Beyond Omega Level: The Living Tribunal | Comics Explained

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pissed him off he's like braun strowman right like look at braun strowman's like dude that guy is enormous but I bet he's like amazing with kids he's like a great big teddy bear when it comes to like dealing with kids like he's like the nicest guy ever and then you like take his beer out of his hand and he's just like okay so like it's on now but but in any event and the first appears the learning tribunal back in the strange tales comics basically his idea was to destroy the planet Earth and the reason why was because a living tribunal believed that the earth was really kind of a source for like all this evil and things like that now of course Doctor Strange basically convinced the Living Tribunal that there was good in the world and ultimately the tribunal chose to spare the earth when Doctor Strange essentially said that as a sorcerer supreme he can maintain balance in this realm right so this ties into the purpose of a Living Tribunal and is the reason for his creation within the Marvel continuity which is to serve as a judge that existed since the beginning of time and is committed to preserving the cosmic balance of the multiverse now in the event that a universe becomes unstable the Living Tribunal judges that universe and in acts punishment typically in the form of the total destruction of that reality which is pretty heavy-handed but let me tribunal is so judgemental like hey your views are different from mine therefore you are bad and I'm going to destroy your universe like you do it's crazy like I suppose I don't really like the idea of like the modern-day definition of judgemental right because that's really what it is like if you don't like what I like then that means you're judgmental no it just means I don't like what you like like hey fun fact world not everybody's going to like what you like and it doesn't make them wrong it just makes them different right it makes them different from you which is not a bad thing it's weird how people can celebrate other people's differences so long as the differences are not too from their own it's it's it's intriguing right people are interesting in the modern day but the Living Tribunal is comprised of three aspects each represented by one of his three phases right so equity vengeance and necessity with reveries of the principles underlying and informing the living tribunals judgment and all three phases must agree in order for the Living Tribunal to act now one thing that makes the Living Tribunal different than other cosmic entities from the Marvel Universe is that he exists on a multiversal level instead of a universal level and what I mean by that is since the Marvel multiverse is made up of an infinite number of distinctly different universes a version of most of the cosmic entities exist in each one of those universes so there's a version of eternity in the main Marvel Universe there's a version of eternity in the ultimate universe and so on and so forth the same with the other entities like The Watcher and Galactus but there's only one living Tribunal in the entire multiverse and he exists in a place called the star chamber which seems to be a distinct section of the multiverse that's not part of any one particular universe but basically serves as a living tribunals base of operations and the courtroom from which he passes his universal judgement fun fact it's also the place where the Living Tribunal watches the Golden Girls the problem with this that the Living Tribunal has been very very angry because he went to turn on the Golden Girls one day and he was told this show is not available in your geographical location he was geo lot from watching the Golden Girls but he found a way to get around it and when you're asking the question how it was that he did that it's because a living tribunal used surf shark VPN hashtag sponsored video so if you guys are anything like the living tribe you know you guys like to watch your favorite TV shows while you're traveling right 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service on the entirety of the market so Mitch you guys go check out the link in the description make sure you guys check out sir shark VPN and as far as the powers of the Living Tribunal because it's so incredibly powerful because he can do so much it's really hard to boil down everything that he's capable of in this to a single list of powers because he can basically do anything he wants he's able to warp reality he possesses omniscience and near omnipotence he's able to summon other powerful cosmic entities such as the in-betweener at will The Living Tribunal was able to turn the silver surfer into a God by simply allowing the silver surfer to touch the void that exists on the side of living tribunals head where there is no face The Living Tribunal is also able to manipulate time and even make time come to a standstill throughout the entirety of the universe similarly he can speed up time to the point of accelerating the death of a son which on his own is a process that would take billions of years one of the most impressive displays of the living tribunals power occurred when his judgments stopped the assembled Infinity stones which as you probably know are capable of altering the very fabric of reality later he would render another judgment that would return the stones power to them and another of the Living tribunals judgments he considers whether to allow the Beyonder to retain his omnipotence within his own universe suggestion that he's able to take powers away from omnipotent beings he decides to allow the Beyonder to keep his power but seals him inside of his own reality so that he cannot interfere with