History Recap / DeathBattleS05E06LeonKennedyVsFrankWest

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: The fight essentially boils down to a well-trained government agent against a guy who wasn't formally trained but learned to use improvised weapons. In the end, the combatant with more actual training and experience wins. In addition, while Frank's arsenal is far more creative, Leon's more mundane arsenal of firearms and explosives is still ruled to be the deadlier set.

While Frank's zombified head rests on the asphalt pulsating slightly, Leon makes a phone-call, but pauses to hurl his knife firmly into Frank's head's temple, ceasing its life permanently. Frank's virtually infinite creativity and unique strategies served him well in the match, but Leon's more pragmatic advantages in the fields of physicality where what made him Frank's better. While Frank could knock around cars while armed with the exosuit, Leon can hold open the jaws of a shark without any augmentation, matching Frank's strength feats, and has surpassed them by pushing a nine-ton boulder with aid. Between the assortment of feats Leon has performed, including knife throwing and laser dodging, he would be too quick for Frank to keep pace with. Once again, Frank's ingenuity would serve as a thorn in Leon's side, but the fact remains that the B.O.W.s have come in all manner of sizes and powers, giving the STRATCOM agent more experience and his own share of creativity to counter Frank with. Both men have slain countless figures, living and undead alike, but Leon had too many advantages where it mattered.

* ClothesMakeTheSuperman: It's noted that Frank has a wide selection of costumes to choose from via arcade machines, all based off fellow Capcom characters, that give him the powers of the corresponding character. He dons the armor of VideoGame/MegaManX to fire off a Mega Buster shot at Leon during the fight.

* RecursiveCanon: Frank briefly scrolls through Capcom costumes from an arcade machine, and one of the costumes that can be seen is the very man he's fighting against.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: The fight essentially boils down to a well-trained government agent against a guy who wasn't formally trained but learned to use improvised weapons. In the end, the combatant with more actual training and experience wins.

Surviving the undead apocalypse takes grit, perseverance, and an army's worth of firepower. With all that-- and some luck-- these two became experts in zombie fighting.

Leon Kennedy, the top cop and government agent in ''Franchise/ResidentEvil''. And Frank West, the backyard wrestling {{MacGyver|ing}} of ''VideoGame/DeadRising''.

The sixth episode of the fifth season sees two Creator/{{Capcom}} creations, seasoned slayers of the undead, being pit against one another. The hosts will gauge years of frontline experience against adaptability and improvisation, military training against an limitless arsenal, for Leon Kennedy and Frank West may both be talents in their craft, but only one can prove their worth and superior merit in [[TitleDrop a death battle]].

Kicking off the episode, Wiz and Boomstick look at the life behind Leon Scott Kennedy, whose foray into horror would begin with carrying on his father's legacy and becoming a police officer. For his first day on the job, Leon was dispatched the American midwest, wherein lay the troubled town of Raccoon City, and a series of cannibal murders with it. The truth, however, runs far deeper; the malevolent Umbrella Corporation, then disguised as a pharmaceutical company, ran immoral biological experiments, with the centerpiece of their machinations being a modified strain of ebola christened the t-virus. The t-virus turned its creators into zombies that were soon let loose upon Raccoon City. An outbreak followed in their wake, consuming the town and resisting efforts by the U.S. army; it is here that Leon infiltrated the city and ensured both the safety of the few survivors trapped within and the city's destruction. Word soon spread of Leon's exploits in Raccoon City and the government Strategic Command recruited him as a black ops agent. With further training in weapons and tactics, Leon became a hardened soldier, servicing the affairs of the government from presidential detail to handling further confrontations with Umbrella and their living biological weapons.

Despite the fact that Frank has covered wars, he has little experience with combat proper. This does little to slow him down, he has a large amount of firearm at his disposals, running the gamut from pistols to machine guns to rifles and even miniguns. However, standard issue arms can only last so long against an infinite horde of the undead; thus, while trapped in the mall, Frank was forced to get creative with his methods of fighting the zombies. Improvised weapons have since become Frank's calling card; sledgehammers, chainsaws, cosmetics, lawnmowers, mailboxes, novelty masks, pet food, anything can be a viable instrument of murder, even his trusty Nikon camera serves as an improvised flashbang in his hands. As if not satisfied with using a such diverse array of objects, Frank can be surprisingly inventive, using nails and duct tape to jury rig more complex weapons. There are literally dozens of of potential combination weapons that Frank can concoct, but for the sake of expediency, only a few are highlights; such as chainsaws attached to a kayak paddle, a sledgehammer with a car battery for a head, and even an exosuit hooked up to snow cone makers that can produce cryonic tornados. Vehicles, likewise, can be subjected to Frank's creativity, having firearms and other improvised weapons strapped to them for even more destruction. Topping this seemingly infinite wellspring of ideas Frank regularly taps into, he can access arcade machines to adopt the identities and powers of other Capcom heroes.

While Frank's zombified head rests on the asphalt pulsating slightly, Leon makes a phone-call, but pauses to hurl his knife firmly into Frank's head's temple, ceasing its life permanently. Frank's virtually infinite creativity and unique strategies served him well in the match, but Leon's more pragmatic advantages in the fields of physicality where what made him Frank's better. While Frank could knock around cars while armed with the exosuit, Leon can hold open the jaws of a shark without any augmentation, matching Frank's strength feats, and has surpassed them by pushing a nine ton boulder with aid. Between the assortment of feats Leon has performed, including knife throwing and laser dodging, he would be too quick for Frank to keep pace with. Once again, Frank's ingenuity would serve as a thorn in Leon's side, but the fact remains that the B.O.W.s have come in all manner of sizes and powers, giving the STRATCOM agent more experience and his own share of creativity to counter Frank with. Both men have slain countless figures, living and undead alike, but Leon had too many advantages where it mattered.

-->'''Boomstick:''' [Leon] was Frank-ly on his game.\\

'''Leon:''' That's nice, bud. ''I've fought in them.''

* ClothesMakeTheSuperman: It's noted that Frank has a wide selection of costumes to choose from, all based off fellow Capcom characters, that give him the powers of the corresponding character. He dons the armor of VideoGame/MegaManX to fire off a Mega Buster shot at Leon during the fight.

* MythologyGag: Leon's boast about having actually fought in wars in comparison to Frank saying that he's covered them is nearly similar to a line ComicBook/CaptainAmerica tells the latter in the ''VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom'' games.

* SeenItAll: A major advantage on Leon's part; he's fought against such a large variety of B.O.W.s with so many weird abilities that hardly any wacky strategy Frank busts out fazes him. The only thing that Leon even reacts to is the ice tornado from Frank's Exo-Suit, and even then Leon still finds a way around it.

** Between the cryonic suit, constant ice puns, and his brief impression of a teuton accent, Frank is clearly having fun impersonating Schwarzenegger's Mr. Freeze from ''Film/BatmanAndRobin.''

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: WordOfGod was that this fight was meant to be 3D-animated, but the sheer amount of weapons both sides had in addition to Torrian being tasked with animating Crash vs. Spyro (two episodes before this) and Ryu vs. Jin (two episodes after) meant that there was little time for him to push through with it.