bluewaterrider
Senior Member
Originally posted by iceman24567
Comics show his reserved to be vast more than not. Various times heroes have tried to sap and drain him but he's still able to fight at high levels Sinestro wars before the sun hit him he burned straight threw Superman. Legion of three worlds while being sapped and drained by various heroes he was still fighting at optimum levels. The suit is obviously meant to counter weakness exploitation as well as keep him in top form its not needed for him to fight at above Superman levels. You can find it yourself if not too bad.
I don't think you're following the basic logic of your side.
It's not worth checking who said this, though I think it was D.S., but one of the premises was that, GIVEN Prime can charge to full power with just a bit of yellow sunlight on his fingertips or whatever, nothing would be gained if Red Hulk did indeed drain his reserves. For Prime's still in sunlight in that case, he would simply charge to full power from that exposure anew.
It's not that he has such vast reserves; it's that such a little amount of exposure gives him such great power, just as it did for other pre-Crisis Kryptonians. It's like trying draw all the power out of a laptop while it's plugged into a wall socket. I've got this nifty little external plug-in cooler underneath mine, for instance. The laptop supplies the power for the fans that run it. Were I to unplug my laptop, the power would drain from the battery, and all the faster for the cooler plugged in draining more than normal. You could see the drop over a relatively short period of time in this little power indicator window near my time display.
If I keep my laptop plugged in, however, the fact that my cooler is taking power from the computer seems to make almost no difference.
It reads 100% now; it will be reading the same an hour from now if keep typing here. The endless supply of outside energy prevents the drain from discernibly affecting it. Same with Prime at high noon, suit or no.
And the basic logic of that I largely agree with.
Only reason I was disputing that was that the comics that actually feature pre-Crisis Kryptonians getting energy drained by people, DON'T usually feature them being fine due to continual sun exposure.
Instead they generally get weak for a time, though there's no particular reason they should going purely by a pure sun activation model.
Of course, writers use a combination of theories to explain whatever they've decided should be featured in their stories.