Movie Elektra vs MCU Black Widow

[grampagen]

I've never seen those movies and now probably never will.

Aside from the bad fighting and poorly written dialogue and acting, "Yeah, this supposedly blind guy [physical description here] just did this martial arts fight in front of me and a hundred other witnesses."

Evidently, none of them were woken up inside, and most certainly not brought to life.

[BitVyper]

Michael Clarke Duncan was a great Kingpin though

[Siriel]

Even if you ignore Elektra's power to get her opponents to jump on her blades to exit the movie faster, she's still someone with precog, some degree of super strength (especially when throwing her sais) and vague superspeed. There's not a lot Black Widow can do unless I'm forgetting something.

[MichaelC]

Michael Clarke Duncan was a great Kingpin though

Yes he was.

[Powerboy]

Even if you ignore Elektra's power to get her opponents to jump on her blades to exit the movie faster, she's still someone with precog, some degree of super strength (especially when throwing her sais) and vague superspeed. There's not a lot Black Widow can do unless I'm forgetting something.

For me, the problem I see is that this version of Elektra is someone that does one move at a time and then stops, pausing for effect or whatever. She's going against an opponent who keeps moving and moving consistently way faster and demonstrating magnitudes more skill.

[Sharpandpointies]

I've never seen those movies and now probably never will.

Aside from the bad fighting and poorly written dialogue and acting, "Yeah, this supposedly blind guy [physical description here] just did this martial arts fight in front of me and a hundred other witnesses."

You noticed that, right? Elektra herself finds it all rather funny and cute, rather than saying 'WTH, how are you doing this?'

It's a horrid, horrid scene.

For me, the problem I see is that this version of Elektra is someone that does one move at a time and then stops, pausing for effect or whatever. She's going against an opponent who keeps moving and moving consistently way faster and demonstrating magnitudes more skill.

That's more a matter of choreography; if by feats, Elektra is ruining crowd of people (with horrible choreography), she's still ruining crowds of people.

[The Drunkard Kid]

To be fair, Elektra probably runs in circles where blind fighting of this level, while not common, is probably at least conceptually possible.

[Sharpandpointies]

At the time, no. Later on in her super-ninja-trained world, sure, but in this first movie she's just a rich person whose father had her highly trained in martial arts.

And even were she used to such things, as far as she knew Matt was just a normal blind guy, not a super-ninja with special sense who could spar with her on a teeter-totter...and her entire comment on that was something like 'You're pretty good.'

It was very, very unrealistic.