Poll: Has Slender met his match?

[Kellogs Fried Chickn]

RTD wrote a great new foe and ground them into the same territory cybermen are. Angels were great when we met them, but never more.

I was never impressed by Slender, it was a neat idea but I had already kinda stumbled something that was more ambitious and didn't have a meme monster. Not to mention actual gameplay.
Damnit guys: stop talking about SCP, wait until it is finished, don't hype it before release. Geez.

 

[Olas]

Also, the main defense of the Angels is that they turn to stone if you look at them, but slenderman doesn't have eyes or even a face.

I think this whole battle has to be called off on account of the fact that nobody has any idea how slenderman works.

 

[IamLEAM1983]

]EITHER he disembowels the people he doesn't drive mad and hangs them from trees in sacks, OR he tags them for the Rake who does it. It's a bit uncertain. Perhaps the people he drives mad are the Rakes, or else the Monitors who send the messages. Or maybe the Monitors control the Slendermen? So Slender by himself could maybe do something with tentacles, but alone I think they'd just teleport around each other doing next to nothing.

There's far too many permutations and far too many takes on who and what the Slender Man actually is for any kind of structure to emerge as the canonical one.

I'm a little sad, seeing as vlogs like Dark Harvest and even Tribe Twelve are starting to gyrate around the concept of the "Gor'R'lyeh'hotep", which is basically Dark Harvest's guys going "DUUR, FIRST DEGREE LOVECRAFT REFERENCES! OUR PLOT IS SO CLEVER! HUUUUR!".

What saddens me is that Noah Maxwell seems to be heading in that direction, while the guys from EverymanHYBRID share some connection with him through the Doctor Corenthal plot point. So apart from Marble Hornets, it feels like the consensus that's being reached is something along the lines of a bad Call of Chtulhu fanfic.

 

[Johnnyseven]

Imagine you picked a fight with Rambo in a forest while its dropping dark, way scarier than either of those and no supernatural stuff required.

 

[Talyn Wulf]

First and foremost, Angels do not "turn to stone". They cease to exist when looked at. Second, it's not "seeing" that causes them to quantum lock, it's perceiving them that does. There is an episode in which a blinded character escapes the Angels by a form of echolocation to make them think they can be seen. Slenderman would have the same effect. Once they realized that he could tell where they were, they could quantum lock. Third, Angels in quantum locked state are indestructible (or at least they seem to be given that no one ever tries smashing them, and bullets don't seem to have any effect on them while stone).
In conclusion, Slendy would show up, quantum lock the Angels, get annoyed by them, then leave. They can't fight each other.

 

[Puzzlenaut]

actually, you know who would really win?

This fucker.

He's oddly kind of halfway between Angels and Slender: he's made of concrete (similar to the angels), but in the videogame acts almost identically to Slender (to the point it would seem Slender's gameplay is copied from it)

 

[ToastiestZombie]

From what I can tell, Slenderman is completely unbound by any form of proper mythos and good storytelling techniques (manipulate the fabric of space and time? No weakness? "Beyond time"? The hell does that even mean?) and is therefore a hodgepodge of terrible things that don't fit together at all

Ah yes, my thoughts exactly. Throwing things together it does not scary make, in the words of Yoda (if Yoda had heard of Slenderman). It is literally just a list of constant oneupmanship. That's what we did when we were 8 years old. Exactly that and exactly when we were 8. And even then, the result wasn't scary, we just had to one up one another claiming who was more scared.

I agree, the whole Slenderman mythos has gotten out of hand now. He was created in a photoshop contest on SomethingAwful, and was simply a creepy guy in a suit who stalked children and maybe killed them/kidnapped them. Now, since he's become so popular and unlike say, Cthulu or Jason Vorhees he's a monster who has no official creator, so anyone can do anything with him.

 

[Patrick Buck]

Slenderman would win, hand's down. I could beat an angel with a pickaxe, and a couple friends.

I'm not even sure if you CAN beat Slendy.
My mate got really confused about why the angels were so scary when the first episode with them in aired.
"Why don't you just put a grenade in their mouth when they get close, pull the pin, move far away, and blink when 4 1/5 seconds are up? Deal with them sure as sure. "

I lol'd.

 

[TilMorrow]

I'd say neither would win. Since slenderman apparently has a face with no features, he technically can't blink to allow the Weeping Angels to get closer and eventually teleport him back in time (which technically wouldn't kill him anyway and would probably lead to multiple Slendermen existing at the same time). Similarly since the Weeping Angels aren't A) a young child, B) a man or woman on their lonesome or C) a flashlight he wouldn't give them any thought. The world's longest stalemate would ensure. Until Cthulu or these guys:

Spoiler: Big Image

appear that is. [sub][sub]Scrush, Scrush, Scrush...[/sub][/sub]

 

[Flight]

I'm going to have to go with Slenderman on this one. For one thing, I've never found the Weeping Angels to be the least bit frightening, as opposed to Slenderman. For another, Slenderman, going by human standards, lacks a proper face. He doesn't need to blink, yet at the very least, he's able to sense what and who is around him. Furthermore, the Angels have been beaten, with varying degrees of difficulty, in every appearance of theirs, something which has yet to happen to our tall, skinny, suited friend.

RTD wrote a great new foe and ground them into the same territory cybermen are. Angels were great when we met them, but never more.

Sorry, but if I may, RTD didn't create the Angels, Steven Moffat did.

 

[Wolf In A Bear Suit]

The worst things you can do to remove the scare factor of a monster is giving it some sort of origin and Showing it can be beat. Two things that have been done to the Angles and I don't really feel they have the same scare factor.