Originally posted by Rage.Of.Olympus
Let me ask you something, outside of Hulk's approximation which I doubt is completely accurate, how do you know at what speed Gladiator was flying at?Let me see Gladiator use his super speed to attack someone with hundreds to thousands of blows.
Maybe he doesn't have the sufficient speed according to that comic. He clearly wasn't playing around and meant to take Hulk out. Chris might have just thought he wasn't fast enough. Or maybe it was just C.I.S.
No, not a normal brawl like this, but thinking about Betty's death, concentrating on it, would get him abnormally angry more than likely. I mean, since we're having Gladiator do shit his never done before, let's make it fair and have Hulk do shit his never done before.
Escape velocity for earth is just 11.2km/sec, mach 3 or 4, that's nothing for gladiator. However, if he flung the hulk into escape velocity withinh the atmosphere, the hulk would thunderclap his way back to ground, so let's take him outside the atmosphere:
Effects of the atmosphere can no longer be noticed after 120 km altitude from sea level. Gladiator didn't even make it that far with the hulk in what looked like a 5 second struggle based on thought and speech bubbles. So he was moving slower than 24km/second, which is arround mach 8 - thats 0,01% of lightspeed. That is very slow compared to his average and high showings of superspeed when he uses it. Once outside the atmosphere, the hulk wouldn't be able to thunderclap his way back.
I do agree that the writer might have not thought gladiator to be that fast or he simply didn't want the Hulk removed from battle like that. There is even an in-comic explanation as gladiator not being that self-confident in the story, but this wasn't explictly mentioned IIRC. However, we are aware of Gladiator's other feats, we are supposed to take characters at optimal levels and ignore PIS.
I could go scan hunting but there really is no need for that as I cited hundreds or thousands of blows to illustrate a point: he can punch the hulk far more often than the Hulk can punch him unless PIS or CIS are crippling him (he'll rarely face an opponent that takes a hundred blows to put down). How many blows do you think it's reasonable for the Hulk to deliver for each one gladiator does? Or do you think the fact that Gladiator is so much faster woudn't even factor in here and they'd be evenly fast? Gladiator does blitz frequently and it is in-character behavior.