"In Thing #7 Immortal Herc. fought Thing to a standstill and Thing didn't even really want to fight. Hulk has destroyed both versions of Herc. in h2h even when Herc. had help."
The encounter takes place in ancient Greece, no? When he was wearing the lion pelt. Its not Immortal Herc, then. Its him as demi god years before he died to ascend to Olympus.
The times Herc used h2h against Hulk, where the first fight ever and the one against the Onslaught version when he was mortal and depowered. He looked slighty better than Hulk in the first and lost the second. The problem wasent the skills. It was the different in stats both versions of Herc had.
Ill wait to see the Thing fight before commenting. Seems like it was from the description a tussle that was broken out.
I dont see it, btw as that far out. Thing doesnt win against Hulk but -always- gives a fight. stalemates even. He can and has done that against others big guns, even if hes in the class below.
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"I only know of two fights between Hulk and Mortal Herc. Both didn't go so well for Mortal Herc. but like you said that's expected."
Mortal Herc only fough once against the Hulk. The Onslaught Hulk. The rest was him as immortal.
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"I thought that he actually has the strength of Herc. and Atlas? Remember the scan?"
Yeah that was the armwrestling match, wasent it?
What portion the guy gets of those powers? Has it ever been dealt in his comics apperances? A bit off topic but i dont see him having the whole Zeus power, so what about the rest.
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"Im just going off the strength part. Cap does have the speed and durability which Herc doesnt have, but Herc has the fighting ability that Cap doesnt have. Plus this fight is on the ground and h2h only so Herc does have a pretty good chance here."
Seconded.
About Lobo, i dont know. Hes crazy as heck, but lacks the fighting skills. Hes mostly a brawler. How many good skill showings does he have?
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"The same can be said about any character actually. For example Herc. "supposedly" held the weight of Earth. But then struggled to pull a floating part of Manhattan.(Assuming both were immortal)"
Theres always inconsistency. But top tiers doing planetary level feats its the exception. Not the norm. Thor doesnt always use the kind of strenght he did when pulling the Midgard Serpent off Earth.
Neither is Hulk constantly using the level of strenght needing to punch a time storm. Regular level and higher ones arent the same thing.
Superman doesnt always use Moon moving strenght as well, the guy has struggled with to keep Metropolis subway station structures to cramble.