HOLY FUCKING SHIT

You're referring to the North Hollywood bank robbery of 1995. No, they didn't die from being shot by handguns and shotguns through the armor. The cops could not hurt them until they broke into a gun store and took assault rifle that could penetrate the armor and SWAT showed up.

You're perfectly welcome to raise a child in a family of Klansmen. This is America, we don't take your kids because we disagree with your ideology.

Yes. But the problem is that in any athletic or martial competition you will encounter someone of your skill level and if they are physically superior to you they will beat you. Look, Ronda Rousey is a fantastic MMA fighter, but she would get the ever-loving shit beaten out of her by most trained male fighters in…

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I agree with all of that. Batman's advantage in the AK situation would be A) not many criminals actually use those weapons, because handguns are way easier to find, cheaper, and easier to conceal, and B) he's smart enough that he would just sneak up on the dude with the AK first.

Ever try and shoot a moving target that's 3x3 inches across? Have fun with that. Also, go try and by some "armor piercing rounds" - you're gonna have a pretty fucking hard time unless you happen to live on the Mexican border and have cartel contacts.

He'd be getting shot at by handguns, because almost universally those are the weapons of actual American criminals. A shotgun blast would leave more nasty bruises than a handgun round, but no it would not leave worse bruises. The power of the shell is distributed among 8-20 small pellets, none of which have more…

Eh, cops are fairly shitty at catching real world criminals, which tend to be fairly stupid and bad planners. Anytime criminals get even remotely clever it takes forever for law enforcement to even figure out what's going on. Pretty sure a billionaire genius who made it his life's work to be a vigilante and not be…

Nope. I've read the books, and no. She's big, she absolutely is not not described as bigger than anyone but the Mountain. She's "freakish strong" according to Jamie, who's very talented at swordplay but not a particularly large or strong man. And he has this thought while almost beating her, despite having been…

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No, and neither are you.

Actually, given the general incompetence of cops, I don't think a billionaire genius that's a meticulous planner would have much trouble evading them. The biggest issue would be getting to and from crime scene's (in progress or after the fact) without detection. That would probably require some fairly sophisticated…

Oh, I totally agree. But I'm saying that a broken rib would be the type of injury he'd be more likely to receive fighting real world crime, not an expertly aimed gunshot to the chin or a RPG to the nuts.

Your list sucks and mostly proves my point:

Yeah, but that's assuming any male warriors the size of Brienne, or even smaller, would end up automatically killed.

Venus was ranked #10 in 1998 and was 17. And yes, I typoed. But again, a man ranked 203 beat a woman ranked #10 in the world. And you're not being lazy, you just don't have any examples to pull from. If it's a strength and endurance based athletic competition, at high levels women would be/are demolished by men. …

What I'm saying is that if you put these people in the real world (for characters which are not supposed to be supernatural or the like) then real world physics and biology applies. And, on that front, we hit a problem.

I mean... when was the last time you heard of a domestic US criminal use a rocket launcher? His real threat would be from shotguns (because them someone could hit him in the chin) and assault rifles (5.56 or 7.62 ammo would go right through kevlar most of the time)... but the overwhelming majority of guns in American…

You know, he would probably do okay actually. I mean, we have to take him at his face value in the comic books: he's one of the most athletic people in the world and one of the best hand-to-hand fighters, and he's a psychotic with a genius level IQ. He is wearing bullet resistant armor and generally gets the drop on…