User blog comment:TheTwinkleBeast/Character Story/Battle For Selforge/@comment-4867780-20141224025027/@comment-5265497-20141227062008

That's the quintessential difference between localized threats and eastablished 'all-encompassing' threats like Mad Jim Jaspers, Thanos with the HOTU, Joker with Mxyzptlk's power. The audience is meant to feel as if all of reality, space-time is in peril if these conceptual, all-powerful reality warpers succeeded in their grand plans... how can they even elicit those same feelings if everything just becomes inconsequentual. A special example is Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths where the only way for the writer to truly feel the entire gravity of the entire situation is if they see that it's not only the main cast that could be nonexistent but the entire fabric of reality and the extinction of mankind in every reality.

That's the only way "Cosmic" threats are effectively delivered. If the action envelopes FAR MORE than the main cast. And if you include a transfictional model, I'm telling you right now if fanfiction is any indication, there is going to be an Omni-Creator...