Hancock. Apparently in the director’s commentary it was stated that a Tsar Bomba (50 megatons of tnt) would only knock him out. Considering a nuclear weapon of that magnitude is too impractical to use conventionally, Hancock couldn’t be stopped.
He has the speed to fly to the moon and carve a heart into it and come back to earth before anyone noticed. The nukes could be heat seeking and would never come close to hitting him.
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He's too maneuverable, plus he can fly unaided in space.
Hancock doesn't *seem* capable of soloing the world's military might, but if others say that he can, I believe it. He never showed his uppermost limits, just his lower ones.
What a disappointing movie. First half is legitimately amazing and funny then the second half comes along and flushes it down the drain. Should have kept the focus on Hancock becoming a better person and true hero while still keeping the tone light and comedic
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You should've read the screenplay for it that they didn't use.
I *Loved* the concept of Hancock, and sat down as a teenager to read the entire thing. Hancock was working with a therapist (instead of a PR consultant) and going over the troubles of heroism. He had a cape, wasn't an alcoholic (but was troubled), no discernable skin color, and probably presented the same way as the world in The Boys sees Homelander.
But, something happens. Either Hancock fell in love with the therapist's wife (most likely) or he decided he'd had enough of something, the rising action happens, and the Therapist (armed with a rocket launcher) fights alongside the U.S. Military in trying to stop Hancock in a multi-level parking garage. Hancock is weaker here, but still all but invulnerable to conventional munitions.
>!Ending: The Therapist wins, but the destruction of that parking garage during that fight-! It sounded [in my head] like what the whole fight in *Man of Steel* would've been like if it had been conducted in the underground parking garage of a single skyscraper! !<
I definitely disagree. The second half is the part that shows why he is what he is in the first and pulls the movie around full circle for how black people were historically treated in America. If it's just the first half, it's just "look, it's a Drunken screw up superhero."
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Aren't there more powerful nuclear weapons now? Granted, I *know* about Hancock. He's too maneuverable for conventional nuclear weapons. Mary would have to sacrifice herself at ground zero with a nuclear blast (or normal missile, depending) for Hancock to be defeated.
I mean, the prompt states that he has to solo the world. Not deal with the consequences. So if the world is so toast there's nowhere for him to run to without radiation poisoning him, I think he's already won the prompt tbh.
Nukes are not direct weapons, and they are not super precise, if the flash is fast enough he could outrun the blast wave, also i dont think there is any ICBM precise enough to hit a man-sized target, specially one moving at hypersonic speeds.
Apart from all the versions of god. Likely Dr Manhattan from watchmen as we just cant kill him. Possibly godzilla as Nukes seem to make him stronger. Parralax and Galactus probably win. DCEU or Reeves supes is probably too fast for planes to drop bombs on and can fly higher than them. Gort from the day the earth stood still seemed to be doing it.
That's the 1998 one. He's probably talking about the Monsterverse version. That one could only be handled by a much more advanced humanity that can make oxygen destroyers and giant mecha.
That one's not live action, all the monster-scale footage is CGI.
That said, Heisei Godzilla *was* live action, and could do it. We don't have anywhere near the sci-fi weapons that were required to stop him in those movies. Same goes to the other live-action Godzillas to various degrees.
Well, if we're gonna be that pedantic, might as well disqualify other answers like Galactus, Parallax, Dr. Manhattan, Ultron, etc. cause those are all CGI characters in live-action movies.
OP is very clear: "No animated or drawn versions of characters." All-CGI films are considered animated films, and characters like the animated characters in *Who Framed Roger Rabbit* are still considered animated despite being in otherwise live-action films.
Purely CGI characters are animated and I won't pretend they're not.
bI actually do genuinely disagree.
*The Jungle Book* (2017) is an animated film with one live-action character, and *The Lion King* (2019) is an animated film, both as much so as *The Polar Express* (2004) or any of the *Toy Story* films, just with a different animation style. A different animation style, no matter how realistic, does not at any point transform animation into live action; nor does a 3D render or highly realistic painting at any point suddenly become a photograph no matter how visibly indistinguishable it might be.
Live action is live action. The so-called 'Roger Rabbit effect' has been used to portray characters and creatures in live-action settings for a very long time, and not always with the conceit of them representing animated characters in universe. For example, [certain magical beasts](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1NbmK8a9VI) in [the BBC Chronicles of Narnia TV series](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chronicles_of_Narnia_(TV_series)) were represented this way, likely due to there not being a more feasible way to represent them in a both recognizable and more-or-less believable manner under the show's budget constraints.
CGI is ultimately no different from this; the technique is simply refined so that the boundary between animation and live-action is less obvious.
How was he going to do that anyway? Pretty much none of the nukes in the world are on open systems. How was he even hacking these isolated non networked weapon systems? Most (all?) require physical actions like the turning of keys. Are the nukes in the MCU just way less secure?
Most movie incarnations of Godzilla could probably do it. Nominating Legendary since he's the most recent one and he has been shown to actually regenerate from nuclear bombardment.
Yep, I think the only ones which might fail are 1954 and Shin if he gets nuked, but the latter is disputable since if a single molecule survives he can regenerate back. 1998 definitely fails.
Showa might be able to pull it off too.
