Force fields vs. Shields

Started by nimbus0065 pages
Originally posted by Wally West
The one against Galactus is definately tech because he issues a voice command just before it goes up, "Activate all defensive shielding", like he does with the shield against Champion. Thats how you can tell when he is using a tech shield, he says it, other times he generates it himself like against Fallen One.

Oh i see thanx for clarifying

Originally posted by SpunkySmurph
By your logic, Nvr, when Invisible Woman uses her power to create a blade of energy, or somesuch (she's done it before), her power is no longer to make force fields?
No you've got it all wrong, Spunky, her power was never to generate force fields... she generates deadly surround.

Originally posted by xmarksthespot
No you've got it all wrong, Spunky, her power was never to generate force fields... she generates deadly surround.

Actually PART of her power set is to generate force fields. But she also generates force and lasers and such. She is basically an energy manip as she manips her own energy. Nice try tho.

She manipulates hyperspace energy/force. All of her constructs from her battering rams to her bubbles are composed of it, not of "surround." I'm only giving your bizarre semantics game the amount of seriousness it deserves.

Originally posted by xmarksthespot
She manipulates hyperspace energy/force. All of her constructs from her battering rams to her bubbles are composed of it, not of "surround." I'm only giving your bizarre semantics game the amount of seriousness it deserves.

It's not a semmantics Game. People are actually trying to say that Thanos creating a shield somehow connects to his force fields generated by mech. Id' wager his shields are far inferior or he'd used his own personal ones instead of tech.

Originally posted by nvrbeenwthagirl
It's not a semmantics Game. People are actually trying to say that Thanos creating a shield somehow connects to his force fields generated by mech. Id' wager his shields are far inferior or he'd used his own personal ones instead of tech.
Honestly, I think you need to stop. No matter how you argue, this is a semantics game. Force fields and force shields are the same thing. Different name for the same thing. Either can be a sphere or skin tight. Either can be generated via tech or super-powered means. Thanos happens to have used both. His latest appearances in Thanos Quest and Annihilation show no signs of technology in the creation of his fields and his powerset easily allows for the creation of barriers (energy or otherwise). What is so hard about that?

Who fed Nvr sugar?

Now it'll be hell getting him to sleep.

Originally posted by SpunkySmurph
Someone should alert Marvel then that they've been lying about Invisible Woman's powers...

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They're tricking us. They actually drop little hints that she uses tech all the time. Only through sheer surround of will can one see the clues.

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Originally posted by nvrbeenwthagirl
It's not a semmantics Game. People are actually trying to say that Thanos creating a shield somehow connects to his force fields generated by mech. Id' wager his shields are far inferior or he'd used his own personal ones instead of tech.

Are you trying to say that his own personal shields wouldn't be as strong without his tech?

Originally posted by StyleTime
They're tricking us. They actually drop little hints that she uses tech all the time. Only through sheer surround of will can one see the clues.

HohohohooO!!! I did it!

Are you trying to say that his own personal shields wouldn't be as strong without his tech?

Yes I am saying his own shields won't be as strong without tech. As seen. He's could never withstand the power of the PG without his shield or make galactus strain.

Originally posted by xmarksthespot
No you've got it all wrong, Spunky, her power was never to generate force fields... she generates deadly surround.
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Originally posted by Blight
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This is one of the pettiest threads I've ever seen. A force field is a shield.

Originally posted by Swanky-Tuna
This is one of the pettiest threads I've ever seen. A force field is a shield.

But Shield is NOT a force field.

Originally posted by Symmetric Chaos
That depends on your definition of semantics.
Usage of certain words and their definitions.

The fact that nvr uses feild and sheild interchangabley in the first few posts shows that this whole argument is nothing but a semantics argument.

And believe me. Semantics be something I is good at bickerin' 'bout.

Thanos' tech fields are almost certainly more powerful than the ones he can create himself, and using tech to create a field would require less effort on his part and put less strain on him. But he can create a field without tech, under his own power, all his powers stem from manipulating cosmic energy and he can create fields that way as he has shown.

Funny thing about saying a field is a sphere and a shield is a flat plane, when Thanos put that tech 'field' around himself in the Galactus fight he called it 'shielding'!

Originally posted by nvrbeenwthagirl
But Shield is NOT a force field.

A shield can be a force field. A shield is many things.

Originally posted by nvrbeenwthagirl
But Shield is NOT a force field.
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shield /ʃild/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[sheeld] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–noun 1. a broad piece of armor, varying widely in form and size, carried apart from the body, usually on the left arm, as a defense against swords, lances, arrows, etc.
2. a similar device, often of lightweight plastic, used by riot police to protect themselves from rocks and other thrown objects.
3. something shaped like a shield, variously round, octagonal, triangular, or somewhat heart-shaped.
4. a person or thing that protects.
5. a police officer's, detective's, or sheriff's badge.
6. Ordnance. a steel screen attached to a gun to protect its crew, mechanism, etc.
7. Mining. a movable framework for protecting a miner from cave-ins, etc.
8. Electricity. a covering, usually made of metal, placed around an electric device or circuit in order to reduce the effects of external electric and magnetic fields.
9. Zoology. a protective plate or the like on the body of an animal, as a scute, enlarged scale, etc.
10. dress shield.
11. Heraldry. an escutcheon, esp. one broad at the top and pointed at the bottom, for displaying armorial bearings.
12. (initial capital letter) Astronomy. the constellation Scutum.
13. Also called continental shield. Geology. a vast area of ancient crustal rocks which, together with a platform, constitutes a craton.
14. a protective barrier against nuclear radiation, esp. a lead or concrete structure around a reactor.
–verb (used with object) 15. to protect (someone or something) with or as if with a shield.
16. to serve as a protection for.
17. to hide or conceal; protect by hiding.
18. Obsolete. to avert; forbid.
–verb (used without object) 19. to act or serve as a shield.

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?r=2&q=shield

You missed the part where he tried to equate the word "force" to mean "surround." Hilarity ensued.

Originally posted by xmarksthespot
You missed the part where he tried to equate the word "force" to mean "surround." Hilarity ensued.
Aww, man...

Originally posted by xmarksthespot
You missed the part where he tried to equate the word "force" to mean "surround." Hilarity ensued.

actually Force field is the surround part. force as in to exert and field as in area. Force field, area of exertion.

Originally posted by nvrbeenwthagirl
Yes I am saying his own shields won't be as strong without tech. As seen. He's could never withstand the power of the PG without his shield or make galactus strain.

Well, everyone agrees with you there I believe. We can move past that point then.

Is the shield vs field the other thing you were talking about?