100 Men vs. 1 Gorilla. Who would win?

Are you taking 100 Men or 1 Gorilla? 🦍

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A gorilla can snap bones and crush skulls without even exerting any raged energy. A casual flick of it's wrists. People underestimate how strong they truly are with their limb leverage alone.

A chimp can literally pull your face off with it's bare hands in one shot. A gorilla can literally rip a chimp in half effortlessly.

You overestimate man who gets winded in seconds against other just as weak men in comparison. Morale will be lost in the first few seconds of the human intestine strewed dogpile of idiot sacrifices, as the rest climb over each other trying to get out of the arena.
 
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All the people being badasses here remind me of this chart where americans think they could take on some animals they really couldn't.

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MastAndo said:
I can't even see how this is a debate, but then again, what is the definition of a win here? If the condition is that at least 1 human or the 1 gorilla surviving determines the winner, then I'm having trouble figuring out how anyone could think a gorilla could possibly win this. Gorillas are frighteningly strrong, but this isn't King Kong. Even if each human cowered and barely put up a fight, the gorilla would be gassed by the time its death toll hit double digits.

If you're willing to throw the idea of minimizing human casualties out the window, that's like 7-10 tons of people. They could just dogpile and crush/suffocate it. There are a lot of variables that determine how it would play out, but I'm having trouble finding any sort of scenario (outside of some bizarre condition, like the humans are all babies) where the gorilla stands a chance.
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1 800lb silverback vs 100 babies is the conversation we should be having. God what I would pay to watch that...
 
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I mean... if we fighting to the death.. there is no way the gorilla wins.
The biggest question mark would be the moral of the men vs the gorillas. Its who ever snaps first loses. If no one snaps... it should be an easy victory for the men. Brain power and team work are too much to overcome. 100 dudes is ALOT.
 
LordOfChaos said:
It would take less than a few seconds for the gorilla to disable one man or a man to disable one 5 year old, * 100, not hours

And with bare hands there's not much damage the last few men are going to do once it's tiring down anyways

But add planning and simple weapons? Men take it easily. So this all depends on the setup of the fight. Like, teleport 100 random men into a ring with an angry Silverback? They're going to die. Allow some planning? They probably take it even with simple tools they could make in a forest.
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The gorila only has 2 hands. Try to fight a bunch of kids, they will gang up on you eventually and you wil get tired very quickly with all the bites, scratches, punches (also depends if this is rage fight or cordinated.)

Gorilas also have skin like humans around chest, neck, which means they can easily get skin torn. Which is how leopards hunt them.

100 humans is a stomp. Gorila vs 10 men would be much fair.

In a realistic scenario, the gorila would straight up panic at the sight of 100 tall white apes screaming at him and have a cardiac arrest (it happend)
 
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DeepEnigma said:
They'd be all hitting each other in a mass panic 🤣

Nobody wants to be the first to have their limbs taken off, face bitten off, balls ripped off, etc.

Mass panic will ensue.
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I mean, they have to be brave men to fight a gorilla to begin with, 100 pussies are not gonna even try.
 
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Depends on the men. 100 soy boys and the gorilla probably dies laughing, 100 florida men and they'd probably fuck it to death before eating it. Either way it's an easy win for the humans.
 
If it's just a fist fight, in an enclosed space, nothing else allowed, then the gorilla wins.
But if men are allowed to use their abilities, then even a handful of men win, easily. And we don't need to use advanced weapons, just basic primitive weapons and tools, like sticks and stones.

People forget that primitive humans, with just basic tools, such as wooden spear and bows and arrows, made extinct the mega fauna, just 12-50 thousand years ago.
And there were animals much bigger and more dangerous than gorillas in that group.

Remember that humans have one of the highest staminas and regeneration in the animal kingdom. Running and tiring our prey, was one of the main ways of hunting for humans.
We also have the best throw ability of all animals. No primate even comes close. This means we can throw rocks and spears with much greater precision and power, than any animal. We have made many animals extinct, just by doing this.
Animals that were much bigger than a gorilla. So one single gorilla is no match for a a handful of humans, let alone 100.
And finally, humans biggest advantage is that we are social animals with the best communication and coordination skill set. This means we can plan and execute hunting strategies, extremely efficiently.
 
DeepEnigma said:
The thesis is based on hand-to-hand with this question.

Obviously one man with a high powered rifle at 300 yards can Harambe a gorilla.
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Not even a rifle. No spears or rocks allowed. No running away or otherwise wearing down the gorillas stamina allowed. Just run at it waving your arms around like a fool.
 