In the movies it has been implied that a nuke couldn't kill it. Also Godzilla has managed to defeat Ghidorah, Ghidorah flying could destroy whole city blocks and he reduced Venus to a lifeless planet in a day meaning that the craters on Venus are actually Ghidorah's doing,
Lots. The MCU, Arrowverse and DCEU are stacked with characters who could do this, but there’s a lot of other shows/movies that have heavy hitters. Fox X-Men, 2 Spider-man franchises, 2 F4 franchises, The Boys, Titans, Watchmen, Umbrella Academy, Heroes, etc. I’d say there’s hundreds of characters who beat the world.
But I’ll go with Zod, because you know he’d actually do it.
Edit: it seems I may have listed some franchises that don’t have characters who could solo Earth. I was just listing superhero franchises as they popped into my head but the greater point still stands that there’s plenty of answers.
The only time this was stated in the live action show was from a character specifically propping up Homelander to be *the* number 1 best Supe. It's routinely been disproven in the show, Maeve pieced his eardrum with a metal pipe. I find it hard to believe that would have more force than a bullet.
Does homelander not consistently like walk straight through gunfire? I agree that Homelander wouldn't be able to resist like the entire world's arsenal, but he definitely can resist guns and Maeve's attack should definitely be stronger than a gunshot
Butcher uses a huge rifle to shoot at Translucent and it doesn't even scratch him. He does the same thing to Starlight.
Homelander is supposed to outstat both of them.
Translucent’s whole ability to turn invisible comes from his skin being a special type of insanely durable carbon (they compare it to diamonds in universe IIRC) that reflects light. He has absurd durability.
At the same time, if it were really that easy to kill Homelander with just a rifle, you know they would've done that.
And also, the point about Starlight still stands.
Additionally, he's supposed to be the upgrade to Soldier Boy, who tanks point blank assault rifle fire down his throat.
Most of the supes' holes are still weak to normal attacks, so in theory, a sniper could kill homelander with a bullet through his ears, but it's practically impossible to hit that shot.
Sleeping gas also seems to be useful against supes aswell well, soilder boy at least not sure how well it works for others
It doesn't really matter how strong Maeve is, the limit here is the metal pipe. If the pipe can damage Homelander rather than just breaking against him, then he's not durable enough to endure the stronger real world weapons.
THIS. The entire "bulletproof" side of Homelander doesn't even make sense after the pipe antifeat, because it shows that he's absolutely not more durable than metal
It's been said, sure.
Meanwhile, the show also shows Homelander becoming completely incapacitated by a singular metal straw getting shoved in his ear.
I'm pretty sure the force of that impact is a far cry from the force of impact a nuclear bomb being dropped on his head would produce....
>incapacitated
That's an overstatement lol, it was more of a "Huh, so this is pain." type of
reaction.
**Edit:** I'm not denying that a nuke would stop him though, but he'd kill millions before we got desperate enough to use one.
Who in the spider-man franchise could solo earth even people like sandman wouldn't be able kill enough humans since he can't kill large amounts of people when they are far away from each other and bombs have a good shot at cristalizing them
None of the Spider-Man characters could solo imo. Not even Sandman, Electro, Morbius, not even Dr Strange if you count him. Sandman got downed by a few missiles. Electro would get messed up by power outages. EMPs would be bad for him. Morbius is fast but he’d get hit eventually. Dr Strange is slow and not a great strategist
Strange wasn’t even trying against Spidey, he could’ve easily done something fatal. He was just trying to get the box. If he wanted to beat Spider-Man, he could have done so pretty easily.
Maw, I think he’s become more powerful now.
Forget something fatal. Dr should have done something that could have easily beat Spider-Man without even harming him. Strange clowned Thor and Loki in Ragnarok without even trying and without hurting them. If anything, I think Strange has become weaker since Infinity War. Multiverse of Madness seems to be proof of that.
As for your other comment, how would magics make him invulnerable? That might apply (in context of Earth irl) to comics or animated Dr Strange but not his live action self
That is the most unexpected answer to a r/whowouldwin question I’ve ever seen, and I can’t say I disagree. The dude has crazy agility and a massive set of impossible tools
He'd probably just turn the nukes into a water balloon or change their explosions to be filled with confetti. Not sure how he'd win though, I'd say he'd be pretty much impossible to beat but I don't think he'd have the ability to actually defeat anybody either.
CW Flash was fast enough to run around the world several times over in only a few seconds. Later in an alternate future, Thawne had caused the destruction of the world just by running, Barry should be capable of the same given they fight evenly all the time. Without morals, he’s phasing his hand through the hearts of all the militaries in a minute at most.
Dr. Manhattan, The Mask, Bruce Almighty (If his power become global), General Zod, Surtr, Hela, Ego, a Celestial, IG Thanos, Ultron (Through Hacking, he only stopped because of Jarvis), Godzilla (His 2004 version soloed earth filled with Kaiju, he should be able to do the same to our earth), and Cloud Galactus from the Fantastic 4 Movie
Also, a competent CW Flash
Easily
Doctor Who - Jack Harkness
Vampire Diaries - Any of the Mikaelsons aside from Freya and pre-Vampire Hope
Harry Potter - Voldemort
Literally any character who can only be killed through magic or technobabble.
EDIT: post says all he has to do is survive all of Earth attacking him at once.
