Hyper_God

Wolverine already tried , and failed , to slash through Thor's skin when he was hallucinating that Thor was Sabretooth . I'd say it's a safe bet to assume that under a non-PIS scenario , Wolverine should be incapable of cutting the hide of any top-tier hero barring someone like the Hulk .

Btw , OECD stands for Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development . Which mostly consists of developed , First-World countries .

Okay , I was browsing around reading articles about reliability of IQ tests and came across something called PISA(Programme for International Student Assessment) . Supposedly it's the academic equivalent of the Olympics . When conducted in 2009 , the Chinese literally stomped the test , with the Shanghai province scoring the highest despite taking part in the test for the first time .

Here are a few quotes from an Indian article detailing the test's results :

"More than one-quarter of Shanghai's 15-year-olds demonstrated advanced mathematical thinking skills to solve complex problems, compared to an OECD average of just 3%," noted the analysis.

Compared to this , the 2 Indian states which also participated in this test(Tamil Nadu and Himachal Pradesh) ranked 2nd and 3rd respectively from the bottom .

In math, considered India's strong point, the states finished second and third last, beating only Kyrgyzstan; the English test threw up the same result. Girls were better than boys and science results were the worst, where Himachal stood last. TN was slightly better and finished third from bottom. The average 15-year old Indian is over 200 points behind the global topper.

Experts estimate that an Indian class VIII student is at the same level as a South Korean class III student in math abilities or a class II student from Shanghai when it comes to reading skills.

These are the test results from 2009 :

Mathematics	Science	Reading
1 Shanghai, China 600 2 Singapore 562 3 Hong Kong, China 555 4 South Korea 546 5 Taiwan 543 6 Finland 541 7 Liechtenstein 536 8 Switzerland 534 9 Japan 529 10 Canada 527 11 Netherlands 526 12 Macau, China 525 13 New Zealand 519 14 Belgium 515 15 Australia 514 16 Germany 513 17 Estonia 512 18 Iceland 507 19 Denmark 503 20 Slovenia 501 21 Norway 498 22 France 497 23 Slovakia 497 24 Austria 496 25 Poland 495 26 Sweden 494 27 Czech Republic 493 28 United Kingdom 492 29 Hungary 490 30 Luxembourg 489 31 United States 487 32 Portugal 487 33 Ireland 487 34 Spain 483 35 Italy 483 36 Latvia 482 37 Lithuania 477 38 Russia 468 39 Greece 466 40 Malta 463 41 Croatia 460 42 Israel 447 43 Turkey 445 44 Serbia 442 45 Azerbaijan 431 46 Bulgaria 428 47 Uruguay 427 48 Romania 427 49 United Arab Emirates 421 50 Chile 421 51 Mauritius 420 52 Thailand 419 53 Mexico 419 54 Trinidad and Tobago 414 55 Costa Rica 409 56 Kazakhstan 405 57 Malaysia 404 58 Montenegro 403 59 Moldova 397 60 Miranda, Venezuela 397 61 Argentina 388 62 Jordan 387 63 Brazil 386 64 Colombia 381 65 Georgia 379 66 Albania 377 67 Tunisia 371 68 Indonesia 371 69 Qatar 368 70 Peru 365 71 Panama 360 72 Tamil Nadu, India 351 73 Himachal Pradesh, India 338 74 Kyrgyzstan 331	1 Shanghai, China 575 2 Finland 554 3 Hong Kong, China 549 4 Singapore 542 5 Japan 539 6 South Korea 538 7 New Zealand 532 8 Canada 529 9 Estonia 528 10 Australia 527 11 Netherlands 522 12 Liechtenstein 520 13 Germany 520 14 Taiwan 520 15 Switzerland 517 16 United Kingdom 514 17 Slovenia 512 18 Macau, China 511 19 Poland 508 20 Ireland 508 21 Belgium 507 22 Hungary 503 23 United States 502 24 Norway 500 25 Czech Republic 500 26 Denmark 499 27 France 498 28 Iceland 496 29 Sweden 495 30 Latvia 494 31 Austria 494 32 Portugal 493 33 Lithuania 491 34 Slovakia 490 35 Italy 489 36 Spain 488 37 Croatia 486 38 Luxembourg 484 39 Russia 478 40 Greece 470 41 Malta 461 42 Israel 455 43 Turkey 454 44 Chile 447 45 Serbia 443 46 Bulgaria 439 47 United Arab Emirates 438 48 Costa Rica 430 49 Romania 428 50 Uruguay 427 51 Thailand 425 52 Miranda, Venezuela 422 53 Malaysia 422 54 Mauritius 417 55 Mexico 416 56 Jordan 415 57 Moldova 413 58 Trinidad and Tobago 410 59 Brazil 405 60 Colombia 402 61 Tunisia 401 62 Montenegro 401 63 Argentina 401 64 Kazakhstan 400 65 Albania 391 66 Indonesia 383 67 Qatar 379 68 Panama 376 69 Georgia 373 70 Azerbaijan 373 71 Peru 369 72 Tamil Nadu, India 348 73 Kyrgyzstan 330 74 Himachal Pradesh, India 325	1 Shanghai, China 556 2 South Korea 539 3 Finland 536 4 Hong Kong, China 533 5 Singapore 526 6 Canada 524 7 New Zealand 521 8 Japan 520 9 Australia 515 10 Netherlands 508 11 Belgium 506 12 Norway 503 13 Estonia 501 14 Switzerland 501 15 Poland 500 16 Iceland 500 17 United States 500 18 Liechtenstein 499 19 Sweden 497 20 Germany 497 21 Ireland 496 22 France 496 23 Taiwan 495 24 Denmark 495 25 United Kingdom 494 26 Hungary 494 27 Portugal 489 28 Macau, China 487 29 Italy 486 30 Latvia 484 31 Greece 483 32 Slovenia 483 33 Spain 481 34 Czech Republic 478 35 Slovakia 477 36 Croatia 476 37 Israel 474 38 Luxembourg 472 39 Austria 470 40 Lithuania 468 41 Turkey 464 42 Russia 459 43 Chile 449 44 Costa Rica 443 45 Malta 442 46 Serbia 442 47 United Arab Emirates 431 48 Bulgaria 429 49 Uruguay 426 50 Mexico 425 51 Romania 424 52 Miranda, Venezuela 422 53 Thailand 421 54 Trinidad and Tobago 416 55 Malaysia 414 56 Colombia 413 57 Brazil 412 58 Montenegro 408 59 Mauritius 407 60 Jordan 405 61 Tunisia 404 62 Indonesia 402 63 Argentina 398 64 Kazakhstan 390 65 Moldova 388 66 Albania 385 67 Georgia 374 68 Qatar 372 69 Panama 371 70 Peru 370 71 Azerbaijan 362 72 Tamil Nadu, India 337 73 Himachal Pradesh, India 317 74 Kyrgyzstan

