Who or What could take DOWN a Space Marine!?

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**Delephont**

Ok Guys

Just a little harmless fun really. In the same vein as Alien vs Predator, what fictional soldiers could make mince meat of the Space Marines?

GW has done a pretty good job of making them pretty badass elite, and I'm only talking fiction fluff here, I'M NOT INTERESTED IN GAME RULES!!! so.....what fictional soldiers out there could cut the Marines a second butt hole? equiring minds wish to know

I'm gonna kick off with suggesting that any Bodhisattva Post Human from the Infinity setting would take down a Marine with ease, what with nano repair swarms, faster and stronger bodies, no need for power armour, and being practically immortal, not just slowed down aging, I'd say these guys rip!

Now over to you

**Flashman**

A mad elephant would do it...

**J.Black**

Chuck Norris?

**Flachzange**

Dr. Cox

**ip vin snarller dehizvin**

The dog Bolt from the movie.

**Rico**

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/238097.page

A whole Chapter of Space Marines are moving down a road when they hear a voice call from behind a sand dune. "One U S Special Forces soldier is better than ten Space Marines."

The Space Marine Force Commander quickly sends his Elite Retinue over the dune whereupon a gun battle breaks and continues for a few minutes, then silence.

The voice then calls out "One U S Special Forces soldier is better than one hundred Space Marines."

Furious, the Taliban commander sends his next best 100 troops over the dune and instantly a huge gunfight commences. After 10 minutes of battle, again silence.

The American voice calls out again "One U S Special Forces soldier is better than your whole fething Chapter."

The enraged Force Commander musters one thousand Space Marines and sends them across the dune. Cannons, missiles and bolters ring out as a huge battle is fought. Then silence.

Eventually one wounded Space Marine crawls back over the dune and with his dying words tells his commander, "Don't send any more men, it's a trap. There's actually two of them."

Rico...

**Goliath**

Mr. Zurkon

**Durandal**

Ewoks.

**Mr. Burning**

James Tiberius Kirk that man could could kick any 40K dudes ass..then sleep with their females.

**Tortoiseer**

Durandal wrote:Ewoks.

lol
I hope they don't park their land speeders out in the open.

**Caffran9**

J.Black wrote:Chuck Norris?

Game.

Set.

Match.

**Delephont**

Yeah, with the mention of Chuck Norris, I'm on the erge of begging the mods to lock this thread....in fact, based on the answers, can we delete this?

**karimabuseer**

Maybe archaon the everlasting from whfb? I mean, he took a 'thirster in single combat.

**Dark Lord Seanron**

Delephont wrote:Yeah, with the mention of Chuck Norris, I'm on the erge of begging the mods to lock this thread....in fact, based on the answers, can we delete this?

You can't open with the phrase "harmless fun" and not expect silly answers dood :p

**hawkeye**

The World's Most Interesting Man in the World. He is a lover, not a fighter. But he's also a fighter so don't get any ideas.

**Frazzled**

mobile infantry trooper from starship troopers (book not crappy movies). Flamers and nukes oh my!

**Delephont**

Dark Lord Seanron wrote:
Delephont wrote:Yeah, with the mention of Chuck Norris, I'm on the erge of begging the mods to lock this thread....in fact, based on the answers, can we delete this?

You can't open with the phrase "harmless fun" and not expect silly answers dood :p

Fair point!...fair point.

However, the main point I was getting at, is that GW has spent no little amount of effort in making their Imperial Marines out to be the toughest of the tough, more so, in my opinion, then any other fantasy or Sci Fi setting.

It took me a while to find a comparible super soldier that in a fictional vs match with a Marine would actually stand a chance, and would probably win!

I was hoping the topic would draw a more, inventive and creative turn of debate, then....Chuck Norris, or a Mad Elephant.....

Still if thats the best that Dakka can produce, i shall quietly step back and allow to the thread to degeneraate into yet another ridiculous waste of 0 and 1s

**Lord of battles**

Orbital Bonboanbardlements

**Mekboy**

Lord of battles wrote:Orbital Bombardlements

I believe the term you mean is 'bonboanbardlements'. Man that website was funny.

