As the resident Zelda
fan in most of the online communities I'm in, I usually get asked how strong is
Link, how powerful is Majora or Fierce Deity Link, what's the most impressive
feat in Zelda, etc. I would usually respond to those questions by saying that
Majora destroyed Termina, and the feat should be approximately continent-level
if not more. Although, the problem with making this claim is that there isn't
much to back it up nowadays. Most resources for this feat, such as the calcs on
VBW or OBD, either have broken links or outdated information; for example if
you look for the original calc on the Outskirts Battledome, it uses the kinetic
energy required to pull the real-world moon out of orbit, and has yet to update
or edit this. I have trouble finding any resources that reference the explosion
itself, which is usually the reason I cite for the characters being that
powerful. This calculation will aim to rectify
that.
First, to lay down
some context.
This is the cutscene
that plays if you allow Skull Kid to drop the moon. The speed and size of the
moon itself will not yield any results worth looking into, again, it's the
resulting explosion we're concerned with. There is also a cutscene where Majora
creates asimilar explosion without the moon.
This cutscene plays
wherever Link is, and the explosion will reach him within seconds wherever he
is in Termina. The 3DS version of the cutscene claims that itannihilates
Termina and its inhabitants.
Now, I will not be using
the game map or the size of the giants andtheir strides from Clock
Town, as I believe they are not to scale and will
not produce accurate results. Instead, I will be basing this on the fact that
Termina houses several unique biomes, such as a mountain range and a forest,
and will compare them to the average size of these biomes.
Again, this map is not
to scale, I'm simply using it as a reference point for the types of biomes
within Termina. In addition, here is alist of
all areas in the game as well.
I will be multiplying
the size of average forest by 6 to account for the amount shown, and the size of
the average town by 8 to account for the various settlements, ranching and
farming areas, temples, fields and other areas that were left unaccounted for.
44*6=264
1000*8=8000
Now to convert all the
meter values to meters squared and add them all together to get our total area
the explosion covered, which brings us to...
3500+438052+264+8000+40.96+100
449956.96 km^2
To account for 3D space,
I’ll use formula for a rectangular solid since we can use the same value of
area for our width and we have an approximate value for our height based on the
mountain range height and sea depth from earlier.
V=lwh
lw (surface area)=449956.96
km^2
h=9 km (6000+3000 m)
V=449956.96*9=4,049,612.64
km^3
Since the word used in
the cutscene is "annihilated", we'll assume pulverization for our low
end and vaporization for our high end.
Pulv.: 214.35 joules per
cubic cm
Vap.: 25700 joules per
cubic cm
Cubic km to cubic cm=
4.04961264000000013e+21 or 4049612640000000000000 cc
Low End: 214.35*4049612640000000000000=868,034,469,384,000,000,000,000
Joules or 0.2 Petatons of TNT equivalent
High End: 25700*4049612640000000000000=104,075,044,848,000,000,000,000,000
Joules or 24.8 Petatons of TNT equivalent
This would scale to
Fierce Deity Link and base form Link's Great Fairy Sword.
Welcome back, everyone! That’s right, I’m back
on my bullsh*t again making VS blogs. What’d I miss?
Ah yes, the world appears to be on fire and
outside is death. This is fine.
Well, with Animal Crossing: Eternal Horizons (I
did the meme, you guys) just releasing, I suppose it’s a good time as any to
take a break from all this fire and brimstone Hell on Earth talk and escape to…
Hell on Earth. And our rippin’ and tearin’ angry boi has been busy.
Is he still a match for Master Chief? Does he
get any sweet gainz? Let’s take a look-see.
And of course, there will be heavy spoilers for
the recent game, so please be advised.
In case you were
wondering...
Name a more iconic duo. I’ll wait.
Now, prior to Eternal, the identity of the
‘Doomslayer’ was kept ambiguous, as Doom 2016 was meant to be a soft reboot of
the franchise. Classic fans were free to keep their headcanon that this was in
fact the Doom Marine that somehow made it into the events of this new game, or
new players could hop right in and were free to believe that he was a new being
entirely.
However, Eternal has established the protagonist
of the reboot as none other than the original Doom Marine from the 1993 DOS
games that somehow dimension-hopped his way through Hell into this new
universe. Or is it the same universe and just centuries later? That much is
unclear, but the important thing is that the original Doomguy can now feasibly
share feats and backstory with the new games.
