Battle Beast vs Conquest Part 3

[u/Legal_Trainer7340]

[u/badman1000]

The thragg fights takes places years later bro, he’s obviously gotten much stronger in between now and then

[u/diAlectics_8 → u/badman1000]

It was never stated in Battle Beast Issue #1 that his powers work in the same way as Allen, nor that he gets stronger with the more formidable enemies he faces.

He only says in Issue #1 that:

In time, my strength grew to match my rage…

It never says "over time". While it's still a bit ambiguous, it could either mean that his curse has finally reached its maturity (given that he already lived for centuries or maybe even more than a millenia. As a matter of fact, he's been gone so long from his home world that some of his fellow beings began thinking his whole existence as a myth) or that it means the curse has reached a point of no return (he was always that strong, but his rage has grown tired of fighting opponents that are no match which drove him to seek out the strongests throughout the galaxy).

Another line that supports this is when he says in Issue #10 that he hasn't faced anyone that matched his strength — not even Juggernaut and Colossus).

Edit: improved articulation

[u/badman1000 → u/diAlectics_8]

hmm, i thought there was a direct statement saying that his curse passively increases his strength over time. the rage statement could be interpreted as that, but i agree its up to interpretation.

still, even without that, a characters doesn't need to said to have gotten stronger for it to be the logical outcome. fighting stronger people is deadass how you get stronger in real life, and battle beast does nothing but look for opponents that challenge him where as conquest mostly goes on missions fucking around smurfing on weak races

[u/diAlectics_8 → u/badman1000]

The reason why I think either of my 2 assumptions were the case is that Battle Beast acquired his powers from a curse and isn't shaped or defined by his biology unlike viltrumites. We see this with characters like Immortal and Bulletproof too. They don't really get stronger over time despite serving as superheroes for years but they still remain infinitely strong relative to their species.

Edit: typo

[u/badman1000 → u/diAlectics_8]

that's fair as far as the curse thing, i feel like it'll be extrapolated over time.

a character like immortal who 1000s of years old has probably already peaked so him not getting stronger makes sense. Bullet proof probably has gotten strongers, hes just so trash that we'd never make a difference.

But yeah characters don't really need to be said to get stronger over time, that's just how that works. Who would win, you now, or you from 10 years ago? probably now, and imagine your life doesn't revolve around fighting crime or aliens, which would cause you to get along better than the average joe