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Man vs. Animal: Seven Challenges, Ending With a Cheetah Against a Formula E Car

MrBeast ミスタービースト · ▶ 20:31 · 11 min read
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Overview

MrBeast's video sets up a series of contests between humans and animals: a strongman against a lion, a record-holding jumper against a tiger, a bull rider against three bulls, a sprinter's opponent forced to choose between a sumo wrestler and a grizzly bear, a comedian against a painting elephant, elite soldiers against search dogs, and finally a cheetah against three increasingly fast vehicles. The early challenges go to the humans. The video then builds toward the question in its title, whether a cheetah can beat one of the fastest cars in the world.

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Tug-of-War: The Strongest Man vs. a 500-Pound Lion

The first challenge puts Brian, introduced as the strongest man in the world, in a game of tug-of-war against a 500-pound lion. The video cuts to footage of Brian pulling an actual plane to show what he can do. Early in the contest the lion holds him in place, and the hosts are surprised that it is "literally holding the strongest man in the world back."

Partway through, the lion turns around. One of the hosts guesses it is trying to wear Brian out. Brian starts to struggle but keeps gaining ground, and once he is within about three feet of the line he finishes the pull and wins. The hosts declare the first point for "Team Human" and say six more challenges follow.

High Jump: A World-Record Leaper vs. a Tiger

Next is Darius, who the video says holds the Guinness World Record for the highest vertical leap. MrBeast puts it this way: of the roughly 8 billion people alive, nobody jumps higher. His opponent is a tiger named Luna. Before the contest Darius says that whatever she jumps, he'll match: "If she jumps 13, I'm jumping 13."

The handlers dangle meat to get Luna to jump. MrBeast then explains how Darius's target is set. Simply clearing the tiger's mark isn't enough for him; he wants Darius to win by beating his own record. So the target is not set at 10 ft 9 in, the height the video implies the tiger reached, but at 12 ft 3 in, exactly one inch above Darius's Guinness record. Touching it would beat the tiger and set a new world record in one attempt.

The hosts doubt it. One says Darius must be lying about thinking he can do it, and Darius jokes that he nearly thinks so too. He makes the jump anyway, and the hosts react with disbelief. Darius stays calm and says he feels he could go higher. Two challenges in, MrBeast notes that the animals "need to start winning."

The Bull Arena: Carrying Money Past Three Bulls

The third challenge, which MrBeast expects to be harder for the humans, takes place in a bull arena with a bull rider named Bubba. Three bulls are released, each about 1,500 pounds. Bubba has three minutes to carry bags of money across the arena into a bucket, and he keeps every dollar he delivers.

The bulls come through the gate straight at him. They mostly run past him, though he loses his hat early. He banks $10,000 quickly and keeps grabbing bags while the bulls chase him. At one point they head toward the film crew instead. The narration keeps pointing out how relaxed Bubba is. He laughs while the bulls charge, and he walks up to touch one on the head, which a host describes as "a strategy of scaring the bulls away."

Bubba finishes with $50,000. Asked what he'll spend it on, he says probably a new truck.

The Choice: A 500-Pound Sumo Wrestler or a Grizzly Bear

The fourth challenge brings back Nick, who appeared in an earlier video where he lost a race to sprinter Noah Lyles despite a one-mile head start. He is brought in blindfolded and offered $100,000 to survive one minute in a ring with one of two opponents. The first is Ramy, a 500-pound professional sumo wrestler. The second is a grizzly bear, revealed when Nick turns around. The narration warns that the bear could "tear an average human to shreds."

The bear stands up and starts moving toward Nick, and Nick picks the sumo wrestler, saying he has no choice. A sumo coach suits him up and gives him quick instructions to bend his knees and slide his feet. The rules: Nick must stay inside the red circle for the full minute. If he is pushed out early, he gets nothing.

The match goes badly for Nick. The hosts keep yelling at him to fight back and go for the belt. He mostly holds on and at one point complains that Ramy is suffocating him. Commentators say Ramy is toying with him. Nick lasts through most of the minute, but in the last seconds he goes over the line. MrBeast points out that Nick reached outside the circle before time ran out. That makes two losses for Nick, first to the fastest man on Earth and now to a top sumo wrestler. MrBeast says he feels bad for him and gives him $10,000 anyway, while the others jokingly call him a loser.

The Paint-Off: Comedian Trevor Wallace vs. an Elephant

The fifth challenge pairs comedian Trevor Wallace with an elephant the video calls the best painting elephant on the planet. Each gets ten minutes to paint whatever they want, and the better painting will hang in a real art museum. The elephant's work is hidden until the end.

