100 Men vs. 1 Gorilla. Who would win?

Are you taking 100 Men or 1 Gorilla? 🦍


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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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looks like an accurately predicted gap between the typical strength of a brit man vs an american man
 
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.

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.

Gorilas fight by grabing opponents by the feet and dragging, sometimes beating while on the ground. They dont use their teeth like chimps because they are strictly herbivores.

The main advantage the gorilla has is it's ridiculous benching strength and much thicker skulls, but they can't grab stuff like you and me does. They would have a hard time ripping a limbs from more than a single opponent.



The gorila is going to break the bones of the first 6-10 man with a couple swings until it gets completely tired then it's getting stomped, it's 600 pounds vs 20,000 pounds.
 
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Everyone who thinks the Gorilla has a chance are still in their action figure playing phase making up absurd claims for their fav characters.
 
Just gonna leave chatgpts analysis here:
In nearly every realistic scenario, a single adult silverback gorilla would ultimately lose against 100 adult men. Here's why:


Physical Comparison:


  • Gorilla:
    • Strength: Immensely strong (estimated at 6–10 times stronger than the average adult human).
    • Weight: Around 400 lbs (180 kg).
    • Speed: Quick and agile in short bursts.
    • Natural Weapons: Massive bite strength, powerful limbs.
  • Humans (100 adult men):
    • Strength: Individually weaker, but collective strength vastly superior.
    • Weight: Approximately 16,000–20,000 lbs combined (assuming an average of 160–200 lbs per man).
    • Coordination: Ability to strategize, surround, and overwhelm through numbers.

Key Factors in Outcome:


  1. Numbers:
    The sheer numerical advantage means the gorilla can be overwhelmed from multiple directions simultaneously.
  2. Tactics and Coordination:
    Humans can strategize—using distraction, encirclement, attacks from behind, or piling on in large numbers simultaneously. The gorilla, despite immense strength, cannot effectively defend all angles.
  3. Endurance:
    While gorillas possess explosive power, their endurance for prolonged fighting against numerous adversaries is limited. Humans can rotate attackers, allowing fresh fighters to continuously engage the gorilla.
  4. Weaponry/Tools (if allowed):
    Even basic makeshift weapons (sticks, rocks, clothing to blind or entangle) drastically tilt the advantage further to the human side.

Possible Risks for Humans:


  • Initial casualties would be likely if men approached unstrategically or recklessly.
  • The gorilla could cause significant injuries or fatalities early in the confrontation due to its immense strength and aggression.

Realistic Outcome:


  • Short-Term: High casualties initially among the humans.
  • Medium-Term: Humans adapt, encircle, restrain, or injure the gorilla sufficiently to immobilize or exhaust it.
  • Long-Term: Gorilla would be subdued or killed once immobilized, due to exhaustion and numerical disadvantage.

Verdict:


100 adult men would almost certainly prevail.


One gorilla, despite immense individual strength, simply cannot counteract the overwhelming numerical and strategic superiority of a hundred human opponents.

I also asked about an elephant just for comparison

An adult African elephant versus 100 unarmed adult men would be a dramatically different scenario compared to the gorilla.


Physical Comparison:


  • Elephant:
    • Weight: Up to 6–7 tons (12,000–14,000 lbs or 5,400–6,350 kg).
    • Strength: Immense raw power, capable of easily lifting or crushing multiple humans.
    • Natural Weapons: Powerful trunk, large tusks (potentially sharp and deadly), immense body mass, thick hide.
    • Defense: Thick skin (up to 1 inch thick), highly resistant to human punches or kicks.
  • 100 Humans:
    • Combined Weight: Approximately 16,000–20,000 lbs.
    • Individual Strength: Relatively minimal compared to elephant strength.
    • Strategy and coordination still a potential advantage, but severely limited effectiveness without tools or weapons.

Key Factors in Outcome:


1.


