So could these guys.
And there were more than three.
And that was basically the team's first day on the job. Ohhhhhhhhhh.
Not true, they had faced Loki before and each already had plenty of experience on their own, plus they had SHIELD providing them with resources, intel or at least organization.
Don't change the parameters now. You said MOS was "Supes first day fighting beings who could slice through buildings like butter." And that's exactly what happened at the end of Avengers. NONE of them had fought Chitauri Leviathans before (let alone Leviathans with the entire army attacking as well) AND as you noted none of them had Superman's powers.
So weaker guys just as inexperienced against MORE building crushers and...they defeat the bad guys while still saving lots of people. Hmmmmm.
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I'm not changing the parameters, you're trying to compare MoS Superman who had no relevant fighting experience, who faced various individuals that were just as strong if not more than him and are clearly more powerful than the Leviathans and also had a doomsday device that could flatten half a block of the city at a time...
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Thor had already fought the ice giants, the destroyer, and god knows what else and that's a huge "what else", Hulk already fought Abomination, Cap had already fought an army, Black Widow and Hawkeye also had a life-time of training and experience.... against a army of borderline mindless beasts that were just about as dangerous as the terrorists on the Lemurian Star just in greater number, a couple of big flying whales that weren't nearly as fast nor strong as the kryptonians and a magic switch that could make it all go away....
Yeah, sounds fair....
Had the Avengers fought Leviathans in a small town earlier that same day? No.
But Supes saw firsthand the destruction that can be caused by a Kryptonian (two in fact.) Did he apply any of the knowledge gained from the Smallville fight when he faced the one remaining villain in Metropolis? Nope.
We get it. Superman was a loser. I'm just saying why camp out on the "first day" stuff. The Avengers didn't use that as a crutch.
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Which day was his first day? When he pulled the school bus from the water? Saved the workers on the oil rig? Destroyed that guy's truck for getting him wet? Fighting that robot thing that was attacking Lois? Scaring the herds with his flying powers? Because he'd done lots of Superman stuff before Zod showed up.
Or do you mean "first day fighting Zod." If so then the people of Earth should be very afraid. What will happen during his first day of facing Luthor? Or Doomsday or Darkseid or Brainiac? Does a city have to fall every time a new villain shows up until Supes overcomes the learning curve of his new opponent?
It was his 1st day fighting beings that were each individually his physical match while having a huge dubstep robot terraforming earth.
The point people make when they say "his 1st day" is not that it was his 1st time trying to save the day, it was his 1st time trying to say the day while having one or 2 god-like beings sucker punching him from all directions.
Come on.
You tried shoveling that manure 30 pages ago, and it was crap then, and it's still crap.
You keep saying that they were his "physical match" but they weren't. They weren't on Earth as long as Hopeman, so they weren't as strong as him. Don't blame anyone for thinking that, the whole, ''acclimation" bit was THEIR stupid idea.
Once again I ask, if they were his "physical match", than how was it they weren't able to hurt him? After the fight HM didn't have a scratch on him. Nothing, not one scratch. He didn't even break a sweat.
Yup, that I agree with (but then again, you don't see Thor getting any bruises either), but that has little to do with the topic at hand... We're talking about whether the "Superman 1st day out" stands.When the real Superman fought Doomsday in the comic, Doomsday whooped him pretty good, remember that? Black eye, bloody nose, ripped costume, the works. Killed him in fact.
Now, I know Doomsday was much stronger, but if Snyder wanted to show HM was in any real danger, he could have shown something, anything. HM had none of that, nothing.
And again, most importantly, if Zod was as strong as HM, how was HM ABLE TO BREAK ZOD's NECK?
That's why that whole sequence was full ****** to the nth degree. It didn't bother me so much that he killed Zod, it was that he was able to do it in the first place.
As silly as some of you might think Superman II was, at least they took the time and effort to show that Zod and co.'s powers were taken away before they were able to be defeated, which, you know, made sense. Silly or not, it made sense. POS didn't.
The whole World Engine excuse is weak too.
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