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What's the most interesting heroship-vs-heroship you've heard?

We've all heard Star Destroyer vs Enterprise D by now. Those are fine. Hearing the ones that are gonna be overpowered. That's cool.

I'm just wondering if anyones found any interesting comparisons of different types of tech or different tactics.

Alternatively just your favorite from Star Trek in general. Mine has to be the Swarm vs Enterprise in Star Trek: Beyond. Heartbreaking but beautiful.

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  • Various EVE Online ships vs Borg Cube.

    Rocinante vs Serenity

    Battlestar Galactica vs Martian battleship from The Expanse.

    • Battlestar Galactica vs Martian battleship from The Expanse.

      Wow. That would be an epic fight. The Donnager has 2 dorsal railguns standard with hard points to add 4 more. Galactica has 8. Both ships are equipped with a CIWS type point defense system to take out incoming missiles. The Donny has 14 missile launchers while BSG has 12 missile tubes. The two capital ships are very close in capabilities but my money would be on Galactica. She's got a fleet of Vipers and Raptors in her belly while the Donnager only has the Tachi. The Donny would usually deploy with a fleet though as it's a command and control vessel. Also if the going gets too tough Galactica can make an FTL jump, the Donny is stuck at sublight.

      • Thank you for describing them both in such detail!

        • Galactica's armour can keep out a nuke somehow. Donnager doesn't seem to have that level of capability.
        • Could Donny + 2 or 3 Tachi-level ships keep the raptors and vipers at bay? Not sure, like you said it would be an epic struggle. (I include more than 1 corvette because the Donny seemed to have a lot of space in that dock)
        • The more I think, the more it goes to Galactica. Its raptors would probably overwhelm the point defenses of the poor old Donny.
        • The wildcards are the corvettes. Can they neutralize the fighter threat long enough for the Donny's big guns to come to bear?
        • I also wonder about agility of the 2 big ships.

        Dang, now I want someone way more obsessed and creative than me to make a video about it!

    • Rocinante vs Serenity

      A warship against a bucket?

  • I know it's cliché, but Superman vs. Goku sounds like an eternal battle of immovable object and unstoppable force. (Which is an interesting one on its own.)

    • Depends on what iteration of Superman we're talking about. A lot of writers will argue his skill set is telepathy based, but he's unaware of it. If he were to become aware of his telepathic ability he'd be like Doctor Manhattan levels of godlike. When he stops a plane, he distributes the weight over the whole body instead of the single point of contact with his hand, otherwise the plane would crumble under the pressure of him trying to stop it. His heat vision is him heating up the particles in his line of sight, same with x-ray vision. Superman has a basically unlimited power ceiling, and it mostly depends on his emotional state - when he gets more angry he can do crazy things, we're talking about outrunning the Flash kinds of crazy things.

      • outrunning the Flash kinds of crazy things.

        I love when they show Superman is above mere human superheroes. The best part of Justice League was when Supes saw Flash when he was fighting the others. Imagine being Flash thinking you're the fastest thing on earth and superman just turns and looks at you when you're tapping into the speed force.

      • Well, that makes it boring however, if he can do literally anything like a god. Both comics and anime have a wild power creep anyway. So yes it's important to pick the iterations of either, and that's so fun.

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