Originally posted by the ninjak
Why do people assume Cap had great H2H skills in Avengers and CA?He was a stuntman during the siege of New York. Running through explosions and his takedown of the bombers was pretty lanky compared to the stuff comic fans are used too.
His fight against the HYDRA agents on the plane was pretty unimpressive and his best scene was blocking an aerial blast then defeating those two Chitauri atop the police car. Which showed immense strength and intuition but not skill.
His fighting skills against Loki were laughable. Even Black Widow said his style was "all over the place".
He actually took down three of them on the Cop Car. Took down a whole group (5-6) of them easily when he stopped them from throwing a grenade on a crowd.
He was even able to jump up and place himself completely behind his shield before the Gernade went off.
He was skilled and acrobatic in the Avengers.
Just because Cap wasn't flashy doesn't mean he was terrible. He was obviously meant to be a great fighter which is what he showed.
Also it wasn't like Loki was an unskilled fighter. We see in Thor/Avengers he is very capable in H2H/Melee/Range combat.
Add to the fact that he is bullet proof and much stronger than a normal being then it's not exactly a bad showing for Cap to be losing to someone like that.
Loki would have torn the entire cast of Watchmen, Minus Dr. M, apart.
Originally posted by juggerman
Night Owl and Rorshach were both breaking bones with punches iirc and Comedian punched a chunk of brick off the wall when fighting Ozy without the least bit of discomfort.These guys are strong as heck and all were very skilled fighters. Comedian imo did better than Dan and Walter against Ozy since it seemed that Ozy focused more and was actually trying to kill him as opposed to talking and holding back like he did against the two and Comedian still lasted a while.
Cap has some fighting skill i think we can all agree on that. But he has not shown any fighting skill comparable to any of the Watchmen. Given that all the Watchmen are much superior fighters and at the very least have some what comparable strength it is a huge strech to say Cap can take more than one at a time let alone 3
Normal Human beings can break Bone and I've seen the video it wasn't brick that Comedian broke through. And even if it was it's still something a normal human being could do.
Obviously they are better than humans but not by much and definitely not to the same extent Cap was. Or are you forgetting that Rosharch got taken by a police force something that would have never happened to Cap in the same Scenario.
They aren't comparable to any degree to what Cap has shown in terms of physical stats. The only person who has is Ozy.