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/Toptomcat Aug 04 '25 edited Aug 04 '25
Taylor Hebert (Worm) is physically a squishy unpowered human, but her ability to see through the eyes of every insect within ~400 meters essentially amounts to local omniscience, and her ability to completely control them makes for essentially unlimited concealment as well as a kind of offense that makes bulletproof vests completely irrelevant.
Similarly, Professor X (X-Men) would mind-control all of them from a mile away, Kouzaku Mitori (Raildex) can remote-control a bulletproof minion from far enough away to be safe, a Potterverse or D&D wizard could invisibly fuck them up half a dozen ways, Paul Atredes (Dune) could precognition their way through the entire thing without a scratch, a Jedi (Star Wars) could do the same thing with added telekinesis and laser-swording people to death, Fujiwara no Mokou (Touhou Project) would scream and fall down and bleed to death and then explode into flame and stand right back up, in an urban area Toph Beifong (Avatar: The Last Airbender) could sense them coming through a wall via the sound of their footsteps on the street and then just encase them in concrete, a Predator (duh) could use their active camouflage to pick them off one by one unseen...there are lots of non-bulletproof characters with esoteric, long-ranged, stealth-oriented or informational powers who could beat a SWAT team through means other than 'charge at them mindlessly from thirty meters away across an open field.'