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Who would win

  • Dexter Morgan

    Votes: 118 17.7%
  • Hannibal Lecter

    Votes: 549 82.3%

  • Total voters
    667

PhoenixAKG

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Aug 14, 2019
7,817
So Hannibal Lecter is one of the most infamous fictional serial killers of all time,and Dexter is one of the most infamous killer of serial killers. So if these two encountered one another who would win in the end.

Dexter:

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Or

Hannibal:

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Spring-Loaded

Member
Oct 27, 2017
19,904
Hannibal could hang with the Mortal Kombat cast in a fight. There are multiple straight up fight scenes in that show with finishers and fatalities and everything
 

zma1013

Member
Oct 27, 2017
7,687
Dexter Morgan got really stupid towards the end of the series so probably Hannibal.
 

AuthenticM

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The Fallen
Oct 25, 2017
30,100
Hannibal would roast Dexter to perfection, eat him and shit him out effortlessly.
 
May 19, 2020
4,828
dexter is a schmuck who gets caught constantly by the baddies and is functionally braindead by the last season, it's not even a contest. dexter's only benefit is the cops on his show are even dumber than he is.
 

Goldbob

Member
Sep 21, 2020
394
Mickelson Hannibal would kick Dexter's ass

Dexter would kick Anthony Hopkins Hannibal's ass because he was an out of shape 70 year old man
 

Calvinien

Banned
Jul 13, 2019
2,970
Dexter. No contest. He's essentially a more functional version of Hannibal. Also he's a guy in his prime vs a middle aged man. He's chosen harder targets and gotten away with killing more of them. And pretty much any time Dexter is in any real danger, it's because he chose NOT to kill a target when he had a chance. Outside of Silence, Hannibal is constantly getting captured and nearly eaten himself. Even in the weird prequel novel where he becomes a weird mary sue cannibal batman, he STILL constahntly gets into issues and needs bailing out. Lecter would be a seasonal villain, but he'd still go down.
 
May 19, 2020
4,828
Dexter. No contest. He's essentially a more functional version of Hannibal. Also he's a guy in his prime vs a middle aged man. He's chosen harder targets and gotten away with killing more of them. And pretty much any time Dexter is in any real danger, it's because he chose NOT to kill a target when he had a chance. Outside of Silence, Hannibal is constantly getting captured and nearly eaten himself. Even in the weird prequel novel where he becomes a weird mary sue cannibal batman, he STILL constahntly gets into issues and needs bailing out. Lecter would be a seasonal villain, but he'd still go down.
TV hannibal is basically like a cannibal ninja w/ martial arts training. dexter is basically some guy in the TV show. come on
 

Jeffram

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Oct 29, 2017
3,924
Dexter is inferior to [Mads'] Hannibal in almost every conceivable way. Didn't realize it, but Mads is even physically larger than Hall.
 
May 19, 2020
4,828
the only way dexter has a chance is book version dexter where the dark passenger is like an actual demigod on dexter's side that gives him special psycho manboy powers or whatever lol
 

matrix-cat

Member
Oct 27, 2017
10,284
You'd have to use the chubby Brian Cox Hannibal from Manhunter to make this fair, and even then...
 

caliph95

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Oct 25, 2017
35,197

Obi Wan Jabroni

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Banned
Dec 14, 2020
1,678
The Mads version of Lecter is - according to Fuller - an analog for Satan.

His brilliance is off the charts and he is (usually) 20 moves ahead of the competition so he'd slice Dexter into bloody ribbons.
 

skeptem

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Oct 25, 2017
5,749
TV Hannibal > Dexter

Movie Hannibal < Dexter

Dexter only would beat Hopkins because he is shown throughout the series to be willing to get very physical if needed.
 

Rendering...

Member
Oct 30, 2017
19,089
Mads Mikkelsen's Hannibal is a genius and a murder wizard. And also he has permabuffs in speech, stealth, luck, and style. (I don't know the utility of the style stat, but he's definitely got oodles of it.)

I'm giving it to Hannibal.
 

Obi Wan Jabroni

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Banned
Dec 14, 2020
1,678
Dexter. No contest. He's essentially a more functional version of Hannibal. Also he's a guy in his prime vs a middle aged man. He's chosen harder targets and gotten away with killing more of them. And pretty much any time Dexter is in any real danger, it's because he chose NOT to kill a target when he had a chance. Outside of Silence, Hannibal is constantly getting captured and nearly eaten himself. Even in the weird prequel novel where he becomes a weird mary sue cannibal batman, he STILL constahntly gets into issues and needs bailing out. Lecter would be a seasonal villain, but he'd still go down.

You seem to be basing this analysis on the films because the Lecter from the TV show would obliterate Dexter on literally any level.
 

Garp TXB

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Apr 1, 2020
6,301
TV Hannibal > Dexter

Movie Hannibal < Dexter

Dexter only would beat Hopkins because he is shown throughout the series to be willing to get very physical if needed.
I do not accept this. In any situation, Anthony Hopkins Hannibal would be prepared, and would Jedi mind trick Dexter with no trouble
 

Protome

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Oct 27, 2017
15,695
Dexter only accomplished anything in the show because of how resoundingly incompetent and stupid everyone around him was at all times, not because he was impressive in any way himself.

Hannibal would win for sure, it's not even a contest really.
 
May 19, 2020
4,828
I do not accept this. In any situation, Anthony Hopkins Hannibal would be prepared, and would Jedi mind trick Dexter with no trouble
anthony hopkins hannibal will have figured out dexter's MO before dexter has a read and probably do a stealth kill on him, even as a crusty old man. TV dexter has more of a shot in this situation but not by much
 

MrToughPants

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Oct 30, 2017
2,164
Title says confrontation so face to face Dexter easily beats his ass with his BJJ he had no problem with Doakes in season 1 who is a former special operator.
 

Godfather

Game on motherfuckers
Avenger
Oct 25, 2017
3,495
I feel like Dexter would have been created by Hannibal's therapy, and ended far easier whenever Hannibal got tired of him.
 

BlueTsunami

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Oct 29, 2017
8,510
Hannibal is cool and collected

Dexter is the cultural poster child for male daddy issues

Hannibal would tear that ass up