Unfortunately, I think the deck is stacked a bit in favour of Jedi, as they seem to gain more powers as they get more experienced, so for the sake of argument, the Jedi are made up of your average Jedi Knight level skill set.
Also, for the sake of argument, a light sabre doesn’t cut Captain America’s shield (Wolverine’s claws don’t, so light sabres don’t either). They also don’t cut Mjolnir, as I seem to remember Thor once saying this would pretty much blow the universe in half.
They will cut the Hulk though, but it will take a while (like when Qui-gon Jin tried to cut through the door on the trade federation ship at the start of TPM). He heals very quickly too.
It’s going to entirely depend on the battlefield and the writer. And which Avengers. In an enclosed space with a really pissed off Hulk, what you are going to get is Jedi paste all over the walls. In a more wide-open space, you just have Dr. Strange or the Scarlett Witch work their mojo on the Jedi.
A jedi might be able to mind-trick the hulk and calm him down into Bruce Banner and then kill him in a sedated state. Or levitate him, making him ineffective. I don’t think it’s as lopsided as some people think.
Levitating Hulk is going to take quite a bit of power and a whole shit-pot of concentration, none of which a Jedi is going to get. Not with Cap’s shield and Mjolnir flying around and repulsor blasts shaking things up. But why bother? Just a touch of magic and the Jedi vanish. Or Strange could just block the Jedi Force games and let Hulk smash.
Black Widow and Hawkeye have a respectable showing, but are defeated without taking out any Jedi, just distracting and inconveniencing them. Hawkeye is the only one who gets Jedi mind tricked. The others aren’t susceptible, but Loki having opened that door, makes him vulnerable.
Captain America assess the situation and shouts a clever strategy at the surviving/conscious Avengers. His shield gives him enough cover to stay in the game for awhile, but eventually, it gets shot down the block when deflected by a lightsaber or force pushed far enough away to leave him vulnerable. He takes out zero Jedi.
Iron Man fares better than one might guess, owing to all the trouble Qui-Gon and Obi Wan had with those droidekas - and he’s way better than those. He takes out two with blasts or mini-missles before having his arc reactor melted in his chest from a lightsaber’s piercing blow.
Then it’s four Jedi vs Hulk and Thor – which is really what this fight comes down to. Maybe Thor could be physically beaten. Loki took some fight out of him with a dagger to the guts, and his lightning attack could be blocked by the best of the Jedi with their lightsabers. But even if it is possible for Thor to go down, he’s taking some Jedi out. Easily two. This would be the fight to watch, as it would be a Mjolnir vs lightsaber duel.
Hulk bats cleanup. Whoever is left, can’t touch him. He’s classically impervious to mind tricks and magic. Any damage a lightsaber could impart would be 1) healed faster than Wolverine and 2) make him angrier thereby stronger. Plus Jedis rarely go for a full on brutal kill - which is really the only incredibly fleeting hope vs Hulk. He could literally eat the six lightsabers.
I think this is framed a little unevenly. We’ve got Earth’s Mightiest Heroes versus Corsucant’s Averagest Jedi. We need some faces Team Lightsaber. If we’re talking six on six, using the Avenger lineup from the movie, we have to pull the heavy hitters in form the other franchise to balance things out:
Yoda
Mace Windu
Obi-Wan
Anakin
Gui-Gon
Luke
I’m ignoring time frames for this, obviously: characters are taken at the height of their abilities as seen in the movies: Obi-Wan and Yoda would be their younger, prequel era selves, and it has to be pre-Dark Side Anakin, since the requirement is that he still be a Jedi.
I still give this one to the Avengers, mostly because of the Hulk factor, but it would be a much closer fight.
I’m pretty sure the Avengers would win, if only because the Jedi would be too busy having meetings and muttering about vague feelings to actually do anything useful. By the time they reached enough of a consensus to actually get down to Force pushin’, lightsaberin’ business, Thor and Hulk would’ve converted half of them to wall paste. And the other half would have long since been assimilated into Stark’s new Midichlorian-powered arc reactor.
Running with the movie Avengers team vs the Jedi Superfriends… I wonder how this battle would look if it sort of split up into a mass of concurrent one-on-one duels?
Most powerful vs most powerful would probably be Yoda vs Hulk. I think this would mostly be a standoff, Yoda would have a hard time doing damage to Hulk, but Hulk wouldn’t be able to land a finger on Yoda (talking Clone Wars-era, hight-of-his-power Yoda). I wonder if Yoda could Jedi Mindtrick him into turning back into Bruce? Failing that, Hulk might take this if his stamina outlasts Yoda’s.
