Battlehammer
Senior Member
This match takes place in a warehouse. Well that is very vague since there are many different types, sizes and shapes of warehouses.
I keep reading members of this board who are declaring that Punisher wins 6/10 or 8/10 and even 10/10 though I find there reasoning to be off.
-First reason I have heard is due to Punisher being granted an hour of Prep time.
I find it rather faulty logic to assume one wins simply due to prep time. Punisher is no Batman intellectually nor does he have close to the resources that Batman can accesses. Just because one is given prep does not mean they will win. People are forgetting the fact that Punisher since his Civil War arc has had almost all if not all of his armory destroyed. His secret bases were found by shield and the weapons were removed. Others were destroyed with the alien invasion. So we have a Punisher with an hour of prep, but who has a vastly depleted armor with out the accesses to many of the weapons he once could get, with only an hour to get weaponry and set him self up. That’s not a lot of time. Punisher not going to be able to gather heavy artillery that he would need, and he not going to have the ability to set up himself up properly with the time allowed. Given Punisher depleted arms and almost no time to get the fire power needed I find it odd that so many would uses the argument of “prep time” as if that some how automatically means Punisher wins when in truth he won’t be able to gain the weapons nor the time to set him self up completely.
-Then there is the fact that the arms Punisher would be able to gather are not more often then not able to put Logan down for the KO. Logan is not going to be put down by bullets unless some how they enter his brain and rip it apart. The odds of a bullet entering through the eye like it did while Logan is only facing the Punisher are extremely low. People are assuming Logan’s healing factor was down graded far below what it actually was. In Wolverine 61 Logan stated his healing factor had “not been this weak in years”. He said years which are some were between 2-9 years. However this upgrade occurred over a decade ago meaning his healing factor is of at least this level
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-Now another thing people seem to ignore is the fact that Logan knows that he is going to face Punisher. He will suspect traps and being a trained Special Opt, spy, secret agent and so on he would know of the traps well before they were set. He has enter the Baxter building, Avengers, many military bases with out triggering an alarm he not going to fall for something Punisher creates in an hour. That not even adding in the fact Logan senses would pick up on any trap Punisher attempted to set. Not to mention the fact Logan would know the location of Punisher in the warehouse while Punisher can not say the same.
-Another reason I can not understand why people assume Punisher wins due to “1 hour of prep” time is, because they seem to simply assume that Punisher will somehow remain hidden and unseen, but Wolverine will be walking around like a moron. That Punisher will somehow know were Wolverine is at every moment, but Wolverine will not be able to know the location Punisher will be in.. This baffles me greatly. Logan senses allow him to track down mystique in 8 haft hours who could be any were in the world
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and somehow not be able to locate Punisher who in a warehouse. What also does not make senses with that train of thought is the fact that Logan is far more stealthy then Punisher. Logan would have a far larger chance of ambushing Punisher then vice versa. Logan has been able to sneak up unnoticed by individuals like Daredevil, Ferral, Sabertooth, ect. All of the fallowing have superhuman senses and would be far harder to ambush then Punisher.
The next argument I see constantly used in this thread for a reason why Punisher wins is the scan below
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I still do not understand how this scan is irrelevant to Punisher beating Wolverine. I mean is Punisher all of a sudden going to have Logan out number and surrounded by mutant villains that have members within there ranks that are many times more powerful then himself to distract him with? Is Punisher some how going to have the power to make Logan start distracting himself by shouting orders? Is Punisher some how going to gain the power of superhuman accuracy to boot?
If Punisher can not achieve all three of those things, then the scan is completely irrelevant
Here Logan catches a bullet shot from a sniper rifle.
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Here another feat
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Logan sensing a gun shot.
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Logan sensing Living Lightning who a good deal faster then a bullet before he attacks.
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The final most used argument for Punisher winning the majority over Wolverine is that issue written by Ennis in which Wolverine, Daredevil and Spiderman attempt to track down and catch Punisher. There so many things that baffles me when people use this argument as evidences for Punisher winning.
-The first thing that baffles me is the fact some one actual thinks this is good evidence and that it accurately portrays Spiderman, Wolverine and Daredevil through out the arc.
-I mean did not any one notice how Logan’s and Spiderman’s intellect was portrayed to be that of a person with well below average intellect.
-Then there is the fact that powers were ignore constantly through out the arc. Example was Spiderman’s Spider sense, Wolverines superhuman senses and Daredevil radar and superhuman senses. They were looking for Punisher and yet none of them could sense him when he was 20 feet away.
The arc was simply PIS and some of the worst writing I have ever seen and it saddens me someone would try and use it as evidence.
-The next Part the baffles me as using it for evidence of Punisher beating Wolverine is the fact that Logan was never KO or beaten by Punisher.
-The last part of this argument for Punisher winning, due to that single arc is the fact it not even cannon any more.
-In Wolverine 186 it states that Punisher and Wolverines “last encounter ended with the mutant crushed under a steam roller”. This issue came out after the issue in which Spiderman, Wolverine and Daredevil try and capture Punisher. This means that the issue in which Wolverine, Daredevil, Spiderman try and catch Punisher has been reconnt not to have taken place.
So the last and most used argument by individuals who feel that Punisher wins was reconnt not to have taken place which means it never actually happen, meaning it not useable as evidence.