond; to make sure she has as much fun as possible in their private play area, the Garden. But unfortunately, that drive ended up indirectly responsible for the worst thing to happen to Spinel in her entire life.
Boomstick: On the day Pink Diamond finally got her own planet to oversee, in her excitement she ended up not thinking through one key detail; what was she going to do with her playmate.
Wiz: Rather than simply tell her that she was going to be away for a while, Pink instead decided to get Spinel off her Diamondback by making her telling her she had come up with a new game for her to play.
Boomstick: Okay, that's a good pun.
Wiz: Thank you. The "game" in question Pink Diamond came up with for Spinel was for her to stand completely still.
Boomstick: Until...
Wiz: Nope, that was just it, standing very still. Like musical statues with the music never playing.
Boomstick: Oh. Dick move Pink Diamond, Dick Move.
Wiz: Well, this was long before she had learned to have empathy and compassion for other things, but yeah, there's really nothing to justifying abandoning a loyal friend to remain motionless for thousands of years.
Boomstick: Spinel remained standing still for that long? Man, talk about patience.
Wiz: Patience that was sadly never rewarded for Spinel, because after thousands of years of waiting, she was informed by the garden's communication hub that Pink Diamond has passed, survived by her son Steven Universe, finally making Spinel realize that Pink never had any intention of coming back for her. The crushed Spinel, and she decided to take her revenge against Pink via targeting her legacy; the Earth and Steven.
Popup: Upon receiving the news, Spinel actually poofed from the emotional trauma, which is the reason behind her new appearance.
Boomstick: This meant she would have to go up against Pink's allies, the Crystal Gems, but luckily for her, she could make full use of her abilities, unique or otherwise, to do battle with them.
- Powers and Arsenal
- Superhuman strength
- Superhuman endurance
- Superhuman speed
- Shapeshifting
- Elasticity
- Flattening
- Enlargement
- Elongation
- Gem Injector
- Spews out poison
- Controlled by her horn hand
Wiz: On the unique side of the spectrum, Spinel is able to stretch and contort her body in a manner of ways, reminiscent of old cartoon characters.
Boomstick: She can grow herself or select parts of her body, stretch out her limbs like Jake the Dog and can have her body act with the elements of a spring or elastic band.
Popup: Considering that other Gems glow when using their shapeshifting abilities, this is proof that Spinel's are a natural to her primary form.
Wiz: Combining these shapeshifting abilities of hers with her incredible speed, strength and durability makes Spinel an unorthodox but effect fighter on the battlefield. Ironic, considering that she was made for the role of being a childhood toy.
Boomstick: Well some toys can be dangerous, like those Nerf guns or LEGO pieces. I remember I nearly choked on one of those because I thought it's be interesting to put one in my mouth. Ah, I was so young.
Wiz: Boomstick, that was last year. Remember, I had gave you the Heimlich?
Boomstick: Then I was a year younger, so what? Still young. And speaking of toys Spinel has a few of her own, including an absolutely massive syringe full of a deadly medicine for planet earth.
Wiz: This is an Injector that previously belonged to Pink Diamond, explaining how Spinel was able to get access to it so quickly and in the first place. By converting her hand into a horn and blowing through it, Spinel can command the Injector to begin secreting the acidic poison into the ground. With enough time, it would have been capable of killing all organic life on Earth.
- Feats
- Can match Steven’s strength
- Lifted a massive boulder
- Outpaced all the Crystal Gems
- Left a crater on a crystal surface
- Nearly destroyed all organic life on Earth
- Defeated Pearl, Garnet and Amethyst
Boomstick: And as we've said before, the Crystal Gems weren't just gonna stand back and let that happen, so Spinel quickly got to work fighting all of them, at the same time!
Wiz: She outpaced Pearl, who was able to react to meteors at 31% the speed of light, match the strength of Garnet who could strike with 3700 tons of force and outwit Amethyst, and whilst that may not sound like a hard thing to do, she's also an adept user of her shapeshifting abilities, so Spinel outpacing her with her own is no feat to be scoffed at. And neither is cutting all of them down in the exact same moment with a Gem Rejuvenator scythe.
