The Borg

I love the way I find loopholes to my own rules. Yes, the Borg do count, as they are not an entire race or army but rather a collective. Many bodies working for the same hive mind, like communism on sick bender. Several billion communists, and the drug is sweet, sweet assimilation.

The Borg have three advantages against Superman. The first is obviously sheer numbers. Superman is much stronger than a normal person, or even a single Borg (Borg cybernetic enhancements make them stronger than regular humans/vulcans/whatevers). But is he stronger than a hundred Borg? Again the answer is yes. A thousand? Sure, more likely than not. A Million? Eh, getting closer. A billion? That's a lot of Borg. There are more than a trillion assimilated humanoids in the Borg collective. A trillion bodies that Superman would have to smash to defeat the Borg.

A trillion Borg to smash if it came to that. Which it probably wouldn't, because Superman would also have to get past their second advantage: Borg technology. Borg technology is centuries past anything lame-ass Brainiac ever came up with, and twice as brutal. The combined techological likenesses of hundreds of assimilated species makes for nasty goodies, not the least of which is the planet sized spaceships they employ. Superman can be as invulnerable as he wants, just makes him a better drone once the Borg pump him with a few pints worth of nano-robots.

However, a particular technological aspect of the Borg makes up advantage 3: adaptation. The Borg, through the benefits of the oft-mentioned hive-mind the trillions of them share, is capable of coming up with amazingly quick adaptations for any situation they might find themselves in. This means that, while Superman may get a few with his super-strong punches and heat vision or whatever, the rest would adapt. Superman has a lot of powers, but he does not have enough to destroy a trillion super-adaptive cyborgs. Imagine the shocked look on his face when the fourth or so Borg drone adapts to his punches! It would probably be the last emotive expression he ever made.

It does not matter how strong or how fast Superman is. All that does is make him a better drone. With numbers in the trillions, technology far beyond anything Superman has ever seen, and all the adaptive qualities of hundreds of assimilated races, Superman is destined to fall before the Borg. I guess what they say is true, resistance IS futile.

Next Week: Unicron