Thanos Vs Final Crisis Darkseid

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Originally posted by Allankles
DS preys on whatever guilt, agression, murderous intentc that is already in your soul. A noble spirit can resist (to apoint) because they have an abundance of good in their soul to counteract whatever DS is preying on.

But Thanos already has an overabundance of guilt, murderous intent, wrath and hate, DS can easily bring these things out and consume his soul.

Originally posted by Enyalus
Thanos is a death god.

What you're suggesting is that Darkseid would own Mandrakk because Mandrakk is evil. And you have nothing to back it up with besides him corrupting an out-of-shape human's soul over the period of weeks.

Originally posted by Allankles
Mandrakk is a being of an entirely different nature. Mandrakk consumes story in the form of the Bleed, he's a "vampire" of story. Thanos has a spirit like any other, and there's nothing especially unique with his spirit except that Lady Death has a relationship with him. Mandrakk turned himself into the Dark Monitor he's entirely a force of nature.
No, this is the point he is trying to make. You cannot make up exceptions and just try to use the tactic on one character for a set of criteria and then rule it out against another evil character. That is called a double standard.

Originally posted by Enyalus
I call bullshit on this since you haven't provided a shred of proof of him doing it on anyone near Thanos' power level. But even so, it still won't work. Thanos has fought off Afro Magus w/ the Soul Gem's power before, while weakened. DS's innate manipulation is not above that.

Again, DS is the god of the concept of evil. What he does has nothing to do with power levels but with the goodness of your spirit. Again he consumes the souls of noble spirits because he gains nutrition from their struggle against his evil.

If Thanos spirit is proven to be less than noble he's not even going to be able to mount a struggle. Darkseid will easily taint his soul.

Originally posted by quanchi112
No, this is the point he is trying to make. You cannot make up exceptions and just try to use the tactic on one character for a set of criteria and then rule it out against another evil character. That is called a double standard.

But Thanos is not even in the same ball park as Mandrakk, a being who lives on something as abstract as story. Are you kidding me?

Originally posted by Allankles
Again, DS is the god of the concept of evil. What he does has nothing to do with power levels but with the goodness of your spirit. Again he consumes the souls of noble spirits because he gains nutrition from their struggle against his evil.

If Thanos spirit is proven to be less than noble his not even going to be able to mount a struggle. Darkseid will easily taint his soul.

Where is your proof? You are using a doublestandard here it seems. Not only that, but the fact that Thanos hasn't been manipulated in such a fashion and the fact that Ds hasn't done it to anyone close to Thanos' level makes this claim laughable.

Originally posted by Allankles
But Thanos is not even in the same ball park as Mandrakk, a being who lives on something as abstract as story. Are you kidding me?
What beings close to Thanos' level has it worked on? Give me some proof that it might work.

Originally posted by Allankles
If Thanos spirit is proven to be less than noble he's not even going to be able to mount a struggle. Darkseid will easily taint his soul.

Since you insist on going abstract on me - Thanos is one of the few beings outside the influence of Chaos and Order. Meaning typical standards of morality such as 'good' and 'evil' really have no bearing on him. Thanos does what Thanos does, because Thanos wants to. And when he does supposedly evil things such as wipe out half of the universe's population, he does so at the behest of one-third of the Celestial Trinity and in order to bring cosmic balance back to the universe...

Thanos always has deeper motives.

Originally posted by quanchi112
What beings close to Thanos' level has it worked on? Give me some proof that it might work.

Look pick up FC. Darkseid picked Turpin a true good guy as his vessel because he wanted to nourish his spirit with a noble soul. He knew a noble spirit like Turpin's would resist, it had the best risk vs reward ratio of all the candidates he considered.

Look I wouldn't even be arguing if this were about power levels and will power. DS consumes spirits on the basis of tainting souls with his evil, a guy with a cosndirable degree of evil already in his soul has little if anything to counter the taint.

It's not some power source, he basically infects your soul.

Originally posted by Allankles
Look pick up FC. Darkseid picked Turpin a true good guy as his vessel because he wanted to nourish his spirit with a noble soul. He knew a noble spirit like Turpin's would resist, it had the best risk vs reward ratio of all the candidates he considered.

