Talk:Rock Puncher/@comment-49.149.249.59-20150506142347/@comment-178.43.17.236-20150506150942

You have a point whe it comes to the center of mass, but not so much when it comes to "arms" of the creature (at least in my opinion). You see it is based on mantis shrimp (I assume you know what that is), so it probably doesn't have endoskeleton (since it already has exo), which means no bones, which in turn makes less plausible for the muscle to break (tissue is not limited by the bone its strapped to). Second thing, anthropods (which Rock Puncher clearly is), have limited joint rotation. They don't have wirsts and elbows to rotate their 2nd and 3rd joint, meaning their muscles don't experience additional pressure from twisting them by joint, so comparing human and anthropod arms is like comparing human arm and set of specialsed pistions. And when it comes to its real life inspiration, mantis shrimp doesn't realy have that much muscle in its arms, compared to the force they deliver. Mechanism behind its "punching" is somewhat similiar to the one in revolver. The bulky arms could be simply an effect of tight egsosceleton. I don't know how it would work in a upscaled model though, so you are not neccesarly wrong. Tissue of muscles could also be composed from other materials than its earthly counterpart (which is mainly carbon), but I doubt that would happen (since our hero is able to eat smaller sea creatures), but this theory is still there (its an alien after all). So while you got some pretty good evidence, you missed a point (sorry if I offended you). But I might be wrong, I am not omniscent after all.