I don't agree that Black Adam is the better fighter, but ditto on the physical stats. Nova should be a upper tier class 100+ considering that an average centurian is a 20 tonner and Nova Prime is supposedly thousands of times more powerful then a centurian. However, Nova seems to hang out around the low to mid tier class 100+ along with Wonder Man, She Hulk and Colossus. But unlike them, he can amp his power level.
What works in Nova's favor is that gravity manipulators like him, Graviton or Gravity have a huge advantage over most strength based characters because gravity >>> strength. Nova in particular, because of the Nova Force and more importantly, the World Mind, is able to manipulate gravity in much more subtle ways then even Graviton. He is able to bend, weave and shape gravity in ways that high level gravity manipulators can't easily replicate, i.e. converting pure gravity into gravimetric energy or opening a stargate to precisely the location he wants to go. He can even use a person's own mass against them to turn them into a stargate (Sphinx) or bfr them into a hostile enviornment (Mindless ones, Ego). When properly used the Nova Force can even allow a low level centurian to incapacitate a person much more powerful then them because of gravity manipulation (Robbie vs Xenith).
Nova's speed and durability are as good as anybodies. He has also recently undergone a sort of soft retcon of sorts. At first DnA were writing Nova as having all of the Nova Force contained within him. You saw various scenarios with him being weakend and only having 17% of the Nova Force etc. But over time, (and a lot of annoyance from die hard Nova fans) they began to realize the inconsistancy of that approach. The Nova Force is a near infinite energy source used for various purposes, so how can Nova have only 17% etc? So now the way it works is levels of access. The WM allows a certain level of access to Nova Milleniums (which is what Robbie and others were down graded to). More access is allowed to Centurian level Nova's like Philo. The Nova Prime is allowed full unlimited access. This is why we no longer see Nova use terms like "I need full power to both hands", and instead saying "Worldmind, give me what you can spare, tight focus", and then blasting the hell out of whatever. In other words the Nova Prime gets what ever amount of Nova Force he needs to get the job done. It's just a matter of how smart he is with it.
Nova 6/10
Originally posted by dmillsLOL
I don't agree that Black Adam is the better fighter, but ditto on the physical stats. Nova should be a upper tier class 100+ considering that an average centurian is a 20 tonner and Nova Prime is supposedly thousands of times more powerful then a centurian. However, Nova seems to hang out around the low to mid tier class 100+ along with Wonder Man, She Hulk and Colossus. But unlike them, he can amp his power level.What works in Nova's favor is that gravity manipulators like him, Graviton or Gravity have a huge advantage over most strength based characters because gravity >>> strength. Nova in particular, because of the Nova Force and more importantly, the World Mind, is able to manipulate gravity in much more subtle ways then even Graviton. He is able to bend, weave and shape gravity in ways that high level gravity manipulators can't easily replicate, i.e. converting pure gravity into gravimetric energy or opening a stargate to precisely the location he wants to go. He can even use a person's own mass against them to turn them into a stargate (Sphinx) or bfr them into a hostile enviornment (Mindless ones, Ego). When properly used the Nova Force can even allow a low level centurian to incapacitate a person much more powerful then them because of gravity manipulation (Robbie vs Xenith).
Nova's speed and durability are as good as anybodies. He has also recently undergone a sort of soft retcon of sorts. At first DnA were writing Nova as having all of the Nova Force contained within him. You saw various scenarios with him being weakend and only having 17% of the Nova Force etc. But over time, (and a lot of annoyance from die hard Nova fans) they began to realize the inconsistancy of that approach. The Nova Force is a near infinite energy source used for various purposes, so how can Nova have only 17% etc? So now the way it works is levels of access. The WM allows a certain level of access to Nova Milleniums (which is what Robbie and others were down graded to). More access is allowed to Centurian level Nova's like Philo. The Nova Prime is allowed full unlimited access. This is why we no longer see Nova use terms like "I need full power to both hands", and instead saying "Worldmind, give me what you can spare, tight focus", and then blasting the hell out of whatever. In other words the Nova Prime gets what ever amount of Nova Force he needs to get the job done. It's just a matter of how smart he is with it.
Nova 6/10
Originally posted by dmills
@Nihilist,Not really. That was just the avenue he decided to take once he found out that his brother was alive. Nice quick and clean. Outside of her durability Xentith is really no match for Nova.
And what makes you think she isnt a match for him.
Isnt this the same girl that was stomping annihilus?
He really didnt have a way of beating her outside of messing with her powers.
She was above him.
Originally posted by dmills
@ carver 9,Oh come on man, he was toying with her! He was reading while she was punching him for goodness sake!
She never fought Annihilus.
You should know better then to debate me on this!😛
It seemed like both of them was toying around and I didnt mean annihilus, my bad.
LOL, you are good when it comes to Nova but I think you overrate him sometimes (even though he is powerful as hell).