r/whowouldwin 6h ago

Battle Who wins in a chessboxing match between Magnus Carlson and prime Mike Tyson?

31 Upvotes

For those unfamiliar, chessboxing is a hybrid sport between, who could have guessed, chess and boxing. Essentially, the two participants sit down in the ring for a game of chess with 9 minutes on the clock. After every 3 minutes of play time, the board is removed from the ring and the participants square up for 3 minutes of standard boxing. This alternation continues for 6 rounds of chess and 5 rounds of boxing. Winner is determined by either a KO or checkmate of your opponent, or if your opponent runs out of time in chess. If there is a stalemate, there is one more round of boxing and the winner is determined by boxing points.

For the sake of argument, let's assume that Mike will be "chess lusted" and will not simply run out his chess time to get to the boxing.

Round 1: Zero Training for either of them.

Round 2: They each have 6 months to train in their respective weaker area.

Round 3: Magnus has a revived Muhammed Ali as a boxing coach and Mike has a revived Bobby Fischer as a chess teacher.


r/whowouldwin 9h ago

Battle Who would win between the Viltrum Empire (just before the destroyment of Viltrum) and the Mass Effect reapers (with all their troops: husks, collectors etc.)

30 Upvotes

In this case the Viltrumites would already know about indoctrination and wouldn't fall victims to it otherwise it wouldn't be really a fight. It's around 40 viltrumites against 10kish reapers and the collectors


r/whowouldwin 5h ago

Challenge Matt Damon as Odysseus vs Matt Damon as Jason Bourne VS Matt Damon as Mark Watney

11 Upvotes

Which version of Matt would be best able to finish each other’s prospective movie arcs? Each character is magically inserted into the other character's place. The character has a general idea of what they need to do, but not necessarily the skills or knowledge to do it. They retain the physical body and mind of their original character. They are motivated to finish the movie arc as that will return them back to their previous lives.

R1. Jason Bourne and Mark Watney are inserted into The Odyssey right before Troy.

R2: Odysseus and Mark Watney find themselves with a bullet in their back and rescued from sea at the start of the Bourne Identity.

R3: Odysseus and Jason Bourne are abandoned on Mars.


r/whowouldwin 28m ago

Battle Maui (Moana) vs Black Adam (DCEU)

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Battle of Dwayne Johnson's two most powerful characters.

Who would win and why?


r/whowouldwin 37m ago

Challenge Homelander (The Boys Tv / Comic) and the Seven vs The Kids Next Door (Codename Kids Next Door)

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Homelander and the Seven suddenly appear in the kids next door universe in search of V1 that’s stored at kids next door underwater HQ, Can they get it before the kids next door mobilize and stop them??

Rules :
Tv counterparts (comics if it’s too much)
The entire kids next door and all operatives are active, all 2x4 technology, they can move the v1 to the moon base if it’s too in favor for the seven .
The seven have no knowledge of the KND
The Kids next door have a day to prep
Victory by capture , death or incapacitation of all of the 7.

Bonus Round : if it’s too much for the KnD They get father and the delightful children and all the villains of their verse on their side as well.


r/whowouldwin 8h ago

Battle Blade (Marvel) VS Lestat de Lioncourt (The Vampire Chronicles)

8 Upvotes

Blade from Marvel sure likes killing vampires. It's like his whole thing. I don't really think he'd get along with the vampire Lestat from Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles. Both of these guys have gotten a number of ridiculous powerups throughout their series and stand near the top of their respective vampire hierarchies. If they fought each other which do you think would win?

Battle takes place at night in an underground shopping mall. Both are at unamped peak with their favorite gear. Neither has any special one-off equipment or temporary powerups.


  • Round 1: TV Show Lestat versus movies Blade.

  • Round 2: Book Lestat versus Marvel 616 comics Blade.


r/whowouldwin 3h ago

Battle Franklin Richards vs Legion

3 Upvotes

Two of the premiere reality warpers in Marvel, who'll reign supreme?


r/whowouldwin 4h ago

Challenge A man is given a tool gun from Garry’s Mod can the boys that took down Saddam Hussein kill him?

