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MCU Love & Thunder Spoiler Thread

OK, just to be 100% clear, are we saying that a character's ability to stop and control a multiversal entity who was about to destroy that character does not impact the character's Tier?
Mind haxing as an ability? Yes, because you're not physically damaging said entity, you're only manipulating the mind of said entity and bypassing their durability entirely.

Mind Manipulation is not Attack Potency, it's blatant dura bypassing hax. Kind of like poison but for the mind.
 
Yeah but there are Hax and then there are Hax. Random dudes who through no ability of their own hit Superman with Kryptonite is a pure Hax that should not scale to that random dude's power. But Thor's BODY tanked the Bifrost energy beam as it was sucking in stars.
We've been through this song and dance over and over and over again. Bifrost's demonstrated feats are much lower than what is outputted at the source, and Thor wasn't at the source of the Bifrost's energy either, and the actual explosion they took was demonstrably small and didn't blow up Asgard either in any sense of the word.

Strange is the only known sorcerer except Agomoto to figure out how to use the Time Stone against Dormammu. Ego itself and its own DNA in Quill caused the Expansion across the universe.
Strange never used it against Dormammu to wipe him out of existence.

Wanda is stated onscreen is to be able to enslave or destroy the multiverse. I'm just saying that the MCU has committed to imbedding what you call Hax as inherent to their main characters' powers.
Not all hax are the same.

We don't scale hax to physicals by default unless there is evidence for it or a universal energy source exists that allows them to channel the power of their hax into their bodies to then use in melee combat. Case in point, the Force, Chakra, God of War's Magic, Devil May Cry's Demonic Energy, so on and so forth.
 
We've been through this song and dance over and over and over again. Bifrost's demonstrated feats are much lower than what is outputted at the source, and Thor wasn't at the source of the Bifrost's energy either, and the actual explosion they took was demonstrably small and didn't blow up Asgard either in any sense of the word.


Strange never used it against Dormammu to wipe him out of existence.


Not all hax are the same.

We don't scale hax to physicals by default unless there is evidence for it or a universal energy source exists that allows them to channel the power of their hax into their bodies to then use in melee combat. Case in point, the Force, Chakra, God of War's Magic, Devil May Cry's Demonic Energy, so on and so forth.
The Bifrost energy beam in Thor 1 continues to shoot out of the Himinbjorg for 12 seconds AFTER Thor busts the Rainbow Bridge and causes the explosion. This is why the explosion is only multi-city-block. The Himinbjorg is shown onscreen to be siphoning energy on the other side of the explosion from the palace. The explosion is being contained in size by the energy beam's output. And that does not change the fact that the Bifrost is shown to suck in stars that are light years from each other, which base level Loki tanks falling into. All of this is literally onscreen.









 
The Bifrost itself didn't suck the stars, that was the black hole/wormhole it created, and the Black Hole Creation page states the following:
It should be noted that characters who have survived black holes but can otherwise be harmed by other, conventional attacks will not be given infinite durability. They will instead be stated to simply have a resistance to black holes.
Literally the only thing you can get is resistance to Black Hole Creation for Loki
 
The Bifrost itself didn't suck the stars, that was the black hole/wormhole it created, and the Black Hole Creation page states the following:

Literally the only thing you can get is resistance to Black Hole Creation for Loki
Wait since when did tanking black holes give you infinite durability? Like that page doesn't even make sense. Also slapping a generic resistance label rather than actually providing a value sounds extremely lazy as well.
 
Wait since when did tanking black holes give you infinite durability? Like that page doesn't even make sense.
According to the same page: true black holes are virtually inescapable unless one can move faster-than-light and ignore conventional durability because the incredible tidal forces within the black hole approach infinity in all directions, making it virtually impossible to survive through normal means unless the target is an entire dimensional tier above the user.
 
According to the same page: true black holes are virtually inescapable unless one can move faster-than-light and ignore conventional durability because the incredible tidal forces within the black hole approach infinity in all directions, making it virtually impossible to survive through normal means unless the target is an entire dimensional tier above the user.
Which also makes no sense. According to this page making a black hole gives you infinite power.
 
Which also makes no sense. According to this page making a black hole gives you infinite power.
I think that is why black holes are ignored here. It would throw off all power scaling. Because the science per NASA states that there is no known force that can resist black holes. So if Thor and Loki tank black hole energy equivalents, that are shown to suck in stars, that makes their durability too insanely powerful to calculate.

https://www.nasa.gov/vision/universe/starsgalaxies/black_hole_description.html

But, to me, that is a flaw of the rules of this website and not the MCU. After all, if it happens, it happens.
 
