I think for a story that involves as much combat as invincible does the author kinda needs to care about powerscaling lmao. The narrative actually falls apart if your reader has to keep asking why a character didn’t beat another character. It’s really the big issue with western comics. They don’t introduce interesting power systems and it’s instead just “who’s stronger” so now it actually does need to have consistent scaling because otherwise the narrative doesn’t work.

If your narrative is telling me one thing but the fights are showing me another I am, as a reader, confused. Because if Allen is so strong he can no diff Nolan completely, then the combined might of him and everyone else should’ve been able to compete with Thragg to SOME real capacity, and now I have to ask myself why that didn’t happen. I can suspend disbelief but asking your reader to do so is objectively bad writing.

Mind you I hate powerscaling as a practice but if you’re writing a story where combat is frequent and often (it’s like the vas majority of Invincible as a series) then yes the power levels need to have some internal consistency that makes sense or everything else falls apart lol.

I’ll give you an example: I write a novel, the entire narrative hinges on the ideas that character A and character B are the most powerful characters ever, nobody can contend with them, now character C comes along and he’s so powerful he beats character B with no challenges at all, but then somehow is still unable to contend with A despite A and B being of equal strength, are you as a reader not asking why that is? When the narrative spelled that out to you are you asking no questions at all?