Power Scaling Is Cringe

Would everyone please shut up about how mfs are "Multiversal" or "Galaxy Level" or "Massively Faster Than Light" when you know damn well we're talking about some goofy ass Demon Slayer character who'd get bodied by Tony Tony Chopper

[@gotenkstempest45]

No way you just said fodder guts is more interesting than Peak Goku 💀💀 that’s why he was r@ped as a kid couldn’t be Goku

[@bignstuff]

Worst take I've ever read holy fuck

[@hkaden6815]

what the fuck

[@imthecoolest3884]

Dude what the fuck is your problem 💀

[@beyondbirthday5734]

Bait

[@sadmorteminimicus3814]

Brain dead take.

[@barryallen2240]

Powerscaling mfs realizing they exist outside of a story (they are outerversal)

[@bignstuff]

😱😱😱

[@denkerbosu3551]

Unironically an argument with a version of Superman where he became so powerful he "heard the voices beyond" aka the raders lmao.

[@kingj9664]

​@@bignstuff Call me crazy or gooby goober all you want I personally still enjoy power scaling videos and stuff. Although you are right so I'm gonna take it too seriously it's just be only used for fun. How do you feel about what if videos just curious

[@bignstuff]

I enjoy a good "what if" from time to time, it can definitely be fun to speculate on alternate story paths

[@kingj9664]

@@bignstuff Appreciate the reply man and I really did enjoy the video

[@nikolasmazzella8590]

Goku has canonically died. Garfield hasn't even bled

[@arx3516]

Garfield can also beat Goku in a eating contest.

[@DarthBHorse]

actually in the short movie Garfield's Nine Lives he dies several times but is ultimately re-incarnated into god. so he still wins even if goku could hurt him

[@fourthmatchflame]

@@arx3516 goku, kirby, and garfield in an eating contest, who wins.

[@NINTENDOEDITZ]

​@@fourthmatchflameKirby easily 💀

[@fourthmatchflame]

@@NINTENDOEDITZ you see i think its a closer fight considering kirbys so smol.

[@Filip077]

if i hear "massively faster than light" one more time im gonna lose it

[@doohickeyhandy758]

I'd rather read 'he can really move" or "as fast as plot" than MFTL+++ ultra (not infinite I swear)

[@funnybones98]

@@doohickeyhandy758nah that's a fallacy bro

[@doohickeyhandy758]

@@funnybones98 fuck 'fallacies' let people have fun if they're genuinely trying to have fun.

[@funnybones98]

@@doohickeyhandy758 i was making fun of powerscalers saying infinity is a fallacy

[@doohickeyhandy758]

@@funnybones98 I know. Just giving my op-

[@gottthhaaa429]

"Authors don't care about powerscaling" Finally someone said it

[@pedro_6120]

I'm not saying that power scaling is nesesary, but an author needs to be consistent to make a good story and power scaling makes it all easier. So yeah powerscaling is important.

[@gottthhaaa429]

​​​@@pedro_6120It's still fact though, there are even other authors who doesn't even like talking about powerscaling, even if there's consistencies in power levels, the author is just gonna put a power up to a character or make the character stronger to make sure they will win. Even strategy for a character. It's a matter on how they will win. For example, denji beats makima, stan pines beat bill cipher. Those villains was stronger than them yet they still find a way to defeat them, i'm sure if people debate who would win without any of this event, the outcome would not be the same as their respectable series, unless of course their just mindlessly fighting

[@crayola7954]

​@@pedro_6120Then one piece and Jojo is not a good story, seriously i've seen inconsistencies that's happening in the story yet they still manage get away with it, even fans admit it lol

[@pedro_6120]

@@gottthhaaa429 of course, I see your point, but there is always a hierarchy and that, even if you don't think about it is powerscaling, measuring a character at their strongest to see who is weaker or stronger. And of course strategy is an important part, but do you really think denji at the start of CSM could kill makima, of course not. It took not only physical but mental growth to achieve that. At its core powerscaling can be incredibly simple, character A is at a higher rank than character B so he should scale higher unless proving or stating otherwise. Sorry if I sounded mean in my first coment, I didn't mean it to sound like that.

[@GeorgeDCowley]

@@pedro_6120 Also, there are cases like that One Piece character who can no longer break something.

[@satanus_369]

"Oppenheimer created the atomic bomb so he's at least City to Island level. Newton discovered and harnessed gravity so he's at least Small Planet level." This is literally how powerscalers sound

[@noobking2335]

if they had your intelligence.

[@TheKoopaKingBowser]

@@noobking2335damn bro.

[@randomguy8976]

@@noobking2335 mf got hurt and burnt a poor lad that got in his way by accident

[@shingekinokyojinbiteszadus7265]

Fr

[@Eye_Of_Odin978]

I mean, Oppenheimer if he was equipped with his own bomb WOULD be City to Island level, though. You're not really making the point you think you're making because the comparison to Newton merely quantifying the existing force we'd all known and naming it "gravity" isn't at all the same to building a bomb. Like what even is this comparison?

[@AlonzoTompkins]

The worst I’ve encountered is the group of people, a small but very vocal bunch, that think the quality of the media is dependent on how strong a character is. They’ve sunk so much time into “versus debates” that they lack the ability to judge media correctly and only care about if their character can crush a building by looking at it too hard or something.

[@aghitsaplane4262]

This is unironically the modern shonen anime community

[@RizaLazar]

hello mr strange journey

[@daraghokane4236]

just tell them main character is God who turned human so he could understand there struggles you can say that for every character in fiction Mr Simpson yes house monk so that makes them all universal

[@RizaLazar]

@@daraghokane4236 Haruhi Suzumiya

[@BONECA-S3XU4L]

I like your pic

[@zilvoxidgod]

the amount of times that I've seen a regular human given "massively faster than light" because of some insane mental gymnastics by power scalers is hilarious. Just utterly ridiculous.

[@mauricesteel4995]

goon points a laser gun in a very telegraphed way and shoots character, character sees that in time and avoid the shot. powerscalers: HE DODGED A LASER, HE IS FTL!

[@hunternot]

One piece fans be like.

[@raunobre5802]

@@hunternot exactly! I've always wanted to say that and one piece is my favorite anime! now I'm going to leave before the comment war starts. good luck

[@traceyomoruyi302]

​@@hunternotat least now luffy has actual ftl feats against kizaru

[@Drakorre]

This Is so true especially for shonens. Idc how strong they are, they see a bunch of teens moving at breakneck Speed and go "Faster than light" I literally saw some Naruto fans saying that 12 year old Sasuke was faster than light because he was faster than Haku Or One piece fans "He Is faster than light" for every character beucase...i don't know honestly

[@ion_force]

Anything Marvel or DC always devolves into "X hero went 10 gorillion times faster than the speed of light, while Y hero only went glomtillion times faster than the speed of light" like they can comprehend these absurd numbers in any way. And then like you said, they ignore all nuance or plot convenience, cool factor, illogical moments, etc.

[@mekingtiger9095]

Worse still, Marvel and DC (but *specially* DC) discussions devolve into "Superman crossed the boundaries of peepee-poopoo transfartversal realm of existence and non-existence, thus going beyond the concepts of space and time and by consequence transcending beyond the very concept of speed itself which becomes irrelevant!" And no, I'm not making this up. Sort of... the foul language is obviously inaccurate, but the rest is pretty much on point almost word by word with certain scaling channels. Which I mean, are they wrong? Eh, technically not because DC is just THAT ridiculous and stupid. Is it still internally incoherent to the point of making little logical sense narratively that it becomes hard to take such feats as seriously as scalers do? Yes, yes it is.

[@specificocean4176]

​​@@mekingtiger9095 "gamora sucked on thanos's left ballsack and became so powerfull she could kill gods by quuefing in their direction" this right here is how absurd the comics get, and ofcourse people will take the strongest version of the character no matter how garbage it is

[@Spider-Man_234]

@@specificocean4176 I get your point but why her father bro 😭

[@VincentCrescione]

​@@specificocean4176batman who tries too hard

[@happydapper8395]

so if character A survived a Nuke because the author thought it was "cool" for them to survive it but then character b just shoots a gun at his pinky and he just falls over and dies him survivng a nuke shouldnt matter because "cool factor?"

[@billyswift1745]

One thing I always hate is that whenever a character dodges a "laser" that means at the very least they have a faster then light reaction speed, NO MATTER what. Even if it's a slow ass beam attack that takes 5 seconds to hit the target. This feat is so over used because tons of authors use laser attacks because they're cool.

[@ShogunPlasma]

You have no idea how much this irks my nerves whenever I see/hear that. The reaching is crazy. It's especially bad in cases where it's mainly a videogame thing because of technical limitations or to save time. Like when they did Dragonborn vs Chosen Undead and they tried to say Dragonborn's magical arrowshot blocking out the sun instantly meant it moved beyond lightspeed. Bro, what? That's just the devs making the effect go off without taking ridiuclously long. Who wants to sit there and actually wait for that effect to go off in real time?

[@yusifudo46]

​@@ShogunPlasmaWhat you blaming Death Battle for? People were hating on them because they wouldn't do power scaling in the early seasons.

[@ShogunPlasma]

@@yusifudo46 I'm not sure what the point of this comment even was because it sounds like an unnecessary one. Power Scaling only works when it is used correctly. 9.5/10 it is not. The problem with early Death Battle was that they did little to no research into the characters. It doesn't necessarily have to do with Power Scaling in itself.

[@yusifudo46]

@@ShogunPlasma You brought up a Death Battle match and complaining about points they brought up. All I said is they're only doing that stuff now because people gave them flack for not power scaling before. Thought I was transparent obviously

[@ShogunPlasma]

@@yusifudo46 I don't see the issue here. I used an actual example from Death Battle to prove my point. This has nothing to do with people complaining about them not using Power Scaling before. This is about the fact that the way people chose to Power Scale is literally stupid and ignorant. It's literally just "conveinence" for the sake of an argument.

[@marraytaleus6598]

Honestly, powerscaling has gotten pretty unreliable recently. The modern powerscalers, even Death Battle, seem to ignore consistency and anti-feats. It's like they're on a mission to show these characters only at their absolute best, without considering that some of those high-end feats might just be one-time outliers.

[@maritimesteak8540]

they just aren't objective or honest when scaling characters they can't even admit when they don't actually know something because the series doesn't give enough info but consider pure speculation as fact a character could be far stronger than what series implies etc. or weaker.

[@achimpanzee9210]

Some of it is just writing getting more crazy. Multiverses are more common then they use to so characters are getting more crazy feats and such

[@maritimesteak8540]

@@achimpanzee9210 I agree but alot of scalers just aren't honest and think they are right when there is other ways to look at things

[@marraytaleus6598]

This is nothing new. Batman Has some multiversal level feats under his belt. Spider man has knocked out some of galactus's heralds, who are shown to be strong enough to swim through stars in 70's. It's just that early power scalers had restraint And understood what outliers are and knew that some feats are just done for a rule of cool. They rated a character based on how strong they're consistently shown in their media. An idea that most modern power scalers I spoke to absolutely hates Because they believe that rating a character on how strong they are consistently is downplaying.

[@mortimerwake2974]

"Even Death Battle" DB was never a good source and the Stone Free feat demonstrates it. Their ability to interpret situations is leagues below their ability to do basic trigonometry.

[@Robeebert]

The power scaling community loves to argue but they don't recognize when they're committing formal fallacies. I've seen once where a power scaler entered an actual philosophy Clubhouse and left because "getting corrected is cringe."

[@isaiahjoseph7352]

Crazy

[@dualitygrief576]

​@@isaiahjoseph7352actually crazy wth 💀💀💀

[@WhatDillionYT]

Oh my...

[@kermitgotthesickkicks4265]

damn

[@XD-sc4ix]

Lmao

[@ATGQY]

powerscalers when they realize realize that comicbook characters lose to water( they could never see it coming)

[@Bredstikc]

Average Hydroman W

[@LobsterCameramanProductions]

Co2 solos

[@moondrop.sevdalisi]

literally puppet in fazbear frights (tho its not a comicbook)

[@sweetsweetkhajoor]

water is outerversal

[@LobsterCameramanProductions]

@@sweetsweetkhajoor fr

[@natanaelalvarez4754]

power scaling is at it's most interesting and least toxic when people are interested in portraying characters accurately and coherently, rather than trying than trying to justify their favorite character being stronger than everything else.

[@OmniversalInsect]

And only when the characters are in the same universe (or multiverse ig)

[@natanaelalvarez4754]

@@OmniversalInsect I think you can compare characters from different universes you just need more concrete numbers to compare since you can't derive a chain of scaling.

[@Dr.DisrespectFan918]

i hate batman but he is absolutely destroying goku kid

[@tobleroneilluminati5048]

I don't take match ups as seriously as power scalers do with stupid math, I just take what lore we are given, what their possible capabilities are in an unbiased way. I love halo and I would prefer the master chief to doomguy. This is because master chief is a better written character who can be relatable whereas the doomslayer has the emotional relatability and potential of a brick. But realistically, while the master chief more or less saved humanity from the covenant, he is still only a human supersoldier who is lorewise just as killable as any other Spartan, but the doomslayer is canonically an unkillable demi god that literally cannot be destroyed. It is a standing joke that the doomslayer killed thousands of demons with his shotgun and then he found some ammo for it. The doomslayer would wipe the floor with master chief.

[@natanaelalvarez4754]

@@tobleroneilluminati5048 if someone if bringing up cardinals and bullshit like that the person you are talking to is just trying to overwhelm you with terms. Occasionally scalers might make a calc just to understand something that might not have direct statements but most of what you've described is actually applicable to a lot what makes sense in power scaling. Ultimately it's just a hobby, a different way to talk about your favorite series and characters, I don't think scalers take themselves too seriously but they do make an honest attempt at making the best argument or interpretation they can, at least the good scalers

[@mittycommitspizzatime92]

As a Kirby fan it’s so unbelievably annoying when people barge into conversations about him and go “ergh Kirby is the strongest character ever because he’s an Eldridge elder super god that kills other super gods”

[@AuroraBoost]

Same with Kratos fans whenever they bring the argument of him killing gods when pretty much the characters he is going against can literally do the same

[@kade-qt1zu]

​@@AuroraBoostIt's funny because Kratos was literally struggling against Zeus and even initially losing, yet Kratos fanboys act like he easily killed him.

