Originally posted by Battlehammer
How is it questionable if wolverine has a skilled advantage? when was the last time Thor made a top tier MA look foolish?
He's embarrassed Daredevil before. He's also embarrassed an amped Deadpool. But then again, that's kinda Deadpool's thing.
Originally posted by srankmissingnin
With the alleged "abundance" of Thor combat speed feats that have been "referenced," so far in this thread, that would *apparently* be impossible for even a casual reader of Thor to miss... it certainly seems odd that no one has been able to mention one specifically, and not a single of these apparently numerous feats have made it into a single one of Thor's respect threads...odd
It's one of the reasons I've been working on a Revamped Thor Respect Thread. I'm not finished going through all his comics yet, but here is what I have so far. This is a collection of scans that highlight Thor's combat speed and combat reflexes. None of them have to do with spinning his hammer at incalculable speeds or traveling speed. Let's start off with commentary from various foes regarding Thor's combat speed:
The original Black Knight shoots bolas from his lance that are literally surrounding Thor, but because of his speed, which Black Knight himself marvels at, Thor knocks the lance away and evades capture. Black Knight exclaims, "I've never seen such speed... such power!!"
http://i388.photobucket.com/albums/oo326/OneDumbG0/Random/ThorSuperspeed03aAvengers006.jpg
Here, Hela only has to touch Thor in order to ensnare his soul in 1v1 combat, but is unable to do so because of his speed, "His speed, his anger, are beyond comprehension!"
http://i388.photobucket.com/albums/oo326/OneDumbG0/Random/ThorSpeed03354.jpg
Here, while fending off two herald level foes, Adam Warlock likens his ability to catch his staff mid-swing and his combat speed to that of lightning, "He moves like the lightning he commands, much quicker than I remember."
http://i388.photobucket.com/albums/oo326/OneDumbG0/Random/ThorSuperspeed14InfinityWatch23.jpg
Similar incidents are littered throughout dozens upon dozens of fights that Thor has. But as we all know, character talk is cheap. So let's deal with some feats of combat speed and reflexes that are more than just subjective exclamations, no matter how reliable the source. What everyone really cares about are the more objective and demonstrable speed feats. One reliable type of speed feat is where the character moves so fast that you literally become a blur of motion or move too fast to be seen. Thor has several of those and here a few of them:
Here, Thor fights Heimdall and swings his hammer down on him at speeds "moving too swiftly for the eye to follow," even too fast for Heimdall:
http://i388.photobucket.com/albums/oo326/OneDumbG0/Random/ThorSuperspeed04JIM125.jpg
Likewise here, as has already been posted, Thor digs a trench in a blur of motion that is "almost too fast for the human eye to follow."
http://img370.imageshack.us/img370/3656/thorspeed014aw.jpg
And here, while helping rebuild Asgard, Thor hammers down repeatedly on a pillar and "becomes a blur of motion."
