Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26484417-20180225092054/@comment-4867780-20180303062216

Athanos wrote: DYBAD wrote: Actually, it is of particularly major consequence, as this lack of autonomy reduces FT to what it truly is : a narrative prank. Even if we were to consider this to be an important factor to this particular issue--and I maintain that it isn't one--your interpretation also suggests that there are users listed on omnipotence page who violate the standing definition, albeit in another manner. Let's avoid off-topic diversions, shall we ? Right now, the subject is Fictional Transcendence.

By the way, maintaining something without providing any justication doesn't weigh much ^ ^;

Athanos wrote: DYBAD wrote: Meta-fictional powers are the writer fooling around, and FT characters are simply their in-universe proxies. They do not possess any fiction-transcending abilities, they are simply puppeteered by the writer to deceive readers into believing so.

Actually, there isn't mutual contradiction between possessing something and being author's puppet unless the power's definition explicitly contradicts the notion; that's why the issue of autonomy is of no consequence to the issue at hand. Why, yes there is. Since the characters are being puppeteered by the writer into deceiving the readers, that explicitly means said characters have in truth no such abilities, and are simply, you know... "being puppeteered by the writer into deceiving the readers" (hard to be make it any clearer).

Of coure he doesn't, he's just a fictional character ^ ^; (see paragraph above). In order to actually adress the readers, he would have to be real, which he's not. "Deadpool" is literally just ink on paper (or whatever artistic tech has replaced them), shaped into a famously recognizable humanoid pattern. As a matter of fact, that's all he is : a highly popular make-believe.

How could he possibly address us ?