Look I wouldn't even be arguing if this were about power levels and will power. DS consumes spirits on the basis of tainting souls with his evil, a guy with a cosndirable degree of evil already in his soul has little if anything to counter the taint.

It's not some power source, he basically infects your soul.

So, this all stems from comparing turpin to Thanos? So, in the end you have no proof that it would work at all on Thanos.

Originally posted by Enyalus
Since you insist on going abstract on me - Thanos is one of the few beings outside the influence of Chaos and Order. Meaning typical standards of morality such as 'good' and 'evil' really have no bearing on him. Thanos does what Thanos does, because Thanos wants to. And when he does supposedly evil things such as wipe out half of the universe's population, he does so at the behest of one-third of the Celestial Trinity and in order to bring cosmic balance back to the universe...

Thanos always has deeper motives.

This argument is actually pretty good.

Originally posted by Enyalus
Since you insist on going abstract on me - Thanos is one of the few beings outside the influence of Chaos and Order. Meaning typical standards of morality such as 'good' and 'evil' really have no bearing on him. Thanos does what Thanos does, because Thanos wants to. And when he does supposedly evil things such as wipe out half of the universe's population, he does so at the behest of one-third of the Celestial Trinity and in order to bring cosmic balance back to the universe...

Thanos always has deeper motives.

Chaos and Order is now good and evil? The Lords of Chaos in DC supposedely fear DS but if I gave you that bit of info what would it say about DS' nature? Nothing.

I know people for whom the concepts of good and evil are meaningless but that doesn't mean anything really.

Basically you're saying Thanos soul is above being tainted, where's the evidence? If DS can taint a primal entity like the Source which is said to encompass all concepts, including evil, I don't see why he can't taint Thanos' soul.

Originally posted by Enyalus
And when he does supposedly evil things such as wipe out half of the universe's population, he does so at the behest of one-third of the Celestial Trinity and in order to bring cosmic balance back to the universe...

Again which brings me back to an earlier question. If this is his track record what does he have to combat the taint DS will want to bring into his soul? Because DS works on concepts, only things in anti-thesis to the concepts his nature is founded on can fight him, e.g goodness, the life equation etc

Originally posted by Allankles
Again which brings me back to an earlier question. If this is his track record what does he have to combat the taint DS will want to bring into his soul? Because DS works on concepts, only things in anti-thesis to the concepts his nature is founded on can fight him, e.g goodness, the life equation etc

You're asking me for evidence, when the one thing you have is Darkseid poisoning a human soul over the period of weeks? Thanos has fought off beings who wielded the Soul Gem before. That's far beyond any explanation you've brought to the discussion.

it takes time to properly master a gem any gem in fact its dangerous to use them if there not all together. If the gems are infiniate which they are are you saying that thanos can overcome infinite power?

Originally posted by Enyalus
You're asking me for evidence, when the one thing you have is Darkseid poisoning a human soul over the period of weeks? Thanos has fought off beings who wielded the Soul Gem before. That's far beyond any explanation you've brought to the discussion.

But you've provided me with nothing in regards to Thanos resisting his soul being infected. The soul gem doesn't even work like DS' spirit.

DS consumes souls on the basis of tainting their soul, infecting them with evil. If this is the means of his attack you have to provide proof of Thanos having a soul above such invasion.

The soul gem hardly works on this basis. Hell it doesn't even work like the ALE.

Originally posted by Allankles
But you've provided me with nothing in regards to Thanos resisting his soul being infected. The soul gem doesn't even work like DS' spirit.

DS consumes souls on the basis of tainting their soul, infecting them with evil. If this is the means of his attack you have to provide proof of Thanos having a soul above such invasion.

The soul gem hardly works on this basis. Hell it doesn't even work like the ALE.

facepalm

Jesus. If his soul could've been infected, Warlock or Magus would have done so. Instead, he fought and beat both of them multiple times (with the exception of a Soulworld-empowered Warlock turning Thanos to stone.) You've provided me nothing, either. Except comparing a base human with the most powerful Eternal out there.

