Originally posted by lft4ded
You scans seem to go one way and then the other. First he says he can do it easily (after some prep and detailing, unlike the snap of a finger it took Living Tribunal to RECREATE the abstracts after Adam Warlock blew them to the weeds.) and then he says "I--I suppose I could try! Maybe if someone...some sentient creature were willing..." He not only seems uncertain, but to require outside assistance.Also, while Beyonder said he restricted his power when interacting with Earth heroes I don't see him restricting himself when interacting with the abstracts.
All of the Abstracts are the embodiments of concepts: Eternity/Time, Infinity/Space, Lord Chaos, Master Order, Death...
"Warlock obliterates the hierarchy" of abstracts. LT allows him to do that. And then with a snap of his fingers he "recreates the Abstracts".
But when it was only one being threatened? Eternity's reason for calling the conference. LT only said that it was the way of things.
Likewise,when the Beyonder only obliterated *one* of the multi-abstracts? LT again does nothing and says that thus passeth the old ways. If Beyonder had instead destroyed them all and even LT couldn't resist or stop him then we could reasonably say that Beyonder was beyond the LT, until then we have two incidents were a single abstract was threatened/destroyed and LT did nothing but figuratively said 'oh, well'.
Like Cain killing Able? Or Adam and Eve introducing the concept of Death? Bad stuff happens. And on top of that Death was re-introduced. It would've know that. Omniscience does come in handy doesn't it?
But still a mere universe. Universal < Multiversal. Death's M-body is normally a tiny thing compared to a Celestial but who's more powerful. What does size matter? LT and Eternity normally manifest as the same size but who is more powerful.
And the Beyonder had to become his universe. TOAA (Going by the assumption that TOAA = Presence) created the multiverse.
quite the excellent analysis of the debate at hand.