Death Battle IV: The Source Material Loses

[Mato]

Quite a few pages to read, just going to skip to the end like normal.

Now you want to bring in Broly and argue from his powerlevel in a non-canon movie and extrapolate linearly from what the movie says he can do with a power level of 10,000 (which no one else with that meager power level can apparently do).

Broly was born with a power level of ten thousand but when the south galaxy gets finally being destroyed take place about thirty years later. He probably had a higher value by then.

Fate vs strange is kind of a magic version of Superman vs Batman.

It's more of a sorcerer vs wizard deal. Dr Fate doesn't actually cast spells most of the time, he just expends his personal power trying to draw out the Helmet of Date's powers. Dr Strange is a full on D&D wizard through.

Fate's knowledge also isn't infinite, he actually accesses Nabu's knowledge (the sprite in the helm) or uses his technologically based Orb of Nabu which allows him to scry on the universe and it has some ability to predict the future. His necklace has a pocket dimension and renders him undetectable to magic while his cloak is some kind of force effect to block various things. But like most of DC's mainstream heroes he has severe weaknesses, most incarnations are powerless without the helm, he apparently has no real defense against gases, and his ability to dispel magical effects on the spot is fairly limited. Probably because he tanked his intelligence score and ranks in spellcraft & knowledge(arcana) in favor of his helm's bonuses.

Like a D&D wizard through Strange is pretty much is the superior version of all of that through. The Eye of Agamotto has a wide range of powers including using it's own auto protections against physical or magical harm, it can block the mind gem's control too, and it can teleport people, and blast them, and dominate them, and so on. Strange's crystal ball, the Orb of Agamotto, also comes with it's own save-or-die and a true seeing effect. His cloak is almost impossible to destroy, but it also grants flight and is capable of independent action. And than Strange also has Boccob's white mage spellbook, the Book of the Vishanti, which contains every known spell or ritual that can counter or block something, including the infinite gem of time's temporal shenanigans. And Strange also has the Wand of Watoomb which is another blasting device but like the book it's also specialized at countering other magic and powers.

They even fight like a D&D sorcerer and gestated wizard. Dr Fate, through sheer power, has stood against Spector and curbstombed his universe's version of Chaos. Dr Strange, through superior ability, has stood against the infinity gems and curbstombs people by summoning his universe's version of Chaos, and Law, merging with them to augment his own power, and then dealing with his opponent.

Ed vs Shirou

To me depends on the version of Shirou you are using.

Fate's overall power scale is higher than FMA, and Shirou gets to pull some hack shenanigans thanks to the time travel overlap of meeting his future self and how his fake arm in one of the timelines patches in decades worth of experience. Before the murder-death-kill, Shirou was pretty worthless. Afterwards, I agree completely that he would beat Ed.