There is also some weird extended universe stuff
where all of Id Software’s original properties such as Doom, Commander Keen,
Quake and Wolfenstein all share the same continuity. Supposedly, the Nazi’s
dabblings with the occult are what eventually lead to the Hell invasions into
the mortal plane in Doom, and BJ Blaskovich, Commander Keen and Doomguy are all
related. This is established in the Wolfenstein RPG, which I don’t consider
canon. The modern Doom and Wolfenstien games are much too different to be
considered a shared universe, let alone the more lighthearted and cartoony
Commander Keen games. There are nods to these throughout each of the games,
though I consider them as simply Easter Eggs for the player, as the original
Doom games can be played on Doomguy’s base on floppy discs, which makes no
sense in continuity unless we go the Marvel route and assume the games are an
“interactive documentary” of sorts portraying real-life events. For the sake of
simplicity, let’s just focus on Doom and Doom only. Dead Simple. (See what I
did there?)
The Doom Bible and novelization as well as WADS
such as the Plutonia Experiment will also be considered non-canon material.
Backstory
The main protagonist of the Doom games is given
no confirmed identity, as he is simply meant as a vessel for the player to live
vicariously through. For all intents and purposes, he is you.
In context of the universe, however, he is an
anonymous Marine assigned to the UAC stations on the moons orbiting Mars, and
the sole survivor of an extra-dimensional invasion. The UAC would later
identify him as “the Doom Marine” or “the Doom guy” for lack of a proper
identity and associated locations he visited being marked for Doom by the alien
“visitors”, as a warning for others to stay away.
Though Union Aerospace scientists would deny it
for the sake of their scientific resolve and consider them merely “alien
invaders” (though by definition that is technically correct), these visitors
were in fact from Hell itself, and the UAC would deny all accounts of
inadvertently opening a gateway to the biblical underworld.
But Doomguy had firsthand experience, and knew
exactly what he was dealing with. The only way off the facility was to battle
through the forces of Hell itself. He would have to search for more substantial
firepower than his standard pistol, as well as a portal or some sort of escape
pod. Though his sidearm did well to fend off the fodder such as the zombified
soldiers and UAC personnel, this was only the beginning. He found a plasma
rifle, an industrial strength chainsaw, and even the experimental Big
F[Redacted] Gun 9000 (I almost scoff at the obvious 90’s shlock of proffesional
engineers unironically calling their pinnacle creation “the big fucking gun”,
but then I remember Elon Musk literally does the
same thing, life imitates art and so forth) until he
eventually came across two large and burly horned beasts known as the Barons of
Hell, Elite Knights of Hell, who guarded the only portal off of the moon of
Phobos.
It was unexpected that Doomguy would actually
defeat them, and in an act of panicked desperation, the demons laid a trap
where they ambushed him from within the portal. The ambush was successful, in a
sense. He was killed, though since no living mortal had ever died in Hell, this
was a really bad idea in hindsight. Though he was effectively dead, he was able
to keep a physical form, as he was unable to ascend, effectively immortal while
in their world.
The demons now had to deal with a very angry
Marine with a very large gun. Rather than trying to escape now, Doomguy
sought out to stop the invasion from the source. He scaled the Tower of Babel,
and faced the Mighty Cyberdemon Lord who was general of the demon horde who
invaded Mars and its moons. He faced the dreaded Cyberdemon in his own
coliseum, and emerged victorious.
Regardless, the invasion continued, and the
portals remained opened. He scoured the Umbral planes, seeking out the Dark
Lord responsible. He ripped and tore his way through Hell until he entered the
legendary City of Dis, where he encountered the Spider Mastermind, the-well-
mastermind behind everything, who had influenced and manipulated the humans
into experimenting with portal technology and opening gateways into Hell. At
last, he had found the demon in question, and killed the Mastermind as well as
everything else that moved.
The demons were dumbfounded and terrified, and
opened a portal to Earth both as a peace offering and an effort to finally get
rid of him.
As promised, the portal took him home. But, as
fate would have it, it was already being attacked by Hell’s forces. He
relentlessly mowed down the demons in a fit of rage, facing ever more demonic
Imps, Hell Knights, and Cyberdemons, as well as previously unseen demons pulled
from deeper and darker pits such as Revenants, Archviles, Pain Elementals, and
more Cyberdemons. It mattered not to him, their guts all looked the same.
