Originally posted by Darth Thor
^ Oh it was definitely experience and using his own momentum against him and all that bs.... but still kinda ridiculous tbh.And yeah hes a growing lad so is probably growing stronger with each film.
On a random note though, it's instances like that which also reminds me how phucking retarded the weight assignments are in the Pacific Rim films. That
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tower is almost 7 times heavier than Gipsy Danger and about twice as heavy as Slattern (who is Godzilla-sized).
Got a chance to watch this again. I was wrong about
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that building. The St Mark's Campanile is visible at points during that scene, in the background, so I guess my brain mixed them up when I was thinking back.Anyway, it's actually the tower of the Santa Maria Formosa. Which is only roughly about 1/10 the size of St Mark's. So, a lot less impressive in terms of mass.
However, I did notice some other things on the plus side. The stonework around which he puts the initial webbing crumbles away, so it can be fairly safely assumed that it stopped helping at that point, as the tower started tilting sideways when that happened. And Pete only uses two lines of web to create anchor points to hold onto (similar to when Thor used the rope attached to Rocket's ship with the rings in IW). So, the weight he was supporting (which was probably in the high hundreds of tons, instead of thousands) was done via mostly muscle, as, even with the webs, he had to be strong enough to maintain both his grip and footing. Of course, the scene is completely unrealistic, in that the webbing attachment points on the other buildings themselves should have torn loose from the strain (a small patch of metal/stone isn't supporting that much weight without breaking), but that's beside the point.
So, still a very good strength feat. Just not as out there as I initially thought. And kind of relieved, to be honest. Holding up what amounts to a skyscraper should be left to the really big bricks IMO.
I really doubt writers/directors make any of these calculations themselves. What matters is how the character is portrayed in combat. Him supporting hundreds (or even thousands) of tons is meaningless if he later gets overpowered by a guy who can lift no more than 20 tonnes (yes im still thinking of Cap).
However what is impressive is having huge strength feats in both of his solo films (makes it consistent and not one off PIS), and effecting Thanos with his hits in IW (combat applicable strength).