How they Compare: Makkapitew (Until Dawn)

 

Blackwood mountain once belonged to the Cree who considered the mountain sacred and forbade hunting upon it. Due to colonial expansion and the discovery of the valuable gems deep in the mountains, massive mining operations were performed on the mountain against the Cree's warnings. The mountain cried out and releasing ancient spirits known as the wendigo, creatures born of ice. When any man performs cannibalism upon Blackwood mountain one of the wendigo possesses him and changes him into a monstrous entity. Of them, the fiercest of all and their leader was called Makkapitew. It hunted two young girls one night in 2014, leading to the procession of events of the video game.

Wendigo are significantly stronger than humans often killing them with a single strike. This even includes the protagonists of Until Dawn such as Mike who is able to tear the head off a deer as well as Josh and Jessica both of whom have feats of withstanding long falls while already injured. Wendigo can kill wolves with single strikes and can do serious damage to metal doors. Their skin is like armor which even shotgun shells do not easily damage. Makkapitew is stronger than most, easily withstanding a slash from another wendigo, slamming it through stairs and a wall, and ripping its head off. Makkapitew was even able to slice a tower's support cables. This average Wendigo is likely in the range of 3,000+ joules in terms of damage output with a single strike, while Makkapitew is more likely in the low end wall level range supported by literally slamming another wendigo through a wall.

Wendigo also can outpace a wolf or an elk in terms of speed, complimented by their movement based abilities. This would put them roughly at the range of 13-16 meters per second, This would be slightly faster than Usain Bolt who was able to run at a record 12.2 meters per second. Makkapitew is easily able to outpace another wendigo, grabbing it in a lunge from across a room before the wendigo can grab a victim right next ot them.

Changing into a wendigo causes changes to one's physiology. One grows and becomes more lanky. They seem to lose all aging as wendigo made 50 years older seem no older. The teeth and claws grow out vastly, they no longer feel any pain or cold, and senses change towards a thermal motion tracking sense. This means one can briefly avoid detection by a wendigo by staying perfectly still but a wendigo can track a moving target very well avoiding stealth.

Wendigo are extremely good at ambush tactics. They use stealth to their advantage and can grip and climb or skitter across surfaces in three dimensions easily. They can perfectly mimic voices they've heard which they often use as a lure. Wendigo, due to once being humans, are actually cunning hunters who will use traps and tricks to get their prey. 

However their strongest advantage is their true nature. Wendigo are spirits and cannot be killed conventionally, only having their current body disrupted, which is why they say if you can to always trap a wendigo, not to kill it. Wendigo can pseudo-possess those who are desperate for food, whispering in their brain to commit cannibalism, but only fully possess when the deed is done.

In terms of weaknesses, wendigo have minor trouble detecting things that aren't moving, though can figure it out given enough time. Also as creatures born of ice, fire can burn away their material forms, though it won't kill their spiritual selves.

Name: Makkapitew

Origin: Until Dawn

Powers and Abilities: Spiritual Plane Existence, Possession and Corruption (Can tempt those desperate for food to cannibalism, can possess them when they do), Supernatural Senses (Based on Motion), Superhuman Stats, Voice Mimicry, Immunity to Cold and Pain, Agelessness

Weaknesses: Has trouble detecting if perfectly still things are alive, fire

Destructive Capacity: Wall level (Threw a wendigo through a wall, cut tower support cables, stronger than most wendigo)

Range: Melee Range

Speed: Superhuman (Faster than most wendigo, wolves and elk)

Durability: Wall level (Unharmed by a normal wendigo's strikes)

Stamina: Unknown, likely infinite when a spirit

Standard Equipment: None

Intelligence: Cunning hunter

If the wendigo stalked another verse, how would it do?

In the DC and Marvel universes, Makkapitew would not do especially well do mostly to low stats. In the DC Universe characters like Atlanteans, Amazons, and Parademons have feats well in excess of Makkapitew and are treated basically as fodder. Even as a spirit, good luck charms in DC that can ward off evil spirits are fairly commonly dispersed through the population. In Marvel, there is a similar stats problem and while exorcising an evil spirit might be a little bit harder as there seems to be a bit less of the spiritual plane combat, it would still not be that large of a threat.

In the Dead Space universe, Makkapitew would occupy a strange position given that the Wendigo transformation superficially resembles the Necromorph transformation. Makkapitew would be noticably weaker than most combat based Necromorphs as Makkapitew scales into the upper single digit kilojoules to lower double digit kilojoules range while basic combat Necromorphs scale into the triple digit kilojoule range scaling from the explosions caused by the Crawler type Necromorphs that Isaac handily survives. However Makkapitew would be noticably faster than all except the Twitcher type Necromorphs which are subsonic, as most Necromorphs don't seem dramatically faster than regular humans, only reaching peak human in short bursts while even low tier Wendigo are low level superhuman in speed. Likewise it would have an agility comparable to the Leaper, a Necromorph focused on scaling structures and leaping large distances. This gives it a pretty clear niche in the verse as a movement based fighter that takes down opponents with several precision strikes before they can fight back. Makkapitew has similar levels of animalistic intelligence to a Necromorph, both using ambush tactics and traps for humans. Particularly if Makkapitew learns of where various Necromorph species weak organs are, I could see it conceivably being able to kill a couple of basic Necromorphs at once, though without prior knowledge, several might kill its host and even with knowledge I don't think Makkapitew could kill more advanced forms. Despite this, I don't think anything in the verse, even the telepathic powers of the Marker could kill the spirit of the Wendigo and if more Necromorph species like the Feeder, who emerge from people eating Necromorph-infected meat, can arise, Makkapitew can probably live again, though eventually the Breathern Moons could probably find a way to trap it.

