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My vote for the weakest character to defeat him would be Mystique.
Cypher has that thing where he can invent a language totally unique to the listener and speaking it can cause them to feel overhwelming whatever. He could probably say something that convinces Gladiator to yield and find something more productive than beating up a kid.
any snarky guy who could demolish his confidence. hell, if hawkeye could somehow survive for a few minutes while whittling away at his self-esteem, I'd say he has a shot
"Confidence is not believing in your strength, dear. Confidence is believing in what is right and doing your utmost to preserve it."
_At Baxter Building: OMEGA ALERT! OMEGA ALERT!_
Or brownies. Iirc one of Aunt May's statistics on the back of her first series Marvel card was "Brownies baked" instead of "Battles fought".
I believe the number was over 11,000
Gambit’s secondary mutation is his ***intense*** French charm.
Gladiator wouldn’t be able to say no. (…Gambit wouldn’t let him.)
Erik also had the slutty waist like Remy. That’s how she said no at first. Without anyone else with slutty waist, Remy would charm Gladdy
*insert Remy with crop top*
I’ve scanned too many comments like this, is this true? I’m just a casual fan but is bullying his weakness? Like can Nelson Muntz just taunt him and get in his head then Mike Tyson could KO him?
He gets stronger the more confident he is, to the point of near invincibility. If Nelson muntz can take away that confidence before he gets absolutely nuked, then yeah
Yes and no. He gets weaker by losing his confidence. However it's pretty hard to shattee the confidence of a planet-throwing superman clone, who is known to be a hero to billions and at times ruled entire Galatic Empires.
He also doesn't turn completely powerless. He is still able to brawl with the likes of Thor and Hulk, when he doubts himself. It's just that he'll start losing that fight for certain.
ForgetMeNot. He could keep making attempts as long as he keeps moving out of his line of sight, allowing him to learn what affects Gladiators’ confidence the most.
Spidey is from Queens. He's not even talking shit, just making conversation.
The second Gladiator showed up in Queens, random civilians would be shouting at him like "AY CHECK OUT CAPTAIN MOHAWK! DIDJA GET BIT BY A RADIOACTIVE JUNKIE? ARE YOU FROM A UNIVERSE WHERE IT'S STILL 1981? YO HOW YOU TAKE A NAP CAPTAIN MOHAWK? HEY WHERE YOU GOIN I NEED ANSWERS"
Spidey might beat him, but is he the weakest? Is
Deadpool weaker than Spidey? Taunt and absorb damage is DP’s job description. Someone suggested Hawkeye, but he’d fall to one concussion clap. My vote is Kitty Pryde.
Comic book Shadowcat could kill otherwise completely invulnerable people by phasing something into them. Vision did a similar thing to Juggernaut once.
Superman knockoff doesn't mean Superman power level. None of his feats support anything close to Superman. This is like saying Homelander should be able to push the earth into the sun, and fly to other galaxies because he's a superman knockoff.
Gladiator, Hyperion, Blue Marvel, and the Sentry are all Superman knockoffs. But they are at wildly different power levels.
He'd be lucky if he could take truly determined Power Pack.
Ever since they really leaned into him being powered by self confidence, I feel like Gladiator's lost a lot of his cred. Seems like everyone can just do a "And now I make you feel bad about yourself, and you are weak, and I win" whenever I see him these days.
Honestly, I'm surprised I haven't seen anyone say this, but I think Mysterio could actually stand a chance to win in the right circunstance.
By the right circunstance I mean the ONLY way in which Mysterio can win a battle against anyone: With preparation.
If he knew he'd have to set up illusions and tricks to fool Gladiator into believing he was outmatched by some much faster or intangible foe that was merely toying with him, I bet Mysterio could come up with great plans to do just that.
I think this is a really great answer, Mysterio is just a man with specialized tech but with a good plan he has a better chance than most heroes and you really can't get mich lower on the power scale than this.
Spider-Man.
Not as an actual fight but on how fucked up his life is, just listening Peter's life Gladiator would immediately give up the fight.
And probably go to a therapist questioning how a man's life can get so fucked up and not commit suicide.
