DWOAH: The Lizard vs Killer Croc
Deadliest warriors of all historyThe Lizard vs Killer CrocSkin of scales, heart of a manDr Curtis Connors aka the Lizard info:Height: 5 foot 8 (human form) 6 foot 8 (Lizard form)Weight: 175lbs (human form) 550lbs (Lizard form)Weapons: Tooth and Claw, TailStrengths: Is one of the most powerful and famous members of Spider-Man’s Rogues gallery, Superhuman strength (Is considered one of Spider-Man’s strongest enemies, Has outstrengthed Spider-Man on multiple occasions, Can casually uproot trees with one hand, Can flip and throw cars like they were toys, Overpowered Stegron with ease, Easily escaped from Man-Things grip, Easily broke Scratchy’s neck who was a Creature created by his own DNA, Can effortlessly cut through steel and smash through brick walls, Can lift dozens of tons with ease), Superhuman durability (Is considered to be one of Spider-Man’s most durable foes, Spider-Man routinely hurts and nearly breaks his hands punching the Lizard, Spider-Man compares punching the Lizard to punching a steel wall, Tanked hits from White Tiger, Shrugs off being thrown through walls, Survived a flame blast from Johnny Storm, Is unharmed by most explosives), Hypersonic speeds (Can be considered one of Spider-Man’s fastest foes, Has speed blitzed Spider-Man on multiple occasions. Can move so fast that Spider-Man’s Spider Sense can’t react in time, Managed to charge and grab Enchantress before she could teleport away, Can effortlessly dodge gunfire), Genius intellect (As a human Curt Connors can be considered one of the smartest people on Earth, As the Lizard he loses most of his finer thinking but still holds most of his intelligence), Extreme healing factor (Thanks to his Reptile DNA the Lizard possesses a healing factor far above human limits, Can regrow lost limbs in a matter of hours, Most shallow wounds close and heal instantly), Extreme senses (Can smell Spider-Man from miles away), Can command natural Reptiles (Post Shed he can activate the latent ‘Lizard Brain’ inside of mammals and can control them to a lesser extent), Can wall crawl to the same level as Spider-Man, Can hold his breath for hours on end.Weaknesses: In Lizard form he suffers a Reptiles cold blooded weakness to cold temperatures (Extended exposure rapidly slows his movement speeds and can even force him into a hibernation state), Whilst he can transform and maintain control via his Lizard Serum Dr Connors can also be forced to transform via extreme stress rendering him more akin to a primal unthinking Beast.Waylon Jones aka Killer Croc info:Height: 7 foot 5Weight: 686lbsWeapons: Tooth and ClawStrengths: Is one of the most powerful and famous members of Batman's Rogues gallery, Superhuman strength (Along with Bane Croc can be considered the strongest member of Batman’s Rogues gallery, Can tear through steel and smash through brick walls with ease, Easily outstrengths Batman, Wrestled fully grown Alligators as a teenager, Bent steel bars with ease, Can casually flip cars, Can lift Solomon Grundy who weighs over 1000lbs with his Jaw and neck strength alone), Superhuman durability (Can be considered the most durable member of the Batman Rogues gallery, Tim Drake once struck him across the head with a metal bar and it broke the bar, Batarangs don’t hurt him, Being thrown through brick walls barely phases him, Has routinely shrugged off explosions, Survived fights with the likes of Bane and Solomon Grundy, Survived being sent flying hundreds of feet by a punch from Supergirl), Hypersonic speeds (Can move extremely fast and silently despite his size, Can swim faster than he can run, Has routinely speed blitzed Batman), High intellect (Whilst hardly a genius Croc has routinely shown extreme cunning and remarkable intelligence despite receiving no education growing up), Extreme healing factor (His mutation causes him to heal at an extremely accelerated rate and further mutate with every wound), Extreme senses (Can smell Batman from miles away).Weaknesses: Thanks to his Reptilian physiology Killer Croc has an intolerance to the cold with extremely low temperatures slowing his movement speed and can outright cause him to pass out, Is prone to animalistic unthinking rages.Battle begin!The main service entrance to Gotham’s sewer system bustled with noise and activity as the GCPD surrounded it, keeping the general public away whilst also keeping several dozen Revolvers, Pistols and Shotguns aimed at the entrance just in case what they were keeping inside decided to try to leave.