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Who would win: Master Chief, Doomslayer, Commander Shepard, Samus Aran, Marcus Fenix, or Isaac Clarke? All equipment allowed.

You do realize this is a stomp in favor of the Slayer and Samus, right?
Strength- Doom Slayer > Samus Aran >>> Master Chief >> Shephard >> Marcus Fenix > or = Issac Clarke
The doom slayer has shown multiple times of being able to yeet objects across rooms that wouldve taken multiple mid end spartan 2s to push a few inches (ex: massive puzzle blocks, two subway cars, massive doors, statues, etc) with nothing but a single minecraft steve’s stance punch instead of some wind up of the whole body that amplified the power of the punch like what chief did to redirect a banshee that was basically skidding towards him on the field. On top of this, he crushes and murderize demons who regularly Koolaid man concrete walls (and even defensive fortifications) and rip apart humans to shreds.
Samus Aran is actually not that far from the Slayer’s level of strength in comparison to everyone else. High end Zebes has gravity of almost a thousand times of that of Earth, meaning Samus is far stronger than Spartan 2s by default but still short to that of the slayer. She has even shown her strength by resisting against the foot of large monsters intending on squishing her and have thrown a humpback whale-sized lava fish out of lava.
Normal end Master Chief has the strength to lift warthogs, throw around mongooses, break through concrete walls, and able to resist the weight of an armored troop carrier for a while. He can cave in the skulls of Brutes, who are shown to be able to resist bullets for a while. At high end, Spartan 2s can push 130+ Ton quartz monoliths in group of three-four, flip scorpion tanks, and resist the weight of warthog sized boulders (90> tons) for a while.
Shephard with augmentations can go toe to toe with Krogans, which are just reptilian Brutes, and even pummel them to death. He is a tad bit short behind mid calc Chief iirc.
Marcus Fenix is obviously going to be much much stronger than the average human as the average gear looks like they are augmented or roided up due to their sheer size and muscle mass in comparison to that of a normal human male. Heck, we see him fodderizing subhumans that are physically stronger than the average human.
Isaac Clarke could be weaker than Marcus Fenix; however, it should be noted that Clarke is able to fight of the grasps of necromorphs who have the base line strength of ripping off limbs and heads, regardless of angle and position. This could be thanks to the rig suits that Clarke wears.
Running/ Reaction speed- Samus Aran > Shephard >< Master Chief or Doom Slayer >> Marcus fenix > Issace Clarke
Samus Aran takes this. She has outran avalanches, and dodge projectiles and other attacks at point blank range. Her baseline speed is 60–90 mph. Do note that speed boost will be included in special abilities.
Master Chief could be faster than the slayer due to his top speed being 60mph, but depending on the calc, the doom slayer could run at 70 mph. Although, it’s usually agreed upon the slayer is equal to or tad bit slower than chief’s normal speed, aka the speed to avoid injuring his legs. Qs for reaction speed, Master Chief is able to dodge bullets and covenant plasma fire. But the slayer, on the other hand, has shown to be able to dodge bullets in a somewhat non canon Doom comic series. The doom guy in that comic, a non Blazkowicz so not technically not the Doom slayer, has shown to be able to dodge bullets, cacodemon fire balls, and have taken out entire rooms of zombie soldiers with a few bullets. However, it could be argued that such feats shouldn’t be applied to the slayer and if so, then the chief reacts faster than the slayer by default due to lack of quantifiable reaction speed feats except for when he jumps off a moving argenta attack craft, meat hook a pain elemental and use it as a swing, gun down a gargoyle, gun down the same pain elemental, and then navigate his way on to a platform without any other boost in a few second.
Shephard is faster than the last two however I dont think he runs as fast as the first three. However, it should be noted that he is able to dodge point blank gun fire of his universe, which uses projectiles far smaller than 308 rounds but at super sonic speeds and even above. In other words, while slower in running, Shephard had better reaction speeds than the slayer and Chief.