Subsequently , India has refrained from taking part in both 2012 tests and upcoming 2015 tests . According to India's education ministry , the poor performance can be attributed to a "sociocultural" disconnect between the questions and Indian students .

Does this surprise anyone ? I thought Indians were supposed to be pretty good at math , physics and programming . Guess I was wrong .

Isn't @saren an Indian native ? I'd like to hear his and any other Indian posters' thoughts and opinions about all of this .

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Oberyn Martell

The way I see it , every single thread across the battle forums is either a rehash or a variant of previously existing thread .

Darkseid vs Thanos ? Done . So people resort to making all sorts of variants , most of which too are getting rehashed or at worse , duplicated .

Same goes for the countless iterations of Thanos vs Hulk , Superman vs Hulk , Superman vs Wonder Woman , Wonder Woman vs Thor , Thor vs Superman , Superman vs Silver Surfer , Batman vs Captain America , Supergirl vs Wonder Woman , Thor vs Silver Surfer , Galactus vs Odin , Galactus vs the Anti-Monitor , Green Lantern vs Quasar and the list goes on and on , all the way to the Andromeda galaxy .

I think it's high time that people either start coming up with new ideas(yeah , good luck with that) or just abandon a forum which has become the embodiment of "seen it all and done it all" . I'll be doing the latter , and anyone else who wants to join me is more than welcome .

Or better still , the mods and admins of this site realize how one of the main attractive features of comicvine is qualitatively stagnating , and do something about it .

That was a hungry Galactus from an alternate future , and even Thor's granddaughters were giving him trouble while Thor was busy collecting the Necro-Sword .

Why would you bother to leave out such an important bit of context is beyond me .

Franklin or Legion stomp . Most other mutants would be canon fodder for regular Thor , let along Old King Thor .

Thor wins .

@charlesmartel said:

It was merging of multiple rogue Celestials , and these same Celestials had exterminated a council of supergeniuses who wielded Infinity Gauntlets and Ultimate Nullifiers as is these were everyday handguns .

Galactus wins .