I've seen the Soul Gem work like the ALE, when Warlock uses it to bend Maxam to his will. But nonetheless, it could be also said to work like the Mind Gem...and Thanos has beaten Moondragon w/ Mind Gem in a psychic battle, so that's out as well.

If you're not going to provide any other evidence except for saying, "Well DS did it to a human police officer" then we're at an impasse, because I'm certainly not abandoning my position based on that.

Originally posted by Enyalus
facepalm

Jesus. If his soul could've been infected, Warlock or Magus would have done so. Instead, he fought and beat both of them multiple times (with the exception of a Soulworld-empowered Warlock turning Thanos to stone.) You've provided me nothing, either. Except comparing a base human with the most powerful Eternal out there.

I've seen the Soul Gem work like the ALE, when Warlock uses it to bend Maxam to his will. But nonetheless, it could be also said to work like the Mind Gem...and Thanos has beaten Moondragon w/ Mind Gem in a psychic battle, so that's out as well.

If you're not going to provide any other evidence except for saying, "Well DS did it to a human police officer" then we're at an impasse, because I'm certainly not abandoning my position based on that.

Yeah but... you've ignored the basis for which DS consumes souls in the fisrt place. He taints their soul with his evil. What does Turpin's power have to do with that? What does will power have to with that? Last I checked power levels had nothing to do with Turpin getting his soul consumed.

Again, DS uses evil, I don't see what Thanos brings to the party specifically to counter it. We can use your assumptions but what is Thanos arsenal against DS' corruption?

And when I talk about the ALE, I'm talking about how it's universal law, a title deed to souls through logic. The ALE is power through a truth (from a certain P.OV.)

a fanboy legion does one thing and thats consume..........logic

Originally posted by Allankles
Yeah but... you've ignored the basis for which DS consumes souls in the fisrt place. He taints their soul with his evil.

And according to you, Thanos' soul is already tainted with evil. So, there goes the corruption angle....which, you fail to mention, took much longer to achieve than this battle will last. Also, Turpin was caught off-guard and didn't know he was facing Darkseid beforehand. DS doesn't have the advantage of his enemy's ignorance here.

Originally posted by Bentley
This argument is actually pretty good.
No, it isn't.
Originally posted by Enyalus
facepalm

Jesus. If his soul could've been infected, Warlock or Magus would have done so. Instead, he fought and beat both of them multiple times (with the exception of a Soulworld-empowered Warlock turning Thanos to stone.) You've provided me nothing, either. Except comparing a base human with the most powerful Eternal out there.

I've seen the Soul Gem work like the ALE, when Warlock uses it to bend Maxam to his will. But nonetheless, it could be also said to work like the Mind Gem...and Thanos has beaten Moondragon w/ Mind Gem in a psychic battle, so that's out as well.

If you're not going to provide any other evidence except for saying, "Well DS did it to a human police officer" then we're at an impasse, because I'm certainly not abandoning my position based on that.

Exactly. The soul gem has total mastery over the soul which takes precedence over Ds corrupting some chooch.

I think there's a good chance FC Darkseid could win against Thanos. It's hard to argue how powerful FC Darkseid was with his mastery of the ALE. But Thanos fanboys have their legitimate arguments as well: Thanos has resisted mind-control, he has resisted reality manipulation, not just matter manipulation, but reality manipulation. Aside from that, it's hard to fathom why FC Darkseid didn't use the ALE on Superman and relied on Libra distracting him with Lois' near-murder. There's also the matter that Orion nearly killed Darkseid himself. Awesomely powerful? Sure. Invincible to any and all? Well... definitely not to Orion at least. But since we don't know how Orion nearly killed Darkseid, we shouldn't speculate. At the same time we shouldn't ignore also that since this is FC Darkseid, he's already been beaten up.