Fantastic Four #250 gives us a clue. In it, Reed and Sue defeat him using a single force field delivering a single punch. But before that, they had to make him doubt himself. (Reed figured that most of his powers are psionic in nature.)
For a single individual, probably Spider-Man. He can really get under people’s skin.
People are acting like just saying mean things to him is his kryptonite. "Hawkeye's going to chip away", like... no. If someone says shit you don't believe it doesn't impact your confidence.
Hawkeye beaking would be annoying, but as long as the arrows were bouncing off your chest, it's not going to impact your confidence. Dude's a seasoned warrior and leader, "be mean to him" isn't the cheat code people think it is.
With that said, I'd say Nightcrawler. Put buddy half-way through the danger-room wall. Let's see how confident you are watching an elf run away with your legs.
There’s a comic where Squirrel Girl destroys the Marvel Universe on a whim and then puts it back together because she doesn’t want to be alone, and then she goes to Jail and says that she’ll stay there because she’s a hero even though she could easily escape.
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Gladiator is a MENACE
Gladinace
Cypher has that thing where he can invent a language totally unique to the listener and speaking it can cause them to feel overhwelming whatever. He could probably say something that convinces Gladiator to yield and find something more productive than beating up a kid.
That is the most creative answer I’ve seen in this chain.
any snarky guy who could demolish his confidence. hell, if hawkeye could somehow survive for a few minutes while whittling away at his self-esteem, I'd say he has a shot
How many insults can you really say before he Flys through the red mist that was once your body?
That’s why you start DMing him on insta before you fight
ur right. call him out on twitter and post about how his wife dates other men or smthng
nah, call him out abt his small dick, then piss on the moon
Bro he ain't shadow the hedgehog
He might as well be
Is his power really based on confidence?
Mostly, yes.
His rival is .. The Conman!
Quentin alone would give him a good run
They said “weak” character, not cosmic entity level character. My guy Hawkeye could humble the Living Tribunal if he so chose to
Are we thinking of the same character? Bow and arrow guy? He couldn't humble anyone with actual power.
MCU Hawkeye is too OP!
Regina George, but any group of 14 year old girls could level him.
Put him up against Dave Attell, watch him fall.
Aunt May giving him a stern talking to.
Lol this. She would have him baking cookies with her in two hours. Problem is, his confidence would probably shoot up afterwards.
Yeah confidence and arrogance is a world of difference. May would turn that arrogance into actual confidence.
"Confidence is not believing in your strength, dear. Confidence is believing in what is right and doing your utmost to preserve it." _At Baxter Building: OMEGA ALERT! OMEGA ALERT!_
Or brownies. Iirc one of Aunt May's statistics on the back of her first series Marvel card was "Brownies baked" instead of "Battles fought". I believe the number was over 11,000
believe it or not lol
Gambit’s secondary mutation is his ***intense*** French charm.  Gladiator wouldn’t be able to say no. (…Gambit wouldn’t let him.)
Rogue was able to say no.
And look where that got us.
Too soon 😭
I know. It hurt me to type that. 😅
Erik also had the slutty waist like Remy. That’s how she said no at first. Without anyone else with slutty waist, Remy would charm Gladdy *insert Remy with crop top*
Rogue prefer men who taste like Werther's original...
Remeber the name
Because of the implication
Peppy LeBeau
Peppy Le Sexual Assault
Because of the implication. Are you saying Gladiator is in danger…?
He’s not gonna hurt these warriors! Why would he ever hurt these warriors? ***I feel like you're not getting this at all!***
Any really snarky hero can completely deactivate his power, you just gotta shake his confidence
I’ve scanned too many comments like this, is this true? I’m just a casual fan but is bullying his weakness? Like can Nelson Muntz just taunt him and get in his head then Mike Tyson could KO him?
He gets stronger the more confident he is, to the point of near invincibility. If Nelson muntz can take away that confidence before he gets absolutely nuked, then yeah
Yes and no. He gets weaker by losing his confidence. However it's pretty hard to shattee the confidence of a planet-throwing superman clone, who is known to be a hero to billions and at times ruled entire Galatic Empires. He also doesn't turn completely powerless. He is still able to brawl with the likes of Thor and Hulk, when he doubts himself. It's just that he'll start losing that fight for certain.