[@user-vi4xy1jw7e]

Well, Kirby WAS the only character to escape the beams of light in Smash Ultimate.

[@gr4n737]

Yes, because the creator loves Kirby and decided they should. Kirby ALSO gets horribly wounded just from a simple waddle-d walking into them at 3 miles per hour. @@user-vi4xy1jw7e

[@mittycommitspizzatime92]

@@user-vi4xy1jw7e ok but A. Sakurai stated that several other characters (specifically Bayonetta and Palutena) could have escaped but chose to only have Kirby survive since he’s a beginner character for players to use for the mode. B. Kirby temporarily phasing out of existence as Galeem destroys the universe is kind of an arse pull on Sakurai’s part since he’s never done that in his games and that whole bit is based on an animation in the intro of Super Star. C. World of Light is entirely non-canon to the fighters in the game and Galeem’s power is kind of questionable (he can apparently destroy the universe and remake all of it in his image but gets one-shot by Sephiroth and gets beaten by any character you choose to fight him with) so who’s to say what would actually happen

[@chaincat33]

Batman's thing has always been "it depends on the writers." Sometimes he genuinely is just a guy in a bat costume. Other times he does actually have super powers that are brushed off as "he works out a lot." The only thing that's consistent across writers is that he has super intelligence. Batman's intelligence places him as one of the smartest characters in fiction sometimes, and this is a genuine power that the writers rarely acknowledge.

[@orangeapples]

Pretty sure the entire batfamily has punched concrete at some point and won. That’s not peak human performance. That’s super strength.

[@WestGarbage6]

@@orangeapples You can absolutely destroy concrete with your bare hand... The question of how MUCH concrete, though, is the biggest determiner of if it is possible.

[@JohnSmith-ox3gy]

@@WestGarbage6 And how much hand you have left.

[@ShadeSlayer1911]

The intelligence thing is also dependent on the writer, because it's really hard for a stupid writer to write a genuinely intelligent writer. I get that you don't need to be as smart as the character you're writing, because you have time on your side while you can write the character figuring all that out in seconds. But you do need some intelligence to understand how things work. Sometimes, Batman's intelligence is relatively normal, grounded, and believable. He's really smart, but he's human. Other times, he's unraveling the secrets of the cosmos by looking at a thing, or IDing a man by the feel of his face on his fist from punching him. Ridiculous crap like that that is obviously just plot-induced BS instead of actual intelligence. Basically, after a certain point, it's not intelligence that he's showing off, but knowing the plot and the script. And that's pretty stupid.

[@MHF013]

There's a comic where Batman gets shot by a tank and survives. And in another he survived falling from space to Earth. Dude is pretty wacky.@@WestGarbage6

[@petersmythe6462]

Part of the problem here is exceptional feats of heroics getting portrayed as at will abilities. By this same logic, every Finnish man can take a sniper round to the face and then kill the person who fired it, along with 500 other soldiers. Every Soviet woman can kill dozens of nazis with a rifle, then win outnumbered 8:1 in hand to hand combat with no casualties and take 4 prisoners each. Yeah, those are real things that happened in WWII, but they are not remotely typical things that happened in WWII. The average person did not shrug off .50 cals and proceed to personally fight off half a Soviet division himself or slice open hordes of invading nazis with her bayonet. And likely we remember the ones who did because the ones who tried and failed didn't get the chance to try again.

[@chesterstevens8870]

One Finnish man had a good day, and ever since then none of them would shut up about it.

[@mrszmatan2727]

@@chesterstevens8870 Other Finnish man had a very good day and was high on meth riding his skiis right through soviet soldiers camp

[@nenmaster5218]

Nodding-along to Non Arguments is nice, but seriously, heres a real easy debunk of some of the points herre: "People are biased so powersclaing is stupid" No ,thats a You-Problem. I dont have that isue at all. I would argue the MAJROITY, which is a distinctly-different word from MINORITY, has no problem not having their personal taste interefere with their debate "Many Authors dont care. And whats the use of Consistency anyway." Nonsensee. The better a Work of Fiction, the more ocherent it is. The more coherent is, the better. This is basic knowledge about the planet oyu live on, cmmon "Look, a time where an Author didnt care or didnt notice somethingg" Continueing with the non-arguemnts, i see? Yes, pointing at an exception has never ther ability to disprove the larger Trend/Picture

[@wutertots1087]

​@@nenmaster5218you see debates about mk1 power scaling? It is 100% biased

[@truthseeker7815]

That “will power up” is a real thing, but it’s presented ridiculously in the media

[@hdckighfkvhvgmk]

To me this feels very similar to shipping in a fandom sense. Powerscaling or asking "who would win at their absolute best" is fine at it's core, but it seems to always invite a ludicrous amount of toxicity when discussions about it actually happen.

[@kingjiggle4th789]

Powerscaling is just shipping for guys

[@ulforcemegamon3094]

@@kingjiggle4th789 yes

[@maninanikittycat4238]

they're two sides of the same coin

[@beakslololol4347]

​@@kingjiggle4th789who said guys cant ship

[@M-B17]

@@beakslololol4347They can by all means, but it’s less common because of gender roles. Ya know? The classic “girls into romance, guys into violence”. It’s terribly toxic on both sides, two sides of the same coin.

[@theking8347]

Early Christian missionaries in Scandinavia claimed that one stumbling block in converting the Norse to Christianity was that they kept asking if Jesus could beat Thor in a fight.

[@irex4720]

Now I want someone to power scale this

[@CutoutClips]

⁠@@irex4720Thor low-diffs Jesus, but Jesus keeps resurrecting. Meanwhile, Thor is fated to die during Ragnarok, so eventually Jesus wins. Some may argue that Jesus could call upon the power of Yahweh who they will claim is omnipotent, and therefore he wins, but actually Yahweh couldn't even beat an army with iron chariots in the Old Testament, so claims of his omnipotence are overstated. Jesus does have the advantage of being able to calm storms, so Thor's lightning powers might be ineffective, but Thor still has a massive hammer and superhuman strength. The only chance Jesus has of winning without relying on his resurrection powers and waiting for Thor to die to Ragnarok is if his transmutation powers are able to work on Thor's body directly, or if he can curse Thor like he cursed the fig tree. If his magic is effective, he could, for example, turn Thor's blood into wine, which would kill him instantly. Jesus's healing powers demonstrate that his abilities can be used on humans, but it's not clear if Thor would be able to resist such attacks using his own magic. I think he would be able to.

[@Ash_Wen-li]

They literally have this convo in Vinland Saga

[@TheLetterJ-c8n]

Of course he could because Thor is a fallen angel.

[@mekingtiger9095]

Dayum, I see that the practice of nerding out about scales of power is a much more ancient practice than I initially thought it would be.

[@PotatoPatatoVonSpudsworth]

The goofiest thing with Batman defenders is that the reason the character is so compelling to begin with is that he's limited power-wise. He's a noir detective with neat gadgets, whose best villains are equally devoid of superpowers. Batman works so well specifically because he CAN'T just punch the other guy through a wall. Bu arguing he can beat Goku, a fan of Batman immediately strips the character of his appeal.

[@defectivesickle5643]

The "powerscaling betrays the media" argument is very baffling to me. Like, yeah? The point was never to make an official story of a character, it was just to see who would be able to win in a fight, given all accounts. People who take it too seriously are silly, yeah, but that's said about just about every hobby.

[@TheKoopaKingBowser]

@@defectivesickle5643 Again, I'm a power-scaler and I kind of agree/disagree, if you take it too seriously (as in getting legitmately heated in a debate that you chose to participate in.) I wouldn't say that, but in the context that "This shit won't happen ever, but lets talk about it anyway." is a very good way to look at it.

[@kermitgotthesickkicks4265]

So called batman fans/ batwankers really ruined batman as a character for me.

[@Oinker-Sploinker]

If that’s all it takes to ruin his character to you then you never enjoyed his character to begin with

[@thorveim1174]

yeah and with powerscalers, you'd forget Batman is supposed to be a human being as all the feats clearly state his intellect is above human level, which kinda defeats the whole point of the character

[@CHRB-nn6qp]

I know this sounds super weird, but hear me out. 'History buffs' on the internet have the exact same problem when it comes to judging historical civilizations. Every single civilization is judged by "Who would win in a war". That's why they all have such hard-ons for Prussia, Nazi Germany and the Roman Empire. It's baffling how many atrocities they overlook because army strong.

[@mekingtiger9095]

Damn, that's a nice parallel. I always thought the Roman Empire to be overrated to the extreme. I never really understood why so many people on the internet put it on a pedestal, but then it finally occurred to me: They only ever talk about Rome's military and only their military and its historical real life feats. It was when I realized and went "Ooooooh, they're *those* type of people who only care about the concept of 'cool action' and strength and might". Yeah, look, I do hate feminists and always will, but at times I do wonder whether their views of "toxic masculinity" aren't actually somewhat at least indirectly influenced by immature people like these acting like 14 year olds engaging in PP measuring contests.

[@xaevius5319]

the nazi germany thing is more so just a "yeah they were defeated, but what if I was the one commanding that army. could I have won?" like a sort of messed up underdog story cuz we know now that they failed in the end. or u know how people are morbidly fascinated with dictators, serial killers and those types of things like how there's more interest in demons and hell and demonic lore over angels and heaven and all that

[@mekingtiger9095]

​@@xaevius5319 So they're just your typical HOI4 player?

[@xaevius5319]

@@mekingtiger9095 idk what that is but i guess so

[@mekingtiger9095]

@@xaevius5319 It's a historical map simulation strategy videogame set in WW2 where you control any nation of your choosing during the time period managing the country's military, diplomacy, trade and resources. But mostly the military at a division scale. And the amount of Germany fanboys who go "If I was in command of the Wehrmacht, Germamy would've won!" that game created or attracted to the community is honestly staggering.

[@theodorehodbor5080]

Powerscaling is even more of an insane nightmare when characters of particular settings have multiple, inconsistent authors like in Star Wars or Warhammer 40k. In books and comics Darth Vader is like a planetary-level threat able to drag ships out of space while in the movies he gets fucking owned by being shocked a little too much. Similarly you can have your average Space Marine be gunned down by a few squads of soldiers with laser guns in one book then in another you can have your average Space Marine literally wipe an entire army just by himself. Actually quantifying their abilities in a fair manner is borderline impossible in those cases because supporters will point to their strongest moments while detractors will just point out their weakest ones.

[@Markcus003]

i know right.

[@SkoomaGodDovahkiin666]

Tbf, most 40k weapons that are standard issue to guardsmen are fucking broken and I ain’t even talking about their artillery.

[@SkoomaGodDovahkiin666]

@@vceisdead I recommend Elder Scrolls: Redguard the Graphic Novel.

[@RipRLeeErmey]

​​@@SkoomaGodDovahkiin666 Right like everyone loves to make fun of Lasguns while forgetting that if they were dropped into any other fictional world they'd be power weapons.

[@SkoomaGodDovahkiin666]

@@RipRLeeErmey Here here. Lasguns, In addition to being Borderlands pattern Legendary Guns with bullshit range and power, can be recharged via mere heat alone(in some instances, most of the time, some guardsmen just chuck the lazpacks into fires and it works) in addition to having over 300-400 plus shots.

[@ClownCollegeReject]

Stan Lee: "The person who'd win in a fight is the person that the scriptwriter wants to win!"

[@Eminster]

Don't agree

[@ayo4773]

@@Eminsterwym u don’t agree

[@theburnedman..]

I don’t agree

[@Genther]

@@Eminster No reasoning, no explanation, no sharing. Just "DoNT aGreE" flawless argument dude

[@Eminster]

@@Genther ikr? Its amazing

[@LocoRoco2009]

Imagine power scaling a butter knife against a serrated blade because the butter knife was used to stab someone’s eye and kill them with one fell swoop.

[@SqueakHaki]

Lmao this is so hilarious.😂

[@hylianro]

This is the best analogy

[@Burn_Angel]

Different kind of damage output. Serrated knife can make much more horrid wounds because...well, it's serrated. Still, it depends on who's using them. If you give the butter knife to a human, abd the serrated knife to an octopus (assuming the octopus can only attack with it and nothing else), the human with the butter knife would win. ...ah, but yeah, I guess I get what you mean. This is dumb, haha.

[@ultrcombraun1559]

The point of powerscaling would be to figure out that the serrated blade can also kill someone with one attack to the eye, so their damage potential must be measured some other way.

[@LocoRoco2009]

And thus two comments have proven how cringe power scaling is!

[@GreatWorkBoss]

Omg someone said it. A character with risk is actually more interesting storywise than another character just for a virtual meat measuring contest.

[@GOATEDMFDOOM]

I think it depends on the character. Dr Manhattan is the best example

[@GeorgeDCowley]

Thunder McQueen is an effective antagonist because "draw" isn't good enough for his target, since that would mean dying.

[@specificocean4176]

Dbz and Dbs in a nutshell

[@SonofTiamat]

Which is why the first Die Hard is still a classic

[@narrativeless404]

​@@GeorgeDCowley Lightning* McQueen But yeah, featless characters can also be entertaining

[@fable23]

I remember being in middle school and getting into a heated debate on the GameFAQs forums about how peak Sephiroth was unbeatable because in the Kalm flashback, he took zero damage from everything. Somebody replied that that was just the story Cloud was telling, and that it wasn't actually a display of Sephiroth's power, but of how Cloud perceived it, and it rocked my world; not just because it was true in the context of the grave, but because I realized that it also _applied to the game itself._ It was all just a story being told to me by the developers. The only power that really matters in a story is the power of the one telling it.

