To kill Earth's most celebrated and beloved hero? The guy who even Punisher respects so much that he wouldn't fight back? I know that AvsX was badly written, but to claim Remy would use an amount of force high enough to blow up Cap is ridiculous nonsense. Gambit can control the force of his explosions anyways.
The problem I have with that idea is the way the nearby trees react to the explosion, I think they indicate that its quite a powerful blast.
Personally I think that story was just a case of fan-wankery from the writer (someone mentioned in another thread that the writer didn't seem to even know how Gambit's powers work), but i'm still not sure if I'd want to discount it on that assumption alone.
AvX was pretty much written to give the Avengers every advantage they could get. Like Cap punched out Warpath with no problems, despite Warpath being a superhuman above Cap's level and being a beast with his twin knives.
Explosions that are weaker at point blank and get more powerful when they expand, huh? As you mentioned it would seem the writer didn't know how Gambit's power work.
Anyways, tree busting strength should be between the victinicy of what Cap can tank, since he has taken hits from people who can break trees in half with a kick and such, but it's not something that directly relates with how well he can take bullets.
The shield can take pretty much anything Dredd can ditch, but it won't save Steve for long with a barrage of bullets, heat seekers and other nifty tricks Dredd carries.
Look at the size of that explosion. The force looked like it even uprooted some trees.
Gambit may not have tried to kill Captain America (Not entirely sure, AvX was butchering characterization so who knows), but clearly would have left a non-meta as a stain.
Captain America beat the shit out of Warpath in that same fight. Tanking an explosion from a Gambit who tried to blow him up might not even be the craziest feat of that battle
I'd also like to point out that it was stated Gambit fully charged Steve's shield with kinetic energy when he tossed at it him so he wasn't exactly going easy.
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