Board index › Topical Discussion › Television, Film, and Video

Wolverine's Adamantium Claws vs a Lightsaber

Page 1 of 2 [ 26 posts ]  Go to page 1, 2  Next

Previous topic | Next topic

adamantium claws or lightsaber
adamantium claws would win 23%  23%  [ 7 ]
lightsaber would win 63%  63%  [ 19 ]
it would be a tie 13%  13%  [ 4 ]
Total votes : 30

imbatshitcrazy
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 29 Jun 2010
Age: 32
Gender: Male
Posts: 1,492

19 May 2011, 9:46 am

which would win? Wolverine's Adamantium Claws (which could cut through anything) vs a Lightsaber (which can cut through anything)



abyssquick
Deinonychus
Deinonychus

User avatar

Joined: 7 May 2011
Age: 44
Gender: Male
Posts: 365

19 May 2011, 10:34 am

Bigfoot's in it to win it, though.



zer0netgain
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 2 Mar 2009
Age: 58
Gender: Male
Posts: 6,615

19 May 2011, 10:38 am

Both are supposedly unbreakable or impervious to harm.

I know Adamantium isn't truly indestructible. Captain America's shield is made of something even tougher, and Adamantium was the fallback material because of how limited a quantity the other substance was in existence. Supposedly Adamantium can be damaged/destroyed.

Light sabers are pure energy...kinda defy how they have substance, though. Would a lightsaber take out Adamantium? I doubt it. Movies show the light sabers need prolonged exposure to common metal armors to really impose damage, so I doubt you'd be able to keep the saber in place long enough to damage anything.

In a fight it would be more about gaining the upper hand overall.



CaptainTrips222
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 30 Mar 2009
Age: 44
Gender: Male
Posts: 3,100

19 May 2011, 11:20 am

A beam of pure plasma energy couldn't work through adamantium?



Titangeek
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 22 Aug 2010
Age: 32
Gender: Male
Posts: 7,696
Location: somewhere in the vicinity of betelgeuse

20 May 2011, 12:15 am

Wolverine's head roles across the floor. Yoda, standing victorious says "And that is why you shouldn't make short people jokes".


_________________
Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.
- Bruce Lee


thewrll
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 10 May 2009
Age: 39
Gender: Male
Posts: 10,619

20 May 2011, 2:58 am

Light sabers can cut through peoples bodies so I say light sabers.



CaptainTrips222
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 30 Mar 2009
Age: 44
Gender: Male
Posts: 3,100

20 May 2011, 6:33 am

thewrll wrote:
Light sabers can cut through peoples bodies so I say light sabers.


Adamantium is stronger... I think.



zer0netgain
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 2 Mar 2009
Age: 58
Gender: Male
Posts: 6,615

20 May 2011, 7:37 am

CaptainTrips222 wrote:
A beam of pure plasma energy couldn't work through adamantium?


As Star Wars did not portray light sabers as being able to cut through anything it contacted with (walls, armor, etc.) as compared to flesh and bone, it stands to reason that Wolverine's claws and skeleton would resist a light saber enough that it could not harm adamantium without prolonged exposure to the "blade" of the saber.

Nice comment about lopping off Wolverine's head. His skeleton is supposedly indestructible, but the spine/neck are nothing more than a stack of bone held together with interconnective tissue. I imagine a well-placed strike would have the chance of severing his head if the blade landed right between two vertebrae. Even if it did not, you'd have cut halfway through his neck, incapacitating him until he could regenerate the damaged tissue...enough time to really do some damage to other parts of his body.



Infoseeker
Deinonychus
Deinonychus

User avatar

Joined: 6 Mar 2011
Age: 39
Gender: Male
Posts: 359
Location: Metro Detroit area, MI, US

20 May 2011, 10:41 am

Alas Magneto flies in , with an arm stretched, and commandeers a new skeleton and a light saber.


_________________
Age: 27


crmoore
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 18 May 2011
Gender: Male
Posts: 614
Location: Scottsdale, AZ

20 May 2011, 11:09 am

I really wish they had done an episode of "Deadliest Warrior" with this as the matchup.



