Originally posted by Naija boy
Prime did affect Sinestro Corps Antimonitor....only after he had been rocked with a galaxy busting attack and taking an onslaught from the guardians for a while...and so considerably weakened. Hence its impressive but certainly not some all be end all..... and definitely not more impressive strength wise than Hulk in HOTM. Also WBH would certainly be able to rupture Monarchs armor if given the opportunity so I dont believe that Primes fight with Monarch is a good basis for a strength comparison. Most pertinently however, that version of Prime was even guardian amped and so is inapplicable in this scenario.
I was bringing up the Anti-Monitor because in DC anti-matter, only exceeded by entropy, can erase almost anyone and anything. Prime finishing off a weakened opponent that dwarfed multiple guardians and flying through anti-matter without any sign of injury is one of his greatest durability feats.
And I think the fight with Monarch is applicable because remember he lost the amp before he ripped open Monarch's armor and survived the energies released afterwards. He was no longer Superman Prime and had reverted to Superboy Prime, hence Monarch commenting on it, mocking him, and Prime screaming he wasn't a boy but a man.
Ripping open Monarch armor was a feat that 52 Captain Atoms, Christopher Kent (a being superior to Red Son Superman and Dark Knight Superman combined), multiple supermen, green lanterns, wonder women, and more failed to put a dent in during Countdown.
Losing his Guardian Amp and still ripping Monarch open I would rank as a feat above destroying a mindless one army, or bi-beast and company because I don't believe any of those characters including Umar could defeat Monarch in battle. I also hold destroying an armor which can contain Universe busting energies to be a massive strength feat.
Originally posted by Naija boy
Furthermore, while Prime is extremely durable, the reason I assert that Hulks hit will be more efficacious is due to the fact that Prime even while having tanked some really impressive attacks has been consistently shown to be within the ability of herald level characters to harm. That is not to say he is easily put down but it is notable because in his limited appearances WBH was entirely beyond that. Furthermore, in the case of WBH unlike Prime, harming him would only get more difficult as the fight went on as his durability as well as the speed of his healing factor would only continue to progressively increase. Hence it is reasonable to assert that WBHs hits would be more impactful than vice versa.
If you are basing this on amount of appearances then WBH definitely will hold a durability edge in terms of not being affected by weaker characters. Prime has appeared more often and has the lowest showing between the characters, with the Teen Titans, but imo has more high end feats from escaping the Speed Force to Recon punching characters to earlier states in their continuity (which I think is more ridiculous than destroying someone).
In this fight I think Prime's speed of attacking Hulk will be a bigger factor than the speed of Hulk's healing factor. If Prime chooses to use his speed, which was capable of counteracting a blitz from multiple flashes in combat, I don't see any healing factor from the Hulk Naija Boy that is capable of surviving the onslaught long enough to win the fight. Too many punches, too fast, in too short a time interval to recover from. If Prime chooses to use his speed.
Originally posted by Naija boy
And in relation to the planet moving, you cannot simply cumulate the number of planets that Prime moved and compare that to the Hulk feat as that is multiple different strength feats done in rapid succession. The feat of accelerating a planet FTL is quantifiably similar in scale but lacks the comparative character component which is the most impressive part of the HOTM feat.
Multiple strength feats done by Prime with the end result being the shifting of an ENTIRE UNIVERSE's Axis. I don't know of any character below what KMC would designate being a skyfather that would accomplish such a feat so quickly, so easily, without remotely exhausting their power.
And I disagree Naija Boy that the most impressive part of World Breaker Hulk is the character component. To me, it is the affecting of the dark dimension which has Umar distressed that sells the total power of WBH and Betty's collision.
Dark Dimension Wrecked>>>>>>>>>>Mindless One Army>>>>>Fing Fang Foom, Bi Beast, Wendigo, etc....
If you can raze a dimension (I don't know the size of the Dark Dimension and I'm assuming its much larger than any galaxy) character destruction comes secondary because dimensional wrecking imo trumps obliterating a top tier character herald or otherwise. It's the reason many people find destroying a galaxy superior to killing say a Black Adam. It's the magnitude of the scale and the power required to destroy so much matter.
Prime's feat was multiple strength feats, but without a decrease in stamina or power, easily and quickly accomplished, resulting in a UNIVERSAL upheaval. I find it more impressive because he did it alone and without anyone else's power contributing.
An there is a comparative character component, I admit not directly on panel, but through approximation. Explicitly being multiple incidents of top tier characters like Superman and Hal Jordan vs Starbreaker, or J'onn, WW, and Superman moving the planet against the sorceress Gamemnae. So we kind of know what it takes to move planets against opposing forces for DC top tiers but this isn't the strongest stand of my argument since you have Superman solo doing things with blackholes and other things that would greatly exceed planet moving.