What superheroes could survive a thermonuclear explosion? Bonus

>>77833925
all the kryptonians, all the hulks, thor, the thing, wonder woman, killowog, carol danvers

Alfred Pennyworth

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>>77834021
>kryptonians
IDK. Superman didn't look like he necessarily would have made it had he not sucked the life out of those flowers. Granted whatever hit Superman wasn't necessarily a thermonuclear bomb, it was some magical shit that literally produced ash out of thin air.

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>>77834021
>>77833925
Carol can even use it for a power up.

>>77834152
>>77834021
>Ms. Marvel's current powers include flight, enhanced strength, durability and the ability to shoot concussive energy bursts from her hands.
So, uh, why can she absorb nuclear explosions with her face?

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>>77834245
Energy absorption is kind of her signature power; don't know why it was left off of that summary.

>>77833925
Sentry, Captain Atom, Wolverine, Kitty Pride, Colossus.

>>77834021
>>77834930
I don't know if thing or colossus could survive a nuke thing was once hurt by human torches flame. As for kitty her intangibility doesn't protect her from heat and radiation.

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>>77833925

Jobbernaut

>>77833925
Flash could outrun one and probably vibrate the radiation away.

Depending on the circumstances, Batman and whatever Bat-family members who he had close to hand could simply hide in the Batcave and be unscathed.

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>>77833925
Firestorm, depending on whose in the matrix and whose in the driver's seat

>>77834128
the EMP and dust cloud blocking out the sun fucked with superman more than the actual blast, which i think he was far away from

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This guy would just get a powerbump from the radiation

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I bet Ray Palmer would just science his way out.

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>>77833925

The Thing killed a giant monster by getting swallowed and detonating an atomic bomb.

>>77835589
That's ridiculous.

I love it.

>>77835585
The question is about who can no-sell it, not get out of it. Like, Swampy could send his consciousness far underground but that wouldn't count.

My best bet would be: Superman, Captain Marvel, Captain Britain high on ego, a super-confident Gladiator, Captain Atom, Jason Rusch's Firestorm, Sentry, any Hulk, The Thing (if it were a tiny, shitty old nuke), Thor, Silver Surfer, Beta Ray Bill, Toyo Harada, Peter Stanchek, X-O Manowar, Divinity, Element Lad, Spectre, Alan Scott, Wolverine (sadly), Marvelman, Supreme, and lastly, Plastic Man.

Kyle Rayner in one of his invincible OC Donut Steel forms (Ion, White Lantern etc.)

Anyone in the Shazam family (including Black Adam and friends) because those fuckers are invincible.

>>77835802
This list is okay. The list of heroes who can absolutely tank a single thermonuke is absolutely massive but this should suffice

>>77835589

>The army just had a nuclear bomb lying around in some depot

God damn it america

>>77835857

I imagine any non throwaway Lantern could SURVIVE it or at least get around it somehow

>>77835802
Wolverine would be reduced to a bare, white hot skeleton. He's not coming back from that even if the blast didn't scatter the bones.

>>77833925
squirrel girl
wolverine (if hes in the blast i would just assume he was vaporized so he survives outside it)
antman (it would be a very unfun rid being that small in a radiation storm but hey he can do it)
hellboy? i literally have no clue

>>77835527
And then he got hit by a lightning strike.
Not sure if it would have killed him more than the bomb, but it sure hurt like a motherfucker.

Batman probably

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Both Superman and Wonder Woman are confirmed.

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>>77835589
And here's modern thing getting hurt by regular fire, nowadays Thing can't survive a nuclear blast.

>>77834930
I don't think Wolverine could heal from being atomized.

>>77835527
>EMP
No, man. He got bombarded with too much of the wrong type of radiation. Kryptonians are really sensitive to the wrong types of radiation. The EMP had nothing to do with it.

>>77835537
See >>77834128

>>77835589
I know we all agree that is silly, but I want to point out that probably is just a fission bomb, not a thermonuclear fusion bomb.

