Amethyst vs Black Knight

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Hi, welcome to the Dynamic Duel Podcast, a weekly show where we review superhero films and debate the superiority between Marvel and DC by comparing their characters in stat-based battle simulations. 

I'm Johnny DC and I'm his twin brother, Marvelous Joe. And in this episode, we are doing a duel between the sword-wielding, fantasy-esque characters of DC's Amethyst and Marvel's Black Knight. Yeah, Black Knight is actually one of my favorite characters. 

I don't know why, but I've always just kind of gravitated toward him. I was really excited when he was in the Eternals movie played by Kit Harrington, although it was just Dane Whitman. We didn't actually get to see the Black Knight. Maybe eventually we'll get to see the character in the MCU at some point. But I know for a fact that we will never see Amethyst in live action. That's all I know. 

Well, that's not true at all. Actually, James Gunn has hinted that they're looking into doing an Amethyst movie. He's hinted at a lot of things. 

Okay? Amethyst would actually be a spectacular movie. It's like the ultimate girl fantasy story. 

It's an Isakai where she's like a forgotten lost princess. It's tailor-made for that demographic. Cool. 

Yeah, it is. I have daughters. It's really cool. I have a daughter too, but there's no way I'd ever let her watch it. Not because it wouldn't be good, but because it's DC and it's forbidden in my house. 

Oh yeah, I get that. To this day, like anytime we put in a new movie, my girls ask me, wait, is this a Marvel movie? Are you trying to trick us into watching a Marvel movie? And I'm like, why would I do that? 

You indoctrinating piece of shit. Well, I hope Black Knight wins because of that and we'll get into that matchup later on this episode. Before that, we're going to break down the latest comic book, actually video game news that came out this past week. Yeah, there's not a lot of movie news, but we did get the official gameplay trailer for Marvel's Wolverine. That's going to be on the PlayStation. 

As always, we list our segment times in our episode description, so feel free to check out the show notes if you want to skip ahead to a particular topic. Our artificially intelligent dual simulator, AJ9K, has a quick message for our listeners. So listen up. 

Thanks AJ9K and thanks to everyone who supports the podcast. Guys, be sure to tune into the other shows and the Dynamite Podcast Network this week, including the console combat podcast, where hosts John and Dean simulate battles between popular video game characters. In yesterday's episode, they determined who would win between Nightmare of Soul Calibur and War from Darksiders. Over on the Max Destruction podcast, hosts Scotty and Gilly pay your favor action heroes from film and television against each other. On Wednesday, they're going to find out who would win between Werewolf by Night and Van Helsing. 

Werewolf by Night's obviously going to take that, obviously. No, no. It's Van Helsing, dude. He could transform into a Werewolf. 

That's true. The Hugh Jackman version, right? Yeah, that's the version they're going with. The Hugh Jackass version. 

What the fuck did you just say? The Hugh Jackoff version. Oh, okay. On the Central World podcast, hosts Zachary Hepburn speculates on fights between fan favorite anime and manga characters. In his next episode, Zach is revealing who would win between Whitebeard and Kampachi, both from One Piece. 

Visit dynamicpodcasts.com or click the link in our show notes to listen to all of the shows in the Dynamite Podcast Network. But with that out of the way, quick to the no prize. A no prize is an award that Marvel used to give out to fans. 

Our version, the Dynamic Dual No Prize, is a digital award we post on Instagram for the person that We Feel gave the best answer to our question of the week. Last week, we asked you guys, what was your favorite story within the Deadpool Batman crossover comic book and why? And we got one answer. Yeah, I don't know if a whole lot of listeners of this show actually read the comic books because, yeah, only a single person called in. So congrats to Noah Terry, you win this week's no prize. 

And he said, hey guys, within the Deadpool slash Batman crossover comic, we all know the best story and that's the dead of night where the dark night and the merc with the mouth meet up. It's just the perfect team up. I never knew I needed it. It's hilarious. The art is amazing. The story is fantastic. I'm not saying the other stories weren't solved, but this was definitely a no brainer first pick for me. So that's my answer. Thanks. Bye guys. 

I think one of the best things about the Deadpool Batman crossover comic book was how clearly the writer seemed to nail Ryan Reynolds voice. Just his comedic style that the character has used in the films, which is mostly on par with Deadpool's comedic style from the comic books. 

It was just a joy to read when I read Deadpool comic books. Now it's definitely in Ryan Reynolds voice. When I read Batman, it's definitely in Kevin Conroy's voice. 

The Joker showed up in that issue. I definitely read it in Mark Hamill's voice and it was all just so well written and clear and hilarious on top of everything else. It was such a blast. Like Noah said, it was the crossover event. 

I didn't know I needed. Yeah, I was not really looking forward to a Deadpool Batman crossover because we've had so many Batman crossovers. I never really wanted to see him go up against Deadpool, not realizing that they are the perfect foils for each other. And it just made for a really, really fun story. And yeah, I totally read Deadpool in Ryan Reynolds voice. And I think it's because it was written by Zeb Wells, who was the co-writer on the Deadpool and Wolverine movie. Yeah, absolutely. So he definitely knew the tone of the character and how to nail that. 

