OneDumbG0
Find Your Own Fire
Originally posted by srankmissingnin
Still have a few minutes - waiting for my rideWell ****, now I completely understand. After years of debating / arguing with you, I see what your mindset is. I thought you where ignoring high end feats in favour of low feats (which pissed me off), but I was wrong, you don't come down on one side or the other (thats not strictly true - you certainly seem to think the low ends feats are more important but whatever close enough). That's weird. I don't really get how you can look at two pieces of contradictory evidence and not come down on one side or the other but say they are both valid and exist congruently. Thats what the entire KMC rule structure is about, eliminating feats that are contradictory from the majority in order to standardize a character and eliminate confusion. Siting on the fence and looking at both sides doesn't make sense, you need to come down on one side or other, and it should be pretty clear from your vantage point on that fence which side of the fence is greener so to speak.
I don't think Wolverine being knocked out/incapacitated and him tanking catastrophic damage are mutually exclusive events which require you to pick one side, to the complete exclusion of the other. Especially not when you have so many "high end" and so many "low end" feats.
And it's apparent to me that Wolverine's healing factor doesn't have to be utterly short-circuited or absolutely exhausted for him to be knocked out/incapacitated. Simply because there are plenty of times where he's knocked out and his healing factor is at that same time, still working to repair the damage. Which incontrovertibly proves his healing factor isn't completely short-circuited or absolutely exhausted at that point.
Are there times when its utterly exhausted or completely overwhelmed? Yes. Magneto stripping his adamantium in Fatal Attractions, X-Men and Avengers hunting him in Enemy of the State, Nitro blowing him up in Civil War, etc. Other times (when he's simply knocked out)? Not so much.
Wolverine in this regard is analogous to Hulk. Hulk's healing factor is even greater than Wolverine's. Yet, there are days when he takes a nuke like it's nothing and there are days when half a tank of rocket fuel blowing up puts him to sleep. One day, Thor's pounding him with fists/Mjolnir for hours and Hulk isn't missing a beat and another day Hulk gets knocked out by a cement truck.
Do I think Hulk should get knocked out by half a tank of rocket fuel? No, he's tanked much worse. But it happens. Fortunately for Hulk fans, Hulk's "glass jaw" doesn't utterly sabotage him when it's actually his powerset to become dynamically more powerful near instantly. Wolverine doesn't even have that. Which conveniently brings me up to my last point that I'll leave you with...
... because taken altogether, these are exactly the reasons why I don't believe that Hulk takes 10/10 against Wolverine. Others can feel differently (I know you do). But if they do feel the same way in the end, then there isn't much disjunction between my rationalizations and their closely held beliefs. Or, more appropriately, there shouldn't be.