Magnus the Red (Warhammer 40,000) vs. Luke Skywalker (Star Wars EU)

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Location: Coruscant

Magnus the Red and his Thousand Sons legion have invaded Coruscant, and the fate of the planet hinges on the result of his battle with Luke in single combat, which Magnus has forbidden friend or foe from interfering in with.

The most powerful psyker short of the God Emperor in history and Primarch of the Thousand Sons Legion versus the greatest Jedi to ever live and current Grandmaster in the order, at peak.

For shits in giggles, in the first fight it will be Magnus when he was "merely" a Primarch, and the second it will be Magnus as Tzeentch's greatest Daemon Prince.

Who wins?

I can provide evidence for Magnus's power if necessary.

Indeterminable.

Both characters have displayed retarded powers on such an abstract scale that there is no concrete comparisons to be made. Luke has shown the ability to resist the gravitational pull of blackholes, move so fast that he can turn invisible to the eye of trained force users and look like he has 20 hands holding twenty lightsabers when dueling, travel through time, turn planets invisible, etc.

Magnus has similar retardo-feats.

Similarly, they've both been reduced to doing stupid shit. Magnus getting the shit beaten out of him while fighting Bjorn and the other elite wulves, Luke having a poorly written wrestling match with an abstract being. etc.

Originally posted by Tzeentch._
Indeterminable.

Both characters have displayed retarded powers on such an abstract scale that there is no concrete comparisons to be made. Luke has shown the ability to resist the gravitational pull of blackholes, move so fast that he can turn invisible to the eye of trained force users and look like he has 20 hands holding twenty lightsabers when dueling, travel through time, turn planets invisible, etc.

Magnus has similar retardo-feats.

Similarly, they've both been reduced to doing stupid shit. Magnus getting the shit beaten out of him while fighting Bjorn and the other elite wulves, Luke having a poorly written wrestling match with an abstract being. etc.

Your face is a retardo feat.

Magnus's power was channeled into an avatar in Battle of the Fang, and by the time the Wolves could make a counter-attack on him, his power was fading from the host, nearly transparent.

Originally posted by NemeBro
[B]Luke was only stated by the narrative to be unable to be moved by the supermassive black hole in the center of the galaxy, which is sort of, you know, narrative hyperbole.

How do you know this is hyperbole?

Magnus's power was channeled into an avatar in Battle of the Fang, and by the time the Wolves could make a counter-attack on him, his power was fading from the host, nearly transparent.

The massive amounts of damage he was sustaining wasn't helping. He had to expend energy to keep his solid form...solid, because the Wulves were tearing it apart.

All daemons have to use avatars when they're outside of the warp. If this is Magnus as he exists in the warp, then Luke loses. Daemons can't be killed within the warp.

Originally posted by Tzeentch._
How do you know this is hyperbole?

Because Luke doesn't telekinetically throw solar systems at his opponents. If Luke can do what the narrative described, telekinetically tossing a hundred solar systems would be a trivial feat in comparison.

The massive amounts of damage he was sustaining wasn't helping. He had to expend energy to keep his solid form...solid, because the Wulves were tearing it apart.

All daemons have to use avatars when they're outside of the warp. If this is Magnus as he exists in the warp, then Luke loses. Daemons can't be killed within the warp. [/B]

No they don't, lol.

Angron didn't have an avatar, he was summoned whole.

It is possible to summon daemons without putting them inside a vessel.

Originally posted by NemeBro
[B]Because Luke doesn't telekinetically throw solar systems at his opponents.

"Throwing solar systems around" would be completely antithetical to a pacifist pussy who values life over all else like Luke. It's pretty much just a in-universe joke that Luke holds back the majority of the time.

No they don't, lol.

Angron didn't have an avatar, he was summoned whole.

It is possible to summon daemons without putting them inside a vessel.

By "avatar" I assumed you simply meant "solid form".

My point is that within the materum Daemon bodies aren't intangible/immortal and their powers aren't unlimited, like they are in the warp. They bleed, lose limbs, etc. They just have an insane amount of regen.

From what I've heard (from Nemebro's rapid erection) Magnus is simply too absurd for Luke to beat.

Would a lightsaber even hurt him? Douchey Mcgee said he survived plowing through a planets crust as a baby.

Originally posted by Tzeentch._
Since when is CIS a valid argument? Is the Flash not FTL because his storylines don't end in a single page? Is Batman incapable of killing the joker because he never does?

Only we actually have seen Flash go FTL, and we know that Batman is physically capable of killing the Joker.

Luke doesn't actually have telekinetic feats nearly on the level of tossing solar systems.