[@solracstormhunter3023]

That's deep 🤔

[@CantusTropus]

Well, I don't think there's anything inherently wrong with a bit of speculation for pure fun, but ultimately we are here for the story. If anything distracts you from the story being told, then it's probably not worth obsessing over.

[@mystik_owl]

This is rather insightful

[@derekg5006]

Bro got an epiphany on gamefaqs

[@tomsnowden6201]

Not really, it’s just acknowledging that the writer has the power which if you ask me is pretty fucking obvious to the point of making it the opposite of insightful.

[@aghitsaplane4262]

Most powerscalers have the mentality of a 10 year old playing their first Pokémon game

[@ohhellwhereami2574]

Lmao

[@kermitgotthesickkicks4265]

lmfao

[@louiem8215]

LMAO

[@sweetsweetkhajoor]

lmao

[@JeffDahmerrr]

True.

[@wv5853]

The appeal of Batman to me is him being an underdog. He has no powers and is trying to fight villains that are mostly superhuman with most other character in his verse being far above his pay grade and him choosing to fight against them in-spite of that is really appealing, I feel like we don’t have much scenes of this underdog persona being explored in justice league films but the fact that that’s probably going through his head makes him feel so real, it suits his backstory to, he was powerless to stop those bullets and in a world we’re you’re seemingly the only normal street level human he probably stills feels powerless and takes on these people anyway. The whole Batman plus prep time solos goku argument I feel takes away from that when the reason he uses prep time in the first place is cause he’s the only character who’s forced to rely on it.

[@yourdemiseishere]

Batman has 9999 failsafes and even a thing called failsafe, the only prep he needs is being a version with all the bullshit weird shit, like the weird light magic knowing of the anime and shit. A lot of times he hasnt had prep but because he was so well versed he was able to adapt. As long as he doesn't pull 'i win' out his ass it's fine. Just assume he knows everything a human like him would know, trying everything anti-alien or strange rituals. I'd put him as a no weakness version of base superman in difficulty to beat, while superman has further forms and strange stuff himself and batman can beat a basic superman that's just a bit pissy due to basically just having his 'i win' button on him keeping him low power. For instance, spiderman vs superman if spiderman has kryptonite webbing, there needs to be a 'i win' button clause or omething.

[@billyboleson2830]

@@yourdemiseishere even then that’s still mainly stemming from bias writers. Justice league animated series was the start of all this Batman bias nonsense putting him above everyone else. Yeah nowadays he has all these plans for stronger characters but back in the day Batman got his ass beat all the time ! And it was awesome! Seeing him have to get back up was better because it showed that he was still human and wasn’t the perfect fighter he is now

[@lePirateMan]

My favorite batman -justice league moment his him taking green lanterns ring

[@t-rex1959]

Pretty much any popular version of Batman is 100% superhuman in their own universe, though. Like genuinely fucking ridiculous things they do, which defeat the whole point of the character IMO. Arkham Batman: Robert Pattinson and Christian Bales Batmans are perfectly done, though.

[@ExulInsani]

@@t-rex1959 arkham origins batman was a FUCKING *MENACE*

[@ch4rliegaming]

Powerscalling mfs when they notice plot armor, writters choice, story elements, lore progression, character development exists.

[@pawelmatuszczyk2481]

Anti powerscalling mfs when they realize that we know what plot armor is but we just remove it in debates because we want to make the fight as fair as possible

[@sylver1146]

​@@pawelmatuszczyk2481"anti power scalling mfs " 🤓☝️

[@Seinsmelled]

​@@sylver1146genius counterpoint

[@sylver1146]

@@Seinsmelled powerscallers are asinine

[@LobsterCameramanProductions]

Oldest powerscaler: 👶🏻

[@aminshurbaji]

In power scaling terms, a single bacterial cell in our world can solo every character imaginable.

[@Burn_Angel]

Covid 19 is smaller than bacteria, and you know how much it wrecked the most powerful species in this world lmao

[@louiem8215]

yeah lol

[@TattvaRajput24]

Except the robots and cyber characters

[@slavishentity6705]

Ultra Instinct Goku VS Heart Disease

[@bullettime1116]

​@@slavishentity6705heart disease negs

[@ImmaSquirrel]

people need to realize that power scaling comparisons is a fun topic if you don't get too technical and literal. Edit: Emphases on *too* technical and literal. Some of y'all're countering like I said "don't get technical and literal"...

[@kindlingking]

Powerscaling is fun if you focus on coming up with interesting scenarios instead on absolute results.

[@EldiSqu]

​@@kindlingking100% agreed. People being way too serious about debating fictional characters is one of the reasons why I stopped power scaling, I simply can't comprehend how someone can get toxic over something as pointless as this. Looking back at my experiences with power scaling it's mostly been a dread-fest. Something that was supposed to be fun just ends up drawing in some very toxic people 📎

[@ImmaSquirrel]

@@kindlingking facts, this too.

[@squirrelthegamer8483]

Hello my fellow squirrel. 🐿️ While I sorta agree, I do think trying to genuinely compare two interesting characters from completely different universes is an interesting thing to do. Like for instance, who would solve the Kira case faster between L and Batman. For me, that’s interesting because they’re both incredibly intelligent detectives but have different ways and tools to utilize. Something that seemingly close would be interesting to find out who’s legitimately better. But that’s a scenario with more nuance and subtitly so if you just want to imagine fun fights between two powerhouses, I don’t think it’s worth getting that technical about it. Just do like a loose mix of rp and power scaling and play a fight through.

[@Dan05-usd]

@@kindlingking 🗣️ 💯

[@erikm8373]

Honestly I enjoy a good versus debate most when you lean into the fanfiction aspects of it. When you ask "What would cause these characters to fight? How would they react to each other? How might their unique skills or abilities interact with each other?" that's when you get interesting discussion and entertaining stories. Reducing a character to feats and tiers where whoever gets the biggest number wins, and that's the end of it, is incredibly boring.

[@RRR-nr3yd]

+2

[@chazaqiel2319]

I agree with you. I don't understand why people try to criticize this method by calling it "arbitrary" when like... The whole point of imagining matchups is arbitrary in the first place!

[@jacobbachman4014]

Agreed, but there is another path that’s equally interesting. Powerscaling low power characters against high power, and trying to justify the low powers victory via increasingly convoluted methods like mr bean vs Superman

[@demonwizard2162]

Honestly goated comment. Completely agree with you

[@silksongreleasedate5883]

I like power scaling and using feats but I’m still confused on why people use a feat that likely isn’t just meant to either look cool or progress the story then it becomes difficult like with deku from mha he’s mostly definitely not light speed if you look at the bigger picture but because he dodged lasers in one scene he’s considered light speed by some people i hope I typed this in a understand way but I probably didn’t cause I suck at this

[@roadkillwaffle9847]

As a DMC fan in year 2023, I have seen people try to say a character with under normal human strength is an omnipotent god because he killed a few ghosts described as "metaphysical" in flavour text even though they were specifically said to be weaker than their original versions in the same text

[@ellingtonf1097]

Metaphysical scaling is udder bullshit and scales nowhere

[@AleksandrNevskiyu]

Oh, don't forget about multiversal van

[@Zenn_Chan]

The funny thing about rule 3 is that I find that the direct opposite is the case. When I watch Death Battles, the character I think sounds more interesting, will almost ALWAYS lose. Because being stupidly overpowered is BORING.

[@koboldwizard]

yeah im not a fan of those kinds of characters that are capable of sneezing away a whole universe for no reason whatsoever, and they end up looking like the same brown haired, no interesting features, anime protagonist like the rest of them, i cant even tell them all apart. i want to see them gain their power, put in the effort and try their hardest, and have a unique character design please i beg

[@buzter8135]

@@koboldwizard Sorry, bub, when you put value in the power of a character rather than the character itself, don't expect much attention to be put into the actual character.

[@funnybones98]

@@buzter8135he was agreeing?

[@koboldwizard]

@@buzter8135???

[@buzter8135]

@@funnybones98 I know, I was being sarcastic.

[@TheCrimsonElite666]

Powerscalers have practically ruined any discussion on Sun Wukong. You can't go five seconds on any discussion regarding him without these powerscalers coming out of the woodwork to circlejerk the ever loving shit out of his hypothetical power level.

[@Duothimir]

As someone who has read Journey to the West, Sun Wukong is in fact hilariously overpowered. The whole point is that he has to learn humility and how to use his powers for good, which is why he gets casually bitchslapped by Buddha and then controlled by Sanzang with a magic headache circlet. Also that whole thing about him being limited to the physical plane, so the reason he gets clapped by Buddha is that Buddha is one with the universe. It's like if your toenail suddenly decided to rebel, it can't beat something it's a part of.

[@TheCrimsonElite666]

@@Duothimir That's all well and good, but the powerscalers don't actually care about that context. They take his power in a vacuum and go on and on about how he can solo every other fictional character, which leads back to the grievances of this video where we have similar circlejerking with Goku and Batman. It's like they care more about his power than his actual character.

[@Duothimir]

@@TheCrimsonElite666 Well yeah, that's why context is important.

[@hype5456]

​@@Duothimirthat shows people care about their strength then their character

[@RogerRoger556]

​@@hype5456 people say: "he can do that" But people don't ask: "would he actually do that?"

[@ddl3718]

Batman’s problem is that he started as “the world greatest detective” like Sherlock Holmes. The problem is DC is an ever evolving multiverse that makes stronger and stronger threats. And since Batman’s thing is being the smartest, his ability to make inhumane, incomprehensible solutions to universe busting problems somewhat ruins his character

[@mittycommitspizzatime92]

I like “guy in a bat suit who’s good at solving crimes and has fancy gadgets” Batman more than “I’m a super genius give me enough time and I can kill 200 gods with a mechanical spoon I invented” Batman

[@alondite215]

Honestly my favorite Batman stories are still the ones where he's more detective and less super hero.

[@ShadeSlayer1911]

@@mittycommitspizzatime92 Same.

[@tylerpham6556]

Batman having to catch up to power creep :/

[@baligong3592]

I miss when Detective Comics Comics did Detective, Cop, Government, CSI, etc. type of characters in Mystery, Action, etc. Nowadays, it feels like Every single person including Writers are more focused on How strong a character is.

[@sparta-zh7yk]

The powerscalling community is what ruind the SCP stories, every SCP they make must be boundless

[@shizsker54]

Don't blame the power scaler. Blame bad writing😂

[@sparta-zh7yk]

@@shizsker54 that's the problem, they care about powerscalling more then a good story, for example there is an articale and i am not joking, made SCP 096 immessrubale speed and strengh amd destroyd a galexy by jumping, like what was wrong with the old story

[@shizsker54]

@@sparta-zh7yk not what I meant

[@mekingtiger9095]

​@@shizsker54 I don't know, bro. A rather good portion of these bad writers seems to be powerscalers engaging in a D measuring contest to see who's the "stronkest". Obviously not all power scalers are like that, but the community at large tends to a breeding pit for a lot of bad apples that then go out of their nest to wander the exterior world and then spread their influence for some reason. Sorry if might have generalized it a bit, but holy, are these individual bad apples annoying.

[@dereck9736]

1. Sounds like a you problem I how strong a character is determins your enjoyment of a story 2. Most scp stories don't focus on powerscaleing

[@jez0608]

Sometimes this powerscaling thing just breakes the entire idea of behind a character. Kratos for example is very strong, being able to flip building and fight giant creatures. That's cool. But then someone scales him to Thor, and because Thor cracked one of the branches of Yggdrasil tree and the Tree is basicly encompassing several universes, so now Kratos suddenly has multiverse level power, like wtf... Or Doomguy, I played 2016 and it is cool, when you lose the death animations actually show you how easily the protagonist could be killed by any of the demons. For me that makes him even cooler, a guy who is not invulnerable but with his strength, skill, speed, and sheer effing rage can plow through hordes of hell like butter. And then someone goes into the lore and how Doomguy is basically a godlike being, capable of killing the creator of infinite multivetse with his bare fists. When I hear staff like this, I basically lose any interest. When a character can destroy multiverses upon omniverses it just becomes a bunch of meaningless numbers, not relatable in any way.

[@Raidoton]

But it does make powerscalers mad so I kinda approve it!

[@faeyzaihsanulfikri9975]

that doomguy bit was quite accurate I’d just like to think he’s a normal guy with incredible strength and will saying a character is godlike just because they did a feat it just makes me hate power scalling more and more

[@jaek__]

​@@faeyzaihsanulfikri9975doomguy is a bit of a gag character, the writers said that he only uses guns to make the demons suffer more, he's angry and so powerful that yeah he can one-shot everything, that doesn't equate to the gameplay and is only a bit of trivia the nerds enjoy, I say if playing as the doomslayer knowing he is almost all powerful makes the player more immersed or allows them to enjoy the power fantasy than eh why not, power scaling is fun up until you start doing math

[@jaek__]

​@@faeyzaihsanulfikri9975he's so mad that, he literally cannot die tl:dr

[@abdouaboud7490]

@@faeyzaihsanulfikri9975 totally agree hate when they scale up a character because of a random feat that he'll probably never be able to replicate

[@Greenbit]

Yeah, this is why I stepped away from the debating community. Because it’s just full of childish and toxic idiots that act like their opinions is the absolute truth. Not to mention, debaters just go and jump at everyone's throat for no reason over a different opinion. Either this or they are so in love with characters that don’t exist because nobody that exists in real life loves them.

[@shitass1297]

"Goku solos though" -🤓🤓🤓

[@soggyeggroll2003]

Just entertaining a match up ends up turning into a redditor superiority match with insulting intelligence

[@deathmasterkrook7924]

"Either this or they are so in love with characters that don’t exist because nobody that exists in real life loves them." Best roast ive heard for debaters

[@rjsblanket3024]

But that isn't exclusive to debaters, powerscaling itself is fine, some people are assholes, others are not, why is this such a hard thing for most to grasp?

