User blog:GravityMan/Literature vs History 6: Baron Zaroff vs Predator

Sup dudes! I'm feeling a bit under the weather today so I'm going to make this quick. Thanks to Legion for proofreading but I honestly can't remember who else did. Let me know if you did and I'll fix it. Thanks to Leandro for the amazing cover <33333333333



Background Information
Zaroff is a Cossack hunter, living a life of leisure on an island with his deaf mute servant Ivan. In his story, the Dangerous Game, he rescues a near drowning hunter named Rainesford and challenges him to a hunt in which Zaroff hunts him. Zaroff gives him a three hour head start and if Zaroff can't kill Rainesford in three days, Rainesford gets set free. In the end, Rainesford kills Zaroff, noting that he had never slept in a better bed (Zaroff's) afterwards.

Predator is an alien from the Yautja species. In the first movie he hunts down soldiers, but is defeated by Dutch. He blows himself up with his wristwatch in hopes of killing Dutch but fails. His species interacts with the Engineers and battles xenomorphs from the Alien franchise. A Predator hybrid was made when an Alien impregnated a Predator, creating a terrifying mix.

Beat
Breaking Bad

Starts at 0:15

Zaroff:
Ivan take a look at that soggy wretch upon my beach,

That’s one ugly motherfucker, turn invisible please!

You can say I like the challenge, you can say I like to play,

And when you’re done you can hear what I have to say about your face!

Your mouth stole the body of a crab and took the skin of a trout

It’s like God had taken my dinner and you’re the shit that slid out!

You lack the skills of rap so instead you took the dreadlocks of Wiz

And then wrapped it all around a defective glow stick!

Predator:
<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;color:#6aa84f;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">I have programmed a translator, to communicate, with the inferior

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;color:#6aa84f;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Who appears to be masking his fear by commenting on my exterior

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;color:#6aa84f;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Distracting himself from the foul flow, that released when he saw me,

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;color:#6aa84f;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">While you may be the original trapper, compared to me you’re Saw Three

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;color:#6aa84f;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">I come from a proud species, you came from a shriveled Cossack

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;color:#6aa84f;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">You want to talk faces? Which rodent did you kill for that mustache?

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;color:#6aa84f;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">The only time your tongue cuts is when I shove a blade up your neck

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;color:#6aa84f;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Your verse was embarrassing, Ivan should be thankful he’s deaf

Zaroff:
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;color:#cc4125;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">So you wish to get personal? Alright, I’ll Trilo-bite

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;color:#cc4125;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">You were Engineered a new canon less efficient than a knife

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;color:#cc4125;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">As the biggest game hunter I’m jealous you’re stuffed with Sasquatch

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;color:#cc4125;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Your bars are like your plot-device weaker than your suicide watch

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;color:#cc4125;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">If you’re going to take someone out with you, never show them the plan,

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;color:#cc4125;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">But at least now you’re with Allah with seventy two of your fans

Predator:
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;color:#6aa84f;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">I’m armed to the teeth, on each arm I carry a ton, you carry none,

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;color:#6aa84f;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">This weakling has his slave sling his gun, let his hounds take all the fun

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;color:#6aa84f;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">I master plasma casters, one hit, and the audience is stunned

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;color:#6aa84f;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">You track a single prey for days, I aim my chakram, and it’s done

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;color:#6aa84f;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">A fandom is the only thing I let follow me; my legacy has just begun,

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;color:#6aa84f;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">You’re unloved; on an island with no one to unload your gun

Zaroff:
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;color:#cc4125;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Ha! Alien slayed your franchise, while I’m a hundred percent fresh!

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;color:#cc4125;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">I gain great Banks, and like your video game you will be ruined by Prometheus!

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;color:#cc4125;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">You were given a fancy new hybrid, but it burned your viewers’ energy

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;color:#cc4125;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Mysterious, ridiculous, and invisible; you remind me of a slimy Ginosaji

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;color:#cc4125;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">The tireless beatings of your film is the only way people have enough

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;color:#cc4125;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Even my chair would fare better against you; half my furniture is Dutch

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;color:#cc4125;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">For your impregnated evisceration on my travels I have found prevention

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;color:#cc4125;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">And I’ll give you three hours to let the birth control kick in

Predator:
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;color:#6aa84f;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Did you know why you wished to battle me? My data provides me the answer

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;color:#6aa84f;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Your Napoleonic complex commands you to battle battleground cancers

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;color:#6aa84f;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">You took a chance against this dancer; of fighting and the rapper

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;color:#6aa84f;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">How can you stand against the lancer with his muscular enhancer

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;color:#6aa84f;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">You’re a hamster to be considered the damn beast at bay,

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;color:#6aa84f;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">I attached a tracker to the mic, leave this entire verse slayed

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;color:#6aa84f;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">On your parade I made it Raines-ford your story is dead

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;color:#6aa84f;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">This bout went poorly in your favor; but that’s the way you made your bed

WHO WON?

WHO'S NEXT?

LITERATURE *struck with an arrow* vs history.....



Poll
Who Won? Baron Zaroff Predator

Hint for Next Battle
(coming soon)