Originally posted by riv6672
I'll give you the sniper rifle (as i was just kidding earlier), but i dint see him tanking a nuke, or just "flying away". I mean, you can i get these are comics characters, but sometimes the things posters think, or at least say, they can do is down right cartoonish.
How so?
Black Bolt can fly absurdly fast and could detect anyting like a nuclear bomb ages before it reached him.
Originally posted by Dareangel
first of all there are weapons more powerful than a nuke. a nuke is simply the most common one. hydrogen bombs for example. secondly, the military technology is very advanced today. not only nuke heads on every common ship and sub marine, but also as far as rifle bullets that can penetrate layers of titanium with easy. simple rifle rounds that could and should take out blackbolt and even penetrate colossus. for example black tip armor piercing bullets fired from a 50 bmg. this is not the comics world where bullets are useless.
Semantics. When i say nukes im referring to all wmds. The payload doesnt matter. We could drop a hydrogen bomb on US soil but 1 theres no guarantee hed die and two wed be done. The heart of the us government lies in DC. It would be suicide with no guarantee of success et al.
Originally posted by TethAdamTheRock
unrealistic
Why is it unrealistic? The CDC holds all the moat virulent strains of infectious diseases. Small pox has been eradicated through vaccination programs, which the Inhumans don't have (plus, they're meant to be more susceptible aren't they, to human borne diseases and pollution).
Originally posted by DarkSaint85
Cholera and meningitis both can kill within hours. Also not sure how combat effective BB would be when he's got acute diarrhoea, amongst other things.
Yes, but we have to target him with them and the guy vaporize things at an absurd distance, moves really fast and can detect energy-shenanigans as it approaches him.
Once the initials missiles etc don't work (which, let's be honest, would be the first wave of defence; I'm not pretending that the US military suddenly forgets it uses them), then they can always fall back onto less obvious methods.
Infected animals, people, airburst over an area (remember, who cares if people get sick....WE have cures and medication, they don't), dirty bombs....
Nukes result not only in a large loads of life, but more importantly on US soil, a loss of assets. Bio warfare would leave buildings etc standing...much cheaper.
Originally posted by TethAdamTheRock
I doubt they would kill all those people and try so many chemical weapons on them, this is going down in the heart of a city like manhatten and there working together
Again, with proper medical care, people don't die from cholera or smallpox, especially in a western city like Manhattan.
It's those without a proper support structure who will die, like your team.
This is why invasions fail, its through faults in logistics and support, rather than the strength of its army.
Originally posted by DarkSaint85
What about biological warfare? Something that we all have an immunity to, but Inhumans don't...Like smallpox.
Originally posted by Dareangel
first of all there are weapons more powerful than a nuke. a nuke is simply the most common one. hydrogen bombs for example.
A hydrogen (aka thermonuclear) bomb is a nuke. There are old school fission (aka atomic) bombs such as the type dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and there are newer fusion (aka hydrogen or thermonuclear) bombs.
Both fission and fusion are types of nuclear reactions, and both are colloquially known as "nukes".
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That said, we're phucked. Could we kill BB? Probably - between Russia and the US we could detonate thousands of nukes in his face. Not sure if destroying ourselves really counts as much of a win though.