Originally posted by krisblaze
1 - These are mutually exclusive? No, they are not. It's entirely possible to take hits from Odin and Tyrant and be affected by hits from Drax. You could say the same about Thor taking hits from Celestials and Galactys, yet being affected by Sif or Volstagg.2 - Unable to put down Thanos? I recall Thanos being on his knees at one point.
3 - This is not related to other characters being weaker under Starlin.
1 - Galactus is well above Drax. That's probably why Galactus' one attack did more than the combined attack of Drax and the other GOTG.
2 - Thanos also knew that Galactus was going to attack him and prepared his forcefields. He didn't prepare those forcefields against Drax and GOTG.
3 - Tyrant was beating the heralds, but he was not playing with them. They were also being weakened AND half of them were fighting Tyrant's robots.
4 - Thanos was significantly more hurt by Tyrant's attacks then he was by Drax's attacks. So this doesn't really help your case.
5 - Sure he should've. It's entirely possible for Drax to be able to punch Thanos once in the face and be taken out by Nova Prime. Being taken out by Nova Prime and being able to hit Thanos have very little to do with eachother. Maybe your arguments would've made more sense if I had claimed that Drax fought Thanos evenly 1v1? As opposed to just punching him.
1 - It is ABC logic because you're claiming that since character A = B then he is clearly not = Character C.
2 - It didn't stun him but it clearly affected him. Like I mentioned earlier you're reading too much into art rendition. Thanos reacted more to Thor and Drax's hits then he did when Drax initially killed him. He also reacted far more to Black Bolt's attack then he did to Odin, Tyrant or Galactus' attack. Which points out how flawed this "art only" interpretation is.
3 - Evidence would suggest that comics are inconsistent and that tanking a hit from Thor does not exclude you from being punched by Drax.
1 - The CC lasting more than 1 attack does not indicate that it was more powerful than "first thought". Nor does that mean much since it was just a brief estimate by Starlord. Does he possess any kind of cosmic awareness or innate knowledge of cosmic cubes, energy, power levels or anything of the kind? No he does not.
2 - Yes, Thanos was unaffected by Surfer's best shot, yet he was strangely enough affected by many weaker beings than the Surfer going all out. Perhaps we should not equate this to Thanos being completely immune to any attack by high herald and down. If we do then Ganymaede, Terrax and Jack of Hearts are Trans at the very least.
1 - How strong did I say that Drax was? Roughly class 80? And that a class 80 can punch Thanos? Why would a class 80 be able to drop Angela?
2 - How durable is Angela? We don't know yet. We just know that she's a shit character and that she can take hits from Thor.
3 - How does Gamora hurting dumb drax (as he is called, not infantile) exlude him from punching Thanos in the face?
4 - How does She-Hulk overpowering dumb Drax exclude current Drax from punching Thanos? How is that incident not PIS when Thanos had to exert more force to beat Drax than She-Hulk did? Either
a) She-Hulk is powerful enough to easily overpower a foe that Thanos couldn't, meaning that She-Hulk is more powerful than Thanos, or
b) She-Hulk overpowering Drax and Drax punching Thanos are not mutually exclusive.
5 - A handbook stating that Drax is class 50 means that he is class 50? Seems unlikely. Seems even more unlikely when you consider the people he has overpowered and that even when he was being depowered he was fighting the Blood Brothers, who are class 100 when close to eachother.
Maybe, just maybe, your ABC logic doesn't work as well as you would like it to.
Otherwise how can you explain She-Hulk being more powerful than Thanos? And Ganymeade being more powerful than BRB, Gladiator, Surfer, Jack of Hearts and Thanos?
1.Galactus would naturally be able to output more power than Drax, but if Thanos was able to survive Galactus' assault, a character of Drax's power should go nearly unnoticed. It didn't because Drax has power over Thanos like he always had.
2. Thanos did not react more to Thor's hit in the head than he did to Drax's hit. Way to call the kettle black, while being the pot Kris, or what are you basing your opinion on? Could it also be artistic renditions?
3. Thanos under optimal conditions has tanked more than what Drax is capable of, or a character of Drax's strength is capable of dealing out. This clearly shows you the obvious answer that you are trying your best to ignore. Drax has power over Thanos, he has always had power over him.