You're right. They were the perfect foils for each other. I love how Batman just could not tolerate Deadpool shit and Deadpool could not help but love how cool Batman was. It was great. It was great. But besides that one, what was your favorite storyline? Well, as much as I wanted to like the Daredevil green arrow crossover, it was too cliche for me, which was surprising. Given that it was written by Kevin Smith, who was a solid comic book writer. I think actually the one that surprised me the most was the Wonder Woman and Captain America crossover. 

Oh, man. Because the reveal that it was a conjoined Marvel and DC universe out of the multiverse was a pretty good twist. And it totally makes sense that Wonder Woman and Steve Rogers would be into each other because Steve Rogers is a lot like Steve Trevor, you know, they would totally get it on. Dude, I want more from the Infinityverse. I think that's what they called it in that storyline. 

Yeah. Because that was spectacular. I was actually going to choose that one, too. But I guess if I had to choose another one that I really liked, it would have been the Rocket Raccoon and Green Lantern crossover. Where it was like the Guardians of the Universe and the Guardians of the Galaxy. 

I thought that was pretty cool, especially with that twist ending where Hal Jordan gets the Infinity Gauntlet. Right. And that was pretty good. Well, thanks, Noa Terry, for reading the comic book and for calling in with your answer. You win this week's No Prize. If you the listener want a shot at winning your own No Prize, stay tuned till later on this episode when we'll be asking another. Question of the week. 

And now that that's done, on to the news. All right, this past week we got the first official gameplay trailer for the upcoming Wolverine video game made by Insomniac for the PlayStation 5. It's coming out late in 2026. 

About a year from now. It looks really damn good. As good as the Spider-Man game is for the character of Spider-Man, this game looks like the same level of quality for the character of Wolverine. The movement of the character through the environment, the camera motions and the fight mechanics look just so well polished and true to character. It just looks amazing. And hyper violent as it should. 

Right. I mean, I would expect no less from a Wolverine video game where you straight up stab people in the face. I will say that this trailer got more violent than I was expecting. 

It's definitely rated to infirmature. We're talking like Mortal Kombat levels of violence as opposed to like Spider-Man levels of violence from that video game. We see him straight up rip dudes in half down the middle. And what I thought was interesting too is that these guys are also like part robots seemingly or they're wearing like some high tech gear. I thought we would have seen Wolverine turn to a couple of robots, but they're like, no, all humans. Yeah, these robots are going to have blood, right? He's not just tearing through circuitry here. We're going to make sure that they're at least cyborgs. 

So there's some blood is what the developers said. It looks like we get so many different classic versions of Wolverine because the character is just so versatile in the world of Marvel. He fits right at home, you know, in Westchester with Xavier school as a teacher, but he can also feel very Western, you know, with his cowboy hat and stuff. He could also feel very like East Asian with stories set in Japan or Madropore or like in the middle of a Canadian forest in the Rockies in the mountains, being a wild animal in the snow in the city. There's just so many different directions you can take the character and to that end, we're getting a whole lot more level designs here than we do from like your typical Insomniac Spider-Man game, which largely takes place in Manhattan. Yeah, when you compare this to something like Batman Arkham Knight or Arkham City, which takes place entirely in Gotham or like you mentioned, the Spider-Man games, this doesn't feel open world to me, but that's not a bad thing. 

No, not necessarily. It looks very level based. I don't think you could actually like walk from the Canadian Rockies to Japan in this game. I don't think it is open world like those other games, but I might be wrong. 

You know, you may just have to go to the airport and then there'll be a cutscene where he's traveling or something. He does have his motorcycle in a few of these levels, which looks super sick wearing the yellow costume, the yellow costume, which looks very influenced by the design that was in the MCU in the Deadpool and Wolverine film. It looks really cool. I guess the one nitpick I have and this definitely is a nitpick because I brought it up with our executive producers and Zach kind of set me straight because I was talking about how the fight system incorporates so many different things. So many combos, kind of like with Spider-Man, that it's kind of ridiculous because it makes no sense for a guy to still be standing after the first Adamantium Claw slash, right? Like if you get slash with Adamantium Claw, you're basically done. But some of these combos in this Wolverine game fight system incorporate like 10 plus hits, which is just kind of ridiculous. It's such overkill. But Zach, one of our executive producers and the host of Central World was like, yeah, but Wolverine's kind of about overkill when he's in his berserker rage modes, to which, you know, that's fair. Yeah, he'll keep slashing even though you're dead. 

Yeah, I mean, like if you get slashed in the face, do you really need to be slashed in the chest and in the gut and in the arm and in the neck and in the face again? I don't think so. Yes, according to Wolverine. It's just not a very efficient fighting style. 

I'll say that. It looks like Omega Red is going to be one of the villains. Yeah, we see Omega Red. 

