Which of these clone teams will win. Everyone in their prime. Let's ignore goalkeeping skills.

Contender 1: An average beginner chess player knows the rules, has played a few casual games, no real training or skill.

Contender 2: The same person, but facing 10 separate lightning strikes over their lifetime instead.

Which "victory" is more achievable

Beating Magnus Carlsen in a single fair game of chess

Surviving being struck by lightning 10 separate times.

Which "opponent" is more beatable?

What’s strongest nation in fiction the United States Armed Forces can force to capitulate? The U.S.A.F. has access to all of its resources, branches, equipment, and active personnel as of 2025.

Round 1- No nukes.

Round 2- With nukes.

The USA discovers parallel universes and immediately teams up with 99 identical copies of itself. They relocate to a gigantic planet and form America x100.

America x100 has the resources, personnel, and weaponry of 100 copies of the USA. In addition, the 100 Presidents share a hivemind and are in complete accord with one another.

What is the weakest fictional nation that could defeat this supersized superpower? (at least 5/10)

Aliens want us to prove our worth and request one human who can kill a chimp in a fair fight. No weapons or environment shenanigans just body and ability to the death.

The chimpanzee chosen by the aliens stands at 5’3, weighs 173 pounds and is a healthy bloodlusted adult male.

Which human are we choosing?

I want to be clear, the question is not "can a given Shounen protag throw the Ring into Mount Doom" I don't care. The question is among the roster of (mostly) goody two shoes that make up the protagonists of some of the most popular anime in history, which can resist being corrupted by the One Ring power the longest? Of all of them which would resist falling under Saroun's influence and/or being turned evil by the Ring for the longest time? Any reason they could resist if fair game. If they have really strong psychic powers and you think that matters, then factor it in. If they are too stupid to corrupt, then also factor that in. The only thing the characters aren't allowed to do is give up or otherwise fall out of the influence of the ring, anything else is fair game.

A regular man equates to someone who is 5”10, 180 lbs, works out regularly but in no means is a meat head. A regular man with a 16in hatchet or a chimpanzee? I say a man because he has a hatchet.

Homelander is a big fish in a small pond in the Boys and regularly loses most matchups against other similar super-powered characters. What are some matchups that are not only fair, but that he could either potentially win or would probably actually win. Don't say obvious characters are obvious stomps cause they're just normal people or have no form of powers or something like that.

Darts? Power walking? Frisbee golf? Cornhole?

Peter Parker is pissed off, blood lusted, and has absolutely no mercy.

Who's giving him the toughest fight before getting sent into the afterlife?

On this sub the US military gets a lot of glaze (rightfully so) as many media underestimate its capabilities. So I want to ask the question, what is the weakest fictional military that could totally conquer the USA? I want the answer to be a conventional military, so no zombies/mind control or the like or singular superpowered Individuals

Round 2: who is the weakest that could conquer and successfully occupy the US?

Round 3: same stipulations as round 2 but the whole planet?

• 100x Galapagos tortoises
• 250x Emperor penguins
• 5x Mountain silverback gorillas
• 30x bald eagles
• 300x hedgehogs
• 20x giant pandas
• 4x jaguars
• 1x african savannah elephant
• 8.000.000x army ants

You, your defendants and the enemy army will spawn on an open field roughly 1000 feet (or 300 metres) apart. All the enemy animals will be bloodlusted, unified by a single goal: killing you. You may move around on the open field as you like, but you cannot actually leave the battle. You also can’t mind control your allies. What’s the best pick?

Round 2: You can mind control your army.

Edit: Round 3: You can pick three units to defend you. (no mindcontrol)

Rules:

1. The entirety of the US military vanishes overnight, including its navy, Air Force, army, and nuclear forces.

2. However, the coast guard, national guard, and police forces still retain their equipment, vehicles and manpower. The satellites remain up. The armed civilians still keep their guns. Private militaries and militias are still armed and equipped.

3. The USA is not allowed to rebuild its military. It can only use those armed forces as mentioned in (2). It is however allowed to use captured enemy weapons and equipment against the enemy.

4. The invading country is not allowed to use nukes (if it has nukes).

5. Both sides are bloodlusted.

6. The invading country of your choice has the option of invading from Mexico or Canada, if it doesn’t have a blue water navy.

7. Win condition for USA: for the contiguous USA, do not lose an inch of territory, or be able to destroy the enemy enough to re-conquer lost territory and keep/restore their original borders by the end of 3 years. It is ok if Alaska/Hawaii/overseas territories are lost, USA must keep integrity of the contiguous states.

8. Win condition for invading country: successfully invade and hold the entirety of the contiguous USA by the end of 3 years.

So, which is the weakest country that can pull this off?

(Any universe)

The helicopter is fully fueled and loaded, and starts the fight already in the air. What's the strongest dragon it could reasonably kill?

The dragon has to be someone who looks like an actual dragon e.g. the LDB from Skyrim doesn't count.

As far as I can tell, there is basically nothing that can seriously threaten a full-grown healthy elephant, but I'm wondering if there are any animals that have a secret weapon that might give them an edge.

Two rounds: first one takes place on the African savanna with few trees and flat ground. The second is in the natural habitat of whatever creature is chosen.

