Genis-Vell/Phyla-Vell capability thread
By Saren 7 Comments
I think I like the Mar-Vell family more than any other comic book family. I went through all of Mar-Vell's appearances because the stories with his children in it were filled with comments about his legacy and what a great hero he was and such from characters like Thanos and Adam Warlock. I felt like knowledge about Mar-Vell would put Genis and Phyla's stories into a clearer perspective, and to a good extent it did. So after making a capability thread for Marv, I thought I'd do the same for Genis and Phyla.
Genis-Vell
Genis has several different versions with wildly different levels of power. The following feats are from his Legacy days.
Cosmic Powers #4: Defeats Nitro. Has to work for it.
Silver Surfer #90: Fights the Silver Surfer, and since he was not powerful enough to actually hurt Surfer, all he did was irritate Norrin for a while before the Surfer got fed up and mopped the floor with him.
Silver Surfer #108: Resurrects the Surfer after his death at the hands of a Doombot that stripped the Power Cosmic from him (in Silver Surfer #107), but the process drains him greatly.
Captain Marvel #1: Flies through space and it's mentioned that he's moving at 80% the speed of light (although he has no sense of direction and quickly gets lost). He's also flown halfway across a galaxy in an hour, so this was not his top speed.
Captain Marvel #1: Endures the detonation of a Kree Nega-Bomb with a blast radius extending up to 1.7 light years.
Avengers Unplugged #5: Fights a brainwashed Monica Rambeau. When his guard is down, she attacks him, but the Nega-Bands automatically create a force-field around him, but she suffocates him by manipulating the energy within the field. Then she transforms into light and flies him back to Earth, but on the way back he wakes up and knocks her away by clanging the Nega-Bands together. Then they fight and Genis temporarily subdues her with a photonic blast. After that Deathcry and Vision show up and then there's a scuffle until the fight is broken up.
Silver Surfer #122: Fights the Silver Surfer again. This time his power has increased to the point where he can go toe-to-toe with and hurt the Surfer, but Norrin still beats him by trapping him inside the board.
Captain Marvel #14: Fights Bloodwing, and after letting him get a few hits in at first, Genis paralyzes him by placing his body in a stasis field between two dimensions.
The following feats are from Genis' Captain Marvel days.
Avengers Forever #4: Cosmic awareness sees through shape-shifting.
Captain Marvel #11: Fights his father, Mar-Vell, after going through a rift in reality.
Captain Marvel #17: Aids Thanos and Thor in banishing Walker, a death god powerful enough to destroy a galaxy.
Captain Marvel #21: Fights Merlin Demonspawn (who also goes by Maha Yogi and Warlock and a bunch of other names). Establishes that he can manipulate and deflect bolts of magical energy, and can manipulate light to create several illusions.
Captain Marvel #22: Flies to Hala, 30 light-years away from Earth, in a matter of minutes.
Captain Marvel #23: Defeated by Ronan.
Captain Marvel #30: Fights Maestro alongside Spider-Man 2099.
Captain Marvel #34: Endures a psi-bolt from Magus and expels Moondragon's voice from his mind. When Magus tries to drain his power, it backfires badly because of Genis' connection to the universe.
Infinity Abyss #5: Takes on several Nihilists trained by Thanos himself, and then fights a telepathic attack from a Thanosi named X until help shows up in the form of Gamora.
Infinity Abyss #6: Uses cosmic awareness to detect his opponent's power level; confirming Thanos' statement that the Thanosi Omega was more powerful than Galactus.
The following feats are from Genis' Mad God days.
Captain Marvel #1: Demonstration of the increased level of his cosmic awareness, which is part of the reason he went mad in the first place: he sees everything that happens in the universe all the time, and when he's forced to make a choice between saving the lives of thousands or saving the life of one girl he chooses the former. Thus the girl dies, and Genis sees that in the future she would have become a galactic messiah had she lived.
Captain Marvel #2: Sees the entire past of a criminal the Punisher was after; and then later shares his cosmic awareness with Castle for a brief moment, allowing Castle to see his eventual death at the hands of the son of one of his victims. Castle cries.
Captain Marvel #4: Warps space to disguise himself from the Shi'ar's detection technology.
Captain Marvel #4-5: Commits suicide, and then returns to life, establishing that he is beyond the need of a physical body.
Captain Marvel #5-6: Aids Entropy in destroying the multiverse completely. The last scan is the recap panel for the issue where it states that they destroyed the multiverse together.
Captain Marvel #6: Shoots Entropy in the head, generating enough energy to recreate the entire multiverse.
Captain Marvel #6: Goes back in time to save some people, including the galactic messiah girl whose death drove him mad, and then sees the consequences of his actions via cosmic awareness.
Captain Marvel #7: Empowers his Kree blaster, allowing it to shoot through Heimdall.
Captain Marvel #7: King Thor throws Mjolnir at Genis, who then returns the favor.
Captain Marvel #8: Lends his cosmic awareness to King Thor, showing him the truth about Sturm and Drang, and then kills Drang by shooting him in the head. Drang and his brother Sturm were beings with power enough to fight King Thor in a battle that would destroy Asgard completely, according to Genis' cosmic awareness.
Captain Marvel #13: Creates an illusion of himself and kills Burstaar; later resurrecting him.
Captain Marvel #14: Pulls past versions of himself and Rick into the present.
Captain Marvel #15: Tanks the combined firepower of the entire Kree & Skrull armadas.
