Thanos vs Odin: War · Comic Book 'Versus' Forum

Harbinger Firestorm

Originally posted by Enyalus
😬 Thanos tanked his blasts as easily as Odin tanked Thanos'.

I lol'd a little (on the inside).

This simply isn't true.

Odin takes a combined assault from both Surfer and Thanos without so much as even flinching. Odin's second blast send Thanos backwards:

Odin's second attack (pimp hand, Katt Williams style) does the same:

Thanos' second blast make Odin throw his hands up to block it, and causes him no apparent damage.

Comparing Odin suffering no ill harm from Thanos' attacks, to Thanos' struggling against Odin's (and for all of the talk of him walking through a prolonged Gungir blast, it should be kept in mind that it wasn't a walk in the park for Thanos to pull that one off), is dishonest.

KK the Great Junior Member

Originally posted by Batman-Prime
So is there an link to this bio?

Found it.

http://i249.photobucket.com/albums/gg202/booie2008/All-New_OHOTMU_A-Z_11_31-1.jpg

In regards to a bio that boils entire storylines down to a couple of sentences to cover the entire history of Thanos, it is quanchi's belief that the writer analyzed every single issue to the same degree that we might while debating it.

psycho gundam The Nightmare of Solomon

yeah, the new handbooks try to cover a broader history with less pages per character than the older ones did since there are more characters and lazier writers.

reading the comics and then using the handbooks as a form of confirmation source is the best way to go i guess.

OneDumbG0 Find Your Own Fire

^ Also going by bios, Doom's armor runs off a 75 gb motherboard as well. Comics never quantified his armor's hard drive capacity, so I guess he runs off of 75 gb. Give me a break. My friggin computer's hard drive is 600 gb and it isn't even high-end. Yeah, let's rely on Marvel bios over Marvel comics.

Originally posted by psycho gundam
..he even grabbed the thing.
sure odin used it on thor, but he certainly needed to use it on thanos.

Like he needed to use it against Thor? Who completely deflected Gungir's blast? Let's stop acting like Gungir is an indication that Odin is putting forth serious effort...

Originally posted by Enyalus
😬 His blasts without Gungir did absolutely nothing. Thanos tanked his blasts as easily as Odin tanked Thanos'. And only that first Gungir blast did anything, because Thanos clearly wasn't prepared for it. That second one he walked right through it.

Here is Thanos is tanking Odin's blasts as easily as Odin is tanking Thanos':

Here is where Thanos is not so much tanking Odin's blasts as easily as Odin is tanking Thanos':

Here is where Odin breaks out Gungir and you can see for yourselves how well Thanos tanks them and well, I don't think Thanos walks through the second round of blasts very easily at all. Looks more like he is putting forth a supreme effort that would leave him exhausted and shaky and requiring a moment's respite... like exactly how it ended up happening:

Enyalus MALE DOMINANCE!!!

Originally posted by Harbinger
I lol'd a little (on the inside).
This simply isn't true.
Odin takes a combined assault from both Surfer and Thanos without so much as even flinching. Odin's second blast send Thanos backwards:
Odin's second attack (pimp hand, Katt Williams style) does the same:
Thanos' second blast make Odin throw his hands up to block it, and causes him no apparent damage.

Odin's first blast did nothing though, and to me that second blast looks like it knocked him off his balance, yeah...but...Not that big of a deal. Thanos' two-handed blast also looked (to me) like it put Odin back on his heels (like Odin was leaning backwards to deal with the power of the blast.) No real damage was done to either combatant until Thanos grabbed Gungir and ****ed up that way.

psycho gundam The Nightmare of Solomon

Originally posted by OneDumbG0
Let's stop acting like Gungir is an indication that Odin is putting forth serious effort...

what's it for then, salad ?

Harbinger Firestorm

Forgot how to insert the actual pics as part of the post. Mine just came up as links. ODG's post= prettier than mine.

OneDumbG0 Find Your Own Fire

Originally posted by psycho gundam
what's it for then, salad ?

For upping his blasts one level. To teach a lesson, like he tried with Thor and Thanos. But not to a level that is required for when he fights Surtur, the Enchanters, or amped Seth for his life and for Asgard where going all-out is required.

Enyalus MALE DOMINANCE!!!

Originally posted by Harbinger
Forgot how to insert the actual pics as part of the post. Mine just came up as links. ODG's post= prettier than mine.

lol

But anyway, you don't have to convince me that Odin looked clearly better in that fight.

KK the Great Junior Member

Originally posted by psycho gundam
yeah, the new handbooks try to cover a broader history with less pages per character than the older ones did since there are more characters and lazier writers.
reading the comics and then using the handbooks as a form of confirmation source is the best way to go i guess.

And for the record, the head writer for the new handbooks is Jeff Christiansen, the veterinarian who started http://www.marvunapp.com as a hobby.

And Marvel's website comes right out an says that the writers of the individual entries are sometimes allowed to just make things up themselves.

So it isn't incredibly difficult to see why I could NOT care less about comic interpretations from handbook bios.

