heh.
GS's strategy is to bury people with so many words that they lose the will to respond. I don't need to go point by point to rebut every iota of nonsense he spits out.
A couple of points.
1)Phoenix's own bio says that the Phoenix Force cannot take action on the physical plane without a host. Behold:
In time, the Force’s pain subsided and it discovered that it was unable to return to its natural state. Hundreds of years later, the Force learned that the universe would come under threat from manipulation of the M’kraan Crystal – a hypercubical nexus of realities – by the mad Shi’ar Emperor D’Ken. To prevent this, the Force sought an avatar through which it could act and so return to Earth , seeking out Feron. Instead, the Force encountered Jean Grey, a member of the heroic mutant X-Men team, whose mind the Force had touched earlier.
However, the handbook also states that this is the side effect of that:
Due to the limitations of its physical form, Dark Phoenix hungered for more energy and transported itself to the star D’Bari, absorbing all the energy from it.
Does an all-powerful force need to absorb and consume more energy? Of course not.
Also, the bio states:
Phoenix continued to serve as a member of the X-Men, but ultimately its human form was unable to cope with the Forces immense power.
which is why:
The Force then bonded to her fully and ensured that Rachel could only access as much power as she could safely wield, having learned from its past mistake.
Which explains losses to the likes of Magneto, Thor, Xorn, Beyonder, manipulations by Mastermind and other such embarassing showings.
If the Phoenix were at all able to interact with physical beings without an avatar, why would it bother using them, knowing how much destruction it causes and knowing that its full might can't be brought to bear with them?
The answer is clear - if CANNOT act without a host, the same way an Abstract can't act without an M-body.
Conclusion: Is the Phoenix Force all powerful? Almost.
Can Pheonix beat anybody down as a result? Absolutely not.
The Phoenix Force is analogous to the central Oan battery. All powerful, but can't fight. The Phoenix avatars are analogous to the Green Lantern corps. They possess a portion of infinite might, but are not themselves infinitely mighty.
A Phoenix avatar generally maxes out at around high end herald. When drawing on the lifeforce of future life, it can reach Galactus levels, maybe a bit above it. But to think that it can match the likes of the Infinity Gauntlet or HOTU, or can match the feats of Wanda is impossible.
Now that I'm put Phoenix in her place, let's move on to Wanda:
Look at the scan below. That's the damage Wanda is doing. Look at the alternate reality characters being destroyed. Thing as an X-man. An alien Iron Man. A female Human Torch. And look...look at that foot over there. Over on the top right. Whose foot is that?
Galactus.
You know, the same one it took Phoenix to wear down to starving levels to beat, unwittingly and totally owned BY ACCIDENT by Wanda.
Lo she is mighty.
On the next page (don't have a scan for it), you see planets crashing together and all sorts of universal destruction.
Restricted to Earth? Don't make me laugh.
Additionally, Otherworld is likewise crumbling in that same issue.
This backs up my description:
http://www.uncannyxmen.net/db/issues/showquestion.asp?fldAuto=2765
The wave grabs Meggan and Brian along with the three Corps members and slams them forcefully through crosstime. They witness the destruction of universe after universe after universe. They watch as versions of heroes they know such as Thor, Namor, Iron Man, Thing, Kylun, Human Torch, and Hulk are erased by the unstoppable wall of water.
In Exiles HoM, the entire 616 reality was said to be unavailable. They couldn't access the reality. Not just the Earth.
In Thunderbolts, the Kree, Skrulls and Shi'ar have all been affected by Wanda's reality shift. They're all best friends now. a Kree contingent with Ronan are there.
Otherworld was affected. The moon was affected. Dormammu's domain was affected.
Clearly the entire 616 reality was altered and multiple other realities were destroyed.
Multiversal devastation. The likes of which has never been seen and never been matched by any being.
Not the HOTU
Not the IG
Not the M'Kraan Crystal
and for damn sure not the Phoenix, whose feats are less than all of the above.
Phoenix has no business being compared to the likes of Wanda. She's better off fighting Magneto imposters and Thor and whatnot, hahahaha.
Now if we're done here, let's go beat up on KMC Authority. I grow weary of this.