Impossible Man was doomed.
He realized it himself. This fellow who had imitated Donnie and ultimately become even more like Donnie than Donnie himself could only watch as he suffered the dual assault of the Reality Controller and Donnie's true body.
He... had nowhere to retreat.
To fight Donnie, he would have to reclaim the Reality Controller he had copied, and then the true Reality Controller would devour him.
To fight the Reality Controller, he would no longer have the ability to stop the vastly strengthened Donnie...
Impossible Man... was finished.
A terrifying bug that should have shaken the Omniverse had been forcefully sniped by the transmigrator Donnie before he could announce his powerful arrival to the entire American Comics world. Donnie had arranged every last detail for him.
Even with Impossible Man's terrifying replication ability, no matter how far he could replicate, he was doomed.
"If you truly can replicate everything—and I consider that highly likely in my assessment of you—then you will become part of me. If you cannot replicate everything, then you will ultimately become part of the Reality Controller."
Donnie kept tearing into Impossible Man, utterly insane, completely ignoring the Reality Controller beside him... No, more accurately, he was consciously exploiting the Reality Controller's properties, yet he refused to hand over the power he had seized to it!
Anything he seized... he swallowed himself whenever possible. That was the essential difference!
It was fundamentally different from using the Reality Controller to devour an opponent, then gaining control of that power through authority over the Reality Controller...
This was also why Donnie had desperately hoped Impossible Man's abilities would be even stronger. He hoped Impossible Man would create an identical Reality Controller on the spot. As the two Controllers fought, contended, and wore each other down, he