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Two questions:

1. Who maximizes their potential?

2. Who most under-utilizes their potential?

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Superman

Thor

Silver Surfer

Hal Jordan

Flash

Flash most under-utilized. Otherwise fights shouldn't take more than a picosecond.

They're all guilty of under-utilizing their powers.
More than anyone I'd say Martian Manhunter should be on this list. In actuality someone with his powers should be like Professor X's mind in the body of Superman but he ends up being 4th or 5th in terms of effectiveness in the Big 7.

Recently Hal with all the Sinestro Corps and Blackest Night.

The man is getting overwork.

Originally posted by Omega Vision
They're all guilty of under-utilizing their powers.
More than anyone I'd say Martian Manhunter should be on this list. In actuality someone with his powers should be like Professor X's mind in the body of Superman but he ends up being 4th or 5th in terms of effectiveness in the Big 7.

totally agree!

I dare say Hal.

With his relentless use of scissors, hammers and baseball bats.

Eternity. He is the embodiment of the universe but he often fights by punching people.

Originally posted by Endless Mike
Eternity. He is the embodiment of the universe but he often fights by punching people.

Seriously has he ever won a fight? It seems like his entire purpose for being is to show how powerful the villain of the week is. It's for this reason I don't take "he beat Eternity" feats seriously.

1- Superman
2- Silver Surfer

Originally posted by Omega Vision

Seriously has he ever won a fight? It seems like his entire purpose for being is to show how powerful the villain of the week is. It's for this reason I don't take "he beat Eternity" feats seriously. he knocked the shit out of hank pym *shrugs*

Originally posted by psycho gundam
he knocked the shit out of hank pym *shrugs*
Okay so then he's roughly equal to Captain America?

sentry is up there.

Yes because if Sentry truly has the power of 1 million exploding suns then all his appearances (except for the Terrax incident and a few others) have been massive cases of power seep. Taking his hyperbole at face value he should have taken down WW Hulk with a gentle slap.

Doesn't the LT for some reason actually sometimes take battle stances like a normal fighter and launch energy beams?

Originally posted by Hewhoknowsall
Doesn't the LT for some reason actually sometimes take battle stances like a normal fighter and launch energy beams?
In Marvel the End his methods of combating Thanos were visually identical to Zeus: firing energy beams from his hands. LT should be throwing Universes at Thanos like if they were bowling balls.

Originally posted by Bouboumaster
1- Superman

Really now?

I think Superman does a pretty decent job. Compare him to any Kryptonian.

Originally posted by Kris Blaze
I think Superman does a pretty decent job. Compare him to any Kryptonian.

I think he fights better on SmallVille than he does in comics, he always use his superspeed

Superman isn't a good example.

I think Thanos and DS are better examples. Thor & SS would be another.

Yeah you could argue Darkseid is the worst case of underachievement. Since the Crisis didn't effect him he should still be at Pre-Crisis levels and yet he's nowhere near that.

Originally posted by Omega Vision
Yeah you could argue Darkseid is the worst case of underachievement. Since the Crisis didn't effect him he should still be at Pre-Crisis levels and yet he's nowhere near that.


i agree. My thinking though is that Thanos and DS both have exotic abilities that they rarely use. Seems to me they have abilities they rarely use and could do so to make things easier when dealing with people. I guess though, in the end, that is how you build up drama in comics. Meh

Originally posted by KuRuPT Thanosi
i agree. My thinking though is that Thanos and DS both have exotic abilities that they rarely use. Seems to me they have abilities they rarely use and could do so to make things easier when dealing with people. I guess though, in the end, that is how you build up drama in comics. Meh
Yeah Darkseid's first encounter with Doomsday pretty much highlights this. Steppenwolf tells him to use the Omega Beams but DS says that the honorable thing would be to engage Doomsday in hand to hand. Steppenwolf pretty much says "Goddamn it nephew just use the Omega Beams!" but before DS and DD can brawl the planet goes unstable and the two of them strut away like a pair of Bikers that narrowly avoided a barfight.

Darkseid considers people beneath him and is all "how dare you touch me?"

Yet he brawls at least half the time....

Flash for sure. Surfer also as he willfully holds back more powers than almost any other character.

Originally posted by Kris Blaze
Darkseid considers people beneath him and is all "how dare you touch me?"

Yet he brawls at least half the time....
Darkseid: Physical combat is beneath Darkseid, Desaad. One of my stature and greatness would never stain his hands trading blows with insects. Now if you excuse me I have to fight Superman according to the Marquess of Queensbury rules of boxing.

Originally posted by Omega Vision
Darkseid: Physical combat is beneath Darkseid, Desaad. One of my stature and greatness would never stain his hands trading blows with insects. Now if you excuse me I have to fight Superman according to the Marquess of Queensbury rules of boxing.

Bingo.

Final Crisis was incredible, but I would still have liked to see "classic" Darkseid beat the crap out of the justice league just once more.

Originally posted by Kris Blaze
Bingo.

Final Crisis was incredible, but I would still have liked to see "classic" Darkseid beat the crap out of the justice league just once more.
And then afterward say "How you like me now bitches?" before falling over and dying.

Originally posted by nicamarvin
I think he fights better on SmallVille than he does in comics, he always use his superspeed

get out.