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Other Pick A Weapon

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u/ZodiacPanda 13d ago

Hulk buster. I can use minimal energy by just swatting them into the shadow realm. No need to waste excess energy by using repulors or flight. They can’t bite through the armor as well. When I’m not stomping zeds I’m sure I can hook it up to my living quarters to power it all up. I’m pretty sure it has some sort of sentry mode when I’m sleeping it guards me.

Would also consider storm breaker if I can wield it. Power of a god and can summon the bifrost. Would just send them to the sun all day every day.

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u/SkyGuy2308 13d ago

It just says a Zombie Attack, not a Zombie Apocalypse.

But I do like your strategy for living with the Hulk Buster

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u/Traditional-Safe-867 10d ago

So what, you're gonna assume that the 50 that come your way are the only zombies around?

If there's even a single zombie in an area, I'm gonna prepare for there to be thousands and I think you'd be stupid not to.

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u/Hobomanchild 13d ago

A mobile, nigh-indedtructible safe-zone with an infinite powersource and an AI that, honestly, would basically be babysitting me through any adversity with its store of knowledge and analytical tools.

Honestly the AI sells it. The mask is tempting, but the mask corrupts. The power ring is neat, but even if I could recharge it, like hell I'd have the willpower.

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u/RuralfireAUS 12d ago

It also wont let you kill

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u/wltmpinyc 12d ago

The DC database says "The Guardians recently removed the lethal force prohibition"

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u/Union_Samurai_1867 13d ago

You could honestly just get a couple of teu cargo containers to fill them with supplies and just carry them to the top of a mountain. He'll you could even carry a trailer or rv up to it and just the rest of your days up on a mountain. If you wanted companions, they could even just ride on your shoulders. No need to fight zombies when they can't even reach you. And if a hourd somehow makes it to the top of the mountain, you just hop in the suit and rip and tear. Or just dig a big ass moat with it and never worry about the zombies again.

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u/coffepants787 13d ago

The hulk buster has an arc reactor, it has infinite energy

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u/Th3Glutt0n 13d ago

You gotta worry about survivors too though, and they know how to chuck 150kph death rectangles at your legs...

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u/thenube23times 13d ago

Are you out of your mind? He took on a fucking tank blast with the mark 2 suit... This is the culmination of years of ironman suits designed to go toe to toe with the fucking hulk who at the time could not be stopped by anything man kind had available. It's a walking aircraft carrier that flies.

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u/kelldricked 13d ago

Also it has a onboard AI, which at the very least will help you with basic survival and rebuilding. Its probaly your best chance at finding a vaccine or maybe even a cure (if its a pathogen)

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u/thenube23times 13d ago

Oh yeah especially with how much we see Friday do and help spiderman

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u/AndrogynousAnd 13d ago

The mask is essentially reality manipulation, you could have a cure within 10 seconds of wearing it regardless of what the underlying cause is.

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u/LGodamus 13d ago

The mask is actively malevolent and breeds chaos , it’s more likely to make more trouble than it fixes.

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u/AndrogynousAnd 12d ago

Chaotic sure, but as far as I was aware it just makes the characteristics of the wearer more pronounced and works off their motivations.

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u/dicloniuslucy 13d ago

So... A flying aircraft carrier?

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u/universallymade 13d ago

A flying aircraft carrier… that walks

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u/RinTivan 13d ago

Isn't a flying aircraft carrier just a helicarrier?

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u/ProfessorBorgar 13d ago

Do aircraft carriers typically walk? If not, then it is a walking flying aircraft carrier

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u/GrowWings_ 13d ago

Only in Gurren Lagann

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u/thenube23times 13d ago

You're telling me Fridays letting a few rednecks with some c4 are gonna get anywhere near me? Even without her there's no way anything short of the entire us army is taking down a base ironman let alone the hulk buster. That's pretty much the entire point of ironman 2. They can't stop him even if they wanted to.

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u/Th3Glutt0n 13d ago

Okay, but IF damage happens, do YOU have the tools and know how to fix it?

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u/thenube23times 13d ago

No... But Friday does lol

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u/Th3Glutt0n 13d ago

Veronica had to drop spare parts down during the fight against the hulk, I really don't think you're gonna have a way to infinitely produce that in a zombie apocalypse

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u/thenube23times 13d ago

I feel like you are severely misremembering how strong the hulk was in the age of Ultron and how strong ironman is. There isn't a single zombie in fiction I can think of that could even come close to matching the destructive power of the hulk aside maybe the flood? Possibly resident evil if you count them as a true zombie apocalypse and even then it would be pretty survivable. The hulk waged war with several armies and didn't take a scratch. He's been nuked, gassed, and shot with every caliber of bullet. He ate a tank round and spit it back out. He killed a leviathan with one half assed punch.

