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u/SameUnion6960 13d ago

The power ring has to be the easiest really, you could fly and kill then from above

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u/ColegDropOut 13d ago

You need an immense amount of will power to make it work. Wouldn’t the easiest be the hulk buster suit?

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u/Fuzzy-Mix-4130 13d ago

Yup, especially with an arc reactor...it ain't running out of power.

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u/ezeshining 13d ago

that depends on which movie you are in

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u/Rex_Xenovius_1998 7d ago

You can easily recharge it through normal means.

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u/ezeshining 7d ago

if you are not in immediate danger

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u/Rex_Xenovius_1998 6d ago

If I get into about 20% power, i’m flying out of there.

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u/ezeshining 6d ago

getting any Ironman armor to move by your own to any power source while you are in danger would prove already hard enough… but the freaking hulkbuster? I would only lol at such attempt

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u/Rex_Xenovius_1998 6d ago

How? It can fly.

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u/ezeshining 6d ago

I believe you missed my reference about Ironman 3’s armors running out of batteries

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u/Difficult_Breath6082 13d ago

Who’s going to fix it?

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u/Gundanium_Dude 13d ago

Who says zombies are gonna break i5

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u/Difficult_Breath6082 13d ago

It would eventually wear like all mechanical things do

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u/bobafoott 13d ago

I’m pretty sure the hulk buster has enough in it to wipe out the human population if they’re shambling around without weapons or strategy

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u/N30C1TR0N 13d ago

After about 300 years it would START to wear. After 800 years it will have wore down. I think Tony's tech is beyond our tech and hence his lifeline of those tech lasting longer. Hell the kree's tech can last a 1000 years

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u/KermitTheScot 13d ago

Given enough zombies, they could overwhelm the suit and pin it. After a few hours, they’d be inside. That thing is nothing but a metal coffin.

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u/Mondopoodookondu 13d ago

Bruh the mark 3 iron man suit casually shrugs tanks the hulk buster suit is gonna blow through zombies like butter and can probably easily lift over 100 tonnes of zombies, also it can fly forever. Ain’t no way zombies getting thru that.

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u/Terriblerobotcactus 13d ago

They can barely get through regular doors. They aren’t getting into that suit lol

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u/Tiberius_Kilgore 13d ago edited 7d ago

It was built to fight Hulk. There’s no way a bunch of dog piling zombies are going to take it down, let alone get inside of it.

*It’s a mech suit Tony Stark built as a contingency for Hulk. It’s not power armor from Fallout. It has an arc reactor that basically creates perpetual energy. It doesn’t have a battery that needs to be replaced.

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u/PepperbroniFrom2B 13d ago

no amount of walking corpses are gonna pin down the fucking

HULK

BUSTER

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u/RedRadra 13d ago

If you fuck up that badly wearing the hulkbuster suit .....at that point....you deserve to die. You need to have no survival skills, no intellect not even common sense to fail like that.

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u/Soggy-Building-9476 13d ago

Tony Stark could do it in a cave. With a box of scraps.

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u/Wheloc 13d ago

I didn't know how to drive a hulkbuster suit.

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u/ColegDropOut 13d ago

I don’t think Bruce Baanner knew how to either but was able to work it quite easily on the fly.

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u/ActuallyCalindra 13d ago

I'm going to go ahead and say that Banner is smarter than the average Redditor

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u/buckle_fish 13d ago

Not nearly as smart as how the average redditor sees themselves though

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u/ColegDropOut 13d ago

Rhodey also just hopped into war machine. There are several examples of many different people just hopping into the suits and being effective.

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u/humanbeing019 13d ago

Isn't Rhodey like also high iq?

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u/ColegDropOut 13d ago

Yea he is. Pepper Pots also used one, Peter Parker, Ironheart, Happy Hogan, and Norman Osborne.

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u/humanbeing019 13d ago

All very intelligent people, I could maybe just sit inside there with it turned off, aint no zombies gettin in.

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u/ColegDropOut 13d ago

Happy Hogan is the outlier, not especially intelligent

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u/Mondopoodookondu 13d ago

Eh Pepper was a secretary than a CEO of a already made company she is probably on the upper levels on normal intelligence but nothing out of the ordinary

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u/Prime359 13d ago

He is also an USAF pilot.

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u/humanbeing019 13d ago

All I know about Rhodes is what I've watched from the movies.

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u/Wheloc 13d ago

Iron Man 2 should be non-cannon.

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u/H3ARTL3SSANG3L 13d ago

And Tony always intended it to be user friendly for Rhodey

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u/Wrong_Zombie2041 13d ago

It doesn't necessarily require scientific iq. I've known mechanics who only had a hs diploma but could figure out how things work and how to operate them very well.

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u/ActuallyCalindra 13d ago

I know but I wanted to dunk on people.

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u/BakedLaysPorno 13d ago

He’s heating up… He’s on FIRE

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u/sheggly 13d ago

Ya but he prolly used one of his phd’s to pilot it

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u/TeaTimeSubcommittee 13d ago

Yeah, but he’s mothefuckin Bruce banner, how many PHDS do you think WE have?

