now we're upping the ante- or jumping the shark  maybe- with our new Battle Royale series, and  

we're kicking things off with one hell of a bang.  Today we're putting up three of the most iconic  

horror characters from modern cinema in a death  match where there can only be one winner. Welcome  

to the thunderdome, only this time one man and  two monsters enter, and only one can leave alive.

Today's matchup is one for the history books.  We've got the legendary dream slasher, Freddy  

Kruger, weighing in at 160 pounds and armed  with a glove packed with razor sharp knives.  

He can jump through dreams, he can chase you  from your subconscious into the real world,  

he's there anytime you close your eyes for a  

quick nap- there's nowhere to hide  from the infamous dream stalker.

Also entering the Infographics battle arena is  Jason Voorhees, the legendary hack and slasher and  

original teen sleepover camp decimator. He weighs  in at over two hundred and fifty pounds, and comes  

armed with cleavers, axes, sledgehammers- any and  all matter of implements of bodily destruction.  

He hates teenage promiscuity and partying  behavior, so keep this monster off the set  

of MTV's My Sweet Sixteen. Or maybe don't, because  MTV and literally everything it does is terrible.

Our third challenger is none other than the man,  the legend, the time-travelling deadite killing  

badass, Ash Williams. There's good, there's  bad, and then there's Ash- the guy with the  

gun. Armed with his signature boomstick,  Ash packs some serious modern firepower,  

but it's perhaps his famous chainsaw-hand that  is to be most feared by today's combatants.  

It can rip, it can tear, and it can turn deadite,  

dream serial killer, or undead hacker  and slasher into mincemeat in seconds.

So who would win our battle royale?  Let's dive into the combatants and  

find out how they each stack against each other!

Freddy was originally a child murderer, discovered  by angry townspeople and burned alive. Since his  

own murder, Freddy has sought his revenge on the  townspeople who killed him, and accomplished this  

by stalking the dreams and nightmares of  their children. Dependent on fear though,  

Freddy has had to come up with ingenious ways to  terrorize new generations into empowering him.

In the dream world, Freddy is all but  indestructible, with only specially trained  

'dreamwarriors' able to challenge him by using  their psychic powers. In the real world however,  

Freddy loses much of his supernatural power,  though remains a formidable foe. Outside of  

a dream, Freddy is about as strong  and fast as a professional athlete,  

but his body is very resistant to damage. He  can even stretch his limbs and grow taller,  

and his body is very resilient to damage but  not invulnerable. He can have limbs hacked  

off and even be decapitated, but never truly  die unless he's killed in the dream world.

Outside of a dream, Freddy is at his most  vulnerable, placing him at a serious disadvantage  

in this fight. Still, he comes armed with a  glove stuffed with razor-sharp knives and is  

very proficient in its use, making him deadly  at close quarters. Freddy's greatest strength  

comes from his ability to terrorize dreams,  but if he can't find a way to escape into the  

dreams of his opponents in this matchup, Freddy  might not last long in this fight to the death.

Next up is Jason, the ultimate teen slasher horror  icon. Freddy may make you scared in your dreams,  

but Jason will make you wet yourself in real life.  

Weighing in at over 250 pounds, Jason  is a hate-fueled murder machine,  

hellbent on taking out his wrath over  the counselors who let him drown to death  

on any promiscuous teenagers he comes across...  as well as generally anybody else in his way. 

Jason's body is all but immune to damage, though  he can still have limbs amputated and be destroyed  

by fire or explosives. Eventually though,  Jason will reconstitute his physical form,  

typically at the bottom of Crystal Lake,  where he died originally. Able to lift at  

least as much as his own body weight, Jason is  a physical power house and not someone you'd  

want to go toe-to-toe with. Typically armed  with a cleaver, a machete, or an axe, Jason  

is more than capable of indiscriminate murder  armed with nothing more than his bare hands.

Jason has one real weakness, and that's  an aversion to water. The canon is rather  

confusing on this point, as Jason has often been  shown emerging from, and even killing in water,  

but Freddy vs Jason revealed that the murder  machine actually has a deeply rooted pyschological  

fear of water. Perhaps that fear is supplanted  when hunting down defenseless teenagers,  

but against a master fear manipulator like  Freddy, and the always clever Ash Williams,  

Jason may want to come into  this match wearing floaties.

Ash Williams is for all intents and purposes,  no more or less powerful than the average human.  

Weighing in at about 200 pounds, Ash's real  strength comes from his resolve and force of will,  

pushing himself past limits that would  break a normal man. When his hand began  

to go bad on him after being attacked by  a deadite, Ash took the obvious solution,  

and simply hacked it off and then replaced it  with a chainsaw. That takes some serious guts,  

and we're willing to be is not a feat most  people would be capable of pulling off.

With an inhuman tolerance for pain, Ash is able  to push himself to superhuman feats of endurance,  

once swallowing a kettle of boiling water after  having an evil mini-Ash jump into his mouth and  

down into his stomach. We're willing to bet  that one hurt on the way out. Ash's chainsaw  

hand is also a formidable close quarters weapon,  and no matter how tough Freddy and Jason may be,  

Ash's chainsaw hand will make short work of  either of the two if they stray too close.

At range and in close quarters though,  Ash is never without his trusty boomstick.  