alternate universes in another instance of a living tribunals judgment he must decide whether to replace the 6160 universe with the ultimate universe he decides against it but the fact that he was even contemplating doing this shows us how powerful he can be that he's able to replace one universe with another he was also able to absorb the protege a being that had duplicated the tribunals own power and a tendency usurped the one above all and pretty much become the top being in all of reality and so it's widely believed that the Living Tribunal is the second most powerful entity in Marvel Comics with only the one above all being more powerful than when Thanos wheels the Infinity Gauntlet which gives him insight into the inner workings of the universe he confirms a tribunals place as the second most powerful entity in existence and because we know the tribunal ranked so high on the power hierarchy and that he can make and unmake universes if he chooses to do so we know the tribunal is well beyond Omega level here's a funny thing though like back when that whole Infinity Gauntlet thing was made that was back before like the beyonders showed up and that was before marquee of death here's my question how does a marquee of death ranked next to the Living Tribunal right like the marquee of death was a guy who was hopping and skipping through universes and wiping them out with a wave of his hand it was ridiculous how powerful he is honestly I probably say the marquee of death was equal to the power of the Living Tribunal which then begs the question why wasn't the Living Tribunal invoked during the stories that involved the marquee of death because plot device that's why because the marquee of death was a story that wanted to be told by Marvel and it didn't make any sense to bring The Living Tribunal in because they didn't want to that's basically it the Living Tribunal is what we in Marvel Comics refer to as a plot device it's basically a being that exists to serve the purpose of wrapping up a story or transitioning from one story to the next and yes it sucks but that's usually just the way it is that's the way Marvel Comics works it doesn't always work logically if there were some kind of imbalance in the universe as a result of the actions of some individual the Living Tribunal would show up a lot more often than it does and it would fix things and that would basically be the end of that but in order to be able to tell some measure of an interesting story the Living Tribunal is not invoked which in reality the eluding tribunals showing up and basically fixing everything at the end of the marquee of death story probably would have sucked because do the way that story ended wasn't legit dude I love the story of the marquee of death if you don't know who I'm talking about check the video down in the description that dude is broken do he is so Opie this insane he's like any of the guns in truth he's like the Prometheus lands introduced and destiny to you on the first day do crucible turn into a laser tag it was the most fun ever and then Bungie did what Bungie does and screw up something awesome they basically fixed it and it was like why would you do that just like take Prometheus lens out of everything and then throw it into its own crucible playlist and say here you go guys you just go play the Prometheus limbs playlist and just have fun with it right like the religious winds is not in crucible it's not in PvE like literally you just can't use it in any anything except for that one Christmas playlist just like I play this all the time man it was amazing it was it was like that would be the coolest thing ever but nonetheless the Living Tribunal is super powerful is a very capable be however it's kind of a misnomer to say it's the second most powerful being in all of Marvel Comics right because you've got to be honors which obliterated the Living Tribunal going toe-to-toe one beyond a verse of the Living Tribunal maybe if you're talking about prereq Kombi honor from Secret Wars it was more powerful than the Living Tribunal but like if you're talking about consistently appearing characters in Marvel Comics with the exception of like and leaving out like one offs right like the beyonders from Hickman's Avengers and New Avengers the original Biondo from Secret Wars one and two and kind of Secret Wars three and the Fantastic Four story the character of Protege who exists only in a six-issue story-arc if this is what you're talking about like those specialty characters that appear for a really short amount of time didn't know the Living Tribunal is not the most powerful not the second most powerful character to have ever appeared in the history of mobile comics but in terms of consistently appearing characters yes it's just that powerful it's kind of interesting right let the Living Tribunal super powerful I would say that the Phoenix force is probably next to the Living Tribunal in terms of power right so you've got like the one above all and then under the one above all you've got like the Phoenix force in the Living Tribunal and then under them you probably have oblivion and then that you have the other cosmic entities and so on I don't know I've got a model power hierarchy but I feel like I should make a new one based on all the information that's come out now anyway we've rambled long enough we've talked long enough about nonsense that be said guys we're gonna bring this video to an end if you are new here too comments explained make sure you guys at the sub button to become part of the robb cork you guys enjoyed this video make sure you drop a like and I will catch you all later purse [Music]

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Length: 10min 10sec (610 seconds)

Published: Sat Oct 12 2019