Talk:Maui vs Hercules/@comment-1758097-20180910201256/@comment-25760276-20180912215344

Lifting the sky also isn't impressive, because people look at that feat based on the myth while they take the sun feat literally. You can only really pick one, and... in real life, the sky has a mass, but it is distributed throughout the entire planet and would be impossible to lift due to the way gravity and the planet works, no matter if Maui has the strength to lift approximately 3,000,000,000,000,000 tons (or 3 teratons, which is about Country Level and thus isn't a strength feat that should be comparable to Hercules.) If you look at it mythologically, there is literally no way to calculate the mass of the sky becuase people didn't have approximations of how much it weighed, and thus we shouldn't really use it as a feat...

Pulling out New Zealand would probably be even less of a feat than lifting the sky, for obvious reasons. It's a land mass, but not one significant enough to compare to the mass of the atmosphere, and especially not the mass of the planet.

Again, everything Maui has is based on his mythology, so every aspect of his feats should come from there, as you said. But regardless, most of Hercules' defeats don't really matter either because they take away from his abilities much less than Maui's defeats did. Nessus got a hit on Hercules that he simply had to shake off, and his defeats of much stronger titans (three at once, at one point) should negate that regardless.