Cage Match: Conan vs Tarzan TO THE DEATH!

[Desdichado]

Wow, I'm surprised Conan is winning this so easily; I can only imagine that most voters are unfamiliar with the Tarzan books!

Tarzan was just as fast, strong and--if anything--more brutal than Conan. He was more intelligent, too. He killed dozens of manapes, lions, leopards, snakes, crocodiles, and even frikkin' dinosaurs with either his bare hands, or just a hunting knife. He single-handedly kicked the butts of Kaiser Wilhem's entire African army (Tarzan Untamed) and that of Stalin as well (Tarzan Triumphant). He was cursed? by an African witch-doctor with immortality. Not saying that he should win (although I voted for him), just that at the very least, the results should be close!

Of course, I was the one who had the Tarzan books, and I read them before I read Conan. Plus I've been an ERB fanboy since I was about 11 years old. Still, when I first read one Conan story ("Red Nails" I think?) and it mentioned that Conan had killed a charging bull with his bare-hands when he was younger, that was the first time I even got the impression that Conan could even play in the same playground as Tarzan.

 

[Cthulhu's Librarian]

Tarzan. I like Conan as much as the next guy, but Tarzan is definitly the favorite to win.

 

[takyris]

This may require some hunting, but one of my writing buddies found an old pulp story in which Conan FOUGHT Tarzan.

I don't remember who won, but it was, according to my friend, about the most unintentionally homoerotic thing ever... lightly clad men heaving and straining and lots of use of the word "submit".

 

[Flexor the Mighty!]

Conan!

 

[Taelorn76]

Conan would tear Tarzan apart.

 

[warlord]

Tarzan, the man kills tigers with his bare hands. And if he couldn't wrestle Conan to death he go hide in a tree then toss a spear in his ribs.

 

[Desdichado]

Tarzan, the man kills tigers with his bare hands. And if he couldn't wrestle Conan to death he go hide in a tree then toss a spear in his ribs.

Yeah, Conan's sword is nothing special (unlike the phallic symbolism of the movie Conan). Tarzan, on the other hand, has an entire arsenal of weapons; handfuls of heavy spears, poison-tipped arrows, his lasso, his knife.

 

[Hand of Evil]

And Tarzan is an ambush predator, he also has the following: rage, grapple, monkey-grip, bite attack, crushing attack, leap, rope use, knife fighter.

 

[trancejeremy]

Conan killed a number of apes with his bear hands, surely he could handle an ape-man.


The Shadow could beat them both, IMHO.

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

And Tarzan is an ambush predator, he also has the following: rage, grapple, monkey-grip, bite attack, crushing attack, leap, rope use, knife fighter.

Ahhh, but how does one ambush in a Cage Match?