Misleading Titles

The Planet Buster is a sword noted to destroy even galaxies yet never displays this in game

Introduction

In various forms of fiction characters will generally throw around buzz words such as “God”, “Omnipotent”, etcetera to explain a character’s strength compared to their own. We will be explaining why the various titles and rankings given in fiction mean nothing without feats.

Examples of Misleading Names

• God: This is the most common misleading name. Many believe that if someone defeats someone whose a god that must mean the character is automatically more powerful then other characters who have never faced Gods before or that the character who defeated the god is universal or above. This is completely flawed logic if the “god” in question has shown no feats regarding that. Many fictional verses use the term “god” to depict someone who is far more powerful than a standard human in strength granting them superhuman-like abilities, but not the full on universal/omnipotent power that’s associated with the Gods in various religions. One of the hugest examples for the term god meaning nothing in fiction is the character The Authority from His Dark Materials, this is a character that is so weak that he would die if exposed to the wind, and even in his prime his best feat extends to creating a massive mountain.

• Omnipotent: This another common misleading name. Many believe that if someone is called “omnipotent” they must be Tier 0 under our wiki’s standards, but this is not the case whatsoever. First we must understand what the word itself truly means. Omnipotent falls under two prefixes, “omni” which means all and “potent” which refers to power, thus meaning one whose called omnipotent is called all-powerful. To a tier 10, a tier 5 would be omnipotent as it’s something they’ve likely never experienced before causing massive global scale destruction. The term omnipotence is rarely referring to true infinite power or being the true god, it just regularly expresses that a character is extremely powerful.

• Author Avatar/The Real World: People generally consider any author or people from the real world as automatically higher dimensional beings or omnipotent due to being an author. The reason why this doesn’t work is that authors and the real world constantly vary in fictional verses to the author just being a regular person in a fictional universe, along with the real world just being a method of breaking the fourth wall or just a separate universe that isn’t a higher dimension. For more regarding this read our Reality - Fiction Interaction page.

• Ranks: Rankings in fiction can at times indicate power but at times do not automatically give sufficient power scaling. Two notable examples comes from, One Punch Man where Amai Mask is an A Class Hero yet stronger then many of the S Class Heroes, and the concept of bounties in One Piece where bounties could be increased not only due to strength but due to viciousness or political power, like when a kid Nico Robin was given a bounty of 79 million because the world government wanted her for her knowledge and not due to her actual power as a kid.

• Attack/Weapon Names: Generally attack names are considered hyperbolic and only are accepted if they do literally what the name says. An example of a hyperbolic attack name is Vegeta’s “Galaxy Breaker” which was merely an energy attack Vegeta used to kill Nappa, it did not destroy or “break” any galaxies. Another example is Varik’s weapon the “planet buster” which is hyped to destroy planets, stars, galaxies, and even universes, yet in battle it does none of this.

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