Originally posted by OneDumbG0
I was talking more about your use of swearing and characterizations that both Phantomzone and I were throwing PMS/b1tch fits. Let's all just reset and be more courteous. Makes the debates and reasoning look better. Truce?And yes, if Iron Fist were struck with a staff to the back of the head and woke up... I could see him being ok once he wakes up. But that's not the case here. He got whacked by a flying dragon. And this dragon isn't like Lockheed's size. It was the size of a big truck or something. He didn't defend himself because he was hoping the dragon would recognize him. When he wakes up in the dungeon, that's when Junzo starts throwing him around. No way are you near 100% after having just woken up from being whacked by a flying dragon. Wolverine would be a 100% because of his healing factor, not depowered Danny Rand.
And he was distraught over Misty from the beginning. He didn't know where she was, only that Junzo captured her. They even have a conversation about how Iron Fist is losing his cool the first time Junzo throws him around. Obviously, he was more distraught the second time Junzo throws him around since that is after Junzo shows him her severed arm.
I also fail to see the issue here when we have a recovering Iron Fist embarassing Wolverine on-panel. Fact is, the Junzo comparisons are not as clear cut as you'd like them to be. Heck, Luke Cage in his yellow shirt managed to actually hit Junzo. Is he now the better of both Iron Fist and Wolverine? Nah.
I'll honestly have to go back to look at how the dragon hit him as I don't remember. Again, if he was injured I would have thought that Iron Fist would have said so at some point AT ALL during the run, I don't remember him attributing ANYTHING to being weaker/wounded, etc. so I'm not entirely sure that we can say he was wounded while fighting Junzo either. I'll go back and check that out though.
Still, there's two issues there. Junzo has beaten Iron Fist in an off panel instance before he stole the Iron Fist, and he beat Steel Serpent in an off panel fight before he ever stole ANY high level chi, so he would have had to have beaten a mirror equal to Iron Fist, without any powers whatsoever.
Perhaps IF was injured, but it was never referenced. Perhaps the example isn't quite clear cut but it certainly does seem that Wolverine was doing something IF couldn't and the way IF was represented he seemed to be extremely impressed by the showing.
In any case, in every case, I fail to see how it's NOT a display of skill high level skill. 😬
Now, you say that you see no problems with IF having his superior showing over Wolverine years ago. I've already stated why this is or should be up for debate here. This event took place years before Wolverine began showing serious displays of h2h skill, before the samurai was written as part of his characterization, and only a couple years after his 2nd appearance if that. It was still up in the air whether or not Wolverine was a man mutated from an actual Wolverine, he wasn't a fully developed character, nor was his skill set. Similar to Wolverine, Sabretooth was also referenced as having absolutely no skill while fighting Wolverine and the two were equated to one another by IF.
You said you wanted to be curteous to one another, and that's fine, I have no problems with that, but curteousness implies we be polite enough to answer someone's questions when they ask you something of some importance. I asked you several times in that last thread to no answer so I'll ask you again.
Wolverine was not a developed character who had no popularity in an IF comic, He faired poorly. Do you or don't you think he would have faired just as poorly half a decade to a decade later in terms of sheer skill? Do you or don't you think that Wolverine being underdeveloped in that fight played a signicicant role as to the fight's outcome?
And just to clarify, this is really the only reason why the What If example was referenced in the first place. It's the only thing that serves as a recent example of a fight between the two. It's fine that you don't hold validity to that, you don't have to, but doesn't it make you think?
Similarly, Sabretooth outfought Iron Fist when IF couldn't collect his chi adequately, IF didn't need his chi to beat Sabes the first or second time they fought when Sabretooth was an underdeveloped character with NO SKILL, after being developed into the opposite he railed through Danny... Do you or don't you think the same principle might apply with Wolverine?