Originally posted by GalacticStorm
The crossover where phoenix beats back a hungry galactus isnt the only time they've fought. They also had a confrontation in the last days of excalibur where not only did rachel put galactus in his place for trying to eat the earth again, but she knocked out nova. This is just phoenix 2 for gods sake!!
Actually, it's the other way around. The appearance of Nova was BEFORE the other encounter and Galactus did not fight the Phoenix in that battle. Nova was using poor tactics and got humiliated by Rachel and it was Meggan that challenged Galactus by absorbing the Earth essence to be (in her mind) on par with him. Rachel not wanting to sacrifice the lives of her comrades or the Earth was willing to give herself up. But when Galactus began using the energy converter to draw out the Phoenix essence, the stars begans disappearing and it was this event and the persuasion by Roma and a disguised Merlyn to desist with his actions.
Galactus draws his power from planets and can tap into the power cosmic. The phoenix is the living sentient energy from the psyches of EVERYTHING in existence. Plus when in her sentient form where she can take over and/or talk with her avatar she draws on the life energy of generations not yet born. Its ridiculous to say that galactus is more powerful than the phoenix force. A full power galactus against phoenix 2 maybe. Thats debatable. But not the phoenix force. It was also in that same issue that death appeared to both galactus and phoenix and she/it asked if he was ready to give in to her as he must do eventually. Galactus said he was not ready. Death holds power over him but not phoenix.
Yes, well he's more like a battery that needs to be charged up every so often. As the Phoenix does not have to manually tap into a source, she is indeed a tough match for Galactus overall. But in a battle, Phoenix would be hardpressed to use it's full potential as such an action would conflict with the very conscious nature of it's being (life rather than death).