Oh man he gimped the flight. That changes things up quite a bit since his best striking feats involve flight. He still has a big speed advantage though. Pretty sure he has a durability advantage as well. Colossus prolly has the initial strength advantage, but Rider would eventually close the gap as the fight progresses since his strength increases depending on how hard he's pressed.
Originally posted by Q99Pre-Annihilation he was just at Centurion level, without nearly as much nova force as he'd later get.
Not necessarily true. When he first became Nova he got Rhomen Dey's power which was that of a centurion prime,
he just had no clue how to channel that power until later.
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But in a prolonged fight he was almost always able to eventually match people that may have started out stronger then himself. Considering some of pre annihilation Richard's feats, Colossus is definitely not outside of his range.
Starting off small. Depending on how you feel about Namora and her clone Namorita, supposedly they are either equal to Namor or a tick under him (I don't buy it but so be it). Anyway She's stronger than pre annihilation Nova. At least, at the outset she is...
She makes short work of Rage (hehehe). It's Richard's turn. Or is it?
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Tears through a robot that was kicking Savage Hulk's ass back in the day. I think Erik Josten as Atlas struggled with one as well before growing and tearing it apart. Considering Rider was "just a centurion" at that time that's pretty decent company. I'll post the Hulk scans upon request if anyone wants to contrast.
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Damn I'm dozing off. I'll finish all this shit tomorrow.