Captain America vs Obi-Wan… Cap’s shield can’t take any damage, but it wouldn’t be much trouble for a powerful Jedi to take it away from him completely. Shieldless Cap vs any Jedi isn’t much of a competition.
I know there’s no Sith in the proposed battle, but any application of force lightning would probably cripple or shut down Iron Man. Anakin’d be willing to go Dark enough to do it.
I don’t think movie-version Hawkeye, Black Widow, or Nick Fury really pose a serious threat to the Jedi. I can see Mace Windu taking them all on at once.
That leaves Qui-Gon and Luke left to take on Thor, and there’s the real problem for the Jedi team. Unclear if Mjolnir can be moved or captured using the Force. But let’s assume no… Their best bet then is to take advantage of Thor’s hot-headedness. Possible that Qui-Gon can outsmart Thor somehow and separate him from his Hammer. Then the two of them might have a chance.
Is Force Lightning actually electricity, as natural lightning, or is it a manifestation of some more nebulous Force power?
If it’s electricity, it’s not going to tear Iron Man down. Thor zapped him in the movie and it only supercharged him.
On the flip side, if it is only electricity, then Thor’s ability to control lightning will be negated among the Jedi, especially if we use Miller’s superteam, most of whom are able to catch Force Lightning on their saber.
If Force Lightning isn’t actually electricity, then it will probably hurt Iron Man, but by the same token the Jedi won’t be able to defend against Thor.
Also, I don’t think you can rely on mind control from the Jedi; it requires a weak mind, and I don’t think you can fairly say any of the Avengers are weak-minded. Maybe influenced, the way Loki influenced them through the scepter, but that’s a slow, subtle process. There wouldn’t be any “This isn’t the fight you’re looking for” going on.
Honestly I think the Jedi would have their work cut out for them. The Avengers are too varied in ability and have more capacity to work as a team than the Jedi do, and Jedi don’t generally enjoy comic-book invulnerability the way the Avengers do. The Jedi would have to beat the Avengers down with a lot of effort, while the Avengers only need to get lucky once to incapacitate any one Jedi.
This all assumes of course they don’t get to talking and all go out for shawarma.
Exactly what is the width of a repulsor blast? The Jedi are great at blocking narrow blaster bolts and the like, but a pulse bolt from Stark’s armor will likely blow them into bantha kibble. It would be like blocking a cannon ball with an epee.
I don’t think the Jedi Mind Trick would work on any of the Avengers. It’s only supposed to work on the weak-minded, and I don’t think that applies to any of the Avengers. The Hulk, in particular, could be dangerous to Jedi just by standing near them: he’s a bottomless well of inchoate rage, and the Jedi are strong empaths. Just being in the same room as the Hulk would probably put most lesser Jedi into a coma. More powerful Jedi would probably be able to cope with it by damping down their sensitivity, but that might also affect their ability to fight: it’s not clear how much of a Jedi’s combat abilities rely on being able to read other people’s feelings.
Per the movie, shooting magical lightning at Tony Stark just supercharges his suit, and allows him to respond with a exceptionally powerful energy blast.
It’s also worth noting that Boba Fett (and Jango Fett)'s armor was a relic of the Mandalorian wars, and was invented specifically to give non-force users a fighting chance against Jedi - and it almost worked. The Iron Man suit is significantly more powerful than Mandalorian armor: it allows sustained flight, incorporates several heavy weapons systems, and is arguably better protection than the Mando suits. It should give Tony a huge advantage against most Jedi, and a significant edge even against any of the A-list Jedi I posted earlier.
The Star Wars universe does have repulsor lift technology, but I don’t know that we’ve ever seen it weaponized. I think the big advantage Stark has here is that his repulsors are actual beam weapons, instead of blasters. A Jedi who parries one repulsor beam has effectively had his lightsaber locked down until Stark stops firing it, and he’s got a second beam in his other hand.
Another issue is that two of the Avengers can fly, which would allow them to keep the range open, longer than most things the jedi can do to them. Thor would be limited in his ability to fight from a height, since he has to keep hold of his primary weapon to keep flying, but he could just drop mundane rocks on them, or the like. And Iron Man, of course, could and would easily continue to blast away from above.
Why are they even fighting? 'Cuz you know MODOK, Baron Zemo, and Kang the Conqueror are all on a Star Destroyer right now plotting something with the Emperor.