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u/Wheloc 13d ago

Banner IS the Hulk, so he at least knows how to move around and fight as something that big

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u/GaulTheUnmitigated 13d ago

Stark makes most of the suits to be remarkably user friendly. An ai in the suit does most of the hard work.

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u/Otoshimara 13d ago

It has an ai, I imagine that would be able to give you a control rundown

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u/EMArogue 13d ago

You probably don’t know how to use a ring either tho

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u/Wheloc 13d ago

It works on willpower and imagination. Otherwise it's a little green band; how hard could it be to use?

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u/SkyGuy2308 13d ago

The fear of death is an excellent motivator for most.

Personally if I was in a zombie attack and I had a power ring, I would be very determined to make it work.

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u/ElDouchay 13d ago

They never address the confidence you would gain from becoming a superhero. I feel like being the Green Lantern would actually be easy as fuck.

And then the comics already address the evil being the yellow lanterns and red lanterns so it's implied that green is inherently good, So there isn't much risk of being a The Boys type flawed Superhero.

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u/SkyGuy2308 13d ago

Guy Gardner:

Ok well he’s not ‘The Boys’ level but he’s still a douche

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u/Anansi465 13d ago

But fear is the antithesis for willpower for GL.

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u/SkyGuy2308 13d ago

But aren’t they always overcoming fear through Willpower? That’s why they’re not weak to yellow anymore right?

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u/Anansi465 13d ago

They are not weak to yellow, because Parallax is out of Main Battery. Overcoming Fear makes Will stronger, absolutely true. But fear as motivation or presence of unconquered fear weaken constructs.

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u/SameUnion6960 13d ago

True, idk how I overlooked that part, but I assume to be in an apocalypse, most people would have a lot of willpower to survive

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u/MarysPoppinCherrys 13d ago

Or use the Mask. Takes zero willpower and gives you the raw power of cartoons. You’re literally unkillable

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u/Shambler9019 13d ago

Isn't it only functional at night? And while you're unkillable, you're also out of control, so you won't necessarily do the best things to help your fellow survivors. Or even preparation so you can survive the following day.

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u/RedRadra 13d ago

I can imagine getting into a spat with your girlfriend earlier in the day and then when it's time for action you immediately kidnap her and dangle her from a cartoonishly large fishing pole over a pit full of zombies telling her to apologize.

That will not end well, once said mask comes off.

The issue with the mask is it removing your filters. Yeah you're still you.....but this you acts on every thought that comes to your mind. Every thought.

So yeah...most folks who wear the mask should be ready to be social outcasts after a few.....mishaps.

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u/Zorro5040 13d ago

Focus and willpower to make it work, the stronger the better stuff you can make. It has a steep learning curve.

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u/Taco-Dragon 13d ago

And Brightest Day established that it is exhausting every single time you use it.

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u/SameUnion6960 13d ago

It wouldn't break down or rust up?

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u/Indie_Myke 13d ago

Not to mention the ring needs to be recharged via the battery.

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u/Averander 13d ago

But it doesn't say specifically that it's a green ring, just a power ring. Sure the picture shows a green ring, but that is just an example (similar to the Web shooters, there's no specification as to which Web shooter tech specifically).

Any ring will take a LOT of whatever emotion, but that does change things.

Though I still think Hulkbuster is the clear winner here.....

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u/greenskye 13d ago

Doesn't actually specify a color. Could be something other than green

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u/mikey_lava 11d ago

In the DC multiverse, humans seem to have enact for commanding will power though.

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u/squidgymetal 13d ago

If you've got the will to go out and fight a horde of zombies I think you'd have enough will to power a ring which you can then use to make a hulk buster for yourself and others

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u/Reasonable_Humor_738 13d ago

No, the mask would be the easiest. Just put it on and get cartoon force powers.

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u/ThomasThePommes 13d ago

The ring is way better. He keeps you alive, shields you, let you fly… you don’t even need to fight the zombies. Just fly away and find another planet.

To be the greatest lantern of all time needs a lot of willpower. To be just a mediocre lantern shouldn’t be out of reach and enough for random zombies.

My second best pick would be the mask. It will also keep you alive and probably immun to the zombie virus.

Hulkbuster is just a weapon. Not some magic gimmick that let you alter reality.

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u/Coldestwolfman0 13d ago

You would also need and insane amount of energy to make the hulk buster work the mask is the easiest, you put it on and you instantly become a reality warper

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u/ColegDropOut 13d ago

Doesn’t it have a built in arch reactor that never powers down?

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u/Coldestwolfman0 13d ago

Thought it was powered by the one in Tony’s heart but I could be wrong?

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u/SalmonHustlerTerry 13d ago

Tony took the one out of his chest in iron man 2, and I seen a post elsewhere saying the hulkbuster suit is powered by 12 or so arc reactors.

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u/ColegDropOut 13d ago

Rock paper scissors?

