The recent "who could you take" thread got me thinking. Here are the rules...
1. You have an unlimited amount of money to hire, build, buy, etc. anything that exists on our Earth (i.e. no mutant nullifiers and such). Also unlimited time for prep.
2. You can pick the field of battle, and even though others can help you with prep, you must fight him/her alone. The comic character gets their regular equipment but no prep.
3. Let's leave BS comic appearences out of this thread. Yes it's amusing, but no it isn't practical.
...I'm thinking with a good plan, most street level people would go down. But I'm curious to see if anyone thinks they can take more powerful people. Post your plan, not just "I could beat Iron Man"...we need reasons.
I was thinking a flexible, plated suit(with a crystal layer) and wired adamantium blades similar to Baraka's(from Mortal Kombat) but lengthwise edged, not broad like his. Able to retract at will and quickly. (please log in to view the image) Steroid injectors in a plated minipack worn on the lower back to increase reflexes. Increased drug muscle density in the legs and arms. Controlled adamantium leg blades would be nice too, like Xion's animal form in "Bloody Roar: Primal Fury". (please log in to view the image)
Helmet seals air inside. Visor is made of crystal synthetic quartz with a holoprojectic screen; the camera at 100fps and protected by a diamond screen. Contains normal vision with zoom up to 8x, including heat sensor, motion sensor(w/filtering), and magnetic sensory.
Now, with all this....^
I believe I could take on Sabertooth or Wolverine.
I'll take the easy way out on this one. I'd go and recieve marksmen and demolitions training from the greatest assassins alive. I'd get the best sniping weapon and explosives available and perch myself far away from my prey. I'd deliver the shot/detonate the bombs and disappear into the shadows.
I believe I would beat ANY superhero vunerable to conventional weaponry. Enhanced sense would not help people like Spidey here because the explosives would cover too wide an area.
I could take out Daredevil. I would build a sound room in which high sound frequencies are emitted constantly once activated (It will not be turned on until he is in the room). The room will look like a normal warehouse storage space with some empty crates for props (so as not to give away suspicion). I would make sure that there is an escape hatch for myself (because I would have to risk myself being in the same room with him to ensure he enters). I will also have air valves positioned strategically throughout the room that will pump pepper (yes, I said pepper) into the room; pepper is effective against dogs--bloodhounds particularly. I, myself will be equipped with a gas mask and special hidden ear plugs that can block out the effects of the high frequencies (I want frequencies on all decibals, even those heard by the human ear, so as not to give away the trap). The next part would involve luring him in. It would have to be using mob bosses. I'll convince them to allow themselves to be caught by Daredevil (I can always bail them out later as incentive) then I'll have them leak information of who I am (an alias of course) and where to find me. Once he is in the room, I'll shut the door behind him via remote and activate the room and pepper valves. He will be in intense pain and become disoriented, which will allow me to just simply shoot him.
I could take out Iron Man. Using my resources, I will study up on Iron Man and all his capabilities. I'll hack into the Avengers records and get extra, more sensitive info on Stark. I would create mock untraceable resumes and be hired at Stark enterprises. Next I will steal the blueprints for his technology (this includes his suit). I will develop counter devices to his suit's capabilities. Next, is the major part of the plan...sabotaging his suit. I could create a suit of my own but there is too much risk of that plan backfiring. Therefore, I will seize an opportunity to gain access to his suit and rewire it to respond to my remote device. Knowing the suits capabilities and Stark's ingenuity, I'll be able to make the sabotage untraceable to diagnostic checks. Once he is in the suit, I'll just take control and humiliate him a little, make him fly around uncontrollably or fire off his repulsor rays at innocent bystanders. Then at the end, I'll self-destruct the suit with him in it.
I can take down Wolverine. If you've notice from my previous posts, I prefer never to confront them head on, they'd kill me. Now as for Logan, it pains me to kill the Canuck seeing I'm one myself, but here we go. This plan is complex, so bare with me. First, I will study up on genetics. I'll get the greatest geneticists in the world to aid me. Next, I'll get the greatest engineers in nano-technology to design a special nano-robot equipped with DNA extraction capabilities. Then, I'll study Wolverine's enemies. I'll stage one of them to fight him (I know Digi said that you have to fight the character alone, but this is part of the prep). I'll get Sabretooth, because he can keep Wolverine distracted. Meanwhile, the robot will extract Wolverine's DNA (the robot is so small that Logan won't feel a thing). I'll take the DNA to the geneticists and get them to manipulate it to reverse his healing factor. Once that is done, I'll reintroduce the manipulated DNA back into Logan via the nano-robot (which is so small that it can hide in a beer he is drinking). Via remote control(again, I know I'm a coward but this is Wolverine we're talking about), I'll set off the viral-genes causing his healing factor to turn on his own body. Fitting, don'tcha think? His own healing factor that he depends on so much becomes his deadliest enemy. He won't be able to heal from this wound because his immune system will be attacking his own body, destroying it from the inside.
Last edited by KPrince on Oct 9th, 2005 at 05:41 AM
If possible, I find the exact wavelength of kryptonite radiation, and have a team of engineers design a machine which duplicates and emits it. Barring that, red sunlight can't be all that complicated to replicate. The battlefield is me in a small room which moniters another room constructed of 25 foot thick titanium steel walls. Radiation emitters are scattered throughout the walls. Inside the room are several remote controllable robots, also fitted with radiation emitters. Superman is 'ported into my specially designed containment room. If I'm using red sun radiation (cuz kryptonite is not available), I leave him in there for an hour or two, then enter in a combat suit of some kind and beat the pretty much powerless Superman into a pulp.
I could take most people with this type of method, come to think of it. I'm in the control room, they're in the unescapable room o' death. (battlefield preparation rules) For street levelers, the walls just close in. For Wolverine and other tricky healers, the ceiling gets melted and floods the room with molten steel. For the more powerful people, I either A: exploit a weakness or B: get a stalemate. Even I'm not stupid enough to actually try to fight Iron Man, combat suit or no.
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Meh, the Superman thing is definitely a stretch. But assuming his weaknesses work like they're supposed to, and since duplicating sunlight isn't really all that hard, mine might actually work. We have an infinite amount of resources. A couple thousand tons of titanium steel isn't plausible in the real world, but it's possible, and I doubt even Superman would be escaping from it very quickly. He's shown overcoming red sunlight sometimes, but it still is a weakness.
Finding the blueprints for and negating Iron Man's suit is nigh on impossible, as is the healing factor thing. It's just not something that we've even come close to in science today. The Daredevil thing should work fine though.
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Ok, so my plot to recombinate Wolverine's DNA was Sci-Fi, but I can still kill him using incendiary bombs, napalm perhaps, I read that it burns at temperatures of 800 to 1200 degrees Celsius. That should flay the flesh right off of Wolverine and leave just the adamantium skeleton.
i could take apocalypse. as much as i like the guy hed find some way to beat himself. id just need to stick around and listen to his speeching for a while until he thwarts his own plan and goes back to his rejuvination chamber and plots revenge for the next few decades.
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Oct 9th, 2005 04:08 AM
Even I'm not stupid enough to actually try to fight Iron Man, combat suit or no.
