Christi Junior on Nostr: Power scaling is a legitimate part of world building, but the Death Battle retards ...

Power scaling is a legitimate part of world building, but the Death Battle retards give the whole thing a bad name because 1) they take ridiculous outlier feats and just run with them to the point where half of the Marvel and DC roster can blow up the multiverse and 2) they completely ignore anti-feats and negative outliers.

As far as I'm concerned, outlier feats should not be considered legitimate unless they're story relevant AND are replicated. For example, sub-500 power level Dragon Ball characters blowing up the moon is a ridiculous outlier compared to everything else these characters do - however, since it happens twice, AND both instances are story-relevant and have lasting consequences (not gag moments) you have to accept them as legitimate representations of what the character can do. They also line up with 18 000 power level Vegeta being able to blow up earth.

Speed feats are if anything even worse, because of this claim that combat speed has NOTHING to do with travel speed (which would otherwise completely debunk various outlier feats).