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Wizard Wars: SideReel's Magical Battle Begins! Vote in Round 1
Harry Potter fans all over the world are starting to hum that magical, mysterious tune that sends a tingle of excitement down our wizard-lovin' spines.
Yes, it is finally almost time... for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince!! (Insert your Muggley cheers here.)
So in honor of the down-right thrilling 6th movie premiere coming up Wednesday, July 15th, it's time to have a some wizardly fun!
Believe it or not, Harry Potter and his friends and enemies were not the first wizards and witches to enter the entertainment world, so we want to know - if Harry Potter were to battle Merlin, who would win? If Voldemort were to battle the Wicked Witch of the West or Willow of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, who would end up victorious?
So, to get started, we want your nominations of all your favorite wizards and witches from TV and movies, past and present, including all your favorite Harry Potter wizards and witches as well. Those nominated will be pitted against each other in the ultimate Wizard Wars and from your votes, one witch or wizard will be the ultimate wizardy winner of them all!
Nominations will be accepted Wednesday 7/8 - Tuesday 7/14, then the Wizard Wars will be held Wednesday 7/15 through the weekend. Gaze into your crystal ball and choose any and all of your favorites and nominate them in the comments below!
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With "Hedwig's Theme" playing pompously in the background, I would like be the first to officially nominate Harry James Potter to the ballot. [Applause...]
I'll let someone else list every Hogwarts character in books 1-7.
Dark Willow would pwn all of them, then destroy the world. Merlin is a close second, followed by Harry. Sorry HP, I love you too, but you just aren't as badass as Willow when she's being evil, and Merlin has longevity.
sarah bailey - the craft
Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore
Gandalf
Neville Longbottom (because he's a BAMF)
white witch vs voldemort? hmmm....who do you think would win this battle of evil? i might just side with the white witch. i think my favorite wizard right now is a tie between glinda the good witch of the south and alex russo of waverly place (she is so wonderfully snarky, i love it).
zeddicus zu'l zorander!
then sirius black
Geller
Zedd
Gandalf
Voldemort!
since i'm sure everyone else will take care of the harry potter nominations, here are a few different ones...
mallificent (from sleeping beauty)
ursula (from the little mermaid)
jafar (from aladdin)
sabrina the teenage witch
the ladies of charmed...pru, piper, and phoebe i think
samantha from bewitched
matilda (i'm not sure if she was a witch or not though)
Zeddicus Zu'l Zorander
Darken Rahl (Hey he has power over the underworld, that asks some serious power).
Willow Rosenberg (Especially the evil one).
Piper Halliwell (The strongest of Charmed sisters).
Wyatt Hallywell (Hey he IS the twice blest child).
Definitely Willow the witch from Buffy, but the other Willow too....i mean the little dwarf from the movie...he was a great one too. :)
And mention also to the witches from Ocus Pocus (Bette Midler and alt.)
I also like the idea of the witches from Charmed.
Gandalf would win and save the day, any day :D
- Gandalf
- Sauron (counts?)
- Dumbledore
- The Wizard (of Oz)
- Voldemort
gandalf the grey/white,(lotr)
sirius black(hp)
harry potter(hp)
dumbledore(hp)
voldemort(hp)
bellatrix lastrange(hp)
severus snape(hp)
Dark willow(btvs)
merlin (uh allot)
saruman the white(lotr)
Obi-wan Kenobi(sw)
Yoda(sw)
emperor palpatine(sw)
The wizard of oz (same as the title)
The wicked which of the west
the witches from hocus pocus i forget their names
matilda(matilda)
sabrina(sabrina the teenage witch)
samantha(from bewitched)
ice queen(from chronicles of narnia)
(if video games are included)
Vivi (final fantasy 9)
oh yah and yen cid (fantasia)
well and mickey mouse (fantasia)
Harry Dresden (Dresden Files)
I have to say that I think Gandalf would win, because unlike Merlin and Harry Potter and Voldemort, Gandalf is a mover. He get's other people involved in a big way. The others depend on magic (and I guess in a few cases, they depend on a bit of logic too) but Gandalf rarely uses Magic and still he manages to get the job done in a way only he can. I think Dark Willow might give him a run for his money though.. because... she's just so damned cool, but in the end, I don't think she could stand up to Gandalf who always seems able to remove the evil from the hearts of those who shouldn't be so nasty. and I'm sorry to all those Harry Potter fans.. I used to be one of you... but really, the series just went downhill after the third book. Rowling must have gone to a writer's workshop or something because all the originality of her writing suddenly evaporated and was replaced by the standard linear plot-lines that everbody else writes. All she had going for her were a bunch of good characters that she created in the first three books before she lost her spark.