You don't need 100 men. There's no way for all of them to be able to touch the animal at the same time anyway.

But 20 strong men, about 100kg each, would do the job. 5 men on each upper limb and 4 on each lower limb should be enough to hold the gorilla in place long enough for the remaining 2 to stomp it's head to sleep.

But they have to be very well coordinated, very fast, very decisive and very brave. If a couple of them lose it, they are all dead.
 
Ok I've looked up animal stats for years as I love hypothetical fights.
You Americans need to get real.

100 men, but only 20 are getting around it at once and that's probably just getting a hand on it.
Are you actually aware how many people 100 is? It takes up a lot of space and can't physically attack all at once.

A gorilla strength can get up near 2 tonnes.
I know you're all getting wrapped up around it being about 200kg (440lbs) in weight and some men could hold that down.
Some men could hold down a 200kg rock. This isn't that. This is fighting back with its near 2 tonnes of strength.

I saw somebody say they're out there stomping its head. Yeah, you ain't crushing that skull with ease and it's not laying still, as mentioned above.
On top of that they have nearly no neck and what they do have is just muscle that nobody can actually grab to choke or hole.

This thing can run at you at 40km (25mph).
If angered, it won't have the fear the humans have. This thing will be out here ripping limbs or crushing skulls.

Good luck coordinating anything with your 99 other men. Nobody is going to want to be the front people who are guaranteed death while the men at the back might live. You'll be fighting amongst each other to escape, like crabs in a bucket.

For visual, below is 100 people, or close to. Pick 1 person in that crowd and how many people are around that one person.
Add a couple more as a gorilla is obviously bigger, but you aren't fighting it with ease surrounded by other people.

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The gorilla would chew the faces off the first 10 men, the remaining 90 would flee. That's as far as I can imagine 100 men versus a gorilla going.
 
It's more of a question of mentality. People that argue for the gorilla are the sort that would just lie down and wait for death. They assume that the gorilla would fight to death but the men won't. Even in a scenario that's completely devoid of outside tools, the moment a man dies, his body provides for the rest. Each rib is a knife, same for long bones broken at an angle, femurs are clubs.
 
yet_another_alt said:
It's more of a question of mentality. People that argue for the gorilla are the sort that would just lie down and wait for death. They assume that the gorilla would fight to death but the men won't. Even in a scenario that's completely devoid of outside tools, the moment a man dies, his body provides for the rest. Each rib is a knife, same for long bones broken at an angle, femurs are clubs.
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Don't worry, bro. If you die, I'll avenge you and use your femur to beat that gorilla to death.
 
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DKehoe said:
Just make sure to shit yourself when you die. Don't go out clean, rage against the dying of the light.
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While that would likely happen, that's actually detrimental for team men because shit can be slippery. A gorilla that's used to locomotion on 4 limbs is less likely to be affected by that.
 
1 Gorilla gibs half a dozen in mere seconds and the other 90+ humans turn and run in pure flight response. The end.

Silverbacks do not fuck around.
 
With preparation time you only need a few resourceful smart men that can create weapons and traps.
Humans are dangerous because they are smart not because they are always physically strong.
 
Rockondevil said:
Ok I've looked up animal stats for years as I love hypothetical fights.
You Americans need to get real.

100 men, but only 20 are getting around it at once and that's probably just getting a hand on it.
Are you actually aware how many people 100 is? It takes up a lot of space and can't physically attack all at once.

A gorilla strength can get up near 2 tonnes.
I know you're all getting wrapped up around it being about 200kg (440lbs) in weight and some men could hold that down.
Some men could hold down a 200kg rock. This isn't that. This is fighting back with its near 2 tonnes of strength.

I saw somebody say they're out there stomping its head. Yeah, you ain't crushing that skull with ease and it's not laying still, as mentioned above.
On top of that they have nearly no neck and what they do have is just muscle that nobody can actually grab to choke or hole.

This thing can run at you at 40km (25mph).
If angered, it won't have the fear the humans have. This thing will be out here ripping limbs or crushing skulls.

Good luck coordinating anything with your 99 other men. Nobody is going to want to be the front people who are guaranteed death while the men at the back might live. You'll be fighting amongst each other to escape, like crabs in a bucket.

For visual, below is 100 people, or close to. Pick 1 person in that crowd and how many people are around that one person.
Add a couple more as a gorilla is obviously bigger, but you aren't fighting it with ease surrounded by other people.

