And then muzzled him and then after removing the muzzle was still powerful enough to physically restrain him as the LT passed his judgement.
Also, Protege was indeed above the LT because the LT had to draw on additional power from an object/thing/person that the Protege hadn't observed (the Eye of Agamotto) to imprison the Protege.
And then Scathan approved of the LT's judgement. Scathan is no joke.
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IMHO, the entire fiasco was stupid. I half expected the entire thing to be retconned in the way the MM and Beyonder were in 616 reality.
Think about it, in 616 reality : it was MM's experiment that opened the door to the Beyonder's universe and allowed him to peer into the 616 universe. It wound up being retconned that they were just two sides of one Cube.
In the GotG's reality I believe it was the Beyonder observing the GotG's universe from Eternity's scar that led him to the Protege. I thought they were gonna make them two sides of one Cube too (paralleling 616 reality with Protege being this reality's version of MM).
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..even the outer hells are indifferent matters for they bow only to potent and archaic Nodens.