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Which also makes no sense. According to this page making a black hole gives you infinite power.
No, according to the page surviving a real black hole that meets all these requirements would require infinite durability
I think that is why black holes are ignored here. It would throw off all power scaling.
Or maybe it's because black holes in fiction can be completely different from how they are in the real world
But, to me, that is a flaw of the rules of this website and not the MCU. After all, if it happens, it happens.
So according to you Loki survived a black hole with the same characteristics than one from the real world and therefore he should have High 3-A dura, which could scale to all the characters of the MCU?
 
Wait since when did tanking black holes give you infinite durability?
Never? Black holes have never given you durability.

Like that page doesn't even make sense. Also slapping a generic resistance label rather than actually providing a value sounds extremely lazy as well.
Maybe actually read the Black Hole page first?

Which also makes no sense. According to this page making a black hole gives you infinite power.
No, it does not.
 
No, according to the page surviving a real black hole that meets all these requirements would require infinite durability

Or maybe it's because black holes in fiction can be completely different from how they are in the real world

So according to you Loki survived a black hole with the same characteristics than one from the real world and therefore he should have High 3-A dura, which could scale to all the characters of the MCU?

No, Loki is not High 3-A Universe Level durability.

It is both true that (1) no known real world force can resist a real black hole, and that (2) no real black hole has destroyed our real universe.

I scale MCU Loki to what the onscreen black hole in Thor 1 actually did -- suck in dozens of stars quickly, each of which were light years away. That would be 4-A Multi-Solar-System Level durability, and in range of the 3-C Galaxy Level MCU Thor the CRT will apparently aim for with Phase 4 feats alone.

Of course my view is that they both have always been those higher tiers. But I began this line of thought yesterday focusing on the Phase 4 Alioth feat, which VSBattles calls Hax and so I now understand does not affect tiering.

Regarding scaling to characters Loki has fought, I don't think durability should work that way. Character A's ability to survive / avoid death should not equate the Character B's ability to hurt Character A. Hurting is not killing. Valkyrie, Hulk, Hawkeye, Captain America, etc. did not kill Loki. Only Thanos did.

As for that black hole page on VSBattles, I do not understand how it acknowledges the energy-mass problem for durability but ignores it for speed characters. The logic does not hold up. Nothing real can move faster than light speed, period. Yet Flash does, and his feats are allowed here. Therefore, black hole feats should be allowed here. Seems like a big inconsistency.
 
No, according to the page surviving a real black hole that meets all these requirements would require infinite durability
Technically speaking this could easily exceed Low 1-C if the right conditions are met. But 99% of fiction won't.

Or maybe it's because black holes in fiction can be completely different from how they are in the real world
Which debunks them from being realistic black holes to begin with and thus cannot be scaled to durability in any manner whatsoever.
 
No, Loki is not High 3-A Universe Level durability.

It is both true that (1) no known real world force can resist a real black hole, and that (2) no real black hole has destroyed our real universe.

I scale MCU Loki to what the onscreen black hole in Thor 1 actually did -- suck in dozens of stars quickly, each of which were light years away. That would be 4-A Multi-Solar-System Level durability, and in range of the 3-C Galaxy Level MCU Thor the CRT will apparently aim for with Phase 4 feats alone.

Of course my view is that they both have always been those higher tiers. But I began this line of thought yesterday focusing on the Phase 4 Alioth feat, which VSBattles calls Hax and so I now understand does not affect tiering.

Regarding scaling to characters Loki has fought, I don't think durability should work that way. Character A's ability to survive / avoid death should not equate the Character B's ability to hurt Character A. Hurting is not killing. Valkyrie, Hulk, Hawkeye, Captain America, etc. did not kill Loki. Only Thanos did.

As for that black hole page on VSBattles, I do not understand how it acknowledges the energy-mass problem for durability but ignores it for speed characters. The logic does not hold up. Nothing real can move faster than light speed, period. Yet Flash does, and his feats are allowed here. Therefore, black hole feats should be allowed here. Seems like a big inconsistency.
Not if they don't fulfill the conditions of what makes a black hole a black hole.

MFTL+ speed is a lot more straightforward than black hole feats.
 
I scale MCU Loki to what the onscreen black hole in Thor 1 actually did -- suck in dozens of stars quickly, each of which were light years away. That would be 4-A Multi-Solar-System Level durability
And why would that be 4-A dura instead of just Gravity/Black Hole Resistance?
Therefore, black hole feats should be allowed here.
Black hole feats are allowed if they meet all the characteristics of one from the real world, since black holes in fiction are usually completely different from how they are in the real world
 
MFTL+ speed feats are a lot more straightforward than black holes if you ignore the real world science that mass cannot move faster than light, and that the energy required to do so breaks the most basic laws of physics.

https://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/ei...ing can travel faster than,of energy to do so.

