@rajjar: Endgame did have Thor jump up in the air as Cap tossed him Stormbreaker so he obviously still attacks when he's in the air.
That's not an attack in any sense of the word. I was referring to flying.
Clark's casual punches are boosted by momentum and speed, it's why he creates the destruction he does. Thor's blunt force durability doesn't have what it takes to tank punches like that. Clark unlike Thor consistently fights with a certain style and that's using speed all day long.
And Clark causing damage to his surroundings and sending his opponents flying means he strikes better than MCU Thanos, right?
As for consistency, refer to below.
Hard to block punches when you're getting rocked lmfao. Also what is the point of you even mentioning that? Are you trying to say Thor even has the speed to block or evade a Superman punch/bullrush because if so then lol.
Pretty sure his Dark World feats are supersonic reaction. And if Thor gets tagged, call lightning. Hela was choking the life out of him and he still managed to incap her temporarily (script). If Clark is rocking him, the other Thor can save him. And Clark doesn't consistently fight at superspeed - BvS and the Steppenwolf (after the first punch) proves that. Faora and Nam prove that. He's never completed a whole fight with any semblance of the statue force. And bullrushes aren't always at superspeed - Steppenwolf proves, Zod proves. And DD might prove as well, since the only reason Clark was able to send him flying before he did the AoE was because DD didn't even see him before he made contact with the supersonic blitz. It wouldn't take superspeed to react to it considering that Clark uses a lot of distance for his acceleration to actually mean something.
Honestly, if Thor has to operate on low-end feats, I don't see why Clark shouldn't. Thor doesn't have consistent showings, sure, but that doesn't mean he gets fodderized in less time than MoS unadapted Kryptonians who have nowhere near his durability.
If you're going to argue those lighting feats you're gonna need to explain to me why he doesn't just pull off those lighting attacks on everyone he faces and why he would all of a sudden do it on Superman.
He pulled it on Jotuns, he pulled it when he had to stop Hela, he did it when he needed to delay Hela from trying to stop Surtur early on - like these feats happen, we don't erase them for consistency on an inconsistent character. If Thor tried to one-shot every one of his villains, and if Clark decided to bullrush at his max travel speed, there wouldn't be many villains to fight. Point being, I don't think he's going to fight like he did in EG versus a character that is faster than him and flies in the air. I think that's fairly obvious. But that isn't the real reason why he doesn't pull it off in-verse.
But my main point against normally Thor doesn't even need to or can't use that lightning due to contextual reasons. He was fine in Muspelheim, but he fought along side the Avengers, and he fought in populated areas as well. He's not gonna pull off city-block level lightning if his allies are all around him. Or if people are in the vicinity. Spamming lightning is very destructive - hell, even regular storms do a lot of area damage that would put innocents at risk. He's not MoS Superman to be all fine with destroying the city and causing untold destruction and then somehow caring when Zod specifically targets people with his HV. When he was in Jotunheim, his friends were pretty far away, and he had fun killing the Jotunns. When he was fighting Hela, well, it's more a potency feat than anything because the Bifrost is really durable, it turns out. But it's also because he could concentrate power on Hela after mastering the lightning without damaging Val. Like, for an inconsistent character, this shows some pretty damn good responsibility. Thor waited until Stark gave his go, and provided his power because no one was on Sokovia when he went about and summoned the lightning. Thor holds back alot. When he doesn't, he can blast hard. The MCU movies would have been much worse, so plot limits Thor from unleashing Jotunheim bolts in every setting.
I shouldn't have to defend illogical tactics anyway. If Thor fights smart, which he has, then these lightning feats can be brought in. In fact, this whole lightning feat usage debate seems disingenuous to me. Why does Thor have to have all high-end feats, hmm? Every character has a range of feats, and yet you claim Clark is going for his OP blitz punches repetitively off the bat, of which those punches haven't actually 4-shot any of the their unfortunate victims. It's too much of a burden to disallow a characters high-end feats just because he doesn't use them every time. Are we just going to call them outliers because they can defeat the other-most wanked LA character? These sort of arguments only work for things like "Thor beats Godzilla via Bifrost BFR." There is nothing about Endgame that really retroactively applies to Thor - anything that could have- we already saw in Dark World. Thor in IW hasn't made those decisions and doesn't have the mindset of Thor after decapping Thanos - he is full of deliciously sadistic rage.
Majority of people use end of DP PF Jean as planetary - though she has done no such feat on record, and the PF has done 1 feat before her time.
People call Clark city-level, but his dc hasn't even reached multi-city block yet.
People call Thor star level, I'm not getting into this.
Yet feats are dismissed as outliers and impossible scenarios just because they haven't happened as frequently as Thor's other lightnings. Except there's nothing really wrong with the feats themselves taken at face value - they just don't follow a narrative that people stick to. Thor must be limited, but Clark obviously can't. Thor must job to Clark because he's had low showings, and since he has low showings his high showings don't really matter - after all, if they did, why hasn't he done it everytime to every opponent? The same logic applies to overzealous MCU fans as well. But if I wanted, Clark could not take 2 unadapted Kryps at the same time, and one Thor is objectively above Nam, and one-Thor is objectively over Faora. But that logic is still disingenuous, nonetheless, because he'd wipe the floor with them with the weapons and techniques he uses on the vine.
What's good in staggering someone if they have the ability to shake it off like it's nothing which is what Clark did?
Because sky-lightning can be prepped and released in the time it takes for Clark to shake it off. And it won't be nothing, either. And Clark was wincing when the HV was pushing him. Sure, he recovered, but Thor's bolts have potent enough energy output to cause Clark even more pain. Independently, the Kryptonian (dis)ability that makes it difficult to damage each other doesn't bode well for Clark's energy attacks either. Thor's not just going to just stand there and use lightning love taps or Ragnarok finger sparkles while Clark is beating the snot out of his alternate self. For an opponent like Clark, his most dangerous opponent yet, he will not hold back his full power at all.
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