Agility- Samus Aran > Shephard >> Master Chief > Doom Slayer > Issac Clarke > Marcus Fenix
Samus Aran takes this as well. We see her running around, jumping, and performing acrobatics on the planet Zebes, which has far more powerful gravity than that of Earth. On top of this, she is able to attack her foes as if she were Levi from attack on titan, except this time, she is using her own body’s strength and skills without the aid of some 3d manoeuvring system.
The fact that Shephard was able to dodge his universe’s gun fire at point blank should be enough.
Master Chief comes after due to how Spartan 2s are like ghosts even with just their agility. They are able to kick foes off of mounted vehicles and commandeer them in a split second. They are able to perform variety of attacks and acrobatic movements in a short period of time and even spaces almost smaller in comparison.
Doom slayer has shown the ability to navigate around maps by combination of jumping with great strength from standing position, swinging around like a monkey, and climbing walls with ease. Heck, you even see him jump off a moving argenta attack craft, meat hook a pain elemental and use it as a swing, gun down a gargoyle, gun down the same pain elemental, and then navigate his way on to a platform without any other boost in a few seconds. However, the chief can do the same more likely in a smaller space and samus could do even more range of movement in a smaller space.
Issace Clarke is able to easily navigate in a zero gravity 3d space.
I dont think Fenix has any notable agility feats that puts him in a better position on this list.
Durability- Doom slayer = Samus Aran > Shephard > Master Chief > Issac Clarke > Marcus Fenix
Both the slayer and Samus Aran has shown the ability to survive massive explosions from reactors and have comparable durability feats. They both were smashed into walls, and both were pummelled by boss level entities that would have slaughtered the other characters on the list.
Shephard should take this spot as he has shown to withstand explosives and what not that could destroy any other human and vehicles, but none of that is comparable to being able to survive a blast from a Reaper’s main cannon, which is in the triple digits kiloton tnt range at most.
Master chief’s highest durability feat was falling through low orbit and crash landing with nothing but debris and his suit’s systems+armor to keep him alive. And such incidents would usually near fatally injure/kill spartans half the time if not more. On top of this, he also survived being shot by multiple hunter plasma cannons at once, although this could be due to the hunters using a possible “non-lethal” setting or the highest possible feat on this scale as a single hunter cannon fire is enough to take out a spartan’s shield.
Isaac Clarke takes the next spot as he wears actual armor that covers him head to toe and is powerful enough to withstand a lot of necromorph attacks which can easily bisect a human being.
Marcus Fenix is last due to him being exposed for the most part and having no feats that show him being resistant to bullets nor feats in general that are the same caliber as that of everyone in front of him
Armament- Samus > Doom slayer > Master Chief = Shephard > Marcus Fenix > Issac Clarke
Samus wins due to the fact that her weapons include hax weapons. She basically has the weapons used by the warframes of Warframe. The weapons are that op. She literally has an automatic grenade launcher that fire packets of matter+antimatter, an op freeze ray, power rocket launchers, the beam that phases through walls, a metroid version of a beefed up covenant fuel rod cannon (except its more about penetrating targets in a straight line than being an aoe weapon, hyperbeam (would wreck everything short of the slayer), and her power bombs (basically the mini nuke from the fallout series but more powerful and more convenient). She also has the ability to combine the effects of her beams. In other words, she can basically fire a plasma beam that can phase through walls and even phase through you, depending on how you interpret the mechanic.
