Poll: Adamantium vs Lightsaber

[TheMan2203]

i love this shit its why forums exist. In all fairness though i unno i'd probably go for the lightsaber, it might not cut through buuuut the superfast warrior magician holding the damn thing could probs poke u in the eye with it until u surrender.

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

you are thinking of wikandan vibranium. I believe antarctic vibranium has the exact opposite properties and would actually enhance the vibration.

Reverse problem then, Antarctic vibranium would be impossible to hold for long because it would work on the metal ions in your body and kill you super-fast, as well as making it unable to be held.

You could make a Needler gun of Antarctic V though, as long as it's a ceramic gun that shields you. Or a W.V. whip...I think? Either way, it'd be like making a teflon sword.

 

[Jaime_Wolf]

Why would you ever think a lightsaber would win? I suppose you can try to apply "science" here, abstracting from what we know about adamantium and lightsabers to try to get at how they "really" work well enough to come to a conclusion. But that seems silly given that adamantium has one explicit, defining characteristic: it's indestructable. Nowhere is it really said that a lightsaber can cut through "anything", we just haven't seen it fail to cut through anything (cortosis shorts it out, it doesn't actually prevent the cutting).

I think explicit indestructibility beats implicit cutting ability.

 

[The_Evermind]

It seems to me that we can all agree that what ever happens the lightsaber couldn't cut through without resistance, so someone with a lightsaber could lock blades with someone weilding a admantium sword at least for a little bit. It seems to me that although a lightsaber would be able to cut through admantium it would be a laborious process. The admantium wouldn't simply diffuse the lightsaber and shut it off like cortosis. To me the interesting battle would be between someone wielding a lightsaber and wolverine because in my way of thinking wolverine would be able to hold off the lightsaber with his claws but because the layer around his bones is so thin it might only be able to hold off a light hit instead of a prolonged strike making the battle come down to the skill of the combatants.

 

[Asuka Soryu]

"some parties found a way to duplicate it on a larger and more cost-effective scale at the expense of quality and durability. For most practical purposes, this secondary adamantium is also largely indestructible. Conventional weapons, such as ballistic missiles, have no effect on it and it is far stronger than even the most durable of titanium or steel compounds."

The original Adamantium is immensely stronger then that version.

 

[Asuka Soryu]

Why would you ever think a lightsaber would win? I suppose you can try to apply "science" here, abstracting from what we know about adamantium and lightsabers to try to get at how they "really" work well enough to come to a conclusion. But that seems silly given that adamantium has one explicit, defining characteristic: it's indestructable. Nowhere is it really said that a lightsaber can cut through "anything", we just haven't seen it fail to cut through anything (cortosis shorts it out, it doesn't actually prevent the cutting).

I think explicit indestructibility beats implicit cutting ability.

Actually, there's been cases where Adamantium has broken.

But this could be due to the Adamantium being of a weaker form, ie Second Adamantium.

As Sabertooth has later on, Adamantium claws and one of them is broken(never explained how)

Adamantium is indestructible more on human means. But considering the fantasy world, anything's possible.

 

[FalloutJack]

Neither. Their forces combine to make Unobtanium.

 

[Arqus_Zed]

I read somewhere that the ions of a lightsaber beam would cause vibrations in the adamantium structure, reforming the particles and thus form a generator of anti-matter, which results in both combatants ceasing to exists.

...Well, I didn't actually read any of the likes, but hey, who knows, right?

 

[Snotnarok]

Light sabers aren't the be-all-end all weapon, there's actually 2 known metals that work against light sabers. One shorts them out and deactivates them for a short time and another one is highly resistant, so I would say that Wolverine has nothing to fear in this, it'd probably take 6 hours to cut through anything coated in the material.

 

[The Funslinger]

UBER-SNIP

It's funny because he thinks Star Wars has magic. (force does not = magic) enchantments... *snort* but yeah, cortosis, and mandalorian metal (Beskar)

Beskar! thank you! I could not remember the mandolorian name for the metal. I felt so incomplete nerding out on star wars and marvel universe minutia and not being able to fully complete the process.

