The Molecule Man incident makes the Sentry's end by Knull even stranger.

I'll it that I never liked the Knull character, such as it was (Knull is Chaos King who is Oblivion, but Knull was originally more Lovecraftian, except Lovecraft's gods didn't need swords, or to actually fight), and now I feel a bit more justified with my dislike as it's not only bad but doesn't follow continuity well.

Mark literally tears Conquest apart. His Dad is a famous warrior and in much better shape. Conquest is, mostly, just a psychopath. Great viltrumite strength but not particularly strong. Plus, he's way past his prime.

Appreciate the response, but that's not (or at least shouldn't be) saying "Franklin, the Creator", "Galactus, the Destroyer". It seemed a glib remark, vaguely portentous but without saying anything.

Galactus is the Balance. Cosmically, that's what he is. This has literally been said by Eternity, Thanos, and Living Tribunal on separate occasions.

Richards is (was) a mutant. Fantastically powerful, but just a mutant. He can create worlds, and he's not alone in being able to do that. What's more, if FR died creation would still occur.

Who says Franklin and Galactus are "cosmic opposites"?

Galactus doesn't really have an opposing force. He stands between Death & Eternity, but isn't of either. He's the enigma. The abstract who is embodied. Not a Stranger, but still an outsider.

Franklin has massive reality warping abilities but he doesn't really serve a cosmic role.

Not the floaty bit.

Agh, this blurb doesn't do the video justice. If you think the scientist that's talking about something in his field is obviously wrong make sure you double check what they actually said & that you understand the distinctions (if they exist).

It's been explicitly said that Allen has been getting stronger. Anissa has always been stronger than Mark. He was never able to beat her. Conquest is also weaker than Omni-man. The prelate, or whatever his title, is, hands down, the strongest viltrumite, but he's not been shown yet.

Death absolutely is a multiversal being. She's paired with Eternity, as in they always both exist or neither does. The only exception to this, possibly, wax the Cancerverse, but that didn't seem to be Eternity whatsoever (no Eternity=no Death→a universe that shouldn't exist, that's why it was an abomination).

Also, Thanos never wanted to force Death's love, he wanted to earn it, for her to choose. That's why he's the Mad Titan.

I'm the novel, Maturin, though he is dead, gives Richie a "vision" of flying through the universe until he's outside the galaxy (or possibly the universe itself). We see what seems to be the past, with It & Maturin seemingly the only things that exist (ignoring the universes Maturin has made - and possibly died with creating one, but that may have just been a lie by It), but there seems to have a been a third light, unbelievably far from them both, that was presence that made It uncomfortable.

During this vision we are told that there had been this endless cycle of Maturin creating & It consuming those creations. Those creations are strongly implied to be universes, which is consistent with the idea of "world" being a totality.

I'm sure this will stick🙄

Galactus has spent extended time outside his native universe many times & it's never been an issue. There's no reason for there to be. Just like Black Winter, the various Chaos kings & Thanos (without external means) beating Galactus, you'll likely not hear about this again.

Kyle, that I agree with completely.

However, that was due to direct intervention by one of the two gods.

Id still be interested in reading about how the Aes Sedai would try to wedge that into their ideology.

Do we have any reason to think that the constructed world of The Stand is anything other than what was indicated?

Good & Evil. Everyone else didn't survive. The "virus" was supernatural.

The world you want to explore isn't the one from The Stand, but there's always fanfic.

I'm a little unclear why one small nuclear blast that was 1000 miles to the west & 1 mile down from where every other character lives, would need to be explored further.

Do you want to see the cancer of any survivors? I wouldn't expect there to be a noticeable bump in that statistic for the community of goodies.

WoT 1 power didn't distinguish based on social presentation but something more essential. Sex is a closer descriptor.

Additionally the author was clearly invoking the Eastern version of dualism.

It's not terribly palatable but it certainly contributes to mythic feel of the world. Something that is old, unyielding and doesn't bend to humans.

Some of the choices in this list are baffling.

Eragon is "almost perfect", yet is, partly, summarized as "perfectly able fantasy"?