TheVaultDweller
Front line cannon fodder
Originally posted by h1a8
It has nothing to do with biology. It's common sense. You can't launch something more massive with more speed than you initiate.
That's like lifting something that weighs more than the force you are lifting with.Yes all characters with superhuman striking ability can move their hands faster than a human. Cage, and every other character you name. Visual speed isn't actual speed, otherwise Cap is slower than every single professional fighter in the world.
Cage threw him, not hit him.
It was a shove to the chest, with his arm. And he has a bunch of other feats of sending people flying through the air with hits/kicks, as well.
Common sense... in the real world. But these are characters operating in a comicbook world, where suspension of disbelief is required, otherwise everything would just be a giant pile of nonsense.
One of my favourite examples is from Age of Ultron, at 0:23 odd:
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If that had happened in RL, he would have torn her arm clean off. And, if by some miracle that didn't happen, the g-forces on her body would have pulped her insides. So, does that mean that woman has superhuman durability? Or is it simply a case of the writers ignoring RL physics in favour of "rule of cool"?