Space M ummy
Senior Member
I can't believe this thread has gone on for as long as it has. Namor-Subby is being willfully ignorant here.
A casual glance through Cap's respect thread or a read through even a couple of his comics shows that while marvel's stance is that he's "the peak of human potential" his actual feats are well within the superhuman range.
In the respect thread alone:
-Cap running at 60mph while carrying someone else
-Jumping UP 2+ stories unassisted to a roof of a building
-Throwing his shield fast enough to overtake a missile in flight and cutting through it
-tearing apart steel chains with his bare hands
-Throwing Terrax, who weighs 2,750 lbs.
Yes, 2,750 lbs. By that feat alone Cap by definition has the strength level of 18.5 average men. (2,750 divided by about 150lbs =18.5).
but hell, the strength of 20 (average) men isn't even 2 tons (4000 lbs). Cap routinely beats the hell out of opponents in that strength range.
Spider Man during civil war had to struggle to beat him (doing so only with the iron spider arms) and he's class 10= that's 20,000 pounds.
US Agent got humiliated on a regular basis. Also Class 10 AND trained in cap's style on top of it.
Wolverine has strength feats on the same level and Cap has beaten him as well.
Hell, there's even scans of him humilating thunderstrike, throwing him around like a rag doll while sparring and THAT guy was in the class 60-80 range.
Deathstroke having the strength of 10 or 20 men is absolutely meaningless here. That's not an advantage over cap at ALL.
A lot of posters interpret the SSS putting cap at "the peak of human potential" to mean it's possible to hit his levels by training (i.e. batman) but that's not the case at all.