You would seem to be right - good catch!
Still, this particular force, which is noted as not caring much, seems like a questionable candidate for ubervillainhood. Admittedly, Galactus doesn't care about much, either, but Galactus expresses this by destroying planets, rather than resurrecting a single entity.
Ironic
Any being whos morality does not line up with ours is always a perfect candidate for villainhood. What is a Villain anyway but an individual who we can easily identify as having a starkly different morality than us. The villains who creep us out the most usualy have morality that is too similar for compfort to our own, regardless of the twisted rational they may use.
So what am I saying? A cosmic being of immense power that is completley uninterested in the outcomes of its own experiments sounds like perfect fodder for a villain. At least in so much as its an entity whos morality will most certainly not line up with our own, therefore, must be invaded...I mean defeated.
There I go mixing up my metaphores again. Silly me.
Galactus destroys planets to survive. Not because he doesn't care about much. To Galactus the beings on the worlds he eats are like ants. Do you worry about ants when you do something?
I do worry about ants when I eat something.
I believe this is referred to as Blue-Orange morality- aka something that is perfectly logical within its own system but is so foreign to us that we can't understand it at all. Moral questions become muddied.
I'm still interested in the "Child is the center" portion of the clues taken from thje Time-crazed prisoner. It seems, when combined with fixed point, to refer to Vanessa Long, which makes me curious how Visionary is going to interact with all this.
You know... making obvious connections with Ironic's point about F.I.L.T.E.R. being dangerous and probably evil, and the fact that someone driven crazy is in interdimensional jail instead of an asylum... F.I.L.T.E.R. might be covering something up, possibly that they are drawing energy or somehow messing with this cosmic entity? Nothing would make it angrier than the ants trying to chow down on it I bet.
Same with Galactus. He doesn't eat the ants. Just the planet that they're living on. For him it's a question of living or dying. Life calls to life.
Do you think its possible that Vanessa's initial time jump was a contributing factor to the massive time cataclysm?
You mean like Fringe? Yep, but I was blaming it on Young Legacy saving daddy (no basis for it though).
In my group, we've assumed that Visionary's jump back in time weakened the time-space continuum from the start. And the evidence seems to add up - for all her vast power, Vanessa Long just about died on her way back, while Omnitron-X, Chrono-Ranger, and La Capitan all have a much easier time (heh) of it.
Of course, that logic requires us to assume that those three get their time travel "later" in some cosmic sense which cannot be established in the context of the timestream which they all jump about in... but then, from our perspective, that is exactly the case. From what I can tell, it happens in that order in Sentinel Comics, too.
Ironic
P.S. In fairness to F.I.L.T.E.R., the Time-Crazed inmate can somehow do more damage than a raging T-Rex. I don't know if that's all metaphorical "mental stress"-type damage, or if they're actually an insane psychic killing people, though.
In fact, he does almost exactly as much damage as a fiend from another dimention that also lives on or near a portal of some sort… could I be on to something?
You COULD!
Eheh. Bwahaha!
Who is "the other fiend" you are referring to? I'm not as deep into the lore as some others on the forum.
The portal fiend, 17 health nasty creature in the realm of discord... I think
Oh, that sounds pretty straightforward, I just don't have that deck. I jumped straight to the Shattered Timelines exapnsion.
Yeah, Portal Fiend deals damage to erm, someone (possibly the target with the second-highest hp, as many other environment attackers do, but I can't remember off the top of my head) at the start of the environment turn. The damage dealt is equal to the number of cards in the environment trash. So he's only a problem if the trash pile is quite big, really.
Ah, Christopher… Always the man with a plan…
Also, I just noticed that one of the visionarys cards has a huge guy made of the stars crushing the earth. That seems to me to be a huge cosmic entity. That, or its Ambuscade holding an earth-shaped stress ball...
Edit: Sorry, meant to be nightmist. I wrote this when my body had a pint less of blood than usual...
NightMist's card, not Visionary's. It's on Mists of Time
I'm also on the boat of that cosmic entity not wanting order. It makes way more sense to me from the bios that the being just wanted to see what would happen if he brought Omnitron back. If he was really interested in keeping order, he would have stuck around to make sure Omnitron succeeded.