  • An elephant's immense size and strength would allow it to easily knock over, crush, or impale multiple humans simultaneously.
  • Its thick skin and dense muscles protect against unarmed attacks. Human punches, kicks, or bites would have negligible impact.

2.


  • Without weapons, humans cannot easily penetrate an elephant's thick skin or cause substantial damage.
  • Even sensitive points (eyes, trunk, underside) are difficult to reach without severe risk.

3.


  • Elephants have significant endurance. Even though they're large, they can sustain a defensive posture or aggressive charge over prolonged periods, easily outlasting humans attempting to physically overpower or exhaust them.

4.


  • Intimidation and fear would greatly disadvantage humans. An aggressive charge from a bull elephant could quickly scatter humans, making coordination difficult.

Likely Outcome:


  • Short-Term: Immediate massive casualties for humans from trampling, crushing, and goring. An aggressive elephant could easily incapacitate dozens in the first few minutes.
  • Medium-Term: Severe difficulty regrouping or mounting any effective counter-attack due to panic, fear, and injuries. Attempts to tire or immobilize the elephant through sheer numbers would largely fail due to overwhelming physical disadvantage.
  • Long-Term: Elephant maintains dominance. The remaining humans would either scatter, flee, or become too injured to effectively continue the fight.

Potential for Human Victory (Only if Strategic Advantage Allowed):


  • If humans were given the capacity to strategize extensively, use terrain (pits, cliffs, confined spaces), or were allowed improvised tools/weapons, the scenario could shift toward a potential human victory.
  • But, under realistic conditions (open ground, no weapons, purely physical confrontation), the humans' odds are extremely low.

Verdict (Unarmed, Realistic Scenario):


The elephant would decisively win.


A group of 100 unarmed adult men poses very little realistic threat to a healthy, aggressive adult elephant. Unlike with the gorilla, the sheer physical disparity here is overwhelming, making the humans almost certainly doomed without specialized equipment or exceptional planning.
 
Even If it's hand to hand. Men win in any environment. They just have to run away, we are the best animal at running. You see the gorilla you run away. You wait till he gets tired enough and then it's easy pickings.

PS: Gorillas don't attack humans in the first place, so probably nothing would happen. RIP Harembe.
 
It really depends on the area they fit in. It is an area that has normal shit around man could make weapons with rocks and set up traps. You'd lose people but I think if they started in large packs and worked together they could defeat the gorilla. Especially if they can make fire then they have a real chance
 
Gorilas fight by grabing opponents by the feet and dragging, sometimes beating while on the ground. They dont use their teeth like chimps because they are strictly herbivores.

The main advantage the gorilla has is his ridiculous benching strength and much thicker skulls, but they can't grab stuff like you and me does. They would have a hard time ripping a limbs from more than a single opponent.



The gorila is going to break the bones of the first 6-10 man with a couple swings until it gets completely tired then it's getting stomped, it's 600 pounds vs 20,000 pounds.

If dogpiled, those mofos are biting. Take a chance why don't ya. Be one of the 100!!

I'm still going with human's crushed morale after the first 30 seconds.
 
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the gorilla wins even if he dies cuz he goes straight to fuckin VALHALLA from the sheer amount of violence he inflicts on those poor bastards, while the rest of the surviving men are traumatized for life
 
There's no such thing as 100 men vs 1 gorilla, there's not enough space and it's logistically difficult to be effective with too many people. There's at best a rolling group of 10-12 men vs a gorilla and at least a few times over I expect the gorilla to be more than cable of incapacitating a group of men that size. It's just a matter of endurance which is where the gorilla falters vs humans, but even then they're likely stronger than multiple men while winded and worn out. Even worn out, if it fears for its life I doubt it'll be above simply reaching out and effortlessly crushing a few heads or necks like grapes. Even mindlessly flinging its arms around it'll knock some people out.

