Originally posted by Naija boyOh, I'm not saying you're saying she's comparable to King Thor. I'm saying the whole reason she was brought up originally in really any thread involving WBH is to try and paint her as a legitimate Skyfather character.
Not sure I follow this. Yes Umar doesn't have the feats catalogue of KT. For the most part neither do a bunch of supposedly skyfather level characters. But that was never the comparison I was making as it isn't analogous to the mindless ones situation in which we are attempting to figure out their intended power level as a group in a specific comic as opposed to across the totality of their history.
You might only be using her as a basis to judge WBH's jump up in power, but the issue with her being in this thread is exactly what I stated. She is being compared to King Thor when things such as "Skyfather" are stated, and her impressiveness is being discussed in the open. IE, King Thor = Umar <<<< WBH.
I realize your intention, but you also have to realize that a lot of what I've stated has been about habits specifically in this thread by Carver and the like.
Originally posted by Naija boy
And I honestly cannot agree with valuing previous extraneous showings more than the contextual in comic evidence when attempting to determine the specific intended power level of a character in a particular comic. It devalues writer intent as it gives us the ability to simply disregard whatever means the writer used to communicate that intent despite its far greater relevancy, simply because it isn't the kind of evidence we like or because the characters haven't operated at that level consistently before. In principle that opens the door for all manner of whimisical and circular reasoning.Mind you actually, in this case I don't think the above is actually what's going on. As you have pointed out....the mindless ones portrayal as a group ( which is all I ever referenced) in HOTM didn't really contradict any of their previous individual showings anyhow and is fairly consistent with their previous portrayals as an extremely overwhelming force in large numbers. My point was never about their individual strength but rather the overwhelming nature of the totality of their force and how destroying all of them when Umar couldn't even come close was particularly impressive. The inevitably overwhelming nature of their force in sufficient numbers is something that has been consistent irrespective of their vastly fluctuating individual levels. So on this we should actually be on the same page.
While I'd agree with you in some cases, this case is not one of them. The Mindless Ones simply did nothing of note to suddenly take their Hulk showing in a bubble and make everything else irrelevant.
I could see if Pak suddenly had one of them tank planet destroyers, or punch out a continent, but all we have is a statement.
I agree. However, how durable they are still has a lot of relevancy to their numbers. And I feel you're only looking at the numbers game when durability is just as important. Which is why I asked things involving Spider-Man and such.
Originally posted by Naija boyA series of misunderstandings I feel.
Ok so initially I thought that you were arguing against the claim the the mindless ones in totality were an extremely powerful force by referencing their previous lesser showings both individually and in smaller groups. My counterclaim therefore brought up the contextual evidence that in this scenario previous showings were of no relevance as the writer specifically mentioned how the totality of their force this time was enough to overwhelm Umar in her own realm. Hence the claim contextual evidence in this case holds far more weight and relevance to this specific incident than extraneous showings. However what I now understand you to be saying is that the statement HOTM doesn't contradict previous showings at all as they have always been overwhelming forces. I actually agree wholeheartedly with this as the whole point of my claim from the get go was that it was impressive because it was the totality of the mindless ones....not because I assigned some individual durability level to each of them. There individual durability level in that instance is indeterminable but not even pertinent to my argument.And no I don't think a planet destroying attack is above that at all....specifically because we know that Umar in her own realm did not have the output to destroy them. Furthermore, as you said this does not even contradict anything in their history as in their fullness both Umar and Dormammu have been unable to completely annihilate them in the same vein Hulk did. Since we are getting into hypotheticals, I am positive this was more due to inability than due to the inconvenience ( the mindless ones dimension is annexed to but separated omthe Dark Dimension and full of nothing but mindless beasts if she could...Umar would have just popped over there and disintegrated them all with there being little danger or damage to the rest of her realm). Even in the circumstances she was in when they got released, she wouldn't have had to release a blast that's encompassed the whole planet as the mindless ones as far as we knew only occupied a portion and hadn't spread across the entire planet yet...not to mention that on a planet which Umar admitted had no innocents and was full of damned souls I highly doubt Umar would care about having to whatever it took for her own survival. All the indicators both contextual and historical point to it being a case of inability not inconvenience.
Still, I can't agree that durability isn't important. Maybe not to your logic (which I'll get to), but it is important to determine how impressive a thousand times the force needed to destroy one as going by your logic. Yes, it sounds impressive, but that's basically just throwing it out in a hallway and raising your eyebrows repeatedly while others look on.
Like I jokingly pointed out before, you could conceivably call it however many times the amount of Thing's punch. Which isn't a knock on the feat (though you'll probably think so), but it gives it an actual basis as opposed to just doing sexy eyes at it. Say we just ignore the existence of the rest of the feat happening. How much force can you equate to that showing without purely resorting to a numbers game? You'd have to look at previous showings, no? Otherwise you're again (and not that you agree with it anymore) just judging the impressiveness of the feat based on numbers and a blank slate of a character. Which might as well make them the most deadly army in the universe tier of character.
Among other things, I hope you understand my point in its entirety now. Their individual durability isn't something to merely ignore. It's something to add in and figure out why this base is as impressive, or not as impressive as previously thought. We can't figure out everything by numbers.
An all encompassing planetary blast vs a relatively tiny area of people that don't have planetary durability... I'd say the blast should take them out everytime. Hell, I'd say the planet just exploding should take them out everytime.
See, I'm just seeing the fight different is all. I feel if she were to fight them, it'd be more one on one as opposed to one vs a group. And that would be very unwise for a fight against an army.
But Umar actually cared about her planet. The innocents part is only relevant to Hulk. Hell, she got pissed when Foom destroyed her castle.
I feel that if she were to win against such large numbers (if she could), that she would have to employ a lot of collateral damage in such an occasion. Is the collateral damage needed to destroy that size of an army equal to a planetary destroying attack? Maybe not. However, since that's the only thing we have to base it on, we can assume it's still a lot. Would a relatively calm comic character be willing to use that type of force on her kingdom? I have my doubts. Which would instantly hinder her in such an occasion.
The Hulk however, wasn't hindered in such an occasion since again, everyone was basically a prick on the planet. Which left him open to just jam his dick in whatever hole he wanted to.
None of this however proves she could do it, though. I'll admit that's more of thinking she should be able to do it taking into account the planetary destruction level of the feat. And a little to do with a mere shockwave being above her total power output... but I digress...
Anyway, IMO, she either fires a planetary level destroying attack in a focused beam, or she fires it in a large area. And considering it's a planetary destroying attack, it's kind of hard to see that not do a ton of damage to the planet.
That is, if I'm correct in thinking she could possibly defeat the army. This would be the reason why she couldn't in such a scenario. Hypotheticals like you said.