>>77836273
I don't think reactor cores have pure enough U-235 to initiate a fissile change reaction.

>>77834128
Nevermind the fact that his own people would nuke superman, the fact that he was reduced to a zombie skeleton, or the absolute destruction the whole ordeal wrought.
The thing I found the most disturbing about the whole thing is that superman has the ability to suck the life out of something until its dry.
what the fuck.

>>77837204
In truth Superman only has one power. His power is that he can do anything the writers find convenient.

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>>77835969
The thing is, I say sadly because he's done it. It sucks, but he does it.

>>77835871
I think that modern thermonuclear devices are generally going to be strong enough to knock most people down for the count. Shazam family would definitely stand, but outside of that I can't think of too many more for my list. I have a hard time buying a regular Green Lantern being able to withstand one going off right on them. Maybe a power-boosted one like Ion Rayner, Red/Green Guy, Parallax Hal, etc, but not too many else. I didn't list all the rest of the superman expies in the world but yeah.

J'onn? Would his weakness to fire play a major role?

Oh, and Wildfire.

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Does nuclear war scare the living shit out of anyone else?

>>77837935
Not normally, but I was playing Fallout today when my town decided to test our emergency sirens.

I got a little nervous.

>>77837935
I'm pretty sure most people here were born after the Berlin wall came down, so nuclear war is perceived like an asteroid impact. It's certainly possible, and will kill us all dead, but isn't likely enough to worry about.

>>77838075
But, I mean, holy shit. Can you imagine humanity having it's shit busted up by a nuclear war? I'd take a comet impact or a super volcano any day. With either of those it's just humanity weathering the shitty hand the universe dealt, but a nuclear war... That's humans stating to the universe "we are worthless shits that commit suicide even when we are given everything on a platter because we and everything we care about is worthless". I can't even express how awful the concept of nuclear war is.

>>77838142
the big scary guy on the horizon isn't Russia anymore, it's China

and China fucking loves the West, or at least loves its money

anyone that mentions North Korea in any sort of seriousness deserves to be laughed at until they kill themselves in despair

>>77838142
I care less about the threat of it to me personally than as utterly devaluing everything that I am, everything that anyone ever was, and everything that anyone has ever cared about. Resisting against an asteroid impact is noble. Wiping one's own species out is proof positive that everything about you and your species is absolute shit. I really, really, REALLY don't like the idea of that.

>>77838208
Yeah, but...who'll be around to care? It's the slow death of super diseases, global famine, another ice age that I'm worried about. Something where there are enough people left to struggle on until the end, in complete futility.
I'd take the quick cleansing flames of the nuke over that any day.

>>77838228
Just wait for Peak Oil. International trade is what is keeping us from geopolitical disputes escalating to nuclear standoffs. Trade runs off of oil.

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>>77838208
>80 MEGATONS FALL ON UK

https://vimeo.com/18781528

>>77838256
>Yeah, but...who'll be around to care?
I'm not a nihilist. I care about stuff despite no objective reason being handed to me. I care how humanity lives and dies.

>>77838297
I'm damn near having a panic attack just watching that webm.

>>77838228
China's isn't energy secure and their trade routes are easily attacked.

>>77838248
global thermonuclear war is honestly a remote possibility, enough of one that it's not worth worrying about. Nuclear power limits your warmongering ability, because all of a sudden everyone on the planet is looking at you, and if you move funny the entire human race is going to rape you out of existence.

A nuclear strike happening in the future is not impossible. A nuclear war wiping out humanity is much less likely.

It's more worrisome to think of nuclear weaponry falling into terrorist hands, honestly.

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>>77833925
Iron Man.

