I always wondered why Spectre couldn't take him out, since he was imbued with the Presence's power (and amplified with the power of all the magic-users) when they went at it at the beginning of time during the original crisis.
But if that's true, then the Anti-Monitor is up there with nearly any abstract or uber-cosmic.
Then again, a bunch of heroes and Darkseid's beams (via Alexander) took him out later, and Supergirl nearly killed him. So if you look into it too much, he's actually an inconsistently-drawn character.
...still a great story (the original crisis) but I think it was more about cleaning up the DC multiverse than about character continuity. I can't really see how we'd have an accurate level for Anti-Monitor with so few showings (unless he comes back in IC, which I haven't read yet).
In Infinite Crisis: Secret Files & Origins 2006, he is called "even more dangerous than the Anti-Monitor and perhaps the greatest threat in the DC Universe
Anti-Monitor had anchored himself to the essences of all the multiverse heros and villains that were present. You'll notice Nabu wasn't doubting Spectre's ability to kill him, vbut did note that if they did, all their comarades would die as well. [Thats on page 294 of the TPB] Spectre with added power of the mages there, depowered and defeated anti-monitor, banished him away containing him in the anti-matter universe away from the material universe, and recreated the remaining Earths into one whole universe.
Next time you see Spectre, he's down,and Phantom Stranger comments "The very power we need to save our unverse is to be denied to us."[Page 313]
Phantom Stranger later summons Dr Mist and he asks why he was summoned... P.S. says to "For your power Dr Mist -- Your powers and mine are needed.. to summon the essence of the still comatose SPECTRE. To bring forth his infinite energies . . . and to wield them to save the universe!"
As they cast, you see Phantom Stranger and he struggling, Mist says "But he RESISTS us, his power is greater than ours!"
[Page 334]
There seems to be other forces at play, why would Spectre not want to wake up and win the battle? Who knows?
We can't understand the way he works.
Take when he battled Parallax for example, he came in and battled Hal until he was almost completely drained, dissapeared after being blasted... then let the heros beat him, then told us that "Judgement has passed." Meaning that was the plan the whole time. Then restarted time by pouring energy into Damage until he big banged..
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the only reason anti monitor was getting knocked around by supergirl i think was cause he had just finished fighting the spectre and got hit with the omega beams which even the spectre gets hurt by, other then that he was just to weak to go at everyone who was trying to beat him after such major hits.
If you read it again Digi, you'll find he expended most of his power while fighting the Spectre and Opening a bridge to the beginning of the universe. When he fights Kal l , Prime and the other D.C heroes, he only has the power of a single Antimatter star. Pre Crisis Darksied could have probably done the job on his own. Plus i don't think is was the Spectre powered by the Presence fighting the Monitor.
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LT would run away from him so bad, and full power galactus can destroy 10 universes not as many as antimonitor, and the IG can only protect ONE universe and antimonitor can kill more then just one universe.
i dont think so in the original time galactus showed up i think watcher said he was THEE strongest in the MU of course this is before the IG, Eternity, LT who is a jobber anyway yet yeah the others are stronger.
There is a marvel hierarchy in the comic book forum, which has been edited by some intelligent people who know there stuff, although the actual hierarchal position of the phoenix force is contraversial.
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