SpeedyHedgehog91's VS Blogs: Ghostface vs Wet Bandits
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Billy Loomis & Stu Macher, Woodsboro's first ever take on Ghostface and tormentor of Sidney Prescott from Scream.
Harry Lime & Marv Murchins, arch-enemies of Kevin McCallister known as the Wet Bandits from Home Alone.
Most people would assume that your home is a safe spot during any but in the case of stalking murderers that will chase you down and robbers that will take your most prized possessions, that's a different story. Just seeing these two duos is an indication that things might go south sooner or later. The iconic slasher squares off against the most infamous home invaders in a battle between professional yet clumsy home invaders in film history. Will Ghostface add a few more kills to their names or will the Wet Bandits achieve a victory at last?
Before We Begin
Background
Ghostface
Almost a year had passed since the death of her mother Maureen but things would only get worse for Sidney Prescott. It turns out that a mysterious killer in a ghost-like costume was going around gutting people up and poor Casey Becker sealed her (and her boyfriend Steve's) fate that exact night the moment she answered a phone call from a mysterious voice. As more bodies dropped over the past few days in Woodsboro, Sidney realised the cold hearted truth on who was behind all of this. The mastermind behind these deaths was her boyfriend Billy Loomis who, in a shocking twist, wasn't working alone. It was also revealed that Billy had an accomplice helping him, that being Stu Macher.
It was also revealed that Billy's father had an affair with Maureen and was what drove his mother to leave, pretty much abandoning him with his father at birth. Out of pure anger the moment he found out why his parents split up, Billy wanted revenge and convinced Stu to tag along with him. With enough knowledge on horror movies, Billy and Stu used these movies and the rules that goes along with it to their advantage and soon killed Maureen before going after Sidney and her friends a year later. As for Stu's motive, he didn't really have one aside from peer pressure. Nonetheless, Sidney would end their terror and kill them before they kill her.
Even after Billy and Stu's death, the legacy of "Ghostface" lived on through a film franchise titled 'Stab' as well as various copycat killers who wore the mask in later murder sprees.
Wet Bandits
Experience & Skill
Ghostface
Wet Bandits
Equipment
Ghostface
Costume and Mask
Buck 120 Knife
Voice Changer
To hide their true identity even further, Ghostface makes use of a voice changer that allows them to speak to their victims with a more sinister and threatening voice. They often use the voice changer when speaking on the phone more so than in-person but who's to say they can't do what future Ghostfaces do and hide it inside their masks, similarly to how Mickey Altieri did it during his reveal.
Phone
Beretta 92FS
Duct Tape
Rope
Corn Syrup
Wet Bandits
Crowbars
Dodge Ram Van
Police Officer Costume
Sticky Glove
Abilities
Ghostface
Superhuman Endurance
Wet Bandits
Superhuman Endurance
Feats
Ghostface
Overall
- Killed a total of six people altogether
- Billy tricked Sidney into thinking he actually died for a moment
- Became the first ever Ghostfaces and inspired new killers that took on the persona in later murder sprees
- Kidnapped Neil Prescott, Sidney's father, and had a plan to frame him as the killer
- Framed Cotton Weary
- Can fight equally with Sidney Prescott
Strength
- Lifted Casey Becker high enough to hang her corpse from a tree
- Hung Principal Himbery on a goal post after killing him; as stated by Randy
- Punched through a window hard enough to shatter it although that might have been done by the knife more-so than his own hand
- Punched Randy Meeks
- After killing him, lifted Kenny Brown's body on top of the roof of a van
- Kicked Gale Weathers hard enough to knock her out (2.18 kJ)
Speed
Durability
- Likely comparable to Sidney who survived two story-high falls (2386.09 J for the second feat)
- Got back up after getting slammed in the face with a fridge door, having two beer bottles thrown at him and then flipping on a hardwood floor
- Endured getting stabbed by an umbrella and a gunshot in the chest
- Survived stabbing each other despite feeling woozy afterwards
- Took a vase to the head
Wet Bandits
Overall
- Succeeded in robbing plenty of houses prior to their conflict with Kevin
- Broke out of prison and escaped to New York
- Almost successfully robbed a toy store of its charity money
- Managed to catch Kevin multiple times even though those moments of success are very brief
Strength
Speed
- Able to keep up with Kevin, even after being severely injured
Durability
- Both
- Slipped over some icy staircases; Harry even landed on his head during a second attempt
- Took paint cans to the face, allowing themselves to fall down a staircase afterwards
