Thor vs Link
I saw one of those pictures where nintendo characters are the Avengers and it got me thinking.
Round one. The hero of time vs the cinematic Thor.
Round two. Comic Thor vs a composite Link.
Thor is grounded. Fight in an abandoned city. Will Nintrndo's swordsman smite the scandanavian god, or will marvel maul the green clad mute?
Originally posted by NotAllThatEvil
Link is pretty acrobatic.
Originally posted by NotAllThatEvil
Plus that puzzle solving fairy threw a giant pillar of granite like it was nothing.
And like with the Silver Gauntlets he was still locked into a slow-walk mode with the Golden Gauntlets when he lifted regular two meter-tall boulders making them next to useless in an actual fight.
Originally posted by NotAllThatEvil
He shielded against a volcanic explosion. How is he suppose to block better than that?
Originally posted by NotAllThatEvil
Also he did get something that allowed him to take more damage.
Link is not a character that has impenetrable skin or can regenerate from having his head lobbed off.
Originally posted by NotAllThatEvil
He can jump of a cliff and take no damage by doing a tuck-and-roll
Originally posted by NotAllThatEvil
and took a magic lightning blast to face as a nine yearold.
Originally posted by NotAllThatEvil
He waded through lava and got punched by a goron.
And you died if you fell in lava—or the area got reset and you lost a heart. Heck, you even died if you stayed too long in the fire temple without the Red Tunic because it was too hot for him.
Originally posted by NotAllThatEvil
And yes, he shielded from a volcano in OoT.
YouTube video
Start at 3:00.
In the fire temple you could wade through lava. It hurt but thats only because ITS LAVA. The eruption that happened when he was nine. He got punched by a goron MM. And i was thinking of the cliff when you climb death mountain.
But what has Thor done in the movies to match any of this? Does he have a feat that puts him on Link's level?
Originally posted by NotAllThatEvil
In the fire temple you could wade through lava. It hurt but thats only because ITS LAVA.
Hit Points—or Hearts in this game—is not a proper gauge of a character's health or durability. It's a meta-fictional game-mechanic used to enrich the player-experience. You don't have Metal Gear fans arguing that Solid Snake can shrug off a tank shell to the face because it didn't drain 100% of his health bar in his fight against Raven on Easy Mode.
Originally posted by NotAllThatEvil
The eruption that happened when he was nine. He got punched by a goron MM. And i was thinking of the cliff when you climb death mountain.
Originally posted by NotAllThatEvil
Which is why I consider the Golden gauntlets boosting link's strength despite the enemies having the same hit points.
There is nothing in-game that implies that the Silver- or Golden Gauntlets augment anything other than lifting capacity. For instance: The Megaton Hammer does allow Link to smash two out of the three boulder-types in the game to pieces, and this is not altered in any way after you obtain the gauntlets; if the game designers decided to make the rock that takes to strikes before it's destroyed to take one then you could've made an argument for the Gauntlets augmenting Link's striking power but as it stands you can't.
Its just a game mechanic. The gauntlets were obviously meant to make link stronger especially based on naburu's dialogue and the text box when you get them. The enemies and and the hammer are just game mechanic. The master sword is the most powerful weapon in Zelda lore, yet the biggoron sword does more damage. No one is going to argue that its more powerful than a sentient blade that cut a continent in half.