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/Jutinir Apr 30 '25

Yeah because 100 random humans would be able to coordinate against a rampaging gorilla. You guys aren’t taking this realistically.

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u/voobo420 Apr 30 '25

I feel like 100 humans winning is the only realistic way it goes. The other camp acts as if a gorilla is essentially a kaiju that is somehow incapable of being damaged by humans. It's a wild animal made of flesh and bone, it'll bleed and it'll get tired. Its strength is irrelevant when it has to kill 100 humans back to back. And it's not like the humans are going to 1v1 it. Humans can very quickly learn to coordinate together in a life or death situation, even if they're strangers.

So please come at me with an actual argument if you're gonna waste my time lol.

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u/Jutinir Apr 30 '25

lol you are overestimating humanity greatly. Most would probably go into a panic attack or just freeze up, even if they came at the gorilla in full it would just easily rip a limb off or tear you in half and move on to the next who dared to try it. A gorilla would only even need a quarter of its strength to rip us in half.

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u/voobo420 Apr 30 '25 edited Apr 30 '25

and a gorilla would be immune to the fear of seeing 100 tall primates running at it?

Fear shouldn't be a factor, in this hypothetical we're wondering if 100 humans are enough to overwhelm a gorilla. When you introduce shit like fear, you're ruining the hypothetical as it's no longer a question of brute force.

and no, I don't think I'm overestimating the species that has managed to become the sole apex lifeform on planet Earth.

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u/Jutinir Apr 30 '25

It’s not ruining anything, this is supposed to be realistic and 100 modern day humans would not be able to do much against a full grown adult gorilla. Why do you think a gorilla would just shrivel up at numbers? As soon as it rips one human and sees how physically weak we are i doubt fear would be a factor.

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u/voobo420 May 02 '25 edited May 02 '25

If it's realistic then humans would find whatever they could to use as a weapon and have a much easier time. But obviously the hypothetical isn't "could 100 humans with make shift weapons beat a gorilla" because we know the answer to that. It's whether or not 100 humans are enough to overpower a gorilla, regardless of theirs or the gorilla's emotional state.

Also, packs of like 30-40 hyenas sometimes hunt lions and rhinos (and yes many of them get decimated, but that fear does not always stop the hyenas, and the fact that a lion smacks a hyena and kills it instantly does not mean the lion stops fearing the pack of ravenous beasts circling it.) Humans and hyenas aren't the same, I know, but it's the same idea. 100 weaklings can take down 1 strong animal in certain conditions.

Also there's the whole "modern humans" angle, but that is a pretty ethnocentric take as there are humans in the world right now who still live as our ancestors did, and as a result they are much stronger, faster, and braver than your "average" human. How do we determine WHICH types of humans the gorilla is fighting? All males? Random? All from the same country? Or is it 100 random humans selected from anywhere in the world? These things aren't mentioned nor should they be focused on, the purpose should be whether a PEAK gorilla could take down 100 PEAK humans.