>>77838305
*no objective purpose in life being handed to me

Kingdom Come should answer this for most DC heroes

>>77838345
>A nuclear strike happening in the future is not impossible. A nuclear war wiping out humanity is much less likely.
You don't get it. The nuclear war wouldn't have to wipe out every single person in the initial exchange. It would annihilate global civilization, ruin the climate, lead to endless brushfire wars to fill the power vacuums left and to fight over the little remaining food and resources, and send humanity into a gradual decline that would inevitably lead to extinction. Without cheaply accessible fossil fuels and a significantly less habitable environment humanity won't be able to bounce back. Our chance of making it into space in a big way before something finishes us off will be gone.

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>>77838256
It's funny, because those things are the likely result of a major nuclear war.

The living would envy the dead.

>>77837935

We have made movies, games, stories of its power. Hell, you could honestly say that superheroes are a kind of personification of them.

But the horror of their use is much much worse. It is our race's collective means of suicide.

>>77838333

At so much less than what the Soviets tested on 10/30/61.

Funny, I get a sense of warmth from it.

>>77838547
Just read some of my recent posts and you'll understand why I'm triggered by nukes. It's far worse than a fear of death.

Stop worrying guys. We are all going to die of car accidents cancer and heart disease. We are most likely perfectly safe from nuclear war.

>>77837935
Get Defcon everybody dies. Fantastic atmosphere for that game.

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>>77838570

You need to learn to stop worrying and love the bomb.

>>77838609
Yeah, I used to play that game a lot back in the day.
>that woman crying in the background of your fortified bunker when the nukes start hitting and the statistics begin rolling across the screen

>>77838630
Yup. Its a real pity the community mostly died.

>>77838671
I don't even have it installed anymore. Is multiplayer even still possible?

>>77837204
>>77837307
You do know sunflowers literally soak up radiation don't you? You uneducated fucks.

>>77834128
This is one of the weakest versions of Superman, most other versions would do it no problem.

>>77838256
I recently played SOMA, and let me just say that that is one of the most distressing apocalypse scenarios I've ever seen. Talk about going out with a whimper.

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>>77834128
And this is way before he gets even more powerful One Year Later

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>>77838740

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>>77838749

>>77838692
Actually they produce sugars using light. Are you saying Superman's powers run off of sugar and that he can psychically suck sugar out of anything around him?

>>77838709
I wouldn't say he was weak. Everything after the nuke doesn't count because he was weakened by it. As for his weakness to the nuke itself, he probably just absorbed too much of the wrong radiation. Stars are fusion explosions after all and Kryptonians are very sensitive to what kind of fusion explosion radiation they are absorbing.

>>77838692
You realize you're being a clown who reads too much comic books, yes? Being inclined to chemically absorb certain types of radioactive isotopes under certain conditions doesn't mean that they 'literally soak up radiation'.

Who would you want on your team of survivors in a fallout type of situation /co/ ?

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>>77833925
Meximan, he can do every thing a Mexi can!

>>77838691
Yeah but it seems to either be people playing democracy mode or just random new players fucking around in 1 v 1s with the AI. I remember enjoying watching the good players in free for alls.

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>>77838838
I know who I would have wanted before the bombs fly.

>>77838838
poison ivy for sure, she'd be able to restore the earth back to as normal as possible, or at least turn the camp into a little paradise

and she's qt

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>>77838838
>Who would you want on your team of survivors in a fallout type of situation /co/ ?

>>77838772
And they also soak up radiation. Quite literally.

>>77838793
>I wouldn't say he was weak
There are versions of Supes that tank supernovas to the chin and can hold black holes in their hands....

>>77838828
>Being inclined to chemically absorb certain types of radioactive isotopes under certain conditions doesn't mean that they 'literally soak up radiation'.
Yes, it means exactly that, you uneducated troglodyte.

>>77838922
>And they also soak up radiation. Quite literally
Yeah, and they IMMEDIATELY convert it to sugar. So what you are saying is that Superman runs off of sugar.

>>77838922
>There are versions of Supes that tank supernovas to the chin and can hold black holes in their hands....
A-Are there people who think that isn't retarded?

>>77838976
No, they sequester radioisotopes in their biomass. It's different.

