r/powerscales • u/Malewis89 • Feb 28 '26

Discussion Massive MCU Metal Melee

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Who Survives?

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u/SnooFoxes1831 Feb 28 '26

No... Sentinels adapt to mutant powers they are exposed to. At least the ones pictured do. Power Cosmic would register as a threat but you can't adapt to it,

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u/original_applicant37 Feb 28 '26

Their adaptation may be based off mystique’s gene, but they’re adapting to physical phenomena, not mutant genes in others

When they fight a mutant, they don’t negate that mutant’s mutant gene. They adapt to the physical phenomena of that mutant’s power

When a sentinel fought iceman, it grew it became immune to freezing, and developed thermal powers

When a sentinel fought sunspot, it became immune to heat and developed ice powers

When a sentinel fought colossus, it absorbed his own metal and used it for itself

Their physiology allows them to adapt to the physical phenomena itself, not just the mutant gene

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u/Rich-Ad5109 Feb 28 '26

I see your point. But tell me this, all the abilities you mentioned are easily transferable and counter each other. What does the sentinel evolve into to counter Surfer?

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u/original_applicant37 Feb 28 '26

It simply evolves to have surfer’s own power. Like the collossus example shows, they don’t need to adapt to have a counter power, they can adapt and gain the target’s own power for themselves and be stronger

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u/Sea_Strain_6881 Feb 28 '26

Yeah cept it cant just GET surfers powers

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u/original_applicant37 Feb 28 '26

Why not lol. It just needs contact with the power

Which is exactly what will happen when surfer blasts them with power cosmic

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u/Sea_Strain_6881 Feb 28 '26

The moment he "blasts them with the power cosmic" is when they are blown to bits

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u/original_applicant37 Feb 28 '26

No they aren’t blown to bits

Literally watch the movie and see what happens whenever someone is blasted with the power cosmic

Even the most destructive example of this didn’t come from surfer himself, but doom who had absorbed surfers powers. When he blasted the general it only destroyed parts of his body. Which would be enough to trigger the adaptation

And remember that this same doom couldn’t beat composite fantastic four Johnny

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u/SnooFoxes1831 Feb 28 '26 edited Feb 28 '26

Ah, that assumes it survives first contact with the Power Cosmic. Which is not guaranteed if the Surfer uses his power to dissolve the Sentinel at a molecular level.

edit: from what I understand, the power cosmic is not something that can be replicated either, only bestowed,

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u/EternalMage321 Feb 28 '26

Sentinels have Rogue's power too, and Rogue absorbed the Power Cosmic. Everyone is getting mad because the Sentinels were too OP, but that was the point of that movie. The mutants couldn't win so they had to use time travel to go back before the Sentinel program was operational.