Angus MacGuyver vs. Grand Admiral Thrawn

[Nibleswick]

Ok, who would win in a battle of intelligence and resourcefulness? This one has me stumped.

[dehro]

Ok, who would win in a battle of intelligence and resourcefulness? This one has me stumped.

give Mcgyver a screwdriver and half a pound of assorted chemicals and cooking spices and he can rule the world.

[sun_tzu]

Ok, who would win in a battle of intelligence and resourcefulness? This one has me stumped.

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I'd say Thrawn is smarter, but, interesting match.

[Green Bean]

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I'd say Thrawn is smarter, but, interesting match.

Thrawn may be smarter, but can he build weapons from a roll of duct tape and a toothpick? :smalltongue:

[sun_tzu]

Thrawn may be smarter, but can he build weapons from a roll of duct tape and a toothpick? :smalltongue:

Nope.
Could MacGuyver trick a squad of jedi masters and a fleet of warrior slavers into nullifying each other's tactical advantage long enough for him to take them both down? :smalltongue:

[Green Bean]

Nope.
Could MacGuyver trick a squad of jedi masters and a fleet of warrior slavers into nullifying each other's tactical advantage long enough for him to take them both down? :smalltongue:

True, but he could make something that would do that out of a matchbox and an elastic band...

[Moff Chumley]

I'm going to give this one, as usual to Thrawn.

[Sir Enigma]

I'm going to vote MacGuyver - Thrawn is brilliant, maybe unbeatable, at dealing with large groups, but a couple of clever people (or MacGuyver) are much more difficult for him to predict and are often capable of getting around him - in the Heir to the Empire books, the only times he was beaten was when a small group of people (read: Luke/Leia/Han Solo/Mara Jade) started working commando/infiltration types of plans. Ironically, give MacGuyver an army and he'd probably lose :smallbiggrin:

[indianajoe]

MacGuyver all the way. All it would take would be a couple minutes of him having some internal monologue about what could be used to make something and that's it.

...Course...if you took away Mac's pocket knife:smalleek:

[sun_tzu]

MacGuyver all the way. All it would take would be a couple minutes of him having some internal monologue about what could be used to make something and that's it.

...Course...if you took away Mac's pocket knife:smalleek:

Yeah, sure. As long as Mac's in a situation that can be solved with whatever just happens to be in the room (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main.LockingMacGyverInTheStoreCupboard), he will find the solution.
Will Thrawn put him in a position where he can win like that? Bloody hell no.

[Winterwind]

I'll side with Thrawn.
MacGuyver may construct some ingenious machine to use against the Grand Admiral... but Thrawn will find a way to make MacGuyver beat himself with it. :smallamused:

More to the point, I'll take brilliance, strategy and (first and foremost) empathy over technical know-how any day.