Eternal Idol
Lono, "The Dog"
Originally posted by Phantom Zone
Look..1. You are dictating to me what characters should or should not be able to do despite the fact they've been shown to be able to do it for years. You just want to dispute it because it doesn't fit your point of view.
2. When something happens in a comic that doesn't suit your point of view you what to start dictating what the artist intended.
I could answer your post in detail but since you want to argue nu-uh its obvoulsy going to be a waste if time. Go and pester somebody else....oh and you're refering to the wrong Punisher issue. doh
So what you're saying is that you really have no idea how The Punisher can realistically pull this off without getting himself beaten to a pulp or killed? I'm really not that surprised. You do the whole Cartman "Screw you, guys... I'm going home!" bit whenever your claims are challenged, and you can't back them up with some real proof or even a decent argument.
You mentioned earlier that most prep threads are speculative, but they are always determined by what Character A has been shown capable of with prep. Doom has created the first time machine, siphoned the energies from at least 3 cosmic or abstract beings, held his own in Hell, etc. Reed Richards is just as formidable with prep. Both have been doing this for years, and it's not unimaginable for them to do anything beneath those feats.
Stuart Clarke? He has not been around as the Punisher's sidekick for years and years. The greatest demonstrations of his skill were recreating old Iron Man tech and his Rampage suit which granted him superhuman strength and durability-- not enough to defeat these 3 X-Men. However, you want to claim that he's got even greater potential simply because he hasn't shown it yet. Maybe so, but at this point it's only wishful thinking on your part. Otherwise, one can go ahead and say that Marvel's top tier martial artists can potentially throw Hadoken fireballs, but haven't been shown to do it because they've never really tried, yet could if they did.
The Punisher shot the Rhino in PWJ #3, and the Rhino-Armadillo fight was in PWJ #4. It damaged his suit, likely broke a few ribs, and maybe caused some internal bruising. However, he was still well enough to pick a fight with Armadillo and continue on in a super-powered bar room brawl. A gun like that could take out Cyclops and Wolverine (if only momentarily) but not Colossus, whose durability is on another level than Rhino's. There's really nothing that could drop Colossus fast enough to avoid Cyclops and Wolverine, or vice versa. Castle will be outnumbered, overpowered, and overwhelmed.
Cyclops = range + power
Wolverine = durability + speed
Colossus = strength + durability
Before now, I've only referenced PWJ #17 because it's the only thing I've seen anything linking Stuart Clark to Wonder Man. It was a one-panel scene without any mention of weakening him by any means. By my own admission, I haven't read PWJ #13-16 or anything after #17. So why not just answer the friggin' question and tell the rest of us where this happened or where it was mentioned?
So far the only thing I've been able to find was a wiki article, stating that Clarke outfitted himself and a few homeless buddies with Rampage suits, injured Beast, and then got their collective asses handed to them by Wonder Man. If Clarke did weaken Wonder Man, well, great. Where the Hell did it happen? And how is it relevant to Clarke's inventions weakening Colossus? Back your G.D. claims and quit turning into an intellectual hermit crab when you get called out on your half-assed general statements. This is a debate forum, for f***'s sake.
Fastball Special/Claw City/Optic Blast/Colossus sh**-stomp for the win 8-9/10.