DEATH BATTLE

I don't think X-rays are something to be taken at face value. If someone gets their heart ripped out or throat caved in and keep going like nothing happened in actual story then I can agree... Oh wait, they don't. Just ask Sindel what happens!

edited 3rd Oct '15 12:53:35 AM by Prany

I can't say I've played Phantom Pain, but looking at some of the new character, Quiet's scenes, I'm thinking she'd give Solid Snake a run for his money - even his Twin Snakes incarnation.

Snakes Twin's Snakes incarnation is supposed to be what his actual physical prowess is like, but the PS 1 limitations wouldn't have made it convincing.

Going by both timelines, the kharacters of Mortal Kombat are basically fated to be above human and go into superhuman. They're probably just able to damage other kharacters because they're all at that power level.

Really, the true Badass Normal kharacters are the Briggs family and Stryker, off the top of my head. Everyone else has at least one supernatural ability that komes to mind.

Also on the x-Ray thing, there's a kutscene where Kotal Khan headbutts Kano and shatters his skull, and keeps fighting with no ill effects. I remember similar things happening in the Konica.

Again, X-rays are not to be taken at face value! As Sindel proved in MK 9, smacking someone in neck very hard kills this person. X-rays are so brutal, because it's super move in Mortal Kombat and Mortal Kombat is: a)super brutal. b)doesn't take its own brutality super seriously. They're pretty much black comedy.

Of course I don't know much about Armageddon and mechanics behind power increase of kombatants. As well mechanics and rules of restrains put on gods and godlike beings like Raiden, Fujin and Shao Khan.

Depends who is on the giving and receiving end of some moves. MK 9 and X suggest that cutscenes are canon and many endings are canon in part. With those, we know that Johnny could shrug off a freezing that could kill others, before he awakened his Mesopotamian warrior culture powers, for example.

Did he canonically get his internal organs frozen, crushed, reformed in icicle and lodged in his eye socket?

edited 3rd Oct '15 10:22:26 AM by Prany

I feel obligated to post this :

edited 3rd Oct '15 1:40:02 PM by purplefishman

... Anyone with green or gold kryptonite can beat Superman if they surprise him. It's preventing others from interfering that is key to ensuring that.

edited 4th Oct '15 12:33:17 PM by MarqFJA

I think the long and short of it is that no matter who you are, you're not going to defeat Superman with nothing but brunt force. You would need some other way of attacking him, whether that's draining his powers, using magic, reality warping him out of existence, or something else.

Superman can be beaten with force alone, he's not immune to being punched to death.

Doomsday, Darkseid, have all beaten superman at his best with ease with just pure force.

edited 4th Oct '15 1:18:43 PM by Demongodofchaos2

Pre-Crisis Mongul regularly dominated Superman as well. So long as you are in his weight class or above, Superman can be bested. It's just that a majority of fan-favourite opponents for him aren't in that weight class.

His power is an arbitrary Strong as They Need to Be thing, which tends to be the case the higher in Super Weight you go, especially for characters like Superman who've had hundreds, if not thousands, of writers and incarnations. It's like they said, characters like Supes don't really belong in a versus match.

But, as long as we're answering the question, Wonder Woman could totally kick his ass.

So, who is the next combatant for the RWBY character?

• Tifa Lockhart.
• Sakura Haruno.
• Garnet.
• Machop.
• Little Mac.
• Balrog.

edited 5th Oct '15 7:27:14 AM by Soble

... Sapphire and/or Machop? Really? I know it's supposed to be funny, but I mostly find it groan-inducing.

edited 5th Oct '15 7:06:57 AM by MarqFJA

No, I meant Sapphire from Steven Universe, I should've linked that.

EDIT: Scratch that, I meant to say 'Garnet' from Steven Universe.

And hey, don't knock the Pokemon. I did and it turned out at least one or two of them are gods.

edited 5th Oct '15 7:18:09 AM by Soble

The Legendaries are whole different ballpark. You picked a normal one, though.

A Badass Normal one, you mean.

I'm just running through fighter-type characters and I wanted a Pokemon in there.

But why Machop? Why not Machoke or Hitmonchan? Sawk or Throh?

What about Balrog from Street Fighter?

Machop can hold up a sumo wrestler with one finger.

Machamp, his final evolution, can punch 1000 times in 3 seconds and each of its four arms can lift a mountain each....

Ah, I thought Machop was the boxing glove one.

That said, Machamp would be the better pick.