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ShadowFyre
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If so and so is 100% in strength
Ok. So if a character can lift about a thousand tons (Colossus,Thing for ex) shouldn't people like Superman,Hulk, Thor be like 10000000000000990737473937390002830 percent? I just typed a ridiculously high number Im sure but I think y'all get the general idea.
I see a lot of posts where people put like 110% for someone who is lifting entire cities,countries,continents, breaking planets compared to somebody that lifts a building. I am not very good at math and have no college education but this seems off to me.
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Sep 24th, 2017 01:48 PM |
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shadowknight
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Logically you're right. The problem is Marvel Handbook started the idiocy of stating characters like Hulk, Thor and Hercules as capable of lifting 100 tons simply b/c they never did any basic research to figure out how much thing really weight. It carried over in Marvel role-playing games & after that it sort of grew as the semi-official measuring stick of characters on the net.
For example just lifting a 50 story building would require STR capable of lifting trillions of tons, Manhanttan quadrillion tons, a continent quintrillions. Yet Thing & Collosus are said to be CL 85 which means capable of lifting roughly 85 tons but they lift 50+ story building all the time. The other problem is while Thing fighting Hulk or Thor will show the Thing inferiority. B/c comics demands it never shows the vast difference in their STR lvl. A realistic portrayal would have the Thing in a coma from 2 blows either one not fighting them gamely for a full issue b4 losing.
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Sep 24th, 2017 04:29 PM |
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Because we generally denote the gap as it would be shown in comics, not the gap in raw numbers.
So while a character [i.e. Hulk] might be orders of magnitude stronger than another [Thing], or a character [Flash] would make another [Quicksilver] look like a statue, in a comic it wouldn't be shown as that bad.
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Sep 24th, 2017 04:50 PM |
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bluewaterrider
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Also, unlike many other characters, Hulk holds back.
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Sep 25th, 2017 04:56 AM |
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carver9
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I agree with Philo.
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