Originally posted by grey fox
Hey , hippo's kill more people in africa then lions ......
True. I've seen a hippo once in this game reserve at night .....we had to be escorted with armed guards from our bungalows to the main dining hall.
Those things are death on legs ......they are fast (hippopotamus means River Horse in Greek), they have very good senses, and Bull males are armed with huge tusks (that are razor sharp, and are in a mouth that can open to almost 180 degrees). During our first night we were shown a tusk (actually enlongated canines for fighting) from a hippo, and that thing was huge. Longer than my forearm.
Apparently they re known to bite people in 3 when they attack.
Anyways, I can see Batman taking care of all the animals here (including the Gorilla) ....all but the hippo.
A bowie knife is simply not long enough to penetrate far enough to seriously jeopardize the health of any adult hippo (the skin alone is an inch thick, and then there is the deep layer of muscle .....what looks like fat is actually mostly muscle, but there is a respectable outer layer of fat ....and then there is the bone). A bowie knife simply will not do.
Although being Batman he will probably just use the bowie knife to make wooden throwing spikes (like the wooden knives Alfred made for him in Batman:BloodStorm for him to use against Dracula), and just throw them at the Hippo's eyes (and with his throwing abilities he would probably blind the beast).
Or he could have a pit lined with sharpened wooden stakes ....that have several-day-old human feces smeared on their tips to act as a crude but EXTREMELY effective poison if any of the bacteria swarming over them get into the bloodstream ....someone say septimacea ....and obviously Batman would provide the crud to smear on the spikes he would have fashioned with the bowie knife.
That is a way he can take care of the Hippo ....although by far it would be the most dangerous beast he would face (he has already faced off against the wild cats .....in one case against an enclosure of several of them without his belt .....and as for the Gorilla he has faced off against an intelligent gorilla (Mallah) and a psychic gorilla (Grodd), thus a normal gorilla shouldn't be much of a problem.
If Catman could take care of Mallah by stabbing it (in Villain's United) then Batman can certainly do the same to a 'normal' gorilla of the wild.
Originally posted by TheKahn
The only one I can see him taking is the elk. I honestly doubt Batman, in his never ending struggle against the forces of evil, has devoted a great deal of time to human-animal combat.
Batman kills pretty much all of them. Together.
Let's see, he's already choked out one big cat, and snapped the neck of another, as far as I know. He's KOed a hallway full of physically enhanced, intelligent gorillas using pressure points. PETA does not support Batman...
Hippos are apparently absolute monsters, but cmon people... He's freaking Batman. The dude was kicking trees in half as a teenager. Scarebeast catching him unawares and unarmed in Wayne Manor can pose a problem. But a hippo? I see him backflipping over the hippo's gaping mouth, landing on its back, and kicking the top of its head off, before the hippo has time to close its jaw. Not because its physically possible, but because he's Batman. Respect.
Originally posted by Dizzle
Batman kills pretty much all of them. Together.Let's see, he's already choked out one big cat, and snapped the neck of another, as far as I know. He's KOed a hallway full of physically enhanced, intelligent gorillas using pressure points. PETA does not support Batman...
Hippos are apparently absolute monsters, but cmon people... He's freaking Batman. The dude was kicking trees in half as a teenager. Scarebeast catching him unawares and unarmed in Wayne Manor can pose a problem. But a hippo? I see him backflipping over the hippo's gaping mouth, landing on its back, and kicking the top of its head off, before the hippo has time to close its jaw. Not because its physically possible, but because he's Batman. Respect.
peakhuman my ass 😉
Originally posted by inamilist
Batman has a better chance of trapping these animals than he does fighting them, if he goes for a h2h kill, he is going to be ko'd and eateneven by the elk
RESPECT elk lol
Man he won't get past bear. I have a shitload of sweet comics where Bear totally rips into the Hulk and the Hulks all "WOAH YOU NEARLY KILL HULK GOOD THING TIGER THERE TO STOP YOU! RAR!"
Bear would totally kill Batman. But as long as Bear gets time to prepare.
Originally posted by MuffinmanMike
Man he won't get past bear. I have a shitload of sweet comics where Bear totally rips into the Hulk and the Hulks all "WOAH YOU NEARLY KILL HULK GOOD THING TIGER THERE TO STOP YOU! RAR!"Bear would totally kill Batman. But as long as Bear gets time to prepare.
I have comics where Batman knocks out Hulk using a kick to the stomach and some yellow gas... 😖hifty:
And just for shits and giggles, snapping the neck of a trained killer leopard...
Originally posted by MuffinmanMike
I think you missed my joke entirely.
Originally posted by TheKahn
PETA is going to be f**king pissed...
