Originally posted by CaptainStoic
The fact that the Surfer tapped into the Hulks gamma spawned form, and in turn depowered him in their first meeting shows that the Surfer needs to utilise his power cosmic in order to manipulate beings on Sentry's level.
How does that show that he HAS to manipulate beings on Sentry's level? If anything, it would only indicate that his Power Cosmic CAN be used on being that are on that level.
And for the record... you're wrong. See this was actually the FIRST confrontation between the two and as you can see there's not only no energy manipulation of Hulk's internal energy going on, but Hulk ends up being physically KO'd by Surfer's board...
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The instance that you're thinking of happened later in the comics. And Surfer didn't do it because he HAD to, he did it out of mercy when the Hulk was already KO'd...
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Originally posted by CaptainStoic
There are beings that he can not tap, or siphon power from, one being in particular is Thanos, another being is Sentry.
Proof that there's ANYONE Surfer can't drain energy from? His not doing it in every fight doesn't mean that he can't just that he doesn't in that particular instance. By the same token, Sentry not using super speed against an opponent doesn't directly indicate that Sentry's speed won't be effective, it just means he went with another tactic. As I just showed, Surfer KO'd the Hulk without doing it and then did it later on so we know that his ending a confrontation without it in no way indicates that he can't use it successfully.
Also, proof that Sentry's power can't be drained will suffice if you can't find any negative showings for Surfer.
Originally posted by CaptainStoic
Going off of Sentry's very powerset, we have learned that he uses his vast psychic powers to keep his physical form in a cohesive state. Sentry has shown that he does possess these psy powers as he erased his entire history from the knowledge of all beings on earth iirc.This in turn means that he Silver Surfer would in fact not be able to tap into the Sentry's power reserve, and that he would need to take this fight to the physical stage.
The problem is that Surfer's got some nifty psi powers himself(that are far less ambiguous) as well as feats involving the direct absorption and manipulation of psychic energy, so even if what you're saying was true Surfer could still tap it.
And going off his powerset... Surfer can do pretty much ANYTHING.
Originally posted by CaptainStoic
I would hope that many would agree that a Cosmic Cube outputs more cosmic energy than the Silver Surfer ever could.
Except that all Sentry did was "contain" it by holding it in his hand, and that's something that's also been accomplished by Red Skull. It's unclear what Sentry did exactly which makes it an impressive but unquantifiable feat(and everybody has those to their credit).
Originally posted by CaptainStoic
The Sentry when battling Ultron showed how resistant he was to enegetic assaults, he did the same when it came to the Mutant Collective being.
Neither of those guys have the feats to stack up to Surfer.
Originally posted by CaptainStoic
He took Terraxs assault like he was taking a shower. If anyone would care to glance or re-read his mini, you will recall Terrax saying "impossible", and the lines that contorted his face as he gave his all to destroy Bob... Terrax isn't the type to hold back in a fight. Terrax and Black Adam are cut from the same cloth, they fight to win even if someone has to die for said victory.
Terrax is a joke and has been taken down by the New Warriors and also by Gamora and has been repeatedly humiliated by Surfer. I'll take a consistent portrayal of abilities over a one time feat any day.
Originally posted by CaptainStoic
The Silver Surfer would have to get physical, and this is where and when he would lose, and I mean as badly as he lost to Morg in their first battle... broken, busted, and disgusted.
So he can trade shots with someone who has the combined powers of Gladiator and the Uniforce and can shake off all the damage that classic Wonderman(who's punching power is on par with Thor's) and a Bannerless Hulk can dish out, but you think that Sentry's going to have an easy time if it goes h2h... 😂 .
Originally posted by CaptainStoic
Sentry will kill him.
And then wake up and realise that Surfer KO'd him an hour earlier and he'd been dreaming every since.