Originally posted by whobdamandog
Oooh yeah...they'll make a big difference...Thanos has single handly outsmarted the cosmic embodiment of Death(she's near omniscient you know), as well as many of the cosmic beings during the Infinity Gauntlet Saga...Warlock used The Cosmic beings(Galactus, Eternity, Celestials, Love/Hate, etc) as pawns in his strategy to weaken Thanos and have him relinquish the Gauntlet..and he was also the one the Cosmic beings choose over the Big "G" to strategize against defeating Thanos with the IG...
You definately don't want to give any prep time to either of these two in any battles if you don't want them to win...
Galactus may have the power to beat all of these heavy hitters in an unplanned attack..but together..with prep time...he's sorely outmatched..especially since he himself isn't given the time to prepare...and even if he was given preparation time...I still think they'd take him..
How did Thanos "outsmart' the Death? Death was fond of him, is
all.
And how did he outsmart the Cosmic Beings? He beat them using
the powers of the Infinity Gauntlet, but didn't outsmart them.
If by outsmart you mean he gathered the gems while Galactus and
the others didn't, then that's only because these Cosmic Beings,
being a part of the natural order of the universe, didn't seek the
Infinity Gauntlet. I doubt very much that someone like Galactus
or even the Phoenix would have had much trouble gathering the
gems if they had wanted to.
As for Warlock using the Cosmic Beings as "pawns", he did no
such thing. They attacked Thanos because he was a threat to the
universe, not because Warlock told them to.
Galactus has been around since the begining of time, I doubt very
much that Thanos or Warlock can outsmart him. To the extent to
which anyone can "outsmart" him, then it's only because he is
above the schemings and power-plays of lower life-forms.