Unless I'm missing something, shuma should take this in a curbstomp. It took a crap ton of celestials to hold back shuma's far weaker brethren and then the galactus engine came out and started beating them all into the ground. IIRC, it was shuma that killed that version of galactus and remade him as the engine.
It's not of a close enough relation that someone could justifiably make the blanket statement that Shuma should be "any version" of Galactus. This abomination dwarfs the 616 Galactus in power.
Yup. That thing took on T&A, multiple Celestials, and Galactus himself and they were no match for it (till Death stepped in).
The Engine was nothing but a servant to the Old Ones. If Gorath really is an Elite among his kind (suggested in the story when Mar-vell invoked his name in the Death banishing spell), he should handily beat Galactus.
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And I'm saying it was retarded for you to make that all encompassing, unnecessary statement. The question wasn't about any version of Galactus, it was about the Cancerverse Galactus Engine.
Tbf, it certainly seemed to be implied in the final issue that 616 Galactus was holding off the GE by himself: http://i.imgur.com/OZfkkIE.jpg "If the Devourer of Worlds cannot vanquish the obscene Galactus Engine, we will quickly follow my master to his doom [...] It is a logical assessment of our situation."
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Agreed. Just posting that because someone mentioned that the GE was "magnitudeS" greater than 616 Galactus. That doesn't seem to be the case if the scan I posted is to be believed.
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Its not like Galactus faced off against the Engine by himself. The Engine had to muscle through a host of Celestials, T&A, and Galactus. The others either fled or died and only Galactus was left fighting a losing battle.
If it was Galactus vs the Engine from the get go, Galactus would have been beaten into paste.
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