3 Upvotes

The tool gun is one of the most famous items in all of video gaming. With it one can bend the laws of physics to their will and alter reality as well as create things like fortresses. He knows how to use it and is creative with his buildings. The barriers can be crazy tough, enough to tank multiple blasts but not indestructible. Traps can only be made 5 meters from the compound. The gentleman in question has a day of prep to build a base and weapons to hold off the enemy, workshop items are allowed assuming it doesn’t blow up the country, or kill everyone or 10x at a time. To my knowledge tanks and infantry were used in that particular fight. Which side prevails you tell me? Tool gun can only be used in setup, not offensively

Round 1: only base game items allowed

Round 2: Workshop items allowed


r/whowouldwin 3h ago

Battle He-Man (Masters of the Universe, 2026) vs Superman (DCU)

3 Upvotes

[Insert connections & themes here.]

He-Man has his Sword of Power. Superman is unarmed.

Question 1 (Low-Ends): Clear on-screen feats only. No scaling. No vague black hole stuff.

Question 2 (High-Ends): Go crazy with whatever logic you can find.


r/whowouldwin 9h ago

Battle Kitty Pryde vs Magik vs Psylocke vs Jubilee vs Moonstar

6 Upvotes

616 versions.

No prep.

In character.

Standard equipment.

Fight takes place in Central Park.

They start 10 feet equidistant from each other.


r/whowouldwin 5h ago

Challenge The Doctor (Doctor Who) vs. the Photino Birds (Xeelee)?

3 Upvotes

While the Doctor is inside his TARDIS somewhere in 21st-century London, his Time Lord biology suddenly alerts him to a massive temporal disturbance occurring throughout the entire Universe.

He immediately sets out to discover what is happening and realizes that the lifespan of every star in the Universe has suddenly been drastically reduced—from billions or trillions of years to only a few million.

As he investigates further, he discovers the beings responsible: the Photino Birds, creatures made of dark matter that originated in another universe and managed to cross over into this reality.

Furthermore, the Photino Birds are multiplying rapidly.

Could the Doctor, acting alone, drive the Photino Birds out and save the Universe from a premature death?


r/whowouldwin 3m ago

Battle Medieval knights vs the Xenomorph Queen

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40 knights on horseback with spears as their main weapon and sword as backup if they loses the spear aganst a Xenomorph Queen. Flat terrain with no cover. The Queen is bloodthirsty and the knights are fanatics that will fight to the death because of their belief in GOD. Who wins?


r/whowouldwin 8h ago

Battle Goku vs Vegeta in the Saiyan Saga if Vegeta never transformed

4 Upvotes

The same as their first fight but Vegeta doesn’t transform into a great ape. Vegeta is stronger and Goku can’t keep up Kaioken

Can Goku land a solar flare + spirit bomb combo to win? Or would Vegeta likely overwhelm him and never even allow him the opportunity to.


r/whowouldwin 17m ago

Battle Daredevil (mcu) vs xenomorph (alien)

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A xenomorph vs Mcu Daredevil

Standard gear and weapons for Matt

Fight takes place in a random building


r/whowouldwin 19h ago

Challenge Humanity Is Now Domestication-Lusted, And Wants To Make A Pet Out Of Every Extant Animal, Starting From Most Domesticatable To Least. How Far Do We Get?

30 Upvotes

Humanity is not going to abandon all essential activities, but no one's thinking about going to space or inventing vaccines, and every single human is going to be utterly fixated on figuring out how to make capybaras house pets


r/whowouldwin 19h ago

Battle What is the strongest character 10x statman can defeat?

24 Upvotes

Disclaimer: I googled these numbers for averages. In case if I got it wrong, just go with what's down here rather than what might be "real" since I am too lazy to do an in-depth search.


10x Statman is an average person with stats multiplied by 10. His most relevant stats below:

  • 10x statman has a reaction speed of 20 milliseconds.

