Originally posted by janus77
1. "New Hulk" is more powerful, not a radically different creature, so old Hulk feats apply, it just happens that there are plenty to work with.
New feats or old feats does not put him at the level you seem to be implying him to be.
Recent Surfer seems to be being placed to be considerably more durable/powerful than classic Surfer and even Classic Surfer was shrugging off Savage Hulk's best punches.
Originally posted by janus77
2. the Hammer isn't the point, Thor can smack Surfer without it (he shouldn't be able to, but he does). I don't go about arguing that Thor has no business laying a hand on someone who has nano-second reaction times and moves at billions of multiples of C, I accept that these things happen and that somehow they do fight. as I said, we will disagree on this. on top of that, Hulk does have unerring accuracy and he has leapt and caught Surfer before, as he has other herald types (though much lower ones, like Jack of Hearts).
In a forum fight, Thor WOULD be able to hit the Surfer because he is able attack at range and move at near the speeds the Surfer can. Even then, within the forums, Thor hitting the Surfer with anything other than a hammer throw or ranged energy attack would have to be debatable as Surfer has proven to be the far faster of the two and forum rules state that the character will fight at the best of his abilities (other than CIS).
Hulk, however, will not only NEED to be smart enough to compute his velocity vs that of the Surfer's in order to predict a leap that will intercept him, he will THEN need Surfer to NOT REACT to his leap or alter his heading. :-/
In a forum fight, this will simply not be the case.
Originally posted by janus77
3. the board has been smashed plenty of times, even in the recent Thanos Imperative, a blast by the Cancerverse Marvell broke it to pieces. as for the transdimensional speculation - any foundation at all in that? Surfer seemed to be carrying Quasar inside the board.
My point was the plethora of options available to the Surfer. :-/
Originally posted by janus77
4. you're supposing that Hulk won't be conscious of the fact that he's actually in a battle? how long do you expect them to be floating about? also, the second Surfer blasts Banner... he's dealing with a pissed off Hulk again. 😐
There is no duration to the fights here, it could last for as long as it needs to. Surfer just needs to wait for his "calming powers" to affect the Hulk and turn him back to banner.
Once he's Banner, Surfer uses his PC to let Banner sleep for the win.
Originally posted by janus77
furthermore, you've got things like Hulk's ability to ThunderClap and to grab energy, which give him some purchase and range.
Thunderclap someone that's thousands of feet away moving at far faster than any air wave may be able to travel regardless of the force applied to it?? Or is there some kind of FTL pressure wave out there that I'm not aware of?
Or are you saying he's gonna somehow grab hold onto Surfer's energy blasts, climb up on it and THEN hit Surfer in the jaw or something....?
Wow. That's Loeb level writing/logic right there.... O_o