Originally posted by CosmicComet
Lol no.That's exactly why we know he was holding back.
He doesn't know who Parker is. He would naturally think of him as a normal human. And thus he would not use his full strength. You do see how he was NOT surprised to see that Parker got away right? AFTER the punch he laid on him? He's not going to expect a normal human to still be anything but powder if he actually gave it near a fraction of his best.
In such a case, it's actually a kind of a low showing on Peter's durability. He got his nose bloodied by a punch that Herc didn't even intend to outright kill a normal human with. 😛
As for Herc simply talking himself up. You CANNOT be serious.
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Wrong he was never holding back. That would have killed a normal human!!! If he was holding back he would not have hit someone who may have been normal Human and knocked them through all of that shit.
Originally posted by Parmaniac
Holding back or not, a normal human would have been killed by the first punch, Herc punched Parkers ass through a window and 2 doors that's a pretty long distance.
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Originally posted by ~The Wickerman~
Umm....Herc doesn't really work that way. His "holding back" is not the same as other heroes holding back. While holding back he's put people through walls (literally impaling them in walls), fought WWH, etc. When he's really holding back, he uses a love tap, or a gentle slap, like he did to black widow to KO her (who was concerned if he hits her a little too hard he might take her face off).Besides, he did put him through 2 very thick walls with one of those "holding back" punches, and in the end only beat him by tossing 10+ cars on top of him and trapping him underneath.
Either way, I'm not arguing one way or another, but you're trying to take away from Spiderman's durability shown in those scans and it's not right, because Herc's argument that he's "holding back" ain't exactly lowering the feat. 🙂
Going to finish with the most awesome scan in existence:
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