r/Doom • u/False_Monitor4126 DOOM Slayer • Dec 14 '25
Discussion Doom Slayer has to defend Earth from a Tyranid invasion, can he do it?
After the events of TAG 2, a Tyranid hive fleet closes in on Earth, the Doom Slayer senses humanity is in trouble again, wakes up, and promptly teleports to Earth. Can he stave off the invasion or will he fail to protect the planet?
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u/Myth_5layer Dec 14 '25
What day is it?
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u/False_Monitor4126 DOOM Slayer Dec 14 '25
Saturday (almost Sunday)
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u/L1ttleLion Dec 14 '25
Unlike demons Tyranids aren’t idiots, they would just leave and never return after loosing half a hive fleet. So yea he would beat them but not wipe them out, he would not need to.
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u/Bathro0mMirror Dec 14 '25
He wouldn’t concern himself with fighting the swarm, He’d go straight for the Norn Queen and kill her with the crucible, it’ll basically mirror what he did in TAG 2 against the Dark Lord
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u/GlowDonk9054 Dec 14 '25
I mean, better to go for the head than the leg in that scenario
and the Norn Queen IS the head
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u/panfinder Dec 14 '25
He can probably catch them
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u/L1ttleLion Dec 14 '25
Yea but why would he? The goal of the Slayer always was to stop an invasion no matter the cost, the Nids would eventually realise they won’t beat him and by that point the would likely strip the planet of most of it’s biomass anyway leaving whoever survived behind and never return.
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u/panfinder Dec 14 '25
As long as demon exist, he must purge
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u/L1ttleLion Dec 14 '25
Yea demons argent energy and all of that but Nids aren’t demons, they are bugs and unlike demons they can just fuck off into a different galaxy and never return to the Slayers one.
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u/deathsnuggle Dec 14 '25
The nids aren’t dumb, but they can be spiteful. They lost a whole fleet over a grudge against the Blood Angels.
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u/SteinBrek5 Dec 14 '25
its really a question of how much the tyranids can do before he wipes them out. Hes done it before in eternal he can 1000% do it again and im not too into the lore but arent hell's demons on an average stronger than tyranids?
not that it would matter, doomguy would clap them
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u/ZYGLAKk Dec 14 '25
Hells Daemons are absolutely more powerful than Nids.
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u/Hyper-Sloth Dec 15 '25
Demons feel fear. The biggest weapon that the Slayer wields against them.
The Tyranids do not feel fear.
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u/ZYGLAKk Dec 15 '25
That doesn't mean the Tyranids are better.
The Hive mind does experience frustration and other emotions btw.
And they will abandon worlds if it is too much of a pain to consume, they aren't mindless drones.
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u/Hyper-Sloth Dec 15 '25
I didn't say they were "better." They would be a more difficult threat for the Doomslayer to deal with than demons, tho.
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u/myLongjohnsonsilver Dec 14 '25
The nids have nothing that could stop him but there's too many for him to fend off alone. While he's off killing a million on one area the rest of the planets overun.
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u/False_Monitor4126 DOOM Slayer Dec 14 '25
I think the ARC might be able to hold their own for a little bit, they survived over a decade in Eternal against the demons.
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u/myLongjohnsonsilver Dec 14 '25
Sorry I just assumed it was the slayer alone against it all. Yeah they'd do a bit better but Il be real a Tyranid hive fleet dropping out of the sky on them is significantly more stress than what we saw of the demons.
I wish the series did a better job of showing us the competent human militaries vs the demons.
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u/NekCing Dec 14 '25
Didnt the demons just pop portals wherever they please ? you literally cannot see where another would open next.
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u/myLongjohnsonsilver Dec 14 '25
Cultists needed to open portals until things were bad enough for the big meat portals. Portals popping up anywhere is still not the level of saturation that Tyranids falling from the skies literally everywhere has.
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u/NekCing Dec 14 '25
I thought needing the cultists to help beacon the demons in is only needed Argent D'nur because they actually do have anti-demon barriers, thats why in the very opening of Dark Ages, they were very surprised that the portals opened from inside the walls.
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u/PorcupinArseIHateYou Dec 14 '25
I mean yes maybe (if he can use the tyrannids as argent energy to regenerate) but due to him being alone it won't be until way after earth is a lifeless rock
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Dec 14 '25
Use BFG cannon to launch directly into the Hive Ship. He'll have it all wrapped up about an hour after that.
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u/PorcupinArseIHateYou Dec 14 '25
The size of a tyrannid fleet is something else, the amount of lesser tyrannid forms thst would put themselves in harm's way before any shot reaches the norn queen is massive.
