Ultimate Death Battle

[IsaiahX]

A monotheistic-god fight can't happen because the existence of more than one all-powerful entity creates an omnipotence paradox.

IE, if you define two beings as being able to "do anything", and one wants to "do X" and the other simply wants to "prevent X", then one being will not get its way, thus disproving the omnipotence of one or the other being.

If omnipotence dosen't work, we will have to decide the victor through coolness factor:

 

[IsaiahX]

Can 'Q' from Star Trek enter the competition?

I'll allow it.

 

[Thief]

I nominate the Power Puff Girls

 

[Shiranui117]

Maybe Odin, now that I think of it.

Odin couldn't even beat Fenrir. I'm sure he could beat some of his matchups in pools, but I doubt he's going much further. Baldr could probably do better--literally only able to be damaged by mistletoe. Most other deities wouldn't have access to that, ergo Baldr could just wall and stall out most of the roster. I'd put him in at least the quarterfinals.

 

[Shiranui117]

Durga

I'm kinda expecting him to get nerfed next patch, but for now yeah he's pretty OP.

 

[Woberts]

I'm kinda expecting him to get nerfed next patch, but for now yeah he's pretty OP.

Yeah, I don't know what we were thinking when we added him, sorry. We'll be nerfing his arms down to 4, but we'll reduce the cooldown on the bell to even out that drastic change.

 

[Segev Moran]

If every polytheistic deity had one giant battle, who do you think would come out on top?

(If I included monotheistic deities, it must be a tie between Jehovah and Allah. Omnipotence is hard to get around.)

Thanos!

 

[Woberts]

Thanos!

I don't think Thanos was ever worshipped as a god, but with the infinity stones he's definitely as powerful as one!

 

[sayak83]

Shiva.

Shiva is omipotent (along with Vishnu and MahaDevi), so they are excluded.
Skanda (Kartikeya) or Indra will be the probabilities from the Indian pantheon.

 

[sayak83]

Durga

Omnipotent. So ruled out.

 

[tayla]

If every polytheistic deity had one giant battle, who do you think would come out on top?

I assume this question is for our amusement, not to arrive at truth?

 

[IsaiahX]

I assume this question is for our amusement, not to arrive at truth?

You would be correct.

 

[Kelly of the Phoenix]

Aphrodite, never underestimate a jealous woman with a temper.

Hera makes Aprhodite look like a wuss.

Can 'Q' from Star Trek enter the competition?

Which Q? Q, Q, Q, Q, Q, Q, or Q?

I nominate the Power Puff Girls

Yeah, they have experience with Him, after all.

I don't think Thanos was ever worshipped as a god, but with the infinity stones he's definitely as powerful as one!

He's only as powerful as the dwarf blacksmith let him be, though.

I intend to write a book about that, where the divine craftsmen start complaining that the other gods wouldn't be squat without their tech.

 

[ChristineM]

Hera makes Aprhodite look like a wuss.

I know a girl named Hera, sweetest little thing, wouldn't hurt a fly

Which Q? Q, Q, Q, Q, Q, Q, or Q?

None, it was Q...

 

[2ndpillar]

Shiva.

Shiva, the "destroyer of worlds" is the idol of the scientist working on creating a black hole. Few winners can be found in a black hole.

 

[Sanzbir]

The question asked about pantheistic gods, though, I'd classify the dragon and the wolf as beasts. I don't think Loki would win many straight fights, but his guile makes him dangerous.

Uh, if Loki is a god, his kids are gods too. Fenrir and Jormundgandr are his sons. Their mother is the same species as Loki. Which means technically despite one being a wolf and the other a sea-serpent, both are 100% jotun. Hel is their sister, and she is counted as a goddess. It's hard to see how they aren't gods, technically speaking, when their father and sister are.

 

[Kangaroo Feathers]

Uh, if Loki is a god, his kids are gods too. Fenrir and Jormundgandr are his sons. Their mother is the same species as Loki. Which means technically despite one being a wolf and the other a sea-serpent, both are 100% jotun. Hel is their sister, and she is counted as a goddess. It's hard to see how they aren't gods, technically speaking, when their father and sister are.

I don't think Norse mythology is as mechanistic as that. I mean, Sleipnir is Loki's child, too, and while certainly magical, I don't think anyone would argue Sleipnir is a god.

 

[Kangaroo Feathers]

Shiva, the "destroyer of worlds" is the idol of the scientist working on creating a black hole. Few winners can be found in a black hole.

*eyeroll*

 

[Sanzbir]

I don't think Norse mythology is as mechanistic as that. I mean, Sleipnir is Loki's child, too, and while certainly magical, I don't think anyone would argue Sleipnir is a god.

Sleipnir's father was a magic horse, though, and Loki was in the form of a mare when impregnated with Sleipnir. The result of that pairing was half-jotun half-horse.

But Angrboða was jotun just as Loki was, so comparing the pairing of Loki and Angrboða to the pairing of Svaðilfari and Loki is probably not wholly proper.

Especially when we know that in other instances, pairing between Loki and Angrboða produced Hel, who is a goddess, so why would the other pairings between Loki and Angrboða be any different?? Especially since we know that Fenrir, despite his appearance, is fully sapient and capable of intelligent thought and speech.

It's of note that Loki and Angrboða's whole race seems to be capable of shapeshifting. We get many instances in Norse mythology of giants/trolls who take the form of wolves or other creatures (The best being, Síbilja, who was basically a demonic cow). So likely Fenrir is simply a jotun who takes the form of a wolf. Jotun, for the purposes of this thread, seem to count as gods, as Loki, Skadi, and Hel are all reckoned as "gods" commonly.

 

[Kangaroo Feathers]

Sleipnir's father was a magic horse, though, and Loki was in the form of a mare when impregnated with Sleipnir. The result of that pairing was half-jotun half-horse.

But Angrboða was jotun just as Loki was, so comparing the pairing of Loki and Angrboða to the pairing of Svaðilfari and Loki is probably not wholly proper.

Especially when we know that in other instances, pairing between Loki and Angrboða produced Hel, who is a goddess, so why would the other pairings between Loki and Angrboða be any different?? Especially since we know that Fenrir, despite his appearance, is fully sapient and capable of intelligent thought and speech.

It's of note that Loki and Angrboða's whole race seems to be capable of shapeshifting. We get many instances in Norse mythology of giants/trolls who take the form of wolves or other creatures (The best being, Síbilja, who was basically a demonic cow). So likely Fenrir is simply a jotun who takes the form of a wolf. Jotun, for the purposes of this thread, seem to count as gods, as Loki, Skadi, and Hel are all reckoned as "gods" commonly.

My point is that Scandinavian mythology isn't as necessarily dichotomous either/or about gods. But anyhoo...