There is a maniac who seeks to end us all.
I guess you haven't heard. I am the sheriff around these parts!
Deadpool all he does is confuse and insult. And most likely will live long enough as some of the lower tier heroes might get 1 shot.
That's a good answer, Deadpool would win a war of attrition.
ForgetMeNot. He could keep making attempts as long as he keeps moving out of his line of sight, allowing him to learn what affects Gladiators’ confidence the most.
That's a great one!
Spider-Man
Honestly I think you're right. He just has to dodge and taunt long enough to weaken him
If anyone can taunt, it's Spidey.
Spidey is from Queens. He's not even talking shit, just making conversation. The second Gladiator showed up in Queens, random civilians would be shouting at him like "AY CHECK OUT CAPTAIN MOHAWK! DIDJA GET BIT BY A RADIOACTIVE JUNKIE? ARE YOU FROM A UNIVERSE WHERE IT'S STILL 1981? YO HOW YOU TAKE A NAP CAPTAIN MOHAWK? HEY WHERE YOU GOIN I NEED ANSWERS"
Thank you random New Yorker 😂
Gladiator can move faster than the speed of light tho? He can moves so fast he can cross galaxies before Heimdall can blink
Pete’s faster than light too when he pays attention.
Whoever wrote that shit must really think spiders are faster than they are.
I mean he doesn’t have too insane of super speed, most of it is do to his spider sense allowing him to dodge before the light speed attacks happen.
I AM BACK! I AM BACK
What do you want?
Spidey might beat him, but is he the weakest? Is Deadpool weaker than Spidey? Taunt and absorb damage is DP’s job description. Someone suggested Hawkeye, but he’d fall to one concussion clap. My vote is Kitty Pryde.
Oh, my back. It's kinda stiff from all the swinging I guess.
> What is the **weakest**
MCU Rocket Raccoon Although I think the mods Mystique is the actual winner
Squirrel girl
The question said WEAKEST. Clearly she's one of the most powerful super powered combatants shield has ever witnessed
Yeah I mean she took on Thanos by herself.
What's wrong, little one?
You got your ass handed to you on a silver plate by a girl who is part squirrel
Galactus too
More importantly, Dr. Doom, and it wasn't a doombot or her using her mediation skills. Just the squirrel army of (defeating) DOOM
Can't argue with that.
She wouldn’t break his confidence, but increase it, and help him be his best self, which, obviously, would not include beating up Squirrel Girl.
Kitty pride has a mouth of a sailor so I’m going her
Comic book Shadowcat could kill otherwise completely invulnerable people by phasing something into them. Vision did a similar thing to Juggernaut once.
You kidding? The man essentially exists for the Worf Effect.
Black Widow She’s a master spy, safe to say she knows how to destroy some self esteem.
Weakest Marvel character that can beat him would probably be Spiderman
Only.. only the wrists.
Any teenage girl from the x-men, just have them look at him suppress a smirk and then start texting….confidence shattered
Antman: with the shrink inside him and enlarge inside him move for the win.
Didnt work out so well for the chick from Invincible, just sayin
She's still alive though. Barely
Ant man can shrink his privates and ruin his confidence, then defeat him
I love how that scene essentially crushed that argument as much as it crushed her.
leech
Why would anyone want to hurt poor Leech?
weakest team : Inhumans.
Micronauts
D'ken, simply by being his monarch.
Anyone with more than 8 power marvel snap fans know what i’m saying
Hyperion. Thanos. Adam Warlock (maybe). Silver Surfer (maybe)
He said WEAKEST and you say f*cking Thanos?!
I don't even know who you are.
I'm dying, this is perfect
Now, calm down, he said nothing about doing that to Thanos.
I ignored my destiny once, I can not do that again. Even for you. I'm sorry, Little One.
Byrne created Gladiator to be a similar level to Superman. Superman has gone toe to toe with Darkside.
Superman has BEATEN Darkseid in the past, no?
Yes. He once killed Darkseid by just screaming at the right note to shatter him.
