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Most absurdly overpowered superhero?
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HomerSimpson-Man
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God characters/reality warpers I feel are cheating/no fun in general, since it's fall completely into the whatever you can make up stuff since they are gods. They can be used to stage nice events, but their own existent in battle is a wash.
"Well, oh, yeah? How about pull this out of my ass!!"
Manmademan
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There are actually two (yeah, I know)
one is the leader of the celestials, never been seen in physical form.
the other is sort-of analogous to the christian concept of god, and has taken the form of a comic artist (kirby?) in one of the few times it's been seen. That was an issue of Reed and Co needing a form to easily comprehend him in though.
i'm actually... not too sure on that? haha
i remember that there was the fat one, then the adult one was super buu... then the kid buu was apparently the purest form and the strongest...? i think?? that whole arc was kinda strange
I don't remember the Buu saga well enough to remember that.
But I feel that if Toriyama wanted to portray DBZ characters as on that level, then that would have been the perfect moment.
And he didn't.
Also that Vegeta scene was only in the anime and not in the manga. It doesn't really match with the power levels at that point.
Parallax
best seen in the classic "Shadow of the Beast"
the last time we tried that, we ended up with an ugly galactus vs gurren lagann thread.
Only absorbing the fat Kai made Buu stronger, which is because the Fat Kai was so pure of heart that it conflicted with Buu's evilness. Then again, Gohan is pure of heart (he rode Nimbus) and Buu absorbed him and got stronger. So I guess the only time absorption back fired is when he absorbs the highest tier of God.
That's how ridiculous Batman and Batman Fans are :\ I don't think he has ever been beaten, though I haven't read all the comics. Even when he dies he actually doesn't, and just goes back in time.
Manmademan
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yeah, but his inability to fly sort of knocks him out of the running.
He's been punched into orbit and stuck there a couple of times until someone helped him out, and there are a few people (like Thor) that can just decide to stick him in the middle of the sun or the end of time if they felt like it
Batman was beaten senseless by both Prometheus and Deathstroke- and deathstroke more than once, I think. And there was that time in Marvel vs. DC admitting Captain America was the better combatant...
The celestial TOAA has been seen plenty of times. He is the one with the block for a head.
Deified Data
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I've never seen a character with such a great differential between what his real power level is versus what fans think it as as Batman. He has wealth, genius, and the consequences of those two powers combined. Nothing more, nothing less. He cannot prepare for the inevitable or the utterly unknowable. Any one of the enemies that Doctor Strange faces on a daily basis would destroy Bats utterly.
Before anyone responds, what in all hell would Batman do against the likes of Shuma-Gorath or Dormammu? It's totally over his head.
Before anyone responds, what in all hell would Batman do against the likes of Shuma-Gorath or Dormammu? It's totally over his head.
TacticalFox88
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Nope.
Early DBZ could planet bust.
Remember Roshi in DB could Moon-Bust and his power level was many times inferior to Raditz.
Well, on Wolverine's defense he should be the ultimate glass cannon. He should be able to kill any mortal with his claws (including the Hulk), but he should be easy to take down by those guys as well (regardless of adamantiun bones and healing factor a single punch from the Hulk should make Wolverine pass out if there was any logic to comics).
I just hate it that nowadays every single super hero has a healing factor of some sort. From the Hulk to Spider-man and Daredevil to even Batman, all this guys have been injured in a way that should take then a long, long time to heal but they're usually up and running in the same or next issue.
The Hulk is particularly ridiculous on this issue. He originally went from being practically invulnerable to now being wounded by gunshots (and healing immediately). That's just bad writing.
I just hate it that nowadays every single super hero has a healing factor of some sort. From the Hulk to Spider-man and Daredevil to even Batman, all this guys have been injured in a way that should take then a long, long time to heal but they're usually up and running in the same or next issue.
The Hulk is particularly ridiculous on this issue. He originally went from being practically invulnerable to now being wounded by gunshots (and healing immediately). That's just bad writing.
He's Batman, he probably already planned it before he was born.
Oh thank Batman. This has made me happier.
Alien X from Ben 10. This guy is omnipotent and can do anything he thinks of/wants to so he could do anything the characters in this topic do. His power has no limits and in a fight it would only be possible to beat him by absorbing/copying its power.
Too bad it has a huge weakness that means it can't be used ever, it has 3 minds and 2 of them need to agree to actually do something.
Manmademan
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eh? the block with the triangles on the side? That's Scathan the Approver.
edit: wait- scathan is green. looks like you're right!
HomerSimpson-Man
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Yeah, but Hulk's beaten the shit out of people like Thor before too.
Messypandas
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guy was basically a blue balled god
TacticalFox88
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Are you seriously arguing that Vegeta who would've destroyed Earth had Goku not stopped him, can't destroy planets? When it was both said in anime AND the original manga?
they gave us fucking SKIING???
He'd conveniently have their greatest weakness in his belt pouch.
(For the record, I think Batman has gotten silly with this shit over the years, but I can't help the way he is written.)
Parallax
best seen in the classic "Shadow of the Beast"
molecule man was scattered by the sentry, and we still dont know the extent of the sentrys abilities.
HomerSimpson-Man
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I forget the details, but the Celestials are the Cosmic beings that planted and influenced the evolutionary paths of races across the universe right?
And death.
Yeah they are the reason people on earth can have super powers.
Messypandas
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What I love about Batman is he is living proof that strength of the mind is the quintessential tool in any combat. Its the same reason Lex (A man) is such a giant thorn up Supes (A God) ass.
Peterthumpa
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guy was basically a blue balled god
This, one hundred times. He was literaly, God.
Big fish in a small pond. Any other comic universe and he wouldn't be a big deal.
HamPster PamPster
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Peterthumpa
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What? The guy had no weakness, at all. How someone would defeat him?
Deified Data
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Indeed, he's relatively tame by most cosmic entity standards.
GUILT!
He probably couldn't beat Silver Surfer, much less beings like Galactus.
TacticalFox88
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Which speaks volumes of the state of comic books in general. SMH.
Manmademan
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Slayven is correct. Even the low tier cosmics (say, surfer, quasar, etc) are far more powerful.
Grenouille
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Riposte
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Superheroes are entirely dependent on the writer. In a sense they are powerless.
Silver Surfer existing doesn't exactly interfere with Spiderman's struggles.
Silver Surfer existing doesn't exactly interfere with Spiderman's struggles.
A decent Eternal would wax his ass. Sersi would murderize him. Vulcan(Omega plus bitch!!) would make him dance.
Psychological Intellect
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i don't get this, if manhattan is a god that can basically control everything how are more powerful cosmic gods and what not defeat him? do they control everything, just more?
what the fuck
Peterthumpa
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Yeah, exactly.
Exr
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Easy
shit is fucked up. He can defeat every single one of the superheroes mentioned above me and all the ones mentioned after this post. Even Goku.
Do you really think this or is this a parody of Batman fans?
Riposte
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Manhattan powerset is basically complete molecule manipulation (like Molecule Man) mixed with an unusual perception of time. He's not omnipresent nor would he be omnipotent in a reality with more, well, complicated rules (like a world where "Death" has an avatar and there are multiple universes bleeding into each other).
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