r/whowouldwin • u/Historical_Ostrich • Aug 03 '25

Battle Which superheroes/villains would lose to a real world SWAT team if they were stripped of plot armor?

The SWAT team will employ real world tactics and resort to deadly force if necessary. Whoever they're facing off against has their standard gear and will resist to the best of their ability, but they don't get any of their standard plot armor.

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u/KathytheQueen Aug 03 '25

Remove plot armor, GCPD SWAT eliminates Batman's entire rouges gallery in every situation. The only ones they'd have trouble with is Heath Ledger's Joker and every version of Bane, as they both have real world military training.

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u/Samurai_Banette Aug 04 '25

Batman has plenty of rogues that destroy a swat team.

Killer Corck, Clayface, Gundy, Poison Ivy, anyone from or trained by the league of assassins, Deadshot, Mr. Freeze, a swat team doesnt have any chance against them.

Theres also the fact that no swat team would ever make it to some of the mob bosses. Penguin and Black Mask for example, even if they would lose in a cage fight, take a lot of precautions and the odds of them losing to a team is nearly zero in context.

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u/valdis812 Aug 04 '25

I don't know of Crock is bullet proof, and if he is, probably not against higher caliber rounds. I wouldn't put Grundy in the Batman gallery. Ivy would probably be able to take a swat team if they don't know what they're dealing with. Deadshot would be able to take them, and so would Freeze again assuming they don't know what they're dealing with.

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u/ExChampionGaryOak Aug 04 '25

Grundy is kind of a Gotham villain more than a Batman villain. He used to fight golden age green lantern way back in the day but Alan Scott got old while Grundy is a zombie. Now Batman has just kind of inherited Grundy along with Gotham’s other issues

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u/Beatmo Aug 04 '25

Croc is bulletproof including higher caliber rounds.

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u/valdis812 Aug 04 '25

I've been out of comics for a while, but this certainly wasn't the case when I was reading them. Did he get buffed or something?

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u/8dev8 Aug 04 '25

I honestly can’t remember him ever not being bulletproof