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Post by Deleted on Jun 16, 2022 18:06:49 GMT -5
Also, and maybe this sounds dumb, but if a person has 111 different abilities. And they are battling. They might forget that a certain attack or method would work better in the moment. Fighting other superbeings is a high paced, fast thinking event. You might overthink or you might forget of an attack or ability or strategy you have. A bit off topic, but this reminds me of trying to play modern video games with my kids...they know a million "button combination" moves for a given game and I'm just mashing away like it's still 1992 on my old Sega.
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Post by kirby101 on Jun 16, 2022 20:15:54 GMT -5
Alan Moore brought omnipotent characters to their logical conclusion in Miracleman.
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Post by tonebone on Jun 17, 2022 10:22:17 GMT -5
Alan Moore brought omnipotent characters to their logical conclusion in Miracleman. Yeah his approach to Doctor Manhattan really highlighted the futility of an omnipotent character trying to fit in with normies. H really presented it as a curse that would push a person to a place of loneliness and, sort of, impotence. If you could do ANYTHING, why would you want to do ANYTHING? Why would you care?
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Post by kirby101 on Jun 17, 2022 11:03:56 GMT -5
The difference between Manhattan and Miracleman is Manhattan saw all of time and knew there was nothing he could do. MM saw the world in a mess and knew they had to act.
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Post by mikelmidnight on Jun 17, 2022 11:23:53 GMT -5
Also, and maybe this sounds dumb, but if a person has 111 different abilities. And they are battling. They might forget that a certain attack or method would work better in the moment. Fighting other superbeings is a high paced, fast thinking event. You might overthink or you might forget of an attack or ability or strategy you have.
This reminds me of Grant Morrison's character the Quiz. She has every power you're not thinking of … so the way to defeat her is to think of as many powers as you can, thereby removing her ability to use each one. She wins by thinking of an effective power that's so obscure and narrowly specific that it wouldn't have occurred to you.
I'm glad she never got revived as a world-beater type.
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Post by james on Jun 17, 2022 14:52:50 GMT -5
I may have missed the point of the topic completely, but isn’t this the whole problem with Superman and why some find him boring?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 17, 2022 14:56:00 GMT -5
I may have missed the point of the topic completely, but isn’t this the whole problem with Superman and why some find him boring? While I didn’t specifically mention Superman in my initial post, he was definitely on my mind when I wrote it. The Silver Age tales I read were fun, but when he started pulling Super-Ventriloquism out of the hat and all that, well…
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Post by berkley on Jun 17, 2022 22:08:56 GMT -5
After much thought, this is how I recommend you write an omnipotent character: Dear Omnipotent Character,
Please do not destroy my planet.
Your friend, driver1980
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Post by Deleted on Jun 18, 2022 5:46:26 GMT -5
Also, and maybe this sounds dumb, but if a person has 111 different abilities. And they are battling. They might forget that a certain attack or method would work better in the moment. Fighting other superbeings is a high paced, fast thinking event. You might overthink or you might forget of an attack or ability or strategy you have. A human example...I have a bunch of tools in a shed and scrap pieces of everything. Last year, to trim my hedges, I used my ladder and leaned it into the hedge which was precarious and probably dangerous at times. This year, upon digging through the shed, I found a piece of wood I forgot I had used previously that was perfect to strap to the ladder top, distributing my weight more evenly and making it easier to do the job. Last summer I rushed to do it one day before going away on holiday and completely forgot about this added piece that made the job easier and safer. That means wrestlers are superior to superheroes because they always know which move to pull out of the hat at the right time. Big guy in front of you? Rake his eyes. Small guy in front of you? Bodyslam!
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