Originally posted by FrothByte
It's useful to discuss because being able to survive gunshots and a rocket launcher is a huge durability feat especially when the opponent doesn't have such feats.Gunfire and explosives aren't just penetration attacks either. Even with bulletproof vests, people who get shot are usually knocked down, knocked out and may suffer broken ribs even when the bullet doesn't penetrate. That goes to show that bullets pack quite a lot of impact force. Cage doesn't even flinch when he gets shot at with firearms. And of course, explosives will have quite a lot of concussive force.
IIRC, Hellboy has actually ducked for cover from gunfire. I'll need to rewatch the movies to be sure though. Bottom line is, as much as Cage doesn't have feats of getting thrown about by monsters, HB also doesn't have feats of tanking guns and rocket launchers like Cage did. It doesn't seem fair that we only consider HB's feats valid while disregarding Cage's feats just because there are no guns in this fight.
Fair enough. Hellboy does have a ton of blunt force trauma feats though.
And that really is the weak point for Cage in these debates. His opponents have been pretty mediocre overall. It's been mooks with guns, Jessica (who he didn't want to fight, and he was trying to resist Kilgrave's control), and Diamondback, in one of the dumbest fights I have seen in the MCU, to date, and who he also didn't want to seriously harm.