Originally posted by Star428
LOL. How does WW deflecting the heat vision blasts of a Superman who is just messing around actually prove a damn thing?
When he's specifically trying to test her reflexes, and she didn't find him doing so to be particularly fast.
Also, he tried the 'Superspeed bursts of heat vision' during Sacrifice too... and she blocked every one then as well.
And that's when he's not holding back at all.
That reminds me of all the idiots who claimed (in the Superman vs WW thread) that because Diana was able to get a technical win in their 'Sacrifice' fight that all of a sudden she's on his level. But, conveniently ignore the fact that he was hallucinating throughout all the fight and yet he still came off looking superior despite his huge disadvantage.
"Still came off looking superior" rarely fits well with "Cut throat, bruised ribs, ruptured eardrums, and minor limp."
You may say he came off looking superior, but he lost. He looked better during the first part, she did during the second. Now, I don't put them on the same level even so, Superman is admitted to have a small edge, but "Lol they aren't close even though she won!" is a really poor argument on your part.
And note, the 'hallucination' did not stop him from noticing and responding to her weapons like the lasso. They never caused him to go off target or misjudge a threat, he was fighting in HtH as he would her (grabbing *her* wrist, not Doomsday's oversized wrist that'd be a couple feet taller and such).
While it did affect the fight, it was mainly in that his tactical choices were off, he was being too aggressive and she exploited that, but he was fighting full power full strength and able to see all of her attacks and such.
At the end of the fight, they were both pretty injured... but both of them, Wonder Woman included, were able to shake it off and get to heroing minutes later, and she was able to beat a trio of high-level Alpha Omacs not long after without showing any sign of the fight with no-holds-back-Superman having affected her much.
And also note, that's not the only time they've stalemated. In Superman: For Tomorrow, they hit each other back and forth for a bit indecisively (Neither was hurt), and Superman's goal was simply to get *past* her so he could risk his life to save Lois's, and he was unable to do so until there was an outside distraction (a crashing helicopter, which WW had to rescue, allowing him past).
So in a Superman book, he had to rely on a distraction to get past her, showing her speed is good enough to block him that much.