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/dhusk Aug 04 '25

Most of these replies basically swap the plot armor from the character onto the SWAT team.

A LOT can go wrong with a SWAT deployment, and they'd be just as fallible as the character here. If the SWAT team can get complete surprise, then sure, it's easily doable by them in many cases. But otherwise taking out a lot of the characters mentioned is going to be a lot harder than people are assuming.

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u/Doomcall Aug 05 '25

Thank you, specially with the ones with extended military and guerilla training like black widow and Punisher. Swat aint kicking any doors in a place that can be booby trapped all over. A random guy with a gun can sometimes hold off teams for hours and end up in tragedy, imagine one of those.