this is to see who is the top Earth based living engine of mass destruction on Marvel Earth:
The Incredible Hulk
or
Storm: Mistress of the Elements
Here are the rules:
Each contestant has 1 week to wreak havoc on the planet causing as much destruction as possible.
Storm can't use and Claremont-ism's like manipulating the sun to cause the Earth to over heat or somehow pulling a solar flare out of no where. She can only use actual weather effects.
Hulk can not simply punch the planet and knock it off it's axis, and no "Hulk goes to the Earth's Core and punches the Earth in half" either.
Both are going for surface damage (destroying buildings, cars, houses, stadiums, killing people, etc).
Neither can simply attack a nuclear facility and set off a large explosion. Damage must be caused by use of their powers on the surface environment.
Storm. She could probably spend that week fueling a massive hurrince that pulls down hideously cold air from above the Troposphere. Create a new Ice age on the continent(s) of her choice.
But wouldnt hulk have to be sufficiently angry to be doing such high level things as that? I believe Storm would be able to do far more damage in a week. Her powers operate over a far greater range. And yes one need only look at the recent weather related disasters to see how much can be wrecked. Now imagine such disasters psionically controlled and manipulated in an effort to cause as much damage as possible in a week.
Okay. In terms of destruction to the land itself, Hulk wins. He could literally just start punching the ground, destroy everythign around him, and leap along elsewhere. And, if he decides to cross an ocean, at top swimming speeds near the surface, his strokes create huge waves, so that means really bad damage on coastal areas. If he made it to Antarctica, he could snap off state-sized chunks of ice into the ocean. That would cause all kinds of short and long term damage.
Storm, on the other hand, would be able to effect a wider area in the short team (creating a storm the size of the East coast and wipe a continent or two clean), but the long term effects would be more along the lines of economic strain, disease, famine. Basically all the sh*t we're seeing in New Orleans on a global scale.
Frankly... they both seem fairly even. Just different kinds of destruction. either way the world would be f*cked, though.
Last edited by Khellendros on Sep 22nd, 2005 at 05:27 PM
Let's say Hulk is being empathically enraged by some hatemongering device that causes his anger to stay at extreme heights. He's at Class .25 million tons (250,000 tons) and rising.
Hulk. He's far more powerful. One hit from his punches could shatter a mountain. Nothin Storm could bring to bear'd be able to match that kinda destructive power.
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At first I wanted to go with the Hulk, but if Storm is on kick and has the stamina to last the full week I have to give it to her. She could simply take the hot air from the equator, send it to the south pole and get some major flooding (along with a week of constant rain all over the world)
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