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42and35 · #1 (**permalink**) 07-05-2007, 10:30 PM

Indiana Jones? I would give it to Indiana Jones because he is way more resourceful and clever. Unless it was a cage fight. Peter the Great would probably win that since he's like 7 feet tall. What do you think?

lao_pan · #2 (**permalink**) 07-06-2007, 01:00 AM

Well, you are asking who would win in a fight, a) a fictional character, or b) an historical figure, now dead.

The closest comparison I can come up with is from the Star Trek original series, episode #77, "The Savage Curtain". In this episode the good guys Kirk, Spock and Surak (fictional characters), defeat the bad guy Genghis Khan (dead historical figure).

So, fictional beats historical. Q.E.D. ...But not quite. Actually, the good guys also had Abe Lincon (historical) on there side and the bad guys had two other fictional characters. So, it is not so simple... Still, Abe Lincoln was killed (again) in the episode and the only ones left standing are fictional, so it looks like fictional has the edge.

So, the correct answer is: It Depends.

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