Inconsistent Power Levels in Writing

You're wrong, my good sir, one of my imaginary characters solos Uncle Grandpa

I believe this was why Squirrel Girl was written; to piss off all of the “power scale” debaters by having her solo Thanos with her squirrel powers & squirrel sidekick.

whats also great about uncle grandpa, it's just nice to see a reality warping entity that uses its powers to help others instead of just causing mishief or bad chaos, got too many of these already.

good to see someone else realizes how ridiculous and inconsistent most super hero media's power levels are. while it doesn't always result in the death of the story or someone's ability to enjoy it, it will definitely smear shit on the nostalgia you might've had for that movie upon rewatching it and actually understanding how poorly put together the conflict was because the writer's couldn’t help themselves but make characters either not use their conflict ending resources and abilities or ass pull abilities out of nowhere for certain characters so the plot could go in the direction they wanted. also dante from dmc slaps uncle grandpa, cope.

I personally believe Wario is the most powerful fictional character of all time. There are not very many characters who display the ability to turn off their mortality on the grounds that they just don't feel like dying. Furthermore, if money is power, then Wario has all of it.

The answer to how much a consistent plot matters is another question: How good are you at writing something that is so entertaining most of your audience isn't going to notice the inconsistencies? Sometimes a work of fiction sucks me in so much I don't even notice, other times I'll notice the plot contrivances the first time through. It took me years to realize that the T-rex pen in the original Jurassic Park transformed from level fern filled ground to a sheer cliff drop between scenes, it took me one viewing to realize that there was no way in hell enough dinosaurs escaped from the auction in Jurassic World 2 to form a stable breeding population (let alone spread a plague of dinosaurs across the whole damned world in the 4 years between it and Jurassic World 3) and that the movies treating weaponized dinosaurs as being superior to conventional military technology was stupid.

There might never be a better example of HORRENDOUS power scaling than MCU Dr. Strange. Can hold off Thanos and defeat an interdimensional force of limitless evil and power alone, but gets hit by a small monster's tail and folds like a chair.

All that about iron man is SO REAL bro. my friend was rooting for cap and i loved iron man. it was so heart breaking fr

The fact that biggest powerscailing channel's "DEATH BATTLE" main sponsor is BetterHelp is more than enough for the argument tbh

It's the rule of cool baby. Consistency doesn't matter if the action scene is cool as shit. Also Uncle Grandpa beats Goku AND stage 5 cancer AT THE SAME TIME.

I saw a video where Stan Lee mentioned how he would get letters from fans when he was writing for Marvel, and a lot of fans would ask questions about who would win in a fight. And he would say, whoever the writer wants to win.

my favorite thing is watching fans using head cannon to try to explain bad writing... I'm guilty too but we shouldn't have to use our own imagination to suspend disbelief 😅

Bro don't know that Barbie in 'Barbie Dreamhouse Adventures' is a 6th dimension being that can rewrite any reality to fit her narrative. She claps uncle grandpa any day. yessir

The infinity stones are basically a plead to have power inconsistencies. I mean, their names literally imply they have infinite power

I wish there were more people who like discussing about the canonical capabilities of characters for the sake of it being an interesting topic to analyze, instead of for the sake of pride. Although fiction can be inconsistent, it's all interpretable, and this topic leads to interesting discussions, which is pleasant when engaging with the right people.

The worst example of this is Ash's pikachu losing to trace's lv 5 snivy in episode 1 of the Black and White anime.

Goku: rips uncle grandpa in half Camera pans to the left Uncle grandpa: “glad I’m not that guy”

Indeed, without internal logic a movie turns into a dream-like sequence of pictures. It sucks out tension and engagement and no amout of high-budget special effects will change that.

0:11 Rigby punching Benson makes a lot of sense here since by this point in the series he's gotten a lot better both mentally and physically. In season 3, he was actually strong enough to hit Mordecai in the face. And by season 6, Rigby was able to harm him again but this time on his arm. And by Season 7, Rigby passed a fitness test in order to create a video game where his results were "off-the-charts" in a good way. Plus Rigby did caught Benson off guard in that scene to which afterwards Mordecai was struggling to keep Rigby in place. I know you didn't really talk about him nor the show for that matter, but I feel like wanting to point this out specifically since I absolutely love Rigby and Regular Show.

powerscalers when i tell them that the authors are boundless and can make their favorite character lose to a turtle