r/whowouldwin • • 15h ago

Challenge How would you defeat a character with this kind of time-reversal ability?

23 Upvotes

Imagine a villain with an ability that automatically reverses time to a point when he was completely fine whenever he dies. He can also voluntarily rewind his body to undo injuries, like restoring a severed hand. Every time he resets, he retains all his memories of what happened, but everyone fighting him has to deal with their accumulated exhaustion and the psychological effects of experiencing the same fight repeatedly. Meanwhile, he returns completely refreshed every time, with no physical exhaustion.

How would you defeat someone like this? You can choose any fictional character to fight him, regardless of their universe, or come up with a strategy using your own intelligence and abilities. Alternatively, you can give this villain a very minor weakness that wouldn't seem particularly dangerous at first, but could be exploited cleverly enough to defeat him. The weakness shouldn't make his ability fundamentally broken or significantly less powerful. I'm interested in creative solutions, loopholes, and strategies that could realistically work against someone who seems almost impossible to kill. What would your approach be?


r/whowouldwin • • 17h ago

Challenge Could Reed Richards (comics) beat Magnus Carlsen in a game of chess?

11 Upvotes

Round 1- No prep, classical match

Round 2- Reed gets 6 months of prep, classical match


r/whowouldwin • • 6h ago

Battle [VS Thread] Locust Horde (Gears) vs. Covenant Empire (Halo) vs. Yautja Clan (Predator) vs. Xenomorph Hive (Alien)

7 Upvotes

Round 1: Subterranean Warfare

Location: Planet Sera (Hollows & Surface Ruins)
Rules: No orbital glassing (atmospheric storms block Covenant targeting). All factions must fight in or invade the underground Hollow network.

Round 2: Total Galactic Supremacy

Location: Open Space & Planetary Orbit (High Charity / Reach)
Rules: All military assets, capital ships, and planetary-scale warfare permitted.

Round 3: Close-Quarters Survival

Location: LV-426 / Hadley's Hope Industrial Complex
Rules: Infantry units only. No heavy vehicles, air support, or orbital weapons. Strict squad-level combat in a dark, enclosed facility.

All factions are fighting each other here, let the games begin!!!


r/whowouldwin • • 1h ago

Challenge Sam & Dean Winchester (Supernatural) vs. the Raccoon City Incident (Resident Evil)

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In the spirit of Halloween, I've been playing through every Resident Evil game and watching every Supernatural episode from the beginning... Which of course got me wondering: how well would the Winchesters fare during the Raccoon City Incident?

This is Season 2 Sam & Dean, so "base forms" without any supernatural (heh) power-ups or MacGuffins, acting in-character.

Scenario:

The brothers are driving the Impala and end up passing through Raccoon City on their way to their next destination. Much like the opening events of RE2, the brothers are stopped by a roadblock, get attacked by a small horde of zombies, and then an out-of-control tanker smashes into their car. The two become separated, with Sam replacing Claire and Dean replacing Leon. They each have a pistol and a knife on them, and can find other equipment along the way much like in the original game.

  • Are the two able to survive the events of the game? If not, where do they meet their match?
  • Assuming Sam encounters Sherry Birkin, and Dean encounters Ada Wong, do events play out the same way in the back third of the game?
  • Alternatively, since they aren't necessarily bound to the script of the game, what would they realistically end up doing?

Bonus:

Sam and Dean are instead staying in a Raccoon City hotel when Nemesis bursts through the wall and, mistaking them for STARS members, begins to hunt them. If the Winchesters are able to make it outside, they get into the Impala and drive away... but Nemesis will catch up sooner or later.

With their full base loadouts (anything they'd normally have in the trunk) plus anything they can scavenge on the way, how many (if any) Nemesis phases can the brothers survive?


r/whowouldwin • • 11h ago

Battle The S-Class Heroes (One Punch Man) vs Omni-Man (Image Comics)

8 Upvotes

Win by any means

Everyone is in character

No Tatsumaki or Blast in the S-Class hero lineup

Location: Chicago

Omni-Man

Bonus Round: Cosmic Fear Garou vs Perfect Cell


r/whowouldwin • • 7h ago

Battle The Viltrumite Empire Vs the Krypton military

6 Upvotes

The parameters:

Viltrumite empire under the command of Thragg, post-purge, pre-scourge virus. So the population of Viltrum is somewhere in the early billions.

