I don't know how Thanos would beat Manhattan. He seems impervious to harm. Then again he has never gone up against someone with Thanos (or anything close to him) so blerg?
Doctor Manhattan has shown absolutely no weakness to anything. He can seemingly do anything he wishes (energy blast, transmutation, cloning himself, teleportation, size alteration, molecular manipulation). And he can completely reform from being disintegrated, and can see past, present, and future at once. Doesn't even seem like a fair fight if you add surfer in.
Ok so he can't do that but just about everything you mentioned Thanos has done on a much higher level the Surfer too. The team can't win a majority Thanos is too powerful.
Yeah because its more logical for The Doc to win even if Thanos has better feats has fought more powerful beings and has alot more experience i see the logic my bad
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doc did show some vulnerability to tachyons--at least that would prevent his precog from working and it seemed to cloud his senses overall. if thanos could disintegrate him ala veidt, thanos may have enough energy control to actually prevent jon's reformation.
we are talking about levels of control over energy. it's true jon's was enormous, but does it exceeds thanos's level of control? or ss's for that matter? if thanos turned someone to stone and wanted them to STAY as stone, could jon supercede thanos's power and change that person back? given thanos's accomplishments and jon's i'd find it unlikely.
could jon's AND ss's level COMBINE to eclipse thanos's though? thanos might be able to prevent jon from reforming, but if ss's ALSO attacking, that would make things a lot more difficult for thanos.
But what exactly could thanos do to destroy doctor manhattan? Doctor Manhattan can't even destroy himself (his own energies are what was used to blow him up). And thanos is still the same makeup as a human (atoms, molecules and whatnot) which is what doctor manhattan manipulates easily.
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but thanos has control over his own molecular structure--very UNLIKE any human. could jon supercede thanos's OWN control of his OWN body? there is no evidence to suggest he could do so.
Same makeup as a human? hardly where do you get that from? So, your saying Doc could matter manipulate Thanos which has never been done before to him while he has done it to somebody with very good matter manipulation in a skrull. Ooo yes and before somebody says Warlock... that was a magical spell and that was pre many Thanos upgrades which since then no spell or matter manipulation has worked as such.