Originally posted by dmills
He's used stargates as an offensive manuver at least 3 times on panel. Once to Ego, once to uber Sphinx and once to destroy 100 Kree Sentinals. Each time was successful.
The Sphinx was threatening all of reality, and Ego had cannibalized Worldwind and the Nova Force. I don't recall the last one. But with the first two, the stakes were much higher than a single death. I don't think Nova needs to result to that to win.