We see Mystique in the video game. There's a Sentinel, which looks like it is going to be a really cool fight scene. I don't know who the main bad guy is. If it's like, I don't know, Saber Tooth or Romulus. I hope it's not Romulus. I hate that character, but somebody else will have to wait and see. So are you picking up PlayStation 5 for this? 

Maybe. I mean, I'm overdue on playing the Insomniac Spider-Man games. If this game does really well too, it sounds like Insomniac is going to make a whole lot more Marvel video games. And I just need to get back up on that horse, on that video game horse, because I haven't been a big gamer in about five or 10 years now. I bought an Xbox One just to play Arkham Knight and Injustice 2. And once I beat those games, I essentially just sold it again. 

But I regret that because those are really fun games and I wish I could still play them. Well, what is a PS5 running for these days? Let's see. Alright, so basically anywhere from $550 to $750. I'll get back to you on when I will pick that up. 

Maybe next year, when the price comes down. But speaking of superhero video games, that brings us to our question of the week. Besides Batman, Spider-Man, and Wolverine, which Marvel or DC character do you most want to play as in a single-player adventure video game? Yeah, tell us what character and what you want the game to play to be like. Record your answer at dynamicduel.com by clicking on the red microphone button in the bottom right hand corner of the screen, which will prompt you to leave us a voicemail. Your message could be up to 30 seconds long, and don't forget to leave your name in case we include you on the podcast. We'll pick our favorite answer and award that person at Dynamic Duel No Prize that we'll post to Instagram. 

Be sure to answer before October 4th. But that does it for all the news for this episode, so let's go ahead and move into our main event, a duel between the DC heroine of Amethyst and Marvel's hero, Black Knight. Okay, Amethyst versus Black Knight. As I mentioned earlier, these are two fantasy characters with Amethyst coming from Gemworld and Black Knight being tied to Arthurian, Legend, and Avalon. 

Yeah, they both wield magic swords, and that's basically the full extent that I know of that ties these two characters together. Because really, I don't know much about Amethyst. Who does? She's a pretty obscure character. She's kind of like one of those characters that was like commandee or warlord, just kind of offset in their own niche fantasy world, largely separate from the other DC characters. 

But she's cool. DC produced a series of shorts with the character one time that I thought was fantastic. I can't wait to see the character in live action. 

I'm pretty confident eventually we will. These shorts were animated? Yes. Yeah, and it was very much based off of like a Zelda type of video game. It was awesome. Are you able to watch them on HBO Max or were they just on the DC Universe app back when that was around? Yeah, they were on the DC Universe app, but you can also see them on YouTube now. Oh, cool. Interesting. 

Okay. Well, the Black Knight never got his own shorts, but he did show up in an episode of the Avengers Earth's Mightiest Heroes cartoon, but he didn't have a speaking appearance. Oh, he was just like a background cameo? Yeah, basically. 

Doesn't count. I really did like the casting of Kate Harrington as Dane Whitman though. It's going to go somewhere eventually and I can't wait to see it. Yeah, seriously, get that guy his own movie already. Seriously. What the fuck, Marvel? What are you guys doing? I can get masses. 

Get your shit together. Let's go to get into the dual portion of this episode to explain the methodology behind our duels. Let's go to our sentient dual simulator Alfred Jarvis 9000. AJ9K tell our listeners how you go about determining a winner in our dual matchups. 

Yes, of course, sir. The way I determine a winner between the contestants is by running 1000 Monte Carlo simulations using the characters statistics. A Monte Carlo simulation is a probabilistic model used to determine outcomes through random sampling. In this case, I randomize the statistics along a normal distribution as a way to simulate the many variables that can occur during battle. 

The stat parameters are based on the official Marvel power grid from which the DC characters statistics are extrapolated. Additional stat categories are included such as range, damage potential, versatility and perception in order to create a more detailed and accurate simulation. The results of the 1000 simulations provide a percentage of wins for each character. The contestant with the higher percentage is declared the victor as they have a higher probability to win any given battle. In an equitable pairing, neither character should win 100% of the matches. The comic book stories have shown that there's even a way for Batman to defeat Superman, so the confidence rate of my method falls in line with the precedents that have been established in the source material. My mathematical simulations are without subjectivity or bias. Feats are not the sole consideration, nor are fan votes tabulated for determination of the winner. 

Thanks, AJ9K. Before we run the simulations, though, we'd like to break down each character's histories and abilities before improvising a scenario on how we imagine one of the 1000 simulations would play out B for B. And it is my turn to go first with the Marvel character, so let me tell you all about the Black Knight. Dane Whitman was born in Gloucester, Massachusetts, to a wealthy family and grew up studying physics, eventually earning a master's degree and pursuing doctoral work. His life changed when his uncle Nathan Garrett, a super-criminal scientist who had assumed the mantle of the villainous Black Knight, was mortally wounded in a battle with Iron Man. On his deathbed, Garrett confessed his crimes to Dane and implored him to redeem the family legacy by restoring honor to the mantle of the Black Knight. Inheriting Garrett Castle in England, Dane discovered there the Ebony Blade, a mystical sword forged by the sorcerer Merlin as a dark counterpart to Excalibur. It was passed down through generations by their ancestor Sir Percy of Scandia, the original Black Knight of King Arthur's Camelot, whose spirit appeared to Dane in a vision. He explained that the Ebony Blade carried a blood curse, that every time it drew blood, it would drive its wielder closer to madness. 

