Poor Mumen Rider! :D I've got to admire his spirit, even though it seems kind of hopeless against some of those monsters.
That makes me think about a wild tangent trope in superheroic comics (and related genres): the wildly varying power levels. I mean, you can have some robber whose "superpower" is "I have a gun pointed at you," or you can have someone whose ostensible power is "I make shiny light beams that cut through steel" -- but presumably that has NOTHING to do with how much punishment said person can actually take from a super-punch -- and then there's some guy who can chew steel girders like bubblegum, etc. It's all over the place, yet the go-to action for any super-strong hero is just to dish out a haymaker.
It's the same punch that could knock over a building, and somehow our hero doesn't over-judge the resilience of any given baddie and simply turn him into a fine red mist. (At least, unless it's one of THOSE sorts of comics.)
I mean, seriously, one of Superman's super-powers has to be the one to accurately gauge just how much PUNCH a given bad guy needs, and to finely tune his "raw brute force" so as not to splatter lesser villains into goo. (I mean, I'm pretty sure I've seen comics where it's made obvious that Superman hardly needs to use his full force to deal with a "mere mortal" bad guy, but there are just so many degrees in between "squishy mere mortal human" and "uber-being who smashes planets.")
Anyway, it's probably something I'm "over-thinking" considering all the other absurd tropes of superheroic comics, but it can be a bit jarring at times to see, say, a character I don't expect to be particularly super-human get knocked through a wall by a "good guy" and then wonder -- how did Mr. Good Guy *know* that "wall-smashing" was the proper level of punchitude to use?
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That makes me think about a wild tangent trope in superheroic comics (and related genres): the wildly varying power levels. I mean, you can have some robber whose "superpower" is "I have a gun pointed at you," or you can have someone whose ostensible power is "I make shiny light beams that cut through steel" -- but presumably that has NOTHING to do with how much punishment said person can actually take from a super-punch -- and then there's some guy who can chew steel girders like bubblegum, etc. It's all over the place, yet the go-to action for any super-strong hero is just to dish out a haymaker.
It's the same punch that could knock over a building, and somehow our hero doesn't over-judge the resilience of any given baddie and simply turn him into a fine red mist. (At least, unless it's one of THOSE sorts of comics.)
I mean, seriously, one of Superman's super-powers has to be the one to accurately gauge just how much PUNCH a given bad guy needs, and to finely tune his "raw brute force" so as not to splatter lesser villains into goo. (I mean, I'm pretty sure I've seen comics where it's made obvious that Superman hardly needs to use his full force to deal with a "mere mortal" bad guy, but there are just so many degrees in between "squishy mere mortal human" and "uber-being who smashes planets.")
Anyway, it's probably something I'm "over-thinking" considering all the other absurd tropes of superheroic comics, but it can be a bit jarring at times to see, say, a character I don't expect to be particularly super-human get knocked through a wall by a "good guy" and then wonder -- how did Mr. Good Guy *know* that "wall-smashing" was the proper level of punchitude to use?