Comments by "josh fritz" (@joshfritz5345) on "WatchMojo.com"
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he did lose his army of souls at the end, but he still has the power of shrodinger. he is literally an immortal, omnipresent being. there are some extremely dangerous weapons in the hellsing verse such as anderson's silver tooth that turned him into a divine monstrosity of enormous power. in this form, he was possibly the only thing in the hellsing verse able to threaten hellsing in his release level 0. but when he kills all of his reaped souls except shrodinger, he traded the strength of millions of souls for the power of a being who can be killed, yet never destroyed because he is everywhere and nowhere at once. he hasn't simply transcended reality, he's all but become reality. he can be anywhere, everywhere and nowhere all at once. he is basically a god.
i know very little about dio, but unless he can warp reality itself, he has literally no chance whatsoever of killing alucard. yes, dio can stop time which shows at least some form of reality warping, but i believe that is only in a localized area, and i don't think he has ever shown any ability to warp reality aside from stopping time... which leaves him without the necessary powers to kill alucard. i'm not even sure that reality warping would be sufficient to kill him unless they could manipulate everything that exists in the 3 physical and 1 temporal dimensions simultaneously.
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Guts the power of Schrödinger is stated and demonstrated several times throughout the anime to grant omnipresence. death is permanent in the hellsing verse, yet Schrödinger came back from having his skull blasted apart by a shotgun.
as for being stuck in an infinite death time loop... Schrödinger is said to exist everywhere and nowhere all at once which means that he could simply not exist within that time loop, and exist somewhere else instead.
although it's full potential is never demonstrated in the anime due to Schrödinger being a secondary character and Alucard not gaining the power until the very end, it is very likely that the power of Schrödinger could even allow alucard to exist in multiple places at once, creating infinite copies of himself. also, there is the simple fact that destroying or even trapping one such physical manifestation of himself (even if he can only create one such physical manifestation at once,) would not in any way constrict him as an entity.
saying that by somehow neutralizing alucard's physical form would be putting him down for good would be like saying that destroying a drone would be killing the operator who has countless other drones at his disposal.
just keep in mind, alucard can learn to do some pretty crazy things with his powers, and i would not be surprised if he eventually learned to will himself into existence with his fist wrapped around his opponent's heart or something equally ludicrous.
even Schrödinger, a brainwashed nazi youth who never seemed to realize even a tiny fraction of the incredible power he had, showed that he could manifest himself in other people's minds. this just hints at how much unexplored potential there is in the power of Schrödinger that alucard has yet to demonstrate, and probably would have already if the anime had not ended within minutes of him reincarnating for the first time in what may have been years since his supposed "death."
yes, much of this is speculation, but we know for absolutely sure that alucard is about as close to unkillable as any fictional character has ever come.
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Guts to exist everywhere and nowhere all at once is omnipresence. it is unknown if he possesses the ability to appear physically in multiple places, neither Schrödinger nor alucard ever had reason to use such an ability in the anime, so we can't say for sure if he does or doesn't.
the fact that Schrödinger could appear in dreams shows that there is obviously much more to his abilities than just the basic being immortal part of omnipresence, but Schrödinger never really had any reason to use demonstrate the full extent of his abilities.
it is likely that the power of Schrödinger also granted omnipresence through time itself, making him impossible to erase through the timeline as long as he could identify himself. for previously stated reasons, it's impossible to know if his powers do in fact extend to omnipresence through the timeline itself. if his omnipresence does extend through time, then yes, he's about as unkillable as they come. still, as the abilities are unknown, it's speculation if dio could actually destroy alucard or not. there's no way to know for sure.
before Schrödinger, alucard's nigh immortality was granted through extreme regeneration abilities, and he already lacked the weaknesses of normal vampires. after he gained the power of Schrödinger, he is becomes the most powerful character in the hellsing verse by far, as well as one of the hardest to kill characters in anime, ever.
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Bryn Brynhilly i know you really like dio, but just because you really like a character doesn't mean that they can automatically win every fight, even if they are really strong. if you had a greater understanding of the extent of alucard's abilities, you'd understand how even with reality warping, this fight would likely end in a draw.
alucard is about as unkillable as any anime charecter is likely to ever get, even more so due to the lack of characters of similar power levels in his own universe. i'm not sure of dio's own defensive abilities because i havent seen the series. if they're anything close to his offensive abilities, alucard might actually lack the powers necessary to put him down for good. it is possible the power of schrodinger has offensive utilities that were never demonstrated, but for the sake of staying away from speculation, we'll just assume that it's only major function is to make him really, really hard to kill.
alucard's power lies in the fact that while the power of schrodinger doesn't let him fly or fire planet destroying energy blasts, they work on a set of principles that means what they lack in flashiness, they more than make up for by breaking all the unspoken rules on how immortal an anime character can be. you can in theory, technically kill alucard, but he'd still exist and destroying his physical form would accomplish nothing. he could simply reform somewhere else an instant later. even worse, since he exists everywhere and nowhere all at once, even using a wide spread area denial weapon that has effects even beyond the physical plane such as spatial warping wouldn't prevent him from existing outside that area and simply reappearing elsewhere. he could even, in theory, reappear with his fist wrapped around the heart of his enemy, killing them in an instant.
on a side note, if you dont mind a little bit of (lot) of blood, hellsing ultimate is an excellent anime, one of my alltime favorites.
