@blackstaroblivion: Now I'm the same way about laser-dodging, but when it comes to combat feats I'm much more lenient since the writers aren't always going to spell out "This attack was moving at [blank] speeds and [blank] dodged it" We've really gotta infer and once you pass bullets, it's hard, so you've gotta be a little more lenient, don't you think?
But the thing about him catching Red Hulk is the fact he was able to perceive Red Hulk and catch him in that billionth of a second he was getting pulled in for, even if he went in a straight line he had to perceive Rulk was getting sucked in and actually react to save him. Even if mileage is different, we can't just assume it's not what a black hole would be, we can't just assume that it's the absolute worst or best possible scenario, just the most likely, and the most likely is how we know black holes to behave. For example, at one point Hulk rose with a star weighing down on him, there's stars that can weigh thousands of times what our star weighs, but also stars that weigh far less, the most reasonable guess is that it weighed around our star's weight, it's not unreasonable to assume, because you can't just wave it off because there's no specific number. Although the one I'm talking about, they were very close to it, yes.
And outside of reaction time, he's been able to perceive Scuttlebutt moving hundreds of times the speed of light-if he couldn't process FTL speeds he wouldn't have been able to see it as he was flying towards it-and when Gorr got blasted lightyears away and his eyes were able to follow the speed and then follow him to the location he landed at. Doing that means he can process things moving many times the speed of light.
Even in his stats, Thor is stated very specifically to swing Mjolnir past the speed of light, in order to do this, he needs to swing his arm past the speed of light, if he can do that, it means he can fight at FTL speeds and hit someone at those speeds, isn't that correct? And would that not give him FTL combat speed?
Personally, I feel like restricting how you can define 'FTL combat speed' is a little unfair to characters like Thor, who don't focus on their speed at all, he's a character who can move those speeds, but rarely does so because his strength and durability are enough. Or maybe he does move at those speeds while swinging Mjolnir, it's just never stated because it doesn't need to be.
Just sort of blocking this out cause it's a little long and ramble-y
While yes, Thor does take a massive jump, Iron Man gets torn apart by street levelers one minute, then the next he's taking hits from She-Hulk and Thor and knocking out Hulk and She-Hulk with his punches. Inconsistencies are just one of the facts of comic books and fiction in general. Look at the Marvel movies, Iron Man can fight Thor, but Enhanced Extremists are able to tear apart his armor piece by piece, he doesn't even have that wide of a margin to go off of, he's only been in 5 movies and already there's a large disconnect of the suit's level of power, durability, etc.... Thor can annihilate the Destroyer Armor, why didn't he just lift up Kurse the same way and hit him with a massive lightning bolt? Why didn't he do it during his fight with Malekith? Why didn't he just create a ton of lighting in the final Avengers battle to blast apart every Ultron Bot there was? Friday states Thor can crack Vibranium, but he doesn't even dent Cap's shield in the first movie. It's so common for characters to vary in strength and speed even in the same movie and comic issue. So the fact that he takes a jump between comic books, isn't that surprising honestly. Can you honestly say you feel Superman is always fighting at max power and speed regardless? That he is beaten fairly and with no PIS any time he's beaten?
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