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Hello, I wanted to share my opinion on how we currently rate one of Thanos's feats with the power stone.
Currently we accept it has a variable rating based on this now broken link (For me at least) which was in reference to this scene in Guardians of the Galaxy. However, the aforementioned statement is missing some context. The full statement is as follows "The stone reacts to anything organic, the bigger the target the bigger the power surge" - Gamora. "All Ronin's got to do is touch the stone to the planet's surface and zap all plants, animals, Nova Corps, everything will die" - Quill
With this full statement we know know that 1. The stones variable power output is in reference to the presence of organic life and 2. That the power stone or more specifically the weapon the stone is slotted into has to make contact with organics/the surface of the planet in order for this process to start.
With the full picture we now have on how exactly the power stone's variable power works lets look at one of Thanos's most impressive feats, that being his ripping apart of Titan's moon. We see that neither one of the established conditions apply in this instance as 1. To our knowledge this moon has no living material of any kind and 2. Thanos is obviously nowhere near close enough to make contact with the moon in order to start the reaction. Since the variable power rating doesn't apply in this instance it's only fair to assume that the moon surface busting feat of Thanos's would apply to his normal AP with the power stone in the Infinity Gauntlet and not rated as a varies rating.
That would mean the new value Thanos with the power stone would scale to would be 2.44 petatons
I'm not sure if this would scale to Mark 50 Iron Man or not so I will leave it to the comments to decide if he should scale in any way. The main purpose of this is just to establish an actual value the power stone scales to in AP.
Currently we accept it has a variable rating based on this now broken link (For me at least) which was in reference to this scene in Guardians of the Galaxy. However, the aforementioned statement is missing some context. The full statement is as follows "The stone reacts to anything organic, the bigger the target the bigger the power surge" - Gamora. "All Ronin's got to do is touch the stone to the planet's surface and zap all plants, animals, Nova Corps, everything will die" - Quill
With this full statement we know know that 1. The stones variable power output is in reference to the presence of organic life and 2. That the power stone or more specifically the weapon the stone is slotted into has to make contact with organics/the surface of the planet in order for this process to start.
With the full picture we now have on how exactly the power stone's variable power works lets look at one of Thanos's most impressive feats, that being his ripping apart of Titan's moon. We see that neither one of the established conditions apply in this instance as 1. To our knowledge this moon has no living material of any kind and 2. Thanos is obviously nowhere near close enough to make contact with the moon in order to start the reaction. Since the variable power rating doesn't apply in this instance it's only fair to assume that the moon surface busting feat of Thanos's would apply to his normal AP with the power stone in the Infinity Gauntlet and not rated as a varies rating.
That would mean the new value Thanos with the power stone would scale to would be 2.44 petatons
I'm not sure if this would scale to Mark 50 Iron Man or not so I will leave it to the comments to decide if he should scale in any way. The main purpose of this is just to establish an actual value the power stone scales to in AP.
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