Respect Sebastian Shaw!

Originally posted by Galan007

...Not to mention he had effortlessly dominated Colossus years earlier. /shrug

Anyways nice thread, it's about damm time.

Originally posted by juggernaut74
True, but Colossus was holding back because he thought Shaw was a normal human. Still props to Shaw though.

Anyways nice thread, it's about damm time.

Galan there may also be a scene missing where Shaw was stuck in a energy bubble and punched his way out. Every punch he threw made him stronger or something like that.

And I'd put his fight with Namor in there also. He stopped a Imperious Rex punch from Namor with his hand and in the same issue he broke Norman Osborn's finger.

^ Funny. I threw this thread together so quickly that I completely forgot to add those feats in. Much obliged. 🙂

Section II: Absorption/Battle/Strength feats

Sebastian shatters a prison designed to house mutants and absorb their energies, in order to empower the Cronus Device (a task not even Gambit was capable of, apparently):

Also note that each time Shaw punched the prison, he absorbed the subsequent energy released, thereby making him a bit stronger with each strike. ie. whether he punches something, or something punches him, physical strikes increase Shaw's power. Period.

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A quick scuffle between Sebastian and Namor:

Considering Namor has gone toe-to-toe with the likes of Hulk (among many others) in the past, the fact that Sebastian was able to tank an "Imperius Rex!" punch, AND bloody up Namor in the process, is extremely impressive.

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Just to put more emphasis on these scans, and Shaw's level of strength- Rogue /w/ Ms. Marvel's power compared a b*tchslap from Shaw (a b*tchslap which sent her plowing through an entire building, btw), to a punch from Hulk. Shaw then proceeds to one-shot her:

Shaw beats the bejesus out of Iron Man and Wolverine:

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An intellectual feat: after acquiring the parts from Tony, Shaw was able to rebuild Doom's time machine from the ground up:

What issue is that?

BTW does anybody have any scans from Avengers Academy? I heard Shaw beats some people up in there.

Naw, he didn't beat anybody up. He got locked in a cell that drained his energy if he tried to charge up by punching the walls, so he asked for some books. Then he spent like 8 hours smacking himself in the forehead with em' until he had enough charge to break free.

Shaw builds up enough power to break out of a prison designed to absorb kinetic energy, via smacking himself in the head with a book for several hours. It is also insinuated that Shaw can absorb a punch from Thor:

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As he dishes out some ownage, Shaw explains that he isn't limited to just absorbing kinetic energy. He can absorb ANY form of energy... Electricity in this case:

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Shaw absorbs the MAGICAL energies of Hercules' sword-strike, before owning him:

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Owns Tigra:

Good showing, but a lot of inconsistencies.

Like up until First Class, Shaw was specifically kinetic energy. Years of him being only able to absorb kinetic energy. Now they're making him Bishop.

Box doesn't "wear" armor, he downloads his consciousness and body into the armor.

Apparently they're retconning Shaw's abilities in a sense. Per Avengers Academy, he has always been able to absorb all types of energy, but kinetic energy simply powers him up the most efficiently.

...I will say that he appeals to me less now. Cool ownage, but he's becoming more Rulk-like. 👇

I agree.

Seems unnecessary and more along the lines of a "what the hell, let's give him a power up".

Cool scans, though.

Yes, it seems like they're saying. "Let's make Shaw that much harder to put down now that he got owned once"

I dunno, he was already able to absorb electric energy and other stuff, at least through lightning and other forms of attack.

I think this is just writers demonstrating that they don't really understand how expansive the term 'kinetic energy' really is.

Last time Storm hit him with lightning he got one-shotted I believe.

You mean in Ororo/Shaw first encounter?

I like it. I wish that was a powered Herc he fought. Shaw has always been a beast and with the current things that was recently shown in this comic, it was needed.

Originally posted by StiltmanFTW
You mean in Ororo/Shaw first encounter?

I believe so.

Originally posted by carver9
I like it. I wish that was a powered Herc he fought. Shaw has always been a beast and with the current things that was recently shown in this comic, it was needed.

He already was uber. There was no need to make him Bishop or Vulcan.

He owned Box hard.