User blog comment:DYBAD/Character Sheet/@comment-5651818-20171122204602

Lawrence reallly undermines conventional thinking when it comes to a character actually....struggling. Just look at him, for all intents and purposes he's the perfect accident. Didn't do anything to gain or even deserve his powers and becomes perfectly invincible after attaining it. He takes Gary Stu to a whole new level.

And the thing is? I'm not really bothered by it. Once I really took a gander at it, I never understood what our obsession with seeing our characters suffer really was about. Perhaps it's another reflection of our biology tainting something even as pure as storytelling.

For example, I look at someone like Doctor Manhattan. With all his power, there is no way he should be suffering from some type of nihilism. Imagine of you, I or Dragon had that kind of powee. There wouldnt be a single thing that could wipe the smile off of our faces. But for some reason the audiences just won't rest until he struggles and suffers just like the rest of us. Which pretty much negates 50% of the perks being a god gives you. Just another example of humanity trying to drag even the gods down to our level.

Oh well. My phone is about to die. So for now, tangent over with.