Comments on: The Element of Surprise http://combatic.com/?p=43 Fictional Fighting at its Finest Sat, 28 Aug 2010 13:27:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Earlofthercs http://combatic.com/?p=43&cpage=1#comment-73 Earlofthercs Wed, 17 Dec 2008 00:37:23 +0000 http://combatic.com/?p=43#comment-73 Superhearing still only works at the speed of sound (why you dont see the silver age device of supes hearing someone in danger and flying off to save them, these days most comicbook readers are aware that by the time supes hears the danger, the event is already long over. Signal watch still works because it uses someother form of signal that supes can detect) anyways, if someone's attack came faster than the speed of sound; its why you can still shoot him without him reacting 1st if he doesn't see you about to shoot him. So supes wouldnt be able to hear their heartbeat and detect maliciousness first. And anyways, people's heartbeats race for all sorts of reasons, you could only really judge a person by their heartbeat if you had heard their heartbeat under a control situation first. But yeah, surprise attacks are the key to most in story comic battles, battle board fights are a completely different thing for sure. Superhearing still only works at the speed of sound (why you dont see the silver age device of supes hearing someone in danger and flying off to save them, these days most comicbook readers are aware that by the time supes hears the danger, the event is already long over. Signal watch still works because it uses someother form of signal that supes can detect) anyways, if someone’s attack came faster than the speed of sound; its why you can still shoot him without him reacting 1st if he doesn’t see you about to shoot him. So supes wouldnt be able to hear their heartbeat and detect maliciousness first. And anyways, people’s heartbeats race for all sorts of reasons, you could only really judge a person by their heartbeat if you had heard their heartbeat under a control situation first.

But yeah, surprise attacks are the key to most in story comic battles, battle board fights are a completely different thing for sure.

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