Originally posted by WhiteWitchKing
More nonsense. Death said: "THE SUM AND SUBSTANCE OF ALL THAT LIVES." Not everything is considered living, including machines, Galactus, and the abstracts. Death never said she represents the universe. Where you got that I don't know. She represents life.The big bang means what? The abstracts survive through the big bang. If you want to claim she created the abstracts on her own go ahead.
So Galactus isn’t considered living? That’s news to me and im sure just about every other seasoned comic reader around here. As outlined on panel and in their bios the abstracts came into existence after the universe was formed. They came about after the creation event and went on to embody universal concepts. They are of creation and therefore Phoenix being the power that ignites the creation cycle is responsible however indirectly for their creation. Your point about the machines is redundant as they’d still be made from matter derived from the Big Bang sonny.
Originally posted by WhiteWitchKing
Thanks for proving that she's part of the cycle and on the level of other cosmics. "The child is Phoenix. Living embodiment of [b]ONE OF THE PRIMAL FORCESThis is further backed up by "There is a NATURAL ORDER TO HER BEING, AS TO YOURS, AND ALL CREATION." She plays a role in all creation just as Galactus does. Where does it say that her destruction would result in Galactus' DIRECT destruction or that of the abstracts? It doesn't. Galactus would survive but without sustainess. He may die from the hunger but not because PF dies.
Yet again you've proven my point. She represents life. Her death would not directly affect Galactus who will exist "an Eternity in infinite void wherein not the smallest potential for life."
Remove Galactus and Abraxas shows up. Every body has a role in the cosmos. You've just proven that PF does not have control over the cosmics. If Eternity doesn't exist, guess what happens? Their wouldn't be a place for living things to exist on. Universe you want to argue that PF is the universe. [/B]
At the end of the day of course the Phoenix is a part of the cycle. She starts it off, she maintains it and her power under the natural scheme of things helps bring it to and end. You keep emphasizing her participation as if it somehow demeans my argument and strengthens yours. Sorry mate but not in the slightest. Yes Phoenix has a role to play in the cycle but at the same time there is more to her than just a universe. The abstracts embody universal concepts. Destroy a universe and by most accounts you’ll be told that’s the end of the abstracts. The same doesn’t hold true for Phoenix as it also simultaneously exists beyond reality. A void is the absence of life, of energy of matter. A void is what Thanos created in Marvel The End:
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Without the Phoenix Force involved with the physical plane there would be nothing. You have to take into consideration also the time this was written. Now that in recent years Galactus’ origin has been tied to the Phoenix Force on panel and in their bios, now that its been actually stated that he was transformed by the Phoenixes power I think it’s a safe bet to say that if it was written nowadays that Phoenix cut all ties with the physical plane then Galactus would die.
As for Eternity not existing. You need to take into consideration that he is not literally the universe, he is its sentience a representation of its totality. As stated Eternity was formed AFTER the universe was created.Just to highlight this in Marvel The End, Thanos absorbed Infinity and Eternity, he then went on to absorb the stars and planets before everything became a void.
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The Phoenix Force however is the life force the very substance which makes and powers creation.