This for me is clearly a win for Hulk and Iron Man.
In the Avengers I thought Iron Man got the better of Thor. He landed the more significant strikes and used only his standard armor repulosrs. He was quicker and countered everything Thor did. At one point it even appears that Thor tries to fly away (towards Loki's direction) but is intercepted by Iron Man. Director Joss Whedon stated that Thor had really lost his temper and was seeing red by the end of the fight. He also said the fight was geared towards showing who is stronger - and since that is obviously Thor, the fight was set-up to showcase his strength close range. Having said that, Iron Man dominated every time he was in medium to long range, and dominated every time he was able to utilize a flying attack. Thor attempted several times to kill Iron Man and failed. While the extent of his powers wasn't shown, he used some of his biggest shots on Iron Man and they only annoyed him or shot him up to 475% power. Thor didn't land any real significant shots or do any real huge damage, whereas Iron Man only didn't do much visible damage because he only hit Thor in the face twice with way underpowered blows. Only at the end was he preparing his heavier duty weapons.
That was the Mark 6 armor, which was less equipped for battle then the Mark 7. The Mark 7 held a wristrocket that completely destroyed a leviathan, 92+ air to air micromissiles used to take ou Chitauri ships, air to ground missiles stored in the calf areas that when deployed from inside another leviathan completely wrecked it. Iron Man upgraded his repulsors - making them even more effective. Not to mention the new three or four beam laser munition system which now feeds off the armor's energy - resulting in a devastating, non-one off weapon. The amor was full of other weapon systems as well. It was just an all around more devastating armor. I believe the mark7 would decisively take down Thor. The mark3's punch sent average sized terrorists flying fifteen feet up fifty feet back - so I don't think Cap is even a threat close range. Cap was also hurt bad by one Chitauri gun blast while Iron Man took a ton like nothing.
Hulk was shown to be more powerful toe to toe against Thor as well. This new Hulk is even more devastating than the 2008 version - and we all saw what one punch from him can do to a super soldier. He is kind of a self-explanatory threat. He probably wouldn't be fast enough but I don't know how maneuverable Thor is mid-flight, so Hulk's power jump is something to watch anyways. He took ridiculous hits from Mjolnir and shook it off in seconds. Thor only poses a threat with his hammer's enchanted abilities - storm and etc. Even then Hulk took massive amounts of fire from tons of Chitauri ships. Hulk was able to seperate Thor from Mjolnir and had him down for the count until the F-35 showed up and distracted him.
Let's be real now, Cap is no threat. He is an excellent fighter and would be a good distractor, but one solid punch from Hulk and he is down. Iron Man would have him down with a solid one or two shots as well. One repulsor blast would have him hurt, and seeing as how Iron Man and Hulk took some huge point blank, undefended hits from Mjolnir, I don't beieve Cap's shield will do him much good. He may get some good shots in on whoever he targets first, but really I see him going down within two minutes - not to offend any Cap fan.
Thor has shown impressive attacks as well, but they wouldn't help him here. He spun his hammer so fast he just repelled frost giants like nothing, but that was only because they ahd to get in close proximity to attack- whereas Hulk can cover distance with one jump and Iron Man can fly. He drew massive lightning and destroyed terrain with it, but that rock was already crumbling badly and ready to give, as seen when they arrived. He also spent four times as long drawing lightning on earth and channeled very little through his hammer at Iron Man so that leads us to believe several things. A) The atmosphere effects his power draw. B) He canonly do such damage by slamming the hammer to earth with - Mjolnir isn't a good channel for it. It also leaves us to wonder what that would even do on solid, firm ground. When using a building as a conductor he drew massive amounts of lightning, but in this scenario Iron Man or Hulk could easily attack him. He used strong wind to overwhelm the dest firstbut the destroyer is not near as smart as Iron Man or even Hulk for that matter, and I don't remember the destroyer being super maneuverable or being able to fly.
Having said all this here's out is: I like Cap but he doesn't have a prayer - he may be a good distraction for a small period of time, but he would fall quickly. Iron Man can circle ahead and pound the enemy on earth. He may be the distraction, but he is a distraction that can put you down hard. I feel that if Thor targeted Iron Man he would quickly learn that if Tony isn't holding back, he's in for a rough fight. I will probably take much heat for saying such, but the reality is - if Iron Man can't put Thor down (and I believe he can), he can definitely at least keep him at bay until he could get help. Thor's best chance at Hulk would be to pray to Odin that his lightning does damage, because if he does beat Hulk, he will most certainly be fatigued and find himself on the short end of the stick in a battle with a fresh Iron Man. It's kind of a lose-lose anyways, because honestly Iron Man or Hulk would knock Cap aside quickly and even if Thor could destroy both one-on-one, no way in hell does he take both of them at the same time. Not a chance.
This is just my honest view of it. What do you think?
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