Quick question, what exactly did "God" Swamp THing do? I saw Galan's excellent and comprehensive respect thread and couldn't find anything "OMG" worthy by GST.
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..even the outer hells are indifferent matters for they bow only to potent and archaic Nodens.
If that's what it takes to replace "God" in the DCU, then they got problems. I see a regular Celestial (forget about Scathan) owning "GST". But you know more about DC than I do, so if you think "GST" is that powerful, then (please log in to view the image)
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..even the outer hells are indifferent matters for they bow only to potent and archaic Nodens.
It actually took quite a bit of effort for ST to get to that level of power. Either way, the elemental Parliaments are often underplayed around here, but the simple fact is: once ST began usurping their powers, he became a significant enough 'threat' that the Word himself had to directly intervene- and even HE doubted his power against ST. Also keep in mind that all of the above happened before ST gained the power of the Parliament of Flames (ie. he was not yet at the 'height' of his power.)
Additionally, there was also this statement: "Earth, air, fire, and water. The whole of creation, he said, is MADE of these elements." Thus, if one controls the aforementioned forces (as ST did), then said character can effectively control all of creation. So the Word's comment that ST could have replaced the God does make sense.
That's the thing though, I'm not impressed at all with "The Word". There's nothing I saw in that respect thread that couldn't be accomplished by a Celestial, let alone THE Celestial that took down the Protege.
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..even the outer hells are indifferent matters for they bow only to potent and archaic Nodens.
Just what did Scathan do that was so impressive for you to consider he wins?? He came up behind The Protege and placed on him a muzzle, chained him up and blinded him so he couldn't use his use his powers... The Celestials don't have that luck when taking on the GST....