John McClane vs Indiana Jones

I really need to watch the film again if a Uranium grenade was set off against the McClanes.

From my memory the area was clean except for the area within the vault that held the Uranium.
The enemy cleaned it and proceeded actions to remove the Uranium.
The McClane duo arrived and snuck in to retrieve the target. But turned out to be a traitor. They then fought their way out and sealed the deal.

Oh well I guess a reviewing is necessary.

Though flying through the air in a small fridge after being within a nuclear explosion and landing on some landmass and falling out clean as a whistle is pretty epic on the durability levels.

John Jnr threw it then once detonated and the enemies were smited, McClane turns and says something to the effect of "what the hell was in that"...

It clearly was a nod to a potential hypocrisy/irony of the services deploying a little of what they were trying to stop being used.
Least thats the way I read that.
If im wrong, I'll admit it. But tanking that revealed the Mcclanes to be fire proof and pressure wave proof (as we have seen before) at any rate... 🙂

It wasn't exactly nuclear tough was it?

I'm talking about the wheeled explosive box they blew up to kill all of their opponents.

It was more incendiary than nuclear. Their cover supplied wide spread protection against the results.

Indy survived being within a fridge in a nuclear bomb. He landed miles away. Fell out then got sprayed by government peeps.

A huge feat.

Neither was indy's.

If he had been right on top of the nuke, and or not in the fridge, I'd be more impressed.

Theres nothing to suggest that McClane couldnt have survived the same thing.
And he would have probably killed those gophers too. 😛

But Indy has shown nothing to compare with the accumilated feats shown in each Die Hard movie, let alone the last one.

Oh I agree McClane inside the fridge probably would have survived the impact.

But he has no feats to show it. Indy did.

Indy flew into the air in a metal box....landed....and fell out fine.
Such impact would've broken men's bones.

Such a feat is better than McClane's car feats in DH5.

Well given the numerous amounts of other impacts he survived, that Indy didn't show he could survive either, I'd say that the circumstantial evidence is going the McClane way.

That crash in the truck before the range rover alone would have broken bones left right and center. As would the impact of the Range Rover type car hitting him, the being thrown through the plate glass window, the scaffholding run, the deck fall from the bridge in DH3, a lot of stuff in DH4, Jumping off of the building in DH with a firehose effectively noosing his innards/ribs.. the numerous jumping out of speeding vehicles, the fall down the elevator shaft that would rightly have sheared his fingers off catching the ledge, the train wreck in DH3, theres actually a long list of stuff that Indy never tanked.

I argue that a man can survive the firehose drop into a window in DH1/

Those car accidents? My family once drove a car into a brick on a freeway then flew into a rock surface that crushed the entire frontend of the car.
I slept through it. And woke up looking at a rocky wall in front of the car. We all survived. Subaru's are hardcore.

Though what McClane did with those vehicles was insane. I admit.

I want MythBuster proof that a man can't survive a DH1 jump with a firehouse reel off the roof of a building into a window!

Try it. If you can still breathe without mechanical assistance, then you join the McClanes, in my eyes. 😛

And if you achieve it, after having been shot on top of massive bloodloss through lacerated feet, moreso.

I will doth my cap to ye.

Its a close fight in my opinion. but Indy depends more on his gear then McClane does and McClane gets into more H2H fights. Indy gets help from all kinds of divine shit. The Ark killed all the Nazis, the Fake Grail killed that other guy.

McClane did all the killing!

McClane takes it.

" Indy depends more on his gear then McClane does"

horseshit

Indy stomps.

As of their last films, they both have nonsense levels of durability. IMO, probably ends in a stalemate where they realize they're both just punching sand and then they go for a beer.

Originally posted by Scarlet Fox
Its a close fight in my opinion. but Indy depends more on his gear then McClane does and McClane gets into more H2H fights. Indy gets help from all kinds of divine shit. The Ark killed all the Nazis, the Fake Grail killed that other guy.

McClane did all the killing!

McClane takes it.

Hhhhmmmm. Indy never drank from the fake grail. His smarts and familiarity with the subject is what got him through there..

Marion also survived the Ark opening. Presumably for the same reasons as Indy: Keeping their eyes shut.

I agree that in principle its a close fight if both are in their primes.

But Indy IV vs McClane V = Indy getting pounded into oblivion by McClane who clearly has more speed, vigour and stuff left over Indy.

Yes it would be a good fight though, you can't just write off a man of Indy's ability against anyone like hes some kind of Denton Van Zan...

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Originally posted by Scarlet Fox
Its a close fight in my opinion. but Indy depends more on his gear then McClane does and McClane gets into more H2H fights. Indy gets help from all kinds of divine shit. The Ark killed all the Nazis, the Fake Grail killed that other guy.

McClane did all the killing!

McClane takes it.

You mean Indy relies more on artifacts in the endgame than McClane uses his resources?

I can agree with that.

Aye. He knows his relics... and that includes 'self-knowledge' at this point. 🙁

Look..I knew this fight would eventuate ever since I stated that McClane was now using Indy level punches.

And it was against a thug pedestrian.
Indy has punched like that forever. Against opponents that challenged him on such superhuman levels.

In a H2H fight between the 2. Skillwise it would seem equal.

I believe this is a tie unless anyone can conjure something up that shows otherwise.

Don't forget the Russian secret service gangsta in the ball room...

After having been smashed around the head numerous times with the butt of a rifle, McClane piled into the man who had a machine gun pointed at him and KO'd him in 2-3 seconds and took his weapon like a champ.

McClane also punched out Han's thug carrying the bearer bonds in DH 1 too. Same sound effect/one shot KO.

So McClane right from the outset was no punching cissy.

Nice research Sad.

I guess this truly is a all round tie.

Thanks. 🙂

I could live with that.

Jones wins. More importantly does McClane ever win outside his own movies ?