How Iron Man Would Defeat Each Member Of The Avengers

1. Captain America

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Being polar opposites in almost every way, Cap and Tony have often come to blows, with one coming out the victor often by the skin of their teeth.

But assuming Iron Man actually thought through a fight with Cap for once and really put some thought into how he would actually take him out for good should he need to, what would he come up with?

There are a lot of ways this could go down, not the least of which being the good old "shoot him in the head" gambit. Except Steve has already been shot in the head before, so he'll definitely be expecting that, and there's always that pesky shield to worry about. Plus with Steve's training and super soldier enhancements, a lot of the conventional solutions, while TECHNICALLY effective, just aren't surefire enough to fall back on.

Except hold on, we're overlooking something, aren't we? Oh yeah, the serum. Steve is the greatest soldier who ever lived, serum or otherwise, but the Captain America books have, in the last decade, established that the serum is what's keeping him in prime condition almost 80 years later. Hell, in the comics, Sam became Captain America BECAUSE someone took the serum out of Cap and time caught up with him.

And there you have the solution. All Tony would have to do is restrain Steve for a few short seconds while he gets a syringe in him, and pulls out the super soldier serum, turning him into an old man all over again. After that, taking him out is as simple as just punching him really hard with his armored fist. Assuming the rapid aging close to a hundred years doesn't make him just keel over right then and there.

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