Zedd
Gandalf
Merlin
HP
Dark Willow
Harry Dresden
Merlin
Well lots of people are nominating dark willow who I think would win overall, but here are a few other ones that might be interesting to see how they stack up:
-"good" willow, ether the more powerful, but unknown one from the Buffy finally or pre-Tara's death where we know her better.
-Richard Rahl, (from the sword of truth books, the TV show hasn't made him a wizard yet but he becomes pretty powerful in the books.)
-Caleb from The Covenent
-Edward Elric from Full Metal Alchemist
I'll also second these who have been mentioned once in this thread already:
-sabrina(sabrina the teenage witch)
-samantha(from bewitched)
-Darken Rahl(the Sword of truth)
-Wyatt Hallywell(charmed)
Wyatt Halliwell
Piper Halliwell
Chris Halliwell = BAMF!
Merlin
Alex Russo
Sirius Black
Remus Lupin
Harry Dresden (Dresden Files - the books, not the show)
dark willow
Harry Potter
Ron Weasley!!
i second edward elric (fullmetal alchemist)
also second jafar (alladin)
Mad Madam Mimm (Disney witches rock)!
Willow Rosenberg
Albus Dumbledore
Harry Potter
The Charmed Ones
Sarah and Nancy (The Craft)
Winnie, Sarah & Mary Sanderson (Hocus Pocus)
Hermione (HP)
Willow Rosenberg (Dark or Whatever)
Umm, whoever said Edward Elric, he is not a wizard, he's an alchemist. You know strong believer in well sciences and physics.
Gandalf, Saruman (LOTR)
Madam Mimm (sword and the stone)
Harry Dresden
Merlin
Miss Price (Bed knobs and Broomsticks)
Ron Weasly, Snape, Dumbledoor, Hermione, Professor Mogonagall,
I see that a couple of you put jafar from aladin on here but he is not a wizard he is a sorceror. And if we are allowed to add sorceror's I would like to nominate the winner of this by adding to the fight
sorceror supreme Dr. Stange
Harry Dresden is the one, followed by Gandalf and Harry Potter
Dark Willow
Willow
Dumbledore
Elphaba (wicked)
Sabrina
The Charmed Ones
Merlin
Bellatrix
dark Willow (BtVS)
Goddess Willow (BtVS)
Piper Halliwell (Charmed)
Sabrina (StTW)
Wyatt Halliwell (Charmed)
Chris Halliwell (Charmed)
Prue Halliwell (Charmed)
The Charmed Ones - all together (Charmed)
Harry Dresden (The Dresden Files)
Eve Levine (The Women of the Otherworld series by Kelley Armstrong)
Savannah Levine (The Women of the Otherworld series)
Just so a previous poster knows, the characters from Star Wars are in no way wizards, sorcerors or any such thing.
Grindelwald (HP)
Gandalf (Lord of the Rings)
Willow (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
Tara (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
1. Albus Dumbeldore (Harry Potter)
2. Gandolf (Lord of the rings)
3. Zeducus Zeul Zarander(The seeker)
3 1/2. Voldemort
4. Wyatt Hallowell (Charmed)
5. The Charmed ones
6. Cole (Charmed)
7. Harry Potter
8. Hermione (Harry Potter)
9. Sirius Black ( Harry Potter)
10. Richard syphier (The Seeker)
11. Merlin (Merlin)
12. Gius (Merlin)
cole from charmed was never a wizard he was a demon, and even when he became the source of all evil he was still a demon not a wizard.
Also I would like to add to the list
dr fate(dc)
dr strangefate(Amalgam Comics)(combined version of dr fate and dr strange)
Merlin is like the chuck norris of the wizarding world.
Morgana because, to magic, she ads manipulation and charm. All men fall under her spell mwhaha!
Archchancellor Mustrum Ridcully
Ponder Stibbons
and Rincewind
from the Discworld novels all deserve nominations.
as does Ethan Rayne (BtVS)
my favorite wizards are dumbledore he dies in the end of the sixth one my two other favs are fred and george because they are the funniest ones in the whole entire series it maks me mad that they arent in the sixth one that much execept for the beggining so it most likely be the much funny this time.
