Darkwolf

Let me get this strait…the samurai sword is better than the axe because it has more history. Are you sure that it does? Humans were probably chopping wood before they began chopping each other, or at least one could presume that these behavioral traits began more or less concurrently. Anyway, axes are among the oldest stone and metal tools. Such tools were readily adaptable as weapons. Just consider all the so-called "pole arms" which evolved from medieval agricultural tools. On the other hand, one could say that the samural sword has more history than the firearm, but which is better, particularly when opposing one another? Remember the scene from 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' when Indy faces the swordsman on the street in Cairo? Or how about the venerable spear versus bolt action single shot Martini-Henry rifles-ever seen 'Zulu'? Not that I mean to give a nerdy history lesson, or any such thing…

I will respond to your second point with a point I have made all along, which is that there is nothing to back up because everybody's opinion is unprovable. It all depends on context. I think Dark Wolf was obviously based on Conan, a character with no supernatural powers, who feared wizards, but nevertheless found a way to slice and dice them. That is how things worked in Conan's world of Hyboria. Things may not work out so well for a hero such as Conan in another world, but it matters not, because Conan does not exist in any other world. Speculation about such things is like trying to fit a square peg into a round hole, pardon the cliche. Now, I will qualify this a bit by saying that if one wanted to make a movie like 'Godzilla vs. King Kong' (yes, they made one many years ago, and I will not say who won for those who have not seen it) or 'Freddie vs. Jason' (haven't seen it and don't care), or 'Alien vs. Predator' (a mediocre movie in my opinion), then such a movie would be cool only if it plausibly depicted how such an encounter would happen and what might be the logical outcome. This takes me to my main point, that each of the three examples above include characters who could plausibly exist in the same world or universe. So, if you want to pit Dark Wolf against the Dunpeal hunter, then sure, D wins. However, remember that Dark Wolf belongs to an obscure distant past and D belongs in a distant, apocalyptic future. His universe is a curious mix of fantasy and sci-fi, and well conceived, I might add. But, I think, it is just too different from the imagined ice age/dark age world of 'Fire and Ice'; so an imagined confrontation between characters from these two very different worlds makes very little sense; and placing a character like Dark Wolf in the high tech Marvel universe would make even less.