The post says all he has to do is survive all of Earth attacking him.
The Doctor could easily solo Earth yes, but he's not surviving a nuke without equipment.
depends on if the doctor could figure out if the nuke was coming, how long he had to make a plan. we've literally never seen the doctor fail with these kind of doomsday scenarios
Yes with even a second of prep time he'd probably win. But the Doctor taken by surprise, there's nothing that would save him if a nuke actually went off in his face.
The Mikaelsons get clapped. Elijah and Kol have been incapacitated multiple times by way younger vampires, and no matter the age, vampires in the show often get tagged by wooden bullets or crossbow bolts more often than not.
He doesn’t have good firepower, but he uses ours. Let’s say he at least has a semblance of a brain, and let’s also tone down his extreme wizard pride. Then he actually bothers to read up muggle newspapers and facts and quickly finds out some powerful leaders and where they live and blah blah blah. Then he teleports to them and does some Imperious or something like that and through mass teleporting around and controlling key figures that have the nuke codes, he nukes us. So he wins indirectly, only possible if we remove his extremely haughty attitude towards muggle tech.
Also Fiendfyre tends to work, it’s stated that it can’t be extinguished no matter what, it will take a long time though so better to just do the first way.
So?
You can say that DBZ Goku can solo Star Wars even if there are countless galaxies teeming with life he'll never get around to exterminating. All relevant threats are neutralized, that's the statement.
Horcruxes wouldn't make him able to solo earth. The last time he died he needed a ton of outside help and an elaborate ritual to get a new body. None of which does he have if he's on his own.
That’s because people like to be quirky and say that wizards are ‘actually really weak trust me.’
Grindelwald with a single spell would’ve destroyed all of Paris, and that wasn’t even his intention, just a side effect of Protego Diabolica.
Wizards in Fantastic Beasts are routinely seen instantly teleporting and avoiding attacks they can’t even see coming. If someone can react to an attack they don’t see, they can react to a gun.
What? That's just not true lol. If the projectile is slower than a gun using fiction logic they could sense it. Also funny that is basically outliers because did Dumbledore just forget how to fight in the later movies?
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He smacked a planet so hard that he was peeling the crust off with his lightning. He has All-Father magic and can summon things from one place to another. Which means he can just launch things from space at Earth until the job is done. Assuming Jane didn't have random stat differences, he's also fast enough to travel the Earth multiple times and accurately scout it in the process at least between might and morning.
Segata Sanshiro is a non meme person literally on the level of meme Chuck Norris. He could quite effortlessly solo our Earth if every life form that has ever lived before on Earth all came back to life and had the single goal of killing Segata Sanshiro.
There's lots.
Just a few of the top ones from Marvel and DC: Superman, current Thor, Dr. Manhattan, Captain Marvel, Doomsday, Thanos w/ Gauntlet, Kang, Odin...
That list is in no way exhaustive though. There's a LOT of superpowered beings who would wreck our shit if we don't also have some supers to stop them with.
To go outside the usuals, Star Trek has a ton if veeeery high level reality manipulators.
In TOS alone, we have Charlie X, Trelane, and Gary Mitchell, probably even more than that.
Henry Cavill's and Tyler Hoechlin' superman. Grant Gustin's flash without the shit writing. Tom Ellis's Lucifer. It may sound weird but I'm pretty sure twilight vampires can also do it. It was stated that no human weapon can harm them, they have none of the usual vampire weaknesses and can only be killed by another vampire/werewolf/shape shifter.
The doctor (doctor who)
Thanos (Cinematic universe. Infinity war/endgame)
The guy from that movie where morgan freeman was god
The guy from do anything
Judy (twin peaks), or just any of the top tiers of twin peaks
The doctor is immortal and has the tardis for time travel
Also hes high complex multiversal with the key to time
The doctor would be High hyperversal to extraversal+ with the glory since the comics are canon to the live action version
* **Almost any Kamen Rider and Kamen Rider villain**. The very first Kamen Rider survived a nuke that would have reduced Tokyo to a gigantic crater, that's way past city level; and take note that his villains can harm him. King Dark could destroy mountains by just waking up, and it was implied he could atomize the planet, not just destroy it, reduce it to less than atoms.
* **Any Power Ranger villain and Ranger:** Rita could destroy islands and move the Moon with telekinesis, Rito crashed into the moon so hard he created a massive quake, Venjix nuked the planet so hard that it damaged the planet beyond repair, Lord Arcanon destroyed a planet.
Probably Homelander
Super hearing plus Mach 1.5 flight speed means that he'd be aware of nuclear bombs while they're airborne and he'd be able to outpace the blast
That's not how nukes work, they have to be dropped from airplanes
He can fly faster than nuclear blasts and can spend time in space, so yeah, he'd be good with nukes
ICBMs are at like Mach 20 during the reentry phase. They wouldn’t be able to target something as small as Homelander though I think. And he might hear it considering he seemingly heard the explosion made as a distraction in S1 instantly. Though we don’t know for sure how far that was.
Other nuclear weapons that could possibly hurt him are the Air-2 Genie, though that one is unguided so they’d need to rely on a lucky shot. Though those are no longer used. The AIM-26 would also be a good choice, and is guided, though they’re no longer used either.