>>77838998
Why?
What else would you expect a super man to do?

>>77837935
After Terminator, Metal Gear, Fallout, and everything else where nukes were a factor, no. Which isn't to say I shouldn't be afraid of them.

>>77838976
>immediately
You know not how the world works, sonny.

>>77838998
>Taking supernovas to the chin
>retarded
Nah, you're retarded.

>>77839083
Plants don't run off of radioisotopes.

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>>77838998
> super heroes
> anything but retarded
Anon, do you know what a super hero is? Literally impossible to exist. The very concept of super powers ia retarded. That's like conplaining about Hercules' feats or Dante's trek through Hell. You're fucking stupid, anon. One fictional being is more powerful that the other and this upsets you.

>>77839328
Impossibilities aren't created equal.

>>77839355
> a world where a man runs faster than light
> a world where Atlantis is real and its king is a super hero
> a world where gods exist and are dealt with every day by normal vigilantes
> Superman can't be impossibly strong
The impossibilities are based in a world that can't actually exist. Where impossibilities are avery day occurances. Reason and logic hold no weight, throw them out the window.

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>>77839395
Wait, are you arguing that capeshit is or isn't retarded?

I'm atguing that this argument >>77838998 is invalid in a world where nothing really needs to make sense.

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>>77839355

>>77839468
Sounds pretty valid to me. Just because lots of other stuff is retarded doesn't make that Superman any less retarded.

>>77835857
dude, average lanterns survive trips in black holes and shit. no lantern should be threatened by a huke.

>>77839480
Yes.

The Flash

>>77838256
There would be people, dude, humans are a survivable bunch
Thing is, like >>77838499 said: the living would envy the dead
If the blast didn't kill you, the fallout would fuck your life up, and your sons, and your grandsons
Nuclear bombs are one of the most terrifying things on earth because they're made to not only kill people on the spot, but fuck generations of people

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>>77839995
Don't forget the nuclear winter.

>>77833925
Punisher

>>77837935
It's hard to comprehend the terror of finality on a scale multiple orders of magnitude beyond the individual person's life.
Mad Max is the absolute best case scenario for a thermonuclear exchange on any scale beyond the tactical; if, at the height of the cold war, we actually used any significant portion of our arsenal and they responded in kind, we would potentially be waiting millions of years for land-based life more complex than moss to re-evolve.

For those interested in supplemental reading/aftermath theory, read Norman Schell's Fate of the Earth.

>>77833925
all female heroes because you can't kill women
batman because plot armor
superman because he's made of sun energy or something
and children because they are invulnerable to everything in all mediums except reality

>>77840068
you clearly haven't read comics.

Dr Manhattan, Gladiator, Silver Surfer.
The better question is which villains could survive?

>>77838208
It's scary to think about
It's mutually assured destruction, if you throw a bomb at me, i'll make sure to throw erything at you so NO ONE can win

>>77840101
i seen the schlock in modern comics

>>77840105
None of the best ones except Doom. Lex if he gets teleporter plot armor.

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Beast boy barely survives by turning into cockroach

>>77840129
>implying Magneto or Kang couldn't survive

>>77840105
thanos, galactus
and pretty much all the galaxy size gods

>>77840052
That is taking it too far. Plenty of complex life would survive.

>>77837799
thermonuclear device on manhunter would fucking annihilate him completely, he has no defense at all against it.

>>77840156
>galactus
>villain

>>77840142
beastboy could survive by turning into a kryptonian

>>77840171
Humans and humanoids aren't animals because capeshit is written by idiots.

>>77836667
Nitro has something to say about that.
Basically him getting nuked started the Civil War.

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>>77838772
>Don't turn green, don't turn green... (sigh)
>Kid, I don't suppose you know what kind of alien has a craving for sugar and leaves a green spectral trail? ("Aw, that was the question on Final Jeopardy last night!")
>Zed, we've got a Kryptonian.

