User blog:Wassboss/Springheeled Jack vs Jack the Ripper



For this year's Halloween special we're heading down to my capital, London, to pit two monstrous creatures against each other. Jack the Ripper and Springheeled Jack are two of London's most famous morbid curiosity, one a real life serial killer that was never caught, the other an urban legend who struck fear into any who encountered him. They have had dozens of representations in fiction but as you've probably come to expect from me by now, we're pitting the versions from JoJo and Skulduggery Pleasant against each other. When these two meet on a cold night in London there is sure to be mayhem as;

Jack the Ripper: Serial Killer recruited by Dio into his legion of the undead.

takes on

Springheeled Jack: The Terror of London, whose species and origin are a mystery even to himself.

Who is Deadliest

Jack the Ripper (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure)


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Jack the Ripper was an infamous serial killer known for killing various women around the Whitechapel district of London. After murdering his last known victim, Jack was approached by  Dio Brando who turned him into one of his zombie subordinates. Now a member of the undead, Jack became even crueler than he was in life.

Under Dio's orders, Jack cornered Jonathan Joesta  and his companions in a tunnel on their way to Windknight's. Using this as an opportunity to advance Jonathan's training, William Anthonio Zeppeli wounded the zombie as he fled into the labyrinth that was connected to the tunnel and told Jonathan to follow him. With only a glass of wine infused with Ripple to act as a compass to locate the zombie, the Joestar managed to track Jack down and finished him off.

Powers and Abilites

 * Superhuman Strength: Jack has shown great physical strength being able to tear the heads off of horses and pick up and throw a carriage with enough force to cause a cave in.
 * Superhuman Speed and Agility: Jack is also pretty fast, able to decapitate a man and two horses within a matter of seconds as well as being able to spring up the height of a tunnel to pull a switch.
 * Knife Skill: Jack carries serveral blades on his person; quite literally he stores scalples inside of his body as well as carrying a large knife which he uses for combat. He is able to fire these scaples off at high speeds at his opponent and because he stores them inside his body this can also be used for a sneakier attack.

Springheeled Jack (Skulduggery Pleasant)


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Spring-Heeled Jack is the self professed Terror of London and likely the inspiration behind the the Spring-Heeled Jack urban legend. Nobody knows where he came from, even he doesn't remember anything past the last few centuries, or what species he is, all that they know is that he's the last of his kind. Jack has spent most of his life in London terrorising members of the public and avoiding capture by the English Sanctuary. He was eventually arrested by Tanith Low but was freed by Billy-Ray Sanguine to help Baron Vengeous in his plot to bring back the faceless ones, although he was not told of this when he was freed. Feeling resentment at being lied to and used, Jack saved Valkyrie from Dusk and told her the location of the Grotesquery before fleeing the country.

Powers and Abilities

 * Superhuman Speed & Agility: Jack is unnaturally agile and is able to easily traverse the rooftops of London without breaking a sweat, even with an injured foot, and pull himself up from a hanging position in one fluid movement. He has an incredibly powerful leap, able to leap between the large gaps of Skyscrapers in Chicago and casually leap over his opponents. He incorporates his agility into his fighting style by using fancy back-flips and kicks as well as dropping from a great height to heel-slam someone from above. Jack's agility boarders of the physically impossible by allowing him to step off a moving car onto a road, completely ignoring rules of velocity and inertia and even extends to his top hat which never falls off no matter what acrobatic trick he attempts. Jack is also superhumanly fast able to easily dodge gunfire and is able to keep up with Dusk, a vampire with superhuman speed of his own.
 * Sharp Nails: Jack's fingernails are incredibly sharp, sharp enough to rip out someone's throat or disembowel them with a single slash.
 * Skilled Hand to Hand Combatant: Jack is a very skilled hand to hand combatant able to fight off a group of gun-toting mobsters singlehandedly and fight his way out of a Gaol. He has also shown himself able to beat other highly skilled fighters, including Dusk, Sanguine and Tanith.

X Factors
Experience: Jack the Ripper=30/Springheeled Jack=80 Jack the Ripper has very little in the way of practical experience with the only thing he did prior to becoming a zombie was murdering five defenceless women. Once he becomes a zombie it isn't much better, getting one fight against Zeppeli where he gets soundly beaten before Jonathan kills him mere moments later. Springheeled Jack meanwhile has been around for centuries and has spent nearly all that time avoiding capture by the english sanctuary which would've involved him fighting mages or other skilled fighters fairly regularily.

Physicality: Jack the Ripper=90/Springheeled Jack=80

Jack the Ripper has the enhanced physicality that zombies would normally have, giving him superhuman speed, strength and toughness with his physical strength in particular being especially impressive. Springheeled Jack is fast and agile but there isn't much in the way of physical strength behind his physicality so he comes up short against the Ripper in that department.

Intelligence/Composure: Jack the Ripper=20/Springheeled Jack=50

Jack the Ripper is not particularily intelligent or strategic, attacking his enemies without much planning or forethought and seeming to put more stock into intimidating his opponents than anything. Springheeled Jack isn't much smarter, being tricked by Tanith fairly easily, but he's nowhere near as reckless in his approach.

Voting System/Notes
Battle takes place in London at night.