Although my interpretation of a stalemate is "no winner when the fight ends or is ended". Thanos did take a beating from Odin and from all indications, he would have lost if it had gone on much longer. But it was a stalemate nonetheless. Who knows, maybe Odin would have gotten so angry that he couldn't put Thanos down that he'd lose control and that would give Thanos the advantage. Thanos should lose a lot of his fights but he wethers the storm til he gets the upper hand (getting the Runner to talk instead of fight, fighting Champion just enough to make him mad and lose, conceding to the Surfer then backstabbing). Or not.
Good that you pointed that out. I remember reading the Champion one and he did just that. Even though Champion was significantly stronger and was about to break through, Thanos got him so mad that he used it against him.
My idea of a stalemate is where both parties get the best of each other, even though that may not be the correct definition. By all means though, no one won. However Thanos was the losing side, it could have turned based on Thanos' past battles.
I highly doubt that Odin was using anything near full power.
For example. Thor chased away Galactus with a godblast.
Odin>>>>Thor
Galactus>>>>>Thanos
Had the fight continued or had Odin gone full out, Thanos would have been a memory. It wasn't a stalemate, but "losing with class."
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The key is, Thanos never once had the advantage in that fight. Odin casually swatted away everything Thanos did. What Odin dished out, Thanos took hard. He kept getting up (painfully at the end), but that doesn't make it a stalemate if you can't hurt your opponent once.
And Jim Starlin wrote that confrontation, didn't he? Or Ron Marz. It was someone who respects Thanos power.
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they key thing is that Odin was dishing out all that he had at thanos, he even pulled out the spears, and yet none of it had an effect on Thanos, ive seen plenty of fights where the guy who weathers to storm ends up winning simply because after a while the other guy gets winded and has nothing better to throw, Odin had nothing to put thanos down permanantly with, so i say tie.
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To be honest, I wouldn't say Odin was going all out, but he seemed to be giving it a fair bit of effort. It's a feat to say that Thanos survived that, but he was still clearly losing.
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