Poll: Sci-Fi vs. Fantasy,who wins?

[PUR3_GAM3R33]

Ok,so I was looking around Google images for epic battle wallpapers and I came across this:

http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs46/i/2010/168/7/a/Sci_Fi_vs__Fantasy_by_DanilLovesFood.jpg

and that got me thinking what if the forces of Sci-Fi fought the the forces of Fantasy,I'm interested to see peoples opinions on this.

 

[Je Suis Ubermonkey]

Fantasy has Magic, Gods, Gods, Goddesses, more Gods, Demigods and demigoddesses. Oh, and Gods. Did I mention all the Gods?

Sci-fi can't beat Gods.

L'edito: Damn ninjas. Maybe I should spend less time per post typing the word Gods.

 

[GundamSentinel]

Fantasy has Magic, Gods, Gods, Goddesses, more Gods, Demigods and demigoddesses. Oh, and Gods. Did I mention all the Gods?

Sci-fi can't beat Gods.

Sci-fi can always pull in the aliens with God-like technology. Or Q. Q will do nicely.

 

[hittite]

Hmm. While it is true that fantasy can call upon the gods. They're much more likely to seduce your sister, get drunk and forget about the whole affair. Planetary kinetic bombardments, on the other hand...

 

[GundamSentinel]

Whoops, the Escapist ate my post. Sorry about that.

 

[OverweightWhale]

It would be hard to say. While fantasy can call on the gods you never know if sci-fi developed some kind of god killing machine. You'd probably have to define what each side is using to say for sure.

 

[KILLERTHING]

Hmm. While it is true that fantasy can call upon the gods. They're much more likely to seduce your sister, get drunk and forget about the whole affair. Planetary kinetic bombardments, on the other hand...

Too true.

Yeah i would go with Sci-Fi too.

 

[Je Suis Ubermonkey]

Fantasy has Magic, Gods, Gods, Goddesses, more Gods, Demigods and demigoddesses. Oh, and Gods. Did I mention all the Gods?

Sci-fi can't beat Gods.

Sci-fi can always pull in the aliens with God-like technology. Or Q. Q will do nicely.

True, but fantasy Gods outnumber those aliens massively. And then there are the things more powerful than Gods.

 

[hittite]

Fantasy has dragons. Dragons pwn everything.

I beg to differ.

 

[Scarim Coral]

So it's pretty much a science vs magic thread? Anyway I would vote for science just because I prefer it over fantasy (even if I state something about the science pro, someone else would just counter it).

 

[Housebroken Lunatic]

Well, fantasy can pretty much call the God card depending on the setting, so they would clearly win.

Not necessarily.

There are sci-fi settings with actual gods and where the sci-fi stuff basically defeats the gods anyway, regardless of their unnatural super-powers or supposed omnipotence.

 

[Zantos]

Well, fantasy can pretty much call the God card depending on the setting, so they would clearly win.

Not necessarily.

There are sci-fi settings with actual gods and where the sci-fi stuff basically defeats the gods anyway, regardless of their unnatural super-powers or supposed omnipotence.

Didn't Kirk do that once? I cannot for the life of me remember which film it was though. Just something about inner peace.

Besides, any gods fantasy pulled out could be easily defeated by Jack O'Neill(with two ls)'s wit and William Riker's beard.

 

[TheRightToArmBears]

Fantasy, actually. Sci fi has a lot of planet destroyers and such, but fantasy has more gods that destroy everything.

 

[Kapol]

I've always felt that, in the end, Sci-Fi is really just fantasy that tries to justify itself. What I mean by that is that it seems like as long as you explain how something works in a scientific way, that automatically makes something sci-fi instead of fantasy. Or I suppose another way of putting it is that sci-fi is the fantasy of a tech-fanatic. I actually wrote a paper on the subject for a college class years ago. Wasn't very good though, so that point is moot.

 

[fix-the-spade]

and that got me thinking what if the forces of Sci-Fi fought the the forces of Fantasy,I'm interested to see peoples opinions on this.

Fantasy takes an early lead in the ground battles, sci-fi retreats and glasses the planet from orbit...

 

[theonecookie]

well really it depends what level you take each setting to but overall I would have to go with sci-fi over all it just works out better any type of ground force fantasy could come up with would be slughtered on mass as basic small arms would bring down stuff like dragons and trolls then their are things like black hole guns and orbital bombardments which in fantasy would be be a high level wizard spell but be sunday tea for sci-fi

then there's the numbers game sci-fi would outnumber fantasy by miles what being set on hundreds of worlds with potential access to other dimentions and on the whole gods thing 10th demetional beings basicly count as gods so no dice

So fantasy cant win because fantasys powerlevel is limited by its very nature sci-fi can be almost unlimited

 

[Steve Dark]

Every fantasy tale (well, 99% of at least) takes place on a planet. Sci-fi has a large variety of planet destroying weapons to pick from. Easy winner.

Although that said, isn't Warhammer 40k essentially this poll? Last I checked there hasn't been a winner yet.

 

[DanielBrown]

Well, fantasy can pretty much call the God card depending on the setting, so they would clearly win.

They would, yes, but consider all the Mass Effect fanbois we got on this site.
*pulls up flame shield*

My vote is on fantasy. Always loved it. Mainly into medieval settings, but I find all of the regular ones very compelling.

 

[D-Pad]

I've always felt that, in the end, Sci-Fi is really just fantasy that tries to justify itself. What I mean by that is that it seems like as long as you explain how something works in a scientific way, that automatically makes something sci-fi instead of fantasy. Or I suppose another way of putting it is that sci-fi is the fantasy of a tech-fanatic. I actually wrote a paper on the subject for a college class years ago. Wasn't very good though, so that point is moot.

ERRONEOUS BLATANT BLASPHEMY!

In other news, I'm going with SciFi. Roll out the giant Lifeform-busting moon-rings, the limitless Bio-Mechanic Combine Armada (+ General Freeman), everything that Commander Shepard has ever touched, and all the cool light-drive stuff from Star Wars / Star Trek.


Alternatively, we could always just call out the cast from Spaceballs and tell them to toast everything.

YOU CAN'T BEAT SPACEBALLS, FOOL! WARP TO LUDICROUS SPEED!