Boomstick: Well, not all of them. Steven was able to resist the affects of the scythe...somewhat, due to his human side, but that just gave Spinel the chance to directly spar with him.
Wiz: And Steven was able to lift the Gem Injector itself with his own two hands, and it weighed over 275 thousand tons (Therefir).
Boomstick: Sure, Steven's powers were fluxing during that time, but the fact he could lift it at all is still really impressive, and so is Spinel for being able to wrestle with him. Hang on, I've just thought of something; always wearing a smile, very dangerous in battle, looks like a jester and was emotionally abused by someone? By god, she's a gem version of Harley Quinn!
Wiz: And like Harley Quinn, well sometimes for her anyway, Spinel was able to turn over a new leaf and get on the road to rehabilitation thanks to the remaining Diamonds.
Boomstick: Sheesh, another Steven Universe Villain Redemption? More than those than in My Little Pony.
Wiz: Boomstick, it was a great personal victory for Spinel to be able to do so.
Boomstick: Yeah, I guess so, but her victor against the Crystal Gems in their first encounter is less so, since it was stated that they were rusted thanks to the years of peace they experienced.
Wiz: It certainly makes sense, since Spinel was made for play not battle, and her Gem Rejuvenator only affects other gems, which is why we excluded it from the analysis in the first place.
Boomstick: But Spinel has been through a lot, and with that in mind, the happily ever after she earned was certainly the least she deserved.
Baldur[]
Wiz: Before the war between the Gods and the Giants of Norse Mythology, there was another war being raged, between the Aesir and the Vanir.
Boomstick: The Aesir where the stereotypical war hungry bunch, and the Vanir focused on using their magic for most things.
Wiz: With the raw might of the Aesir and the magical prowess of the Vanir, the war seemed like it would forever remain in a deadlock. But the Norse God of Wisdom Mimir, who may or may not have been Puck from one of Shakespeare's plays, proposed a way for the war to come to an end. A proposal of marriage.
Boomstick: Between Odin and Freya, the two leaders of the respective factions.
Wiz: And for a while, it worked. Peace was set between the the Aesir and Vanir and Odin and Freya were even content with each other.
Boomstick: Naturally, however, it didn't last, but the details of that are for another day. The detail we're going to focus on is that Odin and Freya ended up having a son together, named Baldur.
- Background
- Age: Over 100
- Height: 5’9
- Aesir God of Light
- Son of Odin and Freya
- Hates his mother for placing an enchantment on him
- Death triggers Fimbulwinter, a sign of Ragnarok
Boomstick: Hang on a moment, what's Conor McGregor doing in Midgard? I knew he was fearless but come on.
Wiz: Like most mothers, Freya ended up completely and totally loving her baby boy the day he was born.
Boomstick: Take note all you less-than-satisfactory moms, if you ain't feeling what Freya felt, then you ain't got the right attitude towards your kids.
Popup: Baldur was evidently close to his mother in his youth, as he made her a necklace.
Wiz: Actually, Freya's problem wasn't that he didn't love her son, she loved him too much, and that will always led to trouble. Especially when it turns out that Baldur would have a less than satisfactory role to play in Ragnarok.
Boomstick: Because of course he would. Nearly every other Norse god does. As well as some giant monsters, and even a trio of roosters. Yes, that is a real detail about the infamous Twilight of the Gods.
Wiz: Baldur's role in Ragnarok wouldn't be competing in it however; upon his death, a three year long winter, the Fimbulwinter, was set into motion. After which, the events leading to Ragnarok would begin.
Boomstick: Never mind that it would result in the literal end of the world, but Freya's first worry was that it would mean her son would die. Which everyone does eventually, but I guess it is more of a red flag when it's a god actually croaking.
