Omega Beam Challenge

[Shai-Hulud]

List some of the weakest characters who could take a hit from Pre-Crisis Darkseid's Omega Beams.

Ignore here protection from shields or interposed artifacts. The idea is, can the character himself tank the hit with raw durability, not block it with something indestructible.

So for example, Thor would have to take the beam head on, rather than interpose Mjolnir. Similarly, Diana couldn't use her bracelets, nor Odin interpose Gungnir.

Just assemble a list of some of the lowest tier characters (roughly speaking) who could do this.

[Cthulhu_of_R'lyeh]

Surfer, probably.
Sentry.
Thanos.
Uh.

[Cthulhu_of_R'lyeh]

Forgot the stock answer:

Butterball.

[Shai-Hulud]

Surfer, probably.
Sentry.
Thanos.
Uh.

That's a high bar.

Isn't Surfer a bit beneath the latter two?

[Cthulhu_of_R'lyeh]

That's a high bar.

Isn't Surfer a bit beneath the latter two?

You did say lowest; and Pre-Crisis Darksied is stupid powerful.

[Shai-Hulud]

You did say lowest; and Pre-Crisis Darksied is stupid powerful.

Yes, I agree, of course.

How about?

• Pre-Crisis Superman?
• 616 Gladiator?
• Barry Allen Flash (he can control his own molecules)?
• Impossible Man?
• Ikaris, Thena, and Eternals generally?

[Cthulhu_of_R'lyeh]

Eternals? I don't see them staying dead permanent, no.

If the bar is simply, "who doesn't need their body to survive" though, the list gets considerably bigger. Mr. Immortal for example, would come back from the Omega Beams barring them having an effect that overrides his immortality.

[Shai-Hulud]

Eternals? I don't see them staying dead permanent, no.

If the bar is simply, "who doesn't need their body to survive" though, the list gets considerably bigger. Mr. Immortal for example, would come back from the Omega Beams barring them having an effect that overrides his immortality.

Are we sure about that bit?

I thought an aspect of the Omega Beams was that they did more (or other) than merely kill you.

I was under the impression that we were dealing with Existence Erasure here.

[Cthulhu_of_R'lyeh]

Was that a Pre-Crisis fixture, or Post?

[Shai-Hulud]

Was that a Pre-Crisis fixture, or Post?

Don't know which. The idea was to use the OP as a general platform to learn about how powerful the Pre-Crisis Omega Beams are.

[Sharpandpointies]

I would argue that Typhon (Creatures of Light and Darkness) would shrug off the Omega Beams, given the crap that goes on in that book and the fact that Typhon himself (itself?) is basically an existence eraser made manifest. And basically ignores...well, everything, including stuff specifically designed to hopefully deal with him/it.

...on the other hand, I'm not sure Typhon could be considered 'weakest'.

[Captain Morgan]

As I recall, Darkseid one shot Mon-El into a coma, who is basically precrisis Superman and used moon's as weapon s for hand to hand combat, and didn't even need the Omega Beams to do it. Surfer and Superman should get one shot and probably killed by the beams themselves. As would Gladiator.

Not sure even for Sentry and Thanks, but I don't think they are a given.

[Sharpandpointies]

Not sure even for Sentry and Thanks, but I don't think they are a given.

Dude, you should always give thanks.

[The Watcher]

Drop Dead Fred, Tyler Durden (Not The Narrator) and any resident of Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends. The Omega Effect works by erasing beings from existence. Being imaginary, all of these individuals already do not exist, thus the beams will do nothing to them.

[U.N. Owen]

Prism of the Marauders

He can absorb energy blasts or reflect/refract them

I don't remember of the Omega Effect has a clause that prevents absorption or reflection, so this could be wrong.