Gandalf hands down if i had to pick another i would say Merlin
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The Charmed Ones
Willow
Dark Willow
Sabrina the teenage witch
Harry Potter
Dumbledore
Voldemort
Belatrix le strange
Hermione Granger(she's too smart)
Harry Potter(he just rocks)
Voldemort (cz he's the best baddie)
Severus Snape(because of a chapter called "Snape's Story from book 7- so he's the best baddie in disguise)
Fred and George Weasley(the most humorous wizards ever)
someone mentioned Pratchett, but missed a couple who'd probably win this hands down ...
Coin (he's eight and he'd p*ss on valderwossit)
and of course the immutable Granny Weatherwax
Now cut it with this Potter nonsense, Tiffany Aching ftw!!!
Puc of Crydee (magician, first book of riftwar saga), that is a powerfull wizard!
and furthermore sorcerer is just an other word for wizard of magician.
I would also like to support:
Zeddicus Zu'l Zorander
Merlin (especially from Merlin, keep the magic secret, bbc serie)
Hermione Granger
Harry Potter
tara mclay
Ethan Rayne
Amy Madison
Fred and George Weasely
Ginny Weasely
Severus Snape
Minerva Mcgonagall
Lucius Malfoy
Madame Raz (from She-Ra)
Orko (He-Man)
Rack
Vanyel - the last herald mage ( from the Valdemar novels by Mercedes Lackey)
Pru, Piper, Pheobe, Page, Wyatt, and Chris Halliwell, Amythist Princess of Gemworld, Merlin, Morgause, Morgan La Fey, The Lady of the Lake, Nimue, Sabrina, Hermione Granger, Harry Potter, Ronald Weasly, Ginny, Fred And George Weasly, Remus Lupin, Sirius Black, Albus Dumbledore,
Severus Snape
i would love to say piper from charmed cause i love her but its obviously going to be wyatt!
He had amazing powers from the womb for christs sakes! you cant get any more powerful than that!
he is the progedy son who can go to either good or evil and on both sides he kicked ass!
200% wyatt halliwell.
and can i just say harry potter isnt even powerful, like snape said hes an average wizard who gets by with luck and the help of his friends. which is true throughout the book. Even in the final battle it wasnt his power that killed voldemort it was voldemorts backfire spell.
Sally and Gillian Owens (Nicole Kidman and Sandra Bullock) in practical magic - well, they are soo hot, and Amelia Broadway in the Sookie Stackhouse books, as she managed to turn her one night stand into a cat during some kinky bedroom action!
well Merlin from Merlin lol....
He is just cool
but lets not forget Dresden and harry P...
billie jenkins,Penny Halliwell/Grams, Patty Halliwell,Christy Jenkins, all four charmed sisters-piper, pheobe, prue, paige- chris and wyatt halliwell, (charmed), Rupert Giles (btvs), Maryann Forrester (true blood)
naduu Ill agree with you that harry got by through alot of things mainly on luck and the help of his friends but your wrong on saying that harry was not powerful. He was able to master alot of spells in a short amount of time and as for the final battle harry won that fight not only cause riddles spell backfired but because harry was more knowledgeable in wandlore and knew he was going to be able to win that duel cause the elder wand would not work properly for riddle cause he was not the rightful owner of the wand.
sidereel is acting weird..
reply to yaming842000 yeh u just proved my point. if voldemort was using his own want and not the hallow one then harry wouldnt have been able to defeat him cause he wasnt that powerful. i agree he was able to master certain spells faster than the rest but thats because he was taught seprately to do so because his life depended on it. but he was like that smart or anything
wand**
and he wasnt** that smart
I cannot believe no one has said Alastor "Mad-Eye" Moody.
also Professor Minerva McGonagall, Eragon, and Brom. (not sure if the last two would count but meh.)
- the dark Willow: just because she's evil :D . from Buffy
- Albus Dumbledore: because he's powerful . from Harry
- Hermione Granger: because of her brains . from Harry
- Bellatrix Lestrange: because we share the same name :) . from Harry
- Luna Lovegood: i liked her platinum blond hair:D . from Harry
- Sabrina the teenage witch: because i enjoyed watching the series when i was little
Seeing how good always wins over evil, specially in the movies and on tv. I'm gonna go with my girls. Piper, Phoebe, and Paige. Tho when u think about it. Hermonie(however that's spelled) get's smarter and smarter each book/movie. Girl could prob kick azz if given the chance.
Loving the wizard of oz dearly here are a few I haven't seen mentioned:
Azkadelia and DG from Tin Man. (wizard of oz lovers please watch it).
