Originally posted by Rage.Of.Olympus
Context? Please point out in which of those I'm missing context. I read all of those comics and at no time do I recall Juggernaut being weakened or else I'd have mentioned it.I'm genuinely curious now because I certainly don't want to mislead anyone. If you have any actual information (I.e. not saying it's PIS because you don't like it) I'd like you to give me an issue number.
I mentioned Thor hurting Juggernaut in the scene where he removed his force field I think but that much is obvious.
Nightmare definitely hurt him. He didn't cripple him or anything but then again, I don't know why anyone would expect him to.
I'm regarding things like Nightcrawler putting a torch in the eye of Cain and him screaming pain.
And perhaps context was only part of it. I should have also said extreme contradictory feats as well.
Considering Cain has walked out of infernos before while smiling it seems weird for a torch to the face to hurt him.
Storm's lightning hurting him yet in another issue Cain simply took and redirected it back at her.
Onslaught for one thing I think has been retconned to some degree. It was always wacky because for one the gem was never in Cain's chest in fact he threw it into orbit. Later in New Excalibur we find out the reason why Onslaught was after Cain to begin with because Xavier was Cyttorak's first pick to be the Juggernaut that day.
So there could have been some more things going on behind the scenes where Cyttorak may have been playing favorites and weakening Cain. Considering Onslaught only had the power of Xavier and Magneto it doesn't make much sense for that combo to hurt him.
Captain Universe was weird cause he supposedly beat him black and blue the first time but the next time they fight Cain is not holding his own but in instances looks like he was superior.
Nimrod takes Cain down by a nervous system attack, but in a depowered state Cain was burned to a crimson skeleton with his own power and he is still moving and talking.
The point is this, things that seemingly make Cain cry out in pain at times completely do not effect him at others.
Other things like magic and celestial tech can factor in to.
I've always thought there was a certain mental aspect to Cain's powers or a weird kind of mental block since Cain is human and likes keeping his human mind.
For one thing it makes sense that is mind would still respond sometimes to things that wouldn't hurt him but he cries out in pain as a reflex. I've seen people do that.
Also based on the recent things with Collosanaut, even if someone has the Juggernaut power they can still mentally filter it out. Look at Pitor he looks Jugger uped all of the time but he has been mentally trying to hold unto his humanity and thus he isn't operating at ful capacity of its power. Also Cyttorak has explicitly told Cain before the only thing limiting his use of the power is himself.
So its very possible that some of those things happened when Cain was not mentally allowing himself to actually focus and be the full Juggernaut.
Some of this is just theory but I believe that it is a fair and logical conclusion especially considering recent events. And should probably be cosndiered.
Also if you want the honest truth I think the Cain's biggest and most accurate showing of what he could be is 8th Day mode when he was fully focused. I never use it in a battle cause it's somewhat wishy washy, but I do think that is Cain unleashed.