Yeah, the forewarning from the super hearing is what makes me think he'd be able to fly away
That, and unless the United Earth Army is willing to nuke their own troops, Homelander isn't going to chill out in an empty desert somewhere
He absolutely never shows flight speeds that could outrun a nuke blast. Even A-Train couldn't outrun one at his peak in the show.
Also a nuclear bomb is the one thing that's actually used to threaten him besides Soldier Boy.
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Bucky Barnes probably. He says so himself that any Winter Soldier could take down an entire country in one night and you’d never see them coming, and he’s *the* Winter Soldier. Stronger than Cap, more fighting experience arguably. If he was still brainwashed and was being controlled by someone, he completely abandons his morals. He could take any country on to be honest.
This is frankly wrong. “Take down an entire country” probably means destabilizing their government, in which case, sure. But any trained squad armed with automatic rifles could take down Bucky, he’s just a more powerful human.
A shot to the head might not kill him, maybe, but it’ll knock him out. A tank would kill him.
If the world had no idea that he was attacking them maybe. But if they all knew that he was the threat he’d be wiped out pretty fast, he’s not bulletproof
Probably homelander. I'm sure there's weapons capable of killing him but he's too fast for them to hit him. Apparently a nuclear warhead could kill him but there's no way to hit him with that point blank. It might take him years but since he also apparently doesn't age he has time. Then there's Hancock who is very likely indestructible. Superman, Kang, flash, quicksilver, professor X etc.
Sentry from Marvel fits the bill. He was able to regenerate from his very atoms and holds near limitless speed and power. He doesn’t die if he isn’t feeling like it
Hancock. Apparently in the director’s commentary it was stated that a Tsar Bomba (50 megatons of tnt) would only knock him out. Considering a nuclear weapon of that magnitude is too impractical to use conventionally, Hancock couldn’t be stopped.
But what if all the world’s countries fired all their nukes at Hancock at once? Could he survive that?
Even if he couldn't, they wouldn't be able to hit him with any nuclear payload, let alone all of them all at once. Hancock no diffs earth.
Yeah dude would see them coming from literally miles away. Not a chance of even one hitting him.
He has the speed to fly to the moon and carve a heart into it and come back to earth before anyone noticed. The nukes could be heat seeking and would never come close to hitting him.
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Must he be able to tank them all to win the prompt, or is it cheating if he flies off to the moon when he sees the nukes flying towards him.
He can fly off temporarily but at some point he needs to defeat the entire world’s arsenal without getting destroyed himself
Then he definitely takes it.
He's too maneuverable, plus he can fly unaided in space. Hancock doesn't *seem* capable of soloing the world's military might, but if others say that he can, I believe it. He never showed his uppermost limits, just his lower ones.
He could slap the shit out of the Earth
Keep my wife's name out of your fucking mouth, Planet Earth.
Lmao
I see what you did there.
😁
What a disappointing movie. First half is legitimately amazing and funny then the second half comes along and flushes it down the drain. Should have kept the focus on Hancock becoming a better person and true hero while still keeping the tone light and comedic
Agreed. I want a Hancock 2
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You should've read the screenplay for it that they didn't use. I *Loved* the concept of Hancock, and sat down as a teenager to read the entire thing. Hancock was working with a therapist (instead of a PR consultant) and going over the troubles of heroism. He had a cape, wasn't an alcoholic (but was troubled), no discernable skin color, and probably presented the same way as the world in The Boys sees Homelander. But, something happens. Either Hancock fell in love with the therapist's wife (most likely) or he decided he'd had enough of something, the rising action happens, and the Therapist (armed with a rocket launcher) fights alongside the U.S. Military in trying to stop Hancock in a multi-level parking garage. Hancock is weaker here, but still all but invulnerable to conventional munitions. >!Ending: The Therapist wins, but the destruction of that parking garage during that fight-! It sounded [in my head] like what the whole fight in *Man of Steel* would've been like if it had been conducted in the underground parking garage of a single skyscraper! !<
I definitely disagree. The second half is the part that shows why he is what he is in the first and pulls the movie around full circle for how black people were historically treated in America. If it's just the first half, it's just "look, it's a Drunken screw up superhero."
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Aren't there more powerful nuclear weapons now? Granted, I *know* about Hancock. He's too maneuverable for conventional nuclear weapons. Mary would have to sacrifice herself at ground zero with a nuclear blast (or normal missile, depending) for Hancock to be defeated.
Dr manhattan? Hancock? Flash maybe? Superman ? Thanos with the gaunlet
Q?
Effortlessly
Does Dr. Manhattan count as live action?
Yes live action means real live actors so watchmen 2008 counts
Could flash survive hundreds of nukes though?
It's not a matter of whether he could survive them. It's the fact that they would never hit him
But how would he do with the fallout?
I mean, the prompt states that he has to solo the world. Not deal with the consequences. So if the world is so toast there's nowhere for him to run to without radiation poisoning him, I think he's already won the prompt tbh.
How would radiation poisoning even work on him? Considering his busted metabolism which he seems to control at will, also regenerative factor.
He runs away. Maybe to another planet, dimension, or even back in time. He literally could solo the entire planet before we knew we were fighting.
Nukes are not direct weapons, and they are not super precise, if the flash is fast enough he could outrun the blast wave, also i dont think there is any ICBM precise enough to hit a man-sized target, specially one moving at hypersonic speeds.
