Originally posted by Sin I AM
They jobbed. Bill would replicate said feat
BRB is notoriously bad at resisting psi attacks. He would have been crushed.
meh, biggest guns were absent--superman and wonder woman. i love adam, but i find that arc to be a bit overrated. hawkman with alan's mace could have killed him earlier in the arc but held back. adam is very powerful--but any really powerful hero who cuts completely lose would be portrayed in a similar light, least imo.
Originally posted by leonidas
meh, biggest guns were absent--superman and wonder woman. i love adam, but i find that arc to be a bit overrated. hawkman with alan's mace could have killed him earlier in the arc but held back. adam is very powerful--but any really powerful hero who cuts completely lose would be portrayed in a similar light, least imo.
But that doesn't mean BRB would do just as well in Adam's place. Like I said, Martian Manhunter was attacking his mind while this was going on and Adam resisted. BRB has been owned by 'psychic pirates' on at least 2 different occasions on panel. It was a one shot both times too.
er, he's not fighting a psychic here, and bill does have some (at least one i recall) resistance feats so were he to be featured in an arc similar to the one adam had, i could easily see him doing as well or better if he really cut lose with that hammer. same way i'd see a completely unfettered thor doing better, who has also had a sketchy past with tp-users. /shrug anyway, i still say this is a split, or pretty close to it one way or the other, assuming adam is all out and bill stays in character.
Originally posted by leonidas
er, he's not fighting a psychic here,
Thor's record (against PSIs), while spotty, is MUCH better than Bill's.
Adam easily.
Originally posted by leonidas
meh, biggest guns were absent--superman and wonder woman. i love adam, but i find that arc to be a bit overrated. hawkman with alan's mace could have killed him earlier in the arc but held back. adam is very powerful--but any really powerful hero who cuts completely lose would be portrayed in a similar light, least imo.
Originally posted by Sin I AM
They jobbed. Bill would replicate said feat
Would Bill be able to replicate the feat if he was in the same mindset? I don't see why not considering his high end portrayals.
WW3 edges him out here I think since we're taking arguably BA's best showing and focusing on this version then pitting him against a regular portrayal Bill as per OP.
Wait who made the thread anyway? Oh It's Prep-man...
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Originally posted by leonidas
meh, biggest guns were absent--superman and wonder woman. i love adam, but i find that arc to be a bit overrated. hawkman with alan's mace could have killed him earlier in the arc but held back. adam is very powerful--but any really powerful hero who cuts completely lose would be portrayed in a similar light, least imo.
Power Girl [Wonder Woman's explicit at least physical equal], J'onn, Alan, Guy, Firestorm. Pick any of these two, and they'd shitstomp Bill. Pick all of them, and it'd be a massacre. Pick all of them plus a dozen other heroes, and it's not even a discussion.
Black Adam was beating them all, simultaneously.
Bill has nothing that comes even close - and this is what it comes down to.
I'd agree with you that they weren't fighting to the best of their abilities - but if we use that criteria, then we'd eliminate a very large percent of comic book fights.
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I'd give normal Black Adam at least 7/10 against Bill.
Their record doesn't even compare, even outside of WW3.