How Strong Is Hawkman?

I mean how can he fight Black Adam?

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Well for starters Hawkman's Nth Metal weaponry negates the magical defenses Teth Adam possesses. It's the same way he's able to injury a fucking ghost with his mace. Second, Hawkman's multiple lives have given him countless years of battle experience.

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On top of that, Hawkman is supposed to be tough as nails and had a great durability.

Yeah, but he's human. No healing factor, and no super strength. He literally flies and hits people with a stick.

Even then, strength aside this is another one of those situations where one guy forgets he has superspeed.

Adam should be able to whip around Hawkman in any direction in a second. Hawkman still has to pay attention to things like momentum, physics, wind speeds etc when flying. Adam just bullshits through the air in any direction he wants.

No one understands Hawkman. This is the same Carter that got his shit ripped apart by bird mutants with really sharp claws and they put him in a hospital for a few months. He also lost to a large lion man with all the strength and power of a lion man.

Yet somehow he is supposed to handle Adam and the occasional kryptonian

>I mean how can he fight Black Adam?
nth metal is basically plot device, like vibranium or magic. it does what you need it to do.

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Nth metal seems like the most bullshit because they do not even make an attempt at keeping the abilities in the same area. It really does *anything* the writer wants in that issue. Negate gravity, regeneration, superstrength, magic, traps ghosts, curses people, harms gods, teleportation, breathe water, survive in space....they don't even care.

At least with vibranium they try to keep it all as sonic wave storing, or vibrating at frequencies to do a thing, reflecting all vibrations back etc. Nth metal works on a "Fuck it...it just does this now"

>It really does *anything* the writer wants in that issue.
That's literally what magic does, though.
Something doesn't work, so you do it again, and it does. Shit, even SCIENCE in comics works that way. Reverse the polarities, beams of "pure energy" and shit. They just use scientific words to handwave mumbo jumbo. Nth metal has always been straightforward about it. "It does amazing and mysterious things." Because of that, it's coveted.

You get some more rules based science and even magic in other comics, but when you're writing stuff for years and years with changing writers and some who just don't care you get the handwaves. Even Kryptonite (plain, green kryptonite) can work differently issue to issue, sometimes making Superman powerless, sometimes poisoning him, sometimes doing both.

What is the point in the hawk theme then? Why not make him magic metal man? It's basically Matter Master in all but name now