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[Josephus]

Dammit, that was my only gambit for Gabe vs. Isaac.

[dragnar]

Dammit, that was my only gambit for Gabe vs. Isaac.

Isaac kills... just not if he has any choice. If something is trying to kill him he still fights back with deadly force.

[Josephus]

Yes, but not people. He's never killed any of his human opponents, and even Saturos and Menardi fell into the lighthouse pit from exhaustion rather than any directly-inflicted Isaacattack.

Felix, I can imagine killing, but under similarly strict circumstances.

[Qmarx]

I think Narrative Causality is on Don's side here.  In a battle between someone who's extremely wacky and a serious business police officer, the wacky guy wins nine times out of ten (see the excellent documentaries on this subject by the Mr. Fine and the Howard Brothers.)  Vimes is badass, but perhaps he's too badass.

There's also the question of whether or not Vimes would take him seriously long enough to do anything - IIRC, the spirit powers are supposed to be invisible to normal people, and given that Vimes would pretty much correctly assess him as a harmless lunatic, the question of whether or not he'd actually dodge the first attack comes up as well - Vimes tends to try talking to people first.

[PTTG??]

It's true that narrative causality appears to be on the side of Donny Boy, but consider that the Guard of Ankh-Morpork, more than anything else, seems to specialize in defeating The Guards Must Be Crazy tropes. Consider Moist von Lipwig. He was able to outsmart the guards of most cities, but not the Vimes-trained guards.
 
And of course, while to a roundworld normal person, these spirt powers Don claims to have would be bizzare, you must remember that Vimes lives in a city containg the discworld's oldest and greatest university of Magic, and the fallout from their experimenting. Most likely, Vimes would be rather unimpressed when Don fails to turn him into a small heap of ash.

[CJ1145]

Distant stars
Come in black or red
I've seen their worlds
Inside my head

They connect
With the fall of man
They breathe you in
And dive as deep as they can

There's nothing you can do for them
They are the force between
When the sunlight is arising

There's nothing you can say to him
He is an outer heart
And the space has been broken

With the new incapacitation rule, I have to shift my support to Sam. While Don is likely prepared for a battle, Sam is prepared to end it. He'll come up with some sort of paralyzing agent to completely take him out, as despite his high spiritual presence Don is still essentially human. As long as Sam doesn't make the mistake of not taking his opponent seriously, he should be able to avoid any attacks that come his way and end it quickly, and with enough strength to get them both off of the field.

[aurixdarastrix]

Round over.  Winner: Sam Vimes.  Method:  Incapacitation. 

Next round:  Gilgamesh VERSUS Terra Branford

[CJ1145]

Hmm. While Gilgamesh is super-strong, Terra has beaten actual gods, not just demigods. (As an aside: I take most of what I know about Terra's combat abilities from Dissidia) She is more than capable of dodging any of his attacks, and we've never seen what a fireball can due to Gilgamesh anyway. My head hurts too much to go into detail, but Terra wins this.

[dragnar]

(As an aside: I take most of what I know about Terra's combat abilities from Dissidia)

Well, she's not usually QUITE that powerful, everyone in Dissidia is a lot better than usual.

Still, Gilgamesh doesn't stand a chance. Terra single-handedly destroyed an entire regiment of soldiers while mind controlled, and that was before she had any control over her powers. Gilgamesh on the other hand is... a king. He's not even superhuman.

[Ochita]

Terra can turn into a esper-version of herself that does double damage.

[dragnar]

Aww, I wasn't gonna mention the damage doubling til a tougher fight...

[Qmarx]

I think it depends on luck of the draw.  Terra's got some nice spells, but Gilgamesh could just draw zantetsuken and take her out in a single hit.  I suppose the difference between a moderately difficult crossover boss and a main protagonist is the protagonist has plot armor, so we can't really hold the fact that she can beat him in the arena against him.

[Ochita]

What about using image? That is pretty much a couple of hits avoided.

[Qmarx]

What about using image? That is pretty much a couple of hits avoided.

Yeah, but she'd have to let him get a free hit in to cast it pretty much.

[dragnar]

But... this is the ordinary, real, King Gilgamesh. Not the summon. Besides, any FF6 character not equipped with a safety bit(protection from instant death) is doomed from the start.