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Welcome back to Top 10 Nerd, I'm Ron McKenzie-Lefurgey.
I'm here with a new entry to our Versus series, where we pit various heroic and villainous
characters against each other and decide who we think would win.
This week's battle is between Thanos, The Mad Titan, and Galactus, the Lifebringer.
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But for now, buckle up, it's time for Thanos vs Galactus!
Now as usual, we need some ground rules.
This is a tough fight to make even, , but I think the fairest thing to do is to say
that Thanos does not have the Infinity Gauntlet, but he does have a week to prepare for this
meeting.
Galactus will be his Lifebringer version, but doesn’t have any prep time.
Now, on with the fight!
As always, let’s start with the origins of these two big hitters.
We’ll begin with Thanos.
Thanos was a member of the Eternals, born on the planet Titan.
However, he had Deviant Syndrome, which turned his skin purple and made him grow large, leading
his mother to try to kill him.
Despite all this, he was surprisingly mild-mannered, and was actually disgusted by the idea of
killing another creature.
But slowly, his obsession with death grew, starting out as pictures of dead animals,
eventually leading to the slaughter of many people on Titan, with the urging of his mysterious
female confidant.
After killing and dissecting his mother, in hopes of finding who he was, he worked as
a pirate for some time.
Later, however, he accepted his murderous ways, again meeting with the mysterious girl
who helped him to find his inner murderer, whom he loved.
He augmented his own powers, and tried to prove his worth to his love, who turned out
to be none other than Lady Death.
And he continues to prove his love for her by murdering countless living creatures to
this day.
Moving on to Galactus.
Galactus was originally named Galan, a humanoid born on the planet Taa, in the previous incarnation
of the universe.
That is to say, the sixth incarnation.
However, as his universe began collapsing in the Big Crunch, he proposed that the remaining
survivors of Taa go out in a blaze of glory, and fly their ships into the heart of the
Cosmic Egg.
This killed every person except for Galan, who strangely felt filled with energy.
He then met the Sentience of the Multiverse, who merged with Galan who became the Devourer
of Worlds known as Galactus.
He ended up in the seventh iteration of the universe, alongside Earth-616.
He incubated in his starship for millenia, before discovering a need to feed, first on
barren planets, and later on planets with life, a quest that saw him take on many heroes
over the years.
In recent years, he turned away from his world devouring, after completing his incubation,
re-emerging as Lifebringer Galactus.
Sweet, now we know where they came from, but what are these two capable of?
Let’s start with Thanos.
Thanos is one of the Eternals of Titan, already an incredibly powerful group.
The Eternals were created over a million years ago by the Celestials, who experimented with
human genes to allow them to manipulate cosmic energy.
Through bionic amplification, Thanos has increased his already impressive cosmic abilities and
physical powers.
Plus, after being killed, Lady Death brought him back to life even more powerful than before,
which certainly helps.
Now of course, with the infinity gauntlet, his powers become pretty much infinite, but
he won’t have the gauntlet in this fight so we’ll disregard it for now!
Without the gauntlet, he still has some incredible powers.
He has the usuals, strength, speed, yadda yadda yadda.
He’s insanely smart, and super durable, able to withstand attacks that would have
destroyed a planet at point blank range.
He can teleport thanks to his link to his techno-mystical transport chair, can manipulate
matter, and has powerful telepathic abilities.
He can also make impressive and powerful clones of himself, called the Thanosi, that he can
make to do his bidding.
Usually.
These abilities make him one of the strongest villains in the Marvel universe, but they
may not be enough to defeat the cosmic threat that is Galactus.
Moving on to Galactus, his powers are just ridiculous.
It isn’t much of an exaggeration to say anything Thanos can do, Galactus can do better.
He’s stronger, faster, more durable, way smarter, and has god-like cosmic powers.
He can also manipulate matter any way he pleases, allowing him to build and destroy things with
ease, even restructuring living things.
And even if Thanos manages to hurt him, his vitakinesis allows him to heal back up.
He has a bunch of other relatively obscure powers, but there’s no time, and let’s
just say, he won’t be using them in this fight.
Alright, we know our competitors, so now it’s time for the fight.
In this fight, the time to prepare will be absolutely vital to Thanos.
While he is quite powerful on his own, if he tries to go toe to toe with Galactus without
the Infinity Gauntlet, he’ll probably have a bad time.
Let’s see if he can come up with a way to defeat the superior power of Galactus.
Galactus is out for his morning walk when he sees Thanos.
Don’t ask, just go with it.
Thanos charges Galactus, fists raised, and Galactus punches a hole through his stomach.
Thanos falls to the ground, dead.
But then, Galactus senses another opponent behind him.
Out steps Thanos, holding the ultimate nullifier.
It turns out the first Thanos was a clone, and Thanos had managed to procure the Ultimate
Nullifier from Galactuses ship, with the ability to obliterate anything.
“Any last words, big guy?”
Galactus has no words, mostly because my voice can’t go deep enough, but the next moment,
the ultimate nullifier is back in his possession.
Thanos didn’t realize that Galactus can call it to him at will.
So much for that plan.
Thanos looks around desperately for any other options, but to no avail.
Feeling whimsical, Galactus lowers the nullifier, choosing instead to turn Thanos into a newt.
But in this case, Thanos did not get better…
Monty Python?
Anyone?
And so, the winner of this fight is…
Galactus.
Well, there we have it, it seems that even with the prep time, Thanos just doesn’t
have the power to deal with Galactus in his prime.
Of course, if Thanos had the gauntlet or something, this could have gone differently, but a week
just isn’t enough time to find all the required parts!
Let us know if you agree or disagree with the results of this fight using #Thanos or
#Galactus in the comment section down below!
Make sure to check out our versus playlist on the channel if you're itching for more
battles, and hit us up with any other suggestions you might have!
Until next time, I'm Ron McKenzie-Lefurgey with Top 10 Nerd.
Later nerds!