Against Isaac, especially in Dead Space 1, Makkapitew would essentially be a weaker faster version of the Hunter, a regenerator Slasher that was weak to fire, kept regenerating and hunting him down. I very much think Isaac, would be able to kill Makkapitew's host in a similar way. I don't think he could kill the spirit, though if he knows what it is is, using stasis to hold the bold temporarily he could probably find some way to trap it.

In the Over the Garden Wall-verse, Makkapitew would immediately be a fairly strong monster in the unknown it can interact with it. The Unknown contains many talking animals as its inhabitants and the wendigo are considered strong and faster than even predator species. The only beings that would have a power advantage would be Papa, the size of a small building, and The Beast itself who is stronger than Boss as the lord of the Unknown and a part of whom as a wolf withstood enough force to crack a mill. In speed it would be roughly mid tier, above most people, around the speed of the wolves and bears, but below the subsonic speeds some of the main characters have demonstrated.

Against the Beast itself in a battle of the wendigo, Makkapitew would be a significant stat disadvantage. Makkapitew would be unswayed however by the Beast's usual darkness manipulation and voice-throwing as Makkapitew's senses are motion-based. Makkapitew could try to put out the lantern but he's weak to fire and the Beast can freely control the astral flame of his soul which could kill Makkapitew's host fairly easy. However over time Makkapitew might become a threat if it realize that's the Beast's weak point as the Beast naturally can't kill a spiritual entity, though assuming he has knowledge of it, he could try and procure the golden bell which banished the evil spirit in the seventh episode which could put down Makkapitew.

In the Halloween-verse, Makkapitew would be fairly reasonably stated as an antagonist. He would be stronger by a bit than Silver Shamrock Robots and the Modern Myers who can easily crush peoples limbs and  the latter casually destroying hardwood, feats similar to a normal Wendigo Makkapitew can overpower. He would be similar to the Rob Zombie Myers who can overturn a car, though still significantly inferior to the first two timelines Myers who scale to an explosion encompassing a significant portion of a hospital at the end of Halloween 2, a very similar explosion destroying the Lodge at the end of Until Dawn being what killed Makkapitew's body. Speedwise Makkapitew is easily faster than the robots in Halloween 3 which have peak human speed, a speed the Wendigos can outpace. Makkapitew would have similar speed to Rob Zombie Myers which blitzed 4 humans at close range, and Strode Timeline Myers who quickly killed an entire police force, though not quite as fast as Modern Myers who crossed a street into a home on the other side in 3 seconds, and much slower then Thorn Timeline Myers who outpaced a truck speeding down the road, killing everyone inside before anyone realized. 

Against most of the robots, their lack of being alive might confuse Makkapitew's thermal vision, and their universal animacy may confuse the animal instincts, though I think Makkapitew would do particularly well against the Silver Shamrock organization unless they hit him with some hax device or spell, as the Wendigo are good at utilizing stealth and anti-stealth. Thorn Timeline Michael would seemingly stomp Makkapitew though couldn't kill. Despite the power difference I do think Makkapitew could hurt the strongest humans of the verse like Loomis and Laurie by targeting their weakpoints, though a fight is up in the air. Despite this I think Strode Timeline Myers would also win, as he scales very casually to the low building feat and has powerful endurance and regeneration so it makes it hard to imagine Makkapitew could do any damage to him.

The really interesting matchups I think are Makkapitew against Zombie-timeline Myers and Modern Myers. I don't think their illusions would likely work on Makkapitew given it's thermal based vision, and both sides have similar levels of abilities. Makkapitew would have very similar stats to Zombies-timeline Myers and would be a bit stronger but a bit slower than Modern era Myers. I think either match could go either way though I think a subtle advantage for either Myers, especially Modern Myers, is Myers fearlessness and general tendency to stay still or move slowly while stalking a victim which would keep Makkapitew from detecting him due to wendigo's motion-based vision.

In the Dead by Daylight-verse, Makkapitew would be pretty similar in stats to most other killers scaling to The Hillbilly breaking a wooden wall as a child, and the Oni completely fragments a wooden wall violently in two punches, and with most of them being able to walk faster than trained athletes can run. Makkapitew would end up being perhaps a little bit weaker and a little bit faster than most killers.This is of course assuming that none of these characters get scaling to their actual series, which is usually default assumption, though if you think they do, then this would apply only to the game-exclusive killers. 

Makkapitew would honestly fit in incredibly well in the Dead by Daylight-verse and the Entity would absolutely want to incorporate it as one of the Killers, most likely "The Wendigo." While his abilities are kind of on the weak side for one of the Killers, some of them Makkapitew could probably win a direct confrontation with like the Pig (Amanda Young) who uses traps designed to cause as much pain as possible which wouldn't work on a wendigo which doesn't feel pain or against The Plague as the body of a wendigo is considered biologically dead and wouldn't be affected by sicknesses. The Killers are automatically resurrected by The Entity but most of them wouldn't be able to kill the Wendigo spirit regardless so against most it would be a stalemate, although the Spirit, an Onryo on the spiritual plane, and the Wraith which can temporarily enter the spiritual plane should both have the ability to kill Makkapitew.

The really interesting part is if it runs across the Hillbilly (Leatherface.) As The Hillbilly is a cannibal killer, the wendigo spirit could possess and transform him making a hypothetical Wendigo Leatherface. While their combined hax would still not be particularly high tier, the wendigo transformed combined with The Hillbilly's already powerful stats would make him stronger and faster than any of the other Killers, outside of The Nightmare (Freddy Krueger) in the dream world, and possibly the Oni while in a Blood Fury, able to kill pretty much any of them in a close-range physical confrontation.