Fallout: New Vegas

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How to kill Benny with Maria (Talk About Owned GRA Challenge Guide)
By Waitin4Aidan
If you have had trouble in the past obtaining Benny's pistol and using it to kill him, this guide should help.
   
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Necessarry Supplies
You will need
Turbo (at least one syringe, though two are recommended)
Spiked/Brass Knuckles
Speech of 60

How to Obtain the Supplies
Turbo can be bought from various shopkeepers or looted off raiders

Mr. Holdout sells both Spiked and Brass Knuckles, though Spiked Knuckles can be found in a Boulder City house if you don't feel like spending the caps.

A Speech of 60 can easily be reached by a character with a Speech of 30 or 40. This can be done multiple ways
If you have a Speech of 40, wearing Naughty Nightwear (+10 speech, purchasable from Mick in Freeside) and using a Meeting People magazine (+10 speech)
You can also take the Comprehension perk to double the bonus from skill magazines, making it so a character with a Speech of 30 could reach Speech of 60.
Killing Benny
Step 1: Speak to Benny and pass the Speech check, causing him to go the Presidential Suite alone
Step 2: Equip your Spiked or Brass Knuckles
Step 3: Speak to Benny, but don't attack him through dialogue. Wait until he gets up to leave the suite.
Step 4: Punch Benny once. When he draws his gun, use the turbo and start hitting his gun until it falls.
Step 5: Pick up the fallen pistol and equip it.
Step 6: Kill Benny with it.
Step 7: Congratulations! You should now have slain Benny with his own pistol and completed the challenge.

Reminder: Make sure you have had no console commands activated during your current session, or this may not count towards the "Combat Veteran" achievement.
Rubbing It In
Well, you have now slain Benny with Maria, and made him feel the pain you felt in the Goodsprings Cemetery. Now, just take off his suit, get the Pompadour haircut (obtainable from Sergio in the Kings), and you can become Benny!
10 Comments
Uncle_J 2 Jan @ 7:52am 
I finally completed the challenge. After trying 15-20 times to get Benny to drop Maria, I gave up and let him escape to the Fort. Now Maria is mine. I completed “The same can be said of all religious weapons” GRA challenge within 2-3 hours after obtaining Benny’s gun. 😎
CharlieDontSurf 13 May, 2024 @ 4:59pm 
I nutted in benny well he nutted in me
XertifiedAss2_0 10 May, 2024 @ 11:04am 
There's something satisfying about knocking Maria out of Benny's hand with a Katana.
DarkEternal 10 May, 2024 @ 8:09am 
I hit him in the temple with a pool cue and he dropped it.
Picked it up and blew his fuckin' head off.
RIP Benny
Redguard 19 Aug, 2019 @ 5:48pm 
Just shoot his arm with kept weapon of your choice
Dumblecop, Lord of the Bags 10 Dec, 2018 @ 12:45pm 
Using any shotgun capable of using 12 gauge works as well, get the 12 gauge bean bags from the Gun Runners and just fire a shot or 2 in VATS at his right arm, it will cripple it and he'll drop it. Keep in mind if you want to bring in non holdout weapons, you'll have to convince Swank with a combination of Speech checks and the evidence (lighter and cigarette butts).
Arthur 6 Dec, 2018 @ 8:06am 
Btw, if you don't kill him in the Suite, you can later pickpocket him in Caesar's camp and then shoot him with Maria. None of the guards will turn hostile since they really expected you to take revenge on him (but only after you complete the Bunker section, if you kill him before that, I suspect they'll attack you)
Commissar Emu 7 Aug, 2016 @ 2:58pm 
And you can REALLY be a dcik and type in the console showplasticsurgeonmenu and literally become Benny.
PHW 7 Aug, 2015 @ 6:47am 
I just let him get caught by the legion and pickpocket Maria from him.
Xyphos 4 Aug, 2015 @ 6:20am 
the flaw in this is targeting his gun effectively in melee, i find it easier to have a spare 9mm pistol to repair maria and just shoot it from his hands