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ya see, this is what happened on the supes v thanos thread. my GUT tells me from everything i've seen thanos should/would beat supes. but there IS a lot of evidence suggesting supes could stand up to him.
to a couple of your points -- don't forget i'm using all characters at what i perceive to be their most consistent levels, so uber high end feats don't count . . . that's more a disadvantage to supes cuz thanos doesn't have many low showings. the gem is usually what does it with adam (and adam is a totally weirded out character anyway who's own stats seem to fluctuate wildly . . .) thor HAS had some good showings, unfortunately, most were retconned and more recent showings have thanos being well above him. though in thor's defense he wasn't written to potential.
supes survived asmodel because of his nature, not durability, so i'll discount that, but supes and ss DO have some feats that seem to put them in thanos's class.
already avy, i'm not really debating this with you because we're pretty close in how we're seeing things, but you gotta answer this then: why does thanos so easily beat herald level characters and, well, any other top tier? and please don't resort to the fact that they 'job' . . . he's done it with far too much consistency for me to accept that answer. so . . . how does he do it??
(oh, and we sort of ARE on topic still . . . kinda . . . in an esoteric, spirt-of-the-thread kinda way . . . sorta . . . er . . . right.)
Ah! But Superman's durability did play into it as he didn't instantly burn to a crisp just by touching him. In that arc, even WW and MM when touching any heavenly objects were burning and in pain. I keep it as a valid point. Let's also not forget that he had just finished moving the moon beforehand. 2 different kinds of magic, 2 different kinds of weaknesses. Both are still MAGIC weaknesses of different kinds. Supes because he doesn't understand magic, Thanos because of his moral weakness.
Thanos has far less appearances than Superman, and they aren't on earth. When he was on earth, he had problems with Kazar. We both know if Thanos had a couple of monthly titles, he would have to job quite a bit too to keep an long running ongoing series.
As for the cosmics, they do Job.
For example, why would they blast Thanos with cosmic energy? That's akin to evilstar blasting Superman with his solar energy. Why not scan and destroy any tech on Thanos being to disqualify any sudden "power ups" for instance, a simple blast from Omega that wasn't "planet destroying" by any means and Thanos had to pull out 3 shields just to survive in the addition to his costume which is also armor.
Cosmics usually try to battle him H2H, which is Supermans forte', not theirs.
For the topic itself - NOBODY should beat 100,000 daxamites. That's just ludicrous.
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But didn't secret files or something state a probe fought like a few thousand Daxams, and wasted them?? And then later Superman, presundip, was shredding them like paper, along with DD?? If that never happened, then i'm wrong.
I remember seeing something like that, but probes, like heralds can greatly vary in power.
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But all the probes are mindless drones. Its not like their individuals. You have different kinds of probes, but all the same level of power within their class.
i dont even know about daxamites anymore, becuase in the 1993 epic panic in the sky, when green skinned ,humanoid,creepy victorian mustache brainiac seized control of war world and was coming to destroy earth, superman recruited about 3 dozen heroes and a handul of villains, including a few from new genesis and a daxamite was there fighting.......while war world was in orbit around earth...so i was like....i thought they were weak to a yellow sun? and this dude was kicking ass like nobody's business, and he never lost power, so im like WTF with the daxamintes, does NE1 have any current info?
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wasn't it their world that darkseid conrolled with a thought at one point?
and avy, we'll agree to disagree. something tells me that thanos would beat superman. his ltd (relative to superman) appearances make feat-comparison difficult, but his actions have done enough to suggest it is the case. and like i said, i don't buy the jobbing. it's too consistent. thanos does have some lower feats (you mentioned a couple) but supes has lots of lower ones too, so getting into that comparison isn't a great way to go. i do still say that t-vo may well be a way that supes could win.
as for asmodel -- i always interpretted the light as being part and parcel of his angelic nature. withstanding the light and touch were the same thing -- he resisted both because he was so 'pure'. or whatever . . .
well, kinda..ive always heard that they were weak to yellow sunlight and strengthned by red sunlight, also there elemental weakness, was to lead....thats where i get confused cuz i remeber in "panic in the sky" a daxamite was there taking on brainiac and the hordes of war world. and WW was in earth's orbit, meaning he was in the presence of a yellow sun, and wasnt weakned, so im like WTF...maybe i heard wrong all along
Depending on the circumstances, victory could tip to either one.
It really doesn't matter that they both have high and low moments, but what matters is that they have COMPARABLE high's and lows... and that is what I'm reffering to and what matters in the end.
For Asmodel, the burning touch is due to his being from a much higher plane of being/existence. Matter on our plane is basically destroyed on contact with spiritual energy. The light is related to that, but is different since it is basically "Judgement" and goes a lot deeper.
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though in thor's defense he wasn't written to potential. 
Jun 12th, 2006 03:25 PM
