Talk:Peak Human Condition/Absolute/@comment-36112809-20180707194258/@comment-4867780-20180724215510

I think the problem with Absolute Condition (and similar Condition powers) is that the most users focus heavily on the "physical performances" side of it, with usually very little demonstration of comparable mental capabilities, notably intelligence (probably because such brillance is hard to conceive let alone illustrate and a total train wrecker plot-wise), being generally referenced once or twice for our information but rarely ever making a convicing appearence.

Take Dr Manhattan for example, the level of mental performance he operates at is probably even beyond what we qualify as "Absolute" here, yet if he doesn't demontrate half the level of intelligence he genuinely should have, because he would have anticipated any major issue by a long shot and solved the entire plotline decades before the Watchmen series even started.

So despite the official status and fairly credible basis, it's kind of hard to take the intelligence part seriously when they consistently demonstrate such puzzling shortsightedness and lack of preparations they are recurrently caught with their pants down by vastly lesser beings (think of the Ultimate Nullifier wiped up in a hurry by Reed Richards in his human lab when Galactus is a space god who is supposed to be at least a million times smarter with literally billions of years to improve his tech between planetary snacks - or just the very idea of Dr Manhattan being outsmarted by a human : simply ridiculous).

On a side note, shouldn't the "Transcendent Negation" limitation apply equally regardless of whether users were born with AC or acquired it later on ? Negation powers usually make no distinction whether the negated effect/power is innate or acquired.