Bond, James Bond, but only if it's Sean Connery or Daniel Craig.

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But since the image isn't one of those two....

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I chose to ignore that fact and assume that Ethel just used the first image she could find :-)

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Wow, two characters I hate. I'm going with Bond, since I maintain Wiggin can't kill anyone on purpose, it's always this excusable accidental shit.

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Perhaps he can excusably, accidentally kill Bond?

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My vote is no, because he knows the situation going in.

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Based on what I've come to understand about Ender Wiggin, this contest should result in Bond becoming a greasy spot on the floor.

That ignores, however, the Bond mystique. Bond regularly goes up against guys who ought to clean the floor with him. He regularly walks into their lair, announces that he is Britain's most well known "secret" agent and despite the fact they should smack him down with their AK 47's and Uzi's, he pulls out his Walther PPK and some C4 he happens to have in his watch and blows them to kingdom come.

Bond faces master tacticians all the time and while Ender might be better than all of them - to the point of realizing he shouldn't talk to Bond for even a second, he should just kill the guy - and yet he won't be able to do it.

Bond simply can't be killed by anything so simple as an infallible plan. The only way he's going to die is if his sacrifice would somehow result in the preservation of millions of lives. Even then, you would think he was dead but he would somehow have had an inflatable bulletproof vest in his wallet and it would turn out he was just fine.

This is the classic battle between a master tactician and a guy who you can't plan for. I say the win goes to Bond.

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You know what? I think the "Bond mystique" argument is pretty much dead at this point. Most of the remaining characters in this competition have some sort of similar point: Ender doesn't lose, so and so's a main character/hero character/whatever. So the mystique/hero/they pull something out of their ass thing is really outside of any applicable logic anymore, at least for me.

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Ah but isn't there an "Ender Mystique" as well?

That is my point, you see. We have the Ender "ultimate planner can figure his way out of anything" guy against the Bond "ultimate survivor who constantly gets himself into trouble but manages to improvise a way out of it" guy.

I pick the guy who manages to weasel his way out of trouble despite the elaborite plans of his adversary.

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Ah, but you think I'm arguing against your vote... I am not, I voted for Bond. I am saying that the Bond or Ender mystique cancel each other out and become irrelevant in this case, so I'd go with Bond.

However, I'd also argue that the whole mystique argument is kinda crappy in this tournament. It's a little like saying, "Well, Indiana Jones has never lost and Optimus Prime has, albeit in a shitty movie version, so Indiana Jones would beat OP."

I think that in a logical approach to an actual fight to the death tournament of this nature, the usual concept of "mystique" would become almost irrelevant, as the arena is much more isolating and would leave them with little beyond their raw abilities.

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Genetic superiority over mojo.

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...still have no idea who Wiggin is. And therefore, if I don't know him, he does not exist. Bond somehow wins this one.

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James Bond will be distracted by the nearest set of tits and Ender will gut him instantly.

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I've given up on applying any sort of logic to who should win these things and I'm just going which whichever one gives me a bigger nostalgia hard-on.

That seems to be the way this thing works.

-hx

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Seriously, Prime losing to JONES?

-_-

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You are my new hero.

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Yeah, I gotta say, that's the most sawying arguement I've heard all day.

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Bond gets captured a lot and only survives because his captors are too dumb to shoot him in the head.

Ender is not too dumb.

Ender never loses.

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The main and most profound statement here is that 'Ender never loses'
gotta go with the underdog here as well.

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Well, I've never read the book, so I should abstain from voting. But I won't, because I just saw Dr. No the other night and I have a new appreciation for the awesomeness of James Bond. No one could possibly be badass enough to defeat Bond.

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Nobody beats Ender. Ender saves species and worlds and outsmarts humanity. Bond is part of humanity. The most awesome part of humanity, but I've never seen someone get captured quite as often as him.

He underestimates the kid and goes down for the count.

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He underestimates everyone and wins anyway.

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Yes, but everyone underestimates Ender and he wins also.

Who wins, fire or water? Hot or cold? :P

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So they cancel each other out and the arena ceases to exist.

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As much as I hate to do it--Bond FTW.
I hate the movies and I hate the character, but when one's standard equipment includes a gun and an exploding clothing accessory, no child-genius is going to stop him.

Most of the time, I vote for a contestant based on if I can or when others can post a reasonable, entertaining and sometimes logical scenario for the fight. I think that's why this contest was started.
Every once in a while I'll vote to oppose a flimsy or annoying argument. Petty, I know, but sometimes it seems like people are just pulling reasons out of their ass.

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Based on standard equipment alone, Bond definitely has a gun, but I don't think Ender does. So Bond wins by shooting Ender.

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Only voting Bond based on ethel's previous point that Ender would surrender his life after his first match.

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Bond can easily fight in space. Or underwater. Or whatever the conditions. And especially in a standard arena, I think he would kick Ender's ass.

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