Invincible (Comics) Viltrumite Tiers Upgrade + Miscellaneous

[Reyne]

"planets, stars, ships--anything in their path is destroyed", literally just replace anything with any of the 3 examples given. "planets in their path are destroyed". It also mentions damaged artifacts as examples of evidence used to determine it's level of power, so it seemingly doesn't just blast a hole through things. If it was accepted as such then the KE of Viltrum blowing up should just be split in 3 and scaled to the Viltrumites, since the gun can't do anything else to celestial bodies other than shoot a miniscule hole through them.

"This weapon--the infinity ray-- emitted an energy wave that was unstoppable. It was said that blasts from this infinity ray still race through the cosmos, blasting a path through anything they encounter" is what is written directly preceeding that line.

As I mentioned before, whatever destruction follow the carved path could be outflown by Nolan, so whatever effect it could have had on Viltrum would be indistinguishable from the damage the trio brought with them when following behind the beam very closely.

The original version shows that at least the initial intent was to make a point of its ability to go through anything.

Given the comparatively slow nature of the asteroids falling apart when we first see the Infinity Ray used in the comic, it does look to support the idea that it does weaken or "soften" the target. Whatever this is could explain what Thaedus meant by destabilizing the core. The feat isn"t ascribed to the trio because we don't know for sure one way or the other. Occum's Razor points towards the planet listed at has having 1.25x the surface gravity of Earth and has been compared to Earth in its nature is not held together by a... beyond stellar core(?).