then, someone else will comment?
then, someone else will comment?
The fight is Poseidon has to destroy all militaries.
If it were the opposite, the militaries would have to destroy the world, do something with nukes and get the oceans to boil away. There are global warming scenarios involving "Venusification" so this may be possible. But not, I would think, without significant prep, before Poseidon wrecks them all.
But I gather the militaries don't exactly have to destroy him, just endure? Problematic because, as has been pointed out, Poseidon can affect the land with earthquakes.
So yeah, the militaries are toast unless they can enlist other gods as allies, which we don't really allow in these kinds of matches. Not unless one of the combatants is known for spells of summoning or gates or something like that. Fictional militaries sometimes have these, but hopefully our own don't.
Looking at the amount of evil in the world, though, I sometimes wonder....
One caveat here: space-based weapons. Are there sky nukes or death rays up there? No idea, and no idea if Poseidon can withstand a directed energy weapon, if we even have them, if we could even target him if we got 'em.
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Yes, ergo this:
He'd have to get overconfident, show up visibly, perhaps in giant form, be detected by spy satellite, and then one of the DEWs would have to be overhead or close.
And even then, the installation controlling the DEW satellite would have to have not been destroyed by an earthquake.
And then his durability would have to be weaker than the death ray.
Thing is, Poseidon knows there are tactical nukes. If he can't tank a tactical nuke, he doesn't show up in person. And if he can tank a tactical nuke, well heck, maybe he tanks the DEW too.
So Team Human is not really offered good betting odds here.
On top of that, Olympian immortals are, you know, generally considered to be immortal to the real definition of the term. Not just "live forever without violent end" but "they can't die." Cronus ate all of Zeus' brother and sisters, and they stayed in his stomach for, at the very least, some long number of years. They were just fine thanks, when Zeus came back, kicked Daddy's ass, and cut them out. Zeus & Co. couldn't kill the Titans - they had to imprison them in Tartarus. Prometheus was chained to a rock with magical unbreakable chains by Zeus & Co., to have his liver eaten out of his body every day forever. It just grew back.
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But can't we use WMDs on him? Would they even be effective?
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Poseidon can make earthquakes as well. Just throwing that out there.
"But... But I want to be a big karate cyborg... ;_;" - Nik Hasta
"Get off my lawn! ...on this forum, that just makes people think of Cyclops." - Sharpandpointies
"...makes me think the Night King just says "Screw the rules, I have magic money" when it comes to physics." -Captain Morgan
Considering that Poseidon is a truly immortal shapeshift who can readily generate tsunamis and earthquakes, it's just a matter of time before he eventually kills all modern military forces. The only way to deny him victory would involve at least one soldier staying alive. Even if there were military personnel on a space station, they can't stay there indefinitely due to the long-term health issues caused by low gravity, so he could wait them out.
By the way, a very interesting scenario along these lines is addressed in the book Age of Zeus, by James Lovegrove.
Ironically I could see the military having a much easier time with Zeus.