MasterJedi
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 22 Oct 2010
Age: 53
Gender: Male
Posts: 2,160
Location: in an open field west of a white house

20 May 2011, 8:59 pm

zer0netgain wrote:
CaptainTrips222 wrote:
A beam of pure plasma energy couldn't work through adamantium?


As Star Wars did not portray light sabers as being able to cut through anything it contacted with (walls, armor, etc.) as compared to flesh and bone, it stands to reason that Wolverine's claws and skeleton would resist a light saber enough that it could not harm adamantium without prolonged exposure to the "blade" of the saber.

Nice comment about lopping off Wolverine's head. His skeleton is supposedly indestructible, but the spine/neck are nothing more than a stack of bone held together with interconnective tissue. I imagine a well-placed strike would have the chance of severing his head if the blade landed right between two vertebrae. Even if it did not, you'd have cut halfway through his neck, incapacitating him until he could regenerate the damaged tissue...enough time to really do some damage to other parts of his body.


See Empire? See Phantom Menace?


_________________
That is my spot, in an ever changing world, it is a single point of consistency. If my life were expressed as a function on a four dimensional Cartesian coordinate system, that spot, from the moment I first sat on it, would be 0-0-0-0.


SyphonFilter
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 7 Feb 2011
Gender: Non-binary
Posts: 2,161
Location: The intersection of Inkopolis’ Plaza & Square where the Turf Wars lie.

21 May 2011, 11:22 am

Lightsaber would win, since the only thing that a lightsaber can't cut through is another lightsaber.



Tollorin
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 14 Jun 2009
Age: 44
Gender: Male
Posts: 3,178
Location: Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada

21 May 2011, 3:09 pm

zer0netgain wrote:
Would a lightsaber take out Adamantium? I doubt it. Movies show the light sabers need prolonged exposure to common metal armors to really impose damage, so I doubt you'd be able to keep the saber in place long enough to damage anything.

A "common metal" 300000 time stronger that steel!! !

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Durasteel


_________________
Down with speculators!! !


tb86
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 7 Sep 2010
Age: 39
Gender: Male
Posts: 1,834
Location: South Wales

21 May 2011, 5:04 pm

Could a lightsaber hurt Superman?



zer0netgain
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 2 Mar 2009
Age: 58
Gender: Male
Posts: 6,615

21 May 2011, 6:01 pm

MasterJedi wrote:
zer0netgain wrote:
CaptainTrips222 wrote:
A beam of pure plasma energy couldn't work through adamantium?


As Star Wars did not portray light sabers as being able to cut through anything it contacted with (walls, armor, etc.) as compared to flesh and bone, it stands to reason that Wolverine's claws and skeleton would resist a light saber enough that it could not harm adamantium without prolonged exposure to the "blade" of the saber.

Nice comment about lopping off Wolverine's head. His skeleton is supposedly indestructible, but the spine/neck are nothing more than a stack of bone held together with interconnective tissue. I imagine a well-placed strike would have the chance of severing his head if the blade landed right between two vertebrae. Even if it did not, you'd have cut halfway through his neck, incapacitating him until he could regenerate the damaged tissue...enough time to really do some damage to other parts of his body.


See Empire? See Phantom Menace?


Yes, and for the most part we only see them using the lightsabers on that thick door...which took several seconds to burn through.

Adamantium is supposed to be virtually indestructible. I contend that a light saber would need prolonged direct contact to cut through it. This is unlikely in a melee combat situation. That's not to say that the light saber couldn't inflict horrid flesh damage. Wolverine's skeleton is supposedly indestructible...the rest of him is not.



MrLoony
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 12 Jun 2009
Age: 39
Gender: Male
Posts: 2,298
Location: Nevada (not Vegas)

21 May 2011, 10:24 pm

crmoore wrote:
I really wish they had done an episode of "Deadliest Warrior" with this as the matchup.


If Wolverine added poison to his claws, they'd completely screw it up.

Seriously. Look at the numbers they have when someone with a poisoned weapon. They never take the poison into account.

Not to mention that all they care about is the kill shot. They never take into account a weapon's ability to disarm or knock someone down (and gain advantage that way), or gain advantage some other way (such as blinding).


_________________
"Let reason be your only sovereign." ~Wizard's Sixth Rule
I'm working my way up to Attending Crazy Taoist. For now, just call me Dr. Crazy Taoist.