Composite STACKED Ant VS Superman

[Marvel-Studios Rep]

Composite of all ants on Earth.
VS

Current Superman

[Cthulhu_of_R'lyeh]

I uh... Million Billion Ant-Man is probably gonna rip Superman in half like a phone book.

[Captain Morgan]

I uh... Million Billion Ant-Man is probably gonna rip Superman in half like a phone book.

Would it? This seems a lot weaker than Jupiter Gorilla. This isn't the Earth's weight in ants, it is all the ants on Earth. Which is a lot of ants but like... Could every ant on the planet pooled into one move the planet? A little cursory googling says there is less than 100 billion pounds of ants on the planets. Even if they can lift 50 times their body weight (a generous estimation only true of certain ants) we are still huge orders of magnitudes below the weight of the planet.

Now, the ant's speed is probably going to be nuts, maybe capable of blitzing Superman, but I am honestly not sure they can hurt him.

[Cthulhu_of_R'lyeh]

Would it? This seems a lot weaker than Jupiter Gorilla. This isn't the Earth's weight in ants, it is all the ants on Earth. Which is a lot of ants but like... Could every ant on the planet pooled into one move the planet? A little cursory googling says there is less than 100 billion pounds of ants on the planets. Even if they can lift 50 times their body weight (a generous estimation only true of certain ants) we are still huge orders of magnitudes below the weight of the planet.

Now, the ant's speed is probably going to be nuts, maybe capable of blitzing Superman, but I am honestly not sure they can hurt him.

Back in 2014 they pegged it at something around 3400-5000 times before their body actually couldn't handle the load, specifically the neck. So... it's a bit more than 50.

[Cthulhu_of_R'lyeh]

Also taking your average red ant, you're looking at a weight of 1 to 5 mg. Lowballing an average at like, 2mg, say; you're looking at 4.40924524 x 10 to the 11th pounds with one million billion ants on the planet. Which is like, uh... 2.2 million tons give or take.

Even using the 50x estimate, you've got a super speed ant capable of hefting around 100 million tons.

[The Arbiter]

Also taking your average red ant, you're looking at a weight of 1 to 5 mg. Lowballing an average at like, 2mg, say; you're looking at 4.40924524 x 10 to the 11th pounds with one million billion ants on the planet. Which is like, uh... 2.2 million tons give or take.

Even using the 50x estimate, you've got a super speed ant capable of hefting around 100 million tons.

Isnt 100 million tons like way way below Superman's level?

[Cthulhu_of_R'lyeh]

Isnt 100 million tons like way way below Superman's level?

Well, Ben Grimm is what, Class 80? One of his best trucked around feat is compressing a future skyscraper into a sword and swinging it around.

Regular skyscraper weighs about 350,000 tons. So...

[Captain Morgan]

Isnt 100 million tons like way way below Superman's level?

Yes, exactly. You are comparing

100,000,000

To


5,972,000,000,000,000,000,000.

That's the weight of the earth and benching that isn't even a taxing workout for modern Supes.

[Little_Mac]

Would it? This seems a lot weaker than Jupiter Gorilla. This isn't the Earth's weight in ants, it is all the ants on Earth. Which is a lot of ants but like... Could every ant on the planet pooled into one move the planet? A little cursory googling says there is less than 100 billion pounds of ants on the planets. Even if they can lift 50 times their body weight (a generous estimation only true of certain ants) we are still huge orders of magnitudes below the weight of the planet.

Now, the ant's speed is probably going to be nuts, maybe capable of blitzing Superman, but I am honestly not sure they can hurt him.

The ant's speed to me is probably it's only hope. I just have an image of the ant going straight into Superman's earlobe and trying to cause vertigo. Even then, Superman has way too many ways of taking the ant out.

[Captain Morgan]

The ant's speed to me is probably it's only hope. I just have an image of the ant going straight into Superman's earlobe and trying to cause vertigo. Even then, Superman has way too many ways of taking the ant out.

Yeah, I'm not entirely sure how to calculate ant speed vs light speed, but I have an easier time imagining the ant crossing that threshold than planet benching.

[big_adventure]

Travel speed: the fastest ant in the world can run about 1 meter per second (this is the equivalent of a human running over 500 km/h or 360mph. There are about one quadrillion ants in the world, so, if we allow for the fastest ant to count as the multiple for the comp, we're talking one quadrillion meters per second, which is one trillion km per second, which is over 3.3 MILLION times the speed of light. That is vastly faster than even Rebirth Superman, from any feats I've heard about.

And given that this is running, which translates on rumbles pretty well for reaction time because you have to avoid obstacles, even if we penalize comp-o-ant a factor of a hundred, he's still looking at reaction speed in the tens of thousands of times FTL range. Again, this is stupidly faster than anything I've heard proposed for Rebirth Supes.

I don't know if Comp-O-Ant can HURT Clark, but Clark is going to be frozen in place relatively to the ant. Maybe the ant wins when Clark dies of old age, as the ant is going to have a lifespan of AT THE VERY LEAST several quadrillion days (the ants with the shortest lifespans are in the "several days" range, the longest live over 10 years), which means "well after the heat death of the universe."

[Shellhead]

Yeah, I'm not entirely sure how to calculate ant speed vs light speed, but I have an easier time imagining the ant crossing that threshold than planet benching.

Planet benching sounds like an impressive feat, but to an onlooker, it would seem just like an ordinary pushup.

[Marvel-Studios Rep]

Do ants have really good and accurate jumping abilities? Because I am not sure how it climbs up Superman otherwise. Superman’s personal forcefield should block it from being able to dig in, and though this is comics, I’d question whether speed alone is able to defy gravity to the orders of magnitude the ant would. It would belike a normal human running straight up Mount Everest.

[big_adventure]

Do ants have really good and accurate jumping abilities? Because I am not sure how it climbs up Superman otherwise. Superman’s personal forcefield should block it from being able to dig in, and though this is comics, I’d question whether speed alone is able to defy gravity to the orders of magnitude the ant would. It would belike a normal human running straight up Mount Everest.

That personal force field isn't a thing though, is it?