Originally posted by abhilegend
Yeah, not going all out=a punch boasting to send someone to sun. Makes sense. Yeah, gladiator is almost as fast as spider-man and him and nova prime are almost as strong as namor who oneshotted penance.
One shotting Penance calls for Penance not to be using his powers correctly, and since Robbie has been consistently written on a lower level, and not blasting his powers at full, a cheap shot from just about any character could put him down. But when he's using his powers to their fullest Namor would have wound up being the one hit by his own kinetic energy.
You seem very well versed in leaving context out, which is a you telling yourself that people are too dumb to call you on it. Your entire argument contradicts former arguments on your part at using a characters best feats, but here you are using Gladiator's worst moments, while leaving out contextual reasons for his losses.
One that I noticed is your attempt to say that Masterson defeated Gladiator without attaching the reason for his defeat, which was treachery. If the Living Lightning wasn't there, Masterson would have never gotten the opening to stun Gladiator in the manner that he did, and Gladiator wouldn't have been hammer pasted to the head, and KO'd. You also left out how easily Gladiator defeated Wonder man, who happens to be stronger than Namor.
Then you bring up Gladiator's battle with Sam, and even try to contradict on panel evidence so that you can continue these low ball antics. Cannonball, and Speedball are incredibly powerful at the high end of their abilities, but you bring up more low showings in an attempt to gloss over the fact that both of these characters have variable levels.