He eventually came across living civilians and
guarded their ships as they evacuated to the Moon. Before leaving, they
informed Doomguy that the invasion on Earth began initially in his own home
town. Horrified, he found the wreckage of his home, as well as the remains of
his pet rabbit Daisy. This was the last straw. This time, he voluntarily
entered their world, vowing to lay waste to their world and everything they
held dear, as they did to him.
He destroyed endlessly and his lust for revenge
was never sated, as the demons cared not for each other as a man could care for
another living thing. But, he did hear whispers of a great Dark God, a mighty
Titan that the demons worshipped. That would have to do.
He descended further and further until he found
the Dark Lord they idolised, Baphomet, the Icon of Sin. The Icon materialised
demon horde after demon horde into existence, but to no avail. The Marine rose
up on a pillar and unloaded his rocket launcher into the unholy beast’s exposed
brain. The beast writhed and flailed in its death throes, ravaging untold
miles, leaving Hell in an absolute wreck. It was done.
After all the straggler demons were killed off
and human society rebuilt, the UAC began a new initiative to prevent any other
invasions before they began. To kill two birds with one stone, Earth dumped all
of their leftover toxic waste and radioactive materials into the UAC facility
on Mars, in order to clean up and restore Earth’s ecosystem as well as render
Mars uninhabitable to prevent any further would-be invasions.
While that makes sense on paper, this was Hell
they were dealing with. The unstable energies woke up another ancient Dark Lord
known as the Mother Demon, who resurrected all the demons, who were now
stronger thanks to the nuclear radiation they absorbed.
Of course, they sent in the man who has the most
experience with such a threat to clear out and secure the facility once again.
Just like old times, he made his way through, ripping and tearing. Though their
powers were amplified, it made no difference.
He came across a strange artifact known as the
Unmaker, an unholy weapon allegedly even more powerful than the BFG. After the
defeat of Cyberdemons and other hellish bosses, he found Demon Keys that served
to bring out the Unmaker’s full potential. He used it to put an end to the
Mother Demon. After doing so, he came to the realization that killing the Icon
of Sin would not be enough, there would yet be other Dark Lords and Hell would
never stop in its efforts to acquire the Mortal Plane. He took the portal back
into Hell, and this time with the intent of staying permanently. If he couldn’t
stop Hell itself, then he would make them too afraid to ever try invading again.
A hundred years passed and the figure known as
“the Doom Marine” faded into myth. Meanwhile, Earth was facing an energy crisis
due to a large portion of the planet rendered uninhabitable by the invasion.
MIT graduate and UAC Chief of Operations Dr. Samuel Hayden came up with the
unorthodox solution of exploiting the portals on Mars to Hell, utilizing an
entire endless plane of resources and energy to supply infinite power to Earth’s
cities. He was aware of the risks of doing so, but there was no other
alternative. He built a new facility around a site known as the Argent
Fracture, and to mitigate risks, set up a system that was set to lock down in
the event of a demonic presence, as well as pooling together a team of
scientists to create a new BFG and assigning Elite Guards and military
personnel at all essential outposts.
He created a highly sophisticated and advanced
AI system to operate and monitor the entire facility and manage all safety
protocols known as VEGA.
To prevent his employees from becoming
zombified, he initially sent in drones to extract extradimensional artifacts.
Multiple tablets were discovered, many of which, after dicifered, told of a
mysterious being, an unchained predator who relentlessly hunted down demons.
Sam made it his number one priority of finding this being as a final
countermeasure in the event that all other preventative measures failed.
Imagine kicking someone’s ass so hard they
create on actual legend of you handing out them L’s
His protege, Oliva Pierce, became enthralled
with the demonic artifacts, developing an unhealthy obsession with the demons.
She developed a severe form of scoliosis, and believed the demons would save
her from her pain. She formed a cult in a separate lab known as Lazarus, where
she would perform rituals outside of Hayden’s supervision in an attempt to
elevate herself to higher plane of existence.
Unbeknownst to her, Samuel caught wind of this
and lead a manned expedition into Kading’r Sanctum, where he believed the
Doomslayer’s sarcophagus was located. He was successful in retrieving it, and
released him from his tomb in order to secure the facility of demonic threats.
