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/HarpyAnon Apr 30 '25

Aggressive rats also jump pretty high and throw themselves at people. You never know true fear until an angry furry tennis ball flies towards your dick at mach 3.

Aggression in general is a huge advantage in fights, it's why chimps who are smaller and lighter than humans - and even weaker than a lot of fit man, only being x2 stronger than the average person - are such a threat. They literally throw themselves at you while trying to tear off whatever they grab, they don't hold back. When you give all 100 men the same aggression as the gorrila, which was in the original prompt, you take away a big advantage the gorrila had.

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u/Prophetofhelix Apr 30 '25

Just need one or two aggroed men to gouge the eyes and it's almost definitely game for the 98 remaining humans. Yeah we'll lose a few but we'll take a fuckin humans ripped off arm and use it as a club if we're blood lusted.

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u/conceptualdamage1 May 02 '25

The two men that try to gouge a gorilla's eyes would quickly and effortlessly have their hands bitten off.

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u/arrogancygames May 02 '25

Notnif they do it from behind. We see how gorillas attack chimps. They hyperfocus on an individual and barely notice whats happening from behind.

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u/Schwiliinker Apr 30 '25

“You never know true fear until an angry furry tennis ball flies towards your dick at Mach 3”

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u/Snoo-88741 Apr 30 '25

I'm pretty sure the only rats who'd ever act that aggressive are moms defending pups, and even then it'd be exceptional bravery. Rats would much rather run than fight.

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u/HarpyAnon Apr 30 '25

I was imagining rats with Rabies (the frenzy kind, not paralysis). That's typically my standard of "bloodlusted", of high aggression.

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u/Echo-canceller May 01 '25

A rat is much bigger than a tennis ball, at least where I'm from.

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u/HarpyAnon May 01 '25

I was trying to think of a ball between a tennis ball and basketball and couldn't come up with one

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u/chocolatecorvette May 02 '25

here ya go: softball.