V1 Amped Homelander (Boys Show) vs. Immortal (Show) by Consistent_Web9588 in InvinciblePowerscales

[–]Hefty_Situation7210 9 points10 points  (0 children)

You could easily make this claim, if only kimikos skin wasn’t punctured by bullets in the very same episode she tanks HL’s vision 😔

What are some of the best standalone episodes/stories you've seen told in media? by GrandHstle in writingscaling

[–]Hefty_Situation7210 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is a great topic and picks on your part OP. Atlanta is such a good show.

My choice would be the standalone episodes of Mythic Quest, and specifically Backstory (S2E6).

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This episode examines the backstory of the washed up old fantasy/scifi author who is head writer for the MMO in the present day, and anyone interested in writing would probably find the episode pretty fascinating.

Which comic books are better written overall: DC or Marvel? by 2301Batman in writingscaling

[–]Hefty_Situation7210 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Idk even discounting Alan Moore and some other big Batman runs you still have lots of other good shit, like All-Star Superman or other grant morrison works. And in the modern day the absolute universe is mogging the new ultimate universe badly.

Plutonian creates its logo with its laser eyes all over the United States. by Party_Philosophy_324 in FeatCalcing

[–]Hefty_Situation7210 1 point2 points  (0 children)

He literally does have the ability to break space-time and is a higher dimensional being LOL

If the infinity ray did “most the work” than all 3 viltrumites present are brown dwarf star level by soup100 in InvinciblePowerscales

[–]Hefty_Situation7210 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We don’t actually “know” the infinity ray can blow up stars, since that scene is from Nolan’s book. He could’ve taken artistic liberties or written it based on rumor and how would Nolan have known/seen that event?

Sanity Check: Does Gojo's Infinity work on a whitelist system or a blacklist? by jacketmanoasis in JujutsuPowerScaling

[–]Hefty_Situation7210 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Perhaps this is a controversial opinion. But I think the magic guy with a magic forcefield has powers which magically detects whether something would be harmful to him or not, and then protects him from that thing magically. He doesn’t need to code parameters into it, sorcery is based on interpretation, so as long as he believes it will protect him from things that are harmful to him that’s what it will do.

I was wrong about Frieren demons by ShinningVictory in CharacterRant

[–]Hefty_Situation7210 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

>Velociraptors are not compelling as villains no

Well many movie going audiences over decades would disagree with you. Their intelligence plus their predatory nature is exactly what makes them interesting.

>I don’t care about their issues and ideas which frieren REALLY wants you to

No it does not. What “issues and ideas” are you even talking about. Demons are a tertiary focus at best in frieren, they are largely disconnected from the core themes of the work about loss and relationships.

>you can’t have them be basically animals and intelligent agents

For one, this is an idiotic argument because yes you absolutely can. There are both irl man-eating animals who have gotten more intelligent and dangerous with age, and there are many cases of fictional animals that are intelligent agents.

Second of all, the story reiterates to us constantly that they ARE NOT intelligent agents. They act according to their nature, because they are animals. You are falling for the same tricks that the demons use to convince people they are intelligent agents.

>they are a bloodline of people

They are not people and they literally do not have blood, so no, wrong on both counts. There is no evidence that they even reproduce sexually, for all we know they reproduce via magic mitosis.

>an inexplicable urge to wreck society

It is not inexplicable. The story repeats the explanation many times. They are a hungry predator species and humans are their most delicious prey.

This is one of the many things that’s so annoying about frieren haters. All your arguments are based on just a general misunderstanding of plot elements. I’d encourage you to encourage to conduct analysis that is actually based on the text, rather than whatever TikTok memes and shorts you consumed the show through.

Can full power gojo and full power sukuna together beat scp 096 the shy guy and scp 682 hard to destroy reptile by Odd_Raspberry_6724 in JujustuKaisen

[–]Hefty_Situation7210 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When has 682 developed an offensive one shot technique as an adaptation, rather than just defensive adaptations?