As one can imagine, Doomguy was very unhappy
when he woke up to find that the UAC was back on their bullshit, still opening
portals to Hell. He begrudgingly assisted Hayden in cleaning up the facility,
but destroyed the Argent Tower that was siphoning Hell’s Energy and relaying it
to Earth, against Sam’s wishes. He traveled to the heart of the Lazarus Labs,
retrieving the BFG and defeating yet another Cyberdemon. In order to stop the
invasion for good, he took a tram to VEGA’s core, as a self-destruct near the
Argent Fracture would tear a hole directly into their dimension. VEGA could not
self-terminate, so Doomguy had to do so manually, but he created a back-up file
in order to spare him. The rupture sent him to the Well, where he sealed off
the flow of Hell energy for good.
But the events on Mars were just a diversion.
Samuel Hayden and Doomguy were the biggest threats to Hell’s army, so keeping
them occupied was the best way to at last claim Earth. At this point the demons
should know, those who do not study history are DOOMED to repeat it. Heh… I’ll
see myself out.
In between the events of Doom 64 and the 2016
reboot, Doomguy washed up onto the shores of an extradimensional planet known
as Sentinel Prime (not the one from Transformers). As all outlanders who
trespass on their world, he was taken to the coliseum for trial by combat.
Naturally, he won his freedom, in the form of the honor of serving the Night
Sentinels on the front lines in defending their world.
For those familiar with Star Wars lore, the
Night Sentinels are essentially the Mandalorians of the Doom universe, and
Doomguy is their first Foundling. The king allowed him training and access to
their technology. However, Sentinel Prime was previously a land untouched by
Hell, and Doomguy had unwittingly lead them there. He shared his knowledge of
the demons to the others after they had learned his language, and he rose in
the ranks, becoming a war leader in the raids against the city of Argent D’Nur.
For many years the Sentinels were successful in
fending off the invasions, until one known as Valen was stricken with grief
over the loss of his son. He suffered visions of his son being tortured in
Hell, and was promised his return to life if he did exactly as they asked. He
opened a Hellgate, and Argent D’Nur was met with an unwarned siege, as well as
the coming of a Titan, and the city of Argent D’Nur fell. Hell captured the
benevolent deities known as the Wraiths and drained their power, further
strengthening the demonic horde. Valen’s son then became the mortal host for
the Icon of Sin, who would now be able to manifest in the physical plane when
awakened from his slumber. As demons do, they fulfilled their end of the deal
in their own twisted way. Valen became labeled the Betrayer, and exiled himself
to the Hellscape in his guilt.
In their darkest hour, a being known as the
Seraphim blessed Doomguy with Holy Power via the Divinity Machine. He rose with
a Crucible Blade, and slew the newly empowered Hell Army as well as the Titan
with it. He was hailed as a god-king, the Great Slayer.
Centuries later, in the end of Doom 2016, he
returned to a Hellified Argent D’Nur to lay the Wraiths’ souls to rest. Some
time after, he discovered a Sentinel fortress he renamed the Fortress of Doom
and now uses it to watch over Earth in its orbit.
By killing Sentinel Prime’s Priests who were
seduced by Hell’s influence, he angers their leader, the Kahn Makyr. In an act
of retaliation, she awakens the Icon of Sin on Earth whom Doomguy battles in
the Demon Titan’s true form.
The Icon is slain for good, and Earth is saved…
for now.
Doomguy now watches over Earth in the Fortress
of Doom, waiting for anyone dumb enough to invade again.
Then he dimension-hopped to Animal Crossing and
became BFFs with Isabelle
Arsenal
Pistol
A standard issue UAC pistol. In most Doom games,
it fires steel ballistic rounds that share ammo with the Chaingun. In 2016, it
fires bolts of Argent plasma, which he can charge for an explosive blast.
Doomguy usually gets Samus Aran’d and starts out
with this gun before getting more advanced weaponry.
Shotgun
Doom Eternal is an exception, where he begins
the game with a Combat Shotgun instead. While able to fire highly effective
futuristic buckshot, with added attachments from VEGA it is also capable of
firing Sticky Bombs and has a Full Auto mode.
Super Shotgun
Despite sharing ammo with the standard shotgun,
the Super Shotgun is arguably the most powerful non-super weapon in Doomguy’s
possession. At close range, it makes quick work of tougher demons such as a Mancubus
and the Hell Knights.
Me: I don’t play FPS games.
Me playing Doom: EARGGH, RIP AND TEAR!!
In Eternal, it comes equipped with an attachment
called a Meathook, which, like a reversed Scorpion, pulls Doomguy into enemies
for killing blows. When fully upgraded, it’s doused in flames and lights
enemies on fire.
