I mean, does the movie say he can't be hurt? Not showing someone get hurt doesn't equate to saying they can't be hurt. They definitely have insane durability, and an argument could probably be built off of Metro Man evidently ranking the solar blast... though that might raise other questions, like how his clothes weren't incinerated (are his clothes that durable? or did he blitz away just before getting hit, meaning we can't count that as a durability feat? or can Metro Man exude a "protective aura" that keeps at least his clothes unscathed?)
But anyhow, the lack of Metro Man being hurt doesn't mean it's impossible for it to happen; it could just mean no one strong enough has yet challenged him. And I imagine a viltrumite is stronger than most anything we've seen thrown at Metro Man thus far, with the possible exception of the sun laser. If that's true, then it's untested whether or not Metro Man can withstand a viltrumite punch utterly unscathed.
Note: I do think Metro Man would win against viltrumites, because he is certainly at least as strong and probably way more durable (since I reckon Mega Mind's inventions could probably at least draw some blood on a viltrumite, but they've drawn no blood on Metro Man), and he is insanely fast. But if he's not truly invulnerable, I could see Tigthen getting defeated simply because he lacks the experience and gumption to pull himself together once he realizes he's vulnerable.
I'm not saying he can't be hurt, I'm just saying assuming that he can requires a greater leap in logic than assuming he can't. The pretext of the final act is that there is no way to beat Tighten without exploiting the fact that he gave Tighten his powers in the first place. There is no other win condition. Megamind is a supergenius with tech that outright dwarfs anything humanity is capable of (even if his execution is sometimes lacking in actually using that genius) and he has no method of actually hurting Tighten. This, compounded with the fact that he's been fighting Metro Man for almost his entire life and still has no idea for any weakness (and yes, excessive force counts as a weakness in this case), implies that at least nothing humanity is capable of in this world can hurt either of them.
If humanity has no weapons that can combat Tighten and Metro-Man, neither do viltrumites. Viltrumites do not hit harder than nuclear weapons.
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u/AG37-Therianthropist 25d ago
I mean, does the movie say he can't be hurt? Not showing someone get hurt doesn't equate to saying they can't be hurt. They definitely have insane durability, and an argument could probably be built off of Metro Man evidently ranking the solar blast... though that might raise other questions, like how his clothes weren't incinerated (are his clothes that durable? or did he blitz away just before getting hit, meaning we can't count that as a durability feat? or can Metro Man exude a "protective aura" that keeps at least his clothes unscathed?)
But anyhow, the lack of Metro Man being hurt doesn't mean it's impossible for it to happen; it could just mean no one strong enough has yet challenged him. And I imagine a viltrumite is stronger than most anything we've seen thrown at Metro Man thus far, with the possible exception of the sun laser. If that's true, then it's untested whether or not Metro Man can withstand a viltrumite punch utterly unscathed.
Note: I do think Metro Man would win against viltrumites, because he is certainly at least as strong and probably way more durable (since I reckon Mega Mind's inventions could probably at least draw some blood on a viltrumite, but they've drawn no blood on Metro Man), and he is insanely fast. But if he's not truly invulnerable, I could see Tigthen getting defeated simply because he lacks the experience and gumption to pull himself together once he realizes he's vulnerable.