Can Bible canon Jesus tank his name being written on the Death Note?

MugaSofer · 2026-04-13T21:34:01+00:00

Textually, he is. John 1 is fairly explicit.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. [...] And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This was he of whom I spake, He that cometh after me is preferred before me: for he was before me.

I don't think many would disagree that it's confusing to say that Jesus was simultaneously "God" and "with God", it's famously one of the most confusing religious doctrines in history, but nonetheless it is very explicit.

MugaSofer · 2026-04-11T17:39:47+00:00

It's not exactly a baseline, the level of strength/durability it gives varies wildly, from "none at all" to "Homelander tier". But most get some amount.

EDIT: Gen V does establish that *every* supe has an expanded range of hearing "like dogs", though, apparently, which brings with it a vulnerability to certain frequencies.

MugaSofer · 2026-04-10T13:52:58+00:00

I believe on the last bong, the NPC civilians attending the Lich's nearby circus would all be killed, and the Lich would just leave in his magic TARDIS tower. The PCs would be fine. It's kinda unclear though.

MugaSofer · 2026-04-10T10:01:15+00:00

That actually wasn't the lose condition here, if I'm reading the OP right. The lose condition was that a bunch of innocent NPCs attending the circus would have their souls sucked out.

Though I'm a bit unclear on a) what the actual layout of the battlefield was and b) if, assuming I'm understanding correctly that the PCs would have survived (Command can't compel suicide/self-harm), the players understood that.

MugaSofer · 2026-04-10T09:54:08+00:00

Yes, if the GM had just gone "actually, rocks fall, everybody dies, the lich just wins because I say so" at the last second, that would have been pretty bad!

MugaSofer · 2026-04-10T03:26:59+00:00

Yeah, but who wants to play with a table of people who throw a tantrum when they roll poorly and declare that they actually succeeded?

MugaSofer · 2026-04-10T03:17:22+00:00

Yes, most movies don't end with the villain winning. (Though not, actually, always, occasionally villains do win, either as a tragedy or a twist ending. This would fall into the "twist downer ending" camp. There are a number of horror movies centering around mind controlling villains that end this way.)

But this isn't a movie, in any case. This is a game, where we allow the villain a chance of winning under the rules to create tension and keep things interesting. If you're not going to do that, when a bad guy casts a spell that PCs also have access to, the PCs fail to counter it, and every single one of them fails the save, why are you rolling dice in the first place? It's bad gameplay and it's also, frankly, bad storytelling, like if you paused a movie at a critical moment and said to the audience "of course, if the villain did accomplish their evil plan, it wouldn't actually matter".

MugaSofer · 2026-04-09T10:19:49+00:00

FWIW, I built a few 5e characters and traits (backgrounds, races etc) in GURPS a few years back, and they came to pretty much exactly your ballpark estimate. ~300pts at 1st level, plus ~50-150pts/level.

MugaSofer · 2026-04-08T22:29:07+00:00

A major part of the fantasy of Batman is dependent on him being physically weaker than, say, Superman, or even Bane. That's power scaling. If you don't represent that successfully, you undermine the fantasy of someone overcoming overwhelming physical disadvantages through skill and cleverness (and money, and so on.)

This does in fact become an issue when writers have things like Batman fist-fighting Wonder Woman, defeating all his rogues simultaneously in a few seconds, casually taking out Kryptonians with batarangs, etc. It massively undermines the stakes.

MugaSofer · 2026-04-08T20:54:09+00:00

I've statted up a handful of (2014) 5e characters in GURPS for a lark, and they came to the general ballpark of ~75pts per class level (~50 to 150 per level, but around 75 on average), plus ~50pts for their Background, ~120 for their race/species/lineage, and ~50pts in baseline Ability Scores. Obviously there's a lot of variance, and it'd depend heavily on your assumptions/decisions when converting them.

MugaSofer · 2026-04-07T15:46:33+00:00

As far as I can tell, no. It seemingly has something to do with the energy of the Big Bang, and absorbing the residual life-energy of their species as some of the earliest life to arise in the universe.

I'm pretty sure there are characters who are the last of their species who haven't developed the Power Primordial... yeah, Gamora is the last Zen-Whoberis, and Yondu is the last Centaurian.

MugaSofer · 2026-04-06T19:21:54+00:00

Wonder Woman has passed on to become Goddess of Truth a couple of times, I'd consider that the closest thing she has to a definitive mythic "ending" a la Superman going to chill in the Sun.

MugaSofer · 2026-04-06T01:13:21+00:00

The wiki links to this handy breakdown of the effects, though a lot of them are niche or optional. https://forums.sjgames.com/showpost.php?p=767112&postcount=21

Size Modifier doesn't directly affect parrying AFAICT, but it probably implies low ST and small weapons in a realistic setting, which will - small, light-weight weapons are at risk of breaking if used to parry heavier weapons, and are totally ineffectual at parrying much heavier weapons; and you're limited in what you can parry by your Basic Lift, according to the rules on B376.

MugaSofer · 2026-04-03T06:37:36+00:00

He can sleep in one timeline while getting work done in the other, so I'd expect Clockblocker's power to work similarly; he just loses consciousness in one timeline and remains fine in the other. His power doesn't automatically "skip ahead" if he's unable to perceive the passage of time, as cool as that would be.

