Just checked H'El on Earth. The only thing that comes close to a one-shot is H'El blitzing Supes into the streets. Superman is hurt and dazed but conscious and he totally gets up on his feet on the next page. That's like their first fight when Superman doesn't know how strong H'El is.
In other fights Superman takes multiple punches and dukes it out with the guy.
to elaborate on Siriel's request for this not to be a thing again, the accomplishment of note for THanos is that he did things like survive the assault from Odin, wade through that continuous energy beam, and ultimately shakily get back up at the end. He still looked wrecked, he was still on the losing end of that fight, and Odin certainly could have killed him. It's a big feat for Thanos enough without having to make more of it than it is.And you never once mentioned the fact "Odin" could not kill Thanos
There are variations to the time travel rules.
If H'el, during the match, can send a time clone to kill baby Thanos... that would be technically legit. Though it would be predicated on the notion that H'el could find out Thanos' backstory and get to Titan and such which is... tricky.
In theory though, it'd be legit because H'el himself would not leave the ring.
If Thanos was allowed to punch him once ... yeah. He'd kill him.
edit: to be more specific, the Silver Surfer is easily more durable than Thanos, and Thanos* making a specific point of showing off, bludgeoned the Surfer to "pretty much dead" with contemptuous ease. He decides he wants to belt Superman and actually gets the chance? Death of Superman is phenomenally shorter.
*edit 2: herp. Surfer isn't more durable than Thanos, he's more durable than Superman.
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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
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
considering how there are so many questions and how little we've seen of this power, i dont think it should be considered an option for the dude. now if he was at the level of prof. paradox, then i wouldn't have a problem.
but that's just me
Nah. And that's more Adam Warlock's deal anywho. The main problem with people screwing with Marvel time is that even to this day it will be recalled that barring specific means to get around it, all making changes in the past does is create an alternate timeline that has no bearing on your own.
Actually unless I'm misconstruing it here Thanos does have a defense against time dumping, namely that he's an Eternal, and unless I'm seriously misremembering stuff here Eternals are virtually immortal(at least insofar as age is concerned), and in the case of time dumping if the character is capable of simply living until he "catches up" to the original point in time it's not counted as a victory for the other character, Just a really really boring fight for the audience. On top of that depending on the current plot Thanos is generally immortal via other reason as well, usually Death being pissed at him.