He’s what? 18? Basically nothing in viltrumite timeframe.

Literally gets dominated by Lucan using one finger.

Then he gets his ass beat by Thula, who has hundreds of years of experience minimum, mind you viltrumites get stronger with age, aaand somehow a pep talk allows him to almost kill her? What? Mind you, in the comics this Thula threw down with Battle Beast and walked away alive

  • maaximilian@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I interpret it differently; I dont think he almost beat her. He barely did any damage to her and he was fucked. He has her in a disadvantageous position, but whos to say that punch would have killed her? We legit saw less than a minute before Mark tanking her knee straight up to the face. He probably wouldnt have been able to physically kill her there even if he didnt hesitate

    She knows he was holding back to a degree and knows hes soft as shit; they animate in a way that shows her acting all sad and defeated so he drops his guard. I believe she was toying with him

    • Poljon@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      She would have told him so if she had been toying with him. Nothing indicates that she did, we’re just lead to believe he beat her fair and square.

      • maaximilian@alien.topBEnglish
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        10 months ago

        No, not when she was fighting him necessarily, but I feel like in that moment shes toying with his emotions/human side when it looks like shes accepting defeat.

        Like, I dont know if he punches her in the face right there, that it would have killed her considering everything that happened that fight

        • Poljon@alien.topBEnglish
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          10 months ago

          Again, I don’t think she is, and yeah he could’ve killed her right there I believe. There’s a difference between hitting someone who knows they’re going to get hit (and therefore braces for impact) and hitting someone who doesn’t know.

          • maaximilian@alien.topBEnglish
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            10 months ago

            There’s a difference between hitting someone who knows they’re going to get hit (and therefore braces for impact) and hitting someone who doesn’t know.

            Do you mean when hes holding her by her hair? Because she definitely knew she was going to get hit lol

            To me she could have gotten out of that situation, her hands were completely free and so were her legs, but she knew he was soft as hell and played him with that despondent look on her face. She legit hadnt taken basically any damage compared to Mark

            We’ll have to agree to disagree I suppose

            • Poljon@alien.topBEnglish
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              10 months ago

              Yeah, he was holding her in an almost unconscious state, then she came back and hit him. Again for me, that’s not what a Viltrumite would do, that’s not how they toy with their victims.

        • Flim_AND_Flam@alien.topBEnglish
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          10 months ago

          That’s just dumb? Why would she do that? Makes no sense. She would have just killed him immediately