Originally posted by Silent Master
That movie employed Looney Tunes physics as given his weight, the train should have sent him flying.
Well, either that, or his strength really is so over the top that he could produce enough force to counter the mass of the speeding train, simply by leaning into it with his shoulder on impact. But yeah, to do that and not even budge a little would be ridiculous. Either way, the feat is better than we have seen Kal do, regardless of reletnless1's views.
Originally posted by TheVaultDweller
Well, either that, or his strength really is so over the top that he could produce enough force to counter the mass of the speeding train, simply by leaning into it with his shoulder on impact. But yeah, to do that and not even budge a little would be ridiculous. Either way, the feat is better than we have seen Kal do, regardless of reletnless1's views.
My problem isn't that he stopped the train, it's that there was no damage to the street which means he wasn't braced. As such he should have been sent flying.
Originally posted by Silent Master
My problem isn't that he stopped the train, it's that there was no damage to the street which means he wasn't braced. As such he should have been sent flying.
He has the ability to fly, so he could have been using his own anti-gravity to effectively brace himself.
Just a thought, was probably just silly physics in play as that film was in part a comedy.
Originally posted by Robtard
He has the ability to fly, so he could have been using his own anti-gravity to effectively brace himself.Just a thought, was probably just silly physics in play as that film was in part a comedy.
He didn't have much control at that point, IIRC he was damaging the street every time he took off or landed. So IMO it was just LT physics.
Re: Order These Movie Characters In Physical Strength
From stongest to weakest based on extensive movie research
Hancock. 1000 Tons or more
Kuse 500 Tons
Superman (Mos). 400 Tons
Hulk (all). 400 Tons
Ultron ( Final Form). 350 Tons
Zod. 300 Tons
Thor (all). 300 Tons
Foara. 250 Tons
Wonder woman (Speculation). 250 Tons
Juggernaut (xmen last stand). 200 Tons
Thing (Fantastic 4). 100 Tons
Colossus ( Deadpool). 100 Tons
Ronan (Guardians Of The Galaxy). 10-15 Tons
Spiderman (all). 10 Tons
Drax The Destroyer 5 Tons
Iron Man (all). 5 Tons
Beast. 5 Tons
Predator. 5 Tons
Engineer. 5 Tons
Master Cheif 5 Tons
Ghost Rider. 5 Tons
Captain America (All) 1-2 Tons
Green Lantern Human Strength
Originally posted by Silent Master
My problem isn't that he stopped the train, it's that there was no damage to the street which means he wasn't braced. As such he should have been sent flying.
Guess that's true enough. So you're right. Best just to chalk it up to the same kind of movie physics that make people go flying 15 feet from a shotgun blast.
Just wondering where that 100 tons is coming from for Thing. If it's 2005/2007 version, it's way more than that. The piece of the London Eye he pressed over his head is significantly heavier than a 100 tons. Mind you, a lot of those numbers look off to me. When on Earth did movie Juggs show 200 ton strength class?
Kind of not true though VD, when we see human blasted that far from shotgun fire... It doesn't make sense because as human we know, see and can test what such fire does to human. It doesn't send them flying like that.
With herald level beings... with exotic powers all over the map that can't see, experience, test or even comprehend... stuff like environmental damage doesn't carry the same weight. Some disbelief has to always be checked at the door when watching these movies.
Hancock could be so invulnerable that the force of the train was simply negated, to a dead stop from said invulnerability which overrides the trains weight and momentum. could've been like rob said.. something to do with gravity and flying. The ground helps him in no way with that feat. The ground had nothing to do with that train stopped what so ever. Think of it this way.. when you see a football rb... running at a good speed... and yet a LB who's being blocked... fights off the block.. but barely has any momentum behind him.. and he isn't braced... yet a simple shoulder check can flatback a RB. Doesn't mean a chunk of the ground needs to be moved.. it just happens. Some imagine a herald level being with invulnerability doing a shoulder check... yeah... it doesn't seem all that odd to me really
Did you miss my first post where I speculated it might just be over-the-top power? That maybe he could generate enough force with a shoulder check to counter the mass/size of the train? It was one theory tossed around, based on what we were shown onscreen. And that was the point. We know people don't go flying because of shotgun blasts, so we know the depictions of that happening doesn't work with the laws of physics. Based on the relative mass difference, he should have gone flying. Why he didn't could be brute strength, could be a different use of flight, some other weird reason, or it might just be goofy physics. We don't know and, at the end of the day, it doesn't really matter. Hancock still stopped a speeding train dead in its tracks.