this would purely be based on the author statement and not the feat itself. @Dargoo_Faust can decide whether he thinks that is enough proof, keep in mind that the quasar stuff might have been the possibility that Duncan was referring to rather than Gravattack being capable of creating a black hole which was sort of treated like a given I think.
Honestly the legitimacy of these WoGs in general is extremely sus. Some of these are
very obviously asked by battleboarders who are familiar with the Tiering System of VSBW (heck in that specific one how is Duncan even supposed to know what "Multiversal+ levels of energy" means, that's pure battleboarding lingo) and much of them are asked by the same 2-3 twitter users. I recall this being explicitly against the rules but I might be misremembering, I'll consult with Ant and others about that.
I don't even think Duncan is properly responding to / is knowing what the questions being asked are much of the time, too.
So if we're to rate something purely on WoG I'd be against it, personally. Especially since Ben 10 has a multitude of authors, artists, etc. that aren't solely represented by him.
Like the Moon viewed from Earth
here
I mean, that's a close-up shot on Ben's head, and is also not that unrealistic.
The difference with Galvan B is that every conceivable optic has them right up close to each other, not just a single outer-space shot that could conceivably have one at a distance from the other.
We’ve also never seen the Earth viewed from the Moon in Omniverse and both of your images that you showed are the same one.
You guys brought up the examples from AF/UA to start with, which is why I'm still using them to argue here. I feel like this is sort of just shifting goalposts from "the series has bad optics" to "some parts of the series has good optics, but this specific part has bad optics".
But just Artistic Representation of alien planets
which is fairly common.
This argument is sort of a double-edged sword, if you're really pushing for it. If the animators placed the planets arbitrarily closer as a rule of cool, that throws everything else about that feat into a state of questionable-ness. If they shortened the distance they probably also shortened the timeframe due to how speed works, and we're using the episode itself to make judgements on timeframe, which is where they're drawn so close, not author statements. So if Duncan is saying the feat somehow happened differently than it did on-screen; we shouldn't cherrypick a timeframe from the on-screen feat and a distance from WoG when both severely contradict eachother to start with.
Regardless the calc/feat doesn't work. Honestly I should have brought up earlier why we're trying to use a punch from Malgax, a Tier 5, to get a lower tier rating for Diamondhead, when
@Zamasu_Chan correctly pointed out that their entire interaction is just an outlier or inconsistency for Diamondhead considering logically Malgax should have pulverized him with a decent punch.