GalacticStorm
Smart Alec Know-It-All
Originally posted by Juntai
yeah they just did it. But it was also regular Raven, not mega amped Future State Raven though they did briefly mention it. I did love how they just flat out point out that Raven is better in combat with high level entities.
Since when is Death Battle an authority to be respected? As superficial an analysis as they come.
One that completely ignores historical context and power creep.
If for the sake of argument we were to just look at the most famous appearance of Dark Phoenix from 1980, you have to consider the fact that she only appeared in 3 issues (Uncanny X-men 135 to 137) whereas Raven is a comic staple who has been able to benefit from decades of power creep.
When the Dark Phoenix appeared in 1980, feats were at a lower scope and power level, stars were written as the ultimate source of power. Feats involving stars were used as the highest benchmark to demonstrate power and durability.
For example, attacking Korvac with a supernova was stated by LT to be his "ultimate punishment"
https://imgur.com/yIvfIBa
and when that failed he had nothing left in his arsenal and fled, thereby demonstrating how high level star feats were in comics in the late 70's/early 80s.
https://imgur.com/T2UUrbX
then you have Dark Phoenix out there eating stars! In this same arc she was stated on panel to be second only to TOAA demonstrating that at that point in time, she was regarded by Marvel as top of the hierarchy.
https://imgur.com/qyYw0nE
1970's/early 80s Raven was nowhere near that level. Its only through decades of power creep that she can be mentioned in the same sentence as Dark Phoenix and not through comparing modern Phoenix feats with modern Raven feats, but through modern Raven feats with 40 yr old Phoenix ones. 😬
Originally posted by Juntai
Raven also already beat Dark Phoenix in the old 80s crossover TT/Xmen using her emotions against her under Clairmonts pen. But you know, rules against crossovers, and it was eventually moved to crossover universe in Marvel I believe.
This is completely untrue Juntai.
Youre doing what you did in our earlier Future State discussion where youre asserting things confidently despite the fact that the point is based on a vague recollection you have of a read from the very distant past.
Raven attempted to restrain and defeat Phoenix and found herself woefully outmatched and ended up a crying heap on the floor:
https://imgur.com/6XwMJtS
https://imgur.com/rx30rkM
Xavier then pondered on the fact that this Dark Phoenix was actually just an incomplete facsimile cobbled together by Darkseid from the remnants of the real deal and this gave it an exploitable weakness.
Xavier and Raven then joined forces to attack this Dark Phoenix incarnation:
https://imgur.com/gK6fBcM
Xavier then engaged this facsimile in a psi-war and by breaking its concentration, disrupted its tether to reality that it was consciously maintaining before this point and it began to discorporate:
https://imgur.com/Bsm7OAf
https://imgur.com/mAzH65S
So Xavier got Raven to pull herself together and stop crying on the floor so she could make herself useful and help him take crucial steps that would eventually lead to the Dark Phoenix facsimile inadvertently committing suicide again in an attempt to avoid discorporation:
https://imgur.com/JHtj2Mk
So to sum things up, if we are talking about the Dark Phoenix that appeared in Uncanny X-men 135 to 137 and that appearance alone, as a result of the time it was written in (i.e the threshold for feats at the time), there's a stronger argument for Unkindness winning, despite her lack of on panel solo feats of note.
However given the thread creator did not set such parameters, we know in modern times that Dark Phoenix is simply a state of mind that any Phoenix host can reach when they're embracing their destructive, baser nature. As such modern Phoenix feats would apply. Top Jean Phoenix feats actually displayed on panel and performed by her solo grossly outweigh conclusively solo Unkindness feats that were actually depicted on panel, therefore Dark Phoenix wins. 😬