r/Invincible • u/Appropriate-Mall8517 • Jun 06 '26

MEME Stop playing with Thragg

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u/FearLeadsToAnger Jun 06 '26

Creator vocally doesn't care about powerscaling

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u/bleedinghero Jun 06 '26

He has had a few interviews on that topic. Tldr is some are just lucky when they win.

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u/ThisHatRightHere Jun 06 '26

Wow who could have ever imagined single instances of combat with numerous factors at play wouldn’t give objective measures of power.

God I hate powerscalers

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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '26

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u/Timtanoboa OH MY GOD, THEY KILLED THE IMMORTAL! Jun 06 '26

VS Battles Wiki has irreparably tarnished the reputation of powerscaling as a concpt

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u/starmartyr Jun 07 '26

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.

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u/The_Great_Man_Potato Jun 07 '26

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

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u/starmartyr Jun 07 '26

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.

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u/QuakeGuy98 Jun 07 '26

I'm still mad at Kenshin v Baki episode. That shit was ass when made cannon