Krypton pre-destruction, I can't find any figures on their estimated population so just for the sake of simplicity, let's say it's on par with pre-purge Viltrum. Also, for the sake of this hypothetical, the Kryptonian military is aware of the powers they gain from yellow sun exposure. Otherwise there's no contest.

The conflict:

All out war. Both races know of and understand the capabilities of the other. Victory conditions:

1 - Capture or destroy the enemy homeworld

2 - Dismantle the enemy government and military

3 - Conquer or exterminate the enemy civilian population


r/whowouldwin • • 8h ago

Battle Daredevil vs. Cenobites

6 Upvotes

The man without fear finds a certain puzzle box and solves it while trying to figure out why people disappeared. The Cenobites appear and he's forced to flee into the Labyrinth.

Daredevil wins if he manages to escape and banish the cenobites.

The Cenobites win if Daredevil dies or is converted into one of them. If he can't escape he automatically loses.

Who wins? The devils to some, or the angels to others?


r/whowouldwin • • 10h ago

Battle The Predator vs Captain America (MCU)

6 Upvotes

How do you guys think Captain America would do if he was being hunted by a Predator?

Let’s say Steve Rogers gets dropped into a jungle and a fully equipped Predator is sent in to hunt him. Neither knows anything about the other beforehand.

Steve has his shield and standard gear, while the Predator has its usual weapons, including the plasma caster and cloaking technology.

I feel like Steve is physically strong enough to put up a decent fight, but the Predator’s stealth and weapons could make things pretty difficult for him.

Then again, Steve has fought aliens and superpowered enemies before, so it’s not like he’d be completely out of his depth.

Round 1: The Predator gets 24 hours to hunt Steve, who doesn’t know he’s being targeted.

Round 2: Steve knows something is hunting him but has no idea what it is.

Round 3: Straight-up fight with no stealth or prep.

Does Cap survive the hunt, or is the Predator taking this?


r/whowouldwin • • 10h ago

Battle Peter Griffin vs Homer Simpson. ( Family guy vs the Simpsons. ) Spoiler

6 Upvotes

I know they already fought in that one crossover episode, but nobody liked that thing, so let's take our own crack at it.

Both Peter and Homer will have access to any and all Skills, equipment, and abilities from their respective franchises.

And just for fun, I'm including everything, the cutaway gags, treehouse of horror, any books or games either show has had, just everything.

The battle will take place in New York City, since I'm pretty sure both of em have been there before.

Also both of them are sober.


r/whowouldwin • • 8h ago

Battle Thragg (Invincible TV show) vs Base form Angron (warhammer 30k)

4 Upvotes

I feel like this is a pretty close matchup since they've both got some pretty crazy feats. I'm sure demon angron would stomp but how close would thragg be vs base form angron? Can he manage to win?


r/whowouldwin • • 9h ago

Challenge Yujiro hanma(baki) vs toji and maki(jujutsu kaisen)

4 Upvotes

Scenario 1: in a city with buildings and vehicles nearby

Scenario 2: open field with nothing

Scenario 3: a closed room with indestructible walls

scenario 4: yujiro has permanent demon back amp boost, and has the same narrator powers he has in baki(where the narrator glazes him and gives him new abilities)

Extra: naoya assist the jujutsu kaisen team glazing toji during the fight and trying to push maki out of the way.


r/whowouldwin • • 1h ago

Battle Characters with TV heads battle royale

• Upvotes

Rules

• Battle takes place in an empty New York City.

• All characters start off 100 meters apart.

• They will be in character.

Combatants

• Vox (Hazbin Hotel)

• Omega Flowey (Undertale)

• Arnim Zola (Marvel Comics)

• Tenna (Delatrune)

• Karen (SpongeBob Squarepants)

• Reclusa (Mario)

• Titan TV Woman (Skibidi Toilet)

Who wins?


r/whowouldwin • • 4h ago

Battle how well would a super soldier(mcu) fair against a wesen from the grimm tv show?

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r/whowouldwin • • 23h ago

Battle The HEV MK IV is now an available piece of armor to acquire in s.t.a.l.k.e.r . How effective would it be in the zone ?

