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In a head to head fight of man vs bear, who wins?
- Thread starter Chrome Hyena
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idk if it's still on but in like 2017 i had the flu and was laying in front of the TV too weak to change the channel. Discovery or Animal Planet was on and they had this show playing called Monster Hunters............ this show.... this show was just 6 heavily armed, very overweight, bearded men playing make believe in the woods. they were basically playing tag with a rival group of monster hunters. This is what American cable TV has become.
Here's a picture of my mom back in the day.
Did she win?
Haha. I'm guessing my dad put her up to it. She claims she didn't know the bear was behind her/that close to her. I think this was taken in the Smoky Mountains, Tennessee.
Jesus! A mere paw strike busted open that door from the frame. It takes a trained human and a battering ram to open a door like that.
I grew up about a mile out of the National Park in Gatlinburg. The bears there are pretty much harmless as long as you aren't a trash can. They're terrified of even moderately-sized dogs and wouldn't even try their luck on a house cat, much less a large mammal.
It's sad to see what these channels have become. Not just content but also how they are presented. Music, voice-overs, editing, etc. Everything is ruined by mediocre sensationalist ass-hats.
You think the bear walked backwards?
4 pages and no gifs of Homer and his bear proof suit?
At least there is a link to Leo getting wrecked in The Revenant.
The only way to beat a bear is to befriend it like Grizzly Man, even though he's not with us anymore due to his namesake.
At least there is a link to Leo getting wrecked in The Revenant.
The only way to beat a bear is to befriend it like Grizzly Man, even though he's not with us anymore due to his namesake.
Okay, but what if the "human" was actually Superman just pretending to be human?
What about a polar bear versus an elephant?
What about a polar bear versus an elephant?
If the man has a friend with him, and they've both trained extensively in martial arts + strength and conditioning, and the bear is on the smaller size, still the bear.
An unarmed or armoured human obviously doesn't stand a chance, not an interesting discussion. What about a peak modern athlete, given all the peptides and hormonal adjustments modern science has to offer, trained extensively in medieval melee combat, and outfitted with a suit of full plate and an assortment of melee weapons (some form of polearm, arming sword or mace, misericorde, etc)?
Yeah one of the most terrifying things about nature to me is the existence of some of these apex predators (bears/crocs/gators/some big cats/hippos/etc) that are big and tough enough to shrug off literal gunfire and still kill you.
You know it never occurred to me before but that bear is kind of reverse Bugsnax. It's a critter that eats a human and then adopts its traits.
Then the bear wins by disqualification.
In most settings they'd probably just ignore each other. Polar bears sometimes have trouble with larger walruses (which are still smaller than polar bears) so would be very unlikely to attack an elephant, plus any location for this would have to be very unusual for at least one of those animals. If they did fight, though, the polar bear would need to get very lucky to be able to damage an elephant enough to avoid getting absolutely destroyed.
The armoured, roided human with the pre-selected weapons (and there was a medieval weapon specifically for hunting bears) and the years of training would probably win most times. Most likely they'd have to suffer though some terrifying moments though. Even if the bear can't easily open up the armour (for most armour types, the bear might have a decent shot at doing exactly that), persistent attacks would make it difficult for the human to do anything.
Elephant and it's not even close.
You're basically looking at tigers and hyenas as a minimum for hunting baby elephants. Nothing with the least bit of sense hunts full-sized elephants.
It could literally just sit on the bear and obliterate it.
Our arrogance will be our downfall.
See now this isn't really fair. The OP was about apex man vs a bear. It said nothing about a teenage mutant ninja bears.
Okay, you're right. How about elephant versus Triceratops?
To be fair there's a lion pride or two that hunts elephants.
Except they do it in the dark when the elephants can't see shit and entire pride jumps an elephant (a smaller female normally) while they sleep and try to hold it down with their combined weight and tire it out.
This is the good stuff. When you say "open up", are we talking about the bear ragdolling the human and pulling things loose, or straight up opening up? I can't imagine they could penetrate plate. Something like a brigantine I could see being bypassed. If we say 15th century gear wins >5 times out of 10, how far back would we have to go for the bear to have the better odds?
Elephant has a squirt gun for a nose, and triceratops has spears for a face.
So if it's pokemon rules that triceratops is fucked.
what if it's a polite bear
Am I the only one watching this and not humming 'lonely man' from the Incredible Hulk show?