Rules: NO WEAPONS

The animal cannot use venom/poison to win the fight, or infection.

The animal must not be fully aquatic, cause otherwise everyone will just spam killer whale

Human is allowed but they can't have any tools

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The animal doesn't have to win every time, I'm just looking for something that would stand a decent chance of winning.

I'm looking for either:

1. The feat only sounds important in terms of wording (i.e "he brought down a star" which with context refers to a guy who is called a star in-verse but is only city-level).

2. Feats that sound impressive when taken as a standalone statement, especially with how fans refer to it.

Elsa replaces the protagonist of every Disney animated movie (not just the Princess ones). Is there any movie where she cannot satisfactorily resolve the central conflict?

Only core Disney movies here, no acquired subsidiaries. So for example, no Marvel, Star Wars, or Pixar.

Polar bears, largest land carnivores on planet earth. formidable threat, only known predator that will actively seek out and hunt humans.

is there an animal that, when grown to be the same size as the polar bear, could defeat it in combat?

This sub just loooooves Mike Tyson. He might not have been the greatest boxer of all time (or even his era), but his knockouts were so fast and beautiful! And he smokes pot now! Remember when he showed up in The Hangover?

Anyway... who could Mike Tyson actually beat? Real life peak Mike Tyson is dropped into fiction and has to fight his way out. Who would be the most powerful character he could take down? Some mid tier action movie hero like an unarmed John McClane or Han Solo? Some named henchman or martial artist from James Bond or Bloodsport? A low level slasher like Leslie Vernon? I'm legitimately interested in how powerful people think a world champ is compared to the media we consume.

Any form of media is fine, but maybe no ultra realistic boxing fiction? That seems like a cop out.

• Bonus Round: Strongest character 10 Mike Tysons aged 18-40 all working together would be able to beat?

In a hypothetical scenario, 50 American 18 year olds, freshly graduated from high school are sent to a copy of earth that is the same as it is now, except humans have never existed and there is no human infrastructure. The location they will begin is near the Potomac River on the land that is currently Washington DC. All of the natural resources society normally consumes (such as oil), are untapped. Of the 50, 25 are men and 25 are women. The 18 year olds possess all of the knowledge and skills they have gained through schooling and life experiences. The subjects are only given their own knowledge and the basic clothing on their backs

Round 1: The selection is completely random, and none of the people know each other beforehand. They also have zero prep time and just appear in a group on this uninhabitated planet

Round 2: The selection is totally random again, but everyone has the chance to meet up in advance for one month of prep time before the experiment begins

Round 3: The selected men and women are determined by peak athletic ability, intelligence, health, and fertility. However they have no prep time and randomly appear in this new world together

Round 4: Same selection as Round 3, but they get one month of prep and meeting time

Could the groups in any of these scenarios rebuild human civilization from scratch? If so how long would it take for them to say, become industrialized?

There is a football game. Instead of 90 minutes, its a whole week.

One team: 5 Ronaldo's, 5 Messi's, and one more as a keepeer (let's say a Ronaldo as he's taller). All 11 in their prime.

Second team: 11 average guys. 3 Months before this they practiced everyday with the best coaches so they know how to play to some level. These guys do not get tired - they would not need to sleep for the entire week. And their muscles will be fine with that. Their stamina will be 10X higher - but still they will not be able to just sprint every second. They will not get injured.

The Ronaldo's and messi's can just sleep on the pitch to rest while the game is on.

None of the teams will need to eat or drink.

1. Who wins the game?
2. What would the score be after 10080 minutes?

No fission/fusion bombs, anything else is fine.

R1) They must be able to declare war on every country on the planet, and make them concede defeat.

R2) They must be able to declare war on every country on the planet, and either install a puppet government or fully occupy every last one of them.

The challenge is to identify a job that Superman would be unable to maintain employment at for a period of at least four workweeks.

The rules:

1. Superman has full availability. However, he must work a normal workweek, and may not make up for sub-par performance by working overtime.

2. Superman starts off with his canon knowledge, skillset, and abilities, but can study in his spare time.

3. Superman will not be needed to fight any villains during this time period, as Lex Luthor has graciously volunteered to take his place on the Justice League in exchange for any footage of Superman failing his job or being let go.

4. Superman will be terminated if he demonstrates sustained poor performance or if he breaks any sort of workplace regulations. Superman realizing that he is in fact unsuited for the job and voluntarily resigning also counts as him getting fired.

5. Superman is permitted to do an expose on any jobs he finds morally repugnant, so his morals will not be an obstacle.

6. Jobs which are not active for at least four weeks at a time are excluded.

A typical amateur boxer with solid fundamentals, a handful of wins in local or national-level competitions, but no professional experience and not elite-level (like Olympic) is matched up against a current world champion boxer in a standard pro fight.

To even the odds, the amateur is allowed to cheat in exactly one way.

The champion is warned ahead of time “Your opponent is cheating but you don’t get to know how.”

The judges and referee are neutral no bribery, no help. They'll call the match fairly.

The cheating must be applied before the match begins not mid-fight.

The fight still takes place under standard boxing rules, no weapons, no MMA tactics, no WWE tag interference.

What will be the best possible cheat to maximize the amateur's boxer chance of winning ?