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- big_adventure
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"At the end of the day, Arby is a pretty prolific poster proposing a plurality of proper posts for us."
- big_adventure
Yeah, but if you... man, we're getting into weird analogy territory, like if you disintegrated Superman's arms he wouldn't be able to go "fool! Little did you know that my arms and I are one and can be remade from me!" and will his arms back into being from pure nothingness. - Pendaran
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It's not remotely enough to stop a bullet, given that he's shot straight through it. It's not really all that armored, is what I'm saying.
The blasts were also enough to lift up his 240 lb strong as hell body and launch it like a toy through the air. Not 5 feet or anything, but launched back at speed, pretty much helplessly.
Couple of points there:
1: The car he hits is moving at 100kmh or so in the opposite direction of Cap. Cap's 240lb body impacts the car at perhaps the same speed in the other direction. No, the 3500lb car is NOT going to be thrown back by that impact. Not at all. Not even close. Just physics there.
2: What do you think would happen to Ollie there? Are you REALLY saying that Ollie's feats approach that? Remember, that impact did all of make Cap have to get back up.
3: A question: what do you think would happen if Cap fought Diaz? Do you really think that Diaz's punches could make Cap bleed? Cause him anything other than minor discomfort? Because they do a NUMBER on Ollie. Like: render him nearly incapable of action, clearly stun him on multiple occasions, etc. Yes, Ollie is better and tougher than Diaz, but it's not like a cakewalk for him. He out and out is getting his ass kicked in the first "loser leaves" fight, yes, Diaz eventually does cheat, but he was doing significantly better than Ollie throughout the fight. And yes, in the second fight, Ollie was waiting for the decryptor. But Diaz's shots hurt the guy. They would do nothing at all to Cap.
4. Another question: what would happen if Diggle punched Cap? Would Cap even especially react to that? Not by feats he wouldn't.
5. Another question, same kind of thing: Malcolm Merlin hits Cap. What happens? If you said "Cap KO's the guy within 2 seconds" you have the correct answer. If you said "Merlin wins ANY out of 10" then you aren't actually watching what Cap does in his pretty large body of work up to this time.
If you want to say that they have close speed and skill - too close to call - I'm fine with that. But Cap's strength, durability, striking power and endurance are just leagues above Ollie's. And that's enough here. MCU Cap has literally ALWAYS been portrayed as having significantly enhanced durability. Mooks NEVER make him feel their shots. Even significantly enhanced hits (Quicksilver, Ultron, Loki - despite the fact that he wanted to get caught, etc.) never stop him straight up. He NEVER falls and gets stunned. Never remotely gets affected by hits like that. Ollie has the cliff fall thing: but that fall didn't remotely leave him in fighting condition, and, honestly, it's a pretty serious outlier from the rest of his body of work. He's also been stunned, slowed, injured by shots from gifted human level dudes. Ollie has often looked into a situation where there are 8 mooks - mooks, not trained Hydra/SHIELD elites - or so, with Dig or others as backup, and said "we can't take this, we'll get killed." WWCapD in that situation? Yeah, he'd drop straight in.
None of this is to claim that Ollie's weak. He's kick my ass just fine. But not MCU Cap's.
What does it even matter if Cap's durability feats are because of his suit or not? The suit is his standart gear.
In the Ultron video, it also showed Cap taking a clean punch to the face from Ultron. And Ultron was most certainly not holding back.
I almost have to separate Avengers movies Cap in my head vs solo movie Cap. He takes damage waaaay differently between the two. Solo movie Cap accrues damage, slows down, but fights on. Avengers Cap basically takes no long term damage from things like an extended beating from Ultron.
I don't think it's a rumbles worthy distinction-- all the feats should count. But man, I prefer Solo Movie Cap.
True to some extent, but again, he doesn't slow down much, and he sure as heck doesn't slow down taking hits from things less then WAY THE HELL STRONGER than a normal in-shape dude.
This is, by the way, true for all of the Avengers characters, really: the writers and directors are different between the solo movies and the group mash-up, so the representations are a bit different, depending on plot needs. There clearly wasn't a ton of, er, call it "verification," between Thor in Ragnarok and Thor in Avengers 3. He never really does the lightning thing from the Ragnarok bridge scene, which would have let him simply WALK through the beastie army and kill every single one of them at a range of dozens of meters at least. Don't get me wrong: his feats in IW are badass, just not the SAME as what he shows in Ragnarok. Black Panther doesn't really use the "absorb then AoE with absorbed KE" thing in IW, and that would have certainly been nice in the beastie fight.