Nightmask Wrote:
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> I think the Dark Phoenix saga was all about Jean
> Grey not being able to handle it after someone
> went mucking around in her mind and unleashing her
> dark side. There wasn't any evidence she was
> going to go all Galactus and consume everything
> until she was subjected to mind control that could
> turn anyone towards evil. Plus let's be real
> here, Galactus used to be mortal, became one of
> the tripod of cosmic existence for the Marvel
> Universe, and decided all those mortal beings he
> once was part of were beneath him now and if he
> had to feed well kiss your backsides goodbye.
> Galactus has more than enough power and technology
> at his command that he ought to be able to find
> worlds without sentient life to feed upon (heck
> creating a device like Reed Richards built to
> revive him he could get all the energy he needed
> from suns in systems without life) but doesn't
> care. At least Owen, with comparable if not
> greater power, doesn't go around eating entire
> worlds to survive; a cheeseburger he could make
> himself works just fine.
>
> There's a growing need to show anyone with power,
> especially cosmic power, is inherently corrupted
> by it and needs to be depowered or destroyed, yet
> where is the argument that ones like the Silver
> Surfer with cosmic power must be inherently
> corrupted by that power? I don't hear how he's
> not worthy of his cosmic perspective because he
> started as a mortal. The High Evolutionary is in
> the same position, hyper-evolved and treated as a
> cosmic power even though he started as a mortal
> being and the evidence for his madness seems to be
> that it was forced upon him by the Beyonders so
> he'd be less of a threat to their study of
> Evolution in limited beings like humans. It
> really seems more of a heavy-handed morality
> lesson by always having those with more cosmic
> power who were mortal fall because 'only God
> deserves such power'.
Dude Nightmask, you're trippin! You totally missed the point. Dark Phoenix wasn't about someone mucking in Jean Grey's head! It was about the human mind being subject to corruption by way of emotions would lead to disaster and the Shi'ar were gonna kill Jean to stop it from happening!
Well as far as I know, Galactus is not mortal now and even if he takes a mortal form he's not mortal. He's also more of a force of nature than a dastardly cosmic being! I don't know what psycho image you described, but that isn't about Galactus. Also, Owen can do whatever he wants but that fact remains HE HAS HAD NO DISCIPLINE TO ACQUIRE HIS POWERS! GALACTUS HAS LEARNED IT, SILVER SURFER HAS LEARNED IT, AND THE HIGH EVOLUTIONARY HAS LEARNED IT. Owen just thinks it and it happens and employs to technique at all to getting it done. The same is not true of the others. They don't just think it and it happens but they demonstrate intelligence far beyond that of a mortal man and far beyond an mere mortal life can offer! High Evolutionary and Silver Surfer were granted the mental capacity to understand such things! While Owen could grant himself the capacity HE COULD NOT FILL IT WITH ANYTHING HE DOES NOT ALREADY KNOW!!!!!!
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