r/whowouldwin • u/MysteriousHobo2 • Dec 22 '16
Casual What is the coolest way that Contessa can kill your favorite character?
Contessa can win a lot of matchups and her power has the potential to choose the way in which she wins. So what is, in your opinion, the coolest way that Contessa can kill your favorite character? A recent comment about Contessa v Accelerator made me think of this matchup.
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u/razminr11 Dec 22 '16
She can beat the God Emperor of Mankind in a contest of good parenting, but that's the only way she's beating him at all.
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u/ix_Omega Dec 23 '16
I can see her beating him in a cooking contest, or a no prep fedora wearing contest.
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u/ColdBeef Dec 22 '16
Contessa knocks a batarang back at Batman with a bat, hitting him in the eye.
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u/Elick320 Dec 22 '16
I imagine that contessa may be able to use YV's guns against him, however I have no idea what YV's fighting style is outside of nuclear throne, or wether or not he just drops guns that he's not using.
Of course YV could just shoot her.
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Dec 22 '16 edited Jun 27 '25
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u/Elick320 Dec 22 '16
Never said YV would hit her, but knowing where your opponent will shoot won't help much when they won't stop shooting in the first place. If the guns jam from kicked dirt he will just make a new one.
Also YV is the god of guns from nuclear throne. This picture describes him pretty well.
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Dec 22 '16
but knowing where your opponent will shoot won't help much when they won't stop shooting in the first place.
She doesn't need to know where he's shooting, only where he isn't shooting. Considering how crazy PTV is, she can figure out where to stand to do so.
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u/WildBizzy Dec 23 '16
she can figure out where to stand to do so.
Doesn't this assume she can get to a safe spot before she gets a bullet to the brain? My understanding from the 'featured' thread is that she has the physicals of an early middle aged woman, so she isn't dodging a Gun God. She'd have to convince the God to kill themself with conversation or something
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u/effa94 Dec 23 '16
Kill sentry? i hoenstly dont think she can. maybe she can convince himself to "kill" himself, but it would only last as long as he wanted to stay dead, if even that.
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u/chaosattractor Dec 22 '16
I actually think Contessa is fucked here. He might maybe choose to lose to her at chess but that's not really awesome is it?
Admittedly I'm not very imaginative so someone help her beat Discworld's Death in a cool way
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Dec 22 '16
Is it impossible for Death to lose at chess? Haven't read much Discworld at all, and what I have read didn't talk about Death at all.
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u/chaosattractor Dec 22 '16
Yeah, basically. It's not just chess, it's pretty much every game that people try to play with him to bargain for their lives/souls. But sometimes he chooses to lose (like one time he pretended that four aces were only four ones when he was playing poker with someone for a sick child's life).
It's some sort of reality warping - in terms of actual skill he can't even remember how the knight moves. It's all part of the power of plot that governs the Discworld universe.
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u/BassoonHero Dec 23 '16
But sometimes he chooses to lose (like one time he pretended that four aces were only four ones when he was playing poker with someone for a sick child's life).
So he could choose to lose to Contessa? Or, in other words, Contessa could convince him to deliberately lose the game?
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u/chaosattractor Dec 23 '16
That's why I said
He might maybe choose to lose to her at chess but that's not really awesome is it?
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u/Thechynd Dec 23 '16
Death will only come for her when its her time, so if PtV does its job protecting her from being killed then she presumably has the rest of her natural life as prep. If she can interact with the Discworld then PtV could take inspiration from Mr Teatime, either finding a way to deprive Death of enough belief to weaken him or stealing his own sword to use against him.
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u/chaosattractor Dec 23 '16
Death will only come for her when its her time
That's kinda silly, he interacts with the plot all the time and not only when the character in question is dying. No-one ever said she had to be the one Death is around for.
either finding a way to deprive Death of enough belief to weaken him
Death is kind of on another level from the Hogfather, being a part of Azrael
or stealing his own sword to use against him.
Even Teatime wasn't sure it would work on him.
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u/BlueberryPhi Dec 27 '16
Technically, she could toss together the stuff required to make her biologically immortal, somehow get Death on the bad side of more powerful beings, or outright do a better job at being Death and so replace him until he's mortal.
Anthropomorphic personifications are more vulnerable than the concepts they represent, as demonstrated in the books about Death.
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u/chaosattractor Dec 27 '16
Technically, she could toss together the stuff required to make her biologically immortal
Didn't work for the New Death
somehow get Death on the bad side of more powerful beings
Yup, that's totally plausible
or outright do a better job at being Death and so replace him until he's mortal.
She doesn't exactly have the powerset for that
Anthropomorphic personifications are more vulnerable than the concepts they represent, as demonstrated in the books about Death.
I'm...not entirely sure what you mean here.
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u/MugaSofer Dec 27 '16
Wasn't it heavily implied in Hogfather that Death is vulnerable to his own scythe and sword? He duelled Death!Mort with them as well, and that seemed to be a legitimate threat to them both.
He's definitely susceptible to social-fu. How many times have we seen Death betray his duties because a sob story touched his bony, metaphorical heart?
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u/a_lumpy_sack Dec 22 '16
Contessa recreates an overseer music box, rendering Corvo completely powerless.
But then again, Corvo still has time stop, and I'm not really sure if Contessa has an answer to that.
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Dec 27 '16
Her answer is something along the lines of "builds a trap which looks and acts like loose floorboards, perfectly positioned to take advantage of timestop mechanics as you walk over them on your way to stab her so that they flip up and break both your knees." Or she blows a cloud of pepper into the air that Corvo inhales in his time-stop while stabbing her, causing him to sneeze and miss, then slamming a stiletto through his heart as soon as time restarts.
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u/MunitionsFrenzy Dec 22 '16
She doesn't even have a reliable answer to high-end human speeds, so no, time stop wrecks her.
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u/SpawnTheTerminator Dec 22 '16
She uses a giant magnet to pin down Raiden before blasting him with missiles.
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u/ix_Omega Dec 22 '16
Contessa causes Chevalier to accidentally switch the mass and heft of his armour so that it is incredibly light, but feels to him like a mountain of construction grade steel.