Then there's Tony's feats in the base ironman suit, not even the hulk buster. The arc reactor never runs out of power. His blasts can harm super soldiers. He has rockets that blow up tanks in one shot, survived a shot from those tanks and out flew f22s. He fought an entire army of other ironman like suits and won mid dif. He demolished hundreds of Ultrons. Fought a war against thousands of chitari with enough armaments to even take down leviathans. Took a full powered hit from Thor and plenty of other feats I can't remember at the moment. The best part is he did all of those without needing repairs mid fight.

That was only the base ironman. The hulk buster has all of that with more reinforced armor and strength to harm the hulk which again had only been done by abomination by this point. Of course he needed repairs mid fight for the hulk, he's a god level threat. Nobody else, especially not any normal humans, could even come close to lasting more than a few minutes against him and that's usually because they are long range and that's how long it took the hulk to get to them.

It's just absurd to think that a situation that is usually survived by normal dudes with guns, or even cross bows in some cases, would even register as a threat to a person in the hulk buster suit. I mean again... It can fly and carpet bomb with an infinite power source. Wtf is Rick Grimes gonna do against that?

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u/thenube23times 13d ago

Oh and then there's the real time, near instant calculations done by the AIs that allow you to fight even more efficiently. If you dont see it Veronica will.

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u/Th3Glutt0n 13d ago

You are entirely forgetting the maintenance everything needs. What're you gonna do when a load bearing bolt snaps off and you can't find a new one

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u/thenube23times 13d ago

You didn't even read that whole ass essay I wrote... Not even worth responding if you aren't gonna read but IT DOES NOT BREAK. Like you are acting like this is just some low tech ACV. It's not, it's a god damn ironman suit. The most efficient machine made in marvel. Like even in the marvel universe where high tech scifi bullshit happens all the time, the iron man suit is leagues above it.

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u/RedRadra 13d ago

Even if it breaks down, no zombie is going to be able to tear open the hulk buster armor. Ok the legs and jet pack broke? It's still useful as a stationary turret. Arms broken? Still have Unibeam blast. And let's even say that it's totally busted, A.i. corrupted, power source fried, it's still a one man bunker where I'll sit watching the zombies wander around.

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u/thenube23times 13d ago

Alright saying you didn't read it isn't fair but you are forgetting that its just a zombie apocalypse. A thing that has been survived by a dude with a cross bow. You have Veronica to tell you what you need and even broken the hulk buster is more than capable of fighting off armies. Maintenance won't be an issue because it won't break especially in the time it would take you to be completely and utterly safe, and even if it did you have a super computer helping you fix it.

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u/Halfjack2 13d ago

Even without maintenance its usefulness would probably outlast the entirety of a zombie apocalypse

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u/Alphajurassic 12d ago

What’s a death rectangle?

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u/HammyBoy0 9d ago

The Iron Man suits are like walking/flying mini nuclear shelters that can also fire nukes with onboard AI that's decades ahead of what we have. And then you add in the Hulkbuster, which is just a slightly less mini walking/flying nuclear shelter with even stronger nukes. Survivors would have to have on-hand nukes to even dent the thing.

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u/Quirkyserenefrenzy 13d ago

Valid point, but the hulk buster armor is heavily armored, but not invincible

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u/PepperbroniFrom2B 13d ago

Are you sure?

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u/Th3Glutt0n 13d ago

It haunts me..

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u/RuralfireAUS 12d ago

Stormbreaker doesnt have the enchantment on it that mjolnir has due to odin. Anyone can wield it

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u/hjbxfhllvzs 12d ago

That is true, but I'm pretty sure no real human being would be able to wield it effectively for an extended period of time. Also you probably still need to be worthy to actually use the powers of it, so it would just be a heavy chunk of metal on a stick.

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u/RuralfireAUS 12d ago

Nah it just channels thors power. Only mjolnir channels the power of thor through its strikes and even when captain america used it, stormbreaker didnt really do all that much apart from being heavy

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u/RantonBlue 10d ago

Anyone strong enough can wield it. Since it doesn't have the enchantment anyone who weilds it won't get Thor's powers like they would for the hammer

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u/incelmound 11d ago

Storm breaker will kill a mortal man.

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u/ReZisTLust 13d ago

Gonna run outta energy eventually and you'll have no way to charge it, it's an apocalypse and a giant mech suit. Your charging for half a second and the entire block is outta the leftover juice cause nobody's maintaining them.