Originally posted by quanchi112
They dont always have characters destroying cities and what not. When Thor fought Thanos with the power gem the ship remained intact. I mean little to no damage was done and Thor was a nutjob.😆 Lets judge Thor becuz he couldnt even destroy the ship.
Exactly, haters on this board are trying to discount everything possible. There have been plenty of huge fights in both DC and Marvel that didn't involve massive amounts of collateral damage. Collateral damage just means they don't have that great control over their powers, unless they are purposely trying to destroy massive amounts of buildings.
I can name so many examples of this off the top of my head:
* Imperiex blasting Doomsday into bones. Where are the planets blowing up there? Just a little energy blast, smaller than what Radiant used to kill him, yet he was reduced to smoking bones.
* Saint of all Killers killing off God. Well... since it's powerful enough to kill God, why wasn't anything else destroyed?
* Molecule Man versus Beyonder, giving him a blast that would have slagged several million dimensions, yet his NYC apartment remains unharmed.
* Superman versus DOS Doomsday, if Superman can blow up the planet on his own and move the moon around, why were only several city blocks destroyed (even less collateral damage than Hulk / Sentry).
* Cyborg Superman w/ 10 fear rings vs. Superman - once again, only a small amount of the city destroyed (relative to the characters power), even less than Sentry / Hulk fight, but both Henshaw and Superman are potential world smashers. A few bridges destroyed and the statue of liberty messed up, but still less damage than the Hulk / Sentry fight.
The list goes on and on... only sloppy characters would let the planet they are on blow up during a fight, like when Champion had the power gem and attacked Thanos with a massive downwards strike, missing and destroyed the planet. Sure it was a big feat, but Champion felt stupid as hell afterwards when he was floating in space helpless to get anywhere.
As mentioned in the interview with the writer, the Bruce Banner portion of Hulk's brain is constantly doing the formulas, and running the numbers, in order so that people do not die. It was stated by Cho on-panel and was proven through myriad Hulk comic books. Either Hulk or Sentry could have easily destroyed Earth if they directed their attacks towards the surface of the planet, but neither one wanted to destroy the planet and kill billions of innocent people. That's why when Hulk lost control and a single step (not even a stomp - simply stepping on the ground, and this was verified with the interview with the writers) caused the entire eastern seaboard to shake and huge cracks to open, Hulk realized that he lost control and purposely stood there to let Tony home in on him with the satellite weapons. He even asks Tony to "do it", and that's on-panel.
So the collateral damage is moot. I can go over hundreds of both DC battles and Marvel battles where potential planet breakers do not destroy the planet. The amount of damage that they did cause was already enough as it was, and would amount to billions of dollars in the real world, making the WTC attack look like a joke in comparison. Both Sentry and Hulk were destroying buildings but not on purpose, and Hulk's energy was enough that it was engulfing the city after Miek said what he said to him.
I rest my case.