Originally posted by OneDumbG0
^ Agree to disagree. Has as much to do with shock as it does with striking power, I think. Cap's been clonked by his shields a bunch of times and is usually KTFO. Yet, he has still taken blows from Namor and bricks and everything. You're just not used to be hit by something that is like an extension of your body.Thor's sorta taken advantage of this too. Particularly when he absorbs and redirects an energy attack back at an opponent. It's because Doomsday has beaten Superman twice. And Hulk hasn't because they've just never met.
This statement would be very true if thor face wasn't busted up like it was during the first hit of that hammer strike. I have NEVER seen thor all busted up like that, especially with one hit of his hammer.
Originally posted by CosmicCometit was a sort of retcon to give thor diehards a backrub to soothe their heartache
We do know he stole Thor's energy though. Thor said so in their recent encounter
everytime red hulk drained something you could see him literally doing it, with thor you just got a little quip...as if thor ran on energy like surfer and hulk anyway
Originally posted by CosmicCometit makes me more angry that they would try and cop out like that.
I'm aware of that, because I'm one of those whose heartache it soothed.
also, thor was whooping that ass the second go around so, what happened to the absorption power then? i was fine chalking up thor's performance to thor's "2nd round ko", you know, when he get's banged up cause he's humanized from hanging with cap all those years, then he remembers he's the god of thunder, starts wildin the phuck out, and it's your ass.
Originally posted by psycho gundam
it was a sort of retcon to give thor diehards a backrub to soothe their heartacheeverytime red hulk drained something you could see him literally doing it, with thor you just got a little quip...as if thor ran on energy like surfer and hulk anyway
Nah, Loeb stated that Rulk had an unknown power that would explain his battle against Thor or something similar either right before or right after the fight.
IIRC, Rulk also stated he retained cosmic energy he absorbed from Thor while boarding the Hellicarrier of the Leader.
The recent issue was just the final confirmation that Rulk used energy absorption.