Chainsaw
Doomguy solves his problems with a chainsaw…
Obviously inspired by Evil Dead along with the
Super Shotgun, an industrial strength chainsaw confiscated by the UAC as
contraband. In that case I guess they wouldn’t mind if someone took it off
their hands…
The chainsaw in Doom isn’t your standard
wood-cutting saw, it’s a veritable demon meat-grinder. In 2016, it required
fuel cells that were limited by the size of the demon you needed to cut down, a
larger demon required more fuel cells. However, the Classic Doom games are not
limited by this gameplay mechanic and in Eternal its fuel refills over time.
Not sure how a chainsaw refuels itself, but ok.
Plasma Gun
A projectile weapon that fires rapid-fire
spheres of plasma. With the proper modifications, it can store excess heat
within the barrel, which can be expelled in an AOE burst. It can also fire a
Stun Bomb which immobilizes enemies or a Microwave Beam which superheats and
boils living tissue from the inside.
Rocket Launcher
It launches rockets, what more do you want?
When upgraded, projectiles are able to be remote
detonated in mid-air, and the user can lock on to a target for a volley of
three rockets in rapid-fire.
Chaingun
A heavy, ballistic gatling gun. Because
sometimes you gotta kill every melon farmer in the gosh darn room.
It comes equipped with a gatling rotator, fully
speeding up the barrels before firing. It can deploy an energy shield to
protect Doomguy while firing. It also can detach and separate into a mobile
turret for an even higher rate of fire and more penetrating power.
A standard military-grade machine gun. It has a
Precision mode meant for disabling enemy weak points and can destroy the cannon
arms off a Mancubus and shoot the mounted rocket turrets off a Revenant. It
also comes equipped with a salvo of micro-missiles that can be fired.
Gauss Canon
Essentially a railgun, designed with the same
technology as the Argent Tower. It hyper-accelerates and ionizes steel
flechettes, punching through enemies with devastating force. It also has a
Precision Bolt, a smaller, more concentrated beam designed for pinpoint
accuracy, and a Siege Mode with wider spread.
Ballista
A weapon used by the Night Sentinels. It fires
spears of burning Hell Energy towards targets. These can be set to detonate
when embedded in enemies. The energy can also be stretched out into a Destroyer
Blade which unleashes a wave of energy well suited for clearing rooms of
demons.
BFG
The legendary weapon that coined the phrase
“splash damage”. Doomguy carries the latest model known as the BFG 9000, which
fires a massive energy sphere that shoots out arcs of energy, living matter
that comes into contact with these arcing plasma bolts is instantly vaporized,
let alone those in the vicinity of the primary blast. Flavor text for this
weapon states that the weapon instantly ablates organic tissues into a gaseous
state.
The Unmaker/Unmakyr
The Unmaker in Doom 64 is of unknown origin,
though given its bound in flesh seems to suggest it’s from Hell. It’s powered
up by Maker Keys and potentially has even more firepower than the BFG.
In Eternal, it is referred to with one letter
difference as it is of Makyr design, though fundamentally the same, and perhaps
even more powerful than its predecessor.
The Crucible
An elegant weapon, for a more civilized age.
The Crucible is undoubtedly Doomguy’s strongest
weapon, perhaps even the most powerful within the lore of Doom. It is described
as the only weapon capable of slaying a Titan, while sounding somewhat NLF-y,
is true in terms of being the only weapon with enough destructive potential.
(Though, the Icon of Sin was defeated in Doom 2 with a rocket launcher, but this
is implied to not have been his true form.)
Other Weapons/Equipment
Slayer Blade
A wrist-mounted blade that allows Doomguy to
kill more quickly and efficiently than relying on his sheer brute force.
A shoulder-mounted flamethrower. It also fires
grenades and freezing ice bombs for Doomguy so he no longer has to let go of
his weapon to do so, though I’m pretty sure the designers just wanted to make
him the Predator.
Praetor Suit
An armor forged in Hellfire, built to adorn the
Doomslayer. It is unknown who forged it initially, though it is implied the
Betrayer gave it to him as a means of atoning for his mistakes.
It is described as a “shield of adamantine
strength” by the demons as it withstood their attacks. It was subjected to UAC
experiments and stress tests a century later, and was impervious to all forms
of experimentation and firepower.
