Originally posted by quanchi112
They fight in character. Gladiator got his ass handed to him by Masterson Thor.
As well as real, experienced Thor got caught off guard when he lost. It was the equivalent of throwing something so someone looks up, and then sucker punching them.
Originally posted by Enyalus
FC Gladiator = Full Confidence Gladiator.
oh, right, my bad.
[b]And I think you give way too much credit to current Superman (who I read too, by the way 😛). Since H/P, he's had one power/strength upgrade after the Blue/Red Supes merger, had fighting training my Mongul (and others) which might be construed as a power upgrade, and had a thought processing upgrade after IC.DD dropped DS easier than Supes ever has, including current Supes. And this was before DS was written as being only on par with Supes physically. I think the motherbox amp went a long way to making H/P Superman ~ Current Superman, power wise.
Now, resistances wise and MA wise, no...but those things wouldn't have made a difference in the H/P arc, anyway. And the MB healing came in huge considering DD fracturing Kal's arm and flash-KOing him with the million nuke explosion. Yet Kal recovered fairly quickly from both. I don't think current Supes' healing factor would do as well as that.
my thinking for most of that (i'm sure you can guess what parts) is to strongly disagree.
should i go in to it, or do you know already?
Originally posted by Raoul
my thinking for most of that (i'm sure you can guess what parts) is to strongly disagree.should i go in to it, or do you know already?
And before you catch me by saying, "You realize that everything you posted was post-H/P era, proving my point when I said he's gotten much stronger"....well, yes. But only to show that Current Superman isn't vastly far ahead, if at all, of that version of the Man of Steel. And by extension, a Motherbox-amped post-DOS Superman.
Originally posted by Enyalus
But only to show that Current Superman isn't vastly far ahead, if at all, of that version of the Man of Steel. And by extension, a Motherbox-amped post-DOS Superman.
therein lies the disagreement, though. i DO think everything that's happened since than has shown a vast improvement in terms of strength, speed, durability, fighting skill, and most of the other atributes he had.
Originally posted by Raoul
therein lies the disagreement, though. i DO think everything that's happened since than has shown a vast improvement in terms of strength, speed, durability, fighting skill, and most of the other atributes he had.
Originally posted by batdude123I never said that Masterson was the better warrior. I merely said that the other remaining heroes had to pull Masterson off of Gladiator as they feared for his death and he wasn't fighting back at all.
Getting beaten down and then summoning another for help isn't exactly what I'd call handing somebody his ass.
Masterson handed him his ass.