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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
“Earth Eternals are as powerful as Thanos” doesn’t hugely impress me because we’ve never seen Thanos in action without the Infinity Stones, and many of his most impressive feats were accomplished with the Infinity Stomes.
It suggests that the Eternals are physically very strong and extremely physically durable, but those are comparatively limited powers.
The Wikipedia article lists more expansive powers (flight, energy blasts, telepathy, maybe teleportation), but those still sound more like “won the superpower lottery” than “godlike” - they’re abilities possessed by other supers, the Eternals just differ in having all of them.
Edited by Galadriel on Dec 30th 2019 at 10:42:26 AM
We saw him manhandle the Hulk without using the Power Stone. We also saw him fight in Endgame where he spent most of the fight without the stones.
And having all of those powers at once does make them godlike in the Marvel verse.
Edited by M84 on Dec 30th 2019 at 11:43:24 PM
Disgusted, but not surprised![]()
It's one of my least favourite parts of comic book fandom. That fans are able to point out all the ways in which the heroes could easily beat any villain if the plot weren't constructed in such a way that prevents them from doing so. Like, when someone told me about that one time in the Flash where he evacuated an entire city in the 0.00000001 seconds it took for a nuke to go off.
Being told that Captain Marvel could've easily beaten Thanos if she wasn't distracted by other stuff doesn't really add anything to the scene by itself. It might be an objective factoid, I'm just not sure how it's all that useful.
Edited by GNinja on Dec 30th 2019 at 4:52:54 PM
Kaze ni Nare!Spider man: Get out of my home!
Edit: Well the distractions for Wanda, Strange and Carol were getting carpet bombed, stopping a dam from breaking and being punched in the face by the power stone respectively.
That last one in particular was a desperation act. Looking back, Carol was having as much trouble stopping Thanos (he kept knocking her away before she managed to plant her feet and stop him from snapping, which I still think was her absorbing the passive energy the gauntlet started giving off when Thanos put it on) as he was putting her down.
Edited by HandsomeRob on Dec 30th 2019 at 10:44:38 AM
One Strip! One Strip!Spider-Man: Home is Where the Heart Is?
Also power level discussion for these characters has just never been something I've cared about. They're as strong as a writer feels like making them. But for the hell of it, I say Carol, Wanda, Thor and Stephen Strange all had Thanos dead to rights and any one of them could've killed that asshole if there weren't other factors at play.
Self-serious autistic trans gal who loves rock/metal and animation with all her heart. (she/her)I'm not sure how you can say that about Thor. He actually does fight Thanos fairly head-on and loses, no distractions or cheap shots required.
MCU Thor is strong but he just doesn't really have the same kind of super-strength his comic self does, even when he doesn't look like melted ice cream.
Edited by Anomalocaris20 on Dec 30th 2019 at 1:28:02 PM
You cannot firmly grasp the true form of Squidward's technique!This talk about the worthiness clause makes me wonder how Jane Thor is going to work. Is the movie just never going to establish that she's worthy, and she just gets her powers from Stormbreaker? Are they going to forge or steal another Mjolnir to establish her worthiness? Are they going to put the worthiness clause into Stormbreaker?

Spider-Man: Home Alone 2: Lost in New York.