I'm gonna play Devil's advocate and say that the trio loses. Surfer has been laughed off by Thanos before, and so has Thor. Though Kyle Rayner is my favorite GL, considering he's an artist with that ring, Thanos is infinitely more powerful if Kyle isn't Ion. Though these guys woudl rough up Thanos quite nicely, they would have to come up with a plan beforehand to beat him. Random encounter, it ain't gonna happen.
If all 3 decided to absorb Thanos power at the same time, victory would be theirs.
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Never seen any Eternal have their power drained. It's my understanding they're born with the ability to use ambient cosmic energy for a variety of uses. The cosmic energy is not inherent within them. A GL's ring has power stored within it.
It's like saying "Cytorrak can absorb Dr Strange's power". Strange doesn't have inherent mystical power.
These 3 go down after a tough fight.
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I think the question becomes are these three, fighting together, in the same level as a skyfather? Thanos has proven himself capable of holding his own against Odin and taps into a similar energy reserve as him. So while Thanos does seem to be a little behind Odin, it isn't much.
Now let's look at the team. It could be argued that the Surfer is the most powerful among them, but I think it is safe to say that with the ring and Mjolnir, Kyle and Thor are in approximately the same league as him. The problem is that Thanos has always shown himself to be able to handle the Surfer with relative ease. So does adding three more characters that are on his level really change the outcome of the fight? I tend to think not. Now if the group had some one sided prep. or other advantage then things might be different, but as it stands I give it to Thanos 6 or 7/10.
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Thor is the only one with the power to physically knock thanos out cold (he has done it before) but he would need help from the others to distract Thanos. If the others could distract him long enough for Thor to get out a god-blast Thanos would be burnt to a crisp. However, in an uncoordinated attack on Thanos he would beat all three as he could easily take out each one individually. Their only chance is to keep him off balance and distracted so that he cannot focus on any one of the three.
Unfortunately for Thanos, Kyle alone drained him in an x-over.
Now keeping in mind that it was just an x-over, and it was just a rookie Kyle so it should be taken with a grain of salt....I'm willing to say that between these 3 together realistically, I don't see why they wouldnt be able to do it.
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Some people would argue to the death that Mjolnir alone is skyfather level. Added with what's been called the "Most powerful weapon in the universe" and a character who's definition is power pis and makes things up on the fly as well. It should happen.
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Avalonofthewind took the words out of my mouth. They have what it takes to knock out Thanos if they do some teamwork. Remember that they can fly for a moment just creating a strategy.