Lotta things to respond to.
I think there's more of an implication that her enitre journey was governed by magic, as nothing in the scan suggests that she lost that symbolic power, if anything.
Storm lost her powers over "the storm" before encountering the Dominions, and while confronting Tarn, she implied that the storm is her truest self and identified the clouds as her signifier. I will concede that the entire journey was likely "symbolic" on some level (since Storm described it as a labyrinth of riddles and symbols), but given that Storm doubted if her powers held symbolic influence, and given that Overspace and the Dominions had scientific depictions/references during their encounter, I still insist that outside magic/symbolism had little sway over that specific point of her journey.
Similarly, it is heavily implied that she beats the Dark Cold Squad not
with power specifically, but by
standing as life against darkness.
I strongly disagree with this. It hinges on the idea that "life" was presented exclusively as abstract symbolism. While it was true that there were themes about life standing up to death, the "life" they used to defeat the true form of the Shadow King was their literal physical life-force energy (which Storm straight up describes it as "pooling their powers").
Not to mention, life against darkness wasn't the only message of the climax in the final showdown with the Shadow King.
They (Magneto and Storm) actually defeated him by accepting their inner personal darkness, which all of those entities were representations of.
You could counter this by saying that this introduces 2 problems: the feat being situational due to being able to draw from their inner darkness, and the obvious outlier of Magneto scaling to the true form of the Shadow King. Both points are true, but even before any of that, Storm blatantly held her own against the shadow entities, and Magneto's confrontation with them before accepting his darkness didn't amount to a major physical fight, but a chess match.
And she does ponder if Magneto
attempted to harness this symbolic power to fight back.
"And did Magneto go through this? This pain of knowledge, this spiritual vivisection? His life flipped through like a book?"
I'm not seeing it personally. The specific usage of the term vivisection just reinforces my point, considering how Magneto's information analysis from the Dominions was portrayed visually.
No, actually. He says that he considers Eternity to be a hive-mind, so every universal Eternity know 616 Storm, for example.
Fair.
One of the Adversary scans is missing, but from the context she doesn't have that power, but momentarily
gains it through
Wakanda's faith. The greater god is purely hyperbolic here.
Fair. However, the Adversary had a similar level of power in his appearances in classic Uncanny X-Men, and there were 3 statements for Storm scaling to him.
I don't have much to comment on that, since there's no way your argument is Blue Marvel is unharmed by the Phoenix in the WHR, without any external amps. Though if anything, I'd put it as another outlier.
My bad, I definitely could've interpreted that better. At any rate, the fundamental point still stands that the Phoenix held back and prolonged the fight amid an internal debate over whether or not to let the Defenders pass, and there were several Defenders there infinitely weaker than the Phoenix who she could've one-shot.
One thing I'll add, however, is that the Beyonder was still bound by the narrative Loki used against the Beyonders, which was a narrative that allowed "underdogs to win" which clearly amped the other Defenders, as evidence by Taaia tanking a close and large blast from a Beyonder with her hair and clothes merely getting ruined.
Ennead also includes Seth, who is weaker than Odin, Thor, and Loki. The Egyptian Pantheon isn't that much stronger than the Norse one. Atum is stronger in his Elder God form, but in his "lower" form, he is basically just Skyfather level. Odin impersonated him for a while.
I don't deny that the Egyptian pantheon has its fair share of regular herald and skyfather characters, I am saying that it has an unusual abundance of potentially or outright Elder God level characters who are relevant to some of my arguments. Same way the Norse pantheon includes direct Elder Gods like Tiwaz and
arguably the Utgard Gods, if you count them.
Also, as far as I recall, Atum and Demogorge are the only distinctions in terms of power, with other names/appearances being differing art/writing choices. I don't even agree with the keying on Atum's current profile. Confluctor (who I think made the profile) knows more about Moon Knight stuff than me, but the scan about Ra and Khonshu using "earthly avatars" just seems to be describing Khonshu's Moon Knights and Ra's human agents like the Sun King.
That aside, Atum is absolutely not 'regular skyfather level,' he was the "first among skyfathers" and even in that Moon Knight run the "earthly avatars" scan came from, he was stated to be the king of the Many-Angled Ones. Also, this may not have been the argument you specifically were making, but I also completely reject the idea I've seen lately of a titanic power difference between Atum and Demogorge. Demogorge
should be stronger since he's the end result of Atum slaying demons (like Elder Gods) and absorbing their powers, but Atum is the one who slaughtered all those Elder Gods in the first place to push forward his self-transformation into Demogorge, and the strongest Elder God Kemur is terrified of Atum specifically, and prayed that Atum show him mercy when Immortal Thor defeated Kemur by reminding him of Atum's superiority to him ages ago.
To reiterate, the Egyptian pantheon has many outright or potentially Elder God level beings (a couple of whom I haven't researched personally, so I have to use some hearsay near the end), including:
-Atum himself
-Thoth/Ibis, who is Atum's younger brother as a direct child of Demiurge and Gaea just like him, and has several statements for having fought the Elder God Set for eons or since the dawn of time, with this being depicted as a close-combat fight and described as a "death duel."
-Sekhmet, an agent of Atum who defeated both him and Elder God Set.
-Khonshu, whose profile lists several feats scaling him to the Elder God Set (though one of them refers to the Hell-Lord Seth) and also scales him above Wyrm ("being capable of destroying the multiverse"), who has an endless cosmic rivalry with Elder God Set that takes place in every reality at the same time as part of a cosmic balance.
