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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
Of course. That's because while Galactus can eat planets, Owen Reece can destroy entire universes. Thankfully, due to Reed Richards and the Future Foundation, he recreated the multiverse, but if the Beyonders had their way, he (and every alternate version of him) would have exploded and destroyed everything.
Molecule Man is another one of these characters that just does whatever the plot demands of him.
One second he wrestles with the Beyonder, the other he gets torn apart by the Sentry. Never liked the concept behind him much.
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Edited by Anomalocaris20 on Jan 30th 2019 at 2:16:27 PM
You cannot firmly grasp the true form of Squidward's technique!Edited by alliterator on Jan 30th 2019 at 11:16:48 AM
Ao S did basically-confirm another Ghost Rider (Johnny Blaze) but told us basically nothing about him so they could always use him to avoid crossover issues.
Molecule Man is kind of a difficult character. There's some potential there but he's too OP and there's a limit to what a mental block can excuse
He was great when he was written by Paul Jenkins in his original mini-series. It served as half a "What If?" story (What if there was a Superman-type character that had a long history in the Marvel universe, but nobody remembered him?) and half a deconstruction of Silver Age superheroes (The Sentry got his powers from drugs...because he was a junkie...and his arch-enemy, the Void, is actually a part of him and will always come back unless the Sentry goes away, too).
Edited by alliterator on Jan 30th 2019 at 11:21:03 AM
Imagine Endgame ended like that. The Avengers losing to Thanos and then Ghost Rider came out from nowhere and used the penance stare on him, and from all the guilt he feels undo the snap, and Ghost Rider just up and leaves the very second without any explanation of who he is.
I can't decide if I would feel disappointed or would love it
Just give someone else a powerup and have them go at it with Broly-Hulk.
Or better yet don't, 'cause these sort of over-the-top fights just look ridiculous outside of the animated medium, and not the good kind of ridiculous.
I mean, just compare this:
With this:
You know, just looking at the two thumbnails one above the other, you can see one big problem — the expressions. Naturalistic expressions of pain and rage combined with the over-the-top action of a fight like this turns what could be an operatic battle of the titans and reduces it to a teenage slapfight. But that's where you want to take a page from wushu and anime — as animators will do — and remember that this heightened reality you're trying to create doesn't stop when the battle music begins.

Don't care who is the Rider, all I want is that sick motorcycle back.