Yeah, I love having epic star wars knowledge. I've always had a passionate interest in mandalore-lore(?) Even more so after meeting Jeromy Bulloch (the original Fett man himself!) If only there were a section of this website where we could have nerd-offs about various topics.

 

[Thaius]

Problem is, we have no idea how the two weapons interact because they are in two different fictional universes. Cortosis can stand up, to some extent, against a lightsaber, but since cortosis and adamantium don't exist in the same fictional universe, we cannot compare the strength of the two metals. Nor can we test the effect that a lightsaber has on adamantium. Thus, the question is simply unanswerable. I would predict a lightsaber would win, but it is also possible that adamantium has properties similar to cortosis that allow it to resist the energy of a lightsaber. But we simply cannot know.

 

[vxicepickxv]

I stick by my previous answer in the other Adamantium vs Lightsaber topic that was already created.

 

[Sinspiration]

Honestly I cant really choose one over the other, Adamantium is supposed to be 'so strong' that once its taken to melting point it has to be kept damn hot otherwise it sets permanently, so if Lightsabers are indeed the solid light energy constructs they appear to be (I'm not entirely knowledgeable on them, I just know they can burn through large metal blast doors, which probably weren't even adamantium) maybe they'd just make the adamantium damn hot with continued contact but not melt it at all?

Perhaps there's no ultimate winner at all and both sides of this issue are as strong as one another? one made of solid energy, the other made of an indestructible metal.

Either way, I cant vote on something I'm not entirely sure of, but that's just my five pence on the issue, good luck finding a resolution.

 

[MasterOfWorlds]

I'm going to go with lightsaber simply because it's lighter and would be faster to use. It's not exactly like you need super strength to cut through something with it, but a sword of roughly equal size made out of adamantium would be pretty heavy.

It also depends on if the lightsaver would cut through the adamantium.

 

[AssassinJoe]

Clearly the lightsaber. Sure, adamantium is an impressive metal but can it compete with pure, focused energy?? I think not. Lightsabers cut through reinforced metal like butter, sure, the adamantium might pose more resistance but it would still lose.

I have to disagree. Sure a lightsaber might be able to heat up adamantium, but to a point where it could cut through it.

Put me down for adamantium.

 

[Subbies]

light sabers would be a lot lighter than a adamantine blade of equivalent length so the light saber would be easer to use, whereas a adamantine blade doesn't have any electrical (or equivalent) components so that makes it more reliable in harsher (for the light saber) conditions. But ultimately if you were cut in two, be it with either one of those weapons, I doubt you would have time to bleed to death anyways.

 

[Valkyrie101]

I've always wondered what happens when you drop a lightsaber.

 

[The_ModeRazor]

Not even up to debate.

Kyle Katarn.
Why?
He killed 2 Kell dragons with his bare hands, BEFORE becoming a jedi and learning to use any kind of force powers. Your fight with him in Jedi Academy ends with you running the fuck away after temporarily slowing him by collapsing a couple dozen tons of rock on him. And it only slows him down for like 10 seconds.

Oh, got a bit sidetracked there. I guess I'll go with lightsabers, because I played The Force Unleashed, and unlocked the Sith Armor (black robesf with face-concealing hood, and a silver armor for the torso, kinda like that of a bounty hunter), and combined it with a green lightsaber. It looked so goddamn bitching, Darth Vader stabbed himself in the foot for never being able to reach this level of coolness.

 

[Byere]

Since there's no physical form to a lightsaber, and assuming you're talking an adamantium sword (or in the case of Wolverine/Lady Deathstrike, claws), they would just block one another. While it's true that a lightsaber is made to cut through things, the reason they clash against each other is the forcefield holding the supercharged ion plasma-stuff stops each blade just going through each other. If Adamantium couldn't be cut by a lightsaber, then we'd have to assume they would just clash in the same way.

 

[Byere]

I've always wondered what happens when you drop a lightsaber.

The blade would probably go through the ground up to the hilt. If it cut a big enough hole as it went down for the handle to go down without touching the sides, one could assume it would just keep going till it reached the center of the planet..