Actually a good example-question for Dr. Strongbad would be as follows:
a) Imagine if a human went to fight against a Rhinocerous (and the rhino IS trying to kill him). The human has no weapons, and is unprepared.
Who wins?
Answer: The Rhino ....10/10
b) Imagine if the same human goes to fight against the same Rhino (and the beast is still trying to pound him into dust). However this time the human has 'prep' time. He has chosen to lay an ambush is selected terrain (where it is plain for miles and no thickets for the Rhino to hide in), plus he has decided to arm himself with an Elephant gun ....the bloodiest powerful double-barreled rifle he could get his mits on, with bullets the size of frankfurters!).
Who wins?
Answer: Unless the gun jams, the human will absolutely kill the Rhino.
Now, the mistake people like Dr. Strongbad make is that they expect the hunter to go up to a Rhino and try to punch it in the face.
That simply shows how linear his (and others like him) thinking is. The only way from A to C is through B for them.
Yet characters like Batman and the Black Panther are not linear characters. They cannot win if they start exchanging blows with gamma irradiated freaks or Kryptonian brutes! They would die.
However that is not what they are written to be.
The problem is not with Batman ....it is with the thinking of people like Dr. Strongbad. They assume every character is the Hulk (an inherently dumb character, apart from Prof. Hulk, whose main goal in life is simply to hit things and 'smash').
stand in front of a stampeding rhino at the last, step aside. and watch the juggernaut careen uncontrollably into the undergrowth, jump high jump good, grab a vine and swing to another location [rock formation] . wave arms wildly and shout 2damnloudly.
Rhino completes a messy U-turn and quick recharge, hold position. hold. then leap left and roll away from ground Zero. cover ears as rhino head splits on granite with concussive force.
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Feb 6th, 2007 04:24 PM
