Live-action versions - David from Legion takes on Cal/Jon from Watchmen (movie feats also apply).
No BFR.
Can either one prevail over the other?
Live-action versions - David from Legion takes on Cal/Jon from Watchmen (movie feats also apply).
No BFR.
Can either one prevail over the other?
Last edited by Sophicles; 12-09-2019 at 10:23 PM.
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"...makes me think the Night King just says "Screw the rules, I have magic money" when it comes to physics." -Captain Morgan
Yeah, assuming David's reality warping powers can block Manhattan for even an instant, he can just pull him into the astral plane and the Jon has a really unpleasant time.
heh, it's odd how a near omniscient being can get attacked by telepathy, but no feats is no feats i guess.
Given Manhattan lacks will power to even attempt to change patterns of fate and let it play out.
Yeah a mind set that way is easy to break to wise.
Doomsday Clock count for this? It is ostensibly the same Doc from the original comics, and the OP implies we are counting comics but with movie feats too.
Given how Jon perceives his life happening all at once, I'm not exactly sure how practical David's telepathy would be. Stepping into Doctor Manhattan's mind could be like getting lost in a temporal maze. But since this is David Haller we're talking about, he wouldn't be entering Jon's mind alone -- his other personalities would be joining him, which could make things even worse for Doctor Manhattan. I'd pay to see this happen.
On the physical plane, it's a quickdraw. Both have the power to zap apart molecules. David can't come back from being blown into crimson chunks (bullets killed him after all); however, he's demonstrated so many different powers and abilities that he might be able to cancel out Doctor Manhattan's initial strike. This matchup is a doozy. I'm currently leaning towards Doctor Manhattan.
I haven't watched HBO's Watchmen series yet. But FX's Legion is one of my all-time favorite shows. It's absolutely mind-blowing.
Having seen both, I definitely feel Watchmen is better than Legion (and I thoroughly enjoyed Legion); there's a finale episode remaining, and if it sticks the landing, it'll become one of my fave shows ever.
HEAVY SPOILER:
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HBO's Manhattan is capable of terraforming a moon of Jupiter with simply a wave of his hand; he created his own Garden of Eden and all life on the moon - I believe he says it took him 90 seconds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmP0JxW8Qcs
He's capable of stopping bullets fired at him, and he also experiences multiple timelines at once - he's talking to people in the past whilst talking to someone in the present, and also relaying information from the present to the past. He sees the threads of causality, though he's pretty passive and doesn't try to change them.
Not sure what David would experience if he ever entered the mind of someone experiencing all these timelines simultaneously.
One thing that Legion did a good job of portraying though, was how space and time was really meaningless to high-enough level psychics like Shadow King and David.
David was frozen in time, and manipulated temporally by a bunch of Time Demons, but through his sheer psionic strength, powered through the time manipulation and immolated one of the Time Demons, I believe.
Feats like that may play in David's favor against someone like Manhattan, for whom experiences in different times are also just relative.
I wonder if David learns about Manhattan's limitation in his omniscience due to tachyon particles if he reads his mind, could he use this info to his advantage?
Last edited by Sophicles; 12-12-2019 at 12:42 PM.