Marvel's Most Powerful God-Tier Weapons Explained
Warning: Contains spoilers for Fantastic Four #43
The Marvel Universe is full of powerful weapons and artifacts that can destroy even the most powerful cosmic beings. While some of these, such as the Cosmic Cube, the Nega-Bands, or Thor's trusted hammer, Mjolnir, are well known to readers, others, such as the Gauntlet Armor and the Tactigon, are more obscure. Writer Dan Slott created these two sets of these ultra-powerful weapons in 2007, and he recently reintroduced both during his current Fantastic Four storyline: The Reckoning War.
The concept of weapons so powerful that they can destroy even the gods was first introduced in Marvel Comics during the legendary debut of Galactus, in Fantastic Four #48-50, by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, when the almighty Devourer of Worlds is repelled by the threat of the Ultimate Nullifier. Just like Reed Richards did with Galactus, these weapons are often used by mortal heroes to fight foes that would normally be above their powers. However, often these dangerous instruments fall in the wrong hands and can cause great harm. The most famous example is Thanos, who over the years has retrieved and wielded the most powerful weapons in all of creation, including the Cosmic Cube, the Infinity Gauntlet, and the Cosmic Regulator.
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The prolific Marvel writer Dan Slott introduced two new god-tier weapons to the Marvel Universe during his tenure on Avengers: The Initiative. The Gauntlet Armor and the Tactigon are the weapons wielded by two mysterious aliens who killed each other in battle above Earth and then crash-landed on the planet. Parts of the Armor were retrieved by various individuals who gained superpowers from them,
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