Originally Posted by
BobbysWorld
And like we've pointed out time and time again, they've NEVER been afraid to just....fucking swing for the fences with over-powered characters like Sentry.
They've given Thor the Odin-Force.
Franklin Richards is out there flip-flopping between 'oh no my powers are gone again will they ever come back' and 'whee powers are back, time to go create another fucking UNIVERSE' every other decade.
The Eternals' entire CONCEPT is that they're like, a full one hundred member group of characters who are allowed to bust out god-tier feats any time the narrative feels like it.
Cosmic characters like Nova and Quasar get level-up after level-up with every single Annihilation event.
The Hulk LITERALLY has had no definable upper limit for pretty much EVER.
Whenever Thor's NOT around the Avengers go slumming at the nearest pantheon to recruit some OTHER god like Ares, like literally how many gods have been Avengers at this point.
Reed Richards and Tony Stark and Hank Pym invent some device that breaks the universe or repairs the universe every major crossover event (like we focus so much on the Phoenix Force and the Phoenix Five in AvX, everybody just....completely glossed over the fact that story relied on Tony being able to invent a gun that BROKE the freaking Phoenix Force in the PROLOGUE but sure, its the Phoenix itself that's overpowered, not 'man who can pull cosmic entity busting gear out of his ass with just a single issue of prep time').
Black Bolt's entire characterization is "if I snore, I could accidentally break the planet so I literally will not exist outside of stories that revolve ENTIRELY around my ability to wreck continents by stubbing my toe and saying 'ow'."
Dr. Strange probably has an actual license for being a deus ex machina hanging on the wall next to his medical degree.
The whole point of the Illuminati at its inception was 'let's take six of the most powerful Marvel characters and give them fucking INFINITY STONES on top of that, and just...see what happens.'
Like.....@ Marvel, can we stop pretending you're afraid to use over-powered characters or don't know how to write over-powered characters, because that's literally never been true. The most obnoxious thing about the list of omega level mutants is that half of that list have been used as villains at some point (Magneto, Exodus, Legion, Proteus, Jamie Braddock, Vulcan), and what's super interesting about that is how when they're used as villains.....they're allowed to be planet-busting or universe-threatening antagonists who can solo entire teams of X-Men. (And even characters outside the official omega classification like Nate Grey, Mikhail Rasputin, etc, can claim the same).
....but the second you say hey, now they're NOT threats to the X-Men or other mutants, they're on the same side...suddenly THESE EXACT SAME CHARACTERS can't even huff and puff and blow a Sentinel factory into the sun because its too hard, they get tired.
Like....how does that work? Oh yeah. It doesn't.