Dude could stand at ground zero and vibrate out of phase. Not even the radiation would touch him.
He could just phase through the explosions and (I could be wrong here) I believe his speed and enhanced healing could let him survive the fallout
Apart from all the versions of god. Likely Dr Manhattan from watchmen as we just cant kill him. Possibly godzilla as Nukes seem to make him stronger. Parralax and Galactus probably win. DCEU or Reeves supes is probably too fast for planes to drop bombs on and can fly higher than them. Gort from the day the earth stood still seemed to be doing it.
Dr Manhattan vs God from Bruce All Mighty who win?
Is there a live action Parallax or Galactus?
There're Evil Clouds G: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tvkZDxQY0g](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tvkZDxQY0g) P: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSruWlPobPY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSruWlPobPY)
Oh crap, you haven't watched that Green Latern movie?
Oh right. I have. I’d like to pretend I haven’t, but I have.
Godzilla literally got murked from a few jets with some spicy boiz onboard
That's the 1998 one. He's probably talking about the Monsterverse version. That one could only be handled by a much more advanced humanity that can make oxygen destroyers and giant mecha.
That one's not live action, all the monster-scale footage is CGI. That said, Heisei Godzilla *was* live action, and could do it. We don't have anywhere near the sci-fi weapons that were required to stop him in those movies. Same goes to the other live-action Godzillas to various degrees.
Well, if we're gonna be that pedantic, might as well disqualify other answers like Galactus, Parallax, Dr. Manhattan, Ultron, etc. cause those are all CGI characters in live-action movies.
Godzilla is in a live action movie, so he count's even if he's cgi.
OP is very clear: "No animated or drawn versions of characters." All-CGI films are considered animated films, and characters like the animated characters in *Who Framed Roger Rabbit* are still considered animated despite being in otherwise live-action films. Purely CGI characters are animated and I won't pretend they're not.
If you insist, but you do know the difference. It's silly to pretend CGI is the same as Who Framed Roger Rabbit
bI actually do genuinely disagree. *The Jungle Book* (2017) is an animated film with one live-action character, and *The Lion King* (2019) is an animated film, both as much so as *The Polar Express* (2004) or any of the *Toy Story* films, just with a different animation style. A different animation style, no matter how realistic, does not at any point transform animation into live action; nor does a 3D render or highly realistic painting at any point suddenly become a photograph no matter how visibly indistinguishable it might be. Live action is live action. The so-called 'Roger Rabbit effect' has been used to portray characters and creatures in live-action settings for a very long time, and not always with the conceit of them representing animated characters in universe. For example, [certain magical beasts](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1NbmK8a9VI) in [the BBC Chronicles of Narnia TV series](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chronicles_of_Narnia_(TV_series)) were represented this way, likely due to there not being a more feasible way to represent them in a both recognizable and more-or-less believable manner under the show's budget constraints. CGI is ultimately no different from this; the technique is simply refined so that the boundary between animation and live-action is less obvious.
Cgi is live action.
Live action Ultron. With no Jarvis to stop him he’d just nuke us first.
Wouldn’t even bother launching them, he’d just detonate them in the silos.
He’d do more damage launching them at major cities.
He might not even need the nukes tbh.
He will after looking at some of the darker subreddits.
Ultron going on the internet once and then immediately deciding humanity needs to be eradicated makes him truly the most relatable MCU villain.
Using this same logic, Zack Snyder's Cyborg.
How was he going to do that anyway? Pretty much none of the nukes in the world are on open systems. How was he even hacking these isolated non networked weapon systems? Most (all?) require physical actions like the turning of keys. Are the nukes in the MCU just way less secure?
They probably just assumed (correctly) that most people don’t know the intricacies of a nuclear launch.
I thought the two keys being turned at the same time was the biggest nuke launch cliché! haha
I mean if he was able to get the codes he could just do the manual portion with drones so it’s not like he couldn’t do it.
The codes are also not on any networks, right? It seems like most steps in the process would require drones just physically doing things.
Apparently, none of the writers of the MCU have played *Metal Gear: Solid.*
Most movie incarnations of Godzilla could probably do it. Nominating Legendary since he's the most recent one and he has been shown to actually regenerate from nuclear bombardment.
Also Godzilla 2000 technically already soloed Earth in 2004 Godzilla: Final Wars (And this earth have Kaijus)
Yep, I think the only ones which might fail are 1954 and Shin if he gets nuked, but the latter is disputable since if a single molecule survives he can regenerate back. 1998 definitely fails.
Showa might be able to pull it off too. In the movies it has been implied that a nuke couldn't kill it. Also Godzilla has managed to defeat Ghidorah, Ghidorah flying could destroy whole city blocks and he reduced Venus to a lifeless planet in a day meaning that the craters on Venus are actually Ghidorah's doing,
Oh yeah I definitely agree, just using Legendary as an example.
Lots. The MCU, Arrowverse and DCEU are stacked with characters who could do this, but there’s a lot of other shows/movies that have heavy hitters. Fox X-Men, 2 Spider-man franchises, 2 F4 franchises, The Boys, Titans, Watchmen, Umbrella Academy, Heroes, etc. I’d say there’s hundreds of characters who beat the world. But I’ll go with Zod, because you know he’d actually do it. Edit: it seems I may have listed some franchises that don’t have characters who could solo Earth. I was just listing superhero franchises as they popped into my head but the greater point still stands that there’s plenty of answers.
