Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27464043-20160809155915/@comment-61022-20160822203053

It's conjecture and artistic license. The Celestials are enigmatic creatures, their actual motivations and power levels are ill defined. It's been shown in the past that they have feigned defeat to further their own goals, such as when they pretended to be defeated by the Beyonder in (as revealed in )

Suffice to say, if they could fake a defeat at the hands of the Beyonder, they could have easily pretended to be defeated by anyone else to suit their purposes and intended goal.