Captain Nemo vs Daleks, who would win?

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Today's question to ponder-- if the Daleks invaded an Earth defended by Captain Nemo, would humanity survive? Nemo has the advantages of an undersea base, while the hive mind tells me that Daleks haven't been seen swimming since the Classic Who episode The Dalek Invasion of Earth (1964). But the Daleks have shown the ability to assemble overwhelming armies....

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Nemo is the original Steampunk antihero, so I'd like to think that humanity had a fighting chance. And Daleks even look Steampunk in appearance, so they'd fit right in the set of the old films. I'd like to see James Mason* facing off against them.

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*James Mason played Captain Nemo in the 1954 film 20000 Leagues Under the Sea.

Comments

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

Nemo would win because the humans always win. After great struggle and suffering, of course. Unless your writer happens to be H. P. Lovecraft, in which case both humans and Daleks lose . . .

[anderyn.livejournal.com]

Nemo has to win, imho. Daleks just aren't badass enough to take him out.

[fireun.livejournal.com]

All evidence suggests that any win against the Daleks is temporary at best. So I have no doubt Nemo would pull it off. But a Dalek would slip out of a timelock somewhere and sneak back, after raising another army. Or be not quite dead as previously assumed. Or be creepy, invasive, and insidious in new and exciting way and I assume you get the idea.

[wiredwizard.livejournal.com]

Daleks would crush Nemo's forces easier than they did the Timelords.

At least that's what I think.

[jennifer-dunne.livejournal.com]

It would totally have to be Nemo, because James Mason way outranks Daleks on the Hollywood Scale of Hotness. And he's a tragic figure who lost his wife and child to evil slavers. The story would show how he regains his humanity by falling in love with someone who lost her whole family to Daleks... I want this story in the anthology!!!!

[sylvia-rachel.livejournal.com]

Nemo would win.

For now.

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