Originally Posted by
Cthulhudrew
Marvel has done this in the past with Strength levels, too (doesn't seem as prevalent these days). I know they always used to make a point of showing people like Colossus being weaker than say the Hulk, but then a writer would decide that wasn't good enough and would increase the character's strength even further, seemingly just because.
In part I blame that on the Handbooks, because it suddenly became a big deal to offer quantifications of power levels for some reason (Gruenwald seemed to really want to do this), and so you had some of these cases where the Handbooks didn't really fit the evidence.
Now it looks like Intellect is the new Strength.