> The Boys, Definitely not. Those guys are all on the lower end of supers. Not too sure about either Spidey movie series either.
Pretty sure it was said no weapon on earth can stop homelander so he could probably solo earth
The only time this was stated in the live action show was from a character specifically propping up Homelander to be *the* number 1 best Supe. It's routinely been disproven in the show, Maeve pieced his eardrum with a metal pipe. I find it hard to believe that would have more force than a bullet.
Does homelander not consistently like walk straight through gunfire? I agree that Homelander wouldn't be able to resist like the entire world's arsenal, but he definitely can resist guns and Maeve's attack should definitely be stronger than a gunshot
Standard gunshot, yea, but I doubt those terrorists were using stuff like tank armor piercing rounds.
Also he's wearing a superhero costume. It's in all likelihood made of specialized ballistic fibers which give extra protection.
Butcher uses a huge rifle to shoot at Translucent and it doesn't even scratch him. He does the same thing to Starlight. Homelander is supposed to outstat both of them.
Translucent’s whole ability to turn invisible comes from his skin being a special type of insanely durable carbon (they compare it to diamonds in universe IIRC) that reflects light. He has absurd durability.
At the same time, if it were really that easy to kill Homelander with just a rifle, you know they would've done that. And also, the point about Starlight still stands. Additionally, he's supposed to be the upgrade to Soldier Boy, who tanks point blank assault rifle fire down his throat.
I’d wager that the government’s weapons arsenal is leagues above what Butcher has access to.
Most of the supes' holes are still weak to normal attacks, so in theory, a sniper could kill homelander with a bullet through his ears, but it's practically impossible to hit that shot. Sleeping gas also seems to be useful against supes aswell well, soilder boy at least not sure how well it works for others
Well, that wasn't sleeping gas it was Novichok, an incredibly deadly Russian nerve agent, worked on soldier boy mainly because he couldn't fly
It doesn't really matter how strong Maeve is, the limit here is the metal pipe. If the pipe can damage Homelander rather than just breaking against him, then he's not durable enough to endure the stronger real world weapons.
THIS. The entire "bulletproof" side of Homelander doesn't even make sense after the pipe antifeat, because it shows that he's absolutely not more durable than metal
Comics states otherwise, a nuke can stop him. (Well, it's theorized that it can stop him, but we never saw that theory coming to fruition)
It's been said, sure. Meanwhile, the show also shows Homelander becoming completely incapacitated by a singular metal straw getting shoved in his ear. I'm pretty sure the force of that impact is a far cry from the force of impact a nuclear bomb being dropped on his head would produce....
>incapacitated That's an overstatement lol, it was more of a "Huh, so this is pain." type of reaction. **Edit:** I'm not denying that a nuke would stop him though, but he'd kill millions before we got desperate enough to use one.
Who in the spider-man franchise could solo earth even people like sandman wouldn't be able kill enough humans since he can't kill large amounts of people when they are far away from each other and bombs have a good shot at cristalizing them
Sandman, Carnage, Venom, and probably Mysterio (if we involve Old Man Logan lore)
Live action not comics the only one here who has a shot is sandman and as I said we probably could transform him into glass
Well there is Electro. Theoretically, nothing could actually harm him, he'd just hide in an old generator after making the world destroy itself
EMPs?
Idk There'll be electricity or electric sources anywhere Can't catch what you can't see either
I don't think Zod could actually tank the full nuclear arsenal of the planet.
None of the Spider-Man characters could solo imo. Not even Sandman, Electro, Morbius, not even Dr Strange if you count him. Sandman got downed by a few missiles. Electro would get messed up by power outages. EMPs would be bad for him. Morbius is fast but he’d get hit eventually. Dr Strange is slow and not a great strategist
Dr. Strange would absolutely defeat Earth. Magic would render him invulnerable.
How? Ebony Maw and Spider-Man have both beat Strange 1v1
Strange wasn’t even trying against Spidey, he could’ve easily done something fatal. He was just trying to get the box. If he wanted to beat Spider-Man, he could have done so pretty easily. Maw, I think he’s become more powerful now.
Forget something fatal. Dr should have done something that could have easily beat Spider-Man without even harming him. Strange clowned Thor and Loki in Ragnarok without even trying and without hurting them. If anything, I think Strange has become weaker since Infinity War. Multiverse of Madness seems to be proof of that. As for your other comment, how would magics make him invulnerable? That might apply (in context of Earth irl) to comics or animated Dr Strange but not his live action self
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Does he? I just watched the scene and that doesn't happen.
Other way around. Thanos creates a black hole, Strange transmutes it into butterflies.
The cat in the hat
That is the most unexpected answer to a r/whowouldwin question I’ve ever seen, and I can’t say I disagree. The dude has crazy agility and a massive set of impossible tools
He could survive nukes?
His sheer presence would prevent a nuke from being launched in the first place. He's too menacing
I wouldn't be surprised
He'd probably just turn the nukes into a water balloon or change their explosions to be filled with confetti. Not sure how he'd win though, I'd say he'd be pretty much impossible to beat but I don't think he'd have the ability to actually defeat anybody either.
