Yeah, but if you... man, we're getting into weird analogy territory, like if you disintegrated Superman's arms he wouldn't be able to go "fool! Little did you know that my arms and I are one and can be remade from me!" and will his arms back into being from pure nothingness. - Pendaran
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Yes, the arm looked cauterized and blah blah. I still don't see the mechanism being altogether similar to say a lightsaber.
Im of the opinion it's more like Cthulhu said. Geography is not your friend with a portal lol. The heat effect may have just been an artistic liberation. Or a conscious effort to avoid excess gore with a movie they knew kids would watch. *shrugs*
Btw, you ever track down more durability feats for team Transformer?
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Ok, look at it a different way. Wonder Woman and Spiderman are specifically weak against bullets and sharp objects in their comics despite taking waaay more damage than "bullets" from other sources consistently. Especially Wonder Woman, who has survived nuclear detonations and blows from Superman. This is because they are specifically weak against piercing weapons/damage. It's a point of character. It's a plot point.
This is /true/ compartmentalized durability. A distinct weakness to certain types of damage.
Thanos, Cull and so on do not have any sort of compartmentalized durability as a point of narration, context or subtext. It's complete assumption that Cull has a weakness to energy attacks. Especially when we see Cull laughing of Super Tony repulsor blasts.
The safer and more evidence friendly argument is that the portal can "cut real gud yo". Comfortably severing Hulk level creatures.
If your follow up point is going to be the Wakandan energy barrier, just remember it seems to immolate objects flying at 1000 mph the size of skyscrapers. So. It's not crazy it got him. Unlike the Outriders, he was dragged along a great portion of the thing at speed while attached to an explosive jet pack lol.
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And, just fyi, 1000° C is not really hot enough to matter. Steel needs like 1200 C to melt iirc. So unless you think Thanos and crew are less durable than steel, we need to judge that Axe based on it's performances. What's the toughest thing it's cut?
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And yet you're failing to grasp the difference, to say nothing of the points Arbiter just made.
Also, if the blade really is only 1000°C that's more of a knock against the durability of the Transformers side, that's really not very hot, as again, you need ~1400°C for Steel.
Yeah, but if you... man, we're getting into weird analogy territory, like if you disintegrated Superman's arms he wouldn't be able to go "fool! Little did you know that my arms and I are one and can be remade from me!" and will his arms back into being from pure nothingness. - Pendaran
Arx Inosaan
As an aside, and as a somewhat tasteless joke. Cthulhu formerly petitions for "Energon Swords can't melt Steel Beams" to be a meme.
Yeah, but if you... man, we're getting into weird analogy territory, like if you disintegrated Superman's arms he wouldn't be able to go "fool! Little did you know that my arms and I are one and can be remade from me!" and will his arms back into being from pure nothingness. - Pendaran
Arx Inosaan
Optimus Prime transforms into a semi truck and apparently weighs 4.3 tons. The car's Maw lifted are probably like 2x lighter than him alone.
The dinobots are massive, idk what Maw is supposed to do here besides throw cars at them or something, which will be incredibly ineffective. Thanos and Cull are the only relevant ones here.
Sidenote: Optimus prime punching a charging giant metal dinosaur that weighs dozens of tons has got to be a pretty good feat no?
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Thinking about it, Grimlock is 3 times taller than Optimus prime, but he would be 27 times heavier. So he'd be more than 100 tons. Much smaller than a Leviathan, so still not good enough to beat Thanos or Cull.
I actually am onboard with just about everything you have suggested personally. Maw can provide distraction and run interference, but Cull and Thanos are the guys doing work here.
And yeah, that Dino Punch was legit. Not quite space whale punch level, but a really solid feat regardless.
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