I think the FF can beat him, but they are not allowed to make mistakes. One mistake, and they go down.
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Does Sue always use her force fields to kill people? Does she always assume she's going to need it and automatically put it up? If we're suppose to assume that Superman is not going to do everything in his power to win, than we should assume the FF won't either either.
Well if Superman starts taking out members of the FF badly, surely she'll reciprocate.
It's more or less obvious he will leave her alone, for a few reasons. Thing would be the obvious target, maybe Torch. He isn't going to know of Sue's capabilities in order to think of quickly removing her.
ALL this comes down to one question: Can Sue put such
a force field inside Superman, or no?
If no, then Superman wins easily.
If yes, then that still brings up whether she would do it
or not, since she doesn't do it against every single villain
that the FF face (and presumably all these villains want to
kill the FF, even if the FF don't share that sentiment).
And if she decided to use it, how can we be sure she'll
do so in time?
Bottom line for me: Both sides are told (before meeting)
that they have to fight to kill. In that case, Superman
flies in frying all with his eye beams, and if Sue survives
this initial blast with her shield, then Superman just
keeps attacking with eye-beam and punches until shield
goes down, and Sue collapses from the psyonic backlash,
and is killed.
If they are all told to just do whatever it takes to win,
with killing being an open option, then the fight will
proceed as I had out-lined in my previous post.
Also, why do so many people underestimate Superman's
strength? I happen to be one of those who believes that
he is many many times stronger than the Hulk (for God's
sakes the man lifts 20-30,000 ton ships with one hand!),
so he can kill the three FF men quickly and easily. And
probably can punch down Sue's shield with a few strong
punches (the fact that her shield survived Hulk-level
punches means nothing, because she's never faced
Superman-level physical attacks before).
Besides, the FF are way over-rated. No way such a
small limited team can survive the type of villains that
the X-Men or Avengers face, without Reed's brains that is.
Last edited by King Burger on Feb 19th, 2005 at 11:59 PM
Good points there. But If I was Superman facing the FF and saw a orange rock dude and a flamer looking dude I would definatelly keep my eye on a blue eyed blonde. It would seem out of proportion if you ask me. Its usually the one that seems out of place is the one you have to watch out for.
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Last edited by juggernaut74 on Feb 20th, 2005 at 12:39 AM
True, Heat vision will not hurt Johnny but he is no threat to Superman in any way and neither is Thing. Reed could maybe absorb a punch or two but his heat vision would melt him into a pile of monkey crap.
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did someone say the FF cant handle x-men level villains? there is clearly an ignorance issue here. first off, throw out the idea that superman's physical strength would be of any advantage: depending on their respective universes, Both Supes and Thing are in the upper levels of physical strength...yes supes can lift up entire ships with one hand...u have just proved my point. A ship cannot be held up at a single point by pure strength alone, it would require some kind of telekenesis like that employed by Gladiator. If superman were in marvel they would account for that and either make his powers telekenetic or have the ship fall and rip apart in his hands. As far as physical strength is concerned, Hulk has lifted 150 billion tons on his own, far outclassing superman, for the ignorant superman fans who say superman's strength is beyond the Hulks. Thing has held his own against the Hulk on numerous occasions. He is always outmatched on paper, but he is stronger and tougher than anyone thinks. Thats why he has gone against the Silver Surfer, Occulus, the Destroyer, the Champion, all of these guys would hand Superman his head! and as for FF villains? the FF have fought Galactus, the Dreaming Celestial, Exitar the Celestial, Ego the Living Planet, the Obliterator, Terminus, Aron the Watcher, Abraxas,etc...notibly powerful x-men villains? Juggernaut, Magneto, Apocalypse, the Brood, etc...the only X-men villain that is anywhere near the power of FF's is Dark Phoenix.
So in summation, considering the FF fight vastly more powerful characters than Superman on a regular basis, they just beat Galactus again this month...Im pretty sure they can beat really strong guy with heat vision and a superhero complex.
I agree with most people in that Supes isn't gonna stroll in, see Sue and think "My...my GOD! She's gotta be powerful!" then start attacking her. The ones he WOULD attack could give him an easy run for his money anyway.
If you read closely I think that is exactly what he was implying. He was saying that Thing fought these guys and they would hand Superman his head. Well if thats the case Superman beat Hulk and Thor rather easily. Gladiator got beat by Hulk but Gladiator stalemated Silver Surfer. Thor Beat Silver Surfer. Do the math here.
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torch cant hurt supes... i doubt even his nova could seriously injure superman...
reed is f*cked...
the thing? come on... supes'd bitchslap him all over the place (no disrespect), but i do think thing is being given slightly too much credit... he'd last longer than torch or reed but seriously...
then it comes down to sue...
i'm not sure if she can create a bubble inside his body, if so then maybe, but i'm goin with supes on this one...