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So this question has been plaguing my friends and I for quite some time. Who would win? The Hulk or the Hulk's weight in bees?

Anything else you'd like to chime in with on if it would beat it's own weight in bees or wouldn't beat it's own weight in bees and why is also welcome.

Hulk, no doubt.

I mean, that's a hulking (pun intended) swarm of bees, but the more they sting, the more irritating they become, and the more irritating they get, the angrier the Hulk becomes. And the angrier the Hulk, becomes the stronger he gets.

Also, just imagine how many bees he could swat down with a single hand clap.


Now, Aquaman vs. Aquaman's weight in bees? Bees would own.

You know we actually did a little math and we were thinking that the hulk could kill 100 bees a swat and that there are probably around 50 bees to a pound maybe a little more. But that would be like 100 swings an arm if the hulk weighs something like a ton and a half. Ultimately the majority of us came to the opinion that the hulk would win because he is the most badass super hero ever.

About Aquaman... he can just swim underwater. Unless they are aqua-bees. Then he'd be aqua- ed

The Hulk is a brick, but he is basically an invulnerable brick. So the bees wouldn't be able to sting him. Round 1: Hulk Win!

But once he calms down, he turns back to banner. A Hulk's worth of bees easily stings Puny Banner to death before he transforms. Final Round 2: Bees Win by KO!


Aquaman is a pussy. Bees win immediately.


But Hulk isn't the most badass superhero. That would be the Silver Surfer, who would easily beat the bees. He can simply change reality to have the bees dissipate and not bother him anymore.

Superman and the flash could not be caught by the bees, Batman would have some gadget to drive the bees away, Spawn would immolate the bees, and don't even get me started on the fantastic four.Bees are not that dangerous. Try space herpies, crites or angry little women whose co-dependent trickery has been exposed in a court of law if you want to talk about dangerous.

warpcrafter wrote:Try space herpies, crites or angry little women ...

KILL CRITES!

I freaking watched Critters 2 on Tuesday. Mmmm VHS-a-go-go.

- Salvage

warpcrafter wrote:Superman and the flash could not be caught by the bees, Batman would have some gadget to drive the bees away

Get away from those DC characters they are horrible. Except Batman of course. The Skrull thing they are doing right now is dumb as hell btw.

I'm trying to figure out if Judge Dredd could beat his own weight in bees, but the only thing I can be sure of is that it would make for a very entertaining comic.

What about Predator?

Da Boss wrote:I'm trying to figure out if Judge Dredd could beat his own weight in bees, but the only thing I can be sure of is that it would make for a very entertaining comic.

What about Predator?

I think the Predator would be screwed. He'd be invisible but that would be a lot of bees and they can smell you... I guess. I think Judge Dredd would be going down. His mouth is exposed for sure.

Yeah, but I mean, it's dredd. His face is practically all scar tissue, and he's just nails hard. And never forget: "Respirator down!"
I'm not entirely convinced the bees would have it. Though certainly, he might wish he was dead afterwards.

Mary Kate and Ashley Olson could kill their own weight in bees... That's like what? Three bees for the 2 of them combined.
They'd just step on them.



Know what else beats its' own weight in bees?

Water.

What type of bees are we talking about?

Can my bees be robot bees with laser eyes?

Typeline wrote: Get away from those DC characters they are horrible. Except Batman of course.

QFT!

Waaagh_Gonads wrote:What type of bees are we talking about?

Can my bees be robot bees with laser eyes?

We usually say they are killer africanized bees. That makes them more deadly right?

Based on wikipedia, at emergence a worker bee is about 100mg, which according to sources is around their max weight, not the minimum weight. That gives around 4000 bees to the pound, which is a lot more.

I don't know if the Hulk can live without air, but couldn't the bees just clog his airway?

Polonius wrote:at emergence a worker bee is about 100mg, which according to sources is around their max weight, not the minimum weight. That gives around 4000 bees to the pound, which is a lot more.

