Originally posted by MrMind
he stalemated the monitor backed by the multiverse for a million yearstar level my ass， even weakened he survived galaxy wiping attack no problem
Here's the thing. There are arguments and there are facts.
While we all insist on certain arguments, there are several undeniable facts that people keep dancing around:
1) Monitor stalemated Anti-Monitor for a million years.
2) Monitor would feel pangs of weakness/deterioration when a universe was consumed into the antimatter universe.
3) Supergirl straight-up pummeled Anti-Monitor so badly, his physical form was destroyed and he had to flee.
4) Anti-Monitor absorbed the suffused antimatter universe to travel back to the beginning of time.
5) Anti-Monitor outright stated that he exhausted those energies and, therefore, had to wait for the heroes to also travel there to use the heroes' energies to manipulate creation.
6) Anti-Monitor drew on the power of a sun at the end of COIE to keep fighting.
A lot of you appear to conflate facts #1 & 2 as if that automatically elevates both the Monitor and the Anti-Monitor to multiversal powers. As if, one or two positive matter universe exists = Monitor possesses one or two universes' worth of power within himself.
That conclusion doesn't necessarily flow from those facts. It could very well be that the Monitor can draw relative amounts of power from the relative amounts of positive matter universes that exist. He's connected to them, yes, his power is relative to them, yes, is his power equal to them? No, not necessarily. That's a rather puerile suggestion given the rest of the story. Moreover...
That conclusion is also contradicted by the other facts. Because if Monitor and Anti-Monitor are waging war with powers via a zero sum game, there's no way that Supergirl could have punched him to near destruction.
For Supergirl to have achieved a beatdown of a multiversal Anti-Monitor, she'd have to be multiversal+. More than that, such a premise would defy the law of conservation. If Supergirl were beating the sh1t out of Anti-Monitor to the point where he's exhausted, this multiversal+ Supergirl would have basically destroyed a near multiversal amount of energies from the suffused antimatter universe.
Whether or not you think the DC multiverse was a truly infinite multiverse or a thousand universes, etc. That's utterly absurd.
So ask yourself, does it make more or less sense that the vaunted Monitor & Anti-Monitor tap into, rather than internally possess entire universes' worth of power? Because when you look at Supergirl, or Anti-Monitor's repeated reliance on technology, or Anti-Monitor getting pummeled by Qward thunderers, the answer should be fecking obvious.