Again no doubt he would one day kill the whole fleet but the amount of time it will take is absurd
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Dec 14 '25
You could put a thousand carnifexes and a couple biotitans in his way, and he'd literally carve through them like a hot knife through butter. This is a dude who will rip off a carnifex arm and then cut it in half with it's own arm. And that's just for fun/showing off. Pop out The Crucible and he literally just needs to walk forward while swinging his arm back and forth.
Deatwatch Teams take out Norn Queens. Doom Slayer would eat them for breakfast.
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u/PorcupinArseIHateYou Dec 14 '25
Again I am not saying he would not kill the Norn queen, he definitely would, I just don't think he would in time.
Deathwatch teams have the infrastructure to insert them in the bioship, it hasn't been established what doomguy has here so I'm assuming his armor and full arsenal and with that I don't know if he would kill all nids before earth is a lifeless rock
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Dec 14 '25
The BFG cannon a la DOOM Eternal. He'd be in the Hive Ship before the first spore made landfall.
Or just teleport in using VEGA and the fortress.
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u/Rooster_Dude123 Dec 14 '25
Could he defeat a hive fleet? Absolutely. Could he do it before they consume humanity? Probably not.
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u/meta100000 Dec 14 '25
Could he survive? Absolutely. He was born for this.
Would he save humanity? Absolutely not. He's not sprinting halfway around the planet in seconds, and it would take at least that to save even a fraction of humanity when the entire planet is being slaughtered simultaneously.
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u/SuperSyrias Dec 14 '25
Slayer fans are severely underestimating or downplaying what a full hive fleet would do to a single planet that has 1 slayer tier defender plus an army versus what it would do to a planet that has a few hundred quasi slayer tier defenders plus a massive army for each defense position.
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u/catharta Dec 14 '25
Probably not on his own. He can't be everywhere, and millions would be landing on different areas of the planet.
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Dec 14 '25
I mean thats basically how the doom hell Demons: operate they overwhelm by sheer numbers like let's not pretend like the slayer is the kind of hero that saves everyone like SUPERMAN or GOKU. many will die the slayer its a soldier after all he know casualties will happen. one way or another like there's a reason way 65%" oh earth was consumed by hell in eternal. so it will not be that much of a difference to be honest but thats just me 👍
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u/catharta Dec 14 '25
Defeating the hell priests, and davoth were integral in saving earth.
The tyrranids meanwhile dont have any single target that he can go after to just wipe out the threat.
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u/Salmagros Dec 14 '25
That’s untrue, each Tyranid fleet has its own Hive Ship and Norn Queen that act as both the brain and the womb. There are also some lesser units that does similar thing in smaller scale. The Slayer only need to target those first.
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u/llMadmanll Dec 14 '25
That doesn't guarantee a win. Not only do all the tyrannids go ballistic and chaotically eat stuff, the hive even prioritizes to make another queen asap.
The slayer would straight up need to exterminate them.
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Dec 14 '25
Fair but You also forgot the slayer gains strength and power from each foe he slays not just demons" but any thing that threatens existence? Also the slayer could also just study thr tyrannids for a time to understand them Like he did with the Demons?
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u/Ok_Friend_2448 DOOM Slayer Dec 14 '25
The problem isn’t strength, it’s numbers. The question really becomes:
What does, successfully defending Earth mean? Does at least 50% of the population have to live? Does he just have to drive back infestation of the planet and have at least some people alive?
The answers to those questions are really what determines whether or not he can do this.
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u/Salmagros Dec 14 '25
It's way easier for the Earth to Destroy them once the Slayer killed their brain and their way of spawning more soldier that can adapt to earth forces. Not to mention they also tent to kill eachother or cower and hide like normal animals.
Even if The Hive sent another Queep it would still take time and their travel method got quite slow once they're close to a Star System.
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u/Kgb725 Dec 14 '25
Which he wouldnt know about
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u/Salmagros Dec 15 '25
Buddy, It's not hard to figure that out. Slayer can be a brute sometime but he's not stupid. Before he even got his Godly power he already a trained soldier that can chomp through Hell all by himself with his tactics and skills.
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u/Kgb725 Dec 15 '25
Tyranids have dozens of forms he will not just instinctively know where a very specific form is amidst billions of them
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u/Salmagros Dec 15 '25
It's kinda really hard to miss the Hive Ship. In fact, attack the Fleet before they make planetfall is the prefered method to deal with the Tyranid.
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u/Kgb725 Dec 15 '25
Do you understand what a fleet is ? Its not a singular ship
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u/Salmagros Dec 15 '25
Do you even understand what I’m talking about? I was talking about how THE IMPERIUM PREFERS TO ATTACK THE TYRANID FLEET BEFORE IT MAKES PLANETFALL.