- Slipped over toy cars
- Swung into a wall after a rope was cut
- Smacked in the head by Old Man Marley with a snow shovel; it did knock them out however
- Tripped over beads and fell on solid concrete during a chase with Kevin
- Endured a metal pipe to the face, felll two stories high and got crushed by said pipe seconds after
- Got slammed by a toolchest that pushes them into a wall
- Fell from multiple stories before getting hit by multiple paint cans after
- Swarmed by a bunch of pigeons
- Harry
- Got shot in the balls by a BB gun
- Had his hand burned on a doorknob that was red-hot
- Endured getting his head set on fire by a blowtorch
- Got smacked in the chest by Marv's crowbar
- Sent flying into the air and landed on a car
- Slipped on a ladder covered in grease before landing on concrete
- Struck down by tools falling above his head
- Had his head set on fire again before tanking a gas explosion (0.011711281071 tons of TNT)
- Fell after trying to climb a ladder that snapped during his ascent
- Marv
- Got shot in the forehead by a BB gun
- Hit in the face with a falling iron
- Stabbed in the foot with a nail before falling down the basement stairs
- Stepped on fragile Christmas ornaments in an attempt to sneak into Kevin's house
- Endured four bricks to the head
- Took three staples via a staple gun attached to the front door
- Fell through a large hole
- Slipped over a patch of grease before knocking over a bookshelf that fell on top of him
- Survived getting electrocuted
- Took a falling bag of cement to the head
Weaknesses
Ghostface
Wet Bandits
Before the Verdict
Do Billy and Stu scale to other Ghostfaces?
There have been arguments as to whether or not each team of Ghostfaces scale to one another and while most of them have similar feats to go over, this doesn't mean they scale to each other except for themselves. Billy and Stu may be superior than other killers but that's not how scaling works especially in this case. Aside from scaling killers to their own accomplice, I find the idea of scaling every Ghostface to each other strange since none of these teams have actually interacted with each other. That includes any argument about Billy and his mother Nancy scaling to one another, which even that probably doesn't work since she started her killing spree after her son died.
TLDR; finding ways to have Billy and Stu scale to other people who've taken on the identity of Ghostface just comes off as an invalid way to scale them any higher than they already should be.
Can Marv regenerate?
How will this fight go?
- Wet Bandits - Both Ghostfaces are killed whether it's by their own means or luring them into traps without, or at least before, getting arrested.
- Ghostface - They manage to kill both Harry and Marv or at least knock them out and hide from law enforcements before their opponents are arrested. Getting arrested prior to their success in the battle will still count as a win just like their competition.
Verdict
Stats
Arsenal and Skills
Other Factors
Conclusion
Ghostface
Advantages
- Faster
- Much smarter
- Stronger in terms of striking strength
- Will always be able to find Harry and Marv if they ever lose track of them
- Deadlier choice of a weapon
- Better at doing their jobs
Neutral
- Both teams are clumsy and would definitely run into plenty of traps, although Harry & Marv probably have it worse
- Gun
- Similar amount of experience in home invasions; from what is known about each team at least
- Kevin McCallister defeats both teams
Disadvantages
- Not as durable and would likely die to any life-ending traps in their way
- Less stamina
- Alliance is more likely to fall apart
- Would take more than stabbings to put the Wet Bandits down
- Any plans involving switching places to make it seem like there's only one killer probably won't work
- Billy's outbursts would affect his chances of survival more than Harry's short temper
Wet Bandits
Advantages
- More durable, giving them higher chances of survival against the traps and Ghostface's stabbings
- Greater amount of stamina
- Stronger in terms of lifting strength though that might be debatable
- Better teamwork
- More experience in facing deadly traps
- Harry's anger problems are less of a problem unlike Billy
Neutral
- Both teams are clumsy and would definitely run into plenty of traps, although Harry & Marv probably have it worse
- Gun
- Similar amount of experience in home invasions; from what is known about each team at least
- Kevin McCallister defeats both teams
Disadvantages
- Dumber (no explanation needed)
- Slower
- Would consistently alert Billy and Stu due to how noisy they can be, meaning avoiding them will be difficult for them
- Crowbars aren't nearly as useful compared to Ghostface's knives
- Likely going to get arrested even if they end up winning
- Home Alone 4 (To be honest I just want to forget that everything after Home Alone 1 & 2 even existed)
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