“Keep everyone back! We need the civilians at a safe distance in case Jones gets any bright ideas!” Commissioner Gordon instructed before noticing one man clad in a lab coat pushing his way through the crowd towards the barricades “hey! Keep him back before he gets himself hurt!”.“Please, I’m here to help, I’m a Reptile expert!” the man exclaimed, pushing himself to the front of the crowd revealing himself to be lacking an arm “I heard that you have a dangerous crocodile problem”.“You could say that” Gordon sighed removing his glasses to rub his eyes “Killer Croc is hardly a secret so there’s no point sugar coating it, about a week about a Dr Kirk Langstrom had a relapse and became Manbat again, he went on a rampage and attacked several homeless people before Batman could take him down, homeless people who are under Crocs protection, he’s taken them back into the sewers and thanks to his mistrust of, well everyone, he won’t allow any medical staff inside to tend to the wounded”.“Then let me try, I’ve got years of experience in both Reptile physiology and psychology”.“Is that how you lost the arm?” the Commissioner pointed out before sighing again “you’ve got five minutes to talk to him, Batman is away on League business so unless someone can get through to Nightwing or any of the other Bat Family you might just be the best we’ve got” he added in a defeated tone before stepping aside, allowing Dr Connors to walk by and into the sewers before the GCPD re-trained their Weapons back onto the entrance.Once in the sewers and out of the sight of the GCPD Dr Connors pulled out a small syringe of glowing Serum “just in case” he sighed to himself as he continued through the subterranean tunnels, easily following where Croc had travelled through via the deep scratch marks along the walls, walking for a little over a minute before the sound of deep breathing caught his attention “hello?”.“Leeaaavvvvvveeee” a deep growl emerged from the darkness of the sewer tunnel, Connors just barely able to make out a pair of glowing eyes in the gloomy blackness before the sound of displacing water followed Croc’s voice, Connors stepping back as Croc emerged from the shadows easily towering over him by nearly three feet “this is my home! You do not belong here, leave me be!”.“I’m here to help, you have injured down here, I want to help them get medical assistance”.“LIES!!!” Croc roared as he took a stomping step forward, driving his Claws into the wall to his right and raking them along the sodden brick, cutting through them like they were tissue paper “always lies! No one cares for these people! My people! Just leave us be!”.Taking a step back as the ground shook slightly under Croc’s feet Connors pulled out his syringe “look I understand, it’s hard to trust someone when you’ve been abused you’re entire lift, if you don’t want to believe me as a human maybe you can trust a fellow Reptile” he stated before stabbing himself in the leg with the syringe injecting himself with his Serum.A split second later the Serum took effect, making Connors double over with a grunt of pain as his very DNA began to change and reform, his eyes turning a deep yellow whilst his pupils turned to slits, his skin giving way for emerald green scales as his body shifted and grew, a new arm bursting out of his right shoulder stump whilst his clothes tore to let his new body out, his nails giving way to Claws and his teeth replaced by Fangs, a thick powerful Tail ripping out from the base of his spine and his jawline elongating to become a snout.With his transformation complete Connors now stood as the Lizard, standing now a full foot taller to just barely stand at Crocs chest but now expecting the larger man/Beast to be more cordial towards him only to find that Croc was now glaring at him with a murderous fury.“You…YOU DID THIS!!!” he snarled, his eyes burning with hate as he advanced upon the Lizard, the ground shaking under every step as he slammed his Fist to the wall to his right cracking multiple bricks “you hurt my friends! YOU ANIMAL!!!” he then roared as he then surged forward swiping his Claws at the Lizard.