"Nothing can travel faster than 300,000 kilometers per second (186,000 miles per second). Only massless particles, including photons, which make up light, can travel at that speed. It's impossible to accelerate any material object up to the speed of light because it would take an infinite amount of energy to do so."

There is no way around the fact that you allow fictional science for one fictional feat while rejecting fictional science for another fictional feat. That is inconsistent logic.

As for why Loki surviving the black hole should be 4-A durability and not just be gravity / black hole resistance, Thor 1 shows the black hole he falls into moving dozens of stars millions of miles, each star being light years away. Moving stars is a physical act, and Loki had to survive that physical pressure himself as the black hole sucked him in. Loki's body by definition felt the same pull as the stars. That's why it's a durability feat.


 
Unless you wanna make Mark 6 Iron Man, Hulk and that cannon Loki got blasted by on the helicarrier 4-A (and maybe even Hawkeye i remember he knocked Loki back with a boom arrow)
 
Loki's body enduring the pull might be a legit feat, but wouldn't it be an outlier due to Loki being affected by significantly less in Avengers?
Again, I think there's a distinction between what can hurt someone and what can kill them. If a fly gets in your eye, it hurts. If you accidentally swallow a fly, you will gag and that will hurt. But a fly is not going to kill you. The ultimate difference in power between you and a fly is the ultimate difference in power between Loki / Thor and anyone on Earth except Hulk during Avengers 1. Iron Man straight blasted Loki twice, and it did not even knock him out.
 
Loki's body enduring the pull might be a legit feat, but wouldn't it be an outlier due to Loki being affected by significantly less in Avengers?
This is what I wad trying to get at. I think it's an outlier, that's why it doesn't scale. Not because "but real life black holes though" we don't even fully understand real black holes, so that argument doesn't hold up.
 
Avengers 1 also shows Loki tank a Mind Stone blast to the chest. (Cap's shield reflected Loki's beam as Loki was aiming to kill someone.) Avengers 2 defines the Mind Stone as the greatest power in the universe unparalleled in its destructive capabilities. Say the blast Loki took was near the Mind Stone's minimum power output. He still tanked it.
 
I don't really know how you can say it harmed him when he showed no real damage. Both times he was hit he showed no lasting damage. And when Hawkeyes arrow hit him he was just outright off guard.
Well the original reason for the scaling says this:
The Mark 6 sent Loki back and even had him grunting, and Loki decided now was the best time to back off. And Mark 7 sent Loki back and Loki was grunting in pain on the floor. And Loki was on the floor for a while.
 
Multi-City-Block Level Lokis: Surviving a black hole that sucked in stars, tanking an Infinity Stone blast to the chest, staying conscious after a rampaging Hulk ragdolled him, enchanting Odin in the same movie Odin turned his wife into stars, enchanting Multiverse+ Alioth.
 
If a fly gets in your eye, it hurts.
That's because the eye is mushy and the fly is small so surface area ***** it up a notch.

If you accidentally swallow a fly, you will gag and that will hurt.
That's a gag reflex, this is not the same as getting smacked in the abdomen with an equivalent of several hundreds of tons of TNT.

A good enough punch to the gut will floor absolutely anyone if you're on par with their strength. That's just how it works.
Multi-City-Block Level Lokis: Surviving a black hole that sucked in stars,
Not a durability feat, black hole is not at all realistic.

tanking an Infinity Stone blast to the chest,
Stone's potency depends on the size of the object it strikes. It isn't 5-A by default.

staying conscious after a rampaging Hulk ragdolled him,
That's not grounds to scale, AT ALL. Man was literally floored and was moaning in agonizing pain.

enchanting Odin in the same movie Odin turned his wife into stars, enchanting Multiverse+ Alioth.
Mind hax =/= AP

All of this is just faulty logic. If you have a problem with how our wiki works in general with these standards, then I'm afraid this is not the place for you.
 
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He also survived being thrashed by an angry Hulk like, a minute after this. If Hulk truly was a billion times stronger. Held back or not, Loki would be paste.
He legit was close to being paste tho. Thanos ******* murked him in the end so that's not saying much.
 
Bruh, Loki got one-shotted by Hulk
Loki straight up got brutalized by him and was in visible agony, unable to move.

This'd be like saying Comic Luke Cage's base stats scale to that Low 7-C blast that left him on the edge of death. Or Thor's absolute peak of lifting Yggdrasil in the comics leaving him near death. Or MCU Deathlok having his limbs blown off by an oil tanker explosion, being left in critical condition and having his base durability scale to that.

But no, this is worse. Barely surviving an attack and suffering from several life-threatening injuries and being unable to even get back up, I REPEAT, IS ABSO-*******-LUTELY NOT GROUNDS FOR SCALING, AT ALL, NEVER WILL BE, EVER.
 
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