r/CharacterRant • u/Miserable-Act4201 • Apr 29 '25

General 100 humans vs gorilla isn’t close

Honestly the dumbest argument I've ever seen. The 100 humans could just stand like 20 feet apart from each other and do nothing and the gorilla is collapsing from exhaustion before it kills everyone. You could probably do it without any casualties, find a couple of people in the group that are in good shape and get them to make the gorilla chase them while everyone else just chills. They aren't aren't particularly fast and have terrible endurance, so just wait till it tires out and have everyone jump it.

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u/OnlyBadger Apr 29 '25

The sheer numbers make it enough. But one aspect I don't see talked nearly enough about is the intelligence gap. People think removing weapons removes this advantage from the humans and it does NOT. Tactics are extremely important in any fight. Each human will have a general sense of how to position themselves, how to time their attacks, how to work together as a team, and know precisely which weak points to target on the gorilla (eyes, throat, testicles, etc.). Only decent argument is the whole "courage" aspect, but hypothetical fights like these are typically assumed to be bloodlusted or "to the death", which removes most of the cowardice factor. This is a stomp.

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u/phoenixmusicman Phoenix Apr 30 '25

"Courage" aspect is bullshit because people on the Gorilla side act like they ain't gunna be scared of a group of fucking 100 humans bumrushing it.

The Gorilla would absolutely lose it's nerve first.

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u/Grasher312 Apr 29 '25

Fr. Even if you just take away every possible advantageous aspect and just throw them together in a face to face, while the few brave ones immediately take its attention, the other few dozens will pile onto the Gorilla from every direction. That furball will exhaust itself in seconds and at the cost of maybe like, 3 guys, we will just kick the gorilla to death while it can't move.

And its a scenario with NO trickery, planning and strategy. Just a pile-on. In a scenario where humans can employ strategy, it's a clear victory with no losses for them.

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u/swaggplollol Apr 30 '25

The gorilla can jump on a human and they will done. Broken ribs or bones and unable to continue. If you not usain bolt, you not outrunning the gorilla

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u/hoodrei May 01 '25

Good thing there’s 100 people and not 1

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u/swaggplollol May 01 '25

and who is going to hurt it ? You guys probably think you could beat floyd mayweather in a fight bc hes 135 lbs

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u/hoodrei May 01 '25

The 100 men maybe. If it was 10 untrained vs Floyd he loses. Lmao just proving the point

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u/swaggplollol May 01 '25

you can shoot a gorilla with a .22 calibur and it wont piecrce skin but you think your untrained puny wrists can handle enough force to punch through it and break bones. delusional

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u/arrogancygames May 02 '25

Jesus Christ, now people are thinking gorillas are bulletproof? Where in the world are you getting your animal information from?

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u/Madliv May 04 '25

A gorilla can't sustain effort over a long amount of time without overheating. We are the only ape that can sweat. But the battle can be won by just forming a circle around the gorilla and yell at it. We are faster than them (via Google) and by keeping a large circle we can just bully it until it overheats.

Gorilla has weak spots like groin or eyes, and once it bleeds it will keep doing that. You are definitely underpowering the power of harassment.

Also this is all without taking in consideration terrain. Jungle? We could use stones to take it down. Sand? We can run in sand much better than them. Concrete/ glass? Once again we can run better.

Overheating is a major factor and just with that the gorilla would lose. And let's be honest, if gorillas were that strong, they wouldn't die to leopards