He's pretty good. Doesn't show up a lot, basically just a big sponge for energy, fuelled by a race of species focused around worship and praise, but then twisting it to trying to hunt gods to satisfy their need for worship, as well as to fuel their planet. Sound simple? Of course it does.
He has two different forms: his smaller, initial Odinforce form, and his giant Kree soul amp one. I'll explain what these two do below, this is just to showcase the differences between both, and if you get freaked out about the size and appearance difference.
Durability
In the giant form, no sells Quasar (Quasar #36)
While giant, he instantly heals from Quasar slicing it (Quasar #36)
Scan 1/2- All of Quasar's raw power doesn't do anything to Soul Eater's giant form, even when inside the creature itself. Quasar needs to convince the hosts occupying his form in order to dissipate it, as his own powers couldn't do a thing (Quasar #36)
Energy Absorption
Scan 1/2- Being around his passive draining makes Thor's hammer weak enough to not return, as the machine took over Odin's enchantments. It also nerfed Thor enough to trap him inside simple shackles. One might be asking "well this is a machine: how can this be combat related"? It should be worth noting here that Soul-Eater is basically that machine internalised into his very being, so these feats are very much valid, and very much capable of being replicated. (Thor #261/2/3)
Scan 1/2/3/4- Drains Odin to next to nothing using the machine, going to the point that Odin died from the process taking everything out of him. He'd eventually come back, of course, but this is still a pretty insane feat. (Thor #262)
One-Beyond-All creates a planet spanning wall that withstands a multi-planet destroying army of ships, but this exhausts him to the point of dying. This wasn't done by Soul-Eater, but the machine they'd design is basically a replica of his powers on full display. (Thor #262)
Scan 1/2- Uses the Odin-Force drained to create a construct for himself formed from the same substance (Thor #262)
Fires Odin-Force in this form (Thor #263)
Scan 1/2- Ultimately this form gets overwhelmed by Volstagg using the last of Odinforce given to him to burn the form out: it's implied that this last essence of Odinforce was used in such a way as to wear the rest of it out. (Thor #263)
Scan 3- Through Odin recovers, he's far from 100%, and wouldn't be for a good while afterwards.
Scan 1- Drains the souls of billions of billions of dead Kree into itself, as well as all of his home planet, to create his giant form (Quasar #36)
Scan 2- To compare, the Kree Empire spanned trillions of individuals, with a majority of them dying due to the Nega-Bomb wiping them out, about half initially. This would mean that the Soul-Eater drained a insane number of Kree souls into itself, likely near five hundred billion or above. Needless to say, this shits on a lot of soul manipulation offence in terms of sheer awesome power.
Scan 1/2- Drains the essence of Origin, a immense cosmic being, namely by cracking the cosmic embryo and draining it directly. For comparison, Origin is basically behind every significant event in Marvel history: setting up the FF's cosmic rays, implied to have created mutants and their powers, attracted cosmic interest to Earth via vast reality warping capabilities, etc etc. This is a pretty big deal. (Quasar #36)
Intangibility
A sword passes right through the Odinforce form without harm. Weirdly, this is only the case for piercing weapons. (Thor #263)
Size
Dwarfed planets with his size while in his Kree-empowered form (Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A-Z #10)
Scan 1/2- Was compared to a trinary system full of stellar shapes before they knew it wasn't actually a bunch of stars. As you can see, it easily dwarfs planets around it in size. (Quasar #35)
Speed
Moves at warp speeds to evade Quasar after sensing Origin's energy signature (Quasar #36)
Strength
Knocks out Sif (Thor #263)
Knocks Thor back with a kick (Thor #263)
Scan 1/2- Beats down Thor easily (Thor #263)
Scan 1/2- Manages to drag Quasar, Makkari and Her into his mouth with raw force. Keep in mind that Makkari was running while this was happening, so this was pretty fast as well to catch him out like this. (Quasar #36)
Conclusion
Probably one of the best energy drainers I've ever seen. Perfectly consistent, the only thing that truly stopped it was just some smart planning and internal issues. Perfect pick for a character with a lot of power and a lot of potential.
@professorrespect: I reasearched into him hoping to find some interesting Thor stuff into this ( i dind´t lol) . This made me read a bunch of interesting stuff to understand it better and was pretty happy to see him in quasar which i like a lot and think he is underrated a bit
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