Dane accepted the burden and claimed the weapon as his own. Initially, Dane sought to infiltrate his uncle's former allies, the Masters of Evil, in order to bring the team down from within. During this time, he encountered the Avengers, but was mistaken for his uncle Garrett and was attacked. After proving his true intentions, he aided the Avengers, becoming a trusted ally and later a full member of the team. 

You can learn more about the Masters of Evil and Avengers in their respective duels against the Legion of Doom and the Justice League. Using his scientific knowledge and engineering skills, Dane created a genetically engineered winged horse named Aragorn and designed advanced weaponry, including a power lance. Though he wielded the Ebony Blade, he was always wary of its corrupting influence. 

Dane soon became entangled in mystical adventures. Fighting alongside the defenders, his spirit was drawn back to the 12th century, where he inhabited the body of his ancestor, Sir Eobar Garrington, during the Crusades. There, he fought in years of bloody warfare under the Ebony Blade's influence, battling the Fomor, a monstrous race from Irish mythology. During this time, Dane allied with the time-displaced Avengers and the Eternal Cersei. Eventually, a druid returned his spirit to his own restored body in the modern era and Dane resumed his role as Black Knight. The sorcerer Merlin soon summoned him, charging him and Captain Britain to battle the villain Mordred and the demonic knight Necromon. Their campaign saw Dane briefly wield Excalibur when the Ebony Blade was destroyed and fight beside the resurrected King Arthur. 

Though Camelot was ultimately destroyed, the Ebony Blade was reforged and returned to him and he went home with his new winged steed named Valinor. You can learn more about Captain Britain and his duel against Uncle Sam. Back in modern times, Dane resumed active duty with the Avengers. 

His tactical mind and scientific expertise proved invaluable, particularly when geniuses like Iron Man or Hank Pym were absent. His life grew more complicated when the Submariner used the Ebony Blade to kill his monstrous wife Marina, reigniting the blade's blood curse. Dane's body slowly began transforming and eventually succumbed to the curse completely. He was held at Garrett Castle by his friend Victoria Bentley, who attempted a restoration spell but instead summoned the spirit of Cer Percy from the court of King Arthur into Dane's body. Cer Percy had ventured in the modern world for a time with a man named Sean Dolan as his squire until the curse was lifted and Dane's own body was restored. 

To avoid the Ebony Blade's curse again, Dane engineered a weapon called the Photon Sword that was essentially a lightsaber. His squire, Sean Dolan, was corrupted by the Ebony Blade and transformed into the villain Bloodraith. In battle, Bloodraith accidentally killed Victoria Bentley, devastating Dane. 

Despite this tragedy, Dane continued his service with the Avengers and eventually rose to become the team's field leader under Black Widow. In his personal life, he found himself caught in a love triangle between the Eternal Cersei and the Inhuman Princess Crystal, both of whom you can learn more about in their respective duels against Firestorm and Tempest. Though bound to Cersei through a mystical bond meant to stabilize her fraying mind, Dane's feelings for Crystal complicated matters. The situation grew dire when Proctor, an alternate reality version of Dane, embittered by rejection from his world Cersei, attacked. After Proctor's defeat, Cersei exiled herself to another universe and Dane chose to accompany her, leaving Crystal behind. Dane and Cersei's exile took them across realities, including to the Ultraverse, where Dane briefly became leader of the hero team Ultra Force. 

Returning to Earth after splitting from Cersei, he joined the heroes for Hire Team alongside Luke Cage and Iron Fist. Dane was chosen by the Lady of the Lake as the pen dragon of his age, receiving new mystical equipment including the Sword of Light, Shield of Night, and a new winged steed named Strider, who could achieve supersonic speeds and travel through environments like outer space or underwater. Dane trained the Knights of Wondegor, a group of warriors created by the High Evolutionary, and briefly served with the British team Excalibur, later converting Garrett Castle into a museum chronicling the Black Knights lineage. During the Skrull Invasion of Earth, Dane fought across London with what he believed was the Ebony Blade, later revealed to be a vampiric counterfeit created by Dracula, whom you can learn more about in his duel with Andrew Bennett. Eventually reclaiming the real Ebony Blade from Wakanda, Dane fought vampires in Britain alongside MI-13, the UK's Paranormal Intelligence Division. The Ebony Blade's curse weighed heavily on Dane, and after nearly killing an opponent in a Berserk rage, his deteriorating mental state led him to flee through a rift to a chaotic realm that he took over and transformed into new Avalon, serving as its protector. In time, Dane returned to Earth, fighting the evil organization Hydra with a team of heroes called Euroforce, and aiding the Avengers against cosmic threats like the Kotari. When Null invaded Earth with his symbioted hordes, Dane fought valiantly. However, Null revealed that the Ebony Blade did not corrupt its wielders, but instead fed upon their existing darkness, drawing strength from their flaws. This revelation forced Dane to confront his own inner demons and accept responsibility for his violent impulses. 

