Originally posted by srankmissingninThe Blade one is a error. Madison Carter stated this when I asked him about it at Marvel.com. He said the power grids are often wrong.
I just check the some Handbooks snoop. According to the Handbooks. Blade and Cap are both 3 in strength which according to the statistcs means they can both lift twice their body weight, Wolverine is listed as 4. Blade is a 5 in fighting skill, Cap is a 6 and Wolverine is a 7.😕
Originally posted by snoopdogg
No, the power grids are wrong from time to time. I saw one with Logan at a 3 in strength.
Remember how we where saying that the hand books are constantly wrong and inaccurate? This is what we were talking about. The editors and writers you want to take the word of can't even do their jobs right. The powers and grids change from one hand book to the next.
Originally posted by srankmissingninAnd I said the comics are innaccurate just the same(actually more) I think.
Remember how we where saying that the hand books are constantly wrong and inaccurate? This is what we were talking about. The editors and writers you want to take the word of can't even do their jobs right. The powers and grids change from one hand book to the next.
Originally posted by Warrior18captain america has been in many books, if those are his only feats over 800 pounds of all his appearances I could hardly call it consistent..many of those are ambiguous as well.
He has posted a host of strength feats. There are others in the respect thread. I have shown him curling 500lbs during training. If 800lbs was his max with supreme effort, he wouldn't be capable of these things.Pretty consistent.
Originally posted by Trackz
captain america has been in many books, if those are his only feats over 800 pounds of all his appearances I could hardly call it consistent..many of those are ambiguous as well.
How many examples do you have of Captain America strungling with 800lbs or maxing out at 800lbs. Because I'm thinking you have none.
Originally posted by Trackz
captain america has been in many books, if those are his only feats over 800 pounds of all his appearances I could hardly call it consistent..many of those are ambiguous as well.
I don't think they are. Besides unless you expect him to have a strength feat in every appearance I don't see the problem.
Heck Blade has about 3 impressive strength feats out of his entire history.
Originally posted by Warrior18blade has been in less books, but many of those feats are ambiguous and hard to say if they do in fact exceed a ton
I don't think they are. Besides unless you expect him to have a strength feat in every appearance I don't see the problem.Heck Blade has about 3 impressive strength feats out of his entire history.
Originally posted by srankmissingninone guy doesn't write the handbooks
Inaccuracies in comics are due to writers moulding characters to suit plot points in a story. Inaccuracies in a handbook are due to mass incompetence... and that's why those guys work on the handbooks, and don't write the actually comics. They are little leaguers.
also handbooks are overseen by editors
basically handbooks give you a guideline of each character's abilities and what they were intended to do
ie. handbook says Captain America lifts about 800 lbs, well that doesn't mean he lifts 800 lbs to the dot. But rather that is close to a range of weight, so maybe Cap can lift up to 1400lbs, that's still pretty close to 800 lbs. That means Cap wasn't intended to be a car lifter...like Sabretooth.
I think handbooks are far more consistent than comics because comics get so many different writers...some who are doing it for the pay check...others who have such a high opinion of themselves...some who don't give a shit about continuity...others who don't care about prior portrayal of a character...you name the reason, and I bet there'll be an example of how writers constantly f@#k up stuff in comics. Yet, because they are considered canon, it's somehow all good.
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Originally posted by Starscream M
one guy doesn't write the handbooksalso handbooks are overseen by editors
basically handbooks give you a guideline of each character's abilities and what they were intended to do
ie. handbook says Captain America lifts about 800 lbs, well that doesn't mean he lifts 800 lbs to the dot. But rather that is close to a range of weight, so maybe Cap can lift up to 1400lbs, that's still pretty close to 800 lbs. That means Cap wasn't intended to be a car lifter...like Sabretooth.
I think handbooks are far more consistent than comics because comics get so many different writers...some who are doing it for the pay check...others who have such a high opinion of themselves...some who don't give a shit about continuity...others who don't care about prior portrayal of a character...you name the reason, and I bet there'll be an example of how writers constantly f@#k up stuff in comics. Yet, because they are considered canon, it's somehow all good.
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1400lbs is albost twice as much as 800lbs, as in, not close at all.