So, I watched Hobbs & Shaw yesterday, which gave me an idea for this.
As we all know, some films/shows take liberties with what human beings should be/are capable of, and have non-superpowered characters perform feats that no real life human could replicate.
So, name the strongest "normals" in fiction.
And, obviously, one of my nominations is Hobbs. He was ridiculous before, but he's basically half a step away from a Super Soldier at this point. In the new film, there is a scene where they are on a truck, and pulling a helicopter along, which is hooked to the truck with a chain. At one point, the chain comes loose from the winch, so Hobbs grabs the winch bar and the chain (still attached to the helicopter), and actually holds it all together for a good couple of seconds. And then takes it a step further by actually yanking the chain (again, still attached to said helicopter) back far enough to re-attach it to the bar. He also outright tears the armrest from a metal chair with one hand, and he does this pretty casually... after repeatedly being electrocuted.
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And would you count martial artists in some eastern films that technically are not indicated to be superhuman, but display blatantly superhuman abilities, like in Kung Fu Hustle?
I was mostly looking at strength, but notable examples in other areas are also fair game. So, if you have any good suggestions, go for it.
As for overall theme, I was thinking more Western/Hollywood, as the list would get extremely long if we started including classic Eastern martial arts-related stuff. The stylistic elements they often employ lends itself a lot to this kind of thing, even if it's not specifically their intent, like people even doing things as outlandish as running on air.
And lol, Stephen Chow characters often tend to operate on cartoonish levels. Even the characters from Shaolin Soccer are outright superhuman in many of the things they do. I feel like that's a step too far for this thread though, as it's outright going for outrageously goofy and unrealistic scenes, whereas, with characters like Hobbs, they more write the action sequences and then just have the characters perform superhuman feats in order for these things to happen. So, like the difference between running unrealistically fast vs actually portraying your characters as making Roadrunner-style wheels when they do.
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Do you know how weird it is to actually watch a movie where he is portrayed as a normal, realistic person? I watched this one film, Snitch, where he was the lead, but it was a grounded, serious movie. And it was weird seeing him act all nervous at different points, and actually get laid out embarrassingly easily by a pair of punks with a bat.
But anyway, to put more clear parameters on this thread, it's basically Western/Hollywood characters, but nothing that's bordering on outright Toon-force. So, no Zohan, Kung Fury, Scott Pilgrim etc. But guys like Jaws, from Bond etc., are fair game.
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Well, in terms of strength, one obvious example comes to mind.
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As far as I know there is nothing in the film which indicates Fisk is a metahuman. He's also easily the strongest depiction of the Kingpin character in film or television thus far.
That's the point though. Humans in Western/Hollywood films that are technically not supposed to be superhumans, but clearly are if we go by screen feats.
Damn, good one. I totally forgot about him. Because, yeah, Kingpin was insanely strong in that film. IIRC, he was even out-muscling Miles in a few instances. Even his size is superhuman, as he dwarfed the vast majority of other characters. Seriously, imagine him actually trying to get into the taxi he catches lol.
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So, I had a few minutes to kill and my curiosity got the better of me. So, I took a pic I found of Fisk catching that car, which looks to be a classic Crown Victoria yellow cab, and worked out what the ratio was (which is pretty easy to do by using the pixel count). The car is about 365-odd pixels, whereas Fisk is around 180 pixels. So, roughly half. And a Crown Victoria is 5.3-odd meters in length. So, yeah, Fisk was friggin' huge (over 8 and a half feet) in Spider-verse, especially if you consider how broad he also is.
For comparison (at least IIRC, based on behind the scenes VFX stuff I checked out for DP2), Fox Colossus is about 7'6" and Juggernaut around 9 feet. And neither were nearly as broad as Fisk.
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