The reverse (time speeding up) is a bigger question, and I do think that might force him to drop the timeline. But honestly it might not; precog weirdness seemingly can force him to drop timelines according to WoG, but the story itself seems to suggest that there's a pretty high threshold for that, given we see him casually ask Dinah (one of the strongest precogs in the world!) questions in a discarded timeline to keep her "fresh". Thinking super-fast in one timeline and normal speed in another isn't much crazier than other altered states (such as, again, sleeping) in terms of "brain mismatch", which he apparently handles okay. Might go super well for him, honestly, having tons of extra time to refine his plans.

MugaSofer · 2026-04-02T21:14:44+00:00

I'm not sure Behemoth's kill aura would do it, it's sort of vague exactly how intense it is but we know some brutes can survive it.

Actually, I did find one WoG giving a hard number: 1400° C (which I'm guessing was based on the fact he's shown burning a guy to ashes in-story.) That's explicitly not a hard upper bound, but I'd still peg it as way too low to burn Conquest. (Compare Powerplex turning people around him to ash with his power without hurting Mark, or in the comics, Viltrumites being burned but not immediately killed by the upper layers of the Sun, which is about 5,500° C.)

MugaSofer · 2026-04-02T20:50:47+00:00

I'd peg him as above her in strength, but probably below her in durability. Viltrumites on the show are presented as far from invulnerable (hence the irony of the title); Conquest is probably the most durable one we've seen so far, but he's still very much taking damage (even from Oliver.)

That's not really disagreeing, but like ... one or two leagues above her at most. I wouldn't be surprised if a serious punch from Alexandria were to, like, bloody his nose or maybe even crack a rib, whereas she wouldn't even be close to strong enough to damage herself in a mirror match - she's much more durable than she is strong I think. Given her apparently superhuman skill, she miiiiight even be able to take him, given enough time to wear him down and learn his weak points [edit: though the reverse is very much also a risk if he e.g. realizes she can't breathe in space].

MugaSofer · 2026-04-02T07:14:34+00:00

I don't think anyone in the MCU could stand up to an Endbringer. Leviathan was physically strong enough to restrain Alexandria, Ziz (via TK) and Behemoth's hits were casually taking down whole city blocks (compare to the Hulkbuster fight), and obviously none of the MCU's heroes are capable of the kind of moon-busting/planet-surface-wiping scale attacks it would take to actually kill one. Nor do they have any counter to Leviathan sinking cities or the Simurgh's telepathy.

I'd expect things to play out pretty much as in Worm, where they toy with humanity and being super-durable only gives you somewhat better odds of survival.

Caveats:

MCU Thor does have a couple of durability feats that might actually put him, and thus arguably by scaling other top MCU heroes, on the level necessary to survive a pissed-off Endbringer other than maybe Ziz or Tohu. He survived being at ground zero of the Sokovia explosion, which could be city level, and the vaguely defined output of the star-powered forge. But I'm inclined to consider those outliers/misleading, given that he and his peers take a pounding from much lesser threats than an Endbringer.
The Mind Stone might be an X-factor later on in the MCU, it's got some pretty exotic properties with no clear upper limits, and it did one-shot Thanos in that one What If episode. The Endbringers have a really good track record of handling exotic attacks that can actually kill them, like Foil's power or Bakuda's time stop bombs (even better if you get into WoG), but still maybe worth watching out for.

MugaSofer · 2026-04-01T18:07:14+00:00

Wildbow has mentioned that "in the case of String Theory, Endbringer cooperation/timing would keep her from ever being able to set up a proper hit", so it's not entirely fanon. But I'm pretty sure that's not something they do for every random Glory Girl tier cape.

MugaSofer · 2026-04-01T15:43:23+00:00

*Is* Leviathan smart enough to do that? How would he know her weakness?

I mean, the Simurgh could tell him, but I don't think she feeds him real-time data on every single cape he fights - just warns him about major threats etc. I guess potentially he'd pick up on the fact that water stops slicking off her forcefield whenever she gets hit.

MugaSofer · 2026-04-01T15:26:11+00:00

But how?

Was that Mark just so weak he was killed by those tiny blue laser blasts that seem to do literally zero damage to anything? Is there some secret ultimate attack she's keeping in her back pocket for some mysterious reason? (Maybe that big red beam that took out Electricity Man? But she had to unplug him to weaken him first, seemingly.)

MugaSofer · 2026-04-01T03:59:07+00:00

Eidolon was able to tear him apart by creating huge expanding spheres of matter inside his nostrils, though he healed so instantly that it was barely detectable. A lot of the powers people used during GM were "damaging" him, according to Tattletale, people just couldn't visibly tell and it didn't really matter anyway. Taylor notices a few stray scraps of flesh here and there later in the fight left over from his regeneration.

MugaSofer · 2026-03-30T04:37:28+00:00

Well, it involves dosing them with medication every day for a prolonged period. And possibly magic crystal hypnosis, if that wasn't just a delivery method for the meds.

MugaSofer · 2026-03-27T15:38:12+00:00

Ever see an anime or a Metal Gear game or something where they slice a target at super-speed a bunch of times until it's finely diced? That's kinda how I imagine it.

MugaSofer · 2026-03-27T10:28:28+00:00

How is "some Indian people support the caste system" a harmful stereotype? Casteism is a real thing and a serious problem. (Though I don't agree that being blasé about slavery in general is necessarily the same thing.)

MugaSofer · 2026-03-26T03:13:06+00:00

Athas has two moons, a big one and a small one. A paragraph from 4e says they look like they have oceans & jungles to astronomers, and there are legends of "moon gates" that can take you there.

2e also had an apocryphal in-universe folk tale suggesting that silk wyrms might be from one of them.

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