[@sazude2]

That last part sent the fuck outta me 😂😂

[@ShouldaWoulda]

*Kyle punches a hole in the drywall* Powerscaler: "He's city block level"

[@SenseiThat]

"uhm actually,he'd be wall level"

[@ShouldaWoulda]

@@SenseiThat "but what if he's blood lusted?"

[@ellingtonf1097]

@@ShouldaWoulda "Outerversal lowballed, Boundless with wank."

[@NebulaSon]

That drywall came from a dream world of infinite imagination and each of those imagination has unlimited space and unlimited possibilities. That means that breaking that drywall makes him outerversal and boundless.

[@elmostew2]

and Kyle yelled at his mom who can turn the lights on which means she’s faster than light but since Kyle yelled at her he clearly isn’t afraid of a FTL entity which scales him extremely faster than light and since light is real and he is in a story this also makes him boundless

[@andrewmandrona7891]

I love how bad they are at actually estimating things. If those meteors were moving at 11 Mm/s, then the whole prison would have been vaporized before they even landed. From what we see in the scene they are clearly moving at less than 300 m/s when they enter the building.

[@GeorgeDCowley]

I was thinking the meteors would have.

[@hyacinth01]

I was thinking the exact same thing

[@reinertgregal1130]

Inb4: The prison is actually Continental level and that's why it was able to contain her.

[@Lightning_Lance]

It could only make sense if the meteors are illusions or something. Or just balls of rock and fire that are made in the air and then fall down, rather than actually being pulled from other space. Because that scene is completely ridiculous: any meteor big enough not to burn up in the atmosphere would do way more damage than depicted

[@TheStraightestWhitest]

Your first mistake was using logic. In powerscaling, nothing can ever be scaled down. That isn't a joke. It's on Omniversal Battlefield. It's the first and most important rule. This means that the prison would actually just be upscaled to like multi-continental if not planetary.

[@jacobsonstudiosgoji]

i hate it when they hate on literally anything for the sole purpose of “it isn’t as strong as my favorite”

[@Skepticminecraft]

Fr man

[@jake4404]

The definition of a child

[@louiem8215]

yeah

[@notimportant493]

I used to do a lot of power scaling and debating back in 2016 to about 2018/19 and knew a lot of the bigger vs debaters and power scalers before they got big (or infamous in a few cases) and I ended up simply despising the community around it by the end, especially when a lot of them started moving over to discord and doing a lot of their E debating in voice chats. It often just devolved into shit throwing and name calling or when they were throwing around scaling and feats it would become "my infinite is bigger then yours". Safe to say after somebody got swatted over a Naruto vs Goku debate then I knew it was time to leave.

[@Squibbo0000]

once you bring set theory into it you go into writing debate levels of pretentiousness im ngl

[@BobThePenguin.]

Bro someone got swatted over one of the most clear cut debates in fiction? Damn im glad im not involved with that.

[@hype5456]

​@@BobThePenguin.Power scalers are just that toxic

[@Dan05-usd]

🗣️ 💯 Literally everything you said I what I’ve seen on discord. Used to think Fictional VS debates were awesome among people who are good faith, but then you enter the discord scene and run into of younger scalers who are either toxic, don’t know how to debate, and a lot of times just both.

[@ihaspancake2331]

Uncle grampa solos goku change my mind

[@jirehjirehjirehjireh]

My biggest problem with power scaling is the wasted potential. We have an entire community of objectively skilled media analyzers spending all their time and effort on the most useless way to compare and contrast media. I originally liked One Punch Man cause it seemed like the anime industry finally taking the piss out of the obnoxious power scaling fans. Only for OPM to simply be added to the pool of constantly debated characters.

[@Wezlii530]

That’s not at all was intended to be. Your really stupid if you think they were trying to fight back against that

[@callmeaweeb4169]

Even characters like Bugs Bunny and Popeye are unironically powerscaled in certain scenarios. It's almost impossible for an anime to have some kind of action sequence and not get powerscaled.

[@rompevuevitos222]

@@callmeaweeb4169Depends on how seriously the writers take it JoJo is literally whatever the writer feels is cooler. Since season 3 the whole point is "random bs GO!" But in a show that takes it more seriously, like DBZ (despite the fact that they have the most boring "power scaling" in any show i have seen) it is very possible to do so effectively. And DBZ is probably the source of this for that reason.

[@felixdaniels37]

​@@rompevuevitos222 Ironically Dragon Ball takes power scaling even less seriously than the stuff you mebtioned. Quite literally, the only reason power levels as a concept were introduced was solely to prove that it was an idiotic way of thinking. Stuff like that has no place in a world where characters can grow stronger/weaker on a whim.

[@Divinemakyr]

@@felixdaniels37 Proof that's why they were introduced?

[@Trike207]

I call this community "Clownscaling"

[@LavelinaAli]

Fr 90% of them just use this for debunk

[@StalkerX426]

Now that Word is mine, thanks.

[@narwhal_yt6871]

Ive decided to try power scaling.. so far its awful I mean every point in the video is good and i agree But its so funny seing these people rage and simp that much. Worst part is i have to keep going or else he will stop and dang is he goofy. I said i respect him for the hustle etc and he became toxic

[@itsyenji]

Agreed

[@guilhermepereira558]

I am from the godzilla comunity to and one thing that happens..as.. FUCK ITS MISINFORMATION DAMN BRO FOR ME POWER SCALERS MISINFORMATION THEY SOMETIMES MAKE AN A UNDERRATED CHARACTER TO A FUCKING OVERRATED CHARACTER and its sad that those clown exist i mean i know not all power scalers are like this but damn seriously

[@antoniogaravo9289]

my favorite power scaling discussions : "yeah when these two meet ain't no way they fight, instant friendship" "yeah" "yeah" "now what ?" "ok so now both characters have bloodlust"

[@Ave_Satana666]

Ichigo is the king of 1v1 he seems to be made to fight others think about it

[@Ave_Satana666]

His power isnt even blockable because its spirt energy no one but soul reapers can block his attacks. That's just his attacks

[@Ave_Satana666]

You powered up? He has 8 power ups all increasing his power by 70 times each.

[@Ave_Satana666]

Base form human ichigo is combat train and atleast able to take arc one naruto in base human form bare handed. Bro is the goat

[@Ave_Satana666]

Ichigo hits bankai and any other protag dies. Barion mode was made to compete with bankai. And super sayain god was made to compete with bankai. Ichigo still can just go bankai + hollow mask meaning even after other Shonen authors made their charaters stronger Ichigo is still the best.

[@LittleCuddlePrincess]

"My dad can beat up your dad" is such a perfect comparison. I too am somewhat guilty of this kind of behavior but I overall agree the Power Scaling is immature BS and I too hate it. Here's a subscription.

[@luis-sophus-8227]

"My dad can beat yars!" "Yeah, looks like that's all he is good at" "..."

[@MihajloNastic]

Btw power scaling is wrong in 90percent of cases

[@egg-mv7ef]

grown man hating on ppl trying to quantify the level of power of a virtual character for fun is crazy bro 💀i just wanna know whod win in a fight why u gotta make a fuss over it

[@LittleCuddlePrincess]

@@egg-mv7ef Whatever people wanna do is their business but the point being is people go way too far with it to the point it's disturbing others.

[@egg-mv7ef]

@@LittleCuddlePrincess how?? ☠️ who tf takes it "too far" and how do u even take it too far its such a non issue

[@ddl385]

What is worse is when fans start demanding power scaling consistency from authors, and using that as way to rate scenes or arcs or works of fiction. They don't care about character development or emotion or plot and just go "this was a bad storyline because author did not respect the math. The MATH, man!". So you start getting accusations of bad writing or Mary Sue writing. Or they use terms like "plot induced stupidity", which is when characters do anything but act like cold, emotionless machines designed to win fights, because they are busy having needs and wants like a normal human, so they fail to repeat previous feats they should be able to do every time.

[@daraghokane4236]

Lex Luthor runs for president and wins because he gets votes, why didn't superman just punch him, pis superman could easily have over thrown the US government and made himself god King only reason he didn't was so the plot could happen.

[@aldiascholarofthefirstsin1051]

This angers me greatly.

[@yakone1163]

I mean the consistency of a character's power level should obviously be well, consistent? Having adult Goku get hurt by bullets when as a child they don't scratch him, is just dumb and confuses readers. Like I get what you are saying about people being nerds but the powerscaling in-universe should at least be coherent.

[@doomchromee8648]

@@yakone1163I dont think it needs to as long as it tells a good story

[@mekingtiger9095]

To be fair, I am a believer that yes, power scaling generally SHOULD be somewhat self consistent. Specially in more plot centered arcs and action scenes. Otherwise you get thrown off by very stupid writing and lose any real sense of stakes and expectations. The biggest, most flagrant example of this being CW's The Flash. A good story also needs to keeps its own rules somewhat consistent to a degree so as to not require far too much suspencion of disbelief to become watchable. It can also become super jarring if a character with a destructive potential to crack islands with their own normal punches suddenly can't even bust a wall with no given explanation for that. That would be awful magic system writing unless you have deliberately written the strength level associated with it to be utterly random for some reason. That said, stories also don't need to have total 100% accuracy and consistency like these nerds demand to have. You should allow yourself to have some bit of narrative freedom and flexibility or otherwise there would no story at all to begin with.

[@ablosch2452]

In a way, I feel like the Chuck Norris and Shaggy memes were playing fun at this. Acting like a mere Karate Movie actor and a character canonically shown to be a gluttonous coward is able to solo all these Uber-powerful characters just because they said so.

[@vaporsnakek]

W

[@Regigigas_YT]

Shaggy vs Gojo mfs when Gojo kills him without even trying and only using Blue

[@vaporsnakek]

@@Regigigas_YT Gojo gets clapped so hard by shaggy it's not even close

[@Regigigas_YT]

@@vaporsnakek womp fucking womp you filthy 🦊 you have activated my Domain Expansion, COMMON FUCKING SENSE. It's not even that hard to know Shaggy could beat Toji at most, I'd say Fred and the gang could figure out what to do with Jogo, heck, I'd say Blue Falcon could handle Megumi with no Mahoraga just fine. But Gojo's Purple deletes them, it's just common sense since Shaggy never did anything like the memes say in any movie ever, and no, the WB logo bumper where he grabbed Scorpion does not count, bc if it did DreamWorks Kid would be Planetary. And no, the bikers that Shaggy beat up are not even close to any JJK sorcerer, well, maybe one, child Megumi.

[@odolowa1]

I always picture hard-core power scalers watching a sports movie and just being like “this is bs! That team was full of people that never even played the sport before this season! You’re telling me they could beat a team that’s won the championship nine times! That’s unrealistic!”

[@Lunarinzo]

As a power scaler who hasn't gone mad yet I suppose, but I do not associate with them mfs.

[@davidarvingumazon5024]

Everyone talking about power scaling, how about who's the smartest fictional character with realistic feats.

[@Morijin-ek2tm]

​@@davidarvingumazon5024Well people actually debate about that too

[@four-en-tee]

No, thats MauLer fans. Powerscalers would just wank off the inexperienced team after such a crazy feat, and then SethTheProgrammer would make a 69 minute video trying to calculate the inexperienced team's untapped potential.

[@mekingtiger9095]

@@four-en-tee Oh, God. I *love* SethTheProgrammer's content but in an entirely ironic manner. The sheer amount of mental gymnastics he tends to engage with is so funny it ends up being meme worthy. He's basically as stereotypical as the average powerscaler often gets with his "logic" and thought process and I'm subscribed to him just to laugh at it. It kind of taps into something I've read this from Justin Alicea, a frequent commenter on Death Battle's videos: The biggest problem with most power scalers is that they tend to overcomplicate their scaling stuff to an extremely unnecessary degree such that it becomes a hilarious parody of itself.

[@52flyingbicycles]

The most common variation of this I see is the “low 2C” tier being thrown around like candy. Some specific hacked or toon force ability does something that vaguely affects the “universe” and suddenly SpongeBob is strong enough to crush galaxies with a thought even though he struggles to open a jar of pickles.

[@strateks9611]

remember that one time spongebob erased the universe?

[@52flyingbicycles]

@@strateks9611 yeah stuff like that. Spongebob having a toon moment where a string he held “unraveled the whole universe” suddenly makes him stronger than Goku or Superman.

[@Bleeperblopper497]

@@strateks9611 Yeah, one time only and then never again aka Outlier at best, outweighed by the MOUNTAIN of anti-feats where consistently Spongebob would be nowhere near universal, Didn't see him try to Unravel the Universe on the Cyclops or Dennis in the Spongebob Movie or try to travel at MFTL+ speeds to get out of Rock Bottom, SpongeBob finds out he's shock absorbent to Flats in just ONE episode only but the entire rest of the seasons he gets his butt kicked and is in visible pain and bruised, especially with him shattering his pelvis from snowboarding and needing it to be glued back together. You don't get the excuse to just use their best outlier feat and just somehow ignore all the anti-feats

[@Blood_M4ster]

"You could have taken the cuffs off at anytime !?" "Not anytime ! Only when it could be funny"

[@RichardCranium.]

Yes. All outliers. Spongebob is a wimp. 99% of the time he is a wuss that can be beaten even by a little dog or cat. Spongebob is also a show for wimps. Real boys watched Power Rangers , Dragonballz or He Man.

[@BloopSuperJuice]

Powerscaling Debates almost ALWAYS lead to just insults. It's like the primal feeling of Conflict takes over you during the argument and leads to getting unironically angry over a fictional character

[@dillianevan4200]

For absolutely no reason too 😂 other than to argue and take some anger out or something

[@BloopSuperJuice]

@@dillianevan4200 fax. it starts slowly, sneaking in snarky remarks here n there, and then it just raises to actual death threats 💀

[@irrelevanttroll3312]

Fr lmfao mfs just switch to "Slams" "Negs" (Totally not me)

[@Tenebrio-Morio]

That's why I cut out the middle man and just insult power scalers directly. Delusional pricks.