Doom slayer is next. He uses a plasma rifle fires plasmoid projectiles that are hotter than plasma made from the gases of the mortal realm, a 50 cal assault rifle or a heavy assault cannon fires explosive darts as large as 50cal or above, two variants of the chain gun with one firing 15mm tungsten slugs at 5000 ft per sec and the other firing 7.62 rounds at hypersonic speed, a gauss cannon that fires a steel flechette at hypersonic speed, an argenta ballista that fires a beam that instantly incinerates its foe upon impact, an energy sword capable of instantly cleaving its prey, a wrist mounted blade capable of severing bone and flesh that are resilient to the slayer’s arsenal, and the bfg 9000 which now fires an eldritch orb that generate energy tendrils that seek out foes at high speed and detonate their flesh. His combat shotgun fires 4–8gauge shells that is accompanied by the fact that it can hold its weigh against gauss cannons, plasma rifles, and even the railgun/minigun hybrid. And his super shotgun is even more powerful that that. I would talk about the unmaykr but for all I know, its just unquantifiable as of now. On top of this, the vast majority of his weapons are modifiable to make them far more deadly on the spot.
The reason why Master Chief and Shephard are tied is because armaments alone would just make the comparison hard. With just unsc weapons, shephard stomps. They are better in terms of muzzle velocity (samus, chief, and slayer would have a hard time constantly reacting to it), ammo efficiency, and overall power. 308 rounds are no match to metal slivers fired at super sonic speed and capable of blowing up humans. Sure, you have that one railgun sniper rifle powered by some kind of external generator that the chief can use, but Shephard has the same weapon in all but design, name, and the lack of a need for an external generator. But things go a bit in favor of chief when it comes covenant weaponry. Sure, plasma weapons of the covenant also tend to overheat but whats the point of it if the baseline covenant plasma rifle can dish out far more damage than the base line Mass effect rifle? But of course, once you get a bit exotic and go to the bigger guns, comparisons can go out of hand and will probably end up in the commander’s favor again. And then you have forerunner weapons that are, for the most part, energy projectiles with mass. Basically, you’re gonna get bombarded by a covenant plasma turret at the RoT of the GAU8 avenger or the muzzle velocity of near light speed with each energy round striking you with mass, velocity, and extreme temperatures. But then you also have the incinerator cannon and binary rifle, which uses antimatter projectiles. These two weapons will bring up the chief to slayer’s level if not samus’ level.
While its true that a lot of the weapons Issac uses is far more advanced than that of the weapons used by Fenix, guns like the Lancer are able to stop trucks and even armored attack helicopters in lore. On top of this, he has the literal power of the sun that can incinerate the toughest enemies of the Locust horde.
Combat feats- Doom Slayer > Samus > Shephard = Master Chief > Marcus Fenix = Issac Clarke
Why is this? By combat feats alone, the slayer is above anyone here due to the fact that he alone faced an infinite dimension for eons. He fought titans who could only be taken down by massive alien mechas. He fought vessels of demonic gods, a goddess herself, and even Davoth, aka Lucifer and basically the physical body of Hell. These foes the slayer fought would have overtaken the foes anyone else on this list faced in the sheer scale of the battle alone.
Samus is next because she also fought a vessel of a god, or rather a vessel of the dark dimension. She also fought the phazon version of herself called Dark Samus. On top of this, she regularly fights armies of monsters and robots that will easily eaten up the majority of the foes of the contestants here, including the majority of the forces of hell aside from the titans, vessels, gods, and the sheer scale of hell.
Master Chief and Shephard are almost tied due to the scale and severity counter acting each other. Sure, John was able to piss off the didact, fight a tangible forerunner ai, scared the covenant so bad they pissed their pants, and even threw off the flood of their plans, but Shephard was able to do what Master Chief did in his own universe. Fight off an evil alien faction, defend his people from the dooms day entities, and confront a material “god.”
Special Ability-
Samus: speed boost (grants hypersonic speed for a period of time), an ai system that can predict certain attacks for a limited time and automatically have Samus perform a counter attack, hypermode (invulnerability and hyperbeam), and screw attack (invulnerable ball of death and destruction). I know there are more but the ones listed are the notable ones i can think of.
Doom Slayer: can slow down time for a while when midair, empower the damage of his weapons (allows him to kill the likes of titans, who are supposed to be immune to conventional weapons less then that of nukes and the bfg 10000), increase his speed for a while, berserk (destroys everything and anything in one or two punches), and invulnerability (pretty self explanatory ngl). He also has the ability to force crush his foes, although that was cut off the game in Doom 2016.
