Answer a question : who’d win in a fight between X & Y. Give a reasonable argument for your answer. Then post you own match for the next person to answer.
For example, in an episode of Angel Spike and Angel were arguing over the question : Who’d win in a fight between Cavemen and Astronauts.
My answer : Cavemen were below average (modern) height, and suffered from scurvey, malnutrition and rickets, while astronauts are usually from a military background, healthy, at the peak of physical fitness, and have at least some training in hand to hand combat. No contest.
Then I’d ask : Who’d win in a fight between LEELA from Doctor Who and LEELA from Futurama?
I have no idea who this LEELA is, so I don’t know. I would give my input on the caveman, astronaut fight though. I think the caveman would kick ass because he has to survive, on a daily basis the attacks of the Wooly Mammouth, the brontosaurus, and still manage to find food. The biggest risk to the astronaut on an average day is crossing against the lights. No contest.
My turn: Who would win in a fight between Jesus and Moses?
Moses grew up a pampered prince, Jesus grew up the son of a carpenter. Moses had confidence problems and had to get his brother to be his frontman, while Jesus grabbed up a whip and chased moneychangers out of the temple. Jesus by KO.
Who would win in a fight between the vampire Lestat and a Tyrannosaurus Rex?
I do not think you are taking this very seriously.
Jesus would lose as if he was the son of God he was into sacrificing himself for humanity and was a peaceful man and never a fighter. If he was just a man, he led the life of rabbinical student and lived on the charity of others. Neither would make him a fighter. Moses was tough as nails and led his people to freedom from a martial power that was very strong. He led them through the desert and many perils. His God was a Wrathful God, Jesus’ God, not so much.
Who would win a fight between Jackie Chan and Bruce Lee?
With and without weapons?
Real life vs. Movie personas?
With miscellaneous garbage, strewn around?
Bruce Lee in all four. This being the internet and all, Bruce Lee was, and is, simply incapable of defeat. Have you seen the scene in “Way of the Dragon” where Bruce Lee’s character kills Chuck Norris? That’s actually footage of the battle that will occur at the end of time when Bruce Lee will kill Chuck Norris, thus destroying the universe.
Sorry - don’t have anything to add to this, other than that the other day my family - for whatever reason - was discussing tigers. The question of their size came up, and then other large carnivores. Well, one thing came to another, and someone (not me!) asked, “So which do you think would win in a fight, a Siberian tiger or a grizzly bear?”
Man, were they ever surprised at the depth of analysis I was immediately able to bring to the debate! Thanks, dopers, for further convincing my family that I have a screw loose!
Leela from Dr. Who is a huntress, as I recall. From what I’ve seen of Futurama, that Leela wouldn’t stand a chance.
A confrontation between Moses and Jesus would turn into a theological / religous debate. I’d want Rambam to judge the match. (Since these people are from three different millenia, could we please have magical translators from Star Trek?)
Here’s two I’ve asked the Internet Oracle about:
Internet Oracle v. Cecil Adams
Buzz Aldrin v. “Moon hoax” claimant
(Bonus points for whoever comes closest to the Oracle’s answer on the Buzz Aldrin match.)
Keep in mind I haven’t read the books in a log time and officially threw Memnoch the Devil, the last one I admit to reading, across the room when I was done with it…
Lestat can fly. He’s also the GM’s boyfriend – er, GM’s girlfriend – er, beloved of his author and gets more immortal every book. Lestat in Interview? So eaten. By the time Queen of the Damned is over, he could punch through your average T-Rex. Even if it ate him he’d stomp through its lower intestine.
If he was stuck in a mortal body, naturally he’d be et.
We were playing this game while sitting around in undergrad and someone asked this same question, and I came to the same conclusion you did. In the later books, Lestat can fly and is strong like Superman, or at least the the Thing). Lestat of the later books would fly rings aroung the T. Rex and tear it into tiny pieces, no contest.
What time periods are the Marines? In 1840, I bet on the Hawaiians. Modern day Marines with full combat gear vs. any historical Hawaiian warrior nation, my money is on the Marines.
I would even bet on the Hawaiians against 1970 Marines as the IR gear and advance communications equipment is lacking in the Vietnam era.
Bugs Bunny. Not even a prepared Batman stands a chance against Bugs, because you can’t prepare for him. Any device or strategy is going to backfire. In fact, there is only one character at all who stands a chance, because he has the same ability to make things go wrong (but does it against lesser opponents), so I’ll ask:
I raised Heckle and Jeckle as they were self-aware cartoon tricksters like Bugs, but more malicious and less intelligent. It would also be two against one. I think you dismiss them to easily or perhaps misremember who there were.
Roadrunner would win as Roadrunner would never provoke Bugs so therefore Bugs would be in the rare position of being the aggressor. When Bugs is the aggressor, his powers are greatly diminished. Think of the Tortoise and the Hare encounters. Now if you could somehow get Roadrunner to provoke Bugs, well I would see the Roadrunner losing very handily and possible served up roasted to the Coyote.