[@Skepticminecraft]

They always bring family into this 😂

[@saeculiao7339]

Rap battles > Powerscalling

[@DustSans908]

ass soul ops games > powerscaling

[@coolfungamerz6447]

“EPIC RAP BATTLES IN HISTORYYYYYYYYYYY. GOKU. VS. YOUR FAVORITE VERSEEEEEE 3 2 1 BEEEGINNNN.”

[@TheRealUltimatum]

@coolfungamerz6447 yo my name is silly billy an- MY WAY! AHH *disintegrates*

[@-Burningzilla_YT-]

get back to 2018 lil bro

[@Unnamed_user888]

​@@-Burningzilla_YT-then why are you here in the first place?

[@Theokal3]

Agreed with all your points and I would like to add a fourth one: variables. Who could be who isn't an absolute because it depends on a lot of factor: Batman usually can win against Superman because Superman doesn't like killing and would hold back, not to mention Batman has the benefit of having worked with him and knowing how he operates (an advantage he usually wouldn't have against a fresh new opponent he never met before). These alone alter the direction of the fight. Fights do not just take raw inchangeable facts into account: you'd have to take into account how much time both characters had to prepare, how they're feeling at the moment, the field where they're fighting, the conditions for winning, and many more. Much like in reality, who would win in a fight isn't something that constant, it can and will change depending on tons of factors unless the difference in power between the two is truly massive.

[@heyguysxd]

Batman would definetly not fight superman either? Except if sups was evil or something like in Injustice. But you are not wrong in some very specific situations batman could beat him. But i never get those arguments. I thought in those "Who wins in a fight" arguments are supposed to be fair. Stupidly unfair ones are just annoying. So yeah i guess Batman could beat Goku if the saiyan was sleeping after eating poisoned food lol😂.

[@The_Gabe]

In vs debating it is always assumed that it’s an equal fight. Flat and neutral terrain, no preparation time and both start out in their peak condition. Kinda like how professional sports matches go (except for the final part, you can hardly do anything about it).

[@SkoomaGodDovahkiin666]

Batsy doesn’t kill Either and Supes is also hyper intelligent and could just sic his bots at Bruce. Just sayin’

[@Sub-Zero-im7km]

Superman's admitted he's purposely let Batman win.

[@ShogunPlasma]

I've been preaching this for years and I get nothing but shit for bringing up variables. Out here doing god's work.

[@j_sp1d3r55]

The sad irony is that Batman has one of the worst win/loss records in Death Battle's history.

[@wingedbluj1674]

Mostly because his way of overcoming obstacles involves breaking one of Death Battle's main rules. He relies on recognizing, analyzing, and developing counters for his opponent's skills, abilities, and weaknesses. This is compelling to the reader since, as a powerless human, he's naturally disadvantaged and his preparations even the odds. But for the sake of as fair a fight as possible, his opponent would have to be given as much prep time.

[@Drawngalaxy]

@@wingedbluj1674even worse, those same characters do just as well, if not even better with the same amount of prep time

[@tskmaster3837]

@@wingedbluj1674 You said "with prep time" in too many words.

[@tananatana4011]

@@Drawngalaxy Aside from Iron Man, not really. The way Batman preps for characters is a lot more effective than majority of "smart" characters do. When Iron Man, Dr Doom or Lex Luthor beat someone with prep, it's because they built something that only they could build. When Batman beats someone with prep, it's because he used a strategy that could only be used for that character. When Batman beats you, it's essentially cuz he creates a new anti feat for you, which is why I personally believe people are adamant about constantly involving Batman's prep, it's a lot more interesting to see Batman beat someone with prep than Iron Man for instance because it'll involve some kind of clever tactic, deduction or outsmarting move rather than "I'll build something off screen so I can beat an army of omnipotents" Also Spider-Man is one of the most overwanked characters I've ever seen in my entire life, even more so than Batman, cuz Batman's outlier feats at least aren't taken seriously. Like if you try and claim that Batman can beat Superman with nothing but kryptonite knuckles, you'll get laughed at justifiably so, but people legitimately bring up nonsense feats of Spider-Man beating X-Men, Fantastic Four and don't see anything wrong with it despite the fact that he daily struggles with his fodder ahh rogues gallery (in comparison to the rest of Marvel obviously)

[@Max-ki6df]

He might be a normal human being but so is Krillin from Dragonball, and he beat goku, when he was a kid, who beat giren who is stronger then gods of destruction. So it's perfectly reasonable that Batman might be able to beat superman.

[@Connor_Kirkpatrick]

“In fiction, facts care about your feelings” Hardest quote known to man

[@NickAndriadze]

Morale of the story: The writers are the most powerful characters and could defeat any other character in any fight, *PERIOD.* They have the insane ability called ''plot armor'' that they can grant to their desired ally characters, called the ''protagonists''/''main characters,'' which is the single strongest damage reduction and defence boost stat in the entirety of existence. It can survive fusion bombs, nuclear holocaust, gamma rays, supernovas, the entire universe collapsing in on itself, you name it. No one punch man ain't one punching through that! Honestly it's a good thing that they don't even interact with the fictional universes most of the times, because they are literal gods, and all the characters are just action figures they play around with.

[@btchiaintkidding7837]

DC's TOAA , Marvel'a Artist, Tolkien's al-iluvitar (basically tolkein himself) are example of this.

[@agsdragon5475]

I agree stan lee put it best at one point when he made his rant against power scaling, which I found very therapeutic that the winner is the one that writer whats to win as a future comic creator I was worried about how strinf should I make my characters and how to still make it make sense but thanks from advice from my mother about just having faith in God and stan lee words helped me power scaling and bringing in the multiverse and trying to make characters super powerful all time is a what is now ruining fiction now I mean people are now bringing in the omniverse now which is now making this a bigger mess so follow the advice of some of the old greats and just have faith in yourself as a creator and whatever deity you believe because all you and those we worship in our religion truly know what we are capable of and both know well what we make is fiction it as only as powerful as we want to make it from silly toons to the greatest heroes in anime

[@winden-3685]

What's kind of frustrating about this type of point is it's something that people who enjoy power scaling know, it's just not relevant to the hobby. Both parties know if they were to exist in the same story whoever wrote it would decide who wins, it's not some grand revelation that that's the case. If I'm comparing Goku and Superman I care about how each writer went about their own story and how they portrayed each character. Saying "it doesn't matter the writer chooses anyway" is just as reductive and frustrating as when "could he beat Goku" is brought up in other contexts.

[@agsdragon5475]

@@winden-3685 I agree I want my stories to stand on their own and not be compared to others in power that just ruins everything

[@Fatigue023]

Funny you say that because in one comic, deadpool killed the writers

[@DesX42S]

I started enjoying Vs. Battles a lot more when I started thinking of them more as wrestling matches than physics debates. Wrestling matches are about story first, and predetermined based on what would be best for that story. Also, hearing people's interpretations of how the story would play out for the fight scenario to happen is a lot more interesting than hearing them explain how they calculated the amount of tnt in an explosion from a comic panel.

[@BaronB.BlazikenBaronOfBarons]

The best moments in Death Battle are the ones that have interesting character moments during the fights. Like Obi-Wan seeing Darth Vader in the illusion Kakashi produced, or that one scene of Sauron going into his giant eye form vs the Lich King using the Eye of Acherus, or pretty much all of Snake vs. Sam Fisher.

[@Crabgar]

I never get what scenario people imagine. You don't just smack two action figures against eachother, every fight in any story is a scenario. Jojo's is a great example for this, as most of the villains are only a threat because of the specific scenario the characters find themselves in. I find it much more interesting to think of stories where it actually makes sense for characters to fight eachother, except most protagonists wouldn't fight other protagonists except maybe a misunderstanding (the goofiest reason for an all out fight). A bunch of years ago when one punch man was super popular, all the goku fanboys came out their caves to state that goku is stronger, as if that meant anything. All i could think about though, is that Saitama wouldn't want to fight goku because he's a weirdo and then they'd go shopping and cook food.

[@davidegaruti2582]

@@BaronB.BlazikenBaronOfBarons yeah the whole of beerus vs sailor galaxia , or the little moment with saitama vs popeye when he finally has a real fight ... those are the moments i honestly remember , the rest is mostly garbage ...

[@Betito1171]

That’s what fights in a story should be at all

[@kermitgotthesickkicks4265]

@@davidegaruti2582 agreed.

[@dragonmouse3985]

I think the worst part about power scaling is that it is inherently illogical. Any universe in which a human can get punched through a brick wall, get up, and keep fighting, with little more than brief cosmetic damage, means that human's biology and that brick walls intermolecular forces are both different than our own, and different than every other force. If faster than light travel is possible, that universe has laws of physics that are incompatible with our own universe, and likely all other universes. Any character who can move faster than mach 2.2 without the air around them spontaneously combusting due to aerodynamic heating, lives in a world were friction and all the physics surrounding it do not operate like our own, and not like any other world. If you have a character that can lift a plane or a bus from a single point on the fuselage, or a single seam in the body, the ramifications for all of the components in the materials that make those things break all of the mechanical laws that govern how metal and other materials react under stress, pressure, heat, etc. We don't know much much force exists in 1 KT of TNT in any world but our own. These characters don't exist in our own world, and their world all clearly are governed by different physical laws. Reducing these to mathematical equivalents in our world is meaningless, they do not, can not convert. The moment you throw one law of physics out the window, you throw all laws of physics out the window. You now exist in worlds with incompatible mechanical laws and you have no way of knowing if the bus that Vegeta threw at Goku is in any way comparable to the one that Superman threw at Doomsday, or even how many foot pounds of force the bullet that bounced off them both contained. There is no way to compare worlds with different physics, no mater how mathematical and scientific a person tries to make it sound.

[@noobking2335]

thank you for the input, captain obvious, dont take it so seriously next time.

[@Scruffy-qi3ik]

@@noobking2335 maybe don't make a scaling system based on real life while using it to compare characters who live in worlds that obviously are different from ours and even eachothers' next time

[@BaronB.BlazikenBaronOfBarons]

@@noobking2335 Nono, let him cook…

[@vienle4089]

Honestly yeah, some of the stuff i like exists in worlds where things are so fundamentally different from our own and other works of fiction that it's just pointless trying to compare them at all

[@ranoutofgoodusernames8394]

Isnt that the whole point of verse equalization?

[@opadrip]

"The writer decides who wins" mfers when they get punched and knocked out by a guy bigger and stronger than them (Clearly it was God's fault they lost.)

[@SkoomaGodDovahkiin666]

“Writer decides” Mfers when their favorite MMA fighter is put on the Mat(ThE fIgHt wAs rIgGeD).

[@daraghokane4236]

I mean yes if you believe in destiny

[@Chadmiral]

Lol

[@seldomstudios6351]

You say this…… *while writing that the bigger stronger guy wins!*

[@uboa8060]

Oh. It's you.

[@LOLquendoTV]

I like powerscaling vids when its just like a podcast style discussion of 3 people who are clearly just riffing coming up with crazy scenarios and making each other laugh. Feels like its closer to the vibe of actually talking about this with your friends to pass the time y'know?

[@beywheelzhater8930]

People forget why crossover fights happen in the first place For entertainment

[@asierx7047]

Crazy scenarios is the best part of powerscaling vids "Wobbuffet powerscales above goku" is correct but only because it techincally always hits twice as hard as the enemy

[@drumo2273]

​@@asierx7047And I love goofy shit like that

[@Camazotzer]

Yeah, this is the true essence of power scaling. Well, it is also very fun to make people mad on the internet, half of the reason I have ever dabbled in powerscaling is because arguing with dumb people can occasionally be really fun.

[@draconomega]

​@@asierx7047wobbufett has countered attacks from actual gods in pokemon (in the hoppa movie) so he could probably do it xd

[@Moverboy]

As someone who used to watch a lotta Death Battle. I’ll say their power scaling “science” is just to throw a bunch of random big numbers and use random feats, often times ignoring the full context, to justify it. ( my favorite being them saying the Dragonborn is faster then the speed of light because he can fire an arrow that blocks out the sun)

[@the-aspiring-creator4249]

I'd like to present if you don't mind my own idea. I think Death Battle honestly aims more for entertainment than they do appeasing power scalers and versus battle obsessives and part of it is how they present the science where it's more about the insanity than anything. For example how they used the cheese wheel to point out Dragonborn's absurd strength. On a strict forum? You'd see a very dry rundown of why he's so strong but for DB knowing how dull that would be? They decided to go for something fun.

[@n1rvana_]

Death Battle, imo, has a habit of making the right characters win for all the wrong reasons. As a skyrim fan. I def have my dragonborn beliefs. Dude doesn't follow conventional time or space. Speed is Distance(an intrinsic aspect of space) over time ellapsed. If you don't follow conventional time(conventional being how time of that world works). The aspect of time that makes up speed ceases to matter. You either do everything instantly or take however much time you want. If space doesn't matter to you, then distance doesn't. You can close or make any amount of distance instantly or however fast or slow you want. You essentially have infinite speed which can definitely put you above light speed, if you want it to. But if they started saying things like this while doing death Battles then I think it'll turn off alot of their viewers who don't rly care about allat big brained talk.

[@soggyeggroll2003]

Lmao Auriels Bow is literally a weapon of the chief god of the divines. It's supposed to be super powerful, but I could give it to some random guard. Would that mean he's also a faster-than-light entity?

[@the-aspiring-creator4249]

@@n1rvana_ I think that right there gets into why with DB, it's mostly entertainment because if they started saying things like this? I'm not gonna lie, the interest won't be there because even reading this, this kind of has the same energy as when someone hits a blunt and says something that sounds vaguely profound and you just have no idea what the fuck they just said. Couple that with how unless you're into it, most versus debates honestly range from boring to what the video said about them sometimes being the equivalent of "My dad can beat up your dad!" arguments and it makes sense why they do it based more on entertainment and showing off how when you apply real science to fictional characters? It gets stupid what they're capable of.

[@Nightlizard1564]

Not to mention they can be biased too. Perfect example would be boba fett vs predator where they took a random predator, gave it the skills of an elder, and put it up against legends boba 💀. Already it was an unfair matchup and a better one would’ve been scar from concrete jungle against boba.

