This time Thanos has the Starbrand(only the starbrand , no congress amp etc.) and Erishkigal manages to get a hold of the classic 616 infinity gauntlet .
Magus possesses 100 cosmic cubes(all of them are at 100% power and fully functional) .
Battle is to death and takes place in the 616-universe .
And the congress was a major part of those stipulations . Which is why I'll ask you again : are you sure that Thanos will come in 3rd even with the congress amp ?
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Actually, outside the Nexus of Realities, the congress can't help the Starbrand.
Remember, it's withIN the Nexus itself that the Congress (nexus guardians)
can harness the multiverses' nexus energies collectively,
this coupled with the merging of the Starbrand,
gives the Starbrand enough power to shift the Cosmic Axis,
therefore causing Chaos to grow in the Multiverse due to an imbalance.
According to the LT,
the Starbrand merged with the Congress while located within the Nexus of Realities,
was a "potential peer to the Abstracts"
... but "would not be able to withstand the power of the LT"
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These stipulated circumstances aside,
and the Starbrand is a potential universal power:
When we talk about an "amp" , we imply it to be a functional amp . Since the congress is being talked about here as an "amp" , they are a functional amp . I.E , they give the starbrand whatever boost is necessary as was the case in that quasar issue . But since the location here is not the NoR , what was the point in bringing up the congress amp ?
This , I believe , is the scan(you showed a cropped version of it in the original Erishkigal VS Thanos thread) from which this statement of the LT's comes from : (please log in to view the image)
LT : "Heed me Erishkigal , I acknowledge you as a being of vast power.....a potential peer to the Abstract Entities.But not even you could withstand the unleashed powers of the Living Tribunal .Cease your disruption or I will enlist the highest powers in the multiverse to annihilate you!"
To which Erishkigal responds : "I don't respond well to threats , 3-face!"
So , Erishkigal basically laughed off the LT's threat to which the LT responded by proposing that contest via proxies .
In this case , Erishkigal is at least as much of a threat as Warlock w/IG was . Difference is the LT was able to use the guilt trap of "all realities getting destroyed in our clash" to perfection with Warlock , whereas Erishkigal simply didn't give a damn .
If Erishkigal didn't have the power , do you think that she would "laugh off" a threat from the second most powerful being in Marvel Actuality ?
Also the Warlock confrontation , imo , clearly shows that , at the very least , Erishkigal w/ Starbrand+fully functional congress amp is as great a threat to LT as Warlock w/IG .
And LT did indeed use the guilt trap on Warlock , by blackmailing him with the "All reality will get destroyed in such a confraontation. Is that what you want? Is that the type of god you are? " line.
IIRC , LT himself wasn't sure which way the fight would have gone , yet he was unwilling to get in a direct confrontation with Ersishkigal . However , if you still believe that even w/ the congress amp, the IG is greater , then to each his own . Your opinions are respected and welcome .
Although I am disappointed by the fact that the person who asked for this thread to be made , has refused to reply to it .
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Why not? It's not like she did anything to him.
I've seen the Stranger actually having the nerve to threaten the LT
in a Silver Surfer issue, but that doesn't mean squat if they can't act on it.
Well, that's your opinion and I understand that.
But I disagree completely.
The LT was giving Warlock a chance to give up the IG willingly.
There's nothing wrong with that, the LT isn't a cowboy looking for a fight.
He's always allowed (or given the chance to) lesser beings to fix their own problems,
like he spared the Earth so Dr Strange could fix the situation before the LT acted.
Warlock had just saved Reality from Nebula.
The LT doesn't "blackmail" ... he told Warlock the facts.
I have to take that glove off of ya by force, and everything around us dies.
That aside,
since the up coming run of Warlock and the Infinity Watch was about to be published,
we can see how Warlock needed to keep the glove,
and disperse these Gems himself to individuals to form said group.
Now you see why the LT was not allowed to stomp the IG out of Warlock's hand.
But it's much worse than laughing off the LT's threats. Look closely at the actual dialogue :
Not only did she laugh off his threat to attack her, she laughed off the threat of him enlisting : THE HIGHET POWERS IN THE MULTIVERSE to annihilate her!
The Starbrand got this.
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..even the outer hells are indifferent matters for they bow only to potent and archaic Nodens.
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So now the new one is, laugh at your opponent = you defeat, you can defeat, or you = your opponent.
Although other than begin to shift the Cosmic Axis via the stipulations,
she did absolutely nothing, like nothing at all to warrant such a status
amongst proven CCUs and the IG.
In any case, shifting the Cosmic Axis only hurts Space-Time (Eternity/infinity)
which unbalances reality causing Chaos to grow.
Big deal, when the IG stomped all of them like babies.
Look at the trouble Erishkigal had to go through to take down Eternity.
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As for the "HIGHEST POWERS IN THE MULTIVERSE"
I've heard that before, and that was only to take out Korvacwho
couldn't destroy a Universe under his own power.
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May 30th, 2012 02:39 PM
. But in my defense, that was a What If this was 616 reality.