With components he picked up from the UAC, he is
also capable of deploying hologram projections of himself to distract enemies.
The suit has microscopic capillary tubules
within the gloves capable of absorbing energy and blood from demons, serving to
grant the Slayer strength.
VEGA
Initially designed as the AI mainframe to run
UAC operations, Doomguy created a backup log of his data when he needed to
destroy his central processor. He later uploaded him into his Fortress, now
serving as basically his Jarvis, running the display systems of his suit,
deploying drones and weapon upgrades, and capable of relaying tactics and
strategies. He also can remotely access electronics and hack into virtually any
computer system.
Abilites
Glory Kill
By killing a demon with his hands, Doomguy
absorbs the Hell energy directly from their flesh through the capillary tubes
in his gloves, siphoning their power directly into his armor. This replenishes
whatever health he may have lost in addition to gaining a temporary rush of
speed.
In gameplay, he needs to stagger enemies before
being able to finish them off with a Glory Kill, though the Berserker ability
proves that he can rip (and tear) a demon in half or punch them into a fine red
mist at any given time.
Blood Punch
After absorbing energy through Glory Kills, the
excess Argent Energy is stored within his left gauntlet. He can release this
energy through a Blood Punch, a melee attack that sends out a shockwave and
liquifies most foes caught in its vicinity.
Air Mobility
In addition to the booster jets in his boots
allowing him a double jump, Doomguy is also capable of performing dashes in
midair as well as an enchanted Demonic Rune that grants him additional agility
and air mobility.
Chronostrike
A Demonic Rune that allows Doomguy to slow down
time. Insert Chrono Trigger reference here.
A Rune that allows Doomguy to survive a critical
blow that would otherwise kill him, accelerating his perception time and senses
as well as restoring health to quickly regain the upper hand.
When Doomguy’s armor is above 100%, his
ammunition supply becomes infinite. Given health pickups are a thing
exclusively in gameplay and his Praetor Suit never gets damaged in canon, we
can assume that his ammo is always unlimited with this Rune.
After Samuel Hayden returned to Earth, he
supplied energy to human civilization via a Crucible Blade. This gives us a
decent scope of measuring the energy output of the Slayer’s Crucible.
Thanks to LousyTactician and Kingsly for
supplying the links and calcs.
If we interpret this as energy consumption over
time, and take into account this was for around eight months, we can spitball
this to be about ⅔ the energy consumed irl over a year. This comes to about
22.3 terrawatt hours, or 12.78 Megatons TNT Equivalent.
This should obviously be in the continental
range at least, though if you want specific numbers, this has been calced to
have a low end of 5882360000000000000000000000 Joules, or 1.4 Teratons, and
a high end of about 6 Petatons. (Comments claim this should actually be
53 exatons upon revision, though I am unsure of the validity of this)
If Doomguy scales to this it would obviously
apply to his destructive capacity. I believe his Crucible at least should, as
it is the only weapon sufficient enough for defeating the Icon of Sin.
Able to dodge missiles from Revenants and the
Cyberdemon. Average ballistic missiles can range from Mach 7-12, and considering this
is the future, it’s probably on the higher end.
Doomguy’s Gauss Cannon fires steel
flechettes through a magnetised chamber in order to achieve high velocities.
This is similar to an irl railgun developed by the
Yugoslavian Military Institute, which reached ballistic speeds of 4500 meters
per second, or just over Mach 13.
Able to tank Argent Energy blasts from Imps
before getting his armor.
His physical strength feats would apply, given
Newton’s Laws and such.
Resistances
Can literally wade through radioactive sludge
with seemingly no lasting effects.
Able to resist possession and mind control from
powerful demons, as well as the psionic influence of the Hell Priests.
Icon of Sin
The Icon of Sin involves some weird and
ambiguous stuff that I decided to put into a different section.
“The Icon's presence warps reality, damaging the
implicate order of our dimension merely by existing within it. If the Icon is
allowed to remain unchecked it would lead to the total devastation of Earth,
followed by a breakdown of spacetime around the planet. The resultant black
hole will eventually dragged our entire universe down, casting it into the mouth
of Hell as conquest to be absorbed by the Dark Realm.
The Khan Maykr had taken measures to augment the titan, installing
Maykr technology throughout its structure to ensure it could be controlled.
