YuriAkuto said:
No, she ate him without any effort (gaining his powers and more in the process), she also stated that even in his best day, he would be no match for her.
Overall topic seemed interesting, so I figured I'd pop in, for a moment.
I think it would be more accurate to say this her power is not on an entirely different playing field, but it's clear that Calliope is stronger. At least, it's clear at this point in time.
Basically everything has been stacked against English, by this point. His role in canon is over, and he had reached the point where he was destined to die. After all, due to his self-assured time loop, his ascension and death sort of exist side-by-side. He's screwed here, no matter what. You could take Alt Calliope's word as law even assuming a hypothetical fight in which English was unharmed and had access to the green sun, but I'm quite certain the destruction of the green sun and stripping of his "invulnerability" were necessary for this confrontation to even occur.
On top of this, immediately before Alt Callie kills him and consumes his body to grow stronger, English was cut numerous times and then impaled by Caledfwlch (which is described as "poison to English"), and then thrown into the black hole which is the very embodiment of his sister. Dude was not in good condition at all, and was up against someone who likely understood the extent of her aspect and powers far better.
However, Alt Callie needed his power to escape the black hole. She even said it "can be escaped only through the supreme unification with my other half". English's power was crucial for such an endeavor to even be possible in the first place, even if it was less than her own. She basically predominated over him again, but this time it was a fully realized Muse of Space predominating over a fully realized Lord of Time, meaning she had much more to gain from it than either did when they offed much weaker versions of each other to initially gain autonomy. It was the cumulation of their selves that allowed her to achieve, as the recap puts it, "heights of power heretofore unmatched".
This is just a really drawn out way of me saying that I'm pretty sure characters like Lord English, Alternate Calliope, and Ultimate Dirk are all on a similar scale of strength. Some may be notably above others, but none are so strong that the power of the others becomes entirely irrelevant. If Dirk was giving Callie trouble prior, but her consumption of LE's essence granted her "unmatched" power in comparison and allowed her to perform a task that was impossible otherwise, he still somewhat scales, since tiers this high up are judged almost entirely by the "level" of existence a character is able to destroy/heavily affect. This only really becomes relevant if Alternate Calliope or Ultimate Dirk do some absolutely crazy bullshit well beyond the scale of the main comic (and do so without some kind of ludicrous boost, beforehand), but I figured I'd say it.
Homestuck tends to get me verbose, I guess.
Edit: Speaking of Calliope, normal Calliope and god tier Calliope should not share a page. They are quite literally two drastically different people with different histories, who now only share the most superficial resemblance
Lord English can
probably stay on Caliborn's page, but it really should be pointed out somewhere that he isn't just Caliborn, but an unholy fusion between the souls of Caliborn, Arquiusprite (who is already a fusion of Lil Hal and Equius), and Gamzee. Gamzee even makes direct reference to this when he mentions that the mirthful messiahs were both always him, since Doc Scratch and Lord English both contained Gamzee's soul. He may count as his own distinct entity at this point, but it doesn't matter as much as the Alt Calliope and normal Calliope split.