“No wait!” the Lizard snapped back only to get struck hard across the face, Croc’s Claws carving deep through his scales leaving deep grooves along his snout before the hit sent him flying back across the sewer walkway.As he landed the Lizard felt what human reason he had left quickly melting away as sheer primal instinct of fight or flight took over and he was never one to run, quickly jumping to his feet the Lizard spun around to reface Killer Croc, splaying out his arms to bare his own Claws as he let out a roar that echoed throughout the entire sewer system.Bellowing back Croc rushed the Lizard swinging at him again to which the smaller Reptile ducked under and began to slash at Croc’s stomach and legs, his Claws carving deep through the protective scales that covered Croc’s abdomen, scales that had effortlessly stopped bullets and held off explosions but gave way like tissue paper from the strength behind the Lizards slashes.Snarling as his blood splattered on the ground beneath them Killer Croc swung both his arms down to slam his Fists to the ground as the Lizard dodged again, the smaller Reptile lunging between Croc’s legs to climb up his back and start snapping at the back of his head trying to bite at his neck to which Croc lunged backwards to slam his back to the wall trapping and crushing the Lizard against it making him cry out in pain as his ribcage snapped and cracked from the crushing pressure.With the Lizard winded Croc grabbed his Tail, gripping it tight enough to crack the bones within it before using it to swing his opponent around, smashing him against the wall repeatedly before it gave way letting Croc throw the Lizard through into the next tunnel, sending him crashing into the adjacent wall before landing in a heap.The smaller Reptile didn’t stay down long though as his healing factor quickly kicked in, the sound of softly cracking bones filling the air around him as his ribcage and Tail vertebrae knitted together allowing him to quickly lunge out of the way as Croc smashed through the damaged wall between them making the entrance/exit hole the Lizard’s body had made even larger, the larger Reptile stomping down just as the Lizard sprang away breaking the concrete beneath his feet.Back outside the sewers the GCPD stood nervously as the sounds of the fighting and animalistic roaring echoed from inside, Commissioner Gordon raising his walkie talkie to his face readying to give the order to send multiple squads into the sewers to try to suppress Croc when the Lizard came flying out of the sewer tunnel entrance, soaring through the air to come crashing down on a police car.A split second later Croc came erupting out of the sewer entrance, sending multiple GCPD Officers flying as he charged through them, completely ignoring both them and the bullets the other Officers fired at him as he then smashed his Fist through the police car that the Lizard was just on, the smaller Reptile leaping upwards a split second beforehand to avoid the attack and to lash out with his Tail, striking Croc hard across the top of the head with the prehensile limb whilst Croc crashed the car beneath his Fist along with destroying the walkway the car had been precariously parked on, causing it to plunge into the water below.Grabbing the light post that hung overhead the Lizard used it to rebound down back towards Croc, tackling him to the ground before wildly slashing at him, his Claws tearing through Croc’s scales staining the concrete beneath them with his blood before Croc managed to retaliate, clamping his Fangs onto the Lizards arms before whipping his head to the side to rip off the skin and scales from the Lizards arm degloving it completely making him roar in pain.As the Lizard reeled back clutching at his skinless and scaleless arm Croc brutally backhanded him sending him flying back into the water the sewer system ran into, the smaller Reptile sinking deep below the surface thrashing and writhing as he did so before he managed to right himself in the water.Using his Tail to keep himself from sinking further sweeping it from side to side to keep himself buoyant the Lizard released his arm as new skin and scales quickly grew to cover the exposed muscle, the Lizard then readying to return to the surface when the sound of something huge landing in the water drew his attention.Turning in the water the Lizard was then struck hard as Croc surged through the water to collide with him, knocking out what little air the smaller Reptile had in his lungs before swimming off into the murky depths of the water that surrounded Gotham City, the heavy pollution of the water making even the Lizard’s keen eyes struggle to peer through the depths but Croc knew the waters like the back of his hand, allowing him to make underwater guerrilla ‘hit and run’ attacks on the Lizard, striking him again and again until he shot through the water aiming his Jaws straight for the Lizard’s throat.This time however the Lizard managed to somewhat intercept Croc, raising his arm causing Croc to bite it inside of his throat before he reached out with his other arm to grab the larger Reptile by the head, glaring deep into his eyes as he utilised his ability to attack and manipulate the latent ‘Lizard brain’ deep inside of Croc’s still human brain, forcing a command to release