With the ritual interrupted the Icon is now fully unleashed, raging across
Earth until Hell consumes all. No longer bound by the Heart of the Betrayer's
Son, the Icon of Sin is free from any measure of control that the Maykrs
might've once conceived. Only the Slayer, prophesized in Argenta legend to
stand against the Icon, can stop this apocalypse.”
-Codex entries on the Icon of Sin
With this information, if taken at face value, the Icon of Sin is
potentially universal, though applying this to Doomguy’s DC or dura I believe
is questionable. He is killed before any of these lasting affects take place,
and seems to be a passive side effect of him manifesting in the mortal plane,
rather than something he consciously controls. If nothing else, Doomguy should
at least have some resistance against his spatial hax.
Weaknesses
Doomguy no doubt suffered irreparable trauma after the initial
Hell invasion on the UAC facility, the loss of his Marine and Night Sentinel
Comrades, witnessing the destruction of Earth and his hometown as well as the
cruelty of losing his beloved Daisy, not to mention his untold suffering being
trapped in Hell for 100 years. When the Sentinels found him, he suffered
paranoid hysteria and was described as an animalistic barbarian. He also
suffers PTSD flashbacks of past events.
However, this does not seem to hinder his performance in combat in
any way. In fact, it’s his way of clearing his head and relieving stress, it’s
while fighting that he’s at his best.
Also, while his sanity is clearly damaged, that does not mean he
lacks intelligence, and actually has several moments of sharp wit, often coming
up with solutions for conundrums that require a straightforward approach. (For context, this was when he needed to access a Slipgate that
was within the core of Mars but there was no known conventional means of
accessing or transporting to it.)
Overview
I would like to
pleasantly inform you all that this portrait is actually in Doom Eternal, this
is canon.
Low to potentially mid-continent Destructive Capacity
Hypersonic reactions and travel speed
His armor is impervious to most forms of weaponry in
the Doom universe
A highly varied and effective arsenal with infinite
ammo
Holograms
Resistance to radiation, possession, mind control,
reality warping and spatial hax
Time manipulation
Can survive and recover from a death blow
Centuries of experience as a Marine, fighting demons in
Hell, and trained with Space Knights
His suit can absorb energy
VEGA able to hack into most systems
Immortal thanks to the Seraphim’s blessing
His catch phrase “rip and tear” in the stupid (but
awesome) Doom comic became the battle cry of the Night Sentinels and a
staple of the franchise
Mick Gordon soundtrack
Disadvantages
Prone to psychotic fits of rage and post-traumatic
flashbacks
Not even Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson could save his
terrible movie adaptations
Master Chief
With both receiving new installments since their
first Death Battle, and the show going through so many changes, it would be
interesting to see how much has changed for this matchup.
Mjolnir Armor against Praetor Suit, VEGA against
Cortana, old vs new of the FPS genre.
Regardless of my feelings towards rematches, the
matchup itself has evolved and taken new shape over the years, one might say
Combat Evolved.
Guts
Welp, Doomguy did say he wanted Guts, huge Guts.
So here he is.
Two survivors of warrior casts, who ripped and
tore their way through Hellscapes and swore revenge against those that harmed
their loved ones.
Probably a stomp for Doomguy at the moment, but
let's wait until Berserk ends…
*crickets chirping*
Kratos
Battle of the god-slaying, hyper-violent angry
bois. Both slew Titans with swords of godly power.
Maybe Kratos takes this pretty handedly, though
if you personally disagree with the universal/multiversal claims like I do,
it’s actually pretty even, though Kratos may still have the advantage in speed.
Dante
Another mortal who also ventured through Hell
mercilessly slaying demons with holy and unholy weapons. From what I’ve seen,
both should be around continental in DC.
Dante
Heh… Dante vs Dante anyone? My money’s on Dante,
all-in and no takebacks.
Both Dante and Doomguy slay demons for a living
and are known for kicking Hell’s ass, packing a massive arsenal of weaponry,
and just got new installments in their series bumping them up to
continent-leveling status. One is a quippy smart-alec, and the other is a
serious silent protagonist type who expresses through action (or at least in
his modern interpretation).
The day will come when
Hell will be emptied… and its gates will rattle in the wind.
Rip and tear, until it
is done.
Well, that just about does it for this one.
After marathoning Doom for this, I think I’ll take a break from the ripping and
tearing for a little while. Maybe I actually should try Animal Crossing?
In the meantime, I am Hero’s Shade, and thank
you for reading.