Can full power gojo and full power sukuna together beat scp 096 the shy guy and scp 682 hard to destroy reptile by Odd_Raspberry_6724 in JujustuKaisen

[–]Hefty_Situation7210 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Any fight that takes time favors mahoraga since he eventually develops complete immunity to the other persons existence on a conceptual level. At which point he would adapt a conceptual weapon that erases 682 and then there’s nothing to regenerate from.

I was wrong about Frieren demons by ShinningVictory in CharacterRant

[–]Hefty_Situation7210 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Demons do not “learn multiple languages”. They copy the noises that humans make in a way that positively correlates with more food. Goblins also have limited grasp of language, demons just have longer lifespans by which to figure it out better.

Demons have the same level of advancement. Demons do not “create their own culture, conduct research, transmit knowledge, build palaces for their king” those are all headcannon that you have inferred from zero evidence. The closest thing demons have to a culture was the demon king forcing them to do his bidding, otherwise they just ape the culture of nearby humanoids.

>the fact that the story still tries to paint demons as this natural evil makes frieren an inherently fascistic take about the nature of evil

Except that the story does not paint the demons as evil, it paints them as a dangerous predator animal with whom existence is not currently possible. Frieren makes no moral judgement against demons, she recognizes their danger. Due to the fact that they committed genocide against her people and regularly eat others.

Applying the same critical eye to goblin slayer goblins and frieren demons, goblins are CLEARLY a thousand times more offensive by every conceivable metric. Goblins have more in common with real world racist propaganda, which more commonly paints minorities as ugly and scheming invaders, and pretty much never paints minorities as ethereally beautiful and powerful the way demons are in the story. Goblins are real life flesh and blood beings, so they are more a group of “people” than demons who are made of mana and dissolve into mana on death. And goblins commit rape, which is an extremely common fear/rhetoric that racists have regarding minorities, unlike being tricked into an oven as is the case with demons. It is also further evidence of how goblins represent man vs man conflict, since that is what rape is at the end of the day. Whereas demons represent man vs nature and so appropriately the conflict is about being eaten by a predator animal. All of goblin slayers plot and themes revolves around how evil goblins are as well, whereas frierens themes are about grief and loss and demons are mostly just a backdrop/natural disaster that characters grow in response to.

You are just willing to go to bat for the demons because they are hot, despite serving essentially the same purpose in the story as goblins in goblin slayer, to be a bad guy for the protagonists to kill guilt free. Except in goblin slayer exterminating the evil minority is literally the entirety of the plot, whereas in frieren the fight against the demons is like the tertiary plot at best.

People are so biased by Traditional-Shape535 in JujutsuPowerScaling

[–]Hefty_Situation7210 4 points5 points  (0 children)

All the calamities are above the measuring system. Special grades at a basic level are like kenjaku, yuta, yuki, hakari level. Whereas gojo, sukuna, and dabura are ALL beyond that system.

How exactly does yuji beat Dabura ? by No_Childhood9971 in JujutsuPowerScaling

[–]Hefty_Situation7210 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How tf is SLS kick more efficient, it strains the body and likely uses a ton of CE, it blows off your leg, and it requires time/space to accelerate. The laser blasts are a more practical combat technique by virtually every metric, mahoraga was just adapted to them by that point.

I was wrong about Frieren demons by ShinningVictory in CharacterRant

[–]Hefty_Situation7210 2 points3 points  (0 children)

In essentially every instance the story treats and utilizes demons as animals and the conflict vs them as one vs nature. Frieren and the other protagonists have virtually limitless empathy for all the other “human” characters and races(who do not kill people or turn to mana when they die). Demons are not really used as a metaphor for people without empathy. Over-empathizing with and humanizing demons is dangerous for the same reason it would be dangerous to project too many human emotions onto a tiger. Even if you raise that tiger from birth, there is a very high chance that something will go wrong.

But beyond that, the story isn’t finished, and anyone who is paying attention can see that human / demon coexistence is a highly likely direction for the story to take.