You can learn more about Null in his duel with White Lantern. Amidst this turmoil, Dane discovered he had a teenage daughter named Jax, secretly born years earlier to his college girlfriend. Around this time, the villain Mordred sought the Ebony Relics, which were a set of mystical items all forged from the same meteorite that formed the Ebony Blade, including the Ebony Dagger, Ebony Shield, and Ebony Chalice, the three of which could join together to form the Ebony Crown, a weapon of ultimate mystic control. Dane pursued Mordred through the mystic realm of Lysinae's discovering Merlin's secret betrayal, that the sorcerer, long ago, had pitted Arthur and Mordred against each other, knowing Camilla would fall. Mordred attempted to forge the Ebony Crown, killing Dane in the process. His daughter Jax then claimed the Ebony Blade and attempted to slay Mordred in a rage. 

However, Dane was resurrected by the Ebony Crown, defeating Mordred and reforging the Relic into the Ebon Siege, a dark throne that projected vision for the Abyss. Which makes him highly resistant to both physical and mystical attacks. He has wielded a variety of weapons over the years including the Power Lance, the Photon Sword, and the Sword of Light and the Shield of Night. But I'm going with his classic weapon of the Ebony Blade, which can cleave through any substance, even Iron Man's armor, and can deflect or absorb even the most powerful magic directed at it. It can be telekinetically summoned to its wielder, and its wielder can be injured, but not killed, as the blade will resurrect them. The Ebony Blade is cursed in that it craves blood and corrupts its user to kill. 

If fully corrupted, the wielder becomes a bloodraith, a dark being who feeds on souls. Outside of his relics, the Black Knight is a gifted physicist, biologist, and engineer. He's an expert trained swordsman, is an expert in medieval history, and has a familiarity of the world of magic. And that's the Black Knight. What was the name of his Pegasus again? He's had three Pegasi. The first one was called Aragorn, the second one was called Valinor, and the third one was called Strider. 

So there were all references to the Lord of the Rings, Middle Earth. Is he going to have one of these horses in this speculation? I don't know, do you want him to? 

He can. If Amethyst, I guess, is going to have a horse, is she? I don't know, do you want her to? 

She can. First of all, Strider would absolutely murder Amethyst's horse, and I don't know if I want to speculate on horse violence. I'm sorry, Amethyst's horse isn't even a horse, it's a unicorn. 

It's a Pegacorn. It would straight up impale Black Knight's horse. Alright, we'll include him in the duel, but you know, we'll be gentle. We'll be gentle. 

Says you. Let me get into Amethyst's backstory. Never suspecting her extraordinary origins, but as her 13th birthday approached, Citrina's spell began to weaken. On the night of her birthday, Amy received a mysterious Amethyst pendant, the key to her true destiny. Soon after a creature from Gemworld breached the barrier between worlds and abducted Amy, dragging her through the portal to her birthplace. 

Crossing into Gemworld caused her to age rapidly, transforming from a young teenager into a grown woman. Rescued by Citrina's agents and brought before the witch mother herself, Amy finally learned the truth of her lineage. She was Princess Amethyst, heir to a fallen house and the only one who could oppose Dark Opal's rule. With her lineage revealed and Citrina's guidance, Amy accepted her role as Princess Amethyst and began to build a rebellion. 

She forged alliances with her remaining houses that had resisted Dark Opal's control, including Turquoise and Topaz. Though new to her powers, Amethyst quickly mastered the use of crystal-based magic and martial combat, wielding enchanted weapons and artifacts tied to her gemstone heritage. She led an uprising against Dark Opal's forces, culminating in a siege of his fortress, where she faced him in battle and ultimately defeated and killed him, restoring the freedom of Gemworld and reclaiming her family's throne. Amy returned to Earth after her victory, attempting to resume a normal life, but her connection to Gemworld could not be severed. Conflicts erupted once more among the noble houses in her absence, and Amy returned to Gemworld to stabilize the realm. As her influence grew, she attracted the attention of greater magical forces, including the Lords of Chaos. Dr. Fate revealed to her that she was not merely a noble but a lord of order, like her father, a powerful being meant to preserve balance in the multiverse. 

This made Amethyst unique among the Lords of Order, as she had been born into a human form and carried the dual identity of mortal and cosmic being. You can learn more about Dr. Fate in our Dr. Fate vs. Dr. 

Strange dual episode. She continued to act as Gemworld's protector, returning to Earth once again to help repel the specter who had turned against magic. She stood alongside Earth's mystics at the Rock of Eternity, alongside the Lord of Order Naboo, who was killed along with the wizard Shazam, making Amy the only living Lord of Order to enter into the 10th Age of Magic that emerged following the specter's defeat. Upon Amy's return to Gemworld, she learned that Gemworld had fundamentally been altered by the shift in magic. With Gemworld now known as Xerox, the realm was engulfed in civil war. Amethyst fought to preserve what remained of her home, and when the magic wars devastated the realm, she was seemingly destroyed along with it. 

