Who can out-talk TAO? (Wildstorm)

Rules:

• Your character can't have any powers. Well, they can but they'll be stripped of them competely.
• Both compatants are on seperate sides of a two-way glass wall, they can hear perfectly through said wall but the wall cannot be broken by any means, They both know this.
• Winning condition is to get the other person to kill themselves, There is a table in the middle of the room, and on said table is a fully loaded handgun.
• Neither have any knowledge on each other, unless they are from the same universe (Its a pretty bad idea to pick anyone from Wildstorm)
• No morals for you character if they have them.

Sheldon Cooper

Father Stone

Batman

Maybe I'm being daft but who the hell is Tao?

Is out talking Tao even possible?

I didn't see "Wildstorm" at first, so I thought you were talking about this Tao:

well, manipulation IS Taos power so john Cs luck will be useless. the only person that can will be the sunlighter, samael the morning star. I do not think anyone can think of anyone else.

TAO

Nobody I know of. TAO manipulated Majestic in his first appearance. Maybe reed Richards would be safe but I doubt it.

Annoying Orange, good luck.

TAO gives him the evils and Annoying Orange shuts the eff up.

Next.

@monsterstomp: He never shuts up, that's part of the charm. Plus he can't kill himself so at worst this is a stalemate.

John Constantine?

The smarter you are the easier it is to be manipulated by TAO, but if you're really dumb it doesn't work. So.... maybe Deadpool?

@jonny_anonymous: I don't think Deadpool is really an idiot, I mean he said once that playing the fool is fun only until you believe yourself to be a fool implying that he is that said pretender.

Also, what do you think about Annoying Orange? At worst it would be a stalemate since he can't kill himself.

@jonny_anonymous:

I hadn't thought about him but you're right

@jonny_anonymous: I think that's a safe bet. I would say Agent X but he has moments of intelligence.

@jonny_anonymous: Deadpool really isn't that dumb though.

Also, I really need to read more Wildstorm.

Deadpool is insane.

Same lol. TAO sounds awesome.

A guy who took over the Wildstorm universe by talking.

A guy who made Mr. Majestic turn into a psychopath by implanting stuff in his mind.

A guy who talks Superhuman opponent's into Coma's

A guy who turned two universal Reality Warper's into puppets.

A guy who made Grifter (A decently strong Telepath) shoot his best friend in the face and forget about it.

His IQ is quite literally unlimited, and was so powerful that he was able to easily challenge about 10 different people that were all his equals because none of them could match his mind, even though that list included people like Spartan, Void, Max Faraday, Mr. Majestic, Zealot, and etc.

At like a couple days old, everyone was scared to talk to him because they knew if they did, They were playing russian roulete with his words as the bullets.

Okay, I really need to read more Wildstorm.

All this and he technically has no powers.

@pr0metheus: Naruto talk no jutsu gg....lol

one thing, it does not matter how powerful your opponents are when your manipulating them, the things that does matter is how fast they can think, how smart they are, and how powerful their will is, so uneless the reality warpers have above average intellect or really strong will, that feat has nothing to it. same goes for all RAOs other feats. the turning mr M into a psycho was a great feat though.

one thing, it does not matter how powerful your opponents are when your manipulating them, the things that does matter is how fast they can think, how smart they are, and how powerful their will is, so uneless the reality warpers have above average intellect or really strong will, that feat has nothing to it. same goes for all RAOs other feats. the turning mr M into a psycho was a great feat though.

Lucifer Morningstar?

Forrest Gump

@jonny_anonymous: All this and he technically has no powers.

Tao has no power the same way Karate Kid has no powers. He has powers, they just don't have a properly defined explanation.

TAO is just that smart he can use psychology to manipulate people

@pr0metheus:

How does one become that smart? Is he a normal human?

@thitiki: No he was genetically engineered to be the smartest thing in creation, his name TAO actually stands for Tactically Augmented Organism and he's described like this:

Tao's main power is his unbelievable intelligence. According to his files "Tao's grasp of tactical, strategic thinking has achieved a seemingly transcendent level which utterly surpasses normal human consciousness. Without any recognized psionic skill such as telepathy or telekinesis, Tao's mind has entered conceptual territory so far above our own that one might as well attempt explaining quantum physics to an ant." Tao's brilliance usually shows itself in his ability to quickly figure out just about anything, from how to operate complex machines, how systems (social or technological) work, what the perfect strategy for any given situation is, even down to personal secrets, flaws, traits and weaknesses of people he's only just met. These kinds of information are then used in the manipulation of individuals and whole cultures for his own ends.

Doom easy.

Batman

Ahh thanks for the info.

@experio: @gojira2014: The smarter you are the easier it is for TAO to manipulate you

@jonny_anonymous: when TAO outsmarts Beyonder, or Galactus, or Mephisto then I will consider it.

Squirrel Girl

Grunge makes him comatose again

Doom was outsmarted by Scott Lang...A guy who is not even a genius lmao.

No one can out talk him at best they could stalemate him. No one is going to make someone as tactically brilliant and manipulative such as Tao kill themselves simply with their words.

@gojira2014: And he likely could, I mean he has already turned 2 god like entities in to his puppets and even controlled a hyper intellect like Majestic. He can control anybody just by talking, hell they even removed his tongue at one point and he was still controlling people just by subtle hand movements and facial expressions. Honestly people are thinking "Oh but my character is so smart he could beat TAO" but that would just make it that much easier for him. In fact the dumber you are the harder it would be for him.

I'm sure @buckshot could explain better.

@eisenfauste: Grunge can. He's too illogical for Tao to handle

Gumball and Darwin

@eisenfauste: Grunge can. He's too illogical for Tao to handle