CW Flash was fast enough to run around the world several times over in only a few seconds. Later in an alternate future, Thawne had caused the destruction of the world just by running, Barry should be capable of the same given they fight evenly all the time. Without morals, he’s phasing his hand through the hearts of all the militaries in a minute at most.
Dr. Manhattan, The Mask, Bruce Almighty (If his power become global), General Zod, Surtr, Hela, Ego, a Celestial, IG Thanos, Ultron (Through Hacking, he only stopped because of Jarvis), Godzilla (His 2004 version soloed earth filled with Kaiju, he should be able to do the same to our earth), and Cloud Galactus from the Fantastic 4 Movie Also, a competent CW Flash
Bruce's power is already global, he could lasso the Moon and teleport anywhere.
>he could lasso the Moon and teleport anywhere. Dont forget the dude literally created and erased stars in the sky with a tap of a finger
Probably killing countless alien life forms in the process. Yeah, he could totally erase earth if God let him.
I vaguely remembering Morgan Freeman Character saying that he only gave him the authority on Buffalo City, or is it just the prayer?
Just the prayer part of it, he gave him unlimited power, but only gave him a taste of the responsibility that came with it.
Thanks for the correction
Easily Doctor Who - Jack Harkness Vampire Diaries - Any of the Mikaelsons aside from Freya and pre-Vampire Hope Harry Potter - Voldemort Literally any character who can only be killed through magic or technobabble. EDIT: post says all he has to do is survive all of Earth attacking him at once.
Jack would get captured pretty easily, he's immortal but he isn't superhuman. Now the doctor. different story.
The post says all he has to do is survive all of Earth attacking him. The Doctor could easily solo Earth yes, but he's not surviving a nuke without equipment.
depends on if the doctor could figure out if the nuke was coming, how long he had to make a plan. we've literally never seen the doctor fail with these kind of doomsday scenarios
Yes with even a second of prep time he'd probably win. But the Doctor taken by surprise, there's nothing that would save him if a nuke actually went off in his face.
He’s probably regenerate, I imagine.
The Mikaelsons get clapped. Elijah and Kol have been incapacitated multiple times by way younger vampires, and no matter the age, vampires in the show often get tagged by wooden bullets or crossbow bolts more often than not.
Voldemort could get taken out by a sniper
Horcruxes are the point being made, I think
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He doesn’t have good firepower, but he uses ours. Let’s say he at least has a semblance of a brain, and let’s also tone down his extreme wizard pride. Then he actually bothers to read up muggle newspapers and facts and quickly finds out some powerful leaders and where they live and blah blah blah. Then he teleports to them and does some Imperious or something like that and through mass teleporting around and controlling key figures that have the nuke codes, he nukes us. So he wins indirectly, only possible if we remove his extremely haughty attitude towards muggle tech. Also Fiendfyre tends to work, it’s stated that it can’t be extinguished no matter what, it will take a long time though so better to just do the first way.
He doesn't need firepower, he just needs to teleport everywhere and mind control world leaders into nuking each other
That's not "soloing Earth" because a lot of people are still going to survive
So? You can say that DBZ Goku can solo Star Wars even if there are countless galaxies teeming with life he'll never get around to exterminating. All relevant threats are neutralized, that's the statement.
Horcruxes wouldn't make him able to solo earth. The last time he died he needed a ton of outside help and an elaborate ritual to get a new body. None of which does he have if he's on his own.
I thought it was established that if the muggles and wizards went to war the muggles would win.
They might win direct confrontations but have no answer to anti muggle charms and mind control of leaders.
That’s because people like to be quirky and say that wizards are ‘actually really weak trust me.’ Grindelwald with a single spell would’ve destroyed all of Paris, and that wasn’t even his intention, just a side effect of Protego Diabolica. Wizards in Fantastic Beasts are routinely seen instantly teleporting and avoiding attacks they can’t even see coming. If someone can react to an attack they don’t see, they can react to a gun.
What? That's just not true lol. If the projectile is slower than a gun using fiction logic they could sense it. Also funny that is basically outliers because did Dumbledore just forget how to fight in the later movies?
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And nuclear weapons.
Okay this thread had so many more than I expected. Shockingly no Dr Manhattan in the top few.
A couple people mentioned him already.
um.. superman?
Mcu thor thrashes the planet
I kinda doubt that
He smacked a planet so hard that he was peeling the crust off with his lightning. He has All-Father magic and can summon things from one place to another. Which means he can just launch things from space at Earth until the job is done. Assuming Jane didn't have random stat differences, he's also fast enough to travel the Earth multiple times and accurately scout it in the process at least between might and morning.
You sure you're talking about MCU Thor?
Segata Sanshiro is a non meme person literally on the level of meme Chuck Norris. He could quite effortlessly solo our Earth if every life form that has ever lived before on Earth all came back to life and had the single goal of killing Segata Sanshiro.
There's lots. Just a few of the top ones from Marvel and DC: Superman, current Thor, Dr. Manhattan, Captain Marvel, Doomsday, Thanos w/ Gauntlet, Kang, Odin... That list is in no way exhaustive though. There's a LOT of superpowered beings who would wreck our shit if we don't also have some supers to stop them with.
There are a lot. Pointless question.
Hancock is the simplest answer. Too strong to resist, too fast to counteract, too tough to hurt.
