Originally posted by RealityWarper
When a character get tagged all the time since his creation 75 years ago in every comics, struggle to land a single blow on street-levelers, only deal with slow bricks in combat with no combat training in hand-to-hand, barely land one attack per panel and struggle like hell to block a single attack from the quoted slo bricks... He is clearly a slowpoke in combat.
He's not clearly a slowpoke. He is clearly a comic character who has been around for a very very long time and who has a powerset featuring numerous abilities, not just speed.
He's insanely powerful already, of course he won't be written as blitzing left and right.
It doesn't matter if he can accelerate his perception, all that matters is his ability to deal with people in hand-to-hand situation.
He doesn't need to accelerate his perceptions. Various speed feats show this.
I understand that it's annoying that a character that you like isn't good in all areas but comic book characters have always fight at human speeds in hand-to-hand situations minus certain situations like the Flash building a lot speed before trading blows with Zoom for example. There they had extra-attacks and extra-defenses coming from their ability to build speed.
It's not about being good in all areas. You also mentioned all this stuff about getting tagged by slow bricks and all that. You fail to mention the many many speed feats Superman has had over the past 75 years.
He has super speed, he has a variety of feats showing he can move and react at high speeds. Yes, he also has a shitload of appearances, so of course he's going to have low showings. Like I said his main power isn't even speed..if it was I'd assume he would use it more often.
To suggest Superman can only fight at human speeds in hand to hand just makes no actual sense. We've actually seen Superman specifically use super speed for hand to hand combat.
I don't have the issue number, but it's the same issue with Doomsday where Superman phases and allows fire breath to pass right through him. There is a part where we see him attacking Doomsday from all sides with super speed. Granted it doesn't have much of an effect, but it shows he certainly is capable of it.
I understand that people can find super speed annoying and a cheap victory. The solution to that is to either not use characters with high end speed, to turn off their speed for fights, or to put them up against an opponent where a speed advantage isn't an automatic win. The solution is not to pretend like the character doesn't have speed feats showing he can fight fast. Nor is the solution to pretend like it's impossible for us to extrapolate about certain things given a characters speed feats. Like if a character shows they have a high end reaction time and also can move their body at high speeds..even if they have never specifically used speed to fight someone, we can extrapolate that given their other feats..they could.
Comics are not DBZ where every single character has super speed and thus you see it used all the time.
