Talk:Adaptation Immunity/@comment-4867780-20180816040035/@comment-30315858-20180910185355

I'd say the confusion is less about what this stupid power does (no intended insult to the creator of the entry) but more how it is supposed to work. Say Batman is fighting Solomon Grundy (such as in the Arkham game), Grundy (who really shouldn't be on the list in the first place) is incredibly resiliant, but not indistructable and not very intelligent (most of the time). So, Batman tries to brute force the battle, which due to Grundy's higher strength and toughness stats, it doesn't work. Batman adapts by using the environment to his advantage- he causes Grindy to get electrocuted by nearby power sources to incapacitate him or deal damage enough to temporarilly kill him. Or he outsarts Grundy into some other trap. This "power" would make it so these don't work. Grundy would suddenly be immune to electricity, or gain an inteligence boost. Story-wise this makes no sense at all.

This "power" only really works as the base power for a Mary Sue/Gary Stu character. Whenever Author's-Little-Baby gets in trouble *pop* they gain a new power to counter their enemy's counter through some kind of asspull. It's the most childish method of one upsmanship: "I shot you!" "Nuh uh, I dodged!" "No, I had a glue trap that held you in place." "OK, but I was wearing a bullet-proof vest." "Well I was using armor-piercing rounds!" "I also had a force field." etc...

I've only seen one example that seemed cool, but it was less "I'm now immune" and more of "I've been defeated! I shall now summon an alternate universe version of myself that can't be beaten that way" (Or similarly, Doomsay: kill him in one way, he'll just come back immune to that method of killing him. Neither of which actually nullify any attempt to adapt around their capabilities.) The original example I was referring to was Demonbane:

I still can't get this site to load the imade I want it to...