This makes too many assumptions to even pretend to accuracy.FrankTrollman wrote: Hulk must redmist Spiderman for real because conflicts in a cooperative storytelling game are resolved impartially.
If we accept that The Hulk DID punch Spiderman, and Spiderman survived, clearly if we're aiming for genre emulation, the Hulk shouldn't destroy Spiderman with a punch.
Now, we can set our fantasy physics so that the Hulk WILL kill Spiderman if he hits, but also set it so that he cannot plausibly hit Spiderman if Spiderman is not already disabled; we can also set our fantasy physics so the Hulk CAN hit Spiderman and WON'T kill him.
I roughly know how many times Superman has died, but not Spiderman. For all this talk of 'bullets are a real threat', are they really?
Even if bullets are a threat to Spiderman, and the Hulk's fist ALSO poses a threat to Spiderman, that doesn't necessarily follow that they share a 1:1 correspondence. It all comes down to how you model those.
A bullet might be a 'save or suck' with an easy DC and the Hulk's fist might be a 'save or suck' with a difficult DC. A bullet might be low-damage and the Hulk's fist might be high damage - the relative value of each then becomes dependent on how many hit points Spiderman has. Or you could have some type of 'threat bidding' where mooks are willing to take a shot but they're not willing to risk their lives - to actually kill Spiderman they might need narrative weight and to raise the stakes high enough that life (and death) are on the line. In PvP, if the Hulk is willing to KILL Spiderman, it might be a coin-flip as to which one kills the other (but if no one raises the stakes, maybe death isn't even POSSIBLE).
For some values of attack value versus defense value, the Hulk WILL kill Spiderman. For a lot of other values, that's not only uncertain, it may be outright impossible.
For the sake of accuracy, you could offer a statement like: if the system allows a protagonist like the Hulk to kill an antagonist like Loki, it would follow that the Hulk could kill a protagonist that is weaker than Loki, potentially including Spiderman.
Even if this is true and the Hulk can kill Spiderman, it doesn't also imply that Spiderman MUST DIE if the Hulk lands a single blow.