Wiz: Desperate to keep her son in the living world, Freya placed a charm upon him, one of complete invincibility. But it also functioned the same as a curse, because it completely robbed Baldur of all of his ability to feel anything.
Boomstick: The taste of food, the temperature of the room, he couldn't feel it in the slightest.
Wiz: The sensory deprivation drove Baldur mad, and he forever developed a hatred of his mother for placing the enchantment upon him, proving no action, good or action, is free of consequences.
Boomstick: Over a hundred years passed, and Baldur's sanity continued to whittle away, up until the day he was commanded by his dad Odin to investigate a stranger in the woods. Everyone's favorite God of War, Kratos. And in spite of his hatred of his newfound invincibility, it certainly came in useful for the numerous battles he would go on to have with the former Ghost of Sparta.
- Powers and Abilities
- Superhuman strength
- Superhuman speed
- Superhuman agility
- Light enhancements
- Master hand-to-hand fighter
- Element control
- Invulnerability
- Immune to any attack
- Renders him unable to feel
- Can be removed by mistletoe
Wiz: Thanks to the curse upon him, Baldur is nearly unstoppable in battle. Not only does he not feel any pain but any wound inflicted upon him has no chance of being fully fatal.
Boomstick: And being invincible all of the time means that Baldur can afford to get up close and personal with his opponents before unleashing his fists of fury, or his grapples or his flying kicks, kind of like a certain wrestler who also has an awesome beard.
Wiz: As with most gods, Baldur also possesses incredible speed and strength, which he can apparently enhance by coating his body parts in golden light, which allows him to leap high into the air before smashing back down with the force of a meteor.
Boomstick: When he wants to mix up his approach, Baldur can absorb the elemental properties certain things, say a magical weapon or explosion, to use them himself. We've seen him use both ice and fire to launch projectiles, unleash waves of the stuff, or make him invulnerable to the same element he currently has activated.
Popup: Strictly speaking, Baldur used this ability when he had lost his invulnerability, so it's not fully known if he can use his elemental abilities with the curse activated.
Wiz: And whenever he slams down from the air, he now does so with an explosive radius. This is all very impressive on his part, since Baldur is described as being more of a tracker than a fighter.
Boomstick: Yet he is still capable of giving Kratos one heck of a fight.
- Feats
- Matched Kratos’ speed and strength in battle
- Pushed away a giant boulder
- Escaped Helheim
- Survived getting his neck snapped
- Considered Odin’s best tracker
- Defeated Atreus, Jormungandr, Freya
Wiz: In their very first duel alone, their struggling resulted in a massive gorge being created in the earth, and that was when they weren't weaponizing the environment against each other.
Boomstick: This may have been an older Kratos, but he has shown to still be an utter powerhouse himself. According to Cory Balrog...
Wiz: Barlog.
Boomstick: Barlog, the Temple of Tyr, the massive bridge that Kratos pushed with his bare hands, weighed 1.7 million tons.
Wiz: And back in the Greek Pantheon, Kratos was able to tag Hermes, who was fast enough to dodge the blasts of light from the Head of Helios at 33% the speed of light (Kepekley23, translated from another calculator).
Boomstick: Speaking of comparisons towards Kratos, Baldur ended up stuck in the Norse Realm of the dead like him. And he was able to find his way out by himself.
Wiz: Afterwards, he would be drawn into a final confrontation against Kratos and his own mother, where the key to undoing his invulnerability would come to light; mistletoe.
Boomstick: What happened? Did he pick up a piece to share a Christmas kiss with someone and it caused his invulnerability to wear off?
Wiz: No, it was formed into an arrowhead used to keep Kratos' son's quiver strap on. Baldur punched it, and the rest is history. Like Baldur soon was, thanks to no longer being unkillable.
Boomstick: Yeah, he may have liked being able to feel, but it was still bad news to him that he could now be killed. And even with his invulnerability, he could be incapacitated with something on the level of a snapped neck.
