r/whowouldwin • u/Odd_Mongoose3175 • Mar 10 '25

Battle A Komodo Dragon appears near every person on Earth. How screwed are we?

At 12am in every country, a Komodo dragon appears behind every person on earth. How screwed are we?

  • The Komodo dragon magically spawns at least 8m behind/adjacent/above/under the human if enough space, by default. If none, then they just spawn wherever they could fit behind the human

  • Its a hungry male Komodo Dragon

  • Win via death of above 97% humanity/Komodo death

Round 1: Base Komodo

Round 2: The Komodos can somehow fly far as a chicken, knows how to throw stuff, shoot their Venom like a laser as far as 10m and have black belt in BJJ

Round 3: Same as R1 but a Megalania is in front of the human in case Komodo fails

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u/svenson_26 ​ Mar 10 '25

This is very key. The first places hit are tiny pacific islands. The first 3 time zones in the first 2h15m don't even get a million people.

It's 5h, 8 time zones before we hit Japan/Koreas/Indonesia. If we haven't figured it out by the 6th hour, we're fucked because that's when it hits China.

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u/CryptographerKlutzy7 Mar 11 '25

New Zealand is hit in the first timezone. That is 5 million. Yes we have a very shifted timezone...

It also has pretty good comms with everyone else, of course, people may think it is a one off event...

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u/svenson_26 ​ Mar 11 '25

New Zealand is hit in the first timezone.

No it's not.

NZ is mainly +12:00 from UTC, with parts of it at +12:45.

Parts of Kiribati are at +14:00.
Other parts of Kiribati, as well as Tonga, Samoa, and Tokelau are at +13:00

Since NZ observes daylight savings, during daylight savings you have parts of it at +13:45, with the mainland at +13:00. During daylight savings, they probably wouldn't get much of a warning if any, but still, they're not the first timezone.