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Mossy Qualia the entire point of being nowhere and everywhere all at once is that he doesn't ever exist in one specific place, yet at the same time he does. the only practical limitation that we have any reason to suspect this power may have in that respect is that he may only be able to physically manifest himself in one location at a time, but that doesn't mean that he doesn't exist elsewhere... or that he even exists where he physically manifests himself at all.
further evidence of this is when Schrodinger appears in the mind of another character, in their very thoughts. if that character were to die at that very moment, would Schrodinger die with them due to existing there, at the time that their current place of residence (the dead person's mind) ceased to function? no, because they would still exist elsewhere. similarly, if alucard were in an area that underwent reality warping, destroying anything that exists in that area, would alucard cease to exist? he would cease to exist in that area, but live on elsewhere.
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JXZX1 their universes are different enough, and contain individuals with such distinct powers that it really is hard to compare them with characters from another series.
in alucard's universe, he was sufficiently far beyond everyone else so that unless he was attacked in a very specific way, he would essentially be immortal. just because he was by far the most powerful being in his own universe doesn't necessarily mean that he would remain immortal if beings from other universes with entirely different... or indeed, similar... powers came to interact with him.
the way that alucard's powers work, no amount of brute force alone can actually destroy him, so his foe needs to have at least some form of power that can effect the 4 dimensions themselves to even be able to fight him at all. dio has such powers. alucard's abilities are described in such a way as to suggest that he might even then me unkillable unless the 4 dimensions themselves were rewritten or destroyed everywhere all at once, but this is an in universe character's interpretation of the power of schrodinger.
i think it's safe to say that the power of schrodinger never really did demonstrate any clear limits, but that doesn't mean that we can guess that it's limits are beyond dio's abilities, nor that we can assume that the power of schrodinger is in fact, over estimated and misinterpreted by the characters in universe. perhaps it would be possible to erase alucard from the timeline, but we simply don't know for sure.
a confrontation between heaven dio and schrodinger alucard is full of speculation as those characters have never clashed with other characters possessing similar powers, and we have absolutely no idea whatsoever how their powers would interact.
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okay, there appears to be a LOT of misinformation among people whose only knowledge about guns comes from the media. whether you are pro or anti gun, here are some general facts that are free from intentional bias.
guns do not cause crime. crime rates shows significant correlation to poverty levels, removing guns from a specific region would have very little effect on crime rates. there is the argument that banning guns could reduce the likeliness of a violent crime being lethal, however, in my next fact, this possibility is explored further.
the majority of criminal activity involving the use of firearms is done using illegally gotten weapons, so imposing stricter regulation on legal gun ownership would have little effect on gun related crime unless the ban is present all across the region. even banning all firearms in a specific city would accomplish little as criminals are already acquiring their weapons through illegal and therefore unregulated methods. there IS one way to reduce shootings however...
banning all guns in an entire country and making sure that ban is effectively enforced can greatly reduce the number of shootings in that country. it does NOT eliminate violent crime from that country, and in some cases may cause an inflation in other types of violent crimes due to the combination of the criminals who would be committing crimes with guns simply using other means of violence, as well as the lack of legally owned guns making the region a safer place for criminals. how effective the threat of potentially armed prey is at dissuading criminals is unknown exactly, but many towns and cities with high rates of gun ownership also have very low rates of crime, though this may be partially attributed to other factors. still, the fact remains that banning all guns in a region and actually ensuring that they are difficult to acquire through illicit means does tend to reduce the number of shootings in that region.
guns do make suicide easier. since many people who are considering suicide are indecisive about whether or not they are willing to follow through with it, not having a gun easily available may give someone enough time to reconsider their choice. still, many places where guns are scarce or illegal have inflated rates of suicide via hanging or jumping from tall places, so banning guns does not necessarily prevent a significant number of suicides.
many "assault weapons" are really no more dangerous than weapons not classified as such. weapons that are classified as illegal assault weapons often are classified as such due to components such as pistol grips, folding stocks, and tactical rails. these objects have no effect whatsoever on how dangerous the gun is, but since it resembles something that may be present on an actual military weapon, these weapons are illegal regardless. regulating weapons based on factors such as caliber, capacity and firing capability (whether or not a weapon is capable of fully automatic fire) would be more sensible.
acquiring a gun legally is NOT easy in the united states. even getting the license to own one is a long and complicated process that involves background checks and fees of various sorts. the most likely place a criminal would acquire a gun is through the black market, and cracking down on illegal gun purchases would be more effective at disarming criminals than stricter legal regulations would be.
the second amendment does state that citizens of the united states are aloud to own firearms, however, this does not necessarily give citizens the right to own their own personal artillery. like other parts of the constitution, it is meant to be regulated in certain ways, the specifics of such regulations are down to courts to decide. however, it is NOT constitutional for guns to be banned altogether as this directly goes against the second amendment. still, having the right to bear arms doesn't give you the right to go hunting with a grenade launcher.
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