Wiz: But it would take a lot of effort to pull off, and Baldur is still remembered as the finest introduction to the challenge the Norse Gods will bring upon the former God of War.
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[]
Through a forest, Baldur walked his way through the trees, scanning them with his sharp eyes.
Baldur: Damn it all, where's a mistletoe tree when you need it?
Suddenly, he spotted one, sitting by itself in a small clearing in the middle of the forest.
Baldur: Oh, finally! Sweet touch, here I come.
But just as he began walking towards it, a shadow cast itself over the area. Baldur frowned in confusion and looked up just in time to see a giant Gem Injector smash right onto the mistletoe tree.
Baldur: No!
The god glared up in anger at the device, noticing the pink colored individual standing atop it. Spinel turned one of her hands into a horn and shouted through it;
Spinel: Hey buddy, I'm looking for someone! Feel like giving me a hand?
Baldur: Feel...FEEL!?
Baldur chuckled into the palm of his hand.
Baldur: I was just about to be able to feel something for the first time in a hundred years, and then you came along and took it from me.
His voice delved into a hateful rasp.
Baldur: So now, I'll make you feel the pain I can't.
Spinel gasped mockingly in horror.
Spinel: Oh no, I'm being threatened. Whatever will I do? How about this!
She leapt down from the top of the Injector, landed on the ground like a spring before using said instant shape-change to launch herself at Baldur.
Spinel: Let's play!
FIGHT!
But as Spinel pounced forward at Baldur, his fist shot out and struck her dead in the middle of her face, sending her head shooting backwards on an elongated neck. Spinel's body now backwards leaning body, however, clenched its fists and yanked itself back forward, which launched Spinel's head back towards Baldur like a catapult so that it conked against Baldur's face, causing the god to stumble backwards. Spinel recovered from Baldur's attack and her own, grinned and leapt at Baldur, delivering a punch across his face.
Spinel: Take this! And that! And another one! And don't forget these!
As she spoke, Spinel delivered two punches to Baldur's chest before a rapid-fire barrage into his left ribs.
Spinel: And now have this!
Before she drew her leg back and slammed it between Baldur's legs. She skipped backwards, breathing hard, noticing that Baldur didn't seem the least affected by her attacks.
Spinel: Huh...this isn't working is it.
POW!
Baldur punched her across the face, causing her spin about with a dazed, cross-eyed expression on her face before getting grabbed from behind and backwards slammed into the ground. Baldur rolled back to his feet to deliver a kick to the downed Spinel, sending her backwards to slam into the trunk of a tree. Before she could peel forward, Baldur charged forward and tackled her, smashing her through several trees. After getting into another small clearing, Baldur spun about and hurled Spinel away. The gem was able to recover as she flew through the air and she grabbed onto a solitary tree with her extended arms to swing herself back around to land facing Baldur. Still holding onto the ground, she grunted and dragged the tree forward and sent it flying towards Baldur, even as it remained rooted in the ground. Baldur smacked the tree aside, fully uprooting it and revealing to him Spinel spinning towards him like a spinning top. Baldur crossed his arms in front of him to brace against the attack as it repeatedly struck him before uncrossing his arms to push Spinel back. As soon as she stopped spinning and landed, Spinel pushed herself back at Baldur, swinging a wound-up punch at him. Baldur countered with his own, the two punches clashing together and causing a shockwave. This clashing punch was repeated with both their other hands before Baldur and Spinel unleashed a repeatedly colliding series of punches at the other, causing the ground around them to vibrate. As they performed their colliding punch barrages, Spinel discretely stretched her foot so that it snaked behind Baldur before shooting out to wrap around his ankle, yanking on his leg sharply. This caused Baldur to lurch forward, his punch falling short of Spinel's face, who grinned and seized the oportunity to deliver an uppercut into Baldur's face, launching him straight into the air. As Spinel's elasticated leg was still wrapped around Baldur's leg, she was able to tug on it to drag him back towards her to deliver a punch that sent him flying forwards. Spinel gave another powerful tug on her limb to draw Baldur back towards her so that she could wind up her arm and deliver an extra strong punch to Baldur. This finally disentangled her leg around his, allowing the god to smash across the ground like a ragdoll, eventually planting face first against the stony ground. In spite of the painful looking landing, Baldur simply got back to his feet, dusting himself off before leering at Spinel.