[@LunaticThinker]

Love it when the power scaler breaks out the physic calculators to claim that a character moves at the speed of light without the implications of an object the size of a human moving at the speed of light through air would mean.

[@krsmanjovanovic8607]

If that "human" could even survive going that fast I imagine atmosphere around them would combust and create nuclear explosion wiping out whole city they are fighting in, vaporizing all the people they tried to save in just a fraction of a second, but the vilian would die too I guess

[@lucasfelipe8349]

There's many characters that are LS canonically and they doesn't make any sense either, even some like the Flash makes no sense at all. Also if you want to be more technical, no object with mass can reach LS anyway

[@mekingtiger9095]

If we're talking about an object moving at _exactly_ the Speed of Light, then *any* object with mass moving at that speed would theoretically have infinite energy and thus would consequentially "break" the universe in one convoluted singularity that I do not even want to give myself the brain exploding effort to visualize here. But let us set speed or relativistic physics aside for a second. Just their basic, highschool level of Newtonian Physics already has absurdly wack implications when you break down many of their calculated strength feats. Free Stone's meteor punching feat posessing a grand total of 441 Kilotons of TNT would have *nuked* the entire city she's in to oblivion via just the shockwave from the impact alone. Just to give an idea besides the A-Bomb example already mentioned, 441 Kilotons of TNT is also the energy displaced equivalent of a *Magnitude 7 earthquake!* Characters should realistically be causing a laughable amount of colateral damage to their surroundings with most of their common physical attacks. Yet they don't because.... reasons?

[@amiablereaper]

My favorite part about power scaling is that every character in current one piece is actually moving faster than light because one guy dodged a laser one time.

[@martinshoosterman]

Also when they use the kinetic energy equation E = 1/2 mv² with values of v close to or greater than the speed of light. Or generally using any classical mechanics equations or either a sub atomic scale, or on a faster than light scale. The biggest issue with versus battles are the terrible usage of physics. It's awesome that so many kids are interested in physics, and it's cool for them to be doing those calculations themselves with the stuff they learned in their grade 11 physics class. But it's annoying as hell how arrogant some get about it without realizing how hopelessly wrong they are.

[@panpan1287]

For my entire adult life I've been tempted to write a short story where a character gains infinite power and the ability to kill anything in a single look. And then actually get that story published somewhere. Not because I want to actually write that story. But exclusively because then the character actually officially exists. That way if anyone ever talks about power scaling I can fuck with them. His name? Jon Solos.

[@Mepharias]

Check out a manga called My Instant Death Ability Is So Overpowered, No One in This Other World Stands a Chance Against Me! It's pretty much what you're talking about. At one point the main character is driving across a desert and the mangaka takes the chance to explain how the world exists in a multiverse and is at the whims of a giant multiversal fish who devours entire worlds and can see the future. The fish got bored of just eating and so started inserting itself as a character into these worlds and doing stuff using it's foresight ability like leading armies. But because the army it was leading happened to be in the way of the main character, the MC killed the fish just by thinking about it.

[@TheStraightestWhitest]

They'd still find ways to scale him below Kratos and the like.

[@abramelbin5631]

@@TheStraightestWhitest Well, I mean, if someone has the ability to resist instant death attacks, then wouldn't they just not die and then beat the MC up?

[@kilowyatt1107]

my favorite logic of powerscalers is "they dodged/blocked a lazer/lightning bolt, this means they are faster then light" like how the TMNT and fumikage from mha are both faster then light but this logic only applies to defense and they can't transfer this speed into beating someone into a pulp in a nanosecond or throwing a light speed punch at someone

[@ChaoticMess5618]

If that was all at accurate speeds, then anime would literally suck lol. Sure it would be cool to see a character move so fast and deck a character in the face, but an anime consisting of ENTIRELY that gets stale.

[@mekingtiger9095]

Aaaaah, the entire reason I love when people bash The Flash so much when I don't have enough powerscaling bashing content to directly enjoy.

[@Ablon94]

lmaoo thats so true! some ppl ACTUALY believe this, its complete INSANITY! i saw one youtube video once saying that spider man is faster than light because he dodged an gunshot that blasted a lighting at his direction.

[@lucasfelipe8349]

That's because Lasers in most series aren't actual Lasers, but power scalers ignore that completly

[@Alphaj0r]

​@@lucasfelipe8349The ones in vsbw dont though.

[@lashakhmelidze1665]

Powerscalers realizing they aren't even shower level

[@mechanwhal6590]

Underrated and based

[@JustTheWarGodKratos]

As a Power Scaler, I can confirm that I get no women. Tho I prefer calm debating and powerscaling over people attacking each other and getting all personal like doxxing.

[@ohhellwhereami2574]

Calm debating is like arguing but with breeze

[@TheKoopaKingBowser]

Fellow powerscaler, specifically for mainly nintendo and sega characters, and I must say there is no such thing as a "calm debate" in those sections of the internet, even if you're at peak respect. So unless you're debating with a saint you get screamed at and insulted.

[@darkcrow3350]

well no debates are more calm in general compared to arguments. Arguments are usually more heated debates. Thats really about it.@@ohhellwhereami2574

[@JustTheWarGodKratos]

@@TheKoopaKingBowser Eh if people get really personal I leave the debate and move on. I've met some really nice powerscalers, tho it's VERY VERY rare

[@SkoomaGodDovahkiin666]

As a powerscaler, I find women boring as hell. This isn’t misogyny, that term doesn’t begin to describe the disdain I hold for them.

[@ZimnoFr]

Power scalers on their way to call a lightspeed monster capable of destroying planets fodder because it cant beat goku:

[@raddledfluffy6077]

Power scalers on their way to call a Universe destroyer a Fodder because it can’t destroy a Multiverse

[@Capt.sirpika]

⁠​⁠​⁠@@raddledfluffy6077power scalers on their way to call a multiverse destroyer a fodder because they cant destroy reality

[@The0-2DemonKing]

5:12 To be fair, that kind of thing happens a lot in media unintentionally. Like the Flash being able to go into Flash time when at that point his max was 500mph in S1 Ep2. The Death Battle Crew even discussed that type of discrepancy between the author's intended strength of a character and the technical strength of a character. The most common example they brought up was when a character that's supposed to be relatively grounded moves clouds with an attack. Let's just say that moving clouds are far more impressive than any writer would know beforehand. Death Battle kind of *have* to take those feats into account otherwise the character's proponents are going to call bias of denying their character a potenially outcome saving feat.

[@the-aspiring-creator4249]

And to be fair, it comes with the territory of analyzing fictional characters based on real science and calculations. Because an author focuses on what looks cool or fits for a story, it means even the most human characters can have some broken qualities to them which in that case? I think it's best to take it in stride and have fun with it. For instance, a subject with Death Battle people miss is that it's mostly for entertainment. The analysis sections and so on show this because it's not a dry rundown of everyone's feats, it's a back-and-forth between a mad scientist and a gun leg sporting beer-lover going over a character's story while cracking jokes along the way. It's why in part I'd say they get lax with stuff like say compositing or whatever, because the freedom to explore some of the more insane factoids just makes for more fulfilling fun videos then just sitting there as one guy just drones on about how X is FTL because they avoided a laser and yada yada yada.

[@zzodysseuszz]

Why is 500mph a reason why flashtime doesn’t make sense. In order to run that fast without killing himself he’d NEED flashtime

[@The0-2DemonKing]

@zzodysseuszz I don't mean slowing down, I mean completely frozen. He had a full confession to Iris and she heard nothing, saw nothing and the sugar she was putting in her tea was completely still. That's not 500mph

[@rockargen9591]

@@The0-2DemonKing and also the time he basically stopped a nuke for like 6 hours of flash time and some episodes later they are like you are 80 times slower than the speed of light and a couple seasons later they are like "yep, your maximun is mach 10"

[@The0-2DemonKing]

@@rockargen9591 FR

[@Auron3991]

Semi-consistant power scaling is exceptionally good at one thing: not having your readers constantly wondering if the author lost the plot. If a character moves a mountain one episode, it would be exceptionally silly to have them stymied by a door without explanation. Beyond that, it should be a silly bit of entertainment.

[@Scruffy-qi3ik]

though some inconsistent can add alot of interesting nuance. like if a writer takes something like adrenaline into account to a character being capable of doing something but than not being able to do the same thing again normally later, because adrenaline can be a massive booster to one's abilities, even in real life where it allows humans and other animals be able to push through their limits temporarily.

[@flydrop8822]

​@@Scruffy-qi3ikthat wouldn't be inconsistency though, just the characteristics and limits of their powers.

[@Scruffy-qi3ik]

@@flydrop8822 i'm just calling it an inconsistency to follow the point of comment op really.

[@alearnedman]

​@millio6238It'll never not be hilarious to me that the guy who powerscalers claim can lift a universe struggles to open a chest

[@talleywa5772]

There's a difference between power scaling and powerscaling.

[@superdop1000]

power scaling is more of a thing that you should consider when writing your own setting to give your world a sense of scale and make your characters journey make sense. obviously power scaling across settings is just silly especially when the settings that you are comparing have inconsistent internal power scaling (like in DC/marvel).

[@ImmaSquirrel]

but it is fiction, though. and most of the events taken into account while "calculating the character's power scale level" was buffed to hell due to plot armor/assist.

[@nota13xxsweaponsupplier7]

@@ImmaSquirreleven though it’s fiction there has to be some degree of in-universe logic in your story otherwise it will be filled with a contrived plot line.

[@SkoomaGodDovahkiin666]

Baki and Kengan were able to do powerscaling well and consistently. Same with JJK(to a degree). Heck even Invincible and Spawn had sensible power levels and scales so it is very much not impossible to do that.

[@donovanfaust3227]

Nah I'd rather have cool moments than have an author constrain themselves because nerds want to be able to debate who would win in a fight accurately.

[@leisimmons7562]

@@donovanfaust3227 You can still have that when an author writes that way. It's merely a form of internal consistency.

[@Cherry_Zilla]

Powerscaling when their favorite characters loses to peepeepoopooman(I just made him up and he is the strongest character in fiction)

[@_Yombo]

Just wait until you learn about peepeepoopooman 2.0

[@Cherry_Zilla]

@@_Yombo antipeepeepoopoman solos

[@edwardhoffenheim3249]

History doesnt even agree with powerscaling because the greater military force doesn't _always_ win. Greatest example of bias is JJKs manga where the author spoonfeeds us an explaination of how a character loses, dropping hints the whole fight but the fanbase is so desperate for their daddy/mommy to win they become illiterate and call it bad writing when the writer choreographed the fight so well you shouldnt he disastisfied with anyone winning

[@mekingtiger9095]

Now that you mentioned military history, am I the only one who now thinks these nerds need to go play some strategy games and challenge thenselves a bit in order to try to get some minor reality check on how to play under the nuances of different asymmetric capabilities between two opponents? Because like, I do this all the time in Total War: Warhammer and am even doing it *right now!* Damn Dwarfs!

[@HeeHungersForHos]

​@@mekingtiger9095You do realize that power scaling includes all those nuances you mentioned right? It sounds like you're just generalizing when you don't actually know a lot about the topic.

[@mekingtiger9095]

@@HeeHungersForHos Yes, I am fully aware of that. But I am not criticizing power scaling itself. I'm criticizing the deranged and toxic community that doesn't put more than two brain cells worth of effort into an actual thought. If you do, congratulations, you're one of those 1 in a million decent scalers. But I feel sorry for you to have to endure the other 999999 scalers.

[@GeorgeDCowley]

@@mekingtiger9095 1 in 10, it used to be lower.

[@lolstalgic9602]

Oh God, i remember that. People were throwing a chitfit when Gojo died and even threating the Author.

[@gareldbronson2841]

Stan Lee Once Said "The Winner is The One That The Scriptwriter Wants To Win"

[@Wezlii530]

Is Stan lee the be all end all of discussions? No he isn’t my friend once said “the winner is the one that you can powerscale correctly”

[@Zephyr-lp2mi]

​@_Gr1ffith_ ah yes because your discord friend has a greater input on the matter than Stan Lee...

[@maniester9914]

@@Wezlii530 Yeah...much rather take the tellings of Stan Lee rather than random background friend #6671

[@rompevuevitos222]

@@Wezlii530Considering he is one of the most famous writers of all times, i'd say his points end a LOT of discussions.

[@scottthejatt]

​@@Wezlii530im ngl dude, if were going off power scaling rules like what you support, Stan Lee solos your friend

[@notawesomebread]

Personally, I think that character growth is a lot more interesting than raw power. Like, I'd rather watch someone start weak and get stronger over time, rather than just see someone with infinity strength right from the get-go. EDIT: I see people are replying about OPM, which I have no issue with. I'm talking mostly about people who only care about power scaling, or are choosing their favorite characters based on who is the "strongest". Regardless, good writing can make both weak characters or strong characters fun and engaging to watch.

[@Algebruh2407]

I would generally agree, with the only exception being Saitama from One Punch Man. But that is more so because it gives a more in look at the thought of what happens when you are at the top and he is still human enough to connect with and understand.

[@nihiqallam5616]

​@@Algebruh2407that anime goofy no need to worry when your main hero always win

[@lukestanley820]

Johnny from part 7 of JoJo is a perfect example of this

[@Merilirem]

You don't need to equate character to power like that. Someone with infinity power can still grow as a character. It just requires that growth to not need them to lose a fight or struggle to do things based on power.

[@TrafalgarWaterDLaw-dl5cm]

Saitama isn't about him winning fights. It showcases someone so strong that every fight bores him. He lives a poor unapreciated exsistance as no one recognizes his incredible strengh, and faces day to day struggles like getting by on s small budget. Another characzer King is a very intimidating guy who is extremely weak and scared bit domehow manages to bluff and talk himself out of most situations where villans belived he cpuld have killed them. Or they give him credit for Saotamas winning. They are booth helping each other and grow together. Wich is how you do it right. The grove and struggle is jzst a diffrent one then a power level in a fight

[@DC-it2ng]

Its funny to me how many Powerscaling fans are mad over this video lmao. They really just can't take criticism in any form.