http://i388.photobucket.com/albums/oo326/OneDumbG0/Random/ThorSuperspeed10267.jpg
Those were more akin to combat speed feats, but Thor's combat reflex speed feats are also impressive and likely more pertinent to this thread. After all, Thor isn't dealing with flowing lava or stationary pillars here. He's dealing with people trying to slash, hack and stab him with pointy things. Thor has a long history of dealing with that:
Here, Thor reacts to a knife being swung downward, only inches from his face with a mighty heave:
http://i388.photobucket.com/albums/oo326/OneDumbG0/Random/ThorSuperspeed08218.jpg
Here, Thor reacts and swats away arrows that are only a few feet away from hitting him from behind:
http://i388.photobucket.com/albums/oo326/OneDumbG0/Random/ThorSuperspeed16v27.jpg
Here, Thor is about to have his face smashed by a cursed Mjolnir which is zooming back to him, but he moves swiftly enough on reaction to dodge it:
http://i388.photobucket.com/albums/oo326/OneDumbG0/Random/ThorSuperspeed17.jpg
Here, Thor reacts to Wrecker swinging his mystic crowbar onto Thor's head from behind. Literally only inches away, Thor moves so swiftly once again, he snatches the crowbar with his hand:
http://i388.photobucket.com/albums/oo326/OneDumbG0/Random/ThorSuperspeed18v229.jpg
And it looks like current Thor hasn't lost that touch as he catches Bor's axe inches from his face with his bare hands:
http://i388.photobucket.com/albums/oo326/OneDumbG0/Random/ThorSuperspeed25600.jpg
Now if those altogether are not convincing enough to suggest that Thor has combat superspeed or reflexes, another common way to measure those is to see how well Thor does against speedsters:
Here, Thor builds a trench around crazed citizens and Avengers, including a zooming Quicksilver:
http://i388.photobucket.com/albums/oo326/OneDumbG0/Random/ThorSuperspeed07Avengers098.jpg
Here, Thor punks the Newman speedster, Juvan, who was created by the High Evolutionary, using nothing but his bare hands:
http://i388.photobucket.com/albums/oo326/OneDumbG0/Random/ThorSuperspeed11a447.jpg
Here, Thor catches another High Evolutionary creation who possesses superspeed, the godling, Zefra:
http://i388.photobucket.com/albums/oo326/OneDumbG0/Random/ThorSuperspeed15475.jpg
And Thor has punked the superspeedster, Hermes, the literal Greek God of Speed, not just once, but twice:
http://i388.photobucket.com/albums/oo326/OneDumbG0/Random/ThorSuperspeed11Avengers281.jpg
http://i388.photobucket.com/albums/oo326/OneDumbG0/Random/ThorSuperspeed11Avengers281.jpg
But many times, superspeedsters can job. And who's to say just how fast each of those speedsters was going in each instance? While some folks freely use such feats in isolation as definitive evidence, I do not. Now despite my showing a compilation and not an isolated incident, I think the burden falls on me to show unequivocal true combat superspeed and superspeed reflexes. To be unequivocal, they need to be objective, demonstrable and most importantly, measurable. And Thor has these measurable superspeed feats:
Here, we see Thor flying outside a window and when Jane Foster gets his attention, Thor manages to intercept Cobra's poison dart within a split-second. The dart is fired before he even is inside the room, ust to give you the proper frame of reference to understand the speed and reflexes necessary:
Here, in the space of one and one-fifth seconds, Thor dives out of the sky, smashes Mjolnir down and causes a shockwave to divert a runaway truck from killing a young boy ACROSS the city:
Here, in the space of micro-seconds before a zooming cursed Mjolnir will strike Thor from behind, Thor lays a haymaker onto an Enchanter and spins around in time to snatch Mjolnir in mid-air:
Here, in one of Thor's most impressive superspeed reflex feats, Phoenix shoots a telepathic blast at Thor at the moment Thor's arms are at his side. AFTER the shot is fired and already travelling at him, Thor raises his arms and reflects it back with Mjolnir. Telepathy being instantaneous traditionally (as noted in the narration), we can assume for the sake of argument that it was only traveling at light-speed, making this a nanosecond feat:
None of the posted speed feats involve me trying to equivocate that spinning Mjolnir around = combat speed. None of the above feats involve Thor's traveling speeds. In fact, most of the feats do not involve Mjolnir at all. In addition to this, I could post dozens more scans of Thor fighting Surfer, Hyperion, Gladiator, but these are the most obvious. Thor has a long history of using his combat superspeed and reflexes. And while his superspeed reflexes are more demonstrated than his combat superspeed, he isn't fighting Superman or Flash in this thread. He's fighting Wolverine and Sabretooth.
Thor w/o Mjolnir or any weather control or energy projection isn't just a physical match for Hulk, strength, stamina and durability-wise (even more durable now), he possesses millenia worth of combat experience and very importantly, he possesses god-like speed. Nuff said.
Thor 10/10.