Re: Question about Asgardians
Originally posted by UKRThey are Earth God's that why
Why can't they be as powerful as true cosmic types like Galactus and his heralds? What was Marvel's motivation for making gods weaker than being able to rank on the cosmic scale? They're gods...they should be way up there.
Not universal Gods
Galactus and Cosmic usually are very important to the universe and even the Multiverse
should post this in Comic book questions not here
Originally posted by UKR
Why can't they be as powerful as true cosmic types like Galactus and his heralds? What was Marvel's motivation for making gods weaker than being able to rank on the cosmic scale? They're gods...they should be way up there.
For what it's worth, back in the silver age, Odin, Galactus and the Watcher were roughly equals. It's been in the decades since, with backstories becoming more developed, that Galactus > Odin.
(Another explanation--IIRC, put forth in a later-day comic--is that the "gods" of Asgard are not really "gods" at all in the strict sense of the term, but very advanced ETs which would appear godlike to ordinary mortal men.)
Originally posted by Mindship(Another explanation--IIRC, put forth in a later-day comic--is that the "gods" of Asgard are not really "gods" at all in the strict sense of the term, but very advanced ETs which would appear godlike to ordinary mortal men.)
Well in the strictest sense of the term, a 'god' simply refers to a mystical/supernatural being that is worshipped by mortals. They don't necessarily have to be 'all-knowing, all-powerful' etc.
Heck, just look at real Norse mythology. Balder was a god and he was killed by a sharpened piece of mistletoe.