Batman-Prime Kryptonian Scientist

Originally posted by KK the Great
Found it.
http://i249.photobucket.com/albums/gg202/booie2008/All-New_OHOTMU_A-Z_11_31-1.jpg
In regards to a bio that boils entire storylines down to a couple of sentences to cover the entire history of Thanos, it is quanchi's belief that the writer analyzed every single issue to the same degree that we might while debating it.

Hmmm, Thanks for the scan. But wasn't this whole argument based solely on the term "standoff" ? The bio however says "standstill". I'm not as familiar with your language as you are, obviously, but my translator says that those arent synonyms. Might someone enlighten me?

Warlord Yes, I am...

so I see still people think Thanos can beat Odin huh?
sad

Silent Master Senior Member

Originally posted by Warlord
so I see still people think Thanos can beat Odin huh?
sad

Does Quan really qualify as a person?

Omega Vision Face Flowed Into Her Eyes

Originally posted by Batman-Prime
Hmmm, Thanks for the scan. But wasn't this whole argument based solely on the term "standoff" ? The bio however says "standstill". I'm not as familiar with your language as you are, obviously, but my translator says that those arent synonyms. Might someone enlighten me?

Standoff implies two more or less equal parties facing off in a sort of impasse, think of two guys pointing guns at one another, that's a stand-off. Fighting to a stand-still would call to mind two people fighting until they were both too exhausted to continue (a stalemate). That clearly isn't what happened here.

the ninjak FRINGE Division

The Odin vs Thanos debate is hilarious considering-
Thanos has proven that he can gain Omnipotence if he so wished. It was kinda his hobby!
Then Crush Odin and all Gods!
Odin knows this and I'm sure it's part of the reason he let Thanos go in the first place. Thanos is more than just a warrior...he is an evolver.
Something Odin probably envies! wink
BIGTIME.

Omega Vision Face Flowed Into Her Eyes

Originally posted by the ninjak
The Odin vs Thanos debate is hilarious considering-
Thanos has proven that he can gain Omnipotence if he so wished. It was kinda his hobby!
Then Crush Odin and all Gods!
Odin knows this and I'm sure it's part of the reason he let Thanos go in the first place. Thanos is more than just a warrior...he is an evolver.
Something Odin probably envies! wink
BIGTIME.

No one cared the first time you said that four-five pages back what makes you think we'd care now?

the ninjak FRINGE Division

Because no one hardly responds to such posts!
Because there had to be a reason Odin just didn't kill Thanos!
I agree that Odin would beat everyday Thanos.
But no doubt Odin see's Thano's potential.
And envies it!
Odin is stuck as a Warrior God doomed to repeat Ragnarok over and over until an heir replaces him.

Omega Vision Face Flowed Into Her Eyes

Originally posted by the ninjak
Because no one hardly responds to such posts!
Because there had to be a reason Odin just didn't kill Thanos!
I agree that Odin would beat everyday Thanos.
But no doubt Odin see's Thano's potential.
And envies it!
Odin is stuck as a Warrior God doomed to repeat Ragnarok over and over until an heir replaces him.

Just as Thanos is doomed to love Death and gain (and lose) omnipotence more times than you'd think possible. Its funny how often Thanos has delusions of free will considering how often he's manipulated by higher powers and his own subconscious desires.

the ninjak FRINGE Division

Death's disdain for him while he used the infinite gauntlet guided him to the realisation that such power was not the potential he was looking for. He wilfully let that power go.
Such desires could be said for us all.
Thanos definitely has free will though...and ultimately gained the affections of Lady Death through noble sacrifice.
He was born with power therefore was born corrupt.
He is learning a higher power now....One Odin preaches even though he is a Warrior God.
A path of love and consideration.....blah!
Thanos will be a hero sooner or later!

Omega Vision Face Flowed Into Her Eyes

Originally posted by the ninjak
Death's disdain for him while he used the infinite gauntlet guided him to the realisation that such power was not the potential he was looking for. He wilfully let that power go.
Such desires could be said for us all.
Thanos definitely has free will though...and ultimately gained the affections of Lady Death through noble sacrifice.
He was born with power therefore was born corrupt.
He is learning a higher power now....One Odin preaches even though he is a Warrior God.
A path of love and consideration.....blah!
Thanos will be a hero sooner or later!

He's still guided by his destiny. Remember comics are incredibly deterministic even if the writers don't realize it. There is in Marvel Comics the existence of a true Omniscient being (TOAA) thus its only logical that there is no divergence from the path of reality that TOAA knows and understands, thus nothing can happen otherwise. Thanos was going to gain Omnipotence, that was written already in the mind of TOAA before it ever happened and there was no way Thanos wouldn't gain Omnipotence. While Odin's inability to leave the cycle of Ragnarok seems at first glance a much less liberal existence than Thanos's seeming freedom of action and destiny it is in truth no more or less free than Thanos's. Both are still preordained to act out their parts exactly as TOAA knows they will, otherwise TOAA wouldn't be Omniscient now would he?