Originally posted by jinzin
and just because it happened and people had problems with it doesn't dictate that it was induced by PIS...
Depends on the reasons they have problems with it. If they don't like it because one character is performing above or below his capabilities, well, that's the very definition of PIS. Some feats SHOULD be disregarded, while others should not.
which is ironic.. using characters at the tops of their games is almost a plea for the use of what some consider to be pis events as evidence... which is why i've made such a big deal about consistency....
"Top of their game" suggest using PIS? Consistant feats are sometimes PIS, inconsistant feats are sometimes perfectly good examples of one character's powers. Most of the time, Silver Surfer and Flash forget they can react at beyond lightspeed. Champion forgets he has been training for millenia, etc etc etc.
not accurate though.. like I just said.. it's not that simple when dealing with characters that have more than one demension worth discussing.. does dock ock have wolverine's enhanced senses? no.. how about his ability to come up with advanced battle strategies capable of beating 4 super computers at chess and at once in the time frame of a few seconds? maybe... does he have wolverine's fighting ability? damage soak? see it's more complicated than that alone...
Doc Ock has computers controlling each of his arms independantly. I'd say that's outweigh good smelling. That's 4 of them, conveniently enough... And that was Xavier exercising hyperbole anyway, not Logan actually beating 4 chess computers. His AI are plenty intelligent when it comes to fighting, so yes, his skill is matched fairly well. The arms themselves do. Ock's frail human form, unfortunately, does not. I never said it was as simple as "Spdierman beats Ock, Spiderman beats Wolverine". I said Ock is faster than Wolverine, Spiderman dodges Ock. Therefore, Spiderman dodges Wolverine.
see this is where consistency really counts though.... strength is a factor that is one demensional... which is why the more consistant feat is more valid to use. on the other hand, wolverine got KOed by an elk once.. and that's fine.. but it only happened once... spiderman can't say the same for getting hit by wolverine....
Once again, consistancy does not equal accurate. Wolverine should not be able to take a nuke, but he can reform from having all of his organs but his skin and skeleton liquefied? In less than a second? It's physically impossible for a healing factor that is essentially human, but faster. Consistant feat, but still PIS used to make the fights interesting.
and that's the funny thing.. you seem to think that the use of one character vs. character fight isn't a good place to draw examples from but you're using one right now with doc ock... you're displaying yourself to be a hypocrite and you didn't even realize it... you're so quick to give credit to spiderman that you forgot: going by your own standards we should discard any loss ocks ever had against spidey or any time that spidey has dodged his tenticals etc etc... thus spidey's feats over dock ock aren't acceptable as evidence... but you still used them to prove a point...
now things ARE getting completely contradictory.. by your own standards of course (of which I don't agree with.. so I need not worry about the contradictory nature of it.. but I did find it interesting..)...
Good point, actually... I never did say that Spiderman can beat Wolverine solely because he can beat Ock, however. I brought him in solely as an example of something that would be very very hard to dodge that Spiderman DOES dodge. It wasn't necessarily in beating him, but in the fact taht he CAN dodge the tentacles. However, that also brings in the "are they always working to potential?" question... I didn't think, my apologies.
Hmm, I AM a hypocrite. SWEET!
absolutely not.. the only reason I may appear partial in this thread is because I'm backing the consistent evidence.. unfortunately that evidence IS in wolverine's favor.. if it wasn't I wouldn't be in support of wolverine... just as I had to change my opinion on the matter of daredevil vs. wolverine two days ago...
Not going to get into it, because if one really thinks about it, everyone's a little biased one way or another, and NOT just because one thinks that a particular character "should" win.
that in and of itself is an opinionated statment.. which has evidence that goes against it considering the "everything I've got statment"they're subpar because spiderman didn't win... that's not objective...
"Everything I've got" only applied to how hard he was hitting. It had NOTHING to do with how intelligently Spiderman was fighting. Beast is fighting Bishop. Beast knows Bishop absorbs kinetic energy. He runs up to Bishop and punches Bishop as hard as he can. Bishop liquefies him. He's using "everything he's got" in the one blow, yet he's clearly not fighting in an intelligent manner.
I'm not arguing that it happened.. nor am I arguing that it's 100% consistent.. because it is...but you have to realize that spiderman had blatent plot devices and circumstances in his favor helping him to win.. and without them he would not have one.. wolverine has not been given such plot devices etc etc vs. spiderman however and that's why your comparison isn't an accurate one...
You're not arguing that in SvFL, yet you ARE arguing it for WOlverine vs. Spidey. Your following "consistancy" is basically saying "It's happened fora good percentage of the time, therefore it WILL happen that way". Wolverine has hit Spiderman in a good percentage of their fights. Spiderman has beaten Firelord in 100% of their fights. Both are therefore "consistant" right? Despite the fact that PIS and additional circumstances are involved heavily in both?
if my argument were flawed as you claim I would be using cross company non-canon crossovers to support it.. I haven't.. and thus the flaw that you THINK you found in my argument can't stand on it's own...canon deviates from non-canon as canon events become part of the character's repsective history.. this is why the consistency of the wolverine/spiderman showings is so important...
Crossovers are disregarded because they are typically filled with PIS. Many of the fights that you use as support are filled with PIS. Nonfanvoted crossovers are disregarded because they involve a lot of PIS, not because they are out of continuity.
yeah I know.. that's the point...just like logan has shown himself capible of dodging things faster than spidey and tagging things/people faster than spidey...
another reason why direct comparisons are so important...
without them everything else is just specualation but because of the range of feats that each character has there will always be evidence to underdetermine other evidence...
Has he outsped anyone with both Spiderman's level of reactions AND superstrength? Logically, every hit he takes will knock Logan a little ways. So while he can stand there and anticipate Speed Demon's attack, he can't even stand there against Spiderman.
namely.. because he claims the exact opposite of that... 😕
Fighting to his fullest mentally, not physically.
no.. Id have to agree to an abundance of pis in spiderman's favor for your point to be a correct one.. I don't....
PIS in Spiderman's favor? 🤨 How? Wolverine rips through webs, when they were holding him to the wall in a spot that he could not possibly have reached. Spiderman's spider sense either does not go off or he does not react to it. Spiderman fights like an idiot. Yup, everything's in his favor all right.
he shredded through them actually.. between spidey and venom webbing's been used on wolverine 5 or 6 times.. it however has worked none of those times.. unless of course you count mk spidey/wolverine 4part mini... which wasn't even a vs. scenario...
Wolverine's wrists were webbed, Spiderman had to break him out. Wolverine was webbed between two buildings, Wolverine had to wait for them to dissolve. Wolverine actually initiated the fight, Spiderman jumped over him before webbing him. With that much warning, Wolverine must be one slow little kid when he can shred it easily when ready for it. Oh wait... Has he ever blocked stuff like machine gun fire? This stuff engulfed Hulk within a second or so, it's easily as fast as bullets.
this is funny.. i mean aside from the fact that spiderman as a hard enough time not getting punched by logan in h2h.... cyber and sabretooth are on spiderman's level in terms of physiology... hell they're even better fighters... do they beat logan easily by gutting him? no...
Are they anywhere near as fast as Spiderman? Flexible? Agile?Anything resembling precognition? Nope. They're about as strong, nothing more. And they stab through Wolverine's gut. They don't tear it out...
do you haven any direct comparison to even help make that claim? no...
Characters are made more powerful when fighting stronger characters, and weaker and slower when fighting less powerful opponents. Head to head is, once again, not a good comparison.