However she later emerged on Earth and served as one of its protectors for a time. Following the Flashpoint reset of continuity, Amy Winston's history was reimagined. She lived on Earth with her mother, Gracie Winston, a stern and reclusive woman who trained Amy from a young age in martial arts and swordsmanship without explanation. 

On her 17th birthday, Gracie took Amy to a remote hilltop and opened a magic portal, revealing the truth. Amy was actually Amaya, Princess of House Amethyst on Nila, the realm known to Earth as Gemworld. She learned she was the daughter of Lady Graciel of House Amethyst and Lord Virion of House Turquoise, the latter of whom sacrificed himself to get Amy and her mom to Earth and away from the murderous ambition of Graciel's twin sister, Lady Mordriel. The noble houses of Nila were locked in an uneasy balance of power, with House Amethyst ruled by Amaya's aunt, Lady Mordriel. Graciel and Mordriel, twin sisters, shared the power of their bloodline equally, but upon Amaya's 17th birthday, the bloodline magic would be split three ways unless one of them died. During the ritual to awaken Amaya's bloodline power, she was drawn into a mystical trial where her mother Graciel and her aunt Mordriel confronted her with a shared telepathic vision. The ceremony forced her to choose between the path of blood and the path of heart. 

On the path of blood, she could seize greater power by killing her mother, and on the path of heart, she would share the inheritance equally. Mordriel whispered for Amaya to strike, urging her to embrace bloodshed and ambition. Amaya engaged Graciel in combat within the trial, but when the moment came to deliver the killing blow, she refused. Her choice aligned her with the path of heart, and the magic of House Amethyst was divided three ways, binding Amaya, Graciel, and Mordriel together as co-heirs. 

Amaya's return to Nila sparked fresh conflict. She allied with the House of Citrine and began to master her magical abilities. Ingvi, a noble from House Citrine, became her political tutor and friend, helping her navigate the intrigue of Gemworld. Amaya's dual heritage, with blood from both House Amethyst and House Turquoise, granted her unique magical abilities. Amaya was also gifted a winged horse named Epsilonus, a loyal companion that carried her across Nila's skies and into battle. 

Amaya's leadership expanded beyond Nila when a dimensional breach connected Gemworld to Earth. She joined Young Justice, helping the team navigate her homeland and fight off magical invaders. Her portal magic became essential in transporting allies across realms, and later she joined the Justice League Dark, standing alongside Earth's most powerful mystics to repel supernatural threats. 

You can learn more about Young Justice and their team duel against Young Avengers, and Justice League Dark in their duel against the Midnight Suns. During her reign, Amaya faced Eclipse, who sought to dominate Gemworld through the corrupted power of the Black Diamond. Using the prime catalyst, the core magical artifact of House Amethyst, Amaya disrupted Eclipse's hold and prevented an Eclipse-powered cataclysm. 

You can learn more about Eclipse in our Eclipse vs. Malekith duel episode. With Amaya having proven herself to be the savior of Gemworld, Graciel and Mortariel abdicated their rule, making Amaya the undisputed ruler of House Amethyst. Her control over her house's full power allowed her to repel even cosmic threats, and under her leadership, the 12 houses entered a fragile peace. That's Amethyst's story so far. Powers-wise, Amethyst wields a vast and diverse magical arsenal rooted in her bloodline's connection to crystalline and gemstone-based magic. She can generate and manipulate crystal constructs, hard-light weapons, and enchanted armor. Her command of lattice magic allows her to interact with energies of other houses, using rubies for healing, emeralds for plant growth, topaz for illumination, and more. She can open dimensional portals, project destructive energy bolts, move objects telekinetically, and perform reality-altering spells through crystal energy. As a hybrid of House Amethyst and House Turquoise, she is immune to illusion and can wield mist silk, an enchanted, intangible fabric she uses as a whip or lasso in combat. Her heritage also grants resistance to magical corruption, and enhances her agility, strength, and reflexes. A trained warrior, as well as a sorceress, Amethyst is skilled in swordsmanship, hand-to-hand combat, and battlefield strategy. Now with full command of her house's power, she stands among the most formidable magic entities in DC's multiverse. 

With a few other magical tricks. Fantasy-based, and she can do a lot more. DC needs to be more original. 

This is just fantasy Star Sapphire where all the constructs look like low-res polygons. I just said she could do so much more. She has a few other tricks. We'll see how that goes for her. 

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Well, now that we've got their histories and abilities out of the way, let's speculate on how one of the 1,000 simulated matches will go. The winner is determined by simulations, not the speculation, but it's fun to imagine how this fight could play out. AJ9K, what are the rules of our speculation? 

Well, I should say there are no rules, other than the characters have no prior knowledge of the other going into the fight. All they are aware of starting out is that the other character is a threat that needs to be eliminated. For the speculation, the contestants will begin approximately 50 meters apart in a nondescript environment that will have no bearing on the match itself, as no environmental statistics are considered in my simulations. The contestants must earn victory on their own merit. 

