Originally posted by Rage.Of.OlympusHercules is the god of power...strength is his forte
According to Marvel's official stats and their own personal encounters? Their equals which I think they should be. If we look outside of that? Thor's on a different level. Hercules' isn't portrayed consistently and so on.
Originally posted by srankmissingnin
Supporting Atlas' burden has to be at the [b]very least the equal of Thor's best strength feat, and I'm inclined to think that it is technically more impressive by several orders of magnitude. He bore the weight of everything in existence (other than the Earth), on his shoulders... what tops that? [/B]
You mean when he held up the Heavens? What did he hold up? The Sky? It was extremely vague.
Thor's World Engine feat is more impressive. He did that while weakened.
At best for Hercules, you could argue that they both fought the same force but even thenm the description of the force Thor fought against was a lot more descriptive. The Yggdrasil and Atlas are the Axis Mundi for Olympus/Asgard respectively. Every pantheon and so on views it differently apparently. Atlas keeps the Heavens in place and so does Yggdrasil in a way (It's power unlimited and it connects all the worlds and holds the fabric of reality/cosmos in place.).
Originally posted by Rage.Of.Olympus
You mean when he held up the Heavens? What did he hold up? The Sky? It was extremely vague.Thor's World Engine feat is more impressive. He did that while weakened.
At best for Hercules, you could argue that they both fought the same force but even thenm the description of the force Thor fought against was a lot more descriptive. The Yggdrasil and Atlas are the Axis Mundi for Olympus/Asgard respectively. Every pantheon and so on views it differently apparently. Atlas keeps the Heavens in place and so does Yggdrasil in a way (It's power unlimited and it connects all the worlds and holds the fabric of reality/cosmos in place.).
so it's not the same as in mytholgy were atlas is holding up the world and herc relives him of it for a time?
Originally posted by Mindset
Is that why Herc had Thor beaten in hth?
yeah that was going to be my question too. a drunk off his but herc beat thor in a strictly hand to hand fight. and didn't thor even admit that herc was his better physically in that fight. I haven't seen it in a while so i could be wrong.
Originally posted by jasofisc
so it's not the same as in mythology were atlas is holding up the world and herc relives him of it for a time?
Atlas didn't hold the earth in mythology either, he is on the earth keeping it separate from the "heavens". As Rage said, it's ambiguous concept, but it isn't the earth, it's... like... I don't know, a celestial sphere.
Originally posted by jasofisc
so it's not the same as in mytholgy were atlas is holding up the world and herc relives him of it for a time?
Originally posted by jasofisc
so then herc did carry the entire world for a bit.
It's not the same.
It's very vague as Atlas was standing on a mountain, and held something akin to the sky (Heavens.) on his shoulders. He then eases it down to Hercules.
It's hard to quantify it in any physical terms.
Originally posted by Rage.Of.Olympus
It's not the same.It's very vague as Atlas was standing on a mountain, and held something akin to the sky (Heavens.) on his shoulders. He then eases it down to Hercules.
It's hard to quantify it in any physical terms.
just looked back at the respect thread and i see what your talking about. in one earlyer scan he's holding the world but i with the most recent scan it's the "heavens". So i'm guessing the most recent scan wins.
i'm just theorizing here but the heavens from what i seen in the scan could be the rest of the universe. maybe maybe not?
i was always told in high school that it was the world but it's not like i'm an authorty on the matter. were is the story orgnally told because i don't trust wikipedia.