[@billyboleson2830]

Shout to the weirdoes replying to every comment spamming the same “this video is bad” post lol

[@acidity2k486]

Are they really that mad?

[@BillCipherandFreddyKreugerFan]

@@acidity2k486yea I saw surfbone talking about this video

[@Meowlegend7]

​@@BillCipherandFreddyKreugerFansurfbone is bullshit

[@itsyenji]

@@acidity2k486 yeah they started turning into incompetent chronically fatherless online virgin incel losers spamming their dusty keyboards. Happens frequently

[@megamax898]

I always thought the death battle calculations sounded absurd. You're applying real life physics to a cartoon essentially. The people who wrote it were not thinking about it like that.

[@cadekachelmeier7251]

Also, most people don't really know much about the physics involved anyway. If you ask people how much a boulder/mountain/planet/star weighs, most people would be way off.

[@fluppet2350]

The death battle calculations that I have seen are questionable. That one with Jolene is really off. If a car drives into someone and when they collide, the front of the car is totaled, does that mean that the person could hit the car and do that when it's stationary? No If we apply that thinking to the meteors, we find that no she did not punch with that much force, the combo of the super fast meteors and her punch together had that total force.

[@MarwanHadidi]

"Mario could beat Sonic"

[@kinger2005]

​​@@fluppet2350death battle interpreted it wrong, as it's more a durability feat than anything. Just because the meteor has that much energy, doesn't mean it takes the same energy to break it.

[@ZennonTheOne]

@@MarwanHadidi "Sonic slams Goku" mfs when they realize Sonic doesn't know any martial arts: 💀

[@austinbevis4266]

Finally someone with a decent sized following admits that you can’t powerscale or definitively say who would win because it’s all up to whoever writes the story.

[@rjsblanket3024]

Of course, 90% of people know that, but that isn't as fun to discuss nor is it what powerscaling is for, it's for hypothetical battles on who would win based off evidence shown. Nobody needed to "admit" anything.

[@archeogeek315]

@@rjsblanket3024 It so funny how so power scaler hater in those comment are obsess with making us admit that power scalling is subjectif and for fun. When it's pretty fucking obvious unless your SethTheProgrammer.

[@xeox4280]

No its actually not up to the writer. I mean he could write a story and decide who wins in his story but thats only what he thinks but if the character shouldnt win and he still lets him win that just means he doesnt know the character so it would be like another fan fiction.

[@starstudiosRPG]

@@xeox4280That’s not how it works?

[@xeox4280]

@@starstudiosRPG But it is. If you have a character who for example can lift 2 tons but a writer just makes him lift 100 tons its just not the real character anymore. Its like a fan fiction. Plot armor. Bad writing.

[@clublazy9468]

I love who would wins but it’s super silly You’ll have a character that’s like tree level that fights street tier robots but some promotional comic from 25 years ago has a single panel where they jump out of a way from a laser beam and then all of a sudden he’s scaled faster than light and pinned against some anime waifu that juggles moons while she’s sleeping and he still somehow wins

[@bignstuff]

It do be like that

[@sbcs2809]

Kratos scaling be like, lol jk

[@derekg5006]

It feels really weird seeing people try to scale sonic, because not too long ago most people agreed that he was faster than sound, maybe around light in base form, but now he is super duper multiversal+ and also solos dragon ball because in X Game people don't like he was able to defeat Super Galactic Gigashart the Commander of the Shittrons who can eat universes for some reason even though it's barely elaborated on. Oh and he also defeated him not with raw power but with the chaos emeralds or some random macguffin in the game. This somehow translates into him beating goku because idk he did that, even though we never see him actually exert that power at all and he still rarely goes faster than light. I've seen people pull out "evidence" for why sonic is multiversal and it would literally be shit from books and manuels for 8 year olds and expect me to take them seriously

[@boynet7666]

​@@derekg5006I'm not going to lie, for me I've always seen Goku superior to Sonic in the sense of ferocity and animated battles, the fact is that Sonic was said to be at the speed of sound or speed of light indeed and seeing Dragon Ball wasn't in comparison and my brain was really off, I've learned what powerscale was (more or less in 6 months) and it's frankly crap, even if it can be true and all, I miss the time when few people dwelt on it or did it but just by speculation and without calculation saying "his infinity level is superior to his" but it was chill or not worse than right now. we can imagine someone say in dbz there were antagonists like "invincible" like Frieza on namek stated by vegeta but just because he was beaten that thus logic doesn't work, where as you could say that goku is infinite just cuz he won, I mean it's just a dick contest because the author has highlighted the powers better and as long as he wants to lower the power level of the latter it wouldn't be a problem, like dbs things and fr I don't watch anymore with so many errors and nonsense, but yeah I regret having known that

[@XD-sc4ix]

​@@derekg5006and let's not talk about Archie sonic who always emerge his ugly ass head

[@Alphachadbro27]

Debating over which fictional characters would win is cringe

[@mousefire777]

One thing I don’t like about power scaling is how much real fights are based on straight luck. Sometimes the light gets in your eye, or you didn’t get enough sleep, or you ate a bad shrimp, or somehow your opponent just happens to realize a weakness of yours. If you repeat the same fight and change some slightly different factors, a lot of the time the results will change

[@rutt7147]

I think that's what made Deadliest Warrior on cable more digestible despite how silly it is, they fed this "data" into simulation software and so many times it came down to like a 52/48 split between the proposed combatants.

[@geetoasty]

The victor could simply just be who would win the majority of the time

[@danieltalamantes3763]

What do you expect most needs know nothing about fighting

[@benjaminparent4115]

Yeah the same is also true for battles, it is genuinely hard to find battles that are well written there is so much that goes into winning a battle it i not just about being the best strategist, having more troop, or having stronger fighter. It is combination of the three, plus logistic, plus intelligence gathering , plus luck, plus morale, plus the fact that human are inherently inconsistent.

[@mekingtiger9095]

That's not exactly power scaling, though. That's versus debating. Which yes, uses power scaling as its cornerstone basis, but I feel it's kinda important to separate the two to get the definitions right.

[@drmonkeys852]

I think the funnest thing about the power-scaling community is they think their arguments are objectively superior because they are using "real physics" and "facts and logic" even though they will rarely go beyond a highschool level with their calculations. You will never see anyone mention anything about relativity or quantum mechanics even though at the speeds and energies they work with a lot of that will play a major role. Really wacky shit happens at high energies and extremely fast speeds. To the point where nobody knows what actually will happen at some levels. The whole elitist vibe they have is fundamentally stupid.

[@justincrowe888]

My favorite example is in Fire Force, which keeps physics somewhat more accurate than any other anime (besides maybe doctor stone) Spoiler ahead: at some point, Shinra goes faster than light and his body breaks down into quantum information/ particles that reassemble when he slows down, which as far as we can tell, would be a plausible outcome if you traveled faster than light irl. If you bring this up to power scaling people, they say "nuh uh, that's just how Fire Force writes it" when it is actually the closest depiction to our irl physical model, validating both your point and the one in the video 😂 1. You use whatever math achieves your desired outcome 2. It's up to the writers anyway

[@CutoutClips]

Yeah, I kind of roll my eyes when people are talking about a character who can travel faster than light and they do things like calculate their energy using k = (1/2)mv*2. First of all that's not accurate at relativistic velocities, and even if it was, it's still wrong since there's no way in our current understanding of physics for an object to move through space faster than the speed of light.

[@zoid_on_youtube]

i just dont understand the premise of trying to apply real world laws of physics on ficitonal universes that clearly do not adhere by the same rules at all. according to the laws of physics, none of the supernatural/mystical powers that characters have can even possibly exist , so how are you trying to use those laws to quantify said powers.

[@crypticlol]

​@@zoid_on_youtubeThat's exactly why we have characters that move faster than the speed of light in fiction If they can move faster than it, it means that at vacuum, the speed of light isn't the speed limit

[@draketurtle4169]

@@CutoutClipsthey are also ignoring every other factor that would be applicable. (It’s like those questions in a physics test where you ignore all other forces except gravity and the things moving)

[@princeofalltoasters8813]

The One Piece fandom has been insufferable ever since Wano when the powerscalers rolled in and made everything infinitely worse for everyone

[@oscarr9723]

I really hate these guys ngl, every emotional scene or great moment devolves into fanboys talking about how this character would solo and it’s insanely frustrating how much it ruins discussions when they equate a character’s worth to power levels. Its stupid.

[@dalton2845]

Is it wishful thinking to hope that they may leave one day, now that many of them actually get frustrated because the author doesn't give half a shit about powerscaling like they do?

[@goofyahgojiller]

@@oscarr9723 but thats literally what powerscaling is about, its a bunch of people who like a certain franchise or character trying to determine how powerful said character is for fun, if you think they are ruining emotional scenes thats your fault for letting said scene be ruined just because some people have fun by determining if character A could beat character B, if your gonna let other people's unharmful interests ruin something for you then maybe your the problem, not the nerdy powerscalers just trying to have fun.

[@oscarr9723]

@@goofyahgojiller I didn’t say they ruin the scene, I said they ruin the discussions. I don’t mind powerscalers having fun and enjoying their own discussions, but 90 percent of those threads breakdown into toxicity and other weird stuff. Sayin I hate something was a bit dramatic, but its definitely annoying when it feels like most powerscalers I see arguing inevitably brings unnecessary negativity. If you like having a nerdy debate have fun go for it, alot of these dudes need to keep it in that realm though, a fun nerdy debate.

[@horacesmith1959]

So One Piece fans finally caught up with Dragon Ball, Naruto fans etc?

[@MILDMONSTER1234]

Power scalers have completely ruined the SCP community. SCP used to basically just be creepy pastas for adults, but then people realized they could use it as a platform to show off their overpowered OC so then it just turned into a race on who can make the most powerful deviantART OC. “my made-up character can beat up your made-up character.” I don’t even get the appeal really like SCP isn’t an action shonen with a lot of fight scenes. It’s basically just a bunch of descriptions of characters and aren’t even really characters either there’s no story or narrative so why are people so obsessed with it?

[@dereck9736]

Someone hasn't read the tales. and many scp power scalers say to separate it enjoy the story and power scale it if you like it simple also if your story or scp is bad it's removed and op scps are the most common removed

[@MILDMONSTER1234]

@@dereck9736 SCP "content" thats based outside the entries themselves are all effectively just contradictory fan fiction. Hell the fact that they have whats basically a committee deciding that 682 and SK should get nerfed if the most laughable shit ive ever heard its some striaght old testament vs new testament shit

[@dereck9736]

@@MILDMONSTER1234 thanks for showing that you don't read scp at all if anything scp 682 and sk are stronger then ever and any contradictions can be fixed or understood the fact you say this shows your lack of knowledge Also I can tell your one of those reddit atheists

[@aghitsaplane4262]

Scp 3143 Murphy law is a good example of this,he's a character that can create his own story/plot but he usually always gets subverted and challenged (and sometimes even beaten) by characters within the story due to his adherence to detective/mystery narratives,but all power scalers see is "he's literally on par with the author" and the only thing that ever gets discussed online is how he could no diff all of fiction or whatever

[@CursedShinobiClown]

@@dereck9736 >scp fan calling anyone an edgy redditor O I’m laffin. SCP “canon” is effectively just canon by committee and even then just by the nature of scp being open to anyone because there’s no copyright any person can make up a story on ao3 of a chicken one shotting mr scarlet or another super op entry or better yet a book since any idiot can basically do anything with the fake lore people made up.

[@s.k4713]

I do enjoy some good old vs matchups but one thing that gets me about them is how much skill is put into play. Like being a skilled martial fighter kinda thing. Being a skilled fighter is great but at some points there is just something that will one shot you and no amount of skill will change that.

[@SCP-173peanut]

Yeah like a gun

[@douglysium9770]

I feel like sometimes they also ignore how certain powers and abilities may interact with each other. let's take Superman fro example. In most iterations Superman's invulnerability would not render him immune to magic. So if you throw him in a pit wit a certain character like Goku that begs the question if ki would count as magic or not and thus hurt Superman? I'm not trying to say who would win or not (and maybe there's an answer somewhere) but this is something I think is sometimes overlooked and I think sometimes because of this there is no objective correct answer where others might claim there is one because sometimes it would be based on how you interpret the powers interacting with each other unless there is a word of god from the author. Also, sometimes people just misread certain actions or feats and ignore how narrative factors into how certain feets are portrayed. For example they might see someone with a gun shoot at someone else and said person avoids the attack and assume the person is faster than bullets. Now this might be true in some cases but sometimes what's happing is your not factoring in things like shot accuracy or the action reaction speed it takes to actually react and fire the gun. Also, sometimes powerscaling gets to the point where people automatically assume its bad writing or a plot hole if a stronger character loses even though there might be other factors at play (such as personality or even luck) or a specific reason someone won. A stronger character simply losing isn't inherently bad it depends on how it's written and plays into the story. Yes, a plot hole could form if you don't know what you're doing but your favorite strong guy losing or being outclasses isn't automatically a plot hole or failing on the part of the story.

[@funnybones98]

batman fans when:

[@squirrelthegamer8483]

Someone literally put MK1 Kenshi against Deathstroke like as if Slade wouldn’t immediately put another hole in that man’d face lol

[@UltimateDude10]

@@douglysium9770 Magic was explicitly stated to be separate from Ki in Dragon Ball.

[@firenze6478]

What killed me was when they claimed that fire emblem lords hit with the force greater than the largest nuke by chainscaling through four alternate timelines and scaling rhea to a blast millions of times greater than the one she actually survived to claim that characters with no super-strength feats apart from dimitri’s which were stuff like crushing skulls and lifting large boulders needed the entire force of ailel’s destruction just to hurt rhea. That’s beyond head-canon bull and both guts and dimitri’s scaled speeds would have completely broken their settings.

