Delta1938
True King of House of El
So it's not letting me quote you unless I quick quote, so sorry if I kiss anything, I'm trying to cover it all but a pain scrolling back and forth on my phone.
Originally posted by EcstaticGrace
To sum up what your saying is “The feat either didn’t happen the same way because Orion is the physically more impressive character, (Despite seeing Aquaman hovering over Starro’s eye and being pulled out of the blast by Zauriel.) and even if the feat is legit we can’t use it because it doesn’t make sense based off their power levels.”There’s other feats Aquaman has at that time period that were pretty up there. He took a beating from a guy who oneshotted Superman and indirectly broke Hal’s arm. He was basically stalemating Guy Gardner Warrior who Superman has stated before to hit as hard as Doomsday, he beat around Despero and also twoshotted Olympian who twoshotted Martian Manhunter.
What feats of TP do the Mars’ Manhunters have? Martian Manhunter has also struggled to probe Atlantean grunts with a mentality that was suggested to be the pre-evolution of Aquaman’s tp.
https://m.imgur.com/u9aq0xQ?r
So you start off with hypocrisy, because you have no problem saying later that Orion one-shoting him would be a high for Orion or a low for Aquaman. I hadn't gone to check the scans, so I couldn't remember for sure if there was a direct hit to Aquaman or not. Are you going to actually argue that isn't a bad showing for Orion or very high showing for Aquaman considering Orion fights with Superman, including when it took the combined efforts of Barda, Martian Manhunter, Supergirl(Earth-Angel) and more to barely restrain him? And that was after fighting Orion.
Him briefly looking good against Titus? He jumped out of the water when Titus was falling and punched him a couple times before the fight went to the water. Where Aquaman would have the advantage. And Aquaman lost. Not to mention that took place during the early days of the JLA. Superman's gains in power since then were even noted by Titus in the present day. So.....not what you're trying to argue. But I notice later you say to Abhi that Orion sucker punched Hal. Yet you argue Titus beating Superman. How is this--
https://comicvine1.cbsistatic.com/uploads/original/11124/111244877/7933099-4b24ab52-8b46-47c8-91a9-b85ef196af39.jpeg
--anymore of a sucker punch than this--
https://bit.ly/3sXNFxP
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Superman said that about Guy, before getting serious with Guy and beating him down. He said similar about Massacre before, beat him down when he got around Massacre's ability to predict his moves.
But let's look at the fight when Superman gets serious. Just after the comparison to Doomsday.
https://bit.ly/3sWfEOz
https://bit.ly/3aJX1qB
Well doesn't really look Doomsday level. But there's another issue with this comparison for you using Aquaman fighting Guy. Guy was adapting to Superman.
https://bit.ly/2R39GxO
Superman notes Guy has been adapting to what they do.
https://bit.ly/3vonja0
And brought up again.
https://bit.ly/3eFS6IG
It got to the point he was fighting Superman, Rampage, and Supergirl(Matrix) simultaneously(although Supergirl was only briefly involved in the actual fight, like a TK blast it seemed). I mean unless you're going to argue it's a theory it was in response to Superman's DNA, but I think the writer made it pretty clear. So the only way you could argue that the way you did is if A: Guy's adaptations stuck and he was still at that level(which is possible but you would have to prove), or B: Aquaman would produce the same type of adaptation.....
There are issues with both the Despero and Olympian examples, but neither is from the period I was arguing so irrelevant anyway.
Well that example shows he can read their minds, it's just difficult. The Martians, J'onn included, weren't able to read the New Gods' minds at all. J'onn and his mom(both Manhunters) are talking about the battle, that they need a telepathic assault. It's brought up they can't even read the New Gods' minds. They combine the minds of all the Manhunters for the assault, and it only works on the grunts. Not the leaders.
https://bit.ly/3gEdSix
https://bit.ly/3u2pW0Y
So that telepathic assault is from Martian Manhunter plus other Martians combining their efforts. Later J'onn outright says he can't read Kanto's mind and his thoughts are opaque.
https://bit.ly/32T2LtO
So, I don't think Aquaman is winning with a telepathic assault.
As for your argument about Aquaman using the trident, Orion, it seems without his Mother Box, survived being shot by Apokolipsian weaponry though multiple vital points, including multiple times through the head(head alone had 3, maybe 4 shots depending on if one of those beams was a miss or not, angle is hard to tell). Then fell into a Firepit.
https://bit.ly/3eyyvKd
https://bit.ly/3sUMTBL
https://bit.ly/3dWkZBe
In fact if you look at what one of the Hunger Dogs said, it implies he fought after this. "Orion massacred a battalion of Darkseid's troopers! But not before they plastered him with everything they had!!" The ambush where he got shot up before falling into the Firepit is the only time he got hit with anything significant. Prior he was only hit twice before and got back up fine. But possibly an error. But he did heal within pages of waking up, so if he healed that quickly it does support he fought after falling into the Firepit off panel before HUNGER DOGS was published.
If I'm right about him not having his Mother Box there? Well it boosts his healing significantly.
https://i.imgur.com/53sgLL7.jpg
But the Astro-Force, it's one-shot Pre-DOS Superman. Splattered Mantis. Was tearing Earth apart as a side effect of him attacking the Omegadrome(I think it was) on the Moon. He contained the Oblivion Bomb, which was going to destroy the universe via imploding it. What has the trudent done to be on this level?