Alright, then let's get into it. Amethyst and Black Knight meet on the battlefield. Who goes first? I say they both actually start off atop their ringed steeds, Strider, whatever the fuck his name is, and Ipsilos. And so they'll take to the skies and charge at each other, just like a midair joust pointing their ebony blades and the sort of amethyst at each other. But at the last second, Amethyst is going to generate this long, crystalline lance around her sword, extending her reach and knocking Black Knight out of the air, so he falls to the ground, probably dies. So she turns her sword into a lance? 

Yes. I'm going to say that he dodges it at the last second right before they clash, because Black Knight's horse, Strider, can go supersonic, right? So he just rushes past her like a blur, and he slices her lance right in half, and she and her horse, whatever the fuck its name is, gets staggered from the sonic boom that Black Knight and Strider just created. Okay, well as Amethyst is regaining her bearings, she sees Black Knight behind her as he's flown past her, and she's just going to generate a portal in front of Ipsilos that opens above Black Knight's flight path. So she's going to fly through that, crashing into him from above, and sending him and Strider just spiraling to the ground. I mean, if she crashes into him, like Black Knight's pretty armored, Strider is a tough as nails horse, like crashing into them is just as likely to send Amethyst spiraling to the ground too. Like that wasn't smart. And actually as they're both falling to the ground in their horses, Black Knight's going to leap off of Strider over to Amethyst's horse and just cut off one of its wings with his ebony blade, and then kick her off of her horse, and then he's going to get caught mid-air right before he hits the ground by Strider, who lands safely. 

Well that was messed up. So Amethyst and her horse fall to her death. Well, I mean Amethyst doesn't actually need Ipsilos to fly, she could fly under her own power. So as she's landing on the ground, she's going to send her mist silk toward Black Knight, because she can control it. 

It's like a scarf, a magic scarf, and it's going to wrap around Strider's neck, choking him out. And since it's intangible to Black Knight, there's really nothing he could do about it. Except the ebony blade can cut intangible things, like you can cut vision when he goes intangible. So like a fucking surgeon, Black Knight slides the blade underneath this magic silk and cuts his horse free, and then sends Strider away back to Avalon. Okay, well while he's busy saving his horse though, Amethyst is already on the offensive, and she's hurling magical crystal shards at Black Knight, which pierces armor, tagging him in the back. I mean, can her weapons even pierce elf-forged Lady of the Lake enchanted armor? 

Of course! Don't answer that, it doesn't even matter, because Dane's going to swing his sword and just slice all of these shards out of the air, and then he's going to blitz Amethyst, just rushing toward her. Well I mean, he's going to run straight into a magic energy bolt, then several of them actually. Yeah, sorry, except the ebony blade can absorb a magic energy too. So like, I feel bad for you man, honestly, like the ebony blade is just too bad ass for you it seems, because like as the Black Knight continues running at her, he's going to fire the magic energy stored up in the sword right back at her, and she gets hit by it, and at this point he reaches her, and he straight up stabs her through the shoulder, disarming her, and making her drop the Amethyst sword. No, because she's already generated a shield, a crystalline Amethyst shield by this point, in preparation for his approach. So that's going to protect her from his energy blast, and by the time he rages her with his sword, you know, she'll parry his lunge attack, and she's going to transform her shield into a second sword, the crystalline one, so now she's dual wielding like a bad ass, and with the extra blade, she's going to slice off his left arm at the shoulder, and she's like, now stand aside, we're the adversary. 

We're the adversary, what? Oh! Black Knight's like, tis but a scratch. Scratch his arms off! Notice that, like, he wears enchanted pauldrons on his shoulders, that would prevent his arm from getting cut off. So literally, she just scratches his armor, tis but a scratch, and he's going to respond to her attack by slicing her purple gem sword into, and then he's going to slash right across her forearm, which is going to force her to drop her sword, and more importantly than that, he draws blood. So now Black Knight is bloodlusted due to the ebony blade, and Amethyst is really fucked. Well if he's bloodlusted, then he's not really in control, and so he'll probably charge at her, at which point both halves of her mist silk that was sliced into are going to fly to him and wrap around his face and neck, just blinding and choking him, and as he struggles against that, Amethyst is going to quickly conjure this giant purple crystal battle axe that she's going to sword wielding arm, where he's not armored. So she slices that arm right off before spinning around and cleaving him in half at the waist. So with him on the ground, she's able to pick up her sort of Amethyst back up, and on one knee, she's like, we thank thee, Lord, that in thy mercy. Yeah, and then she gets booted right in the head by the Black Knight who, surprise, is not dead. 

He's resurrected because the wielder of the ebony blade cannot be killed. So she gets knocked over, and he's like, I'm invincible. And then he impales her right through the torso into the ground, and wins this match. But also he's like super bloodlusted by this point, and probably close to succumbing to darkness and becoming a bloodwraith, because he just spilled so much of her blood. There's no way that Black Knight survives being sliced in half, because like he wasn't even wielding the ebony blade at the end, because she sliced that sword-wielding arm off, remember? I don't have to tell you, man, it's magic, okay? 

