Patriarch Vs Moonstone
Okay, so I must have gotten Patriarch in one of the character dispersions because I dont' recall him, but I'm reading his bio and he kinda reminds me of Aza Chorn from the Miracle Man comics, and I loved Aza, so this could be a rather fun character. For some reason I can't copy and past from the bio, so here's the jist of his powers below:
Advanced strength and durability (advanced human anyhow, not class 100 or anything). He's immune to diseases and aging. Now here's the part I love... he opens portals for teleportion and uses this ability offensively. He opens them and uses it to teleport other people into dangers, even into the path of their own attacks, or the attacks of allies. He also uses this ability to teleport portions of his foes away, killing them, or leaving them in shock, etc. He's also potentially somewhere around 20,000 years old.
Now I've never read anything with this character in it, but with an estimation of 20,000 years experience, I'm sure he's mastered his power. The bio is vague on what he's done with his powers, though it did mention that he supposively killed Ghost Rider, so that's pretty cool. The good thing is, I have a pretty good idea of the character through reading his character appearances and I think it works for me. Thing is, he seems to be involved in the fights and such, but isn't one to just rush into battle. He's calm about it and intelligent about his attack pattern. I figure that he's smart enough to utilize prep-time, and with Moonstone being a member of the Thunderbolts, he should be able to get quite a bit of good info on her. He doesn't have to know everything about her, just that she is a legitamate threat and someone he can't take lightly. He'll know that a frontal confrontation is not the best and that a quick and efficient victory is required. If he is how the bio displays him, he won't be against a quick surprise attack taking her out, and so I figure that that will be the best route for attack. Moonstone's powers are great and many, but Patriarch's powers are something she can't defend against, and she won't know him going in (as he's not one that's well known in the slightest) and so she won't know to prepare against it.
Pat comes accross as a patient man, so I see him waiting to attack, while Moonstone's always been one to fly around, search, etc. I can see him hidden, watching for her, and then find her flying in the air looking for her. If he wants a quick kill he can open a portal right in front of her and close it immediately, cutting her in half, sending half of her somewhere else, and the back half of her falling to the ground, killing her. End of match, easy as that.
I don't know if he can open multiple portals, but if he's more ruthless than I give him credit for he can open several and just chop her to pieces. Or he could just lob off her legs or something and watch her freak out about it, then kill her with his portals.
Now I don't know Moonstone well at all, but if her gems float around her like they do around Baron Zemo, then he'd know they're her source of power and can teleport them away however he sees fit, threat eliminated.
According to Moonstone's bio, here's what she can do:
Moonstone draws power from an alien gravity stone, and can use the stone's elemental energy to fly, become intangible (by lowering the density of her body), and focus gravity into force blasts that she fires from her hands.
The Intangability is arguable in her ability to dodge the teleportation, but she wouldn't know to look for it and if I'm not mistaken, she doesn't typically start anything intangable. She's been solid in the few issues I've seen with her, even taking hits. I don't think she'd prepare for the worse in this situation like that. I think she'd be more focused on finding him.
As for the energy blasts, Petriarch likes using his teleportation powers offensively, and I can easily see him pulling a "Blink" here and open a portal between him and the blast, and reopening the portal right behind Moonstone, hitting her with it. He likes using his opponant's attacks against them, and this is an example of that.
She has also shown the ability to project flashes of blinding light and has prodigious superhuman strength and speed through the use of the stone.
The flashes of light will do nothing if the attack comes before he can be found. And her speed can be used against her, sending her into a large wall or something, breaking her neck with the momentum. Again, using her power and attack against her.
When Moonstone absorbed a second gravity stone, she displayed the ability to control gravitational forces to move and manipulate matter, create force fields, increase gravity around a target to crush it, generate miniature black holes, even transport objects through dimensional rifts.
As for these, definately tough stuff, but nothing Pat can't take care of. Moving and manipulating matter is kinda vague for me to understand, but if she is forming something to attack with, Pat can just teleport it away either whiel it's sent after him, or while she's making it. If she tries to mess with his gravity, crushing him, he can just teleport himself away from the attack. If she tries to wear a forcefield, he can probably still cut her in half as needed (force fields aren't THAT strong). If she opens a black hole he can just teleport himself away quickly and teleport her in the mouth of it's path, killing her with her own attack, as he likes to do. She could possibly try to teleport away from it, but if she's at it's mouth, she has, like .001 second to do that.
So as you can see, even if Pat can't get a quick kill, he can still handle all her many powers enough for him to finally get his own killing blow in. Heck, in most of the scenerios he can use her own attacks to kill her. I'll tell you what... I'm glad I got this character in a draw, and he'll totally be on my list next season!
Winner - Petriarch
that Balder will overwhelm the Blob or he will overwhelm himself as he will not overwhelm Balder, a God.
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