Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-6299840-20180115125243

Ok in a post I just read I came across something that I have not seen in a while but it brought up memories of my early days on this site and something I have never understood.

Imouto-tan wrote: I'm sure that we can all agree that all fictional Omnipotents are Relatively/Questionably Omnipotent within their verse.

Bravo 👏 Imouto exactly how I feel as well. The response to this is what I have a hard time with.

 AlphaTheHD wrote: Since they are limited to their own verse and by the boundary between reality and fiction, shouldn't that make them nigh omnipotent?

I don’t mean to call you out AlphaTheHD because you are not the only one to have similar thoughts on the subject but I have never understood it. I mean the essay I could right on this and the arguments this point has got me involved in on this site.

Please someone help me understand why just because it’s Omnipotence that is being portrayed in a fictional story do you expect that fictional character to actually have said fictional ability in real life. This aggravated me to no end. I mean they are comic books and we all know those characters are well, just characters. We don’t look at Peter Parker and say “Oh he does not really have those powers he is just a drawing on a page brought to life with nice illustrations and dialogue boxes”. No shit it’s a fictional character we all get that.

So why is it that when some people look at Omnipotent fictional characters they say things like, “Oh it isn’t really Omnipotent it’s bound by the comic there in and the writer that writes it”. “Also there are other fictional verses and this fictional character can not invade them”.🤦‍♂️ 🤣🤣🤣🤣 This seriously has just never computed for me and someone who has this viewpoint can you help me to understand why you expect a fictional character to truly have the fictional power they are said to have.

I thought it was common place to look at each fictional verse as a stand alone and know, as Imouto said, that whatever Omnipotent is a part of that verse is truly Omnipotent and as far as that verse goes it is the only verse there is. 