The sword was still in his severed hand, so he still got resurrected. That's just how it works. The Black Knight always triumphs. Hopefully our audience has seen Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Oh my gosh, if they haven't, what are they doing with their lives? 

Stop listening to this podcast, go watch that movie. But we'll go ahead and leave our speculation there. Either Amethyst kills the Black Knight by severing him in half, and he doesn't get resurrected, or he does get resurrected due to the ebony blade's magic and then finishes her off by impaling. So let's go ahead and find out which of these two scenarios happens by inputting the stats, running the simulations, and coming back with a winner. A.J .9K? Hit it! 

All right, this was an interesting matchup. Both of these characters have things going for them over the other, kind of going back and forth. Like, Black Knight is more durable, largely due to his enchanted armor, but also because he can be considered regenerative through the resurrection enchantment that his sword grants him. Yeah, he was more durable than her. He was also much more intelligent than her. Considering Amethyst is really just a teenager. Yeah, Dain is considered like the Avengers resident scientist, like I said in his bio, when people like Iron Man or Ant Man are away. 

That's so weird to me. Like, why would a character like Black Knight need to be a scientist? Why would he need to be able to engineer his own horse? Because he was a scientist who was really introduced to the world of magic through the death of his uncle, and learned about this, like, whole legacy of the Black Knight. I listened to your backstory. I just think that's dumb. 

I don't know what to tell you, man. You know, he made his own lightsaber, he makes a lot of his own weapons. It's just part of the character. 

Whatever. We did say that Amethyst was obviously more versatile than him, considering not only can she create constructs, but is also just a sorceress in general. Yeah, her whole power set is a little bit vague. Don't you think? Oh, I mean, no more vague than any sorcerer. 

Yeah, that's lame. We also said that Amethyst has a greater range due to the fact that the Black Knight can really only blast energy if he absorbs that magic with his ebony blade, or if he's wielding a different weapon such as the Sword of Light. But everything else was pretty close, I would say. Well, we said Amethyst was faster because she can fly and generate portals. I mean, the Black Knight does have Strider, who can go supersonic speeds, but he's not always mounted on Strider. So we just gave a slight edge and speed to Amethyst. We also gave her a slight edge and damage level as well, again, because of magic, which is also why she got a slight edge in perception because of her noble blood, she's able to perceive things that other people can't, including magical illusions she sees right through them. That all said, Jonathan, who's taking the win on this one? 

I'm going to say Amethyst. I know you really like Black Knight. I just don't think he has enough going for him in this match. Well, that was dumb. That was a dumb thing to say. Maybe, I mean, Instagram probably agrees with you because 54% of them sided with Black Knight to be the winner. But I feel like that's probably just because Amethyst is a fairly obscure character. 

Or maybe it's just because you don't want to admit it to yourself. Let's find out. AJ9K, the results, please. 

Here you are, sir. All right, the winner between Amethyst and Black Knight is Amethyst. We'll call it a draw though, right? 

We'll call it a draw. It depends on what the percentage was. Out of 1000 simulated matches, Amethyst won 674 of them compared to the Black Knight's 326 wins. So it was 67.4% over 32.6%. 

I'm sorry, that is definitely not a draw. Amethyst wins this hands down as she should because she's a pretty powerful sorceress. I guess Black Knight is kind of like the Avengers equivalent to Wolverine in a sense, in that his primary power is that he can cut through anything and kind of goes into these berserker rages on occasion. If you think about it, it does make sense that it wouldn't hold up to someone as versatile as Amethyst. 

Maybe I should have gone into this match with his sort of knight in shield of light. Joseph, no one cares. He's a loser. 

He lost. I have one thing to say to Black Knight, none shall pass. Okay, Gandalf. Oh, that was you shall not pass, right? Yeah. Okay. Congrats to Amethyst. That does it for this duel. AJ9K, help close us out. 

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All right, the next episode is where we're going to get them guys because we're going to find out who would win in a fight between Ocean Master, the Aquaman villain, and Hellstorm, aka Damien Hellstrom, who is the son of Satan. 

So it's Tritance versus Pitchforks, Water versus Fire. It's going to be a good one. And it's kicking off our spooky October season where we're giving you all duels all the time. We're actually pushing our peacemaker review to November just so we can get in all of the spooky duels this upcoming month. 

So look forward to those guys. That does it for this episode. We want to give a big thanks to our executive producers, Jon Sturrosky, Zachary Hepburn, Dustin Balcom, Mickey Mathen-Geehan, Nathaniel Wagner, Levi Aitin, Austin Wazalowski, AJ Duckerly, Nick Obanto, Scott Camacho, Gil Camacho, Adam Speese, Dean Maleski, Devin Davis, Joseph Kirsting, Josh Leiner, Mike Williams, and Paul Graves for helping make this podcast possible. We'll talk to you guys next week. 

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