There's also the matter of whether any of the men can reach a threshold with their strength to commit any sort of cumulative damage that can be added to by successive men. I expect the bulk of the gorilla's surface area will barely be susceptible to the strike of even a strong human. This is an exaggeration but as an eg. if you throw one, ten, a hundred or a thousand rubber balls at a hard wall it doesn't matter, they don't reach the threshold required to exact any meaningful, cumulative damage. You'd have to bite, tear and scratch; and go for weak spots. I expect a gorilla woudn't be best pleased if you do any of this and will be inclined to prioritise your demise as a result. Once again surface area comes into play because few people could go for the vulnerable spots at once.

They're also smart, so they know what areas are important to try and protect. I also wouldn't confuse their tendency to be largely peaceful or to smartly retreat - with fear. If they see red, are pinned in and have to fight, their fear response if any is unlikely to be anywhere near as debilitating as ours can be, they're ultimately still wild animals and will go full ham if they have to. Other things to consider are things like testosterone. Their levels are 4-10x that of a man with high T and they're biologically more receptive to it too. They synthesise many times the muscle lounging around scratching their balls as the very best bodybuilders working out all year round.

Gorillas will have crazy levels of shock absorption, wide arm span, grip strength is about 4x a human, bite force is 8x, a full size prime gorilla is 4-20x stronger than a human male. Their muscle density is high and their twitch fibres are optimised for pure strength but they won't have to use a lot to effortlessly dispatch each person, so there may not be a lot of inroading of those fibres; another example of thresholds being important. You'd need like 20 perfectly coordinated people to dogpile it but I doubt it'd last and it'd break free, the weight would be too distributed and uneven.

They can break necks and crush organs in a single strike, crush skulls with their hands effortlessly and tear faces off with a single bite. A skull to a gorilla's hand is about the same as an orange to an elite climber, your neck? Even less..

The humans would have to wear it out on endurance then aggressively attack weak spots like the face/eyes and genitals; and I expect many of these people will be getting shredded, cracked and struck while they're doing it. Their head isn't that susceptible, you'd probably break your foot if you kicked their skull hard enough.

I think you'd need 100 insane, fearless, large, powerful and endurant men with excellent tactics and I think ~70 of them are dead, critically injured, paralysed or severely disabled for life by the time the gorilla is worn out enough to potentially be incapacitated -- faces hanging off, holes where their eyes used to be, necks crushed, legs arms now little more than broken twigs in a skin sheath. To kill it you'd literally have to tear into its neck with teeth and nails, then keep reaching in and digging till you hit a critical point. I think the killing comes after the incapacitation, not during the fight. I think you'd need legitimately animalistic people to go feral on it.

I think endurance is the first point and with it sacrifice, next is finding the few ways to deal cumulative damage as rapidly as possible. And again, thresholds: how many people can realistically attack at a time vs how many can the gorilla deal with at a time? Can an individual exact enough damage to contribute anything meaningful? How many people need to be left to still remain a threat?

The real question though should be 10-20 chimps vs 100 men..
 
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I agree with chatgpt assesment in the human victory.

A well placed coordinated attack involving 30 men punching the gorilla at the same time in some form of mega punch would do some serious damage. The other 70 can act as decoy.
 
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I agree with chatgpt assesment in the human victory.

A well placed coordinated attack involving 30 men punching the gorilla at the same time in some form of mega would do some serious damage. The other 70 can act as decoy.
I agree with chatgpt assesment in the human victory.

A well placed coordinated attack involving 30 men punching the gorilla at the same time in some form of mega would do some serious damage. The other 70 can act as decoy.
And who would be the first to get near the gorilla and sacrifice he's life?
There would be no one there to point a gun and force the lads to take on the gorilla.
This is the main weakness of the human team, the fear of death.
Chat gpt didn't take this into consideration.
 
If has a good strategy, men. If doesn't, probably still men, but most by exhaustion of the gorilla than actual human achievement
 
Good job it's not a gorilla in the woods.

