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Originally Posted by realdealblues
I think you gave the vamps an unfair advantage there.
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Not taking any sides here. I am being completely impartial. Notice that I pointed out more vulnerabilities for vampires than for the other two.
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Originally Posted by Sculpt
Vamps wouldn't even need it, but V also gives vamps the power to turn into fog. A weaponless vamp could be surrounded by 20 werewolves, and simple turn into fog and escape.
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I am not giving anyone anything - just going by the folklore and the facts established by fiction and celluloid.
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Consider a few scenarios -
A huge crowd of zombies, like for example in millions, can definitely overwhelm even a pack of werewolves. The werewolves will simply keep fighting (they are mindless killing machines, much like the Aliens) until they are overwhelmed, but they have nowhere to go. They have no means to escape (do they want to escape from a fight anyway?)
The werewolf (or werewolves) can fight hundreds, maybe thousands of zombies, but millions? Eventually they will be overwhelmed.
But the vampire can turn into mist, a swarm of rats, a bat, plus it has the power of mass hypnosis as well. Thing is, does hypnosis work on zombies? They are brain dead, after all.
So, in the end, if nothing works, the vampire will transform into a bat and simply fly away. +1 to the vampire here.
One more thing. Anyone who has read the
Dracula novel will know this - vampires don't keep their bodies in easy-to-reach crypts for people to simply walk in with stakes or swords (like they incorrectly showed in many films, specially the Hammer ones). The Count himself had to traverse the walls of his castle to reach the hitherto (unreachable) place. Jonathan Harker nearly died going through the same route to reach the vampire's lair.
The werewolf could be equally cunning/smart when out of transformation, but vulnerable as hell in it's human form. The vampire isn't human at any part of it's undead cycle (it's vulnerable in it's napping time in it's tomb but not human), something which the werewolves and zombies can't shake off. But yes, it is susceptible to being decapitated by a werewolf (or a super-strong zombie) but unless you pour garlic into it's severed head, it won't die.
I guess the argument here would be this - who will be the first in figuring out the other's vulnerability? Will the werewolves know that staking a vampire will stop it? Will the vampires know that werewolves are susceptible to silver bullets?
Taking nothing away from the zombies here. A million zombies are more than a handful any day - even over a pack of werewolves or a coven of vampires.
So many points to ponder here.