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Can an average person who works a full time job become capable enough to rival a secret agent like James Bond or John Wick on their own ? (lemmings.world)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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If so what kind of training they would have to go through ? By training I mean the spatial and situational awareness, combat skills (this is kinda unrealistic), enough knowledge to turn any situation to their advantage etc.

Just think of the person as your average joe who financially has nothing to spend on high tech gadgets or state of the art training equipment. And doesn't even have any support from another human being. Basically one has to train from the ground up alone.

Don't limit the answers to just James Bond and John wick, you can even consider any realistically possible superhero or supervillain (like batman or taskmaster) as well.

So what's your take ?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Batman seems like a potentially plausible reality in the future, factoring in a fuck ton of money AND the Batcomputer, one of the most underrated aspects pf the character. Assuming he’s working with next gen tech on the computer you could plausibly consider that the Batcomputer has some incredible AI capabilities that could give his normal power set to a real world person (to a degree). It could make plans, develop new bat gadgets, research, create work out and training regiments, etc etc. Wouldn’t fit for OP’s question but someone could eventually become somewhat of a Batman in the future with enough drive and money.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I'm not sure I can trust your judgement in this matter, TheDarkKnight.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Lmao, yeah…these are the things I spend my days thinking about lol

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

Aka The Green Hornet

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Hasn't Batman also, in some media, gone blow for blow with Superman-level opponents without dying? Like, he's not as strong as them, and superhuman strength isn't technically a superpower he has, but...

No. Even if you could match the current fictional character's tech and computing power and budget and incoherent physical strength, those really are not what make Batman Batman. It's the intellect, the iron will, the sheer level of badassery that can only be achieved in fiction where an author has him appear behind the villain just to show what an impossible nightmare Batman truly is.

Being able to pretend that he's Bruce Wayne sometimes certainly helps, though. He's a good actor.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Yep! He’s defeated Darkseid even (I mean technically it was a team effort but Batman executes the Coup De Grace).

Idk if Batman could deal with a real world Superman in our plausible semi-future scenario, but some aspects pf the character could for sure be emulated I think at a certain technological point of time :-)