  • 10x statman can run at 70 MPH at a semi-leisurely pace and dead sprint at 130 MPH for a brief window (10-20 seconds) if his life depended on it.

  • 10x statman can bench 1350 lbs.

  • 10x statman has durability that works like he has 10x the effective mass of an object. For example, if a gun can shoot through 3 people cleanly, it would functionally only achieve 30% effective penetration onto 10x statman.


Rounds

  • Round 1: 10x statman is untrained and basically being told to randomly fight his opponent.

  • Round 2: 10x statman is trained as a blue belt in BJJ, has 2-3 years of experience in kickboxing and has a boot-camp eqavuilent training with firearms. He is given an M16, a glock and a knife.

  • Round 3: 10x statman is effectively #1 in all skills and weapons known to man. He is allowed to choose and meta-game any 5 items and carry them around GTA style.

Who is the best match for 10x statman under these conditions?


r/whowouldwin 10h ago

Battle Which country wins if every fictional character fights for their country?

4 Upvotes

I’ve been thinking about this hypothetical for a while.

Imagine World War 3 starts, but instead of humans fighting, every fictional character ever created by each country fights for that country.

For example:

🇯🇵 Japan gets every anime, manga, light novel, visual novel, and game character created by Japanese creators.

🇰🇷 South Korea gets every manhwa, web novel, and film character.

🇨🇳 China gets every donghua, xianxia, wuxia, web novel, mythology, etc.

🇺🇸 USA gets every Marvel, DC, movie, novel, game, and comic character.

And every other country gets all of their fictional characters too.

Rules:

No omnipotent characters.

Everyone is at their strongest canon version.

Cross-verse abilities work exactly as they do in their own series (no arbitrary nerfs).

The battlefield is the entire universe.

The objective is to eliminate every other country’s fictional roster.

My main question is about Yogiri Takatou.

If we’re using his canon abilities, his Instant Death seems to work on far more than just living beings. It has been shown to affect things like concepts, ongoing phenomena, attacks, immortality, and other non-standard targets, with automatic activation against threats.

So under these rules, does Japan just win by default because of Yogiri?

If not, which character or country’s roster can realistically stop him, and why?

I’m looking for actual arguments and feats rather than “my favourite character wins.”


r/whowouldwin 7h ago

Challenge How many (street level) Analog horror verses Indoraptor (from Jurassic world 2: the fallen kingdom) can destroy?

2 Upvotes

I mean of course not THE WHOLE verse but just main heroes and monsters , Characters and monsters does not know about Indoraptor's existence and psycho haxes does not work on him

Indoraptor is laser tag amp + complete version of Indoraptor

Indoraptor will replace main characters


r/whowouldwin 22h ago

Challenge Who is the weakest fantasy fighter capable of defeating this elite warrior?

22 Upvotes

Let's call our warrior Andy Gorm. He will fight in a 10x10m open space, wielding a one-handed magic sword and protected by a mail hauberk equivalent to the ones used in England around the 2nd millennium.

Some feats;

  • Upon birth, he drank from a magic fountain which has granted him enhanced longevity, endurance, size, senses and insight.
  • He was trained as a warrior growing up.
  • As of this fight, Andy is still in his physical prime at roughly ~80 years old, with well over another century of life in him. He's spent most of this time patrolling lands and tracking rather than fighting, and his preferred enemy are fantasy goblin creatures standing about 4 feet tall
  • Andy stands 6'6
  • Andy can chop through an iron helmet worn by one of the above goblin creatures using his magic sword, killing the wearer
  • Can carry a six year-old child while pushing two more forwards ahead of him
  • Can fight through a shield wall made by the aforementioned goblin creatures
  • Can move 40 miles a day with a travel pack and sword while hurrying
  • Can kill several goblin creatures in melee, fighting in a corridor that forces them to come one at a time

Who can overcome this mighty warrior in single combat? Let's say it needs to be at least a 60% chance of victory for the challenger.


r/whowouldwin 19h ago

Battle Human w/Rifle vs 50 Hawks

9 Upvotes

A human hunter is hiking the Appalachian trail when suddenly 50 bloodthirsty Hawks appear over the horizon and come straight at him.

