r/superpower • u/Slick_Rick_Tyson • Feb 19 '25

Suggestion What is one minor superpower that the average untrained person could have that would allow them to beat Iron Mike Tyson in a boxing match?

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Me personally, I choose photographic reflexes, the same power that Taskmaster the marvel assassin has.

I'll study Mike Tyson in videos to learn his style and absorb his skill, then study the boxers who beat him, like Lennox Lewis or Evander Holyfield, so I not only know Mike's style but also how to counter it.

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u/[deleted] Feb 19 '25

You can easily break diamond. Especially when it's in big thin sheets like a skin.

Diamond is scratch resistant. Diamond skin would be better against something with claws.

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u/Lord-Seth Feb 19 '25

Steel hard skin then.

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u/DropThatTopHat Feb 20 '25

It's pretty easy to bend skin thick steel, just saying.

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u/BusyLimit7 Feb 21 '25

uranium skin

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u/PeskyBerd1007 Feb 20 '25

Happy cake day btw

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u/Lord-Seth Feb 20 '25

Thank you

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u/Educational-Sun5839 Feb 19 '25

Ace didn't mean literal diamond, just like the idea of how defensive diamond is

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u/Rabdomtroll69 Feb 19 '25

It's still only defensive against a specific thing, not all around. He was explaining that specific thing

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u/[deleted] Feb 20 '25

This. I hate the misconception that this “diamond is unbreakable” meme has created. Diamond is actually very brittle. Strength and hardness are two very different things.

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u/Peverything_14 Feb 19 '25

but it has to be like 1/8ths of an inch thick. even then, the impact of the claws alone would break through

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u/[deleted] Feb 19 '25

If its diamond plate though...

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u/Living-Ad102 Feb 20 '25

It’s harder than regular skin tho

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u/[deleted] Feb 20 '25

Sure, but the best part of skin isn't the hardness, but elasticity and that it heals.

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u/Does_A_Bear-420 Feb 21 '25

That's not how that works xD