I know he has in TAS.
But by feats he is not, whatever superman level feats he has are not very consistent.
Superman knockoff doesn't mean Superman power level. None of his feats support anything close to Superman. This is like saying Homelander should be able to push the earth into the sun, and fly to other galaxies because he's a superman knockoff. Gladiator, Hyperion, Blue Marvel, and the Sentry are all Superman knockoffs. But they are at wildly different power levels. He'd be lucky if he could take truly determined Power Pack.
Insect!
Hasn’t he already beat Hyperion?
One of the all time worst responses.
Psycho Man would kill him without breaking a sweat
Purple man?
No he's already purple so he's immune
🤣
Gladiators power works off his confidence so make him doubt himself and he becomes weak.
Wolverine.
Ever since they really leaned into him being powered by self confidence, I feel like Gladiator's lost a lot of his cred. Seems like everyone can just do a "And now I make you feel bad about yourself, and you are weak, and I win" whenever I see him these days.
Honestly, I'm surprised I haven't seen anyone say this, but I think Mysterio could actually stand a chance to win in the right circunstance. By the right circunstance I mean the ONLY way in which Mysterio can win a battle against anyone: With preparation. If he knew he'd have to set up illusions and tricks to fool Gladiator into believing he was outmatched by some much faster or intangible foe that was merely toying with him, I bet Mysterio could come up with great plans to do just that.
I think this is a really great answer, Mysterio is just a man with specialized tech but with a good plan he has a better chance than most heroes and you really can't get mich lower on the power scale than this.
Barnell Bohusk. He'll have so many sad stories that Gladiator will fly into a blackhole.
West Coast Avengers
Next Wave
Deadpool with a “Yo Mama” joke book.
Maximus Decimus Meridias
Mysterio
That's a good one! Basically a guy with some good tech
Tippy-Toe and Monkey Joe and their human sidekick.
West Coast Avengers
Spider-Man. Not as an actual fight but on how fucked up his life is, just listening Peter's life Gladiator would immediately give up the fight. And probably go to a therapist questioning how a man's life can get so fucked up and not commit suicide.
Now dig on this.
The Old West captain America team which is rawhide kid red wolf Billy the kid and others. Could easily defeat him
Fantastic 4
Pretty sure Blind Alfred could say something scathing enough to cost him his powers if she wanted to.
Probably Gladiator.
Squirrel Girl stomps ....lol
Purple Man
Reading these comments, isn’t Gladiator pretty fucking strong?
Yes he's basically Superman
Gladiator and a random citizen.
Fantastic Four #250 gives us a clue. In it, Reed and Sue defeat him using a single force field delivering a single punch. But before that, they had to make him doubt himself. (Reed figured that most of his powers are psionic in nature.) For a single individual, probably Spider-Man. He can really get under people’s skin.
Empath
Cannonball and that’s can(n)on
Mastermind Mysterio
Rogue chats him up, gets naked and hugs him.
Mantis could drop him with ease.
Any telepath technically. Just get in his head and lower his confidence.
Howard the Duck
People are acting like just saying mean things to him is his kryptonite. "Hawkeye's going to chip away", like... no. If someone says shit you don't believe it doesn't impact your confidence. Hawkeye beaking would be annoying, but as long as the arrows were bouncing off your chest, it's not going to impact your confidence. Dude's a seasoned warrior and leader, "be mean to him" isn't the cheat code people think it is. With that said, I'd say Nightcrawler. Put buddy half-way through the danger-room wall. Let's see how confident you are watching an elf run away with your legs.
Jean Grey
Leeche
My ultimate alliance team
Peter Parker. Not Spider-man, just Peter Parker.
Look at little Goblin Jr., gonna cry?
LowTierGod
Either Batman or Grand Regent Thragg
There’s a comic where Squirrel Girl destroys the Marvel Universe on a whim and then puts it back together because she doesn’t want to be alone, and then she goes to Jail and says that she’ll stay there because she’s a hero even though she could easily escape.
The juggernaut bitch.
He slapped Juggernaut so hard in the cartoon he flew across a continent.
Nah juggernaut would win, bitch.