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Wolverine's claws are either portrayed as so sharp they cat cut through nearly anything regardless of strength or close to it. That is typically the only way he and X-23 hand with beings above streets.

@bezza: The Hercules mini-series from the 1980s by Bob Layton are pretty good as well. They portray Hercules in an alternate future that brings a fitting end to his legend.

King Thor is Thor far in the future to the point where he has started to grow old. He has reigned as king of Asgard for eons. At some point he lost both his eye and his arm. We haven't been given all the details on his past as of yet.Judging by the fact livable worlds are becoming sparse is sounds like anywhere from millions of billions of years in the future if not trillions.

No, they truly possess the power of Thor. When they lift the hammer they have access of all of his strength, weather control, or anything else. This has been proven the times others like Beta Ray Bill have lifted it, changed or commented on the power. Odin can still control the hammer because he is the one who enchanted it and is well...Odin.

I imagine because they paid him to do it and it is a task that probable pays well.

Because Wonder Woman stopped them. She made it clear she would fight them and they respect her since she is the princess.

A. No, they were not. Small groups of women going to different cities every few years and sleeping with sailors in one-night stand would not be noticeable. Numerous unnamed and untracked people migrate to cities all the time.

B. And again given how the Amazons were originally willing to murder the infants you have zero evidence to indicate the Amazons wanted the males to have a happy life. You are grasping at straws.

C. Yet were often armed none the less. And if Hephaestus is supplying the weapons it stands to reason the metallurgy is far superior to anything mortals make. Sort of like the Asgardians using swords in the Thor films.

D. The Amazons were already braving the ocean in the first place. And again, send the Amazons to different cities a few at a time and have them leave the child at dawn, midnight, etc. And if the boys are not ageless it is not an issue. They age normally. So again you have no point.

And again, when they first arrived on the island Diana made it clear Hermes and Zola were under her protection. That is reason enough for Diana to leave them alone.

Further conversation on this topic is pointless. You obviously are not going to change your mind. Virtually everyone else that has posted on this topic feels differently. Therefore I don't see what more we have to discuss.

A. Yes, they were a more realistic option that would only have taken a bit more effort. The Amazon took the easy route.

B. Wonder Woman thought the men were enslaved to Hephaestus. Considering she was an Amazon and the general Olympian disregard for mortals it does not take too much to think the rest of the Amazons thought they were selling the men into slavery as well. So yes that is a fate you would give someone you despise in exchange for the best weapons known to gods or mortals.

C. Spear, sword or bow have been the primary armament for 3000 years. That does not mean much. And for centuries ships have travelled armed due to being either Navel vessels or fear of pirates. So not everyone gets to go home. And as far as writers go I am talking about the New 52 Amazons who are different from previous versions.

D. It has been customary to leave children on the steps of churches for centuries. That would have been a plausible and secretive method. And since were Amazons born superhuman? I had always heard that it was their training. Denied the training they are regular humans.

And given the reception Hermes received it follows they despise men. They placed so little value on their male children they willingly sold them into what sounds like as a lifetime of slavery in exchange for weapons.

Distrust is wondering why a man has come to your island and keeping a safe distance until you discover his intentions. Hatred is regarding his mere presence as a crime that requires you to castrate him. The Amazons fall into the latter.

I don't think it is that. I think part of it is trying to resolve the dilemma of his high showings in his solo book, what his powers can do in theory or are sometimes shown to do with his showings in team books or low appearances. For instance, Thor is supposed to be a highly experience warrior with a warriors reflexes. Why then did he get koed by his own hammer when someone grabbed his arm three times in a short span of time? If he is losing a pure physical fight why does he not try to fly up, charge up an extra strong lighting bolt, and unleash it to defeat his foe instead of constantly going back and forth? If he can survive dozen punches from an enraged Hulk why is it he sometimes is knocked out by a single punch from someone weaker?

A. And infanticide is better?

B. Hephaestus is the blacksmith of the gods and makes the finest weapons known to the Amazons. So yes even if the Amazons considered them unworthy of life they would still trade them to him since the Amazons consider themselves warriors and would want the best weapons.

C. It is not necessarily the safest way. And a lot of things were once "tradition" that were abandoned centuries ago.

D. It wouldn't be civilized by the standards of most cultures since ancient times so that is not an excuse. And that practicality show a clear disregard for the lives of males compared to female when with a little effort they could find another way.

For the rest, again it was not only that but their willingness to threaten Hermes, one of their gods of all beings that shows they demonstrates hated. If the Greek myths are even halfway true in the New 52 Wonder Woman Hermes is one of the most likeable, least jerkish gods.

And what does Hera have to do with this? And it still does not explain that if she was raised alongside her fellow Amazons who show such disregard if not hatred for men why she is so compassionate to men.