The crossover was a popularity contest, and a poorly written one at that. Storm in no way would take down Wonder Woman. Tickle her maybe. Diana would bitchslap Storm all over the place, and rightfully so.
This must be an indirect challenge from my mentioning in the Rogue vs. thread. Alright, I'm willing to challenge back.
If in a population of people, Wonder Woman probably would win, since some of Storm's powers cover a relatively large area, and she doesn't wish to hurt other people unrelated. Without people, Storm can do plenty of damage to take down Wonder Woman.
Mist (as she used to evade Sebastion Shaw) or rain (as she did against Pyro who also said it was more representative of a typhoon) can easily blind Wonder Woman's visibility. Her wind abilities have been able to carry her teammates, but also have been able to lift large objects (i.e. even when she was resurrected as a young teenager, her powers were so strong, she accidently lifted the abandoned plane she was sleeping in and decimated the landscape surrounding it when she had a nightmare). Wonder Woman taking a hit from a person that could level a mountain doesn't mean she can take something close to that level or more all over her person when she is pounded into the ground or other landscapes.
Her lightning attack is usually to repel or just shock an opponent (she does this to Wolverine when she's peeved), but can also be frightfully damaging; when Doom was opposing an army that was currently trying to run Latavia, Storm destroyed all their tanks and demolished their factory with a lightning storm attack. Superman was temporarily knocked down (and possibly temporarily out) when Maxima pulled out a lampost to tag Doomsday, but it instead short circuited and sent a electric shock backlash. Think how far more destructive Storm's lightning attacks can be that should definitely put Wonder Woman down for the count.
And lastly, Storm can fly and break close to sound barrier speeds if not more (I'm unsure of her actual max speeds). Right after she donned her mohawk (inspired by Wolverine's friend), she showed incredible dexterious control of her flight when she was weaving around Wolverine baiting him to cut off her cape from her person without hurting her.
Storm isn't going to fist-fight Wonder Woman as many of her other opponents, but use her abilities to either first kill her visibility, then use her offensive attacks for the finale.
Storm is often in a populated area (either with civilians and/or her own teammates) where she has to be careful of her powers, so it will unreasonable to say, "Why didn't she do this and that to this person then?"
Or, in response to a very valid argument, WW uses her faster than sound superspeed and knocks Storm out with a near Superman level punch.
Oh, and I wasn't challenging you or anything (hell, I don't even remember you on that thread) I was drooling at the image of Lynda Carter whacking Halle Berry. (one sex scene in a movie and suddenly she deserves an Oscar!)
That's far from a guarantee, unless you are insinuating Wonder Woman is going to make a surprise attack.
Well, you said something along the lines of "I'm not even going to respond to a person who thinks Storm can beat Wonder Woman." I don't hold a grudge, but I remember such comments.
As to the image you are referring to, if this was posted earlier, I can't see it [now] since I can't see images at my station.
You guys do know in Storms very first appearance that entire island out somewhere by the Bahams thought she was a goddess or angel. So yeah if she could send a psunami or lighting she could beat WW but never kill her.
Storm is extremely powerful. But such power takes extreme concentration. Concentration takes time. Time that Storm simply doesn't have against the likes of WW.
When Storm took out Doctor Doom's robot armies and factories. She was infuriated because she was trapped in a crystal statue. When freed she was beyond furious. She went literally mad with rage. This outburst of power was a result of extreme anger and fear (she's claustrobe). Unless WW does something to make her incredibly angry, she won't unleash an attack of that magnitude. In fact, she almost never unleashes an attack of that magnitude.
WW is incredibly powerful. She can lift over 100 tons. She's practically invulnerable and can exceed the speed of sound. WW can go toe to toe with the likes of the Hulk and Thor. Winds, Lightining, hail, etc. won't do much against her. In order for Storm to even acheive a ghost of chance of victory, she would need to put a tremendous amount of distance between them. Distance that WW simply wouldn't allow. WW can move, act and even think at Mach 10. Storm won't know what hit her. As I said before WW uses her superspeed and knocks her out with one punch. That's all she needs.
If you are talking about precision, concentration would be more the factor, but this isn't necessary as she has no qualms about civilian bystanders being in the way. Many of her abilities (i.e. mist, smaller lightning attacks) can be instaneous and even if she can't just knock her out on a whim, Wonder Woman doesn't have x-ray vision to see through a huge weathering storm or a blanket of mist if Storm needs to bide her time.
You almost make her sound like an Incredible Hulk type of trait, which isn't so. She once used an immense lightning attack [that she later redrawed to stop her from killing him] when she attacked Silver Samurai. The attack wasn't a desperation or a "you insulted my mother." She doesn't unleash "hell" all the time for the fact that she is often shown in well populated areas and/or that she has her teammates around her that she could accidently injure if she doesn't watch herself.
I'm skeptical about the strength figure, unless you can see she benchpresses that amount or greater consistently in comics. Anyway, that is irrelevent here, since she isn't going to be bumping heads with Storm.
Superman is classified as nearly invulnerable and he was affected by a lightning outburst in that scene I elaborated earlier. Wonder Woman doesn't defy laws that allow her to move freely in Earth's environment without being touched and she's never been classified as immovable. She will definitely be be affected to a frightfully powerful tornado or a direct wind blast that would smother her into a solid surface (and among other things). Also, when a strong character hits her, she feels it one part of her body. A number of Storm's attacks would be basically blanketing her opponent's body.
You say she can go at this blazing speed [of Mach 10], but define to me that she can stop at a whim and change directions at a huge angle. It takes little effort to manuever and Storm isn't an amateur flier that evasion wouldn't be possible.
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Aug 11th, 2004 07:52 PM
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