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scuba school sucks
Aug 30, 2012

The brilliance of my posting illuminates the forums like a jar of shining gold when all around is dark

Lumpy the Cook posted:

Well, it accomplishes two things; it demonstrates the superhuman power of the attacker, as well as showing the superhuman strength of the character receiving the punch- if a regular person took a punch hard enough to send a solid object through a building, they'd surely die. It's a simple, yet effective means of conveying the raw power of the figures involved.

This, also it's a classic superhero comic scene, so they have to homage it in the movies. I think there's literally a hundred times Superman's been punched through a building in the comics. I mean even street-level "superheroes" like Daredevil or The Punisher get punched through walls.

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