"Throwing solar systems around" would be completely antithetical to a pacifist pussy who values life over all else like Luke. It's pretty much just a in-universe joke that Luke holds back the majority of the time.

Feats or gtfo, really.

Even Abeloth, who has what? A dozen times the Force power of Luke? Never performs any feats on nearly that magnitude.

Narrative hyperbole can gtfo.

By "avatar" I assumed you simply meant "solid form".

My point is that within the materum Daemon bodies aren't intangible/immortal and their powers aren't unlimited, like they are in the warp. They bleed, lose limbs, etc. They just have an insane amount of regen.

They aren't unlimited in the Warp either but okay. I don't know your point, but okay.

Originally posted by Nephthys
[B]From what I've heard (from Nemebro's rapid erection) Magnus is simply too absurd for Luke to beat.

Would a lightsaber even hurt him? Douchey Mcgee said he survived plowing through a planets crust as a baby.

I've heard lots of wacky shit about Luke as well.

And that was actually Konrad Curze, his brother, who plowed through a planet's crust as a baby, and proceeded to crawl out.

From what I hear lightsabers can cut through things of Magnus's durability.

Well Luke has moved miniature black holes before and he resisted teh force push of Raynar Thul who, at the time, was backed up by the force power of billions and potentially even trillions of beings.

I would actually give Luke Skywalker the edge in telekinetic feats, while Magnus has never not been able to move something telekinetically, he doesn't have as many nor as impressive showings.

Magnus might have the age in telepathy though. In Aurelian, Lorgar ( one of Magnus's brothers) telepathically toyed with the Greater Daemon possessing Fulgrim, and could have destroyed it at any time. This is the same Daemon who could telepathically control the planet Laer's population as its slaves. Lorgar later tries to telepathically take on Magnus, who is on the other side of the galaxy and is expending a considerable amount of his power to create a psychic avatar on Lorgar's ship. Lorgar does well for a time when Magnus tried to placate him, not looking for a confrontation, but the moment Magnus has enough he telepathically dominates Lorgar, making his nose bleed, making his legs give way, and used so much power that paintings in Lorgar's chamber combusted, and statues shattered.

How fast is Luke, by the way?

Rather simple. The Force > The Force of Chaos, ergo EU Luke wins and sends his ass hurdling into the Immaterium.

/thread

Here is a Luke Skywalker Respect thread in case anyone wants it.

Originally posted by NemeBro
I would actually give Luke Skywalker the edge in telekinetic feats, while Magnus has never not been able to move something telekinetically, he doesn't have as many nor as impressive showings.

Magnus might have the age in telepathy though. In Aurelian, Lorgar ( one of Magnus's brothers) telepathically toyed with the Greater Daemon possessing Fulgrim, and could have destroyed it at any time. This is the same Daemon who could telepathically control the planet Laer's population as its slaves. Lorgar later tries to telepathically take on Magnus, who is on the other side of the galaxy and is expending a considerable amount of his power to create a psychic avatar on Lorgar's ship. Lorgar does well for a time when Magnus tried to placate him, not looking for a confrontation, but the moment Magnus has enough he telepathically dominates Lorgar, making his nose bleed, making his legs give way, and used so much power that paintings in Lorgar's chamber combusted, and statues shattered.

How fast is Luke, by the way?

Yeah I'm not sure that Luke is Magnus' equal in terms of telepathy. Lukes greatest TP feat was communicating with all the Jedi in the galaxy at once and that exhausted him.

He's fast enough that Leia could hardly see him when he was fighting Palpatine, Palpatine himself being fast enough to speed blitz 3 of the finest swordsman in the Jedi Order, at one point made 'a curtain of hard light with his blade' and theres this image where he's deflecting bolts so fast his blade doesn't even seem to move, although that might just be crappy art. He was able to move fast enough so that a supernaturally fast opponent (he called her 'impossibly fast' at the start of the fight) was moving in slow motion and he's deflected blaster bolts from two stormtroopers firing only milliseconds apart.

He's also able to fly and fight at near-relativistic speeds in his X-Wing and speed up is perceptions enough that the TIE fighters are noticably slower.

Originally posted by Nephthys
Here is a Luke Skywalker Respect thread in case anyone wants it.

Thanks, will thumb through at my leisure.

Yeah I'm not sure that Luke is Magnus' equal in terms of telepathy. Lukes greatest TP feat was communicating with all the Jedi in the galaxy at once and that exhausted him.

Your mother exhausted him.

Hmm, there was a psyker, discussed in the 6e rulebook, who was capable of telepathically controlling the populations of some ridiculous thing like a hundred systems, but I am unsure if I want to powerscale Magnus off of that, since that could just be inconsistent 40k goofiness.

