Superman is not holding back any punches. He is using his full strength in this fight. So is Thor. Both are going all out to kill the other.
Here's the catch:
Superman is not fighting how he normally would. He starts the fight out with a full out speed blitz, and keeps doing so the entire fight. i.e., every time he attacks he is doing so at the full speed he is capable of. Every movement he makes is at full speed.
I guess next comes the custom made spite thread that favors Thor. Supes fighting like a brick while a bloodlusted Thor calls on every ounce of power that Mjolnir has.
The best stance for Thor is to argue his ability to project omnidirectional energy and to point out that Superman has never demonstrated the ability to strike someone with class 100 blows while throwing multiple hits like some picture. The more punches you throw, the less power behind them etc. That's the usual trade off in comics. At least when you reach a certain strength level.
I get what your saying. There seems to be a direct trade off though. There isn't a math equation for it but it seems the more punches you throw, the less power behind them. The higher you are in strength, I guess the bigger the trade off but that's not taking into account speed. Whatever, my point is that Superman might throw 8 punches in a panel and they'd have less effect than a single stationary strike for whatever reason.
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Last edited by Rage.Of.Olympus on Apr 24th, 2011 at 03:50 AM
That turns into a case of comic book viability vs realistic portrayals though. By forum rules comic book viability issues are thrown away for the most part otherwise it's like saying Galactus can call the ultimate nullifier to himself at will why doesn't he use it in comic. On forum it's one of the reasons that it's generally specified or assumed Big G is banned from using the nullifier as "non-standard" tech despite the fact that he has been shown to call on it at will because absolute nullification makes debates a moot point. However in the case of more standard abilities and practical abilities as long as it doesn't go against what a character would do in a CIS on situation on forum I assume they are going to use the full impact that they can generate. Superman against top tier opponents like Thor would throw his punches as hard as he could for as long as he throws them just like Wally/Flash would scale up the level of their punches while still throwing them ridiculously fast in a fight.
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