all righty, sorry took so long to get back to this. tourney and other stuff. anyway, i'm not really going to get into interpretations of some of the scans. i disagree a little with a couple things, but i basically just wanted to get some comparison going to see if i can match up with some stuff that i was able to find.
the power girl stuff was cool, but also serves to illustrate why i had an issue with her being put down so casually in a team setting against adam. i was hoping for more 1 on 1 stuff since i find that when strong characters are placed in team settings, they don't always perform up to their full capacity. you just have to look at thor in the avengers to get what i'm saying.
so, i'll share a little of what i found and try and further shore up some of the things i was saying earlier and ways that she could give adam problems. there simply aren't any examples of her tackling a team the way adam does. she's a pacifist above all things (in pre dcnu) and just doesn't fight good guys very often (excepting superman it seems) and almost never going all out or to a satisfactory conclusion. that said, here are a couple of her better 1 on 1 battles. everyone has seen what the MALE CHEETAH did to superman:
http://imgur.com/a/5Cj9P
well, here, diana takes on TWO of them:
http://s1151.photobucket.com/user/sclements1/media/vs%20cheetahs1.jpg.html
http://s1151.photobucket.com/user/sclements1/media/vs%20cheetahs2.jpg.html
http://s1151.photobucket.com/user/sclements1/media/vs%20cheetahs3.jpg.html
http://s1151.photobucket.com/user/sclements1/media/vs%20cheetahs4.jpg.html
http://s1151.photobucket.com/user/sclements1/media/vs%20cheetahs6.jpg.html
http://s1151.photobucket.com/user/sclements1/media/vs%20cheetahs7.jpg.html
i'd certainly put that performance at least on par with the scans you showed of adam taking out atom smasher and hawkgirl...
and another one of her better feats: taking out circe in straight 1 on 1 battle:
anyone familiar at all with wonder woman and dc in general should know how powerful circe is. she has some crazy feats--and i'm not even talking about the war of the gods stuff which was ridiculous. hiding themiscyra in a different time and dimension for example...there's tons to show how uber she really is. so, i'd say that performance (a definitive victory) was at least as impressive as the fate scan you showed where fate....ran away. i'd put that on par with adam beating marvel with the wizard's power as well, especially given that we've seen NORMAL cap do MUCH better than that....
i'll not get into the scan where adam is...knocking around the general and the others. pretty sure we're simply gonna agree to disagree on just how useful that scan is. same with the amazo scan. for the purposes of this, i was hoping for more....substantial battle scenes.
but here is another very cool showing imo. normally parademons aren't considered much more than fodder and i wouldn't much care about them, but the sheer number here, and seeing her cut lose, as well as darkseid's reactions, make this worth showing imo:
http://s1151.photobucket.com/user/sclements1/media/vs%20parademons1.jpg.html
http://s1151.photobucket.com/user/sclements1/media/vs%20parademons2.jpg.html
http://s1151.photobucket.com/user/sclements1/media/v%20parademons3.jpg.html
http://s1151.photobucket.com/user/sclements1/media/darkseids%20apraisal.jpg.html
i just...can't agree with the idea that one shockwave means he 'beat the sh!t' out of pg and alan though. they scuffled briefly in that dimension before that, but again that was completely inconclusive imo. after that thunderclap both were immediately up, alan even had a shield up. diana's blind performance in a training session against the jla is on par with that thunderclap imo. good durability feat taking the hv though, no doubt. 👆
but i'd mentioned damage soak and durability with diana:
http://s1151.photobucket.com/user/sclements1/media/damage%20soak1.jpg.html
http://s1151.photobucket.com/user/sclements1/media/damage%20soak2.jpg.html
http://s1151.photobucket.com/user/sclements1/media/damage%20soak3.jpg.html
there is another battle she waged blindfolded against the original medousa which is crazy and really highlights her damage soak ability as well, but i'll post it later.
you mentioned cap walking through imp power, well, here diana defends against quantum zealot's power--the ones who tear apart imps:
http://imgur.com/a/728MC
http://www.comicvine.com/images/1300-2344002
and here she defends against nekron's power:
http://www.comicvine.com/images/1300-2343996
and of course the collective power of the pantheon:
http://www.comicvine.com/images/1300-2343999
the above is a pretty crazy strength and durability feat....
the spectre battle is tough to gauge, you are correct. that showing is hard to match for a couple reasons. spectre has so many weird showings. he goes from battle michael, to slugging it out with cm. not sure i have anything to really match it. i could post her battle against ares. i'll think some more on that one....superman's never done that, so that is an understandably difficult feat to match. even if he was amped.
the eclipso scene was ok, but i think the genocide fight i already showed is much more impressive than that scene, least imo.
i also showed how effective the tiara could be, but here again:
http://s1151.photobucket.com/user/sclements1/media/tiara%20caduceus.jpg.html
it penetrated the caduceus of hermes himself--and hermes was pretty damn happy that the spell that caused them to fight clouded her aim. and hermes has some VERY GOOD feats. it's pretty clear that she could have killed hermes, exactly the way she killed deimos (who came back btw, and isn't as featless as you might think....)
so, yeah, i def think the tiara could be an issue--especially as he wouldn't really be expecting it. coupled with her skill (which i can further highlight is needed) lasso, and speed, imo she can definitely give him hell and make each fight close. very close.
she does have some lower showings, but there have been so many times in her history where she was de-powered for one reason or another as well, that her low showings need to be looked at on a case-by-case basis. but i'm not looking to lowball. i just want to see some of adam's better 1 on 1 match ups--if not his, then billy's would be fine. got lots more i can post, but this should be a decent starting point i hope.