Master Chief: spartan time (slows down the perception of time when in need), armor lock (becomes immobile as the mjolnir redirects energy to shield to become invulnerable), jet pack utilising power punches (spartan charge and ground pound), Cortana (enhances reaction speed and presents better counter attacks), mjolnir adapted forward hard light shield, and overdrive abilities (overshield and enhanced speed).
Shephard: bionics, aka bootleg force/ warp magic. And also the fact that he is able to temporarily slow down time, able to enhance his stats for a short period of time, and empower his weapons to fire special ammo like cryogenic rounds, emp rounds, and even incinerator rounds.
Issac Clark: telekinesis (can move around objects, pull them in, and throw/launch them).
Marcus Fenix: none as far as i am aware of.
The Results-
By tallies alone, Samus should win. She consistently won first and second place in all categories. In an actual fight, however, she ties with the doom slayer for the most part. Of all the contestants here, Samus is the only one who could tango with the Slayer and survive if he decides to go personal and violate personal space. This is how he fights and with berserk and invulnerability, only Samus can stand up to him with her own invulnerability and “berserk.”
But there are more contestants than just Samus and the Slayer.
In a fight between Issac Clarke and Fenix, the gear would most likely win with his sun gun and even his normal guns; however, if Issac is able to use his telekinesis in time, Issac would most likely win for he now has complete control of his foe.
Neither of those two would be able to do much against the two mostly human interstellar super soldiers. For one, neither Issac’s nor Fenix’s weapons would punch through fast enough (if they even are able to in the first place) before the Chief or the Commander guns them down. On top of this, both super soldier military officers can react enough to dodge any projectile that is thrown at them for Issac or Fenix, although Shephard would be able to dodge more often with a higher success rate. And in CQC, the human bionic user and the spartan would demolish Fenix and Clarke, with the spartan having the easiest time due to having the greatest strength of all four.
But between Shephard and Chief, the former would win in a fight. Why is that? For one, the guns of mass effect are superior to those of the unsc and the covenant at the end of the day. High end UNSC MA assault rifles used by chief can blow holes in flood forms? Guns from Mass Effect have shown to blow up thick walls of caves and buildings, as well as giant monsters. On top of this, the fact that the armor Shephard wears could keep him alive after being struck by a Reaper’s main armament is enough to show how ineffective the vast majority of Chief’s weapon is. Even if Master Chief uses forerunner weapons, Shephard is still going to be able to dodge them. What if chief uses the hard light shield or armor lock to survive and formulate a counter attack? Whats that gonna do if the Commander starts duel wielding and begins pelting the chief with emp rounds fired from guns, which are already capable of mutilating reptilian/amphibian jiralhanaes with a few rounds, and following it with cryo rounds? Not only is the Chief unable to move due to his armor and shield system being screwed up, he is also going to be frozen in place due to the effects of the cryo rounds. This is going to be enough for Shephard to finish off the Chief. Sure, Chief is physically stronger and faster in running, but its not going to matter against the dude who is able to dodge super sonic projectiles at point blank range and survived an aoe attack from a Reaper.
But back to how these contestants would fare against the top two players.
Sure, Shephard could try using his emp rounds at Samus or the Slayer. Neither of those would work as the chozo power armor doesnt really work on circuitry and the praetor suit never really augmented the slayer other than durability and the ability to use the equipment launcher and the doom blade. What if he used the cryo rounds? Lets say they do freeze either of the top two. Then what? Do you actually think a tank killing gun could do damage against beings who could eat the tsar bomba for breakfast? A tsar bomba is far more powerful than the main cannon of a reaper. They’ll eventually be free and either one would eventually rip apart Shephard. The bionic commander wears armor that can protect him from a triple digit kiloton attack, right? Eventually, Samus will break through with sheer fire power and/or using the wave+plasma beam. The same is with the slayer, except this time, the slayer could just grab the commander and fire the bfg9000 directly into the bionic user. What if Shephard tries to out muscle them? Samus would easily toss him around and the Slayer rip him apart.
