Originally posted by Stoic
In that case, and I'm not being sarcastic here, but in that case whenever Superman appears in a thread all of the old timers that post here, should automatically say that Superman wins without a margin of doubt, because he'll never be beaten, unless the other character controls time, and even then someway or somehow he will be able to break the time barrier, and outrace them to victory. This is despite all of the times that he or any other speedy character has found themselves in trouble. Heck we should just forget anything written in comics, and say speed-blitz FTW. Again I am not being sarcastic, but it is what it is. Right?
essentially, yes, that is exactly right. again, there is no forum solution to this scenario other than to fall back on cis. but not sure why it should just be the old timers though. and are you calling me old?? sneer
if there is a way around the conclusion, please, enlighten me. i've tried getting around it a couple times with flash, but....hasn't happened. so if it extends to flash, it would extend to superman as well. i think the forum intent is to look at these powers in as "realistic" a manner as possible. by that i mean imagine the character real, outside of the confines of a book. give me a logical reason why someone who can fly and move and perceive and fight at light speed or faster (let's use gladiator as an example instead of superman) gets hit by someone like hulk. seriously, explain it. is glads overconfident? stupid? just trying to make it a fair fight by fighting at hulk's snail-like speed? what? or is it simply that readers wanted to see a cool fight between marvel's superman and the hulk? what makes the most sense? it's like the characters as they are portrayed in comics are ACTORS. in the forum we try and look at them as they might really be, if you understand the analogy. you have some awesome mma fighter in some bit role in a movie and he gets his a$$ kicked by the star. now remove them from the movie, what happens? do we use how the mma guy vs the star was portrayed in the movie as a gauge for how the fight would go down in a real life back alley? that's what pis does to characters. and yet people constantly fall back on the 'movie' fight and cite it as evidence of what the 'real' fight would look like.
doesn't make much sense, though i am also guilty of doing that because we don't feel comfortable saying there is no real reason hulk should ever even hit gladiator, let alone beat him in a fight. and given some of his speed feats, it is not inconceivable that superman (and certainly flash) is to someone like glads what glads is to hulk.
i do wish there was some other conclusion to come to, but i don't, and have never been able to find one. and saying all that, i'll STILL use how i feel things would go in a comic as a gauge for certain fights, though i almost almost say exactly that. /shrug
Originally posted by cdtm
Leo wrote something about coming around to Iron Fist massacring Puck.
it is as i feared--his influence is spreading. mmm