FFS Tricksterpriest, I am being so sincerely honest with you. Superman did not use the Life Equation on Darkseid. We already went over this. The Miracle Machine wasn't even finished at that point because it lacked Element X and a source of power. Superman used counter-vibrations that he learned during his adventures in Superman Byeond. Gawd. I don't care that you think anything else about Final Crisis but FFS, Superman did not make two wishes with the Miracle Machine. If you ask The Great Galen, comicfan11, Allankles, fangirl101, they'll tell you the same damn thing.

And as for some of the above-named who have been posting in the last few pages, shame on you guys. I can't believe the bunch of you still cling to the idea that FC Darkseid did all that under his own power. And you have the gall to say that it was proven that ALE is nothing but mind-control and ALE can't break time and space and therefore Darkseid did everything on his own? How many times to I have to post the scans before you get it through your head?!

Originally posted by OneDumbG0
[QUOTE=11553312]Originally posted by comicfan11
I don't know how to say it in a different way but THE ALE ENSLAVES FREE WILL.
Nothing more.
Nothing less.
From comicfan11: Basically, there needs to be more correlation for you to prove that the ALE has something to do with Darkseid's folding spacetime. Either, time and space was initially broken as a direct consequence of using the ALE during the war, OR the ALE just plain breaks time and space outright. Well, the only survivor of the war is Motherboxxx, and as argued by kevdude above, its arguable one way or the other. If the ALE did something else on-panel other than enslave minds, you'd have a point. But it didn't, not clearly anyway enough in [i]Final Crisis: Revelations anyway. So what we have is the Anti-Life Equation clearly taking over minds and nothing else. And there is something to be said for the abundance of evidence that the Anti-Life Equation controls minds. So if it can't do more than that, how can you believe it actually collapses space and time?[/i]

To comicfan11: Fine. Let's for a moment, consider that what Cain and Spectre speak of and do on-panel in Final Crisis: Revelations is, at best, debateable. Taking that off the board, arguably, I've presented nothing else but correlative evidence, e.g. Life Equation and Miracle Machine, what's the point of controlling minds if everything gets crushed, etc. Let's put that aside as well since it isn't positive evidence that the ALE can do anything else.

First off, absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. And having read Final Crisismore carefully, I present to you several scans... But first, a question, "Whent eh Flashes raced through Darkseid... where did all those Omega Finder Beams come from actually?" Darkseid never shot them at the Flashes and besides, there's a whole bunch of em:

Answer, all the innocent ALE-infected humans ("ALEers"😉that were surrounding Superman and Darkseid shot them out of their own eyes:

It's clear. The ALEers who are surrounding Superman talk with Darkseid's voice and ask him if Superman can outrace the Omega Sanction with their eyes glowing red. The Flashes burst onto the scene and the ALEers turn around and react to the light growing behind them. The next page shows the ALEers shooting the Omega Finder Beams at the passing Flashes. That's where they came from and because multiple ALEers shot them, that's why there are so many beams in the first place. It's right there in that panel. You an see it come from their eyes. The Anti-Life Equation doesn't just enslave minds. It can strip people of powers. It can also give people powers. It makes sense after all. Like I told you from the start, Darkseid didn't just want to enslave their minds, he literally wanted their entire beings to become him. He wanted all of existence to become him. There's your proof, the ALE did more than just give Darkseid control over people's minds. As I've always thought, the ALE actually makes everything... Darkseid. Of course, I'm not done yet.......

Originally posted by Allankles
Also the ALE only enslaves souls it doesn't rewrite or crumple space and time.

From Allankles: The true bottom-line is: whether or not the ALE is only mind-control or is more than that, there is no concrete proof that Darkseid used the ALE in some way to collapse time and space. And so what if you prove Darkseid can do other things with the ALE? It's still speculation that he used the ALE for collapsing time and space without proof!

To Allankles: Fine. That'd be true. If not for this:

You see? When Mokkari released the Anti-Life Equation over the Internet at 5:30 PM EST, "That's when time, space... everything cracked." You wanted proof the ALE can break time and space? There you go. On-panel. And this is WELL before Darkseid finally crushed Turpin's spirit and manifested his true form on New Earth even. Reread it yourself. On-panel.[/QUOTE]