Philosophía
"The devil made me do it"
Originally posted by leonidas
lol great gif. used to love house.....and it's certainly a fair point, you raise, but to be clear--i never said anything about cheap shots nor did i say flash couldn't take out thor. i simply took exception to the notion that it was stupid to NOT believe a single IMP would ko thor.
my main point was simple--narration doesn't imply truth when there are no feats to back it up (in this case durability feats for the martians). for example, i tend to think there is no way one IMP would take out superman. wally seems to think differently. based on everything i've seen from supes, should i forget about his feats and just suppose that one IMP would ACTUALLY take him down because one piece of narration makes the claim? not in this guy;s humble opinion. supes also referred to ALL the white martians, but it seems clear from their previous and following appearances that not all white martians are equal. powerful? for sure. equal to superman? no. so how far short? i've seen jonn waste several of them so i don't think it illogical to place the more powerful ones closer to jonn's levels. and supes has a far greater durability than jonn does.
i don't subscribe to the 1000s of IMPs as i said. never seen it so..... if i believed that without evidence (and yes i'm aware that it is logical and that i'm simply being thick-headed for not accepting it) i'd be forced to believe everything forum ss is said to be able to do as well--which many will also call thick-headed.
bottom line for me? it's clearly a powerful attack. would one of them ko thor? not imo. could flash ko thor before thor blinks? sure he could, but using his more common and in character showings, i don't see it happening often is all. least not imo.
I, too, tend to take statements like 'he is as tough/strong etc. as this established character!' with a grain of salt but, you got to admit, it was hammered pretty hard here both by the narration, aswell as in the scene of discussion itself when the IMP was used. Was Wally just really confident? Was the narration just hyping the martians? You can take that position, sure. But either way, they can't be too far off from Superman, one way or another. They're in the same ballpark, so if a shot like that knocks one of them out, two (or 3 at most) of them would most likely do the same to Superman.
Suffice to say, I greatly disagree with the '1000 imps' part. There are like a dozen or more scans of Wally throwing hundreds of thousands of punches [the Flash family usually does this] in the span of a panel. Even if we just ridiculously limit the number to 100 before Zum can react, that's still far above the capacity of a high-herald, be they Superman or Thor, to withstand.
I tend to agree with you that Wally wouldn't go batshit IMPing on the start - he doesn't really know Thor that much, and if he is of opinion that one of them could KO Superman, he wouldn't risk sending even 5 of them towards Thor, for the simple fact that it might make holes in him, for all he knows. But even if Thor takes the first one, what's stopping Wally from throwing another, before Thor even gets back his bearings from the first, if he sees that the guy is tough? In the end, Thor will get knocked out.
Meh. Forum Flash. Unbeatable, unless you make him act like an idiot.