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/Gavinus1000 Aug 04 '25

Skitter under certain conditions.

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u/001DeafeningEcho Aug 04 '25

Very specific circumstances. Pretty sure that SWAT armor isn’t airtight (not that it matters when a mat of bugs covering the visor blocks their vision anyways) and Skitter’s armor is at least bullet resistant. If they start close enough and have a good LOS (or Skitter doesn’t have many bugs) sure, they’ll win, but give Skitter a swarm and they’ll be too blind to shoot her.

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u/Gavinus1000 Aug 04 '25

Nuke her from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure,

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u/ViolinistPleasant982 Aug 04 '25

I think a major city's police could do it but I think no matter the senerio there is gonna be a lot of dead cops.

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u/fish312 Aug 04 '25

Beekeeper suit, bug bombs and a powerful insecticide sprayer

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u/Hust91 Aug 04 '25

If you think these things will keep you safe from her, you are going to have a bad time.

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u/fish312 Aug 04 '25

It won't stop all her powers, but then skitter's forté has always been in intelligence gathering / espionage anyway. It's next to impossible to stop her from spying on any target, and so long as she sticks to her strengths she will excel.

Remember, it's the queen administrator shard - the gimmick is multitasking.

Combat wise, yes I did see that bugs down throat scene but that's against an unprepared adversary. It's not too hard with modern materials to create hermetically sealed suits/vehicles, with Tinker tech it becomes much easier. That's before considering devices like the Famine Engine that basically can hijack or no-sell the entire swarm.

Now trying to stop her from eavesdropping on top secret Intel or surreptitiously stealing a key mcguffin? way harder