User blog comment:Mikeylango/Game leads vs. Super heroes battle one: Master chief vs. Iron man (Movie rendition)/@comment-199.229.232.42-20130430195720

Were this Comic Iron Man vs Master Chief, Tony would take it no problem. But the Movie version has a number of short comings that his Comic counter part lacks that in the end would allow Chief to win. Now before anyone starts to attack me, I'm gonna lay out my line of thinking.

First is the Movie version of Iron Man isn't as durable as his comic counter part, and in this case I don't think his armor matches up to the Mjolnir armor in terms of pure durability. In the First Movie Pepper mentions bullet holes on the armor when she first sees Tony in the armor. The Mjolnir armor Chief wears has been worn by him non stop for years and only has some minor burn marks on it. Iron did get hit my a tank shell by it looked more like a glancing blow to me than a dead on hit. Another thing is his armor doesn't seem to have the same resistance to impact. The Mjolnir armor has on at least 3 occasions allowed the wearer to fall through the atmosphere and come out completly un injured. It's implied in the movies that the Iron Man armor doesn't offer this, at least to the same degree. In Avengers Thor and Captain America seemed worried about Stark making an uncontrolled landing. I won't takes this as solid proof of it, but it seems suggestive to me.

Another Problem Stark has is he is vulnerable to EMP's, and if his armor is knock out, it's lethal. His heart can't survive if his arc reactor is knocked out, and even if that doesn't happen, if the armor simply stops working, Tony isn't going to be able to move. And he's where all this matters, Cortana can configure the Energy shield into an EMP Pulse. If Stark get's close enough, and I think he will, his armor can be knocked out.

Now Starks biggest Strength is he can fly. At Mach 3 he's moving at 3 times the speed of sound, comparable to the speed of a bullet fired from a gun. Added with his flight maneuverability he can literally fly circles around Chief, but with AI assistance, SPARTAN reaction time is increased and Cortana can calculated where Stark is going to attack. Tony still has the advantage in this field but it's not as massive as it may seem.

Finally there is Tony weapons, I don't get the impression that that work all that well against Armor opponents. In the Movies he uses them mostly against unarmored opponents, Terrorist and the unarmored Chitauri, who were capable of being killed by normal weapons like guns and knives. When he did face highly armored opponents like Whiplash or Iron Monger, he had to resort to alternate means to beating, combing the repulsor blasts or detonating the ARC reactor.

The Tank Missile would work if it could get through the shield, but solid projectiles bounce off the shields and the Tank missile doesn't detonate on contact, if it did it would kill, but it has a delayed reaction, and in that case, in my opinion the missile won't work all that well.

In the end this fight is gonna be close, but the pure durability of the MJOLNIR armor, combined with Super Genius AI assistance and a life time of Military training will give Master Chief a narrow edge over the Technological superiority of Tony Stark.