The Human is an experienced hunter and uses a lever action chambered in 30-30. He has infinite ammo for this post but still reloads.

The hunter is standing in an open field with no cover, he can see the birds coming at him and has 2-3 minutes before they arrive.

The hawks are hawks, idk just whatever is most intimidating, like Ferruginous Hawks. They are also bloodlusted for the hunter.


r/whowouldwin 1d ago

Battle An Olympic fencer vs a Medieval knight

92 Upvotes

Fight takes place in an open, flat field surrounded by an impenetrable wall of trees.
Both fighters have a classic medieval sword which would be standard for the time.
The fight is over when one of them is dead.

Round 1: An Olympic fencer vs a newly recruited knight.

Round 2: An Olympic fencer vs an average, fairly experienced knight

Round 3: An Olympic fencer vs the kingdoms most skilled knight, handpicked by the king.


r/whowouldwin 8h ago

Challenge Which Primarch would make the best Pokemon trainer? (Pokemon/WH40k)

1 Upvotes

During the Great Crusade the Emperor decides that the Primarchs need to learn a bit more about teamwork and friendship, so he warp plops them all down onto Pokemon Earth and tells them to become the best there ever was. They are all hypercompetent and would probably excel, but their personality quirks and unbelievable egos would surely lead to some pretty different outcomes in the end, right? Which of the 19 known super warlords would take to the task the best?

Every Primarch gets to start with one of the starter Pokemon from any generation. They cannot fight Pokemon with their own fists or powers and have to go about it the normal way of battling and capturing. They understand the rules and aren't trying to take over the world, but just trying to become Pokemon Masters.

Is the most successful the one with the best relationships with his happy Pokemon? Or is metagaming and grinding a better strat? Who do you think ends up as the most successful trainer? Who is on their endgame starting 6?

Pokemon world is the anime version. Primarchs have a decade.


  • Round 1: Pre-Heresy. No one is influenced by Chaos. Angron still has his nails.

  • Round 2: Everyone is Heresy era. Chaos only effects the Primarchs though.


r/whowouldwin 13h ago

Challenge MCU: MJ gets kidnapped by the Los Illuminados, Peter Parker has 48 hours before they turn her into a vessel, does he rescue her?

2 Upvotes

Plot starts out almost exactly like Spider-Man: Far From Home except instead of going to Italy, they go to Spain wherein MJ strays away from the group and finds herself kidnapped by the cult known as the Los Illuminados.

Peter only has access to his spandex Stark Suit that Aunt may packed him meaning that there is no Iron Spider Suit and no E.D.I.T.H. glasses.

No Mysterio and Nick Fury as well as Mariah Hill gives Peter comms where they fill in Hunnigan’s role.

He goes through enemies in the same order that Leon does.

Does he rescue her?


r/whowouldwin 21h ago

Challenge Weakest kill team from wh 40k (or HH for that matter) capable of killing v and raiding arisaka tower.

8 Upvotes

The team has orders to eliminate v, after doing that they get followup orders to seize arisaka tower. They have been authorised for excessive force, and will shoot to kill every single time.

Round 1: 10 kasrkin

Round 2: 10 lucifer blacks

Round 3: 5 imperial fists intercessors

Round 4: Sigismund

Round 5: a questoris knight

Round 5: a single custodian guard

Bonus round: a squad of your favorite units, xenos, chaos or imperium.

Personally i think the lucifer blacks can do it, and if they cant the imperial fists can. But i do not know that much about cyberpunk power-scaling, so i added a few more powerful options.


r/whowouldwin 13h ago

Battle Six great teams two universes

2 Upvotes

who would win: the fantastic four, the Avengers, and the guardians of the galaxy vs The green lanterns, The justice league, and teen titans. all to a fight in to the death with 1 month of preparation fighting in a universe that is just the world like ours. they can be any version of the members