-Anubis, who killed Ra/Atum.
-Bast, who is superior to Anubis.
-Oshtur herself, who presents as the goddess Ma'at.
Also, on Adversary's profile we accept him as being comparable to Mephisto and such. If he's not that should probably be fixed
That was my fault, I requested for the guy who added the profile to avoid including some high-end feats because his scaling involves a bunch of complicated cosmology stuff from several angles.
If Storm could unironically defeat multiple Dominions then she could’ve beaten Enigma by herself instead of it needing an amped version of the Phoenix to trap him in a deathloop. Storm being that strong just goes completely against every comic’s plot where she’s involved in.
This argument doesn't belong in Marvel power scaling.
Why doesn't Thor one-shot everything with his Celestial level godblast and Abstract level base form scaling?
Why doesn't Genis-Vell one-shot everything with his Multi-Eternity level scaling?
Why doesn't Hulk one-shot everything with his Onslaught scaling?
Why doesn't Abstract level Strange one-shot all herald tiers rather than struggling with many of them?
Why doesn't base Wanda one-shot everything with her scaling to the Phoenix Force and Abstract Chaos?
I could go on.
Additionally, the Elder Gods are the least consistent and coherent group of entities in the entire Marvel cosmology. They very in power MASSIVELY.
Vague... I'd like to hear specific anti-feats.
Nyx is not even an Elder God but a vastly greater being.
Never said she was.
The oppositional entities of the Cold Dark Room were just beings that were summoned to fight Storm in order to test her,
"Just summoned in order to test her" huh? Did I miss a plot point? Summoned by whom?
they are not the primary residents nor do they scale to the Cold Dark Room in any capacity.
The Adversary, throughout the 5-issue Phoenix Force Echo run, took control of the White Hot Room and drained power from White Phoenix Echo, and faced her in combat too. All of the shadow entities that appear in resurrection of Magneto borrow each others' guises so often that they're mistaken as aspects of each other, yet they're independent entities, shadows cast by the same light in many shapes,
yet they're effectively the same shadow that can’t be categorized as distinct (which is to say that they should be relative to each other, and thus relative to true Adversary, who is White Hot Room level).
It is also unknown if the entities depicted in The Cold Dark Room are even the original versions of these characters at their full power so it is not possible to draw any conclusions from this one way or the other.
We're both talking about narrative implications here, and it's not the biggest leap to assume that the Adversary in the Darkness surrounding the White Hot Room should be at least slightly above (if not, in the exact same class) as his appearance in the White Hot Room. Half of the shadow entities are explicitly cosmic opponents of the universal phoenix force, so the narrative implication with their appearances in the aptly named Dark Cold Room being opposites of the Pheonix of the White Hot Room is an easy connection, though it's not my hinge in itself.
It is likely all metaphorical anyway as Storm's fight between these entities appears to Magneto and Shadow King as pieces on a chess board.
Non-sequitur.
There is nothing in Immortal Thor that would put the Elder Gods even close to Nyx, as the darkness encompassing the phoenix force and tiger god, in power and importance in the Cosmic hierarchy, nor do Elder Gods scale to Nyx in any way shape or form.
Lotta strong assertions here. With some credit to NaturalDestroyer (who explained to me a lot of the stronger interpretations of Nyx scaling in Immortal Thor), I want to point out a few things.
Reborn Zeus was stated to be a greater threat than full power Nyx, and he had the strength to directly counter her power.
Nyx was largely imprisoned by Loki's magic rune Uruz, which Thor had to overcome (by defeating Reborn Zeus) in order to gain the power to confront the Utgard Gods.
Thor turned the totality of Reborn Zeus's power into the belt Yolgjord, which makes Thor practically immune to implicitly all kinds of magic, but especialy Loki's rune-magic.
Hofund Sif internally doubted that Thor, who was armed with Yolgjord, would ever return after confronting the Utgard Gods.
It was stated that Tormod and Yolgjord weren't enough to confront the Utgard Gods (he needed aid from Skurge, who possibly had the third magic weapon crafted through Ullr's skald-magic, though Thor stated later that he still had 2 of 3 weapons).
The armies of the sentient city Elder God NRGL can overpower Yolgjord's endurance.
Despite Yolgjord, Utgard-Loki is fully capable of manipulating Thor with his story-magic, but holds back to let the story proceed.
Both Kemur and Mejed were capable of beating up Thor.
Nyx has her usual in universe forms, and in these forms she is a part of many pantheons including the Greek, where she gained the name Nyx, and in the Norse where she is referred to as Nott. These appearances are obviously not her true entirety, and scaling to them only grants one superiority to Skyfather tier characters such as Zeus, Odin, and Thor.
What are you talking about? The only form of Nyx I'm bringing up is her Dark Cold Room key.
After looking it over, the Dominions that Storm encounters only mention that The Beyonders are afraid of them, this doesn’t have to mean that The Beyonders are afraid of These Doninions as they are presented in the story, but can instead refer to them being afraid of their true transcendent form. The Dominions are simply informing Storm that The Beyonders are afraid of them as a whole, not explicitly as they appear to Storm.
You're invoking more and more speculation, particularly in regards to how the Dominions' keys work. Full-stop, there's one thing, and one thing only that signals the difference between the Dominions' 2 keys of power: whether or not they are "linear" at a given moment, not whether or not they're in the White Hot Room, and they directly state that they're non-linear while confronting Storm.