[@yagirlmayalazarus6713]

That’s video game powerscaling for you. Things can get pretty nutty. Mario can die to a Goomba but also can take on beings throwing stars at him lol

[@firenze6478]

@@yagirlmayalazarus6713 yeah, but this was chainscaling to three different people and chainscaling the weakest showcase of the javelins of light to the strongest. ( they are very inconsistent in damage output.) it also ignored that they used weapons specifically designed to kill dragons and that they had entire armies backing them up. But again, the biggest factor is rhea didn’t survive a 6 gigaton explosion, she survived a 7.5 ton one and an indirect one at that and it shouldn’t even factor in because without that one claim, dimitri wouldn’t even be low building level.

[@anglsrebound9523]

Guts vs Dimitri had some of the worst powerscaling I've ever seen, The stats they gave them were beyond inflated.

[@firenze6478]

@@anglsrebound9523 exactly. But you get called a berserk fanboy for pointing this out, even though your pointing out how wanked Guts was too.

[@anglsrebound9523]

@@firenze6478 I'm of the opinion that Guts can beat Dimitri, And I wanted DB to make the matchup for years, Sadly all we got was a horseshit analysis that doesn't even touch upon the character's feats themselves and instead relies on inaccurate scale chaining and inflated speed calcs, At least the animation was cool though.

[@MannerdDesert7]

I don’t necessarily mind power scaling as long as it’s kept in mind that different fictional universes have different rules, like it’s so annoying when some power scaler says a character is “multiversal” (as if that actually means something) because the character did some really specific feat that only works with the rules set in that specific story.

[@Dexuz]

Like with time shenanigans, mentally broken after all those "multiversal-level because he destroyed a timeline!"

[@ellingtonf1097]

I like scaling within verses (except One Piece, that shit sucks lmaoooo).

[@ScuffedWarden]

what do they even mean by multiversal; do they exist in multiple universes; do they rule over multiple universes, can they just obliterate the entire multiverse just by thinking about it like some elder god. What does 'multiversal level' even mean.

[@MannerdDesert7]

@@ellingtonf1097 good stories usually make power differences clear so power scaling isn’t really needed in the same universe.

[@MannerdDesert7]

@@ScuffedWarden I think it’s supposed to mean that they can destroy multiverses, the problem with that statement is a multiverse isn’t a real thing and has different rules & characteristics in each story, just because you can destroy a multiverse in one story doesn’t mean you can destroy a multiverse in another, in fact in some stories a multiverse is a philosophical concept rather than a physical thing & therefore can’t be destroyed.

[@CureTortellini]

The thing I hate the most in power scaling discussions, and one that I feel adds to your storytelling argument, is when a slapstick cartoon character is brought into the ring and all of a sudden we're talking about "toon force" (I hate that term so much bro), the power that apparently grants those characters the ability to bend reality to their will. This is the best example of authors being more concerned with portraying compelling scenes in my opinion, because even moreso in these kinds of cartoons, the difference in a character's power between when they need save their ass and when they need to be in real danger is especially palpable. Roger Rabbit put it the best way when he said that cartoons only do what they do and decide when to do it solely based on how funny it might be at that moment. Bugs Bunny wouldn't fight Goku out of nowhere because Bugs wouldn't think it's funny; he doesn't operate that way, Goku is too much of a good guy to be fucked with. However, if Bugs was somehow in Thanos' way of destroying half the population of earth, then yeah, Thanos would be smoked in seven minutes or less, I'll give you that. But only because it's funny.

[@GeorgeDCowley]

Dragon Ball Super actually played with it a bit.

[@Dominator150395]

The whole idea of "toon force" is so funny, because you acknowledge that certain characters' abilities can vary wildly based on what's cool/funny/emotionally satisfying, but you stop just short of figuring out what that actually _means._

[@SenyiKimmo]

i remember seeing a tumblr post that actually depicted Bugs vs Thanos, and it had Bugs disguised as airport security and he was ushering Thanos through a metal detector. obviously this means he needs to remove his personal belongings....

[@mekingtiger9095]

​@@Dominator150395 Everytime I hear "toonforce" I immediately step away from whatever conversation, video or thread I was currently watching because I *know* there will be so many contradictions in the scaling methods that I'd rather spare myself from the frustration of having my brain melt away from pure cringe.

[@PlasticAddict301]

​@@Dominator150395somebody worded it in a way I always meant to, thank chrisy

[@citizenvulpes4562]

"My dad can beat your dad in the parking lot" but imaginary characters.

[@OmniDan26]

You can beat me off ty

[@SoCtaker]

One of my favorite examples was when Seth the Programmer used a ruler and a calculator to prove that Naruto had to be 72 times faster than the Raikage in order to dodge one of his punches in the way that he did. Since Naruto and Minato share a lot of screen time during the war Minato was also scaled to this same speed. Afterwards Seth concluded that Minato could blitz every single member of the Akatsuki (including Obito) with a kunai and wouldn't even need flying thunder god, body flicker, or any other jutsu to achieve this feat. All of them would be dead before a single synapse in their brain could fire. The funny part about this is that Minato fought Obito in the Anime and the fight didn't go like that at all, Obito had no problem keeping up with Minato.

[@daraghokane4236]

You can power scale captain boomerang to be the strongest thing in dc comics with that logic. Captain boomerang's boomerangs have hit the flash who on one occasion outrun instant speed how not relevant, so his boomeranges are faster then instant captain boomerang got hit by his own boomerang that moves at instant speed and therefore hits with infinite power, on the squide squad and on the rouges he fought against planet destroying threats so what if he didn't do any of the work he was there. Captain boomerang has died and came back to life that buts him above life and death as a concept

[@4dtoaster819]

@@daraghokane4236 The only person who can beat him is Batman

[@Daiyuki117]

@@daraghokane4236Can you discover spellcheck and formatting for your tech tree please? That was a rough read though I agree

[@cryptedz7664]

Obito keeping up w minato just means he's stronger than seth thought. The distance from naruto to the rikagas fist could be off from what seth calculated but if it's right then the simple answer is Obito could replicate the same thing as Naruto in terms of speed

[@privatefeetpics7415]

I saw a video today that said Naruto is 160 octillion times the speed of light because they scaled him to Kakashi 💀

[@xenophanessonic821]

As an ex powerscaler fan ive learned to enjoy kirby for the lovable puffball of pure friendship that he is rather then him being able to knock a metoer 10,000 light years away in 20 seconds or whatever

[@Electricc__]

As a current powerscaler fan, I've learned that Batman solos your favorite character

[@Portersona69420]

Kirby is friend shaped ❤

[@rainstarsworld9429]

Kirby powerscalerers are a different level of annoying lol. They definitely drive pleasure from the supposed shock value of a cutesy character being so strong, and they'll never shut up about how he's "le godslayer le strongest character in fiction" when he isn't even the strongest Nintendo character by a long shot lmao (that honor obviously going to Galeem)

[@Ms.kitsune42]

@@rainstarsworld9429Kirby solos your wimpy ass

[@xenophanessonic821]

@rainstarsworld9429 ugh totally. I'm guilty of doing that kind of stuff and it's my biggest regret

[@joshuawilliams4741]

“Jesus ain’t beating Goku tho.” “My brother in Christ, Jesus was nailed to cross for our sins. Goku is scared of needles.” “W-what?” “And he can resurrect himself without Dragon Balls.”

[@sweetsweetkhajoor]

i actually saw ppl discussion tht on a discord server in the past

[@purplehaze2358]

Unironically, this video genuinely had me reconsidering whether or not I want to stay subscribed to a power scaling channel I watch.

[@strikingsarcophagus]

That shouldn't be your takeaway from this video. If you enjoy that creator, watch them. That's all there is to it.

[@daiyousei.1586]

Hello purple haze, I know you from somewhere.

[@InvocationOfSebastian]

Good to know you cannot think for yourself.

[@purplehaze2358]

@@InvocationOfSebastian Or, alternatively, I haven't thought much about this particular topic because it hardly truly matters to me.

[@TheToxicTig3r]

⁠​⁠@@purplehaze2358I suggest you should unsubscribe if you feel guilty. Don’t let that sarcophagus mf at the top of the replies change ur mind. If you know power scaling is stupid and if you believe that immediately unsubscribe, and you won’t feel regret. Honestly, the only way I’d ever watch a fan made crossover fight is if instead of power scaling you make a good fight that builds off the character development of the characters at hand. Plus even if you like power scaling and you sub to death battle of some shit 1/2 the time the calculations can be questionable at best, both out of the fight and in the fight. Not saying you must but if you really are confused just remember these are unofficial fan fictions of fictional characters. If there’s something prevents you from wanting to watch something, it’s best to put it behind.

[@devonhilt9389]

If i were to add a point number 4: powers are always embedded in the context of the story they're from, and directly comparing the powers often requires ignoring that context, or applying an arbitrary context. Thats why the question of "does Batman get prep time" is so common, because intrinsically they know that Batman's stories are about investigation, studying clues, and formulating plans, and winning fights is just often a good context for that. Same with magic that requires a unique resource. Does a knight radiant get stormlight? How do you decide how much they get?

[@henryfleischer404]

This is why I think Superman would beat Goku. Dragonball is about training and somehow pulling off a win by the skin of his teath. Superman is not.

[@slavishentity6705]

​@@henryfleischer404Doesn't that mean Goku is more likely to break the status quo and get stronger than Superman ?

[@henryfleischer404]

@@slavishentity6705 No, because with Superman, it's not a question of if he'll win, but how. However, I think if they have a rematch after the first fight, Goku would win.

[@Bleeperblopper497]

@@henryfleischer404 Goku is screwed the moment Superman leaves earth as in the moro arc, Goku can't chase after people in space, and Superman has better speed feats than Goku

[@abdouaboud7490]

@@Bleeperblopper497 if superman radiate energy goku can always teleport to him

[@jaegerwhatifs4679]

As a One Piece fan this pisses me off so much. I really hate the Shanks vs Mihawk debate specifically because they don't look at context to justify anything. You have people saying "Mihawk is the strongest swordsman so he is stronger than Shanks who is also a swordsman" or "Shanks is a Yonko so he is more powerful". It really doesn't matter which one of them is more powerful. One Piece had so many situations where characters win in impossible situations thanks to luck or outside help. My favorite example is Brook vs Big Mom. If the powerscaling community wrote that battle, they would explain that Big Mom would win in 12 milliseconds because she is hypermegasuperdupercrazy level. In reality, Oda wrote the story in a way where Brook ends up technically winning and losing at the same time. It doesn't ruin Big Mom's power level, neither does it boost Brook's in an unrealistic way. It's simply good storytelling.

[@jahredharrison4069]

I mostly hate the One Piece debates because they keep calling every character who dodges an attack from Kizaru or Kuma faster than light without ever thinking for a moment about how absurd that is.

[@jaegerwhatifs4679]

@@jahredharrison4069 Yeah that is also really stupid.

[@ultrcombraun1559]

That's literally what powerscaling exists to avoid. Instead of weird uncertain labels about their position in the world, you use feats and statements about the things they can do. Who cares what a yonko is when you have examples of what the peak of their power is. Your issue is not with powerscaling, but with a LACK of it.

[@jaegerwhatifs4679]

@@ultrcombraun1559 No trust me it's powerscaling. I see people bring up one panel feats and take it as their religion. I just want to enjoy the story. No one cares if Shanks beats Mihawk or vice versa if it's not well written.

[@ultrcombraun1559]

@jaegerwhatifs4679 whether it is well written or not is irrelevant. Powerscaling isn't about what you like or dislike, it is about what is true

[@noahtheoldman6152]

Love it when powerscalers would just lie, spread misconceptions and call you stupid for not accepting they bs. I love Sun Wukong to death but saying that he could transform into a stronger version of his opponent is utter crap. ABSOLUTE NO (sensible) writer would do that to their story. Being op to the point of braindeadness and Mary Sue is NOT what makes Wukong legendary.

[@corrinflakes9659]

Jolyne vs Westwood is still a great fight, but not for showing Jolyne’s strength, but showcasing her tenacity to serious injuries and quick problem-solving. That fight is one of many examples why Jolyne is a great action heroine.

[@fluppet2350]

I already commented this but that "feat" doesn't ruin her consistency at all. Its very much like a car ramming into someone, 99% of the energy in this "attack" by the character comes from the momentum of the car or in this case, meteor. Its much more of a defense feat than an attack feat, she didn't punch that hard, the combo of the two forces combining did.

[@onidogg1593]

I agree with the whole Jolyne thing but thats why anti feats exist where if something cool and high scaling happens once there has to be some level of consistency for people to use it as an actual feat. Also fire vid🔥🔥🔥

[@ohhellwhereami2574]

Anti feat only is valid if anti feat isn't just random situation and directly points towards being true Because otherwise 99%of character aren't even gonna be wall level

[@onidogg1593]

@@ohhellwhereami2574 yeah but like I said there has to be a level of consistency to use stuff

[@ohhellwhereami2574]

@@onidogg1593 same goes for anti feats I guess It's about if anti feat outweigh feats in quantity and validity

[@cyankoopa8111]

@@ohhellwhereami2574 Okay, but in the Jolyne example the stand is consistently not strong enough to break the bars to the windows in Jolyne's cell. That's a pretty valid anti-feat, right?

[@ohhellwhereami2574]

@@cyankoopa8111 pretty sure there's a reason behind it, as mentioned

[@no.notfromRDR]

One series that powerscaling got really really REALLY out of control is fate (nasuverse in general). Let me give you a example: fate zero, one of the most tamed anime of the series in terms of power scaling have the first fight in it (diarmund VS arthoria) being pretty good animation and very tamed. But when you go read the novel is stated that they were moving past the speed of sound. There's literally a meme that if you can lift a peddle in the nasuverse you're outerversal.

[@Lil_Winner171]

power scaling is fun when its not taken seriously, but when you start getting livid about which drawing is stronger then which its stupid, some characters aren't meant to be fought against other characters for example, the lamb from cult of the lamb technically could solo anybody in fiction because they can just turn them into a little bug and stomp on them, and theres no counter.