As per usual with these hypotheticals, it's not set up with any advantages of what make us humans dangerous. Numbers mean nowt if we are expected to just throw ourselves at it.

Given the opportunity to plan, lure, trap and do what we've done for thousands of years, we'd wipe the floor with the stupid ape otherwise.

Get back in your cage Koba.
 
Regular men, most of which will panic and be absolutely shit scared of a Gorilla? I think the Gorilla could take it, depends on if exhaustion carts in first. 100 trained men who have no fear and will work as a unit? The men take it.
 
I need more info.

I take it this is a male Silverback? Is it blood lusted?

What condition are the men in? Are they skinny beanpoles who have never had a fight in their life? Are they 6ft 8, ripped and pro boxers?

Details matter.
 
I haven't read the thread. I think question is dumb but what I'm sure that no one is taking into account is where would you find 100 men willing to do this knowing full well more than a few will die and many will be maimed.
 
I haven't read the thread. I think question is dumb but what I'm sure that no one is taking into account is where would you find 100 men willing to do this knowing full well more than a few will die and many will be maimed.
The gorilla is way stronger. ✨ 💪
 
100 men, just the sheer size of the crowd would crumple even a gorilla if they attack all at the same time.

I'm not actually sure. The gorilla would shit itself, but when push comes to shove it'll be down to flight and fight response. If the gorilla has nowhere left to run then it will try and fight for it's life.

The men would have to rush it, but whoever rushes first is going to be brutally killed. Would you rush into the fight if you just saw the man in front of you get his arm ripped out at the socket, or his head crushed a melon?

A better thought experiment would be:

100 Silverback male gorillas, vs 100 male Siberian Tigers, vs 100 male Polar bears, vs 100 male Saltwater Crocs vs 100 clones of Mike Tyson in his prime. All vs All. All of them blood lusted. Fight takes place and is contained on the front lawn of the White House.
 
Gorilas fight by grabing opponents by the feet and dragging, sometimes beating while on the ground. They dont use their teeth like chimps because they are strictly herbivores.

The main advantage the gorilla has is it's ridiculous benching strength and much thicker skulls, but they can't grab stuff like you and me does. They would have a hard time ripping a limbs from more than a single opponent.



The gorila is going to break the bones of the first 6-10 man with a couple swings until it gets completely tired then it's getting stomped, it's 600 pounds vs 20,000 pounds.

This vid just put the Gorilla on blast and exposed them for fraud.

You could simply get a few men charging the Gorilla from the front and then have 10-20 men behind pile onto its back and press it to the ground. Then other men charge grab it's large and arms and then get a few to kick its fucking head in.
 
You could simply get a few men charging the Gorilla from the front

They die. Really quickly.

and then have 10-20 men behind pile onto its back and press it to the ground.

A male silverback is far, far stronger than any human. This is like saying 10-20 ten year old kids could hold down Eddie Hall.

Then other men charge grab it's large and arms and then get a few to kick its fucking head in.

The other men die. Gorilla's have thicker skin, denser muscle mass, and a more robust skeletal structure than humans. Also, a gorilla has a bite strength of around 1,300 psi. That's more powerful than a lion. Anything that goes into that mouth is being crushed.

Realistically what would happen is that the first 20-30 men get brutally killed and the rest shit their pants and run.

A fairer, more interesting fight be 1 mole (unit of measurement) adult human males, vs 1 trillion Silverbacks. 1 vs 100 is too unrealistic and far fetched.
 
If you think of it this way. If I punch another human in the face (i taught martial arts, did martial arts for years) I still run the risk of breaking my hand or wrist because a human skull is pretty f'ing hard. A gorilla can go through a human skull without batting an eye. I find I have absolutely no faith whatsoever in a human punching a gorilla and doing anything except pissing it off further.
 
I'm now wondering about 100 prime Charles bronsons. The guy could punch through bullet proof glass and buckle a cell door with his bare hands.
 
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