Originally posted by Alpha Centauri
Anyone wanna wager a guess on why?Could it be because the two X-Females (which is all they are), realistically, are nothing to either of the two combatants on the other team?
-AC
You know...
There was this 20 page thread on Comixfan.com about Storm's abilities...
One had to separate the weed from the chaff, but once one does...
Storm is a lot more powerful than people give her credit for, although (iirc) Hulk simply "clapped" her out of the sky...I THINK she hit him with almost everything she had, and he walked through it...have to revisit that...
People were saying that she could create "electrical storms" in her opponent's *brains*.
I dunno. But she, like Sue Storm, is actually quite a force to be reckoned with, in her own right. Chalk it up to writers exploring the boundaries of characters' abilities (for example, 10 years ago no one dreamed of having Sue use her constructs to place them in someone's lungs or dropping several bubbles in one's bloodstream).
"Well in there defense AC Rogue did get IM a run for his money in Contest of Champions. "
Yes, but we all know who wrote that and why it was created, don't we?
The same comic in which Storm beat Human Torch.
Biggest piece of self-indulgent, ego driven crap in comic history.
It was a storyline vehicle.
"IM and Doom have gone at it countless of times and IM is still standing so it might prove an interesting fight for about half an hour or so"
Yeah but lets not kid ourselves into thinking the two X-Women have a shot at getting out alive, much less winning.
-AC
Yes. And that's the point - you have to take character into consideration. Torch doesn't kill - but his power is lethal by nature. That automatically limits his effectiveness severely. The reason Storm would win, either in a comic or on this board, is because Torch WON'T just flash fry Storm. It's not in his character. Storm, on the other hand, has TONS of non-lethal options at her disposal that she can pull off faster and more easily than Torch.
That's why she wins.
But back on topic...