Originally posted by CosmicComet
Dude.That's not what happened.
Yeah it is. Thanos was smoking, shaking, and on the ground. Odin literally gave him the chance to give up, and seemed more annoyed than anything. If he was going all out, then would have finished Thanos then and there. I don't think that anyone is saying that Thanos isn't strong, just that he's not as powerful as Odin.
Originally posted by Sirius77
Yeah it is. Thanos was smoking, shaking, and on the ground. Odin literally gave him the chance to give up, and seemed more annoyed than anything. If he was going all out, then would have finished Thanos then and there. I don't think that anyone is saying that Thanos isn't strong, just that he's not as powerful as Odin.
No.
He did not 'dominate' Thanos by any stretch of the imagination. Nor was there anything indicating that he was somehow going easy on him power output wise--especially not when you take the dialogue of Odin lauding Thanos as a very worthy opponent and bringing out Gugnir to demonstrate how serious he was about it.
This is how the point by point break down went:
1. Odin blasts Thanos first one-handed. Thanos stands there unphased. (don't care if someone argues a force field, irrelevant. thought it was neither mentioned nor outright displayed)
2. Thanos and Surfer blasts Odin together, Odin quickly eliminates Surfer, showings his influence in the fight was minor.
3. Odin blasts thanos again with two hands, this blast is slightly more effective as Thanos somewhat unbalanced, still standing easily but one foot above the ground.
4. Thanos charges at Odin, can't tell if he missed with the punch or Odin blocked with his charged up wrist or what, as there is nothing to indicate exactly in the scan but anyway Odin blasts Thanos away from close quarters.
5. Thanos is up standing immediately and casually, suit and himself completely undamaged. Odin is surprised that Thanos is alive. Thanos blasts Odin two handed and this blast is felt clearly by the skyfather as he is forced to put his arms up to block it, but the impact is still clearly pushing his upperbody back. --More or less this blast and its subsequent effect is on par with the two handed blast Odin shot at Thanos at number 3.
6. Odin sends some asteroids at Thanos, while telling the titan that Thanos taps into a nearly limitless source of power, and notes that he himself is connected to a 'similar reserve' of power. Thanos easily busts up those asteroids while they are verbally jousting. This statement outright admits that he and Thanos both have a power source/reserves of similar power. I don't care how anyone else tries to finagle a different interpretation out of it, its right there on the page.
7. Some more talking, Thanos traps Odin in a block of pure force. Odin uses eye beams to weaken it enough to break out.
8. Odin gets serious and brings out Gugnir. Blasts Thanos with it. Thanos goes flying into some buildings in Asgard. Thanos gets up immediately, not a scratch on him or his suit, and he isn't talking as if he was taxed by the blast at all.
9. Thanos trudges through a second, more continuous blast. Odin has both of his hands on Gugnir's shaft, about two-thirds up it. Thanos grabs Gugnir with one hand, just below the blade.
10. Odin and Thanos have a bit of a struggle over the spear and then he sends them flying while they are both holding on to it and they land with an explosion, finally Thanos' grip is off it and can be considered the 'loser' after this point.
For the last point, the important thing to note here is that Odin was not able to simply rip Gugnir out of Thanos' grasp despite Odin using both hands and having better leverage since he's holding it past the middle of the shaft, and while Thanos used only hand the whole time, had inferior leverage, and was weakened by the blast itself.
How was it a 'domination' if Odin did no actual damage whatsoever prior to bringing out Gugnir, and prior to its usage was engaged in trading a few moves with Thanos in which neither were able to actually affect the other? Furthermore, he basically outright states that they have access to similar power levels, and he praises Thanos as a warrior. It was not casual nor one-sided nor a domination in the least.
It's a faulty interpretation. It was a good fight. And a fight in which Thanos showed great physical strength against a skyfather as well.