Hmm, well let me put it another way. If you were to reduce Namor to half strength I still think he would be above Aquaman, and not only by a little bit.
But again, this doesn't necessarily reflect the current version. I seem to recall hearing about a few crazy strength feats for past verions of Aquaman like...holding up a city or something like that? Or something to do with San Fransicso? But I think that is lightyears away from his average.
Originally posted by Prof. T.C McAbe
PreDCnU Namor was above AM, now they should be on the same level.
Yeah this is more or less what I've been saying. There was a time when Namor was a good deal stronger and tougher then Aquaman.
Aquaman might indeed be the faster swimmer, I can't recall many swimming speed feats for Namor.
It sounds like he said pre DCnU Aquaman, in which Namor is waaay more then twice as strong as post crisis Aquaman.
Remember Martian Manhunter just f*cking laughed at Aquaman when he thought he could take on Superman.
You can see the pity in his eyes, lol. This guy had pretty much his entire race wiped out and he STILL f*cks with Aquaman.
Originally posted by riv6672
What makes you say that?
Namor was intended, by Marvel, to be close to 100 tons maximum. Some writers had him exceed that in some feats by accident because they weren't thinking about the force needed to do the feats. Namor as a norm can fight Thing on nearly even terms.
Aquaman has always been around 50-70 tons.
Both characters has feats above this, but them fighting a character within those strength ranges I gave will ALWAYS yield a competitive fight.
The problem with comics is that almost all strong characters can fight each other on near even terms (provided that one is not astronomically stronger than the other). Thing, Colossus, etc has fought much stronger characters on even terms. Namor has fought Hulk, Hercules, etc on near equal terms.
To make sense out of that I just say the characters he fought was operating at a lower than average strength level for the sake of the plot.