HOLY CRAP! We were estimating it as a much smaller number. 4000 per pound is a lot of bees this might change everything.

To answer the original question, unless the Hulk was allergic to bees, he would win. Bees die after their first sting, and if the Hulk is simply made angrier with each sting, its a battle of attrition.

Perhaps the question should be phrased as:

"Who would win? X or X's weight in *wasps*?"

Wasps have smooth, barb-less stingers. So they can keep on stinging and stinging and stinging...

The other factor to consider is bee species. For example, when fighting an invading hornet, european bees attack one at a time, and the hornet simply decapitates them before they can get into range, leading to thousands of headless bees dead at it's feet. It's bigger, faster and deadlier. But japanese bees don't go for single combat (unlike samurai)- they mob the hornet, and just sit on it, in a big ball, buzzing. This heats the hornet up to a point where it can't survive and the bees can, and hey presto, victory to the nectar collectors. This is the reason you should never disturb a hive in winter- the bees will swarm around the queen in an attempt to protect her, and kill her.
So the biggest threat from that many bees will be suffocation and overheating. I think the Human Torch might be the best to deal with that, as Marvel heroes go.

Smart bees or dumb bees.

Smart bees might be able to do damage in the ear or
something...

What about the hulks weight in giant, acid-spitting, asian, hornets?

Thanks dogma for the link. Now I´m filling for divorce and getting the hell out of this country.

M.

Iron man could not be stung by bees, nor could warmachine, and could just burninate them all. Iron man = warmachine > bees.

I've been stung by bees, wasps, yellowjackets, I've even been attacked en masse by fire ants. I've survived it all because I'm so fat that they can't reach anything vital. So much for the "obesity epidemic." Oh, and the scar tissue from being savagely scratched by cats, rose bushes and rebar gives me a 4+ invulnerable save that can be re-rolled.

Rambo?

I mean, he might be stung a bit because of (Mental maths on his ginourmous muscle mass in pounds * 4000) the multitude of bees, but couldn't he just pull out a flamethrower, shout a lot, and they'd just die?

I think spiderman would have a natural advantage against insect-based enemies. Any thoughts?

Typeline wrote:

warpcrafter wrote:Superman and the flash could not be caught by the bees, Batman would have some gadget to drive the bees away

Get away from those DC characters they are horrible. Except Batman of course. The Skrull thing they are doing right now is dumb as hell btw.

Skrulls are Marvel, friend...

Valhallan42nd wrote:

Typeline wrote:

warpcrafter wrote:Superman and the flash could not be caught by the bees, Batman would have some gadget to drive the bees away

Get away from those DC characters they are horrible. Except Batman of course. The Skrull thing they are doing right now is dumb as hell btw.

Skrulls are Marvel, friend...

Oh yeah, woops. Only Marvel thing I've been reading is Old Man Logan and the Walking Dead. Skrulls aren't in Old Man Logan, I've also never read any skrull stuff. Slipped my mind. My friends are trying to convince me to pick up Fables right now btw, think I should get it?

On Topic: I think Spider-Man has a clear advantage against the bees, no matter what kind. He can throw all kinds of web and his Spider senses will keep him out of harms way when the bees come. Although I don't know if he would just get swarmed to death anyway. It's hard to tell, but he can't dodge every bee sting.

legoburner wrote:I think spiderman would have a natural advantage against insect-based enemies. Any thoughts?

Except for hornets/wasps. They are the natural predators of spiders. It would be bad day at black rock for spidey to be stung and injected with wasp larvae, only for it to erupt ALIEN style from his chest cavity.

I'd imagine Spidey would get swarmed eventually. As mentioned before, he can't dodge all of those bees (all the reflexes in the world won't help against a wall of bees), and he does have a tendency of running out of web fluid at crucial times.

Now what about Mr. Fantastic? I feel like he could envelop the bees in bunches and crush them to death, whilst avoiding stings through his rubberiness.