Who can Galactus beat?

Started by UKR6 pages

Why are people not giving real answers to my thread?

Everyone except The Sentry.

Originally posted by Priest
Wolverine.

No.

Galactus can comfortably beat anyone below the likes of the Stranger and Inbetweener. Someone on Inbetweeners level would prove a good test of Galactus' power but he would have the upper hand and eventually win. Galactus isnt beating the most powerful Celestials and anyone above them such as the Abstracts, Phoenix Force or LT.

Originally posted by GalacticStorm
Galactus can comfortably beat anyone below the likes of the Stranger and Inbetweener. Someone on Inbetweeners level would prove a good test of Galactus' power but he would have the upper hand and eventually win. Galactus isnt beating the most powerful Celestials and anyone above them such as the Abstracts, Phoenix Force or LT.
offtopic => BAN HIM! mad2

Originally posted by SoulDevourer
offtopic => BAN HIM! mad2

Lol. I felt sorry for the thread starter. You lot are being mean 🙁

Re: Who can Galactus beat?

Originally posted by UKR
Assuming the following features are in place:
1. This is classic, Silver Age Galactus.
2. He is sated (the fight taking place immediately after he ate a planet).
3. He is written at his most respectably, rather than as the weak steppingstone he's usually been.
4. The character is portrayed true to his original intent.

Who can this non-jobber Galactus beat?

1. Odin would solo him.
2. Still Silver age? Probably a stalemate with Odin.
3. He wins against Odin, Tiamut, Arishem etc (individually) basically most of the lower abstracts.
4. He doesn't fight at all.

Originally posted by GalacticStorm
Galactus can comfortably beat anyone below the likes of the Stranger and Inbetweener. Someone on Inbetweeners level would prove a good test of Galactus' power but he would have the upper hand and eventually win. Galactus isnt beating the most powerful Celestials and anyone above them such as the Abstracts, Phoenix Force or LT.

Prime Galactus beats any Celestial one-on-one. And Big G is an abstract and high level one at that.

Originally posted by Allankles
Prime Galactus beats any Celestial one-on-one. And Big G is an abstract and high level one at that.

Galactus couldnt beat any of the higher level Celestials like Exitar. No way.

Also Galactus isnt an abstract. He doesnt embody a concept, hes a physical being.

Originally posted by GalacticStorm
Galactus couldnt beat any of the higher level Celestials like Exitar. No way.

Also Galactus isnt an abstract. He doesnt embody a concept, hes a physical being.

I thought he embodied destruction? I think full on GAlactus beats Exitar (he's the exteminator right?). Considering the scope of the full power cosmic I don't see a single Celestial posing problems for Big G.

leech

Originally posted by GalacticStorm
Galactus couldnt beat any of the higher level Celestials like Exitar. No way.

Also Galactus isnt an abstract. He doesnt embody a concept, hes a physical being.

Galactus is an abstract. Part of the Celestial Trinity. Representing Balance and the Cosmic Consonance...and he's actually made purely of energy. Infinite energy at that. As seen when he's killed during Galactus: The Devourer.

Originally posted by Enyalus
Galactus is an abstract. Part of the Celestial Trinity. Representing Balance and the Cosmic Consonance...and he's actually made purely of energy. Infinite energy at that. As seen when he's killed during Galactus: The Devourer.

wait he has no meat on his bones....or even bones?! 😖

Originally posted by BlackZero30x
wait he has no meat on his bones....or even bones?! 😖

Galactus takes the form of whatever race he's around. For instance in the Stormbreaker arc he appeared as a kind of homogenous blob-type thing to scare off BRB's people.

Originally posted by Enyalus
Galactus is an abstract. Part of the Celestial Trinity. Representing Balance and the Cosmic Consonance...and he's actually made purely of energy. Infinite energy at that. As seen when he's killed during Galactus: The Devourer.

His role may be to bring balance between Death and Eternity however he doesnt embody a concept like they do. He is not an abstract. He is a humanoid transformed by the energies of creation.

The abstracts are embodiments of universal concepts. They do not possess physical bodies and they cannot be destroyed without an absence in the universe of whatever concept they are embodying. As long as there is life, there is death. As long as there is life you will have concepts such as love and hate.

Galactus embodies nothing, he just has an important role to play.

i thought galactus was a abstract/ embodiment of necessity.

Originally posted by GalacticStorm
His role may be to bring balance between Death and Eternity however he doesnt embody a concept like they do. He is not an abstract. He is a humanoid transformed by the energies of creation.

The abstracts are embodiments of universal concepts. They do not possess physical bodies and they cannot be destroyed without an absence in the universe of whatever concept they are embodying. As long as there is life, there is death. As long as there is life you will have concepts such as love and hate.

Galactus embodies nothing, he just has an important role to play.

I get what you're saying. Still, he's made of pure energy. And IMO he'd be able to beat any celestial save for maybe Tiamut or Exitar. Dude did give Rachel-Phoenix a helluva fight when absolutely starving, for example. And didn't he actually beat Jean?

Originally posted by Enyalus
I get what you're saying. Still, he's made of pure energy. And IMO he'd be able to beat any celestial save for maybe Tiamut or Exitar. Dude did give Rachel-Phoenix a helluva fight when absolutely starving, for example. And didn't he actually beat Jean?

Being made of energy doesnt equate to him embodying a concept. Pulsar is made of energy, is she a concept? He is a humanoid whose body is saturated with cosmic energy that his armor helps to contain. He doesnt embody anything.

Further to that point heres Maelstrom who briefly merged with Oblivion to become his avatar within reality:

He makes the point here that Galactus does NOT embody anything. He just has an important role.

Galactus was stomped in that fight against Rachel. And he talked of his weakness in comparison to a being like Phoenix. He requires outside sustenance, whereas Phoenix is hooked up to an unlimited power source. So even if he had just eaten, he would eventually expend those energies and be back in the same position. Whereas a being like Phoenix can go on relentlessly.

Galactus has never beaten Jean. They fought in a What If story and she destroyed his machinery and chased him off. He made some threat about how if he stayed he would likely beat her but given that a) He ran off and b) she went on to eat that universe with him in it, i dont pay much attention to that lol.

You've done a good job of proving he doesn't embodying a concept, GS, and therefore wouldn't be a true abstract.

...I read the Maelstrom arc in Quasar, where he even visits Galactus and Arishem and Thanos w/ IG to gloat. That quote slipped my mind.

Originally posted by GalacticStorm

He requires outside sustenance, whereas Phoenix is hooked up to an unlimited power source

then Phoenix will be the sustenance 😄

Originally posted by Allankles
Prime Galactus beats any Celestial one-on-one. And Big G is an abstract and high level one at that.
didnt Ultron call him "organic"? 🤨