King Arthur (Legend of the Sword) vs 300 Spartans
- Arthur has Excalibur, and is as he is at the end of the film, once he deals with his emotional baggage and fully masters the sword's power.
- Spartans start 30 feet away from him.
- Everyone is out to kill.
Can Leonidas and his 300 Spartans prevail, or will Arthur's OP magical hax be too much?
Well, even at base, Arthur is a highly skilled fighter, both in H2H and with a sword. And while channeling the power of Excalibur, he is extremely fast (his scenes against groups of enemies reminded me of bloodlusted Wonder Woman versus the group of German soldiers at the end of her film), and he was able to dodge and cut arrows out of the air. His sword also easily sliced through any non-magical weapon. And his connection to the sword seemed to enhance his strength in general, as attacks with his other limbs also seemed amped. Hell, he didn't even need to land direct hits to take people out. He could do AoE type attacks, where even just the shockwaves from his blows were destroying shields of enemies like 10 feet away, and sending them flying, and destroying stone pillars and such. At one point, he obliterates an entire wooden rampart, and sends all the soldiers flying, with a single sword slash... from like 40 feet away. He also seemed pretty durable, as he was able to take attacks like magical fireballs, and getting ragdolled by an opponent with super strength, without getting hurt.
He had two scenes where he completely wrecks entire groups of enemy soldiers in moments, and only one opponent managed to give him a decent fight. And that was a giant, demonically-amped, flaming magic knight. And only until Arthur managed to overcome his mental block. Once he did, Arthur stomped even that guy.
Originally posted by KingD19
Not even. Ares would be too slow to even hit him. And would get shredded by Excalibur.The only people who are good fights are too good. Like legit superheroes on crazy levels.
This is pretty much it. He's on this weird tier where he is solidly above low-tier superhumans, but he isn't quite powerful enough to deal with the really heavy hitters.
@ HulkIsHulk, also, when I mean groups, I don't mean like 10-15 guys. I mean more like 40-50 guys.
Originally posted by KingD19
Directly after that he drops 40+ guys in what, 5-8 seconds? Some of them over that same distance away?
It's kind of hard to gauge exactly how much time passed, because it was shifting between slowmo and real-time throughout. But it was not very long either way. And that is the same fight where he destroyed an entire rampart simply by swinging his sword in its direction.
Originally posted by TheVaultDweller
It's kind of hard to gauge exactly how much time passed, because it was shifting between slowmo and real-time throughout. But it was not very long either way. And that is the same fight where he destroyed an entire rampart simply by swinging his sword in its direction.
Yeah they go between his "Excalibur Perspective" and the real time of the soldiers. If anything, he's moving at mid-range speedster levels for people to be frozen like that.
And iirc they made it pretty obvious the wielder of Excalibur was comfortable taking on entire armies.
Well, even in that brief gif, you can kind of get an idea of his speed. For example, the second guy has barely had time to fall backwards before he gets hit a second time. Also, look how slowly the first guy, on the ground, is moving relative to his charge at the third guy. He basically takes out the last two guys in the same time it took the first guy to land and skid a few feet.
On impact from his hits, they fly back with similar speed to his own movement, but then they start to decelerate and slow down relative to him, somewhat similar to what we see when Quicksilver beats up Apocalypse (though obviously not to the same degree).
Here we go. It took a bit of digging, but this gives a better idea of how much damage Arthur can do when he cuts loose: