So I saw the Batman vs Silverbacks thread and I got to thinking after I saw Rao mention Namor vs 100 sharks somewhere.
But instead of great whites, I wanna pit Namor against 50 megalodons (prehistoric shark) in the Arctic Ocean with glaciers 100 yards away from him on each side. Sharks steady swimming in through each channel (4).
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lol these threads are funny. anyway, yeah, unlike bats, namor is high cl100 underwater and has speed enough to be able to avoid them pretty easily. he'd slaughter them. even if some of them got hold of him he could survive with his durability underwater. more importantly, if they are like there ancestors, he'd likely only have to kill a couple before they turned on the dead ones to feast. he's got a few ways to deal with these things.
Yeah you do have a point. I guess it depends on his durability.
This would be in the event that the sharks don't turn on each other though. I'd like to leave their biological instincts out of it.
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well, he's bullet proof (even large calibre). we've seen logan stab him pretty deeply, but once he was in the water, the piercing was either healed or completely able to be disregarded. i'm sure if one latched on to him they could do some damage, but with his overwhelming speed advantage, i don't see how they catch him. he could EASILY grab one and literally use it to batter the others to death he's that strong underwater. a shockwave underwater would scatter and seriously disorient them (and maybe ko a few), an underwater tornado would take a bunch, if not all out......
I seem to remember some episode where a person shot at Namor and it actually ricocheted off his skin and hit and killed someone's father. The young lady tried to get revenge using a magic trident or something of the like, mistakenly blaming Namor for the death.
That would have been many, many years ago.
I'm not sure, a la Hulk, if Namor is as durable now or in recent years as he would have been back during that time.
Again, these things change.
For instance, in Hulk #181, the debut of Wolverine, Wolverine fought Hulk and tried to use his claws as weapons against Hulk.
They did not cut. They were actually more effective against the magically protected Wendigo than Hulk himself.
Flash forward to the era of World War Hulk. Wolverine's blades now cut not only Hulk but several Hulk derivatives, including Red Hulk and Red She-Hulk. They don't do lasting damage because they are healed, but they DO inflict damage, which they did not before with a theoretically (slightly) weaker incarnation. Hulk has traded a measure of invulnerability for healing and/or regeneration.
Has Namor? I have no idea.
If he IS still tough enough to refect bullet fire, he should be tough enough to handle teeth, even Megalodon teeth.
In which case he takes this fairly easily, since the only real weapon against him then would be the acid in the belly of these sharks if one or more managed to swallow him.
Again, though, the history is confusing. I seem likewise to remember Sub-Mariner's cousin, Namorita, getting shot by something that pierced her, some kind of edged harpoon by a villain named Sea Urchin.
However, this might be analagous to Wonder Woman, where comparatively rounded projectiles do no damage but sharp ones do.
At any rate, if the speed and strength of Sub-Mariner's little female cousin here are an accurate indication, the sharks are actually at a disadvantage:
being bullet proof is not a guarantee against their bites.
There teeth is much sharper than bullets, harder than bullets, and their jaws probably provide more force than most bullets anyway.
What type of bullets did Namor tank? Aircraft? machine gun?
I feel like he could just swim into their mouth and punch his way out of the tail with little effort... Or grab one and use it as a club to hit off the other sharks... or other similarly cartoony things he could do.