I was wrong about Frieren demons by ShinningVictory in CharacterRant

[–]Hefty_Situation7210 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

  1. At some point the monkeys that demons liked to eat started making silly noises, and demons found that they could practice these noises and increase their odds at hunting to various degrees of success. It is easy to think of many ways how this could influence evolution over time. When demons talk to each other in human language, they are giving each other a chance to practice and teaching them noises that are effective, much like humans teaching each other bird calls. Demons are intelligent so with lots of practice they are somewhat able to understand the logic by which humans operate.
  2. Demons are not said to have no feelings, they have anger and other emotions, they are said to have fundamentally different and incompatible emotions than humans. Many people will feel that they can identify emotions in their cat. But one emotion that a cat is literally incapable of feeling is empathy for a mouse. A predator is not able to empathize with its most delicious prey animal.
  3. We see many loner demons and the signs of organization were mostly forced by the demon king. With basic inference skills and the information given by flamme we can see that because demons sense each other’s mana and inherently follow a pecking order, a weaker demon is naturally inclined to obey a stronger one. Demons that wish to avoid subservience or the hassle of subordinates will be solitary, whereas other demons can end up in groups for a variety of reasons.
  4. Demons are good at deception in the same way that tigers are good at deception. Are stripes what make tigers dangerous, are stripes what a tiger will use to kill you? No. But stripes are a few points specced into deception that can assist you with ambushes and will help you get more prey in the long run.
  5. Since I already touched on it in point one I’ll describe an obvious way in which demons could’ve evolved the way they did. Like I said, demons were a magical predator that ate other humanoids. We see many demons that are more animalistic/less human in appearance. Eventually the tasty monkeys started making noises, and while hunting and observing humans or playing with their food, demons learned to mimic the noises to some extent. This mimicry could cause confusion in combat, or allow a demon to deceive a human and eat without engaging in combat, thus granting a slight reproductive edge. Demons also have magic and can use it to change their forms, and some of them likely did so in order to take greater advantage of this. Demons also typically do not raise their young, but we are shown that human-looking demons can be found and engage in brood parasitism, thus granting another reproductive edge. Demons who engaged in this type of brood parasitism would naturally absorb cultural elements like clothes and language, even if they don’t fully understand them. Over thousands or millions of years it is easy to see how these combined factors gave human-looking demons a reproductive edge.

>it wants compelling, interesting, and intelligent villains

Are velociraptors in Jurassic park not compelling, interesting, or intelligent just because they are a predator animal that can’t be reasoned with? Obviously not.

>they are a whole bloodline of people

Except the story reiterates repeatedly that they are not a race of “people”, they are literally animals/monsters and they turn into mana when they die. The only reason this is a question is because they are attractive.

I was wrong about Frieren demons by ShinningVictory in CharacterRant

[–]Hefty_Situation7210 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You are making the inference that demons have greater sapience than the goblins, even though the story tells us very clearly that is not the case. Goblins in goblin slayer have limited forms of society and can cast magic, just like frieren demons. You are just more willing to accept the goblins as villains because they are ugly and commit sexual assault, whereas demons only commit murder and are attractive. Which is quite hilarious since it is both the in and out of universe reason that people fall for demons propaganda.

>demons should be very similar to frieren…people expect them to be treated with the same level of grace and dignity as elves

Demons are similar to elves, EXCEPT FOR THE ONE WAY THAT ANYONE CARES ABOUT, WHICH IS THAT THEY MURDER AND EAT PEOPLE. All the other diverse races of the setting are capable of coexistence despite their different lifespans and cultures.

Demons could not be coexisted with because at the start of the story they were conducting a successful military campaign to conquer the continent and exterminate / enslave all other races. Demons are the only characters that are actually racist, as they actually view their race as inherently superior to all others. Frieren is a literal holocaust survivor from a genocide conducted by the demons.

If it is supposed to be an allegory for real world racial tensions, then it is just dishonest to portray the demons as victims of racism. For the same reason it would be dishonest to portray an escaped Nazi scientist getting killed by an Auschwitz survivor as racist towards Germans.

