Toe-to-toe, I'd agree with Thanos+infinity gauntlet. But he worships death, so they would proably just fall in love. For some reason, the first uber that popped into my head was Star Brand from New Universe fame. Maybe Molecule man? I mean, the Beyonder is too easy, because he has the power to create universes. Molecule Man was #2 after him at the time of Secret Wars 2.
I used to be into the X-Men years ago. For some reason, Apocalypse came to mind as someone who might give the Dark Phoenix a challenge.
The Molecule Man was only able to keep Earth from breaking apart with help from the Silver Surfer, who flooded him with the Power Cosmic. How do I KNOW this?! Also, now that I think about it, I bet Lobo could probably take Dark Phoenix.
Yes! I knew he was suppose to be the strongest guy! Nobody believed me or heard of him...didn't he destroy everybody and brought them back to life just for the hell of it?
Well, apparently Wolverine can beat Dark Phoenix. It happened in the movie. I'm sure this could be a trick question. There's so many powers in comic books, no one is safe. Like Blob vs Juggernaut.
Don't the uber-god like characters seem a bit more... boring than the spidermans and batmans and wolverines? The fights are hardly even fights- <snap of fingers> "Aha! Now my opponent doesn't exist anymore!" It seems to me that Superman pretty much ruined the DC Universe. I mean, maybe if he just stayed away from the planet for the most part, like Galacticus, and occasionally stopped by for a cameo every few years to save the universe. But having a dude in Metropolis every day with flight, super duper strength, super speed, laser vision, perception of all frequency scales, and other things I'm forgetting... His popularity and his constant presence demanded a variety of villians that were somehow capable of defeating this essentially godlike character. And that threw the whole DC universe out of wack. You've got tons of guys who all have strenth the level of the Hulk (whereas in Marvel only a very few got to Hulk level), ridicuosly convoluted characters who only existed because of their relationship to kyrptonite... I mean, imagine having to write stories for this character decade after decade. You have to keep dreaming up all these convoluted stories because he's so damned powerful, how is anybody really going to beat him? So glad that Batman kicked the sh*t out of him in Dark Night Forever.
doomsday killed superman back in 93' ( i still have my doomsday collection funeral for a friend and who is the real superman saga!!) Batman gets his back broken by bane in the knightfall series i have that too and have x-force 1-100, x-factor 1-100, x men classics 1-100, uncanny x men 125-444 and ultimate xmen missing some issues though!!!
I think that's where Marvel proved to be more successful. Their characters have superhuman powers but, at the end, they are human and have their flaws. It makes for better storytelling when you have a superhero with humanistic flaws. As for superman...that's why I love Batman. If you ever watched the Justice League cartoon they had an episode where Batman told the Justice League members something along the lines of, "I know who you all are. Your names, where you live, what you do for a living. I also know each of your weaknesses. Why? Because I have to"
That's what I said, duh! He is the most powerful. Those of you saying Beyonder - nope. He's not omnipotent and hell, I think he died, didn't he? He was one of many Cosmic Cubes.
Heck no man! I like the cosmic heroes/villains more because their powers are so "out there" (Lil Pun intended). I enjoy space-based science fiction, so maybe that has something to do with it. I'd rather read about that than some bum earthbound superhero's drinking problems ruining his career. That's just too mundane. Also, it's never a case of "my opponent doesn't exist anymore". There are checks and balances so that can't happen (and so that the issue won't be 2 pages long. )
Well, it's kind of a long, stupid story. Basically, Green Lantern (or at least, the most recognizable Green Lantern--Hal Jordan) wasn't selling a lot of comics and the Green Lantern Corps had a fairly convoluted backstory that it was hard to get new readers interested in. So DC decided to get rid of all of it and have a new, different Green Lantern. The way they chose to do it was a bit... extreme. Basically, during the "Death of Superman" saga, a villain named Mongul teamed up with the Cyborg Superman and ended up destroying Coast City, Hal Jordan's city. Well, Hal basically went insane and used his ring to recreate the entire city and its citizens. The Guardians of the Universe (little blue men who give the Green Lantern Corps their powers--try to follow me here) told Hal that this wasn't cool and that he wasn't to use his ring to assuage his grief. That didn't sit well with Hal so he decided that the Guardians sucked and that HE should have the power. So he flies to the planet Oa, the Green Lanterns' headquarters, and kills nine other GLs on the way, taking their rings. When he gets there, he kills the Guardians and absorbs all of the energy inside the Central Battery that give the Green Lantern rings their power. That caused lots more GLs to die because they were suddenly powerless. Anyways, all that power essentially turned Hal Jordan omnipotent and he became Parallax. In a DC-wide crossover called "Zero Hour" he attempted to erase all of existance and create a new Big Bang, guiding the new universe as its god. Long story short, he was stopped. All of this pissed off Green Lantern fans enormously, especially since it was essentially done just so they could introduce a younger, hipper Green Lantern. It took about a decade, but I believe Hal Jordan is now once again a ho-hum Green Lantern that isn't selling a whole lot of comics, and his backstory is now more convoluted than was previously imaginable.
