Hard to say. I want to say Colossus, but I really am not sure. Thing with Luke is that while he doesn't always have the most flashy feats (though he does have a couple of decent ones in his series), it's the ease with which he does things that's impressive. Like in the beginning of the one episode, he's picking up/shifting/tossing around big pieces of concrete rubble/wall segments etc. and while he is putting in some visible effort, he doesn't seem close to overexerting himself. Or the safe door. He just grabbed the handle with one hand and pulled, and the thing popped off like a Pringles cap.
Well, he does have some indicators of decent strength, like smacking Wade into a car hard enough to leave a huge dent. But, based on what I've seen in Luke Cage so far, Luke could do similar if he cut loose (he's explicitly stated that he holds back in fights so as not to kill anyone). During the one fight with a person I won't go into details about, due to spoilers, he picks him up and bodily tosses him probably a good 40+ feet, through a door and into a pillar, hard enough to daze the guy (and the guy was wearing what looked like body armour). And the impressive thing is, he did it
Spoiler:
with a belly full of alien tech shrapnel.
Problem where Luke is concerned is that we still don't really have the best idea of just how hard he can hit when he cuts loose. He made a point of never hitting anyone too hard because, as he said, if he hit people like he wanted to, he'd straight up kill them. But the fact that he could KO people with little more than taps on the head shows some serious strength. There were numerous instances where he basically just tapped/lightly slapped people and knocked them out cold.
That's nothing. Thinking about it, there is evidence to suggest Cage could replicate that feat. During the scene where the two cops corner and try to arrest him, he sends one of them flying 20+ feet onto the police car with a one handed shove, and the guy landed hard enough to break the windshield and dent the hood. And Luke wasn't even trying to hurt them, and had
Spoiler:. If he can do that under those circumstances, he can probably do much worse if fully fit and really trying.
a belly full of alien tech shrapnel
Colossus got smacked around by Angel Dust quite a bit, almost making me think that Cage might be more durable than Colossus. The only time Cage really seemed to feel pain or take serious punishment was when he was already wounded from the alien Judas bullets. Not sure how he'd take a punch to the nuts but when he stopped holding back against Diamondback he ended the fight pretty quickly. Also, I don't know how much actual fighting experience Colossus has compared to Cage's time in the ring, where he showed some decent skills. Since they are probably close in strength I might give a slight edge to Cage, simply because he has more screen time and therefore more feats.
Originally posted by Dreampanther
Colossus got smacked around by Angel Dust quite a bit, almost making me think that Cage might be more durable than Colossus. The only time Cage really seemed to feel pain or take serious punishment was when he was already wounded from the alien Judas bullets. Not sure how he'd take a punch to the nuts but when he stopped holding back against Diamondback he ended the fight pretty quickly. Also, I don't know how much actual fighting experience Colossus has compared to Cage's time in the ring, where he showed some decent skills. Since they are probably close in strength I might give a slight edge to Cage, simply because he has more screen time and therefore more feats.
Do you think Colossus would have gotten KOd by a shotgun to the face or a rocket launcher?
Originally posted by FrothByte
Do you think Colossus would have gotten KOd by a shotgun to the face or a rocket launcher?
Based on the fact that a punch to the nuts nearly took him out of the fight it's clear he has some weaknesses - whether they are exactly the same as Cage's would be difficult to say. If his brain is not made of metal then I would say yes, it is possible for him to get knocked out and suffer from concussion, but how much force you would need to apply and where would only be speculation. The high impact close range shotgun blast upwards to Cage's brain was very deliberately aimed by Jessica to target his weakness, as was the punch to Colossus's groin.