Astonished Celestials

The Beyonders were incredibly powerful, practically among Marvel's top-tier forces.

It seemed as though no one could defeat them—a truly invincible race!

But they had one fatal weakness: they could not control time!

That was right. The Beyonders, whose strength surpassed the Omniverse level, could not control time.

Whether it made sense or not, that was simply how Marvel had written it.

But Xiao Han guessed that if they had not been designed that way, they would have been far too invincible.

In the comics, Doctor Doom and Molecule Man had relied on time-based abilities to carry out a series of schemes, ultimately using countless Molecule Men to blow up the Lower Beyonders who had come to help.

Then, through technology and the mutual destruction involving Unworthy Thor, Starbrand, Hyperion, and the others, they had destroyed the Beyonders.

Along with their overwhelming protagonist plot armor, they had ultimately obtained the Beyonders' power, created Battleworld, satisfied their vanity, and proclaimed themselves God Emperor Doom!

Never mind why God Emperor Doom, who stood so high above all else, had been so obsessed with cuckolding Mr. Fantastic, becoming another man's child's father, and forcibly taking Mr. Fantastic's wife, Susan.

And never mind why Thor, who was at the Skyfather level, Starbrand, whose setting was impressive but whose performance was pathetic, and Hyperion, an Eternal modeled after Superman, could defeat Lower Beyonders at the Multiverse level.

In short, it was protagonist plot armor. The goal of saving Earth was invincible—the sort where even One-Above-All would get slapped if he showed up.

And never mind why Doctor Doom, an Earthling, could use technology to absorb the Beyonders' power.

That was protagonist plot armor: indescribable and inconceivable.

Of course, some people might ask:

Why did Chaos Witch Wanda not act? Why did Phoenix not act? Why