Wicked witch of the east, the original owner of the silver/ruby slippers, and damn terrifying according to the munchins.
Also, I have to point it out, I'm sorry. The wizard of oz wasn't a wizard, he was a wayward carnival worker... Sorry to be a bother but it's true.
And Elphaba is the wicked witch of the west.. just in wicked she's younger. Just wanted to clairify just in case this gets put up as one of those things they did with the vampires. It wouldn't be fair to have Elphaba on there twice or people who aren't real wizards making the cut.
I'll nominate Harry Dresden, from the Dresden Files.
Merlin currently on NBC's showing of Merlin, the tv series! :)
(The show with Anthony Steward Head from Buffy, playing as Uther!)
Please and thanks.
Willow
Gandalf. No one can beat Gandalf, not even Harry Potter.
Barney Stinson (wizard of what women want)
Piper Halliwell
Wyatt Halliwell
This is a tough one! I say it's between Merlin(from the nbc show),
Zeddicus Zu'l Zorander, Gandalf, Harry, and Dumbledore.
Have to say Zed Zu'l Zorander
then Harry Dresden cause they guy can take a beating
The Charmed Ones as a group but not alone
Richard Cypher in about 5 years
Dark Willow
Zed Zu'l Zorander
reply to naduu im not trying to start an argument i like are little debate type thing here. I dont get how you think i proved your point and i dont know how you came to that conclusion if riddle would have used his own wand he would have won the final battle. riddles wand physically could not beat harrys mainly because of the twin cores if you remember. and harry already beat riddles wand in the graveyard when they caused prior incaturtum(sorry cant remember how to spell it). olivader told harry you dont need to kill someone to change a wands allegiance. now i dont know if riddles wand changed allegiance in that duel cause it was never discussed any further than that but riddle knew his wand could not beat harrys that is why he borrowed malfoys wand the night of the big mid-air battle in the 7th book. if you remembered again harry faced off against riddle and not only won again(as you put it against a much more powerful wizard) but he shattered malfoys wand.
now im not trying to sit here and declare that harry is the most powerful wizard on the list. i just want people to realize its un fair to line harry up against names like merlin and dumbledore. you have to think how many years do they have on the kid when it comes to magic. and by the end of the book he was only 17. and he only had 6-7 years of magic school and being exposed to the world of wizadry. in the little time he had to learn magic i think he did one heck of a job what with takeing on a adult teacher at 11,killing a bascalis and giant spiders at 12,taking on dementor at 13,all he did in the triwizard tourny and face riddle at 14,death eater-riddle again-evil teacher(cause we all have been there) at 15,16 was a calm year compared to the others,then at 17 he raided the highly secured ministry-evaded death eaters again-robbed a highly secure bank-all the stuff at the school for final battle-may or may not have died by riddle in the forest-then killed riddle. come on now. give credit where credit is do. not many people on that list has even been through 6-7 consecutive years like that.
remember harry is only 17, think how powerful he'll be at 18(hahaha harry potter joke)
when it comes down to it, it does not necessarily mean the stronger person will win, it just might be something the other person doesn't know or realize.(that and who ever the writer wants to win)
o and to add to that hermione was smarter than harry in everything but she still could not win a fight aginst him. and as to the one on one teachings. that does not matter cause when it came to the def. and atk. in dueling he was usually better than everyone in his year anyway the only time he really had one on one traning was when he was learning to produce a patronuce charm.
merlin, witches #1,2,3 and hecate from macbeth, gandolf (the grey, and white), dumbledore, hagrid, prof. magonigal, H.P., Hermione, Fred and George(of course). Now Ron may be a bit slow but he is clever, so he needs to be nominated for sure.
CHARMED!
Piper, Phoebe, Prue, Paige...
LEO!!!! he was a angel/whitelighter/elder
basically please put my vote for anyone in charmed who gets through
thanks.
xo Shailee
Any of the Charmed ones. [even though they're witches.. NOT wizards]
Harry Potter.
Voldemort.
Tom Riddle.
Hermione Grangier.
Professor Snape.
Luna Lovegood.
Gandalf the great. [i think its "the great".. o.O]
I'd like to add two comic book wizards:
Victor von Doom (various Marvel comics)
John Constantine (Hellblazer)
Both also appeared in movies ("Fantastic 4" and "Constantine"), albeit in both cases very different from their comic book depiction. If possible, take the comic book version and not the movie ones.
LmAo, do u really think anyone could beat gandolf the white, he smacked down the belrock well free falling as Grey.. Harry flies on a broom, charmed is like a soap..
