Yeah, I flipped through AvX: Vs. just to experience the sweet, sweet satisfaction of seeing Cap totally own Gambit with ease.
Nevermind. If he was Flash he coulda vibrated through the darts. Pfft, pansy.
Heh, I love how Gambit fans keep calling it jobbing. Captain America should have taken Gambit down however you slice it. He's in a whole other class from Gambit. Maybe if Gambit were as ruthless as his New Son counterpart, I could see him pulling out a win. Short of that, Cap takes him every time. I was happy to see the comics reflect that, with Cap barely even paying attention for like 90% of the fight.
I assumed he tore the mail off before it exploded, like any sane person with virtually instantaneous reflexes would've. I'm not sure why a punch from Cap shouldn't take Gambit down, either. Gambit's certainly more powerful than Cap, sure, but Cap sort of specializes in taking down more powerful opponents. Gambit let Cap close the gap between them, placing them in close quarters, and Gambit, solid fighter though he may be, has literally no chance whatsoever against Cap there.
It's tricky when it comes to hero vs. hero battles because both of them have generally been portrayed overcoming all kinds of wacky s*** they maybe shouldn't have in the past. But my usual thought is that Cap beats pretty much anyone in a hand-to-hand fistfight unless the other person has some kind of physical powers--super-strength, super-speed, enhanced durability, whatever. Cap's the best a normal human can possibly be, after all, and he's one of the best fighters in the world, hands down. He may not be as flashy as your typical ninja-types, but he gets the job done better than pretty much all of them.