Captain Marvel #17: Opens a portal to Nth-space to send Starfox, Elysius and Phyla away, but at the last minute Phyla pulls Genis into it as well.
Captain Marvel #18: While inside the Nth-space dimension, it is revealed that Elysius' resurrection and Phyla's creation were unintended results of Genis and Entropy re-creating everything.
Captain Marvel #19: Broadcasts Rick's Marlo song to every possible listening device on Earth.
Captain Marvel #20: Time-travels 2 centuries into the future.
Captain Marvel #20: After merging with his future self, fights a group of soldiers from the Kree-Shi'ar-Skrull alliance. He freezes one Skrull by draining all the heat from his body, and then roasts the other soldiers with the absorbed heat.
Captain Marvel #21: Merged Genis defeats the Kree-Shi'ar-Skrull alliance by manipulating the electrical impulses in their brains, killing them all just by altering their thoughts to convince them that they were dead.
Captain Marvel #24: Defeats his son Ely (after Ely had absorbed the power of five solar systems into his Nega-Bands) by going back in time and killing him as a baby.
The following feats are from Genis' Photon days.
New Thunderbolts #6: Redirects a nuclear blast and diverts it into a rift in space.
New Thunderbolts #8: KO's Batroc's Brigade by temporarily inverting their molecular structure.
New Thunderbolts #11: His cosmic awareness is able to detect that the House of M reality is not the real one, and in the process he temporarily collapses and expands the entire reality for a split second without meaning to.
New Thunderbolts #12: Fries the Purple Man's mind.
New Thunderbolts #14: The Thunderbolts face off against the Avengers, with Genis taking on Sentry. First he dissipates Bob's energy into a pocket universe and then teleports himself and Sentry into the microverse, where they fight for a while, before emerging with Genis looking comparatively better off (mainly because he didn't show any signs of damage at all, while Sentry was visibly weakened by the fight). Then Genis waves his hand and Sentry gets BFR'd to a bus terminal toilet.
New Thunderbolts #18: Shares visions of the future with Songbird, where she sees that Genis destroying the universe is an inevitable outcome in every possible timeline.
Thunderbolts #100: Genis' death at the hands of the moonstone-empowered Baron Zemo. Since Genis' mere existence was disrupting time and space, the only way to stop him from destroying the universe was to split his body into pieces and disperse him across time so that he couldn't reform.
That marks the end of the Genis section of this thread.
Phyla-Vell
Captain Marvel #17: Fights Genis and does decently, although it is later implied that part of the reason she could match him is because Genis subconsciously wanted someone to stop him and keep his madness in check. Thanos Syndrome.
Annihilation #2: Blasted away by Thanos.
Annihilation: Conquest - Prologue: Demonstrates combat reflexes by blocking an energy blast after it is fired while fighting a group of mercenaries. Creates constructs to strike harder.
Annihilation: Conquest - Prologue: Blows apart a Kree Sentry with the Quantum Bands (Sentries typically have Thing-level strength and durability).
Annihilation: Conquest - Prologue: Flies at extremely high speeds to follow a massive energy pulse that was moving faster than light. Phyla mentioned that she could not catch it, but she could follow it, which I think means she can fly at significant fractions of lightspeed, but not at the speed of light or higher.
Annihilation: Conquest - Quasar #1: Defeats the same Super-Adaptoid that her father fought alongside the Avengers way back in the 50th issue of his Captain Marvel book. This version of the Super-Adaptoid had the combined powers of Vision, Scarlet Witch, Iron Man, Beast, Captain America and Captain Mar-Vell, and apparently somewhere along the line picked up additional abilities like Wasp's size alteration, Hawkeye's marksmanship, and in a later fight (below) Thor's strength.
The reason she went bloodthirsty all of a sudden was because there was a corruption in the Bands left over by their previous owner, Annihilus.
Annihilation: Conquest - Quasar #3: Wipes out a Phalanx army in one stroke. Her Quantum Bands were depleting in charge steadily before this, and this attack depleted them completely. After that, she only had her strength, speed and Quantum Sword.
Annihilation: Conquest - Quasar #4: Fights the Super-Adaptoid again (he'd mimicked her Quantum Bands from a previous encounter) and absorbs quantum energy from the constructs he throws at her to make up for her own depleted energy. Defeats him in a quantum energy clash and drains all of his quantum energy to refuel her Bands. After a brief conversation with Wendell Vaughn, the previous Quasar, she gathers up the Phalanx army in a construct bubble and throws them into the sun.
Annihilation: Conquest #6: Absorbs the souls of the Kree race into her Quantum Bands, reforges her sword, and then kills Ultron with one strike (he had lost his ability to jump into other bodies because of Wraith's exolons).
She-Hulk: Cosmic Collision: Quantum Sword slices through She-Hulk, Mantis and Unum.
Guardians of the Galaxy #12: Becomes the new Avatar of Death and saves Moondragon by killing the Dragon of the Moon (To put the feat into perspective, the original Quasar, Wendell Vaughn, couldn't even scratch the dragon's hide when he tried to harm it).
Guardians of the Galaxy #17: Impales Adam Warlock with the Death-magic blade, and then fights Gamora but gets killed.
Guardians of the Galaxy #19: The Guardians go back in time and stop Phyla from killing Warlock, who then transforms into Magus, and even though her sword proves capable of harming him, she still gets killed. She comes back again, presumably because of the whole Avatar of Death status, but........
Guardians of the Galaxy #24:.......Thanos comes out of his cocoon and kills her. Again. Girl just cannot catch a break.
That marks the end of the Phyla section.