Originally posted by GalacticStorm
The IG answers only to LT?Thats a bit of speculation there. LT was the only one involved in the comic story powerful enough to bring the IG to a halt.
When assessing the IG's capabilities, we can only go by actual on panel feats, not allusions and a posters personal opinion.
The IG enabled Thanos to kill half the population of the universe and defeat the abstracts in battle.
Impressive.
Phoenixes demonstration of power however goes considerably beyond that.
Once again,
Controlling all that is a universe right down to the sub atomic, within the palm of your hand, is faaaaaaarrrrr superior to fighting for control within such a universe and eventually taking it over.
Its like comparing me to my warring sandbox of ants. 😬
GalacticStorm,
You say that we should go by on panel feats and not posters opinions, but the only thing I've seen from you exerting your personal opinion on other posters, and arguing for pages and pages about the phoenix. (Just look at how fast you quoted my post before I was done editing. You were eager to fight for the phoenix. )
Right off the bat, it should tell you that if you have to argue for pages and pages about the phoenix and constantly have to justify the phoenix's power to other posters, then maybe the phoenix isn't as powerful as you would like others to believe.
Now we all have our own personal opinion and I am not denying that, but I've seen more evidence in favor of the IG stomping phoenix then I have of the phoenix actually winning this battle. You've posted scans of obscure marvel bios of the phoenix, that marvel bios in of themselves don't hold much weight with the comic community. Not to mention you also said on-panel feats only. If that's the case, why are you relying on marvel bio entries on the phoenix?
The only other thing I've seen to justify the phoenix's challenge to the IG is this white-hot room phoenix feat. White I don't discount that, I don't see that single feat as enough to justify the phoenix winning this battle. I haven't one seen this mentioned outside of an x-men comic, while I've seen the IG and the infinity gems mentioned numerous times throughout many varied comics. That alone just lends precedence to how powerful and influential the infinity gauntlet were and still are to the marvel universe. Not to mention, X-men comics tend to tell stories and be in their own little universe without much regard to the overall marvel continuity, and can get quite confusing.
Now, we could go on and on for pages and pages arguing about this, but I've learned that is ineffective, inefficient, and repetitive. I've already said all I can say in this post. You are free to completely disagree with my assessment (as I'm sure you will), but until I see actual hard proof and not just speculation, not marvel encyclopedia bio scans, not loosly tied together strings of evidence, and not one single white hot room feat that supposedly trumps the rest of marvel continuity, then I am going to be completely in favor of the IG.
Until I actually see the Phoenix force actually stand toe-to-toe with the Living Tribunal or toss the entire cosmic hierarchy into chaos, then I won't back the Phoenix Force at all against the IG. I don't mean to be harsh or mean, but that's just how I feel on the matter.
-Evangel94