He's fast enough that Leia could hardly see him when he was fighting Palpatine, Palpatine himself being fast enough to speed blitz 3 of the finest swordsman in the Jedi Order, at one point made 'a curtain of hard light with his blade' and theres this image where he's deflecting bolts so fast his blade doesn't even seem to move, although that might just be crappy art. He was able to move fast enough so that a supernaturally fast opponent (he called her 'impossibly fast' at the start of the fight) was moving in slow motion and he's deflected blaster bolts from two stormtroopers firing only milliseconds apart.

Quantifying Primarch speed is hard, but Space Marines, and even lesser mortals, have deflected sprays of bolter, lasgun, or autogun fire with swords and shit, Eisenhorn is a very solid bullet-timer, Argel Tal jumped in the way of a spray of bolter fire and blocked three bolts with his swords, Lucius routinely ducks, bobs, and weaves around projectile fire in the middle of a battlezone, and all are slower than Primarchs. There are examples of Marines, one of whom being previously mentioned Argel Tal, being unable to so much as perceive the movements of Marines. Rogal Dorn cleared the distance of a room and punched a Marine in the chest, shattering his ribs, without the Marine even perceiving the movement. When Lorgar rushed Roboute Guilliman and knocked him down, 200,000+ Marines were unable to even perceive the action, Argel Tal being one among them. And IIRC Ahzek Ahriman couldn't actually physically perceive much of Magnus's and Leman Russ's fight (He perceived their psychic auras). Also, in one of the Blood Angels novels, through some psychic relic, a Marine actually gains the perceptions and speed of a Primarch (Sanguinius in this case), bolter fire and las-bolts appear nigh-frozen in mid-air and shit.

However, it's hard to really quantify all of this, since we simply don't know how fast bolter rounds or las-bolts travel. It is confirmed that bolts travel faster than sound, but that's it.

He's also able to fly and fight at near-relativistic speeds in his X-Wing and speed up is perceptions enough that the TIE fighters are noticably slower.

Whoa, don't normal humans pilot those things? How does that work?

Magnus IIRC hasn't slowed his perception, but he can alter the flow of time, slowing or even halting it, which might be his biggest advantage over Luke.

Originally posted by NemeBro
Your mother exhausted him.

Hmm, there was a psyker, discussed in the 6e rulebook, who was capable of telepathically controlling the populations of some ridiculous thing like a hundred systems, but I am unsure if I want to powerscale Magnus off of that, since that could just be inconsistent 40k goofiness.

I wouldn't be surprised if 40K was full of that kind of goofiness tbh. The verse is so absurdly over the top.

Originally posted by NemeBro
Quantifying Primarch speed is hard, but Space Marines, and even lesser mortals, have deflected sprays of bolter, lasgun, or autogun fire with swords and shit, Eisenhorn is a very solid bullet-timer, Argel Tal jumped in the way of a spray of bolter fire and blocked three bolts with his swords, Lucius routinely ducks, bobs, and weaves around projectile fire in the middle of a battlezone, and all are slower than Primarchs. There are examples of Marines, one of whom being previously mentioned Argel Tal, being unable to so much as perceive the movements of Marines. Rogal Dorn cleared the distance of a room and punched a Marine in the chest, shattering his ribs, without the Marine even perceiving the movement. When Lorgar rushed Roboute Guilliman and knocked him down, 200,000+ Marines were unable to even perceive the action, Argel Tal being one among them. And IIRC Ahzek Ahriman couldn't actually physically perceive much of Magnus's and Leman Russ's fight (He perceived their psychic auras). Also, in one of the Blood Angels novels, through some psychic relic, a Marine actually gains the perceptions and speed of a Primarch (Sanguinius in this case), bolter fire and las-bolts appear nigh-frozen in mid-air and shit.

However, it's hard to really quantify all of this, since we simply don't know how fast bolter rounds or las-bolts travel. It is confirmed that bolts travel faster than sound, but that's it.

That's all pretty fast. I'd be careful about going into intricate feat wars though. Also Luke will have an edge in that he has precognition, so he can react before Magnus attacks.

Originally posted by NemeBro
Whoa, don't normal humans pilot those things? How does that work?

Magnus IIRC hasn't slowed his perception, but he can alter the flow of time, slowing or even halting it, which might be his biggest advantage over Luke.

I have no fvcking idea. I was only barely aware that they moved that fast until I read this guys thread.

From the Respect thread:

'In this example, Luke views TIE Fighters that are flying at sublight speeds that move them at sizable fractions of light speed in slow motion.