Dark Willow would be the only one who could have any chance against Gandolf. But Saraun cannot be killed my magic, only by losing the ring so he is the strongest
Someone chose Gandolf and they dont know his name, LmAo.
-Gandolf
-The Dark Lord Saraun
-Dark Willow
definitely Dobby foreshore!!!
Sirius Black
Severus Snape
Piper Halliwell
Richard Cypher (in about 1 year)
Zeddicus Zu'l Zorander
Sam Winchester (I'm not sure if he counts...)
jedi arent wizards so they dont count!
Prue, Piper, Phoebe, Paige: The Charmed sisters!!!
Marnie Piper: From Halloweentown.
Sabrina the teenage witch
The Wizard of Oz
All the wizards of Waverly place (main 3)
Barney the purple dinosaur (he did make random things appear and music started playing out of the blue!)
sorry to burst the bubble of all you harry potter fans out there but harry is an extremely ordinary wizard... he is only "extraordinary" when he faces voldemort due to the fragment of voldemort's soul that lies inside of him. but i would day the top 5 wizards for me are..
Dumbledore
Voldemort
Wyatt
Gandalf
Merlin
... not in that particular order
Willow Rosenberg! Season 6 of "Buffy The Vampire Slayer"...after her love Tara gets killed in front of her eyes the world turns and is her board game. Dark Willow, I absolutely nominate her!
Lets not forget some ppl here!
Giles - (Borrowed powers from the coven)
Amy - Willows Rival
Weasley - Angel's Wizard
GED - Shawn Ashmore (Earthsea)
Willow - obviously
Sarah Baily - The Craft
Tabitha Lenox - From the soap passions (lol)
White Witch - from Narnia
Hermione, please.
non-harry potter book wizard/witch
the wizard of oz
the blair witch
the tooth fary
the black witch
the witch from the movie pirates of the carabian
harry potter book wizard/witch
snape
malfoy father
hermione
1 & 2.Fred and George Weasley (The ultimate twin fantasy)
3.Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore
4.Ginny Weasley
5.Sirius Black
6.Remus Lupin
7.Rubeus Hagrid
8.Minerva McGonagall
9.Neville Longbottom
They never get enough credit.
And for outside the HP world...
Elphaba, (Wicked)
If we could use books, it would definitely be Richard Rahl.
But I would say, from TV/Movies, definitely Christian God from the Old Testament in The Passion or any other religious movie. since he created everything.
Or Colin MacLeod from Highlander: The Source after he wins the source by not knilling the guardian guy. That was the biggest peice of shit ever, other than Christianity.
****SPOILER ALERT**** Dumbledore touches Harry in the upcumming 10th book, and Harry's only complaint is that the knots aren't tight enough. He's a little more "mature" by then, if you know what i mean. <<SNARK LMAO ROFL JK JK LOL LOL LJSDHDSJSJKS>>
Howl in howls moving castle, Kiki in kiki's delivery service, the worst witch
Neville Longbottom!!!
Dumbledore
Severus Snape
and Merlin
The vampire boy from the "Twilight" movie.
ok this thing has gotten crazy, would you all stop nominating the same person twice. we have people on here trying to nominate the same people twice so they can get two spots. when you nominate gandulf the white and gandulf the grey, their not two seperate people gandulf the white and grey are the same person so if you going to throw his name in their just say GANDULF and leave it at that. just cause you add a color to the end of his name does not make him more special.
And please people stop nominating people with supernatural powers that are not witches and wizards or at the very least sorcerers. jedis' are not wizards nor are vampires or house elves or religious figures.if i see jesus thrown on here im going to cyber space slap somebody
Gandalf - Lord of the Rings
Willow - Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Tonx - Harry Potter
Dumbledore - Harry Potter
Ronald Weasley - Harry Potter
Hermione Granger - Harry Potter
Harry Potter - Harry Potter
I'll stick with my vote for the Charmed Family. Put em all together and you're talking serious power. But for those that think Bellatrix Lestrange could win. Doesn't Mrs. Weasley kick her butt in the end. So I'm thinking Mrs. Weasley could do some damage.
Luna Lovegood!!
Harry potter of course,
Hermoine Granger, Tonx and Severous Snape
And Howl from Howl's moving castle
oh and Elphaba from Wicked!
willow of buffy would kick voldemorts ass. no questions asked
Harry Potter
Chris Halliwell (WINNER)
Merlin
Merlin
Alex Russo
Sirius Black
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