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1. Correct, but then Thanos knocks Galactus a couple miles away. This is not something that Drax can do.
2. Thanos may not have had that particular tech with him when he fought the GOTG. He was just revived.
3. Ganymede was the only one to hurt Tyrant, and that was because her staff was specifically made to hurt him. All of the Spinsters had them. No other character was capable of hurting Tyrant. He was playing with them, and was not out to kill them because he was going to use them to power his vessel.
4. Of course it helps my case. Tyrant was vastly more powerful than Drax, or another character of Drax's current strength level. If thanos was able to take an assault from Tyrant, Drax, or a character of his current level would have been a push over. Tyrant is a Galactus level threat. Are you kidding me right now?
5. Drax was fighting Thanos evenly, and even managed to hurt him. Another character on Drax's level would not be able to do that. Thor with Mjolnir was barely able to open Thanos up. Drax was punching the blood out of his mouth. Again you must be kidding with that mess?
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1. No it is not ABC logic. Drax or a character of his power level simply do not possess the punching power to do that to Thanos, unless they have power over him which was seen during Annihilation. Not once was it ever stated that Drax somehow lost that power. Drax is currently the very same incarnation that pulled Thanos' heart out and ripped through shields capable of withstanding an assault from Galactus during Annihilation.
2. If I'm reading into the art rendition, what exactly are you doing? Thor was unable to hurt Thanos like Drax was. Drax actually opened Thanos up, and sent him reeling backwards. Is Drax now stronger than Thor, and does he hit harder than Thor does with Mjolnir? Thor wasn't playing around, he was aiming for the back of Thanos' head with that hit.
3. On average Thanos' durability feats are measure up, except for when he has run ins with Drax. Do you know why that is? Drax was made to destroy Thanos. I know that this is something that i don't have to prove to you, unless you want to play dumb, or genuinely aren't aware of this fact. This is the very same incarnation of Drax, that pulled Thanos' heart out during Annihilation. He showed that he weakens Thanos' very genetic makeup just being around him.
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1. It was stated during the Cancerverse arc just after Thanos revived, that the CCU was nearly depleted, but then we see it fired off more times that it was stated to be capable of. It also clearly hit with more force than a top level herald, or was it my imagination when Thanos sat smiling at the Surfer when he blasted him in the face?
2. Perhaps the CCU had something to do with Thanos being hurt by weaker characters. however Drax hurt him again after he came back to life in a universe that Death has no power.
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1. You said that Drax was roughly a class 80-100. This goes against everything, and anything that he has done in his current form. In his original for, he was more powerful than he is currently. He could fly, and use power blasts. In his INFANTILE form which I prefer instead of calling him dumb, he was vastly more powerful than he is in his current form.
2. In her battle with the GOTG, we get a rough idea as to just how tough Angela actually is. She was tough enough to take a blast that went right through her, but got fried by an electrical attack. She was also beaten by Thor, and pushed by Gamora. Drax however was incapable of Kayoing her with a sneak attack. Sneak attacks hurt more than regular ones because the recipient has no time to brace themselves. Drax was unable to even KO her. This shows his strength class to be below someone of Thor's range. Again Thor was unable to even stun Thanos with a Mjolnir shot to the head. He moved him, but he did no damage.
3. How does Gamora hurting the infantile version of Drax translate? Well it takes strength to hurt a character of his durability which was shown several times during his short run. Drax was vastly more powerful then, than he is now.
4. Because Drax weakens Thanos.
A) No Drax was given power to face thanos because he is a unique being made for the sole purpose of destroying Thanos. The same can not be said of any other character in concerns to Drax.
B) She Hulk would break her hand on a guy that can take a hit to the head from Thor without taking any lasting damage. look at how she nearly broke her hand against the Infantile version of Drax.
5. It seems that the writer who wrote the confrontation between Drax and the She Hulk used that very same handbook to give She Hulk the strength advantage in that particular portrayal.
Or, maybe just maybe you aren't looking at all of the angles, Or you refuse to acknowledge that my reasoning is very logical, but you have refused to believe based on it possibly throwing a wrench into your denial that Drax actually was made to destroy Thanos, which is and always was written on panel.
Otherwise Drax has a unique affect on Thanos that no other character in creation does, which is written on panel when he was made, and the purpose of making him.