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/Bright_Brief4975 Aug 04 '25

Tony Stark is 100% just a human, and there is no swat team that is going to take him out while he is in his armor. There are also a lot of others that have no power, but use armor or an artifact, people like Juggernaut, who could take out entire armies.

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u/PremSinha Aug 04 '25

The thing is, a SWAT team would just wait for Tony Stark to get out of the suit, which he does very often.

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u/Toptomcat Aug 04 '25

Unless they have been specifically briefed on the fact that Stark can tap his chest and just summon a full-body suit of armor proof against 120mm cannon rounds within five seconds...and they actually believed that briefing...I'm not sure it would do them much good. That capability is altogether out of the frame of reference of your average cop.

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u/PremSinha Aug 04 '25

That is a good point. I was only thinking of the external suits. This limits the team's options to an ambush that takes less than three seconds, based on the Endgame tower jump. Shooting him in the head will not be easy when he is indoors, but it might be possible elsewhere.