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Curious about something.
Why are we assuming Mark got magically stronger when going to Thraxa? It's very heavily implied, if not outright stated, that Mark is the same as when he fought Nolan.
When Nolan ask Mark for his help with defending Thraxa from Viltrum, Mark makes an interesting statement about his strength. He claims how can he help Nolan when he couldn't even beat him? Mark is saying his showing against Nolan is either still his same strength, or it's close enough to his current level that it doesn't matter.
I don't think Mark's showings against Thula means he should scale exactly to Nolan. Nolan, despite agreeing with Mark that he wasn't ready, believed he could defeat Thula if he stopped holding back and fought to kill. And its true, he did seemingly push Thula back and only lost because he hesitated in the end.
Anissa, who is stronger than Thula but weaker than Nolan, was able to stomp Mark easily. With actual scans of their body's strength showing that Mark had a less than 18% chance of surviving an encounter with her. Which once again proves that Mark is far weaker than Nolan at this point. Mark has no chance of beating Anissa, yet he can defeat Thula. Both of them are weaker than Nolan. I'll admit we aren't fully certain with Anissa, maybe she's equal to Nolan here, but I don't see why she'd be stronger.
There's also nothing suggesting Mark got stronger between Season 2 and 1. Actually, our rating says he got stronger in the middle of Season 2. Since Season 2 Mark got beaten to a bloody pulp by multiple Maulers, who are currently scaling to him. The only reason we have the scaling like this is because we don't want others to scale.
However, that's not a reason to assume Mark is stronger. If that's how it works, then outliers would become rare, and you can easily say someone doesn't scale to another because he was weaker/stronger. We need proof that someone is stronger. We can't say they are because we don't like the scaling.
Mark obviously scales now that we've seen his fight with Conquest, who is stronger than Nolan. However, this gives us a far better way to scale people like Mark during Season 1 and 2. It's officially stated that Mark's strength increased by 138% after his training. This means Mark in Season 1 and 2 is 2.38x weaker than his Season 3 self.
Which means Mark scales to 434.8 Gigatons of TNT (Large Island level) or 4.76 Teratons of TNT (Small Country level+) if we accept this calculation for Season 3 Mark.
Note: I'm just making a suggestion. I'm not going to make a CRT, I'm just gauging interest. Feel free to disagree, agree, or ignore me.
Why are we assuming Mark got magically stronger when going to Thraxa? It's very heavily implied, if not outright stated, that Mark is the same as when he fought Nolan.
When Nolan ask Mark for his help with defending Thraxa from Viltrum, Mark makes an interesting statement about his strength. He claims how can he help Nolan when he couldn't even beat him? Mark is saying his showing against Nolan is either still his same strength, or it's close enough to his current level that it doesn't matter.
I don't think Mark's showings against Thula means he should scale exactly to Nolan. Nolan, despite agreeing with Mark that he wasn't ready, believed he could defeat Thula if he stopped holding back and fought to kill. And its true, he did seemingly push Thula back and only lost because he hesitated in the end.
Anissa, who is stronger than Thula but weaker than Nolan, was able to stomp Mark easily. With actual scans of their body's strength showing that Mark had a less than 18% chance of surviving an encounter with her. Which once again proves that Mark is far weaker than Nolan at this point. Mark has no chance of beating Anissa, yet he can defeat Thula. Both of them are weaker than Nolan. I'll admit we aren't fully certain with Anissa, maybe she's equal to Nolan here, but I don't see why she'd be stronger.
There's also nothing suggesting Mark got stronger between Season 2 and 1. Actually, our rating says he got stronger in the middle of Season 2. Since Season 2 Mark got beaten to a bloody pulp by multiple Maulers, who are currently scaling to him. The only reason we have the scaling like this is because we don't want others to scale.
However, that's not a reason to assume Mark is stronger. If that's how it works, then outliers would become rare, and you can easily say someone doesn't scale to another because he was weaker/stronger. We need proof that someone is stronger. We can't say they are because we don't like the scaling.
Mark obviously scales now that we've seen his fight with Conquest, who is stronger than Nolan. However, this gives us a far better way to scale people like Mark during Season 1 and 2. It's officially stated that Mark's strength increased by 138% after his training. This means Mark in Season 1 and 2 is 2.38x weaker than his Season 3 self.
Which means Mark scales to 434.8 Gigatons of TNT (Large Island level) or 4.76 Teratons of TNT (Small Country level+) if we accept this calculation for Season 3 Mark.
Note: I'm just making a suggestion. I'm not going to make a CRT, I'm just gauging interest. Feel free to disagree, agree, or ignore me.