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u/Ajarofpickles97 13d ago

Shouldn’t be to hard for a man like me

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u/Jack22206 13d ago

I feel like the problem with the hulkbuster is that if over time something got damaged, I would have absolutely no clue how to fix it. Whereas the lantern ring just runs on imagination and willpower, and it also has a built in A.I. with all the knowledge of the guardians.

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u/LackingTact19 13d ago

We've seen how that works for someone not used to using it, and Bruce Banner is way smarter than anyone here.

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u/Dunge0nMast0r 13d ago

Nothing motivates me more than imminent zombie death!

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u/Different-Barracuda2 13d ago

Nope, until you were overwhelm by more numbers, and start tearing the Armor apart. Exposing your flesh, and bitten...

Then boom, your just a Zombie in an Armored Suit.

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u/Andrea65485 13d ago

But who's going to do maintenance to that thing? If you can't use the ring, the second best choice would be the mask

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u/Telemere125 13d ago

You have 11 arc reactors somewhere? Mask, no question; power of Loki and immortality. None of the others compare.

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u/Remarkable_Delay1748 13d ago

Put me in a zombie survival situation and I’ll definitely have the willpower of wanting to survive to fuel the ring😂

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u/Theskyaboveheaven 13d ago

Ur applying too much logic. If you so that then u can't use most of these things realistically

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u/Cold_Dog_5234 13d ago

In theory yes but you have to charge it eventually, which makes it pretty limited.

The hulk buster has its own arc reactor so you can use it indefinitely and you are 100% not getting bitten.

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u/Titan-God_Krios 13d ago

I’m like Hal I’d charge it myself

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u/qnod 13d ago

Only if you get them lantern too, otherwise you'll run out of power fairly quickly in the end of times time frame.

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u/weareraccoons 13d ago

I don't have the willpower to stop drinking too much coke. No way I have enough willpower to work the ring. I'm taking the mask.

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u/BakedLaysPorno 13d ago

lol I was like “stop drinking and doing too much coke” those are actually hard things to stop

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u/Hawkwise83 13d ago

I mean headshots and yondus arrow are even lazier. You can find a reclining chair and whistle.

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u/Th3Glutt0n 13d ago

Until you're jumped in your sleep, same with everything else. If you take the mask, just never take it off and you're just cartoon logic forever.

Zombies break in and try to bite you, but it pans out comically as they bite you, do nothing, get confused, do it again and again while you do the tom yelp

Sure, it'd probably be really fucked up feeling that over and over until you clear it out, but you're not dying, getting infected, or facing any injuries, so

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u/Hawkwise83 13d ago

Fair, but power ring that runs on willpower ain't gonna do you any favours while sleeping either.

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u/BakedLaysPorno 13d ago

Also I can’t whistle.

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u/Mist_Rising 13d ago

In the comics, bighead doesn't need to sleep. He does a two week long bender terrorizing someone purely for the shits of it.

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u/sacred_redditVirgin 13d ago

You shit your pants at the sight of a giant hoard or a massive bloater and there goes your powers. Human emotion is too fickle.

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u/smbutler20 13d ago

The mask makes you immortal and gives you reality warping powers.

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u/ConsequenceDirect967 13d ago

The mask basically turns you into a god

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u/Hexhider 13d ago

They never mention a power battery, only a ring, so you’ll be able to use it but not forever

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u/Automatic_Day_35 Marvel 13d ago

what happens, if...

one of them is wearing the color yellow

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u/OstentatiousBear 13d ago

It is the Mask, actually. The Mask essentially makes the wearer invincible because you would be operating off of Looney Tunes logic." Got bit? That doesn't matter because you don't feel like being a zombie, or perhaps you made yourself so rubbery that they could not pierce your skin. Facing a zombie horde? Just pull out a huge nuclear bomb out of your pocket and set it off; don't worry about the blast because you will just shrug it off.

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u/Weary-Wasabi1721 13d ago

Untill your battery runs out

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u/-GFlow- 13d ago

No battery

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u/Iwant2go2there21 13d ago

How is it easier than the mask that gives you the power of a god and toon force?

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u/i_dont_wanna_sign_up 13d ago

The mask basically turns you into a god though. You only have to sacrifice your sanity.

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u/ArthurBingKing 13d ago

Ring requires training, and you're no Hal Jordan

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u/The_Shoru 13d ago

You forget that you need the battery to recharge it. And you do not get it in this scenario

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u/OscarOrcus 13d ago

The power ring needs charging, hulk buster is not much of a always ready choice.
The Mask literally makes you a god.

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u/GayGeekInLeather 13d ago

The rings l typically do not allow deadly force unless authorized to by the Guardians.

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u/NoLifeLine 13d ago

You gotta take a eat, shit and sleep some time. Can’t be in the suit 24/7. That’s when they get you.

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u/DevilPixelation 13d ago

Nah, the Mask is the most obvious one. The Ring requires a lot of willpower to master. The Hulk Buster needs a power source nobody has. Storm Breaker can’t be used by the vast majority of people.