A double-barreled twelve gauge shotgun, Ash's  boomstick is powerful enough to blow off a  

deadite's head, or even cut them in half. As a  firearms expert though, Ash can pick up just about  

any weapon and use it to deadly effect. Without  supernatural powers, Ash may seem like the last  

choice for victory, but his tools and pure grit  make him a contestant not to be underestimated.

We've met our combatants, we've learned their  

strengths and weaknesses- who then would  emerge victorious in our battle royale?

From the get-go, nobody is at more of a  disadvantage than Freddy, who's going to have  

a hell of a time escaping into the dream  world where he can wield his full powers.  

Jason is not quite a zombie, but without  the need for sleep Freddy's best bet  

will be to somehow incapacitate and knock  out Jason so he can enter Jason's dreams  

and dispatch him from there. Considering  Jason's extremely resilient nature,  

knocking him unconscious will be no  mean feat for Freddy to pull off.

Ash may seem like a better victim, but over the  many decades of his encounters with deadites,  

Ash has developed a great resistance to  supernatural horror. Plus, in the midst  

of a fight to the death, Ash isn't going to be  looking to take any naps anytime soon. Of course,  

Freddy could still knock Ash out of the fight  by simply killing him through ordinary means,  

but without the use of his reality-shaping  dream powers in the real world,  

that might be a lot harder than it seems for  someone armed with a knife hand facing off against  

a time-travelling deadite killing bad ass equipped  with a chainsaw for a hand and a shotgun. As we've  

so often mentioned on this channel, you really  don't want to be bringing a knife to a gunfight. 

Ash hates evil, like really hates evil.  But in this scenario, teaming up with evil  

may be the best path for victory. Jason  is a deadly threat to both combatants,  

his supernatural resilience and strength both  make him nearly impervious to damage, and getting  

in close enough to use his chainsaw hand may not  be a good idea as it'll put Ash himself in range  

of Jason's machete. Freddy's got similar problems-  when he faced off against Jason in Jason's dreams,  

Freddy ended up losing both arms to Jason's  machete. Luckily in the dream world Freddy  

could simply regrow them instantly, but in the  real world, well machete beats knives every time. 

We're actually starting to feel  bad for Freddy in this fight.

The best bet may be for Ash and Freddy to team up  temporarily to take Jason out. Freddy is nothing  

if not pragmatic, and would likely even be the  first one to propose such an alliance, figuring  

that the human Ash will be easier to finish off  once it's down to just two combatants than Jason  

would be. In this case, Freddy's ability to  take large amounts of physical punishment may  

be the perfect distraction for Ash to deduce a  plan to eliminate the immortal murder machine.

For his part, Jason is all brawn and no brains,  and as long as he has something to kill directly  

in front of him, isn't too concerned with  being cautious or watching out for traps.  

Even simple holograms of promiscuous teenage  campers are enough to incur his wrath,  

so we're not expecting Jason to realize  he's being manipulated into a fatal trap.

The question though is what kind of trap is  going to be enough to kill an immortal zombie  

like Jason? Well, while his body may be very  resilient to damage, it's not immune to either  

fire or explosives, and luckily for him, Ash  just happens to be a lowkey Chemistry genius.  

As we saw when he was hurled into the medieval  ages to fight an army of deadites, Ash has a  

strong grasp of chemistry and explosives, and  with an urban battle arena at his disposal,  

we're confident he'd be able to whip together  a homemade IED or two in little time.

But Ash is nothing if not clever, and we'd fully  expect him to lay a trap for Freddy and Jason  

that eliminates both at once. Even if not, without  somehow putting Ash to sleep, Freddy simply can't  

do much against a chainsaw and shotgun wielding  Ash. While both Jason and Freddy are technically  

immortal, if their corrupted souls have no  bodies to return to, the fight is basically  

a default win for Ash, and for the purposes  of our battle royale, counts as total victory.

Freddy may be able to haunt Ash's dreams  after the fact, but Ash's mind may be a murky,  

dangerous place for Freddy to lurk. Plus, like we  said before, Ash has great control over his fear,  

and Freddy might not find it so easy  to kill Ash even in the dream world.

In the end though, Ash might not need  anyone's help to defeat either opponent.  

Jason may not bleed out if full  of lead, but a shotgun blast to  

the kneecaps is still going to drop him  like a sack of old potatoes. After that,  

follow up blasts to the elbows and other  kneecap is going to completely immobilize Jason,  

letting Ash carve him up with his chainsaw hand  and turn Jason into a copy of Monty Python's  

Black Knight. The only real danger after that is  Ash straying close enough for Jason to bite him,  

but with a hockey mask over his face, Jason's  really just defeating himself at this point.

Freddy's going to end up with a boomstick  to the face, and then a body chopped up by  

chainsaw and buried deep. While the fight may  play out differently in the dream world, unless  

either Jason or Ash gets knocked unconscious,  Freddy's simply got no chance in this battle  

royale. And neither he or Jason can do much to  stand up to the incredible power of a close-range  

blast from a 12 gauge shotgun. It turns out  that guns are incredibly good at their job,  

and armed with modern, superior equipment, decades  of experience fighting deadites, and the best  

one-liners in film history, Ash is without  a doubt our triumphant battle royale winner.

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