Baldur: Is that all?
Spinel: Why don't you come back over, and see!
Spinel shot her arms out towards Baldur, who leaped into the air to avoid getting grabbed. Spinel looked up in time to see Baldur shooting down through the air towards her, so she jumped downwards as he crashed back into the ground, resulting in a massive crater being created and causing shrapnel to fly upwards. Baldur's hands shot out to grab the sharped pieces of stone, hurling them with the consistency of machine gun fire. Spinel darted her head side-to-side to avoid the hurled projectiles.
Spinel: Ha, missed!
But Baldur didn't miss when he grabbed an extra large length of rock and swing it like a baseball bat to smash it directly into Spinel's face, leaving her with a mouth full of the rubble. Clenching her jaw shut, the gem shattered the rocky mouthful, growled and swiped at Baldur with a punch. Baldur nimbly stepped backwards from the punch before darting forward to deliver a flurry of punches into her body and then face. Spinel locked her fingers together and raised her clasped hands together as soon as she was able to, swinging her two fists downwards directly onto the top of Baldur's hand. Although this drove his feet several inches into the ground, Baldur's expression of concentration remained unchanged and he clenched his fist before punching upwards, catching Spinel on her jaw and knocking her into the air. Before she fell back down, Baldur leapt into the air and tackled her, sending the two of them flying back into the masses of trees surrounding them, smashing through several in the process before crashing back into the ground.
As soon as they had landed, Spinel kicked Baldur in the midriff to roll him off of her before jumping back to her feet and seizing Baldur with her extended arm. With a grunt, she spun herself around, dragging Baldur about and smashing him through the trunks of numerous trees before releasing his ankles to send him flying back. As he flew back however, Baldur righted himself and dug his fingers into the ground to bring himself to a stop.
Baldur: Boring!
He rose his fists up before slamming them into the ground, sending out a forwards shockwave that slammed into Spinel before she had a chance to react, sending her flying through the air to land on her face. As she lifted her head up with a groan, Baldur slammed his foot down onto the her back, grabbed a hold of the back of her head and started to repeatedly slam her face into the ground. In spite of being dazed momentarily at the repeated impacts, Spinel has able to have herself go completely flat and slide behind the surprised Baldur, who was able to turn around in time before Spinel jumped up and extended all four of her limbs to latch onto Baldur from behind, entangling the god. Baldur struggled to move as much as he could and Spinel hover her head by his ear.
Spinel: Now what friend?
Baldur gritted his teeth before letting out a roar, lifted his foot up and slammed it into the ground, sending a shockwave shooting through his body. Thanks to his immunity, Baldur felt nothing, but Spinel was completely shaken by the sudden vibration through Baldur's body. This loosed her hold on him and allowed him to channel white energy through his body to blast Spinel off of himself. The gem was sent flying backwards and crashed into the ground before Baldur jumped on top of her to rain numerous punches down onto her face, leaving her blinking deliriously. She attempted to bring her hands up to counterattack, only for one of them to get grabbed and twisted painfully by Baldur. Her other hand was able to grab Baldur's face, but she suddenly yelled in pain as Baldur sank his teeth in the palm before knocking the hand away.
Baldur: And here I was hoping that you'd be able to make me feel something, but like all the others you come up short! And I can't help take note of how important that looks!
To Spinel's horror, Baldur grabbed a hold of her heart-shaped gemstone and began to squeeze.
Spinel: Crikey! Looks like I need a little renovation here!