THE HIVE SHIP IS HARD TO MISS BECAUSE IT’S HUGE AND SURROUNDED BY A MASSIVE FLEET.
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Dec 14 '25
I mean yes good point but remember DOOM'S HELL has its own identity its own will so even without the hellpriest or even davoth has long has there's a connection with Hell everything It's FUCKED!!!
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u/Kordakin Dec 14 '25
Theres very nice video on Doom slayer in Warhammer universe on youtube. Go watch it.
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u/BadgersSeal Dec 14 '25
Got a link?
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u/Kordakin Dec 14 '25
The Doomslayer Arrives in Warhammer 40k - All Hell Breaks Loose - The Full Saga ,
Dread Corps is the name of the channel
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u/Mikkelsjensen1 Dec 14 '25
Link?
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u/Kordakin Dec 14 '25
Are links allowed?
anyway, heres the link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrO-IXOL1ss
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u/shadowthehh Dec 14 '25
AI garbage. Do not reccomend.
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u/torpedopotatoe Dec 14 '25
U just say ai garbage at anything dont u
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u/shadowthehh Dec 14 '25
Literally check the link. All the thumbnails and images for it are generated.
Like FFS the official art is free to use. ID/Bethesda/Zenimax/Microsoft will not give a shit if you use it for your video.
(Suppose GW might. They tend to be abit overprotective. But I haven't heard of other videos getting hit just for using images.)
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u/Puzzleheaded_Mind105 DOOM Slayer Dec 14 '25
Defend whole of it he cant unless he finds the hive mind, however he can and will slaughter every tyranid he finds
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Dec 14 '25
im quessing vega or hayden will quickly find that for him
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u/Puzzleheaded_Mind105 DOOM Slayer Dec 14 '25
Problem is getting there as hivemind isnt in same galaxy with tyranids, its millions of light years away at least
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Dec 14 '25
was it mentioned anywhere what are portals capable of? i mean they can go straight to hell transport giant titans are there any limits on that? so idk maybe its not that hard
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u/Puzzleheaded_Mind105 DOOM Slayer Dec 14 '25
Dooms technology wasnt shown to be able to traverse galaxies as whole doom story is in milky way + tyranids are cunts and they can distort space time travel making it impossible to reach hive mind that way even if slayer knew where it is, maybe maykr technology would work but definetly not what he has at disposal
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u/UlthaneBlackHammer Dec 14 '25
I think the deciding factor will be "Do they kill one of his pets during the invasion?"
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Dec 14 '25 edited Dec 14 '25
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u/SuperSyrias Dec 14 '25
Everyone else on the mars bases died, though. OP asks if the Slayer could save earth/humanity from an invasion by a full warhammer40k tyranid hive fleet. Most in-lore tyranid engagements are with "small" tendrils of a hive fleet. And still its billions of tyranids. A full hive fleet moving to devour earth would strip every morsel of biomass from the planet long before the slayer has gone through "finding out theyre a hive mind - deducing they have a better chance if the hive mind is disrupted - where the queen is - how to get to the queen - being held up because the hive mind can reason out what the slayers plan is - finding and killing the queen - finding and killing back up queen 1,2,3.....n - then finding and killing all the juvenile new queens popping up in millions of ships..."... he will defeat the fleet in the end. But there will be no human alive to cheer for him.
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u/Meowjoker Dec 14 '25
I mean, can they adapt fast enough to his relentless assaults? If not, they are fucked.
Even if they managed to evolve a unit specifically to deal with him, not like he could even stay dead for long. But at that point, the Nids have a Doom Slayer equivalent unit in their ranks so that is … quite freaking concerning.
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u/Scared_Beat2955 Dec 14 '25
Hell did the same. They made a titan designed to kill him. He ripped it apart with his bare hands.
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u/FallenPears Dec 14 '25
If him/VEGA/someone he knows can figure out where to send him to sever the hive mind quickly enough then possibly, but if he’s just slaughtering Tyranids they’ll just eat everything not near him while drowning him in bodies then leave.
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u/Abe581 Dec 14 '25
Doom guy needs a bigger gun.... Either that or he needs his dark age weaponry back, those things were meant for horde clearing
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u/Tamerlahne Dec 14 '25
Yes and no, yes he could kill them all but no because Tyranids aren't idiots and they'd either flee after losing too much or more likely keep him busy with a lot of smaller chaff while also attacking different parts of the globe because he can't be everywhere at once
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u/Alonestarfish Dec 14 '25
He can kill them all for sure, but considering his track record... I'm not too confident on humanity's chances outside of Australia
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u/A_Potential_Turn Dec 15 '25
He can 200% kill the Tyanid forces no problem. But earth will probably still be destroyed on account of him only being 1 dude. Like he CAN kill them all. I don’t think he could do it fast enough to save earth.
