Today I read this in Ari Barak and the Free-Will Paradox. Ari has been met at the airport in Israel by a very large man, "seven and a half feet tall, maybe eight." Ari thinks of him as a "giant," but so far he doesn't appear to be a giant in any supernatural sense, just a very tall man. When it's time to leave the airport, this happens:
He set Ari’s bags down on the sidewalk, then positioned himself behind the trunk of the sports car. He leaned over the trunk, reached his enormous arms in a kind of embrace around the back of the car, and gripping it firmly, he lifted it clear into the air. Ari goggled as the giant pivoted and staggered about twenty meters over to a vacant parking space, and gently lowered the BMW into the space.
He needed two hands. And just for a little two-seater sports car, not a sturdy armored car. Very low-level superhuman strength by the standard set by the Shadow.
When I went back to Wikipedia to get the quote for this post, I found that I had misread it. The Shadow is actually able to lift a sturdy armored warrior with one hand. I misread it first, though, and read the scene in Ari Barak later, so it still counts as a sync.
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