He can't instantly.
He can duplicate himself as many times as he wants (but not all at once) because all that is required is energy which is everywhere in the universe. He can make many of them at once and then each one of those can make the same amount. This becomes a geometric series in which whose sum reaches astronomical amount in a very short time.
IMO, full powered galactus should have no problem winning this. But a hungry Big G would have a challenge on his hands.
It may be ridiculous for Dr. to beat Galactus but it is even more ridiculous to think that Surfer could beat the Dr.
Why doesn't it matter if G is starving or not? I can see a well fed G winning but a starving one? If Dr. M duplicates himself enough times then G would have no chance. His little life energy he has left would be depleted. For each one he destroys more reappear.
based on what we have seen Galactus is far superior, Yet we dont know the upper limit to Dr. Manhattan. I feel like he has never tested his powers fully
By feats Galactus stomps but I have a feeling that (this is implied power) Doc can beat a starving Galactus and he could beat Silver Surfer. Again Doc never blew up anyone with Surfer's durability but he probably could. I'm a fan of Doc which is a problem since he has no combat feats but I don't like how people act like he's just Firestorm with unreliable future sight.
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Doc cannot beat galactus ever that is not even debatable. As for the surfer incident, how is he supposed to blow up surfer? First of all he never blew up anyone even 1/1000th as durable as surfer and further, surfer has much better molecular control than he does. There is zero chance of that happening. Doc isnt some firestorm with future sight.......Firestorm has much better feats than he does and so is greater than him as well. All manhattan did was look impressive in a world full of non superpowered beings. He couldnt even stop all the nukes on earth smultaneously while guys like surfer have absorbed all power from the entire planet and deactivated every single machine on earth simultaneously. Surfer easily destroys manhattan via board absorption or destroying his consciousness.
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Dr. M can absorb energy too. Saying someone just absorbs him doesn't fly quite right. Plus Dr. M showed light speed reflexes too (the slowing of time) in the movie. Dr. M can become any height, duplicate himself multiple times, manipulate matter, absorb energy, amp himself, see the future without concentration, teleport, have nanosecond or better vision, can reform, etc.
If Galactus is starving Dr. M can just sit there and duplicate many of himselves even larger size than G himself and let G starve to death.
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Dr M cannot absorb energy on a level even remotely close to that of galactus. Further Dr M never showed lightspeed reflexes at all. I dont know how ur r getting that....actually then again its just another one of ur long list of fabrications. Even if galactus is starving, he can kill manhattan in so many ways its not even funny. Seriously this needs to be closed for spite.
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I'm assuming you're betting on magic messing up Manhattan then? Since we have no real way of knowing how magic affects Manhattan, it's kind of iffy to assume they can win (although if I had to pick someone to fight Manhattan, I would probably use a magical powered being myself).
Yeah but I don't think most of those you listed could kill him for good. Thor maybe because of soul absorption assuming that works on Doc. Can BRB do the same thing with Stormbreaker?