r/whowouldwin • u/LetsGet2Birding • May 18 '25

Challenge Darth Vader Is Dropped Into Los Angeles. How Much Damage Can He Do?

Darth Vader right before the events of A New Hope is plopped in the city of Los Angeles, California. He has his lightsaber with him and can use the force. Given how he has just been teleported, he is confused, but of course, let's get the ball rolling by making him even more irritable since he now has no hope of helping retrieve the death star plans.

Just how much damage can Vader do before someone, somehow, puts him down. Police? Military? For how long can he wreak havoc?

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u/Ballbag94 May 19 '25

I mean, would he be dead?

He could sense them coming

He could redirect them with the force

He could shield himself from the explosion with the force

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u/OkTop7895 May 19 '25

been invulnerable to a type of damage is not the same as invulnerable with efforts.

In the second case you loss stamina for every attack and the opponent can be neutralized with Zapp Brannigang startegies.

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u/NotAPimecone May 19 '25

Knowing that his lightsaber's batteries will eventually run out, I simply threw wave after wave of my own men at him!

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u/DoC_Stump May 19 '25

I think he'd be able to redirect things up until a point.  Guaranteed he doesn't redirect a naval warship railgun round traveling at mach 7

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u/StrykerGryphus May 19 '25

Assuming the railgun escapes development hell

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u/Spacetramp7492 May 19 '25

He pulled a space ship to the ground that was trying to run away from him. I doubt there’s much we have that he can’t deflect or toss. It’s a pretty sick scene if you want to watch it:

https://youtu.be/znVxyZ85X7I

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u/Suspicious_kek May 19 '25

Doesn’t that clip show that if he is not prepared, fast moving objects will escape his ability to manipulate them?

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u/gunnar120 May 19 '25

We don't currently use any of those yet though.

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u/EvidenceOpening May 19 '25

Ye, not like he could detect and reflect stuff that fly at lightning speed….

M7 wouldn’t be too fast for the SW verse, where laser blasters are a thing

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u/Useful-ldiot May 19 '25

Laser blasters travel at 135mph according to mythbusters.

I don't know if we're counting that as canon, but it always bothered me.

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u/zach0011 May 19 '25

I hate the power creep of the force that the extended universe brought

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u/Ballbag94 May 19 '25

Those feats are all canon, not EU