Acting quickly, she stretched her hand into a horn and blew into it. A little ways away, the Gem Injector whirred to life and it ejected its pink liquid into the ground via the drill, sending massive cracks along the ground. The artificially-made earthquake spread the cracks towards where Baldur and Spinel were fighting, and the ground beneath them collapsed, sending them falling down towards rivers of pink acid with a yell. Baldur dug his fingers and feet into the rock wall to stop himself falling any further. But as he looked up, he saw Spinel enlarge her fist, stretch out her arm into a spring and aim it directly at him as she also fell.
Spinel: Hee-Yah!
Spinel shoot the giant fist towards Baldur, catching the god directly in his face and knocking him straight down into the pink corrosive liquid, vanishing under the surface with a splash. Using the recoil from striking Baldur, Spinel propelled herself out the gorge to land nimbly on her feet.
Spinel: Phew! That was dicey.
She walked back over to the Gem Injector and looked up at the now half-empty container.
Spinel: Drat, I was hoping I could use the full amount for my little surprise, but I guess I'll need to make do.
CRACK!
Spinel's face remained the same, but her eyes darted to the side as she heard the shifting of Earth. A massive fissure suddenly opened up explosively behind her and she whipped around just in time to see Baldur leaping out of the hole, completely unharmed by the acid.
Baldur: Pathetic!
Spinel shrieked in surprise before getting grabbed by Baldur as he lunged at her. This ended up sending them skidding across the ground, leaving a deep trench in the earth which ended right in front of the Injector's drill with Baldur pinning Spinel down.
Spinel: Argh! Why don't you die!
Baldur gritted his teeth in a demented smile.
Baldur: I probably could, if only you hadn't...
He stopped speaking when he saw something behind the drill; the mistletoe tree he had been searching for.
Baldur: Yes!
To Spinel's surprise, he bolted off of her and ran straight towards the tree. As he neared, he jumped forward, letting him momentum send him forward so that one of the outstretched branches of the tree stabbed into his shoulder. From the point of impact, his symbols glowed blue before fading. He dropped back down to the ground and cackled.
Baldur: I can feel!
Spinel rubbed the back of her head.
Spinel: Um...congratulations?
Baldur turned around to face her again.
Spinel: Yeah, you're right, let's get back to trying to kill each other.
Spinel remade her hand-horn and blew into it, making her Gem Injector double the amount of liquid it pumped into the earth. This had the affect of increasing the earthquakes and causing the ground both Baldur and Spinel were standing on to break apart. Spinel jumped onto one of the Injector's legs as the ground below her collapsed. Baldur quickly followed after her as his own ground broke apart, but instead of gunning for her directly, he instead slammed through throttle into the Injector leg she was standing on, or had been anyway, as she instantly leapt upwards to hold onto the glass container of the Injector. A massive fiery explosion erupted as Baldur smashed through the leg, the flames washing over the laughing god.
Baldur: I feel...I feel!
Spinel: Okay pal, gotta tell ya, you're really starting to freak me out.
She winced briefly before climbing back up the Injector as Baldur did the same after her. Spinel quickly reached the top, running across the platform as Baldur pulled himself up after her.
Baldur: Where are you going? I thought we where having fun!
BONK!
The inactivated Gem Rejuvenator clonked off Baldur's forehead, leaving the god to stare cross-eyed up at where it had hit him before looking at Spinel with a perplexed expression.
Spinel: So it doesn't work against non-gems either way ai? Back to basics then!
She lunged at Baldur at the same instance he charged at her with a glowing body, the two of them colliding in the middle of the platform. A shockwave echoed out from the point of impact as the gem and god attempted to overpower the other as they remained locked face-to-face. Spinel was the first to break the lock to deliver a hail of punches into Baldur's face. As the blows collided with their target, Baldur merely laughed madly before catching one of Spinel's fist and channeling intense heat through it, having absorbed the properties of the explosion he had created when smashing through the Injector leg. The sudden heat caused Spinel to recoil with a shout before getting her face grabbed by the red-hot hand of Baldur to smash it straight into the crystalline surface of the Injector's top. Before Spinel's other hand or even her legs could stretch out to intercept Baldur, the god shot his hands out to grab the limbs, heat them intensely and smash them into the floor, leaving them wedged in the cracks and damaged, and Spinel completely laid out before the crazed god. Baldur gave one last grin down at Spinel before drawing hot energy around him and leaping into the air. Spinel peered upwards and saw him rocketing downwards towards her with fiery energy all around him, and she sighed dejectedly.
