He absorbed Stardust's race and they were all intangible beings.
Better yet, even Mjolnir can absorb someone's soul/consciousness. It's a pretty basic skill once you go up above the high herald level. it's just.....easy.
Dr. M's abstract existance would be different from Stardust's intangiblity, and while "soul-suckage" could also work, in a certain manner, it might not affect Dr. M in the same context as it might most other beings. Note the use of the word "might"; neither confirming nor denying, but the matter is far from clear. Dr. M is a weird one, to say the least...
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Dr. Manhattan's powers are still growing with his knowledge of physics. Maybe in a few millenia this is a good fight. Dr. M's almost impossible to kill what with the multiple body and putting himself back together from nothing thing, though.
He said that he can look at the past, present and future, because the timelines are parallel. However, Surfer have shown to TRAVEL in time. They have a kind of power which look a like a lot, but Manhattan is limited:
Ozymandias once stated that Doc wouldn't be able to stop every nuclear missiles throwed by URSS if that happened.
Surfer travel far faster that speed of light.
And Surfer is made of but a fraction of the Mighty Galactus.
Dr. M would be able to fight Galactus while working on some experiment and having sex with some chick all at the same time. Galactus would just waste his energy fighting Dr. M.
They both would figure out that fighting each other is pointless and a waste of both of their time.
Just going from the inferences in the novel, I've always assumed Dr. M to be more powerful than others on here is seems (which is understandable given the Dr.'s few "feats"). I though Alan Moore having him walk on water and contemplate creating life to be quite telling.
Hell, I've even hear some people opine that Dr. M might be the supreme being in DC.
In regards to a forum fight, Galactus wins easily with far more relevant feats.
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Last edited by TheKahn on Dec 30th, 2009 at 04:18 PM