Trevor asks MrBeast what to paint and is told "a giant school." What follows is a running struggle. He starts with a yellow-copper tone and asks the group what colors schools are. Halfway through he calls for a Bob Ross wig. At one point his canvas is described as "a yellow blob," which he insists is a G-Wagon. He adds a road and a sun, admits the bricks he meant to paint look like windows, and gets help from others as time runs out. The elephant, meanwhile, drops her brush and needs some food for motivation. At the end she adds what the hosts call her signature move, which she puts on all her artwork. When time is up, Trevor hasn't finished.

The judge, introduced as a professional with over 30 years of experience, scores on a 1–10 scale. Trevor's painting gets a 2. The judge calls it "a little bit adolescent," maybe the work of someone in touch with their inner child. Trevor sees the elephant's painting and says it "looks like a clown threw up," but the judge says it shows a lot of joy and gives it an 8. MrBeast declares that Trevor lost to an elephant, and the video ends the segment with the elephant's painting, which MrBeast names as Isla's, hanging in a museum. He wonders whether the visitors realize an elephant painted it.

Hide-and-Seek: Elite Soldiers vs. Search Dogs in a Junkyard

The sixth challenge puts a group of soldiers, introduced as among the most advanced on the planet, against trained search dogs in a large junkyard. Asked how long it would take them to kill MrBeast, they answer "30 seconds." The dogs include Odin, called one of the best search dogs on the planet, and Sage, who does most of the on-screen finding. A dog-side participant predicts the soldiers will last about five minutes. Anyone still hidden in the morning shares $50,000. The soldiers get ten minutes to hide.

The narration contrasts the two sides. The soldiers have spent half their lives evading enemy capture, while the dogs have been trained since birth to find people, and MrBeast says he would be shocked if anyone lasted until morning. The soldiers try different tactics. Johnny rubs against as many vehicles as he can to leave false scent trails. Carlos dunks himself in a river to mask his scent. According to the narration, most of them follow the same plan: create a diversion, then hide in a car. One soldier climbs about 50 feet up the only tree in the play area, reasoning that the wind and his height above the ground will keep the dogs from smelling him.

During the search a handler explains what to watch for. When a dog catches an odor, its nose goes up. The handler attributes their sense of smell to "olfactors," saying longer snouts mean more of them. The handlers also explain that in an area this big, the dog has to work out systematically which odor is a person hiding now and which is just someone who walked through earlier.

Sage finds the first soldier quickly. The hosts estimate Sage may have checked 400 or 500 cars and barked only at the one with someone inside. A second soldier is found soon after when Sage alerts on another vehicle. A hidden soldier nearby thinks the find might help him, since the dog could be distracted by finding someone so close.

After that, the searches stall. Sage and handler Becky walk right past the car with a hidden Marine and don't find him. Elsewhere a dog alerts on a spot where a soldier had thrown a Red Bull can. The handlers call it a "false find," a place someone had been and left, and the video says the trap worked. The search goes on all night. At about 5:30 a.m., with three soldiers still hidden, the team considers calling it off. Just before the end they find a third soldier in the back of a truck. The remaining two come out when time runs out and split the $50,000. Out of all the contests, this is the one where the animals clearly come out ahead.

The Cheetah: Golf Cart, Minivan, Then a Formula E Car

The last challenge is the one in the title. The cheetah, Millie, is introduced as the fastest land animal on the planet, fast enough that MrBeast says humans need a Formula E race car to stand a chance. Three vehicles race her in order of speed.

The golf cart goes first. The hosts say it isn't close. The cheetah disappears ahead and finishes while the cart is only about halfway down the course. Next comes a minivan, introduced sarcastically as "one of the most beautiful cars in automotive history." MrBeast says he has the gas pedal floored and the van barely accelerates, and the hosts quickly concede. Then the cheetah stops just short of the finish line instead of crossing it. The hosts joke that she's teasing them or feels sorry for them, and the narration adds that this kind of thing can happen when you work with animals.

Before the final race, the cheetah gets a break so she won't overheat or be out of breath. During the break the crew is allowed to spend time with her. They pet her and remark that she's soft, that she acts like a giant cat, and that she's purring loudly, which they take as a sign she likes them. One host is told to stop touching her because she didn't like it.

Here MrBeast says the production partnered with the American Humane Society to make sure every animal in the video was treated ethically. He says this matters to him because fewer than 8,000 cheetahs are alive today and endangered animals need careful handling on set.

In the final race against the Formula E car, the car pulls past the cheetah and wins. MrBeast says that even though Millie lost, it's remarkable that a cheetah held her own against the kind of car used in the Formula E World Championship.

He closes by returning to conservation. When the first car was built more than a century ago, he says, more than 100,000 cheetahs lived in the wild, and today fewer than 8,000 remain. He says it is "our job" to protect them from extinction so they can keep inspiring people to push beyond their limits. The last line describes Millie as the sweetest animal anyone on the crew has met.

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