bluewaterrider
Senior Member
Originally posted by golem370
Battle takes place in a neutral arena no bfr hand to hand battle only.
Naija Boy has so much respect from me after the Battlezone debate he had with Newjak that, under normal conditions, his opinion would be enough for me.
What's complicating the matter in this case, however, is that the original poster of this thread is specifying Loeb-force Rulk.
This is confusing me because Rulk won all those great battles largely hand-to-hand, but he did so because, under Jeph Loeb, he had the innate ability to absorb energies from many of his opponents and use the enemy's OWN power to make himself stronger. People are saying Rune King Thor can amp himself and make himself stronger. If doing that, using a special ability to increase one's own strength, still satisfies the edict of "hand-to-hand only", wouldn't Rulk's ability meet this criterion, too?
If so, wouldn't that mean he could simply absorb energy from Rune King Thor AS Rune King Thor is amping himself and match, then exceed RKT?
Remember, Loeb-force Rulk did essentially the same thing to Hulk:
http://www.killermovies.com/forums/attachment.php?s=&postid=14085188
... even as his daughter, Red She Hulk, demonstrated more or less the same ability on HIM:
http://www.killermovies.com/forums/attachment.php?s=&postid=14085197
http://www.killermovies.com/forums/attachment.php?s=&postid=14085206
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Source: Hulk #22, Volume 2
Writer: Jeph Loeb
Penciller: Ed McGuinness
Date: July 2010
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http://marvel.wikia.com/Hulk_Vol_2_22
Check the Rulk respect thread. Notice that Loeb-force Rulk is able to absorb seemingly any form of energy an enemy possesses: gamma, sound, cosmic, even Thor's Asgardian magic energy, if the fight where he jumped with Thor to the moon, left him KO'ed there and then used jumped back is any indication. Note that in that encounter, Rulk was apparently able to work some of the very magic of Mjolnir to attack Thor with ELECTRIC hammer blows not just regular ones.
Team for the win if the Rulks are allowed to use their special energy/power absorption ability, the very ability that MADE them "Loeb-force", against RKT in this struggle.