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GymWolf said:
I mean, they have to be brave men to fight a gorilla to begin with, 100 pussies are not gonna even try.
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That bravery will go out the window the first 30 seconds of shredded human mush 🤣

An 800lb mass of raw muscle & bones like steel, with about 2 tons of strength and lightning fast reflexes of pure levered rage. That's not even counting its 6+ inch canines that can bite coconuts like they're Kit Kat bars.

RIP pink fleshies.
 
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100 The Mountains and they get to wear steel gloves with spikes while high on meth for better reflexes.
Edit: They also fight strategically (use your imagination)
 
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DeepEnigma said:
That bravery will go out the window the first 30 seconds of shredded human mush 🤣

An 800lb mass of raw muscle & bones like steel, with about 2 tons of strength and lightning fast reflexes of pure levered rage. That's not even counting its 6+ inch canines that can bite coconuts like they're Kit Kat bars.

RIP pink fleshies.
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You undervalue how heavy is a mass of 100 people, the gorilla would be trumped just by the sheer weight if they all attack at once, and gorillas don't have infinite stamina like some of you people think, they get tired like humans.


If we have to get real, a gorilla would not even engage vs 100 screaming humans, he will run away and eventually get tired and be an easy prey, no gorilla would ever run towards 100 humans, not a chance, they don't have the brain\brave of a honeybadger.

good luck being at the center of this and not being absolutely trumped just by sheer size

 
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GymWolf said:
You undervalue how heavy is a mass of 100 people, the gorilla would be trumped just by the sheer weight if they all attack at once, and they don't have infinite stamina like some of you people think, they get tired like humans.

And if we have to involve reality, A gorilla would not even engage vs 100 screaming humans, he will run away and eventually get tired and be an easy prey, no gorilla would ever run towards 100 humans, not a chance.
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People already laid it out above. You're not thinking about physics, human condition, and how uncoordinated 20 people can be, let alone 100 in a confined space.

You going to be the first sacrificial lamb? Pull straws for the first 30 to be eaten through like jello?

The human condition would break in mere seconds 🤣
 
DeepEnigma said:
People already laid it out above. You're not thinking about physics, human condition, and how uncoordinated 20 people can be, let alone 100 in a confined space.

You going to be the first sacrificial lamb? Pull straws for the first 30 to be eaten through like jello?

The human condition would break in mere seconds 🤣
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But you ignored the part when a gorilla would never engage against 100 people and just run away?

If you consider human psychology, you have to consider the gorilla psychology aswell, it's not a one way traffic.

If both the gorilla and the humans are brave, the gorilla has no chance both in an immediate fight or a prolonged one.

even if only 20 people can attack at once, you think that nobody is gonna aim for eyes or testicles? gorilla only have 2 arms and a mouth (as far as i know, they don't use legs to attack), they can't physically parry 40-80 limbs trying to do damage all at once (plus the weight of every single person on top of them already doing damage), cmon.
 
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GymWolf said:
But you ignored the part when a gorilla would never engage against 100 people and just run away?

If you consider human psychology, you have to consider the gorilla psychology aswell.

If both the gorilla and the humans are brave, the gorilla has no chance.
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In a confided space, it goes into cornered dog mode. Pure killing machine with 2 tons of power and lightning fast reflexes.

This is a "gladiator arena" thesis.
 
DeepEnigma said:
In a confided space, it goes into cornered dog mode. Pure killing machine with 2 tons of power and lightning fast reflexes.

This is a "gladiator arena" thesis.
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There wasn't a rule about being in a confined space, but In a confined space with nowhere to go the humans would also turn into kill or die mode, they would not just seat waiting the gorilla to act...

In an open space the gorilla could run away to take a breath or just move around between kills but in a confined space it would be even easier to just trump him with sheer size and weight, dude can lift 2 tons, not 10x times that, no idea how you people ignore this simple fact, human are not made of feathers and they have a bodymass and a physical presence in this world, gorilla would be tired just by being buried by corpses in a confined space :lollipop_grinning_sweat:

Again, if you ignore the gorilal instinct to escape, you have to ignore the human instinct to not fight when their comrades are getting torn to pieces, you can't ignore just one.
 
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GymWolf said:
There wasn't a rule about being in a confined space, but In a confined space with nowhere to go the humans would also turn into kill or die mode, they would not just seat waiting the gorilla to act...

In an open space the gorilla could run away to take a breath or just move around between kills but in a confined space it would be even easier to just trump him with sheer size and weight, dude can lift 2 tons, not 10x times that.

