The HT is very underrated. He has a fairly robust powerset and some incredible showings for his tier (even in his early career he absorbed the heat and radiation from an exploding nuke and diffused it harmlessly into space, sure he exhausted himself as a result but it's still damn impressive).
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No need to. I'm not going through 40+ years of FF issues and HT guest appearances to come up with scans for a BZ. I've posted a few scans here to show him demonstrating a nice range of powers : heat/energy absorption, controlling flame (to the point of shaping it into clones of himself), and drawing heat from an enemy.
Then you have his respectable maneuverability and speed in flight and his nova blast.
The only members he could reliably beat are a non-prepped Batman and perhaps Aquaman. Superman, Wonder Woman, GL, and Flash are all way above his league.
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I don't understand what's so controversial about this tactic (draining heat) of his. It's not like he hasn't done it vs energy attacks (Blastaar, exploding nuke), vs ambient heat (in an exploding gas station), and at least twice vs humanoid opponents (Graviton and Gambit).
Why exactly does this ability, that's CLEARLY within his powerset (heat manipulation), seem suspect to you?
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I think Marvel is rightly aware that burning people alive is a lot more horrible than punching them out, so HT often gets relegated to a supporting role in fights against humanoid, non-doombot, enemies. It dosen't make him look as impressive as he really is.
I'm not saying he can't do it. I'm asking how likely he is to do it in the average fight.
Like someone mentioned, Flash's IMP has been done sparsely. How many times has Superman sung someone out of existence? How many times has Cyclops used his "OML" blast?
High outliers are named as such because that's what they are, and I definitely think this falls in to that category. You don't have to agree; it's perfectly fine. It's just imo.
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