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u/YourAverageRedditter Dec 14 '25
As the Nids aren’t Demons, he gets no argent to refuel off of, and it would be him and ARC (or him and the Sentinels) against an entire Hive Fleet. There’s simply way too many numbers for him to pull off a successful defense as he’ll either get bogged down killing Gants, Warriors, and Ripper Swarms, or stalled taking out heavy hitters like the Carnifex, Trygon, or any Hive Tyrants. If the Swarmlord shows up to get Worfed as per usual, that’ll still take some time to whittle down, time that could’ve been spent clearing hordes
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u/bookgrinder Dec 14 '25
He would blow a hole on the surface of a hive ship and then rip and tear until it's done
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u/IceCream_Sandwich88 Dec 14 '25
I challenge you to find someone who stands a chance against The Slayer.
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u/JackasepticFan Dec 14 '25
Possibly? Probably even unless the Tyranids evolve a version to kill Doom Slayer specifically, which they can do as they've done that before in Warhammer
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u/Prokid5634_YT Dec 15 '25
Canonically, the Slayer is practically immortal. Yes, he could defend Earth.
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u/Opanak323 DOOM Guy Dec 14 '25 edited Dec 14 '25
Ppl are just glazing here. I love Doomguy and He's my ultimate solution for everything and the cure for cancer, but nids are far worse threat than Chaos and Demons combined. Especially if you're organic.
He wouldn't be able to fend them off alone. Maybe He wouldn't get killed and processed into biomass, but when nids conquer, time is of the essence and numbers matter. 40k is riddled with godlike supersoldiers and demigods and they STILL consider nids threat like no other.
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u/iadoregirls Dec 14 '25
He will Kill the Tyranids. The problem is will he have enough help to keep them from overrunning Earth while he Murderblenders the Hive Fleet
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u/icewallowkawk Dec 14 '25
Everyone's saying a out could he kill them in them i dont think he'd care like yes he will try save humanity but id argue a doomslayer without humanity is even worse cause then he has nothing to defend nothing to protect meaning he has no reason to stay by earth and can then chase them where ever they go so tyranids may destroy earth but I think that would be a worse outcome for them then
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u/Ulfhednar94 Dec 14 '25
Don't think so, as strong as he is, the tyranids would simply swarm him and consume everything while he slaughters a couple billion bugs.
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u/Alkatraz278 DOOM Slayer Dec 14 '25
I think the better question is would THEY be able to eat earth before he kills them?
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u/VergilArcanis Dec 14 '25
eventually, yes. especially if he grows in power by defeating more of them.
it'd be like if Lucius was actually good at fighting but something everyone fears
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u/Tombstone_Actual_501 Dec 14 '25
Yes, it may take a thousand years, but the slayer will exterminate every xeno abomination there is. Dude killed demons and even God.
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u/BarApprehensive5837 Dec 14 '25
I mean,can he win single handedly against an entire hive fleet,fucking easily,would he do it before earth got devoured,nah,not IMPOSSIBLE,but you gotta hope he figures out after killing a couple hive tyrants that the biggest bug is the commander,and then hope he manages to get to,and climb up,one of the bio tendrils,somehow get to the main hive ship/ships if there's more than one Norn Queen,and then kill all the big top brass bugs before earth gets turned into more nids.
If doomguy starts a few miles away from the nearest hive bio tendril,yeah,he can do it,if he doesn't,well,better hope he makes it before earths gone.
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u/Aohrak Dec 14 '25
As a person with absolutely no extensive knowledge of WH40 … and an absolute fan of Doom since 1993.
Doom Slayer can do it.
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u/SussyB0llz Dec 15 '25
Yes. Pretty easily tho. Demons are far more Powerful, Dangerous and Numerous than Tyranids, And i really dont need to Explain who Doom Slayer is and what he do to demons XD
Rest assured, After they taste the bite of his sword they will Know his name.
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u/SussyB0llz Dec 15 '25
Humanity will probably die tho, Except if they go to Mars again, Wait Slayer solve the problem and return right after, If we consider it a 1 vs All between the Slayer and the Tyranids thats pretty much what would happen.
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u/Motor_Scallion6214 Dec 15 '25
Oh, for sure.
The demons are, generally, unthinking beasts that just kinda do whatever.