>>77840142
nope, would die
Cockroaches can survive the fallout, not the explosion

>>77840182
that's retarded cause he done it before

he would be literally the best hero.
turn into a martian and use mind control powers when needed, turn into a kryptonian if he needed to use raw strength and speed

>>77840209
oh he could turn into a bacteria replicate a few times then transform into 200 supermen

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>>77838499
>>77838297

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The Tick, probably.

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>>77837799
>I have a hard time buying a regular Green Lantern being able to withstand one going off right on them

>>77835925
The US alone has enough nukes to destroy the world 5 times over

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>>77840252

>>77840258
good.
the earth needs to be destroyed 5 times in order to get rid of all the worthless parasites

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>no one has posted the Flash nuke comic yet

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>>77840259

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>>77840301

>>77840301
the second that bubble drops they are all dead

>>77840270
Mosquitoes?

>>77840352
all things that carry malaria

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>>77840308

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>>77840142
turns into a water bear

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>>77840188
would pay to watch this

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>>77840372

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>>77837799
Captain atom would definitely withstand it, even if he didnt absorb it.
Firestorm might be able to pull it off too, considering nuclear stuff are his area.
Alan scott and powered up lanterns can too.
Captain marvel, superman and black adam would still stand.

>>77836780
That hardly counts, since that's the only version that actually is affected by it.

>>77834021
It was implied that Joe Fixit would die at the heart of a nuke. But he sure was close to one before being rescued.

>>77836699
EMP. Electromagnetic Pulse. That's radiation too. Fuckin dweebs don't know any science, I swear.

>>77838228
NK just flashes their Nukes so we'll give them more money to make them go away

>>77838838
Swamp Thing since he's probably still alive and can manipulate plant matter and either Metamorpho for utility, or Supes for comfort. Clearly I'm the last human and so they feel obligated to help me for not stopping the war

>>77833925
Star Brand. Back in the New Universe days. Before the faggoty Avengers one. Had one blow up in his face. "At least it cleaned that mud off".

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>>77838692
>>77837204
>>77838772
>>77838828
Please guys. The answer is simple.

Vision and Kitty Pryde can just phase through it

>>77838333
Its hard not to look at it and think "This is what hell looks like."

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>>77836859
They have to have. That is literally the only reason they are reactors.
But they don't have the kind of densities that would lead to a nuclear explosion. A runaway chain reaction in a nuclear reactor basically turns it into radioactive lava that starts burning its way through the floor. There's even a word for the stuff, it's called corium.

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>>77840142

>I don't want to set the world on fire

>>77845220
You are mistaken. Weapons grade Uranium-235 is difficult to create because it is difficult to remove enough of the unwanted isotopes. Reactor uranium gets away with having more of those isotopes because reactors are meant to release their energy in a fizzle, not an instantaneous explosion. It is utterly impossible for a nuclear reactor to cause a nuclear explosion. The worst that could happen is that the reactor gets so hot that the fuel rods melt and burn through the reactor floor.

>>77846380
Yes, that is exactly what I said. They don't have the U-235 density to cause an explosion.

>>77833925
Meman....he's got t..the power of y..you and I...and we? Y..yeah we!

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Pym could go subatomic, or just grow larger than reality itself.

>>77846410
Density isn't the right word. Purity is more accurate. They literally just stop short in the purification process before moving on to weapons grade.

>>77834021
>wonder woman
If she can do that, why does she need bracers to deflect bullets?

>>77842509
Though you are technically correct, when one is talking about the EMP from a nuclear detonation one very typically referring to the pulse produced by ionizing radiation interacting with the ionosphere. Superman wouldn't be affected by that. He would be affected by the radiation directly from the blast.

Though technically correct, you should

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>>77833925

There was a time when a nuke was right on the threshold of supe's survivability level.

Didn't take long post-Byrne for the rampant power scaling to get him right back to near-Silver Age levels of goofiness

Dr Fate survived one in kingdom come and saved a bunch of other people