him into Croc’s brain forcing his Jaws to relax.As he forced Croc to release his arm the Lizard struck his opponent hard across the face with his left hand, his Claws carving through the scales that covered Croc’s face drawing blood to further bleaken the water before starting to swim upwards to reach the surface for some much needed oxygen.Before he could however he felt Croc’s Jaws clamp down onto his Tail as what little control he had over his opponents brain was quickly broken, Croc clamping his Teeth deep into the Lizard’s Tail before starting to drag him deeper into the water with the intent to drown him.After a few seconds however Croc felt Lizard’s struggles cease way faster than they should have for someone drowning prompting him to stop and realise that he was now only holding onto the Lizard’s Tail, the smaller Reptile having outright torn off his prehensile limb to free himself before rapidly swimming to the surface.Bursting out of the water the Lizard landed on the wooden walkways that ran alongside the edge of the Gotham harbour, gasping and panting heavily for air whilst the torn stump of his Tail thrashed and waved around, the tip of his new Tail already starting to emerge but it would still be a good hour or so before it fully healed.Picking himself up the Lizard hissed and snarled as what little humanity left in his mind completely faded away, rendering him just a feral Beast from his injuries rendering his sole focus to be on his survival, any thoughts of helping Croc now long gone.Fully standing up and returning his attention to the water the Lizard was ready when Killer Croc burst out of it, surging towards the Lizard and throwing a Fist forward aiming to slug the smaller Reptile to the ground only for the Lizard to outright catch his Fist and stop him straight in his tracks.Stunned by the Lizards sudden show of superior strength Croc left himself wide open as the Lizard then outright slashed his left arm off at the elbow making him howl in agony, the larger Reptile desperately clutching at his now gore spewing stump leaving himself open again as the Lizard then slashed at his midsection, tearing through his stomach to outright disembowel him sending Croc crashing to his knees as his intestines fell to the walkway beneath them.As blood poured from Croc’s arm stump, stomach and now his mouth the Lizard grabbed his head with both hands, driving his Claws into the sides of his skull making Croc cry out in pain again before his cries were deafened by the Lizard letting out a deafening roar directly in his face before clamping his Jaws around Croc’s neck, biting down hard and starting to wrench and twist at his head whilst his Fangs tore through the larger Reptile’s neck scales and muscles, sending blood spurting everywhere until finally Croc’s head came off of his shoulders, blood shooting out of the neck stump like a gore fountain as his body then fell back into the water.Watching Croc’s body sink into the murky depths of Gotham’s waters the Lizard then held his opponents severed head high whilst throwing his back with a feral roar of victory that echoed throughout the sky.Gotham had lost one Monster but had now gained a far worse one.Winner: the LizardFirst let me apologise for how long this fight took to write and the general lack of quality to it as I struggled a fair bit to write it without it devolving into just ‘two angy Reptiles thrashing and clawing at each other’ for two paragraphs.But why does the Lizard beat Killer Croc?Well in physicality the Lizard takes most categories in spades despite his smaller size compared to Killer Croc, being able to outright out strength Spider-Man who himself would absolutely destroy Batman’s Villains roster allowing him to take strength with ease along with durability as whilst Croc can be hurt and outright knocked out by Batman who is weaker than Spider-Man the Lizard’s hide is so tough that Spider-Man has admitted that it hurts to punch him and he has nearly broken his hands on multiple occasions trying to hurt the Lizard.Along with that his smaller lither body helps him take the speed category as being able to outspeed Spider-Man allows him to easily blitz Croc when it comes to speed, in fact the only thing holding the Lizard back and could possibly cost him a win is his mental state.Being far smarter and in touch with his human side than Croc the Lizard would most likely hold back at the start of a fight which could allow Croc to deal a killing blow but the moment his humanity is lost and sheer feral instinct takes over it is also all over the Gotham’s Reptilian Criminal.
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