What people don't realize is that powerscaling is fun to talk about in hypothetical fights between characters but when it actually happens in a comic or show the fight goes the way the story needs it to go. It's not bad writing just because it didn't go the way that online discussions think it would go.
It’s bad writing if the character isn’t set up to believably have that much/little power though. It doesn’t necessarily have to be spelled out, but the inconsistencies are pretty stout in Invincible
Set up how? The comic never gives hard numbers for anything. Power scaling is entirely based on fan theories which may or may not be correct. Bad writing would be to have such a rigid structure that nothing unexpected could ever happen.
the outcome of a fight being “inconsistent” has pretty much never hampered my enjoyment of a piece of fictional media. it’s either entertaining or it’s not, powerscaling is not an important factor in how enjoyable a fight scene is
It just feels jarring to see someone who is scaled to cities and nukes get beat up by random nobodies right after beating one of the strongest beings in the verse. It's like watching god get OHKO'd by a baby
Mark constantly getting beaten up by nobodies (especially in S1 and 2) is inconsistent.
it's not inconsistent in the slightest. Mark (especially in S1 and S2) is nowhere near as strong as the other viltrumites, and the show has on multiple times shown that even a top viltrumite like Nolan is still relative to Earth
Nolan struggling with reanimen or space bugs is inconsistent.
only if you believe that viltrumites are only beatable/relative to other viltrumites, which the show goes through great lengths to show you isn't the case.
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