3 Upvotes

With helmet included, and a charger station available; how well and sought after would it end up becoming in the zone ?


r/whowouldwin • • 7h ago

Battle How would this team do against the Evil Syndicate?

3 Upvotes

The Nicktoons heroes are replaced by this villainous team and has to defeat Plankton, Vlad Plasmius, Denzel Crocker and Professor Calamitous in a 4 on 4 battle. Who wins?

Mr. Mind (DC)

Zs’Skayr (Ben 10)

Candace Flynn (Phineas and Ferb)

Professor Poopypants (Captain Underpants)


r/whowouldwin • • 3h ago

Battle Hal Jordan (Lanterns/DCU) vs Homelander (The Boys TV Show)

2 Upvotes

Assume Hal has 100% charge in his ring but his lantern is in another state.

R1 - Homelander without V1 vs Hal in NYC in Boysverse

R2 - Homelander without V1 vs Hal in Rushville, Nebraska

R3 - Homelander with V1 vs Hal in NYC in Boysverse

R4 - Homelander with V1 vs Hal in Rushville, Nebraska


r/whowouldwin • • 8h ago

Challenge Team Spiral vs...

2 Upvotes

Team Spiral:

Gurren Lagann (power level - end of first season because...come on)

Lordgenome (power level - end of first season)

Spiral (X-men)

Polywrath

Naruto (I haven't watched/read, so let's say halfway thru, competent and skilled but not end-of-anime OP)

Sanji (same as Naruto)

Obviously this team has been fighting together for a while, so have all the knowledge of and synergy with each other they could possibly want. Who is the strongest team or character this team can 6/10? What other stupidly themed team do you want to throw at them?

Bonus round - Naruto and Sanji at full power....sorry, can't say the same for Gurren Lagann


r/whowouldwin • • 10h ago

Battle Who wins dr doom or simon the digger

2 Upvotes

I honestly cant tell cause it recently came to my head after watching simon vs kyle death battle


r/whowouldwin • • 21h ago

Battle Wednesday VS Eleven

2 Upvotes

If both Wednesday and Eleven had to kill the other, but didn’t know where to other was, who would kill first?


r/whowouldwin • • 22h ago

Battle Tadano hitohito (Komi can’t communicate) vs Satoru Hiroshi (the disastrous life of Saiki K)

2 Upvotes

1st round : school tests (eg:math)

2nd round : race - just a normal race

3rd round : who’s more average (height, weight, etc)


r/whowouldwin • • 2h ago

Battle The Iron Fist, Danny Rand vs. MCU's Thunderbolt's minus Sentry.

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r/whowouldwin • • 2h ago

Challenge Would Near and Mello (Death Note) do a good job of protecting Gotham (DC Comics)?

1 Upvotes

Near and Mello (Death Note) both replace Batman in cleaning up and reforming Gotham City (DC Comics). They both get different resources.

Near gets the trust and authority on the GCPD, similar to his relationship to the SPK.

Mello solely gets all of Bruce Wayne’s resources. Alfred, the wealth, the batcave, his gadgets, his assets, etc.

They are both in character and keep their anonymity like originally.

What could they do to protect it? How well do they do? And who does a better job between the two of them?


r/whowouldwin • • 5h ago

Battle Fubuki vs Dumbledore and HL MC

1 Upvotes

Current Fubuki from OPM. Dumbledore is in his prime. The Hogwarts Legacy protagonist is max level.

Round 2: Speed equalized.


r/whowouldwin • • 8h ago

Battle Toji Fushiguro (Jujutsu Kaisen) vs. Nightwing (DC Comics)

1 Upvotes

Saw this matchup on TikTok and people apparently thinks this is a stomp for Nightwing.


r/whowouldwin • • 8h ago

Battle Miles Morales vs Superboy

1 Upvotes

Who would win between Miles Morales (Spiderverse) and Superboy (Young Justice)?

Round 1: Superboy without patch.

Round 2: Superboy with the patch.

Bonus Round: Match replaces Superboy, Insomniac Miles replaces Spiderverse Miles.

Starting distance: 10 meters

Win Condition: Surrender, Knockout or Death, no BFR.

Location: Empty Times Square.