Originally posted by TheHulkster
But what exactly do they withstand before they crumble?
that's the question. the answer i see from a lot of people is that they somehow withstood "a full universe's worth" of inertia. that a planet could even momentarily withstand that kind of pressure seems.....unrealistic. even for a comic.
Why would you think that there is a change of force between the time Hyperion touches the two planets and the time they crumble as if there is a universal driver who decides to push down on the gas pedal when he realizes that the universe is no longer moving?
hmm, that's a question that might explain a lot of the confusion in this thread. i see him having stopped the planets from touching briefly, but NOT having halted the universes from moving. they continued to move until the inertia shattered the planets. i guess if you are equating the planets with the entire universes, then you'd see things differently. i don't understand how a planet can represent the inertia of an entire universe though. it is as you said, comics, just doesn't make sense. imo.
If the two planets had made contact immediately without having Hyperion's interference, they would have produced enough energy to destroy both universes. How could that happen if they aren't backed by universal force? The whole thing is ridiculousness from a real world perspective but that is common in comics. [/B]
again, it's a good question. i think the earth's merely represented the single point at which the universes touched--the incursion point. it wasn't the released energy from the planets that caused the destruction of the universes--again, that makes no sense. no planetary collision could cause universal destruction. the fact that the universes came into contact at all, even for an instant, is what caused destruction--2 universes can't exist in the same place for any time at all. so while hype held apart the incursion point, the universes themselves continued to advance, overwhelmed the planets, and the universes collided anyway....
thing is, it is STILL a retarded strength feat. no one has ever said different. but holding apart 2 universes? sorry man, i just see it different.