**Lord of battles**

Fixed it! Damn right that website is funny!

**metallifan**

bigbadom wrote:i had a freind come round a few weeks ago to have a 40k apocalpocalpse game i was guards men he was space maines. my first turn was 4 bonbaonbardlements... jacobs turn to he didnt have one i phased out.

**IvanTih**

Rico wrote:http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/238097.page

A whole Chapter of Space Marines are moving down a road when they hear a voice call from behind a sand dune. "One U S Special Forces soldier is better than ten Space Marines."

The Space Marine Force Commander quickly sends his Elite Retinue over the dune whereupon a gun battle breaks and continues for a few minutes, then silence.

The voice then calls out "One U S Special Forces soldier is better than one hundred Space Marines."

Furious, the Taliban commander sends his next best 100 troops over the dune and instantly a huge gunfight commences. After 10 minutes of battle, again silence.

The American voice calls out again "One U S Special Forces soldier is better than your whole fething Chapter."

The enraged Force Commander musters one thousand Space Marines and sends them across the dune. Cannons, missiles and bolters ring out as a huge battle is fought. Then silence.

Eventually one wounded Space Marine crawls back over the dune and with his dying words tells his commander, "Don't send any more men, it's a trap. There's actually two of them."

Rico...

A the military joke.There is an ork variant of it.

**tiekwando**

Bloodletters of khorne

**Emperors Faithful**

An inquisitor.

**Ronin-Sage**

The only fictional soliders "in [remotely/faintly] the same vein" as SMs I can think of wouldn't give them a run for their money, but could do some damage. HALO's Spartans and StarCraft's Terran Marines could hold their own, imo, against Tacs, provided that they stay the frick back and don't engage up-close. All in all though, the Tacs would still outclass them in every aspect(damage potential, resilience, experience, skill, squad cohesiveness, speed, etc.).

Off-topic: a slightly fairer showdown would be SC Ghosts vs. Vindicare Assassins.

**IronChaos**

Another Space Marine, better if he's a Chaos Space Marine.

**Darth_Squirrel**

Plasma Weapons...usually their own

**Dakkadood**

About the SC Ghost vs Vindicare Assasins, the matchup favours the Ghost, since he is not only a sniper but also a psionic (pysker-eque) being.

As for something that can take down a Space Marine just take a look at some of the typical comic book superheros, most of them can take a SM one on one, but I really doubt they could take on a company of them.

Take Hulk for example, sure he is like a Uber-Ork Warboss, but a couple of Psykers should make quick work of him if they get cover from Tac squads. I also doubt that the green dude can recover from some good melta blasts.

**Orkeosaurus**

Another versus thread?

Halo Spartans are in the same league but still inferior. Terran Marines probably are as well (I'd put a Vindicare Assassin over most Ghosts as well. They're much better trained and have their own cloaking ability, sensor mask, and special ammunition rounds that will actually hurt their opponent (Lockdown is great, but not against another sniper)). As Frazzled noted, (the book) Colonial Marines are better.

Jedi are probably better than Tactical Marines, although they would go down quickly to Librarians or the like. Iron Golems from D&D could be hard to go against. Warjacks could probably take them on (although they might not qualify as "soldiers" in that sense). I'm not too knowledgeable about Exalted, but everything there is like Dragonball Z, so I'm sure there are quite a few soldiers who could destroy SMs. And, I suppose that means Super Saiyans would be another contender. Big Daddies might be able to hold their own. Some of the elite demons from Diablo. Quite a few Pokemon.

**LordofHats**

My top ten from least to greatest:

Death Star
Gundam Death Scythe
Michael Weston
Legolas and his infinite never ending quiver or arrows
Jack O'Neil
The 300 Spartans
Ninjas in Florescent Orange Track Suits
Rambo
Lenny Brisco

and finally:

Sniper Kittens