Alright, after watching RWBY, taking into consideration powers and abilities and such, and balancing high end versus low end showings, the Spider team should take this. While the RWBY characters are capable of some levels of speed, none of them have shown speeds beyond what most competent street levelers could deal with...not to mention Spidey has dealt with mach speedsters, and even without the use of spider sense, matched a spider powered precog with pure martial arts. As well, Spidey and Kaine are both far more experienced than team RWBY, team RWBY has no good counters for Spidey's spider-sense, and you have to couple this with the fact that each of them can web spam.
@h3dora101 said:
@jashro44 said:
@lvenger: Just to add the bit about punisher but Frank also studied Peters moves if that helps. This was specifically mentioned in the comic he shot the web shooters off of spider-man.
oh yeah, he needed prep and info to pull that off in a way.
Let's point out that Frank is a top tier marksman, and those showings are a bit older as well. There are far more instances of Spidey blitzing Frank and dodging his shots.
Also if the Spider Man characters are so much faster than the speed blitzes the girls shown (not to mention casual bullet dodging they have too) then why do Daredevil, captain America, Punisher, Wolverine, Doctor octopus, and more characters who are nowhere close to Spider Man's best speed feats tag Spider Man all the time? Even Rhino does somehow.
As for this here, Spidey does tend to hold back a lot. But to bring up a huge point, a lot of the characters you have mentioned are trained martial artists. Martial arts is a power in comics. It allows these guys to do a ton of things they shouldn't be able to do, and it all falls back on their training. And while Spidey may have been tagged by a few of them, it is a far cry than losing flat out. Let's look at Wolvie, he actually has very impressive speed feats, and has matched many characters that play in the Spidey level speed range. He has fairly consistently displayed metahuman speed levels, coupled with martial arts. Captain America? The penultimate strategist, master martial artist, and master of PIS, who fairly consistently fights with and deals with characters that should be out of his league? Cap is pretty much the Slade of the Marvel U with a lot of his showings, not to mention, Pete has some hero worship and holds back quite a bit there. Daredevil? Master martial artist, avoidance master, speed feats that put him in the metahuman arena, etc, etc, so forth and so on...not to mention another hero type that Pete doesn't go all out on. Then you have to factor in that many of these showings are from times when Pete was far less experienced, and was prior to WoTS training.
Doc Ock? Those arms have consistently moved fast enough to react to mach speed attacks in the form of bullets...Spidey more often than not dodges Ock, but Ock is a foe that knows Spidey, has fought him, is experienced in dealing with him, with a genius level intellect and planning ability, and has arms that can react to mach speed attacks. He should by all rights be able to occasionally tag Spidey. Rhino...another foe experienced with dealing with the likes of Spidey, and another character whom Spidey dodges more often than he gets hit by, but is still not slow by any means, and has some pretty damn good reaction feats of his own. Rhino is only ever really painted as a slow character when he is jobbing it in someone else's book. And again though, a lot of this was before Spider Island...
The thing is, Spidey doesn't get tagged all the time. If we compare his avoidance up against the times he has gotten tagged, the scales would tip far into the avoidance side of things. Then much like what was discussed with the RWBY episode and PIS...that has to be factored in as well, as someone who has been around as long as Spidey has, with the multitudes of appearances and so on, is bound to have moments of PIS to make another character look good or to propel a story along. So if we are going to factor PIS for the RWBY side of things, we have to factor that in for Spidey and Kaine. While I enjoy RWBY, and am looking forward to season 3, they didn't have any speed feats that would put them out of the range of Spidey's abilities, and they aren't as experienced as Spidey or Kaine.
Ruby is the fastest one of her team, but the problem with her speed is that it isn't consistent, and it isn't a full time operational combat thing. When she uses it, she uses it in bursts, and often uses Crescent Rose to supplement that speed (not all of the time though). So it isn't like she is a full blown speedster, operating consistently at mach speeds. She has good bullet timing reactions (like many in RWBY do), but that isn't unique or unheard of in the Marvel U (even Hand ninja's are capable of deflecting bullets with swords). The RWBY girls need some more time and experience before they are ready for a fight against these two as they currently stand in the series.
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