Metalmanx
Illuminati Founder
I can't tell if you're vastly overestimating Slade or vastly underestimating Jamie.
Intelligence, tracking skills, etc. won't play a factor in this. Maybe if there was ONE, TEENY LITTLE THING DIFFERENT about Jamie from his dupes, but THERE IS NOT.
If you showed Slade a toothpick (he can't touch it, just look at it [and there is nothing different about it from the others...NOTHING])--a regular, regulation-sized toothpick with no differences from billions of others--put it in a box of 1,000 toothpicks, shook the box, released the contents into a bag full of 5,000,000 toothpicks, and then dumped them on the floor...Slade would NOT be able to find the starting toothpick.
If you think that he can, then it's completely futile to even try debating with you.
Jamie is the first toothpick. Within seconds, there will be dozens. More seconds, dozens more. More seconds, dozens more. Then all Jamie has to do is get lost in his own crowd that he can KEEP making.
Dammnit, why is this so hard to understand?
While Slade and Cap are busy making their way through the crowd, they're getting stabbed REPEATEDLY by the flooding dupes. For every dupe they hit/knock out/scratch/bump into, another will take his place. And all the while, the original can make more while his dupes keep the duo busy.
Oh. And the original poster also said that neither Slade nor Cap have ANY KNOWLEDGE about Multiple Man. They'll just think they're facing some quintuplets.
Jamie wins this, 10/10. The duo does not stand a chance in this situation.