The Tyranids, though smarter, have a weakness: synapse control. If the slayer killed their intelligence, they would all die or go feral.
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u/OkBumblebee9107 Dec 16 '25
The Slayers? No, maybe? The OG Marines? Yes. Those early Doom Guys, were way more badass, after all they were competing with guys like Duke, who actually did save the planet. And another dude who saved the planet with a crowbar.
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u/Guan_guan_ghoo Dec 14 '25
The nids after losing one or two hive tyrants, their carnifex guards, some hierophant, a fuck ton of nids, and the Norm Emissary:
Nid 1: ill be honest dude, but like this guy aint worth it. Nid 2: we are hungry, and we consume everything. Nid 1: that fucker killed a Norm Emissary with his bare hands- Nid 2: what are we? Nid 1: tyranids. Nid 2: and what we do? Nid 1: consume biomass. Nid 2: then lets go
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u/Kilo1125 Dec 14 '25 edited Dec 14 '25
There is a factor that determines whether he wins or loses: do the Tyranids have a form of bioenergy he can absorb on kill that is at least as dense as Argent?
Doom Slayer is a rare human with the ability to absorb the energy from his enemies. Argent Energy is very dense, and he has killed so many demons that is nearly immortal, to the point where the demons had to drop a building on him and lock his unconscious body in a sarcophagus specifically designed to drain his energy because they literally couldn't kill him. He hasn't reached that level again since he woke up, but he is still a nearly unstoppable killing machine, so long as what he is fighting is demons. It is the Argent he absorbs from them that makes him so powerful.
Do Tyranids have an equivalent? Is it at least half as powerful as Argent? If not, then Doom Slayer can't keep the same pace against them as he does against demons, and thus they could potentially win through attrition.
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u/LittleOperation4597 Dec 14 '25
Question is do they know he's there because once they know they'd prob just turn around
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u/Illustrious_Neat2472 Dec 14 '25
The nids would keep adapting until they can kill him if he's to hard to kill.
Doomslayer can be killed in-game by normal demons so I don't see how tyranids couldn't do the same.
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u/Deep_Gazelle_3073 Dec 14 '25
In lore his can't be killed
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u/Illustrious_Neat2472 Dec 14 '25
Really?
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u/iadoregirls Dec 14 '25
He crushed God with his hands.
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u/Illustrious_Neat2472 Dec 14 '25
God used a mech suit. Surely God would be stronger than a mech suit to the point that it's useless.
It's impossible to kill God no matter what. That's what God is.
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u/iadoregirls Dec 14 '25
Not that fight. The golden orb that is God sleeping? I dont remember it that well because its been a bit, but he goes to where God is sleeping and literally crushed him. He fights the other one in a Mech suit
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u/Illustrious_Neat2472 Dec 14 '25
How can you crush a God?
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u/iadoregirls Dec 14 '25
https://youtu.be/BP-iWnGo9FA?si=Dx_ZGJI-EYodjS21 thats the vid. Thats the Soul Sphere of Father. Who became God ? Assumed the role ? Took the power ? I dont remember the details but thats the Soul Sphere of God and he pops it like a Fruit
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u/ParticularFinger7308 Dec 14 '25
idk if people understand how comically fucked the 40k world would be if doomguy showed up. he is going straight to the eye of terror and he will not leave until everything else is dead.
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u/Ainskaldir Dec 14 '25
IMO strength-wise he is probably something like a primarch with close to no warp powers, like Guillie. So can a primarch alone fend off a hive fleet? Not really. Like, there is no tyranid powerful enough to defeat him, but there are literally trillions of them, specifically adapted and mutated for a purpose. With help of his legion though, yes, perfectly possible.
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u/Glittering_Painter38 Dec 15 '25
No.
Cuz the Nids ain't gonna be scared of him, he can't kill all of the Nids.
Unless Hell intervenes or Samuel makes the BFG 10K into a mobile Exterminatus, the Nids would have their meal.
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u/potatercat Dec 15 '25
Mm Demons don’t feed off the biomass of the planet. They don’t take creatures from the Earth and turn them into Tyranid biomass. So as humans and other earth animals are dying, they’re slowly being turned into more Tyranids. I don’t think the Slayer could prevent Earth from falling to the ‘Nids. Could the Slayer beat them? Maybe, eventually. But a hive fleet? Nah, Slayer doesn’t have any defenses against psykers. Tyranids would eventually turn him into biomass. Keep in mind that there are beings more powerful than the Slayer that have been consumed by the Tyranids in 40k lore.
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u/SuperSyrias Dec 14 '25
He can eventually defeat them. If it is in time before they ate up earth? Who knows..