Guest Posted July 8, 2011 Report Share Posted July 8, 2011 Frankenstein's Monster Powers: Extreme strength. Voted: Best hair Equivalent Smiley: vs The Shark Powers: Keen olfactory senses, electroreception, teeth. Voted: Most outgoing Equivalent Smiley: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Venneh Posted July 8, 2011 Report Share Posted July 8, 2011 The Monster's enduring, it's been around longer, and I'm pretty sure it could rip apart the shark. (Plus the chick cosplaying it is hotter.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 8, 2011 Report Share Posted July 8, 2011 Okay, let's get rid of this shark, finally. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dread Posted July 8, 2011 Report Share Posted July 8, 2011 Oh man, now I want to see Frankenstein's Monster fight a shark really bad. The monster wins. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 8, 2011 Report Share Posted July 8, 2011 It'd be like a Benny Hill routine. The monster would keep throwing it into the lake and the shark would keep jumping out to attack it over and over. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dread Posted July 8, 2011 Report Share Posted July 8, 2011 Really, the film could start as a buddy comedy, with Monster throwing little girls to Bruce. Then things went wrong... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stavros Posted July 8, 2011 Report Share Posted July 8, 2011 Shark +1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
You Know Who Posted July 8, 2011 Report Share Posted July 8, 2011 The shark would kill the monster with one bite, but the monster is a better villain so he gets my vote. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Molly Posted July 8, 2011 Report Share Posted July 8, 2011 That fucking shark shouldn't have beaten the Deadites, no fucking way it beats the Monster. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
You Know Who Posted July 8, 2011 Report Share Posted July 8, 2011 That fucking shark shouldn't have beaten the Deadites, no fucking way it beats the Monster. I doubt very much that the monster can swim. Not to mention that the shark weighs a few tons vs. the monster's few hundred pounds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koete Posted July 8, 2011 Report Share Posted July 8, 2011 I've supported the shark as long as I can, but c'mon, it's the Frankenstein Monster. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stavros Posted July 8, 2011 Report Share Posted July 8, 2011 It's the shark! It's the dead-eyed serial killer of the deep! The damn thing is REAL. I don't know how much scarier it gets than 25ft of prehistoric deathdealing fish. As has been said, the monster isn't even a proper villain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koete Posted July 8, 2011 Report Share Posted July 8, 2011 And the shark is an animal acting according to its nature, which doesn't make it much of a villain either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dc20willsave Posted July 8, 2011 Report Share Posted July 8, 2011 The Shark for all the reasons that Tom mentioned. Mind you Frankenstein might win in the end from how sick it gets from eating all that necrotic flesh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
You Know Who Posted July 8, 2011 Report Share Posted July 8, 2011 As has been said, the monster isn't even a proper villain. And yet a fish that has to eat a few thousand pounds of meat each week in order to survive is? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dc20willsave Posted July 8, 2011 Report Share Posted July 8, 2011 As has been said, the monster isn't even a proper villain. And yet a fish that has to eat a few thousand pounds of meat each week in order to survive is? They kinda establish in Jaws The Revenge that the Shark has enough of a mind where it fucking swims a few hundred miles to go after one woman and her remaining family. I'd count that as evil and villainous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
You Know Who Posted July 8, 2011 Report Share Posted July 8, 2011 As has been said, the monster isn't even a proper villain. And yet a fish that has to eat a few thousand pounds of meat each week in order to survive is? They kinda establish in Jaws The Revenge that the Shark has enough of a mind where it fucking swims a few hundred miles to go after one woman and her remaining family. I'd count that as evil and villainous. Fair point. I've only the seen the original and I'm pretty sure all the shark attacks are some distance from the coast, but then again I've only seen it once. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stavros Posted July 8, 2011 Report Share Posted July 8, 2011 No, the original shark comes towards the beach and even goes into the designated safe pool to try and grab some kids. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaxPower Posted July 9, 2011 Report Share Posted July 9, 2011 I gotta go with the Shark on this one. 400million years of the same design, not need for change, just a perfect killing machine from day dot. I am torn on this, it's not so much who would win in a fight but who instils more fear and it has to be the shark. Monster is just misunderstood. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
You Know Who Posted July 9, 2011 Report Share Posted July 9, 2011 400million years of the same design, not need for change, just a perfect killing machine from day dot. I know this is tangential, but here are some really early sharks from the Devonian and Carboniferous periods (416-359 million years ago and 359-299 million years ago, respectively): (Stethacanthus) (Helicoprion) (Edestus) Not quite the same design for the past 400 million years. I don't want to come off as rude or diminish the status of sharks as killing machines by pointing that out. I'm just such a huge paleontology freak that I couldn't ignore your post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Molly Posted July 9, 2011 Report Share Posted July 9, 2011 Just because there were freak sharks doesn't mean there weren't normal ones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
You Know Who Posted July 9, 2011 Report Share Posted July 9, 2011 Just because there were freak sharks doesn't mean there weren't normal ones. You'd be hard-pressed to find any modern-looking sharks in the fossil record before the Late Jurassic. This is the most normal-looking one from the same time period as the anvil-finned one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stavros Posted July 9, 2011 Report Share Posted July 9, 2011 Dunno, the anvil thing was probably just the style at the time. Looks fundamentally the same as a modern shark to me. Really Shark and Crocs are the complex organisms with roots going furthest back within their recognisable genus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
You Know Who Posted July 9, 2011 Report Share Posted July 9, 2011 Dunno, the anvil thing was probably just the style at the time. Looks fundamentally the same as a modern shark to me. Really Shark and Crocs are the complex organisms with roots going furthest back within their recognisable genus. Even so, its snout doesn't look quite the same as other sharks, though more so in other drawings of it then the CGI one I posted and even more so in the one I posted in response to Preston's comment. As for crocs... https://sites.google.com/site/paleofilescom/mesozoic-crocodilians. Look specifically at Allodaposuchus and Deinosuchus, since they're eusuchians (true crocodilians). They're not as weird as the other creatures in the article but different enough from their modern relatives. Incidentally, I wrote the article so feel free to let me know how bad or good it is. Sorry for bringing this thread off topic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stavros Posted July 9, 2011 Report Share Posted July 9, 2011 I was particularly interesting in the Pagenotfoundadon. (Don't worry, it did link to the right page) OK, so there are a lot of fairly crazy looking species of Crocs then. See, this is what happens when all my scientific knowledge is absorbed from movies. Trust my luck to get into a discussion of species with a Herpetologist/Oceanographer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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