I'm not the OP, but it has to be just standing there and punching it. Which automatically requires much more power than flying towards a planet at the speed of light and bursting through it.
You too would get wrecked much harder, if I ran at you and tackled you at you at max speed – compared to me punching you.
If he had a feat where he did it in a single strike, I wouldn't have said maybe. But, considering Thanos is historically the guy who slaps around all of the big Marvel guns [Thor, Hulk etc.], I'm willing to give him the benefit of the doubt.
If you really want an approximation, it's not a single strike or by his lonesome: https://imgur.com/a/OCWOFNW
And if you want to eyeball on how Thanos sits in relation to the regular Marvel heroes, and not just watch him 1v1 slaughter them, go read Blood & Thunder for scaling.
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Slapping around guys that can barely lift a mountain doesn't mean anything. No one that Thanos slapped can one punch a planet. No one in the Marvel universe can except certain versions of Hulk (like WBH). By planet, I'm referring to Earth size or larger.
The Thanos/Drax feat is a decent feat but astronomically below one shotting a planet with a single blow. Why? The planet destroyed itself once it was wrenched from its normal ebbs and tides (from the fight) which created an instability. And it was done with help from Drax. So Thanos gets half the feat. And if they both achieved the feat directly (didn't create an instability) then the feat is still a little less than one punch shattering it.
Thanos didn't get much stronger since he has no feats above that.
That's like Superman lifting a million tons and later is stated to be stronger and maxes out at a thousand tons. If Thanos is stronger than that (I disagree) then he's not much stronger.
Shut up you complete and utter clown. It was stated on panel death augmented his power greatly, so you think she only upgraded his EP or durability!
He punched Thane through a planet destroying it in the process you sad troll. Pre death Thanos was having to put work in to put Thor down physically, post upgrade he floors him in one shot. Read some comics you moron.
The Hulk has a power set that allows writers to write him above planetary levels of strength. Thanos was just toying with a Phoenix Avatar who could destroy planets with ease. Lol at Thanos being a mere mountain crusher.
Thanos is not 50% of Thanos + Drax. It's like saying The Rock is 50% of The Rock + Justin Bieber. Drax couldn't even withstand the planet's explosion.
Sure, I can't give you a feat of Thanos slapping guys who one-shot planets, because nobody has one-shotted a planet, otherwise this would not be a thread. It's even harder to find the Earth itself -- and the thread is not about Earth, but planet in general.
How many strikes would you say it took Gladiator here? I assume you'd say even accounting for the number of blows, this is above 'mountain level', no?
I'm trying to remove any other variable [i.e. no Beta Ray due to bullrush/energy, no Terrax due to Earth manipulation powerset, no energy blasting] to make it as clean as possible. So no momentum, no energy -- just strictly punching/hitting from a standing position. But -- then again, the thread didn't specify that you can't use flight/momentum, either.
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Bob can imagine a Sentry in one instance as a Sentry that operates at high Herald levels (i.e the Hyperion's, Shazam's, Blue Marvel, Zod, Thor etc within that weight class). Consider how long each would be able to restrain a Cube Being as the Sentry did for example. They would all last for roughly the same amount of time. While in the next instance, Bob (due to his condition) can imagine a Sentry capable of reversing the Molecule Man's powers, and Owen is crazy powerful.
Sentry treated Thor like a full adult male would treat an infant. Sentry can be far above Galactus even. Imagine Molecule Man vs Galactus. Owen would stomp. The Sentry depends on Bob's day to day perception of reality. Top End Sentry destroys planets with the power of a million stars, which was later downgraded to 1,000 stars.
OP specified doing it from a standstill and no flying through.
I meant Professor Hulk when I mentioned smacked around. I don't recall Thanos smacking Gladiator around.
Phoenix avatar has no feats of being able to one shot a planet with a single blow.
Post the scan of Thanos punching someone through a planet and therefore destroying the planet. That will most certainly prove that Thanos can one shot a planet.
And showings >>>>statements when both contradict each other