Spinel: Aw, shoot.
Baldur slammed straight into Spinel, resulting in a massive shockwave and the destruction of the top of the Injector, the rest of it being pushed halfway into the earth. In the middle of the wreckage of the Injector's top, Baldur got back to his feet, looking down at the two halves of Spinel's gemstones between his foot. With a satisfied smirk, Baldur swept the pieces off the wreckage to fall into one of the crevices made by the Injector.
KO!
Outcome[]
Boomstick: Looks like this new broken heart of Spinel's may have just been fatal.
Wiz: Looking at this with just surface level facts and feats, this match-up was a lot more even than one might have suspected.
Boomstick: You would think that with Baldur's invulnerability would have meant that Spinel would have been unable to even harm him, but his first battle against Kratos showed that he could be incapacitated with something on the level of a broken neck, so if Spinel had been able to pull something like that off she could have won.
Wiz: Especially since their levels of speed appeared to be nearly similar, with Baldur leading in this regard with just a 2% speed different. But this is where we begin to talk about deeper facts; in Norse Mythology, Baldur is regarded as the God of Light.
Boomstick: Given how his tattoos glow white whenever he goes fast, it's likely that position is still true for him in the God of War universe, and seeing how he appears to get faster whenever this happens, he's likely reaching light speeds, as would be possible for a god of light.
Wiz: At the very least Baldur's speed would increase well over the usual 33% the speed of light. And even if they were equal in speed, strength was another matter. Comparing their struggles with Kratos and Steven Universe, two people you probably wouldn't expect to be in the same sentence, then Baldur is over 6 times stronger than Spinel.
Boomstick: With that kind of strength, Baldur would easily be able to break Spinel's gemstone, so her overall durability sadly wouldn't matter in the end. And although Spinel could have gotten around Baldur's invulnerability in theory, even though she lacked the direct means of removing it, the fact that Baldur wouldn't be dogged down by pain certainly wouldn't impede him.
Popup: Further arguments for Baldur targeting Spinel's gemstone are that he possesses a deductive nature during battle and he scales directly to Kratos, who was able to reduce an emerald to dust which possesses the same MOH hardness rating as spinel.
Wiz: Spinel's unorthodox nature let her put up a good fight, but Baldur's godly speed, immense strength and invulnerability ended up being her undoing.
Boomstick: Putting a Spin-el on the way things went.
Wiz: The winner is Baldur.
Next Time[]
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With tons of power
Trivia[]
- The connection between Spinel and Baldur is that they are both psychotic non-human antagonists with unique physical abilities; Spinel's rubber hose cartoon-like shapeshifting and Baldur's invulnerability. Both who have been betrayed by individuals they loved who served as important figures of royalty and leaders of all-women groups (Pink Diamond, a member of the ruling Diamond Gem caste and leader of the Crystal Gems and Freya, Queen of the Vanir, Aesir and Valkyries, respectively) but ironically, whilst Spinel was betrayed by Pink Diamond who did not love her enough, Baldur was abused by his mother because she loved him too much and wished to keep him safe forever. Both their psychological issues stem from isolation; Spinel from standing in one place for thousands of years and Baldur from losing all physical sensations. Both have also been featured in sequels to certain series, prominently showing up in the prologues; Spinel is introduced in Steven Universe: The Movie and Baldur was introduced in the 2018 God of War reboot.
- This battle would have been in hand-drawn animation
- The original music for this battle would have been called 'Unfeeling Friends', referring to Baldur's curse rendering him unable to feel anything and Spinel's song 'Other Friends'.