Luke Cage Respect Thread

New Avengers 47

Strength

hmm Cage sure has come a long way from being a silly blaxplotation character, into the man he is now 🙂

Was that Donald Trump or Bill Gates in that limo?

LOL "Get your ass back in the car"

Thunderbolts 137

First fight
Cage vs. thunderbolts (mister x, paladin, ant man, scourge)

-I think Ant man tried and failed to grow to full size while shrunk inside Luke
-Luke who is shot from the back gets up from a nervous system disrupter and isn’t even unconscious to paladins shock and is fighting with a scrambled brain
-fast enough to grab/catches Mister X’s swords with no damage and gives him the boot
-taking a barrage of bullets to no effect Cage easily lifts a car/sedan (2-3 tons) and smashes it on top of scourge
-Only goes down to after Iron fist hits him with a chi charged punch. In Luke’s defence he probably had his guard down though:

TB#137 cont...

Cage vs. some of the thunderbolts again
Cage shows adaptability here and skill as he beats more of the TB
-Cage is freed by paladin, but punches him in the head to KO
-Leaves some GG pumpkin bomb trap for Mister X
- After being shot at by DNA lasers that negate his powers he manages to beat scourge again by throwing it at him and KO’ing him

Cage with IF
Beat Mister X:

NA#63
Laser's blast only tickles:

Speed and Agility

Though not something people usually associate with Luke Cage he is actually very quick and agile.

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Skill

Training with Ironfist

Durability (Pre Upgrade Luke Cage)

Displays resistance to pressure point attacks

Strength (Pre Upgrade Luke Cage)

Toppling The Living Monolith

Tossing a Van

Luke Cage vs Thing (Pre upgrade)

Now Cage obviously lost this fight but still nice show of durability for Luke having tons of rubble collapes on him and still being able to continue the fight.

NA#63

cage connects taskmaster:

Cage breif scuffle with venom and takes a blast from normans blaster with no ill effect:

LK NA #1:

KO's a superstrong guy by jumping on him

VS Amped Hammerhead:

Can't believe im the first one to post this. Cage does a thunder clap. Now, not sure how strong he currently is, but shouldnt he be well over class 50 to do that? I really dont think Spider-man can do the same.

Honestly does anyone really take how strong Cage is "suppose" to be seriously anymore.

Shadowland Powerman #2
Leap's several stories:

takes a shotgun point blank to the chest:

NA 9:
Strength

lifts a freight lorry easily :

Originally posted by ankur29
NA 9:
Strength

lifts a freight lorry easily :

I think a freight train without the cargo is 15 tons, so that could be about 20 tons? Well his strength lvl on panel there is more than 25.

http://www.cbr.com/luke-cages-most-powerful-marvel-moments/

Originally posted by StiltmanFTW
http://www.cbr.com/luke-cages-most-powerful-marvel-moments/

The funny thing, is a lot of people write off his high end stuff as PIS.

Yet totally accept Danny's highs. Much as I'm a fan of Lord Rand, objectively just as many writers back in the day wrote that an Iron Fist CAN'T put Cage down. It waffled back and forth all the time, depending on writer (And editorial fiat to an extent. I firmly believe Claremont was told to let Cage win their first match, as every scene for the rest of his introduction into "Power Man" had Danny one upping him.)

http://screenrant.com/superpowers-you-did-not-know-luke-cage-had/ (view article in one page)

Bendis must be in heaven, seeing how much attention Luke's getting now, lol.