bluewaterrider
Senior Member
Originally posted by Blue Area Vet
[S]how us all the scans of Shazam's bolts you want, but it doesn't change the fact that [his] avatar knocked [Superman] ... out.
[D]id it occur to you that Billy was concerned Shazam would KILL Superman ... ?
There's even more to it than that, sir.
In the scans of your quoted links, the Superman "taking" those Shazam bolts is possessed by Eclipso, an immortal spirit who has shown the mystic ability to "upgrade" the physical stats of his victims.
In fact, such was done by Eclipso for Wonder Woman herself. It is only in about the past decade, for instance, that Wonder Woman has demonstrated intrinsic resistance to bullets and sharp projectiles. Before then, they were something that needed to be guarded against at all costs.
The ironically named villain Devastation demonstrated what happened if Diana didn't take the time to deflect bullets in the past:
http://www.killermovies.com/forums/attachment.php?s=&postid=14440312
Oh!
Quick note:
I need to make sure people don't get confused. The "LionLady"/Sphinx/whatever in that above image is NOT devastation and did not cause the primary injury to Diana.
THIS is Devastation and where the wound came from:
http://www.killermovies.com/forums/attachment.php?s=&postid=14440258
http://www.killermovies.com/forums/attachment.php?s=&postid=14440323
Notice all the damage from that single shot, featured in Wonder Woman #143 and 144, Volume 2.
That was back in 1999.
Note that, post-Crisis, the further back in time you go, generally, the weaker and less durable Wonder Woman is. Certainly the less durable.
One poster actually showed me Diana's hands bleeding from rope friction back in some late 80s or early 90s showing. She was resisting force of tension insufficient to even uproot a signpost, yet her hands were bleeding.
And while by 1999 she probably would not betray that kind of vulnerability, it's still obvious from what Deva did to her that she was certainly NOT tough enough to take gunfire unshielded.
She almost DIED from a SINGLE bullet.
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Enter Eclipso:
http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Wonder_Woman_Annual_Vol_2_3
Given what you saw above, what do you think happened when bullet-vulnerable Wonder Woman, and more vulnerable still because this was back in 1992, was shot with a far MORE powerful gun, multiple times to her chest and upper torso?
http://www.killermovies.com/forums/attachment.php?s=&postid=14197291
If Wonder Woman herself is reliable guide, there is scarcely any comparison to the heightened durability of a person possessed by Eclipso to that person under normal conditions.