The same fate is thrown at the chief. The chief can run far away and dodge as much attacks as he wants, but none of his unsc and covenant weapons will effect the top two in any degree. His defense boosting abilities wont help him against the likes of the microwave beam, plasma+wave beam combos, ballista, annihilator beam, the bfg9000, and the hyperbeam. On top of this, if he is caught off guard, both Samus and the Slayer could freeze him in place (ice beam and ice bomb) and begin pummeling him to death. His only chance of surviving is with the forerunner antimatter weapons and that is if he even gets a shot out of them and said shots connect as far as I know, neither Samus or the Slayer really have any definitive antimatter surviving feats.
So between Samus and the Slayer, it could go either way but most likely end up as a tie.
If you know more about any of these characters that I do not know of, please feel free to comment and I will try to edit this post
Trying to debunk wanks, anti feats, or what not-
-Samus Aran did not tank a mountain destroying attack. The mountain was already shaped like that and the attack only destroyed the shrine and knocked her out.
-Samus Aran did not tank a teraton tnt explosion. The size of the explosion is not that big in comparison to the bad guy’s ships and Samus’ gun ship. In case someone tries to point out the one and only panel depicting the explosion as being massive, its more likely the planet that they were on was very small, even if it had earth’s gravity (which shouldn’t be surprise as gravity tends to be much much higher relative to the host planet’s actual mass and size in the metroid universe). If anything, its around a few megatons to gigatons, the same minimum and maximum yield as that of the vega core explosion.
-the thawing out star she unfroze was only a small red dwarf star, around the size of jupiter and saturn at most based on scaling of the star’s facility map and her gun ship as well. Its also not a neutron star as the closest habitual planet had a almost eat like environment, which is plausible with red dwarves but not with the likes of neutron stars. On top of this, she did not tank the full heat of the core of the frozen star as the facility, which was at the core, was beginning to slowly melt as samus was leaving on her gun ship. On top of this, she and her friend created an ice field to contain their temperature from the melting point.
-i aint usin primeval doom slayer nor animus samus. Either of those two would make even the “>>>” to “>*♾(infinity)”
-master chief did not squat a hundred+ ton boulder. If anything he was struggling to hold up a boulder less than 90 tons and needed Kelly to help him get it off of him with help of a steel beam as a powerful lever
-doom slayer is not outerversal.
-doom slayer can still be harmed by non demonic entities, just depends on how
-gameplay deaths are not canon unless you want a demonic zombie capable of fodderizing the ur didact and even certain variations of the god emperor of mankind, grunts capable of throwing around spartans as light speed projectiles, or cockroaches capable of shooting out laser beams far more powerful than the largest gamma ray burst.
-the doom slayer is not as powerful as an odst. Dont listen to that one guy on here
-Samus is not as weak as a normal human. Just because she has the least beef on her body in comparison to Marcus, Chief, and the Slayer, she is still extremely powerful in sheer strength and will easily fodderize the entire spartan two program in a wrestling match.
-master chief is not three times more powerful than a baseline human. Spartans are as powerful as astartes for the most part. Sure, he was at first but spartans get stronger as they age, although they dont sky rocket in strength in order to explain high end feats.
-the bfg9000 does not have the same power as the bfg10000 nor works like it. It targets flesh and detonates it but will not work as a standard “conventional” scifi energy weapon as far as i know. Nor does it have the energy to expose the core of a planet. If it did, than it would have one shotted the Icon of Sin, yet it didnt. The icon of sin was taken down by the slayer’s ability to empower his attacks, not by the sheer fire power of the bfg 9000.
-the ice beam used by samus can not freeze stars nor can her power bombs blow up planets. They are amplified versions used by one entity only in the manga Samus and Joey.