- 3,294
- 1,288
Vulca needs some work. Like a lot of work.
First off, let's see who he'd really scale to. As far as I can tell, Vulcan has had three major fights:
Gladiator: See fight here. Against the Praetor of the Imperial Guard, Vulcan at best, knocks Gladiator back but doesn't seem to do any real damage. Gladiator ultimately defeats him but Gladiator is under orders to bring Vulcan back alive. It wouldn't be much of a stretch to say that Gladiator was holding back. Hence, I don't consider this to be a good indication of Vulcan's level of power.
Adam Warlock (Post Annihilation): See fight here. Whereas with Gladiator, Vulcan is clearly outmatched, he dominates here. However, Vulcan isn't winning due to pure power but because he drained Adam of the vast majority of his power. Adam is clearly weaker than he normally is as evidenced by his gaunt frame. While I would treat this fight as a testament to the potency of Vulcan's Energy Absorbtion, it's still not the best indicator of his overall performance. Warlock is not working at 100% and as such, I'm hesitant to scale him to this. It also doesn't help that Vulcan caught Warlock by surprise at first.
Black Bolt: See fight here. Now this is a fight! BB and Vulcan trade blows with Vulcan even giving BB a decent beatdown. However, once BB unleashes his voice, he reduces Vulcan to a charred husk of a mutant. Yet, Vulcan survives and continues fighting until the bomb that BB was transporting goes off.
Conclusion: It would seem to me that Vulcan scales best to Black Bolt. His other fights have factors in them that don't me full confidence in scaling him to them.
Next up is Vulcan's speed. I bring this up in particular because we have him scaling to Thor. That makes no sense. The only way that works is because Vulcan fought Gladiator, who not only has his own feats but consistently scales to Thor. However, we already know that Gladiator is holding back during their fight and Vulcan has never fought with Thor. Based on this and his fight with Black Bolt, I think we can safely say that he should has similiar Combat speed and reactions.
Also, Vulcan has a travel speed feat. Seen here Vulcan flies from Earth in the Milky Galaxy to Shi'ar space in the Shi'ar Galaxy in over a week.
Conclusion: Vulcan should have likely Massively Hypersonic+ combat speed with at least FTL travel speed. Or, Vulcan actually scales to Gladiator in terms of speed and Black Bolt need his speed updated??
Next up is Vulcan's durability. He took physical attacks from and was harmed by Black Bolt. That would qualify him for 5-A in my books. In addition, he took an enraged scream from Black Bolt's voice and surived though it utterly mutilated him. That would potentially make him 4-B.
Conclusion: At least 5-A durability.
As far as anything else, Vulcan has shown some other feats:
Healing: Heals D'Ken's neural pathways and brings him out of a coma.
Minor Resistance to Telepathy: Rachel found it hard to get a lock on him.
Minor Resistance to Intangibility: Harms Shadowcat when she phases through him.
Biological Manipulation: Turns off the current to Rachel's brai .
Attack Reflection: Redirects Cyclops' blast back at him.
Forcefield Creation: Makes a shield to block Polaris' attack.
Limited Self-Sustenance: Type 1 & 2. As long as he has energy, he seem to be able to just use it to sustain himself. I consider Type 3 but that could just be a stamina feat reakky.
Finally, I'd like to just tweak the Power and Abilities section. The way it is written could be better. Plus, Vulcan doesn't actually have some of the powers listed there.
First off, let's see who he'd really scale to. As far as I can tell, Vulcan has had three major fights:
Gladiator: See fight here. Against the Praetor of the Imperial Guard, Vulcan at best, knocks Gladiator back but doesn't seem to do any real damage. Gladiator ultimately defeats him but Gladiator is under orders to bring Vulcan back alive. It wouldn't be much of a stretch to say that Gladiator was holding back. Hence, I don't consider this to be a good indication of Vulcan's level of power.
Adam Warlock (Post Annihilation): See fight here. Whereas with Gladiator, Vulcan is clearly outmatched, he dominates here. However, Vulcan isn't winning due to pure power but because he drained Adam of the vast majority of his power. Adam is clearly weaker than he normally is as evidenced by his gaunt frame. While I would treat this fight as a testament to the potency of Vulcan's Energy Absorbtion, it's still not the best indicator of his overall performance. Warlock is not working at 100% and as such, I'm hesitant to scale him to this. It also doesn't help that Vulcan caught Warlock by surprise at first.
Black Bolt: See fight here. Now this is a fight! BB and Vulcan trade blows with Vulcan even giving BB a decent beatdown. However, once BB unleashes his voice, he reduces Vulcan to a charred husk of a mutant. Yet, Vulcan survives and continues fighting until the bomb that BB was transporting goes off.
Conclusion: It would seem to me that Vulcan scales best to Black Bolt. His other fights have factors in them that don't me full confidence in scaling him to them.
Next up is Vulcan's speed. I bring this up in particular because we have him scaling to Thor. That makes no sense. The only way that works is because Vulcan fought Gladiator, who not only has his own feats but consistently scales to Thor. However, we already know that Gladiator is holding back during their fight and Vulcan has never fought with Thor. Based on this and his fight with Black Bolt, I think we can safely say that he should has similiar Combat speed and reactions.
Also, Vulcan has a travel speed feat. Seen here Vulcan flies from Earth in the Milky Galaxy to Shi'ar space in the Shi'ar Galaxy in over a week.
Conclusion: Vulcan should have likely Massively Hypersonic+ combat speed with at least FTL travel speed. Or, Vulcan actually scales to Gladiator in terms of speed and Black Bolt need his speed updated??
Next up is Vulcan's durability. He took physical attacks from and was harmed by Black Bolt. That would qualify him for 5-A in my books. In addition, he took an enraged scream from Black Bolt's voice and surived though it utterly mutilated him. That would potentially make him 4-B.
Conclusion: At least 5-A durability.
As far as anything else, Vulcan has shown some other feats:
Healing: Heals D'Ken's neural pathways and brings him out of a coma.
Minor Resistance to Telepathy: Rachel found it hard to get a lock on him.
Minor Resistance to Intangibility: Harms Shadowcat when she phases through him.
Biological Manipulation: Turns off the current to Rachel's brai .
Attack Reflection: Redirects Cyclops' blast back at him.
Forcefield Creation: Makes a shield to block Polaris' attack.
Limited Self-Sustenance: Type 1 & 2. As long as he has energy, he seem to be able to just use it to sustain himself. I consider Type 3 but that could just be a stamina feat reakky.
Finally, I'd like to just tweak the Power and Abilities section. The way it is written could be better. Plus, Vulcan doesn't actually have some of the powers listed there.
