Luke Cage vs. Predator (with nothing)

Originally posted by Space M ummy
One thing I find amusing is that the only argument made for the pred is that he could find "something" to (presumably throw) and penetrate cage's skin laying around manhattan.

Cage's skin, bone, and muscle tissue are superdense, to the point where bullets can't penetrate it.

Let's look at this logically. A pro baseball player can throw a fastball (small, light, aerodynamic) somewhere around 90mph, or 40 meters per second. pretty fast.

standard handgun bullets travel *300* meters per second. Higher caliber bullets travel *600* meters per second.

to pierce cage's skin, an elder pred would have to be able to pick up and accelerate an object (by swinging, throwing, what have you) Well in excess of that speed.

going back to the baseball analogy, if an elder pred wanted to throw a baseball (small, light, aerodynamic) that fast he would have to be at least 15 times as strong as a professional athlete. (approximately class 3 if we assume a professional athlete can lift 400lbs, roughly double their bodyweight)

If he wanted to throw or swing an object that has a prayer of penetrating cage's hide, he'd have to be at minimum 30-60 times as strong as a professional athlete. (class 5 to class 10) Pred's are stronger than humans, but not THAT strong.

Cage, however, IS this strong and can easily throw anything he can find, be it baseballs, pipes, or automobiles fast enough and hard enough to paste a predator with ease.

Isn't math fun?

not bad you need to figure in that a baseball weighs much more than a bullet say about 25 times as much (estimate)
also strength is not a pure measure of how fast you throw professional power lifters will have no hope of throwing a ball as fast as a baseball player
Factors involved in a fast action include: power to bodyweight ratio (i.e the power in a throwing arm compared to how much it weighs), flexibility, ratio and type of fast twitch fibres, length of arm

anyhoo. With the power and athleticsm pre displays in the movies I can't see him throwing an object past the speed of sound

Cage would take out even an army of Predators if they have no weapons to slow him down.
Since his upgrade before becoming a member of New Avengers he gained Class 25 Tons of strength, plus his skin is now hard as diamond, hurting him require a strenght that a Predator's hasn't got.
I've serious doubts even the spear or the circle blade will cut or pierce Cage.
While he can certainly pummel the crap outta the alien warriors.

Originally posted by K3VIL
Cage would take out even an army of Predators if they have no weapons to slow him down.
Since his upgrade before becoming a member of New Avengers he gained Class 25 Tons of strength, plus his skin is now hard as diamond, hurting him require a strenght that a Predator's hasn't got.
I've serious doubts even the spear or the circle blade will cut or pierce Cage.
While he can certainly pummel the crap outta the alien warriors.

what about the self destruct?

just a question.

I think Cage could knock this fella clean out. as ahas been said hes about 25 times as strong and apparently diamond hard or so he boasted when punching ironclad

Luke wins, hes stronger and more durable