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I've been on the comic boards and I've been reading comic books for a long time. One of the more popular characters is the DC Comics Anti-Monitor. Makes sense for him to be so popular after all. He was responsible for one of the most important events of DC Comics, the crisis on infinite lands or COIE in a nutshell that caused a massive change in Detective Comics. However, since the Anti-Monitor was a villain so important to people growing up, people tend to massively overestimate him, claiming it. He might stomp on guys like Infinity Gauntlet wielders or Living Tribunal and even Molecule Man.
For example, people love to claim that Anti-Monitor during COIE was Multiversal because he had destroyed Infinite Universes, but what most people tend to ignore, is that it what he actually did under an unknown amount of time was send waves of Anti-Matter into Universes which took multiple pages to actually destroy them and we know that Anti-Matter and Matter making contact means Instant destruction, and the Universes AM destroyed were later stated multiple times to be weaker than Normal Universes. When you take into account that around the time AM was destroying Universes Supergirl was able to cause him critical damage to the point where he needed to flee and even admitted that Supergirl almost destroyed him. He was also harmed by some of his minions.
People also tend to bring up his fight with Amped Spectre at the Dawn of Time, which seems like a very cool feat, until you look at the context. Anti-Monitor didn't even fight this battle with his own power, he stole the power of Several Heroes because he had exhausted his own travelling to the Dawn of Time. You also have to note that beating Spectre in that time period was no Multiversal feat given how his best feats were Universal and he couldn't even survive the Big Bang and had to flee before it. Presence also stated that Spectre could conceivably beat Anti-Monitor, but didn't use his powers properly.
And then you have Sinestro Corps War Anti-Monitor, I have seen many people make claims like he would stomp Galactus, which really don't need much to debunk, just the fact that after he was hit by the Warworld explosion he was so weak to the point where SBP was able to stomp him which was only stated to be able to destroy the Milky Way Galaxy.
Finally, there is New 52 Anti-Monitor, and although you will hear many people state that he consumes entire Universes, due to scans such as this, what he actually does is consume the Individual Planets, killing all Life and absorbing their residual energy. It's later reinforced that Anti-Monitor consumes "Universes" via consuming Individual Planets. He was also briefly matched by New 52 Darkseid who was Impressive, but still around the likes of Transcendent tiers like Thanos, SBP, Larfleeze etc.
To sum things up, AM is Very Powerful, but not as strong as many make him out to be. Hopefully, this post sheds some light on this.
For example, people love to claim that Anti-Monitor during COIE was Multiversal because he had destroyed Infinite Universes, but what most people tend to ignore, is that it what he actually did under an unknown amount of time was send waves of Anti-Matter into Universes which took multiple pages to actually destroy them and we know that Anti-Matter and Matter making contact means Instant destruction, and the Universes AM destroyed were later stated multiple times to be weaker than Normal Universes. When you take into account that around the time AM was destroying Universes Supergirl was able to cause him critical damage to the point where he needed to flee and even admitted that Supergirl almost destroyed him. He was also harmed by some of his minions.
People also tend to bring up his fight with Amped Spectre at the Dawn of Time, which seems like a very cool feat, until you look at the context. Anti-Monitor didn't even fight this battle with his own power, he stole the power of Several Heroes because he had exhausted his own travelling to the Dawn of Time. You also have to note that beating Spectre in that time period was no Multiversal feat given how his best feats were Universal and he couldn't even survive the Big Bang and had to flee before it. Presence also stated that Spectre could conceivably beat Anti-Monitor, but didn't use his powers properly.
And then you have Sinestro Corps War Anti-Monitor, I have seen many people make claims like he would stomp Galactus, which really don't need much to debunk, just the fact that after he was hit by the Warworld explosion he was so weak to the point where SBP was able to stomp him which was only stated to be able to destroy the Milky Way Galaxy.
Finally, there is New 52 Anti-Monitor, and although you will hear many people state that he consumes entire Universes, due to scans such as this, what he actually does is consume the Individual Planets, killing all Life and absorbing their residual energy. It's later reinforced that Anti-Monitor consumes "Universes" via consuming Individual Planets. He was also briefly matched by New 52 Darkseid who was Impressive, but still around the likes of Transcendent tiers like Thanos, SBP, Larfleeze etc.
To sum things up, AM is Very Powerful, but not as strong as many make him out to be. Hopefully, this post sheds some light on this.
