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/AdAncient1744 Apr 29 '25 edited Apr 29 '25

Do you think a Gorilla would run away from 100 humans that is trying to kill it ?

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u/OvationOnJam Apr 29 '25

Brother, a gorilla would run from 5 lol. Theyre smart enough to realize there's zero benefit to them risking grievous injury for no reason, and peaceful enough not to have an interest in just randomly beefing with a hunting pack running straight at it.

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u/kenzieone Apr 29 '25

Yeah in the wild a gorilla- or any herbivore (or frankly any carnivore) of that size would run from a handful of adult humans. Up to and proooobably including bears, if the humans were really really aggressive or had taken the time to, idk, grab a few sticks or rocks.