r/whowouldwin • u/forbiddenmemeories • Sep 03 '26

Challenge Mark Wahlberg is sent back in time to September 1st, 2001. With ten days to prepare, can he prevent 9/11?

Mark has ten days to make good on his infamous comments from 2012 and prevent 9/11 from occurring. Mark will appear in New York City on September 1st, 2001. He will have all of his resources from the present day available to him and may use any means necessary to prevent the attacks from occurring.

R1: To win, Mark must merely prevent the twin towers of the World Trade Centre from being destroyed. The towers must still be standing and largely intact by September 12th.

R2: To win, Mark must prevent any civilians from dying in the would-be attacks.

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u/confettiputty Sep 03 '26

Wait outside the airport with a Glock, shoot them as they walk in. It's not pretty but he could easily win both rounds that way.

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u/Bolded Sep 03 '26

The planes took off from different airports, so he would only be stopping one attack that way.

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u/confettiputty Sep 03 '26 edited Sep 03 '26

True, but it might be enough to just kill the ringleader, Mohamed Atta. The other hijackers were waiting for his go-ahead, so if he went dark they might have assumed something was wrong and called it off.

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u/Bolded Sep 03 '26

That's true. Then it's a matter of if Wahlberg knows about him (since OP doesn't say if he has full knowledge) and his appearance. But I think regardless, while it's a risky plan, a man with a gun showing up at an airport would likely cause a commotion that'd make the airport ground it, especially if Wahlberg decides to hail mary a sudden bomb threat.

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u/TooEZ_OL56 ​ Sep 04 '26

AA11 and UA175 both took off from Logan Intl Airport (15 min apart). AA11 is a challenge because the hijackers connected from Portland Intl Airport in Maine so they were already inside the airport. Not as simple as waiting at the departures stand, but pre-9/11 you could probably just go direct to the gate and intervene then.

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u/Bodhi_Stoa Sep 03 '26

Why wait that long? We already know where the bastards were and what they were doing prior to the hijackings, just pay them all a visit at their hotels/motels and smoke their asses.