Again, if you ignore the gorilal instinct to escape, you have to ignore the human instinct to not fight when their comrades are getting torn to pieces, you can't ignore just one.
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Humans don't have the power or physical resilience in fight or flight mode in comparison. The vast majority would roll over and die on just fear alone, lol.

The original point of this thesis was the "gladiator arena" parameters. Otherwise, it's a pointless exercise "in the wild" since one or the other would just run.
 
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Don't be silly.

100 men will. If you were able to control the environment in such a way as to only emphasis strength and nothing else, maybe gorilla.

But in a "live fire" real world environment, there is enough factors that men's intelligence can manipulate that would have them win.

This is a stupid debate…. And I'm stupider for participating
 
Raven117 said:
Don't be silly.

100 men will. If you were able to control the environment in such a way as to only emphasis strength and nothing else, maybe gorilla.

But in a "live fire" real world environment, there is enough factors that men's intelligence can manipulate that would have them win.

This is a stupid debate…. And I'm stupider for participating
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Even then, the gorilla would likely tire out after the first five or so. 100 is way too many people.
 
DeepEnigma said:
Humans don't have the power or physical resilience in fight or flight mode in comparison. The vast majority would roll over and die on just fear alone, lol.

The original point of this thesis was the "gladiator arena" parameters. Otherwise, it's a pointless excessive "in the wild" since one or the other would just run.
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You have no idea how much it would take for a gorilla to get tired, nobody has an idea, this is just a fun thought experiment, there are too many variables, how many of those 100 people are soldiers or fighters or people built differently?

The question is so stupid that you have to put some rules like both gorilla and human willing to fight to death for something like this to even happen, if you start with "well human would run off" i can just say "humans would never fight to begin with" and the fight would never happen.

If the rules are that both gorilla and men fight to the death, then share size and weight is always gonna win, and this is without even considering how smarter we are compared to a gorilla.
 
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bitbydeath said:
Even then, the gorilla would likely tire out after the first five or so. 100 is way too many people.
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Any man on this planet would take the risk of fighting a gorilla alone instead of 100 men, because we know the sheer size of a 100 men crowd and we know that stamina exist.
 
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GymWolf said:
You have no idea how much it would take for a gorilla to get tired, nobody has an idea, this is just a fun thought experiment, there are too many variables, how many of those 100 people are soldiers or fighters or people built differently?

The question is so stupid that you have to put some rules like both gorilla and human willing to fight to death for something like this to even happen, if you start with "well human would run off" i can just say "humans would never fight to begin with" and the fight would never happen.

If the rules are that both gorilla and men fight to the death, then share size and weight is always gonna win.
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The gorilla doesn't have to be in rage mode to shed 30 men. It can do that with ease. I shared videos of them cracking coconuts with the same effort it takes to Velcro your shoes 🤣

100 humans pushing against each other in fear would have zero physical strength to stand.

Team 800lb 2 ton flex silverback.
 
DeepEnigma said:
The gorilla doesn't have to be in rage mode to shed 30 men. It can do that with ease. I shared videos of them cracking coconuts with the same effort it takes to Velcro your shoes 🤣

100 humans pushing against each other in fear would have zero physical strength to stand.

Team 800lb 2 ton flex silverback.
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Coconuts don't fight back all at once nor are 100 of them with an average weight of 60-70 kg (and i'm being gentle with the weight)

Eyes, testicles and other weak points don't give a damn if you weight 100 or 800lb.
 
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100 men vs an Elephant is a much better question

A gorilla is getting folded easily by 100 men

Some people watch too many movies
 
Not sure what are the rules for this, but I'm supposing that the fight happens in a closed arena without access to any type of weapons.
Some people are stating that if we are putting the gorilla in god mode, then we should also put the men in god mode.
Well, the difference, and realistically speaking, we are putting the gorilla in god mode, simply because dangerous animals like gorillas enter god mode when protecting territory, feeling cornered and in a few more situations.
For a human to enter god mode, knowing that he would be crushed by a giant gorilla, he has to be crazy or stupid. So I will have to consider that only a bunch of humans, may be 10 or so, would take on the gorilla. The others would be just too terrified to try anything.
When seeing the first ones being absolutely dismembered by the gorilla, the remaining 90 would just panic and shit their pants. A few would probably play dead.
A broken arm, a twisted ancle or any other type of injury would be enough to put a human out of the fight.
People are underestimating the strength and how fast this gorillas can move.
All this things considered, I think the gorilla would win this fight.

Nero would love this idea...
 
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