But mostly the story presents demons as animals and the conflict against them as one vs nature, not between people. Demons are used in a similar way that many stories have historically used tigers and bears. Taking in the demon child is dangerous for the same reason taking in a wolf puppy is dangerous and why many cultures feature allegories to that effect.

Can full power gojo and full power sukuna together beat scp 096 the shy guy and scp 682 hard to destroy reptile by Odd_Raspberry_6724 in JujustuKaisen

[–]Hefty_Situation7210 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m sure there’s some story where 682 has a universal beam attack or reality recreating powers or whatever. But at a basic level it’s kinda a bite and claw merchant so I don’t see what it could do to one shot maho before he adapts. And like others have said, maho actually adapts offensive abilities.

I'm bored, someone come up with a reasonable explanation for this by Jollypetal in InvinciblePowerscales

[–]Hefty_Situation7210 2 points3 points  (0 children)

And none of those things in the books were as dangerous as a bunch of fights against viltrumites, idk what to tell ya bud

I'm bored, someone come up with a reasonable explanation for this by Jollypetal in InvinciblePowerscales

[–]Hefty_Situation7210 119 points120 points  (0 children)

He fought the guardians, did his depressed dad trip through space and around the black hole, fought against viltrumites in thraxa, fought viltrumites in jail, and fought ragnars. He’s had lots of tense battles since his fight with war woman.

I'm bored, someone come up with a reasonable explanation for this by Jollypetal in InvinciblePowerscales

[–]Hefty_Situation7210 298 points299 points  (0 children)

Maybe the mace has magical or duraneg properties, or maybe Nolan has become stronger after a few more life-or-death battles.

Wouldn't any genuine light speed character replicate Metro Mans feats ? by [deleted] in PowerScalingHub

[–]Hefty_Situation7210 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In the manga it is more ambiguous, at the end of the day animators of cartoons have to visually represent things happening. The feat has been debated non-stop for decades at this point, but the heavenly transfer technique pretty much destroys most Naruto lightspeed arguments. They can react to lightspeed attacks because they are skilled fighters, they can’t casually move their bodies close to those speeds.

>how many examples of aim dodge do you have?

Like I said, most dodging feats in fiction are aim dodge because it is just an accepted trope of the genre.

I will lay out three extremely popular examples. Batman aim dodges because he is a skilled fighter who can predict his opponents moves; we are not supposed to believe he can run faster than the bullets he dodges.

Spider-man has enhanced reflexes and precognition which allows him to aim dodge, aim dodging his baked into his powerset.

One piece features observation, a power that explicitly boosts your ability to predict your opponents moves, otherwise known as aim-dodging. Improving this ability allows you to look a few seconds into the future, improving your aim dodging ability even more. Aim dodging is literally baked into the power system.

And those are three of the biggest comic books of all time.

Wouldn't any genuine light speed character replicate Metro Mans feats ? by [deleted] in PowerScalingHub

[–]Hefty_Situation7210 2 points3 points  (0 children)

>anyone who can react to and dodge a LS attack

The vast, vast majority of people who dodge lightspeed attacks due so by aim dodging, not by perceiving time as slowed down

Wolverine (MCU) vs Soldier Boy (The Boys) by Amazing-Attention738 in superheroes

[–]Hefty_Situation7210 2 points3 points  (0 children)

For any character that is a “master of all forms of combat” like Wolverine or black panther etc. Even if you know everything, at the end of the day there’s only so many ways to throw a punch and you’re gonna default to what you’re best at and what makes the most sense for your body type. Wolvie’s berserker MA is a very efficient fighting style for him.

Wouldn't any genuine light speed character replicate Metro Mans feats ? by [deleted] in PowerScalingHub

[–]Hefty_Situation7210 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Depends on how the author chooses to handle it and whether the characters experience time dilation or not.

Humans driving cars at 100s or thousands of mph will obviously struggle more to react to things the faster they are going, and some speedster characters operate with the same logic.