@monte-cristo:
The speed im referring to is Superman's flight speed, which he can utilize to blitz Thor. I doubt Thor can keep up with a blitzing Superman.
A bullrush can be deflected or side-stepped by Thor(as demonstrated by Faora). Thor has enough reaction feats against incoming projectiles to suggest he could dodge it, plus if he actually does get hit, I doubt it will leave any lasting damage on him.
Oh and Thor also has his bullrushing feats.
Those clashes are striking feats. The reason you never see Superman replicate that force again is because you never see him use that amount of speed to punch against any other opponent except Zod at the very end.
High speed collision =/= a striking feat for Superman. It's a shared feat which required two Kryptonians, flying into each other at high speeds and ramming into each other. Thor on the other hand just swings his hammer and produces higher collateral damage.
I seriously doubt Thor could survive heat vision for very long given that an asgardian knife made him bleed. Heat vision would slice him up.
Piercing weapon =/= heat based attack.
It's already been explained a million times to you that a regular knife is utterly useless even against the scrubbiest of Asgardian skin;
Asgardian weapons have been shown to act differently to Earthly based weapons so I do not understand why you keep bring up that instance.
Saying Superman's heat vision would slice up a character who bathes himself in lightning is just as silly as saying Superman's heat vision could 'burn' the Human Torch. Thor has survived Gungnir blasts on more than two occasions. The Gungnir which has been shown to completely disintegrate Frost Giants(including the king Laufey himself) in the past.
Strength has alot to do with striking power, given that the reason Superman has those striking feats is because of his strength. Superman isn't a trained boxer or martial artist in that movie. Its also the whole reason Thor has better striking feats with his hammer than without it. His attacks don't have the same amount of strength without his hammer. Having training on how to punch is only so useful when your opponent is so much bigger and stronger.
Again, you can have all the strength in the world and still not know how to punch properly. Thor simply has better striking feats. Again, Ben from FF has better lifting feats than Hulk and Superman at the same time, but will get rekt by either of them due to not having the striking feats.
Kurse didn't seem to show much technique or skill, yet he still thrashed Thor due to his greater strength.
Kurse didn't show much technique? You're forgetting Kurse is Algrim who was shown beating the crap out of Asgardian soldiers in the beginning of the movie, and Asgardian soldiers were shown to demonstrate great fighting/combat skills.
Also, Kurse has his own striking feats that would place him on par or even above the Kryptonians.
Bruce lee could certainly prevail over a modern day body builder, but there is also the realistic chance he could be simply overpowered and turned to mush. Its why I used the Mike Tyson vs Bruce lee analogy. Lee didn't say it was Tyson's left hook that would down him, it was simply that he was bigger and stronger.
You are drifting from the point and question I asked. I'm not asking who would win in a fight, I'm asking who could punch harder.
I asked; who could punch harder? Bruce Lee.... or a modern day body builder? Mike Tyson..... or Arnorld Schwarzenegger? If the answer is not the latter in both scenarios then my point stands.
Thor isn't just fighting someone stronger than him, hes fighting someone with better speed and flight capability, heat vision, and better durability.
Superman is only stronger than Thor in this case not because Thor is weaker, but because he has absolutely zero strength feats so we can't exactly judge how strong he is, but we do know he can hit hard.
Better speed only in flight, his combat speed is sub-par, just like Thor's. except Thor actually knows how to fight and dodge things.
Heat vision is completely useless here. Thor has survived worse, not to mention it can literally get smacked away by Mjolnir.
Also, Superman was on the defensive fighting two kryptonians. But after utilizing his heat vision and flight he held his own for the rest of the fight. So I disagree that he was overwhelmed that entire fight.
Someone tried to say Clark holding his own against two Kryptonians at the same time was a good showing, I'm simply saying he ddn't 'hold his own' because he got overwhelmed when he went against both of them at the same time, which is true. It wasn't until after Nam-Ek and Faora got separated that he was able to get some breathing room, he didn't hold his own against Faora he couldn't(she kinda slapped him all over the place), he sucker punched her and ended the fight right there.
Odin fires Gungir at a dark elf, killing him, but he just falls over.
And?
Again, nothing noteworthy about Gungir other than killing some frost giants.
Not just killing Frost Giants(who by the way are extremely durable), but completely disintegrating them into nothingness.
As GX stated above, Superman wasn't almost knocked out from rushing Zod. Only shown that maybe the wind was knocked out of him. Pure nonsensical speculation.
The point was that almost every time Superman bullrushes an opponent, he ends up hurting himself more than his opponent.
Superman was knocked out early in the movie, but after being temporarily KOed by Faora and Namek, Clark took greater punishment for the rest of the movie without getting knocked out. So its irrelevant.
He didn't get knocked out, but he wasn't exactly no showing the attacks. They were clearly hurting him.
As i also said before, Thor was bleeding from brute force alone. One punch from Hulk gave him a nose bleed. He bleeds pretty easily.
True he bled from being punched by Hulk, but it did not hinder him in any way/shape or form.
His supposed superior fighting skills didn't stop him from getting thrashed by Kurse, a slow brick. Or Hulk. Thor could block heat vision, but if it does hit him, I see no reason why it couldn't injure him. Combined with speed and strength, Clark wrecks him.
Kurse actually knows how to fight and has better striking feats than Nam-Ek and Faora who knocked out Clark. Thor didn't get 'thrashed' by the Hulk, they were pretty much even. And just like Kurse, Hulk also has better striking feats than the Krptonians so I don't see how that's a bad showing for Thor.
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