Even at standard levels Galactus has fights that rival his Mad Celestial scuffle (e.g., Galactus Engine and Scrier/Other). This would be a tough fight for the team.
The first line-the same thing I thought when I came to this thread.
The second line...
Yep, I was thinking along the same lines. Imagine their despreation when Galactus starts swalowing their blasts. Now, taht does remind me of Mister Popo eating Goku's Kamehameha in Dragonball.
Also, he could do to SBP what he did to Hercules, which was in Galactus' words, "turn you into protoplasmic slime." And since he is not using magic, Prime won't be immune to it.
No offense, but that's bloody obvious. Fully fed Galactus is Eternity level who would take less than seconds to murderstomp this team.
The difference is that Galactus was stalemating or holding off(single-handedly) both enemies in the latter scenarios. Against the Mad Celestials, he almost got killed.
So no, standard level Galactus is certainly not on the same level as Hickman's 4 Nega Bomb no-selling Galactus.
Galacta believed that Wolverine's "unkillable" healing factor could create an endless supply of food for her.
I think that the Elders scene has less to do with them being unkillable, and more to do with the fact that said unkillability is a cosmic-scale curse from Mistress Death. One of the beings against whom Galactus provides balance in the 616-universe.
Actually, Galan nearly killed one of the Celestials one-to-one before all four of them decided to merge. Only after that was he was beaten easily.
Where is BigBran when you need him
How is that supposed to disprove the point that against the Mad Celestials he was brought down? As compared to the Galactus Engine and Scrier/Other, whom he managed to hold off on his own lonesome.
The MCs were just that darn powerful. The shit they pulled off against the Council of Reeds, I doubt we've ever seen the mainstream Celestials pull off such combat feats. Taking one down and then getting one-shotted by the combined remaining 3 isn't a bad feat. Especially when those 3 were giving an adult version of Franklin Richards hefty trouble. The same Franklin Richards who was able to plow through a multiverse-rewriting wave.
And I am pretty sure Bran would more or less agree with me here.
He has amped himself a couple of times beyond that (or have prepared to amp himself). But yeah 4 planets is alot, but again it also makes the current "standard" Galactus hard to gauge correctly imo.
^But I doubt we've ever seen him take such brutal punishment(caused by a one-hit strike no less) in other instances unless it involved uber Abstracts like Abraxas or the Pre-Retcon Beyonder.
You mean the guy who earlier teamed up with a bunch of skyfathers against a single celestial and got roflstomped? Who then spent ages to prep for their next coming, only to get roflstomped again?