How would a fight between god's work.

[beast_regards]

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[AYM]

Fights between Gods are done by their followers drawing their God as the Chad and the other one as the Soyjack.

 

[Fox-Trot-9]

Fights between Gods are done by their followers drawing their God as the Chad and the other one as the Soyjack.

This has a historical basis in reality. It's not the Gods that fight, it's the followers that do the fighting.

 

[CupcakeNinja]

Mar-Vell (MARVEL's first Captain Marvel, but the third character with that name to see print) and the Cancerverse are Marvel not DC.
Both companies have Death usually appear as a woman (a cute goth chick in Vertigo/DC, and a beautiful woman that the person she is manifesting to knows ... or the traditional Grim Reaper, but not the character Grim Reaper as he's neither a woman nor beautiful.... and the character of Lady Death belongs to an indie publisher - she's a blue-white skinned beautiful woman)

ah yes, thats right. Sorry, i been falling asleep to Comics Explained alot these days and mistook the marvel for DC. Mavel usually has a more fleshed out universe than DC so i sometimes confuse them. Honestly i cant even recall a conceptual cosmic entity from DC...maybe the lords of order and chaos but others i cant recall. Thanks for correcting me, i appreciate it

 

[CharlesEBrown]

ah yes, thats right. Sorry, i been falling asleep to Comics Explained alot these days and mistook the marvel for DC. Mavel usually has a more fleshed out universe than DC so i sometimes confuse them. Honestly i cant even recall a conceptual cosmic entity from DC...maybe the lords of order and chaos but others i cant recall. Thanks for correcting me, i appreciate it

Darkseid is the big one in DC. They also have a bunch of unnamed demons and devils, as well as Neron (the architect of the Underworld crossover event... which felt a lot like a more focused version of Marvel's Inferno), The Endless (Death, Destiny, Dream, Destruction, Desire, and ... the one who used to be Delight but went crazy, blanking on her current name), the First of the Fallen, Lucifer, and Kirby's New Gods (Orion, Metron, Beautiful Dreamer, Black Racer, etc.)

 

[Zagaroth]

Specific world building is going to vary.

In mine, the gods who built the universe (and there are a lot of them) do NOT fight because they want the universe to remain intact. The rest of the gods would immediately gang up on them to suppress both combatants to minimize violence. An all out power struggle between two of them would destroy swaths of reality and multiple galaxies with each exchange of blows.

Now, if we are talking about recently ascended mortals, then it's going to be a lot like any other fight between powerful but basically physical entities. These are not people tied to the fundamental forces of reality. Getting into a fight like that would also cause the more powerful deities to take notice and start considering whether or not either of them would be allowed to continue to advance.

As they grow in power and develop specific dominions/specialties, fighting becomes ever more problematic. While still lesser divinities, they would need to fight in intergalactic voids to prevent unwanted collateral damage.

 

[CupcakeNinja]

Darkseid is the big one in DC. They also have a bunch of unnamed demons and devils, as well as Neron (the architect of the Underworld crossover event... which felt a lot like a more focused version of Marvel's Inferno), The Endless (Death, Destiny, Dream, Destruction, Desire, and ... the one who used to be Delight but went crazy, blanking on her current name), the First of the Fallen, Lucifer, and Kirby's New Gods (Orion, Metron, Beautiful Dreamer, Black Racer, etc.)

oh yeah i remember watching the sandman series a while ago, was pretty interesting. Do the emotional spectrum entities count? Like Paralax and such? Darkeid never felt lie a god, tho. Not him or the other "gods" like him really. Powerful yeah, but hardly able to twist the universe to their whim from what i recal. That omega beam is broken tho i admit

 

[CharlesEBrown]

oh yeah i remember watching the sandman series a while ago, was pretty interesting. Do the emotional spectrum entities count? Like Paralax and such?

That is a good question and one I do not have an answer to.

Darkeid never felt lie a god, tho. Not him or the other "gods" like him really. Powerful yeah, but hardly able to twist the universe to their whim from what i recal. That omega beam is broken tho i admit

The version of Darkseid on Apokalips is an avatar of a God of Destruction (something I think hinted at in The Great Darkness Saga in Legion of Superheroes but not really clarified until the early 2000s).
And the one of the Endless I couldn't remember is Delirium.

 

[Ruti]

So the main question is how do they determine who wins in a fight? Does it just devolve into a meaningless slugfest?

"Well my domain means I can do this"
"Ok but my domain means that I win!"
"Nuh uh"
"Yuh uh"

 

[CupcakeNinja]

That is a good question and one I do not have an answer to.

The version of Darkseid on Apokalips is an avatar of a God of Destruction (something I think hinted at in The Great Darkness Saga in Legion of Superheroes but not really clarified until the early 2000s).
And the one of the Endless I couldn't remember is Delirium.

well unless a character can warp reality, concepts or control matter on the atomic scale i suppose i wouldnt consider them gods. But its interesting just to have these characters who are so powerful they can dominate most races. godlike enough, eh?

if going by that i dont think the emotional sppectrum beings qualify either. They're powerful, can influence mortal beings and create constructs. But apart from the Black Lantern ring or whatever which can reanimate bodies , they appear a bit lackluster. I feel like the entities themselves would only qualify as avatars to.

Maybe avatars of some cosmic entity similar to the Phoenix force, since they all represent concepts that can only exist in living beings. Im not certain what the DC equivalent of the Phoenix Force would be tho.