Luke reached out. The Force was here, as it was everywhere, and it was no harder to touch deep in space than it was in the swamps on Dagobah. He let it fill him. The TIE fighters suddenly seemed to be moving slower. Luke’s hands flew over the controls; he moved the stick with sharp and precise movements. Swung to his starboard and lit the lasers, double-tapped the fire button.
Lines of fire lanced out and shattered one, two of the four TIE fighters. The explosion spat a hard spray of wreckage at him as Luke looped away. Shards of the destroyed TIEs sleeted against the X-wing’s transparisteel canopy, a meal and plastic hail.

--Taken from Shadows of the Empire

"I've got it—I'm gonna make it! I'm gonna—" He was interrupted by the final flip of his X-wing, which brought his nose into line with the sight of the leading edge of the spherical debris field expanding toward him at a respectable fraction of lightspeed, and Hobbie Klivian, acknowledged master of both profanity and obscenity, human and otherwise, not to mention casual vulgarities from a dozen species and hundreds of star systems, found he had nothing to say except, "Aw, nuts."

Some X-Wings were lost to friendly fire, as they were traveling too fast for the Slash-E gunners—or even their own superb reflexes—to react as they swept through the quad turrets’ fields of fire. Some were lost to simple collisions, flying at near-relativistic speeds through very, very crowded space.

--Taken from Luke Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor'

The dude is wrong in that it never says he perceives them in slow motion, just that they're 'moving slower'. But the second quote does seem to support that X-Wings really move that fast.

Originally posted by NemeBro
Only we actually have seen Flash go FTL, and we know that Batman is physically capable of killing the Joker.

Luke doesn't actually have telekinetic feats nearly on the level of tossing solar systems.

Feats or gtfo, really.

Whore.

Wasn't he unable to stop Abeloth from destroying a town with a volcano Blax?

Originally posted by Nephthys ]I wouldn't be surprised if 40K was full of that kind of goofiness tbh. The verse is so absurdly over the top.

So is your mother.

That's all pretty fast. I'd be careful about going into intricate feat wars though. Also Luke will have an edge in that he has precognition, so he can react before Magnus attacks.

Ah... Magnus also has precognition, lol. He can peer into the future moments or even years away, he literally wrote the book on using clairvoyance both in combat and in the long term, making the Corvidae Cult which specialises in it.

Magnus's schtick in the Thousand Sons is that, while all of his sons and the vast majority of psykers tend to have one specialised form of psychic power they excel at beyond others (Corvidae are masters of clairvoyance, telekines masters of telekinesis, pyrae masters of pyromancy, etc.), Magnus excelled at everything.

I have no fvcking idea. I was only barely aware that they moved that fast until I read this guys thread.

From the Respect thread:

'In this example, Luke views TIE Fighters that are flying at sublight speeds that move them at sizable fractions of light speed in slow motion.

Luke reached out. The Force was here, as it was everywhere, and it was no harder to touch deep in space than it was in the swamps on Dagobah. He let it fill him. The TIE fighters suddenly seemed to be moving slower. Luke’s hands flew over the controls; he moved the stick with sharp and precise movements. Swung to his starboard and lit the lasers, double-tapped the fire button.
Lines of fire lanced out and shattered one, two of the four TIE fighters. The explosion spat a hard spray of wreckage at him as Luke looped away. Shards of the destroyed TIEs sleeted against the X-wing’s transparisteel canopy, a meal and plastic hail.

--Taken from Shadows of the Empire

"I've got it—I'm gonna make it! I'm gonna—" He was interrupted by the final flip of his X-wing, which brought his nose into line with the sight of the leading edge of the spherical debris field expanding toward him at a respectable fraction of lightspeed, and Hobbie Klivian, acknowledged master of both profanity and obscenity, human and otherwise, not to mention casual vulgarities from a dozen species and hundreds of star systems, found he had nothing to say except, "Aw, nuts."

Some X-Wings were lost to friendly fire, as they were traveling too fast for the Slash-E gunners—or even their own superb reflexes—to react as they swept through the quad turrets’ fields of fire. Some were lost to simple collisions, flying at near-relativistic speeds through very, very crowded space.

--Taken from Luke Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor'

The dude is wrong in that it never says he perceives them in slow motion, just that they're 'moving slower'. But the second quote does seem to support that X-Wings really move that fast.

But then how the **** do normal human pilots pilot them in combat?

Er......... look at the pretty bunny! Look at the pretty bunny!

*runs away*

I should also mention Magnus the Red's power output.

In A Thousand Sons, while fighting Leman Russ, through force of will he creates a powerful psychic storm (Possibly a legitimate Warp Storm) that is tearing apart the surface of Prospero.

To be honest I don't actually think Luke can beat him. He's seems too strong, durable, fast and powerful. I don't see Luke beating him with the Force and I don't see him beating him with his lightsaber either.