Kamen Rider Kuuga can split the planet in half with a kick.
Chuck Norris. Why? Do I even need to explain?
To go outside the usuals, Star Trek has a ton if veeeery high level reality manipulators. In TOS alone, we have Charlie X, Trelane, and Gary Mitchell, probably even more than that.
There have been like 6 live action supermen...
Lucifer morningstar if he was upset enough
DCEU Superman?
Henry Cavill's and Tyler Hoechlin' superman. Grant Gustin's flash without the shit writing. Tom Ellis's Lucifer. It may sound weird but I'm pretty sure twilight vampires can also do it. It was stated that no human weapon can harm them, they have none of the usual vampire weaknesses and can only be killed by another vampire/werewolf/shape shifter.
Superman, Thor, Thanos, Steppenwolf and so many more.
The doctor (doctor who) Thanos (Cinematic universe. Infinity war/endgame) The guy from that movie where morgan freeman was god The guy from do anything Judy (twin peaks), or just any of the top tiers of twin peaks
Doctor who could survive hundreds of nukes?
The doctor is immortal and has the tardis for time travel Also hes high complex multiversal with the key to time The doctor would be High hyperversal to extraversal+ with the glory since the comics are canon to the live action version
* **Almost any Kamen Rider and Kamen Rider villain**. The very first Kamen Rider survived a nuke that would have reduced Tokyo to a gigantic crater, that's way past city level; and take note that his villains can harm him. King Dark could destroy mountains by just waking up, and it was implied he could atomize the planet, not just destroy it, reduce it to less than atoms. * **Any Power Ranger villain and Ranger:** Rita could destroy islands and move the Moon with telekinesis, Rito crashed into the moon so hard he created a massive quake, Venjix nuked the planet so hard that it damaged the planet beyond repair, Lord Arcanon destroyed a planet.
Same as Super Sentai
There're now so many godly Kamen Rider or reality-manipulating Riders too.
If his head is screwed on right, CW Flash *should* be able to accomplish this near effortlessly
This is a terrible question so I’m going to go with extremes and say Sun Wukong and Goku
Are there any live action appearances of Goku?
.....noooope, definitely not
Dragon Ball Evolution
Shhh. We don't talk about that
Homelander
Legendary Godzilla
Showa Godzilla, he's a 4D kaiju.
Mcu thanos just snaps and humanity is gone
Probably Homelander Super hearing plus Mach 1.5 flight speed means that he'd be aware of nuclear bombs while they're airborne and he'd be able to outpace the blast
Homelander could survive all the world’s nukes exploding on him at once?
That's not how nukes work, they have to be dropped from airplanes He can fly faster than nuclear blasts and can spend time in space, so yeah, he'd be good with nukes
Nukes today are nearly all missiles, they’re not being dropped from planes.
How fast do those johns move? How loud are they?
ICBMs are at like Mach 20 during the reentry phase. They wouldn’t be able to target something as small as Homelander though I think. And he might hear it considering he seemingly heard the explosion made as a distraction in S1 instantly. Though we don’t know for sure how far that was. Other nuclear weapons that could possibly hurt him are the Air-2 Genie, though that one is unguided so they’d need to rely on a lucky shot. Though those are no longer used. The AIM-26 would also be a good choice, and is guided, though they’re no longer used either.
Yeah, the forewarning from the super hearing is what makes me think he'd be able to fly away That, and unless the United Earth Army is willing to nuke their own troops, Homelander isn't going to chill out in an empty desert somewhere
Like Mach 3+
Do they have any kind of tracking? Like, could they currently follow a man-sized moving target?
It's a missile, you don't exactly need to be dead on. Especially if they launch a total barrage to cover every escape route
He absolutely never shows flight speeds that could outrun a nuke blast. Even A-Train couldn't outrun one at his peak in the show. Also a nuclear bomb is the one thing that's actually used to threaten him besides Soldier Boy.
Definitely not Homelander.
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Thanos?
God has been in a lot of movies
MCU Scarlet Witch.
Bucky Barnes probably. He says so himself that any Winter Soldier could take down an entire country in one night and you’d never see them coming, and he’s *the* Winter Soldier. Stronger than Cap, more fighting experience arguably. If he was still brainwashed and was being controlled by someone, he completely abandons his morals. He could take any country on to be honest.
This is frankly wrong. “Take down an entire country” probably means destabilizing their government, in which case, sure. But any trained squad armed with automatic rifles could take down Bucky, he’s just a more powerful human. A shot to the head might not kill him, maybe, but it’ll knock him out. A tank would kill him.
If the world had no idea that he was attacking them maybe. But if they all knew that he was the threat he’d be wiped out pretty fast, he’s not bulletproof
The easy answer is any live action uppercase G God.
Probably homelander. I'm sure there's weapons capable of killing him but he's too fast for them to hit him. Apparently a nuclear warhead could kill him but there's no way to hit him with that point blank. It might take him years but since he also apparently doesn't age he has time. Then there's Hancock who is very likely indestructible. Superman, Kang, flash, quicksilver, professor X etc.
Sentry from Marvel fits the bill. He was able to regenerate from his very atoms and holds near limitless speed and power. He doesn’t die if he isn’t feeling like it
NEEDS TO BE LIVE ACTION. When has there been a live action sentry?