"OK, so a concept came to me in a dream the other night where, for some reason, the Earth was being attacked by both zombies and aliens and only I was left to put together an army of fantasy characters to defend it... Strange I know, but bear with me here. With my vast geek knowledge-base, my brain concocted a team so freakin' awesome, and varied, that I had to put this into a post. Now granted I've changed a few characters here and there as certain ones like Earthworm Jim and Jake from Adventure Time didn't seem appropriate for this ultimate battle royale, but you'll get a general idea and maybe come up with some awesome personal teams for yourselves (post them in the comments!). All my choices seemed to have stemmed from the various figures and collectibles I have in my own room here where I'm now typing this, so I had a good selection to go by!
The premise for this post/scenario now is that an unlimited number of zombies (think L4D, Walking Dead, Resident Evil versions), monsters (small and large, b-movie and horror), and aliens (Mars Attacks or Independence Day) are flooding through New York from one end and you are at the other. You have to hold the line and defend for as long as possible or defeat the entire force completely. You have a device (a random McGuffin of some sort for this specific purpose) which allows you to call upon any character your mind can muster along with their respective powers, vehicles, weapons, steeds etc, but you can only have 40 characters max (5 on each of the 8 teams outlined below).
You have to spilt them into teams as follows: First line of defense/decimation force Melee ground soldiers/hand to hand combat Armed forces + tactics Stealth and infiltration/hit squad Air superiority Supernatural + magic defense team Intelligence/brain trust Last line of defense And then you have to choose one character to be your bodyguard and potentially be your partner in replenishing the human race... Wink wink.
Now I've set some rules here which must be adhered to so that this stays relatively simple:
1) Any character from comics, films, TV, literature, video games and general fantasy can be called to battle. All must be well known.
2) No original full teams can work on the same new teams (like Fantastic Four, Avengers, Justice League etc).
3) The characters must be good enough that if this scenario were real they would hold their own/win.
4) All characters must have explanations as to why they were chosen for the battle.
5) You can give alternative character options below each team that didn't make your final cut.
First line of defense/decimation forceThis is your strongest team of soldiers, the first to meet your foes in battle. They must be devastating and literally be able to kill in the hundreds, if not thousands, in the first few minutes!
Godzilla (all of them combined into one)
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