Maxima (DC Comics) vs Gladiator (Marvel)

[Agent Z]

Who takes this?

[Sharpandpointies]

Has Maxima DONE anything on Gladiator's level?

I vaguely recall her being a decent fight for Post Crisis Superman, but...

Can she take him out mentally? Because I seriously doubt she's dealing with him physically. And that's assuming she doesn't just get blitzed into paste.

[Agent Z]

She held her own against Doomsday and has teleportation abilities which should make for a good counter for Gladiator's speed.

[The Dork Knight]

No they don't make a good counter because she needs to *think* to teleport first . Maxima has Superman-ish level superspeed herself though

She wins if it's speed equalised via mental shenanigans

[Phoenixx9]

Besides Gladiator being near-Superman level in his abilities, he also has telepathic resistance of quite a high degree that rebounds the TP back at attacker.

[chisob]

i don't think Maxima has on panel nanosecond or light speed feats. The best we have is Clark saying she's fast. Glads has one nanosecond feat IIRC.

I agree if that speed was equalised Maxima would win bec of TP. Maxima was able to one-shot Orion.

[The Dork Knight]

Besides Gladiator being near-Superman level in his abilities, he also has telepathic resistance of quite a high degree that rebounds the TP back at attacker.

All of this is wrong

[The Dork Knight]

i don't think Maxima has on panel nanosecond or light speed feats. The best we have is Clark saying she's fast. Glads has one nanosecond feat IIRC.

I agree if that speed was equalised Maxima would win bec of TP. Maxima was able to one-shot Orion.

Maxima's "first" appearance had her outright blitzing (an admittedly out of sorts ) Superman

http://i553.photobucket.com/albums/j..._superman2.jpg

[Beadle]

Besides Gladiator being near-Superman level in his abilities, he also has telepathic resistance of quite a high degree that rebounds the TP back at attacker.

Like TDK said, this is basically all incorrect, but just addressing the "near-Superman level" thing, Glads is WAAAAAAAAY too dangerous for post-Crisis or nu-Supes.

He's stronger than post-Crisis and much, much, much, much faster than either of them.

He'd have punched Supes' head off before Supes even knew the fight had started.

[The Drunkard Kid]

Maxima's "first" appearance had her outright blitzing (an admittedly out of sorts ) Superman

http://i553.photobucket.com/albums/j..._superman2.jpg

Was this before or after Clark trained to use his superspeed properly under Mongul Jr.? IIRC, he has only multi-mach reflex speed until he did that.

[chisob]

Eh, I don't really think of both Glads and Maxima as super speed fighters. (especially Maxima) They are nowhere near as consistent as WW or Superman when it comes to using super speed in combat.

[The Dork Knight]

Was this before or after Clark trained to use his superspeed properly under Mongul Jr.? IIRC, he has only multi-mach reflex speed until he did that.

Clark Kent reached near light speed (then fainted attempting FTL) under Byrne itself . He was also doing things like working out "a dozen different reactions" in a microsecond as a teenager and circling the globe to turn up in pursuit behind Toyman's drones chasing him within the same page /couple of panels so that he ends up chasing them. The circling the globe thing is implied to happen before he finished his own sentence. The drones don't move too much, if at all in the time Superman circles the globe

All of this is from the original '80s Byrne run alone

[Primetime Harder]

Eh, I don't really think of both Glads and Maxima as super speed fighters. (especially Maxima) They are nowhere near as consistent as WW or Superman when it comes to using super speed in combat.

Maxima, yes. Glads, not so much.

Also, if she tries psionic shenanigans, she better hope she's stronger than Rachel Grey. Which I really don't think she is.

[Cthulhu_of_R'lyeh]

Maxima, yes. Glads, not so much.

Also, if she tries psionic shenanigans, she better hope she's stronger than Rachel Grey. Which I really don't think she is.

That last speed feat? Where he catches the bullet?

That's an entire comic of him having an internal monolog after the bullet is fired, and then catching it near the end, IIRC.

[Jonathan]

Doesn't she have tk as well as tp?