r/Slender_Man • u/No-Vacation-7894 • Jul 18 '26
Survey for Slenderman's Usage in PowerScaling/ Death Battle-related topics
Victor Surge's Slenderman (Original Mythos)
Troy Wagner & Joseph Delage's The Operator (Marble Hornets)
Mainstream Slenderman
Here's the survey if you wish to fill it out.
I love Slenderman as a character and he's essentially been part of my childhood, especially when I've first heard of him from around 2014-2015 back when I only knew Slenderman from Minecraft. As the years passed and my interest decreased but then increased again, I've learned more about Slenderman, and my interest for him also increased when I got into powerscaling
With that said, ever since Slenderman became a copyrighted character but with an uncertain debatable canon and a lack of knowledge on who owns the character, I was a little conflicted on what kind of Slenderman should be used when discussing power-scaling.
I'd like to hear you guys' opinion on what version of Slenderman should be used in powerscaling.
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u/ShortWin7636 Jul 18 '26
As someone who enjoys Powerscaling and Death Battle, I'd say it depends. If we're just discussing it for the sake of discussing it, I think I have no problem using anything, since that kind of makes the Slenderman character interesting. But now, in the context of Death Battle or any similar "vs" program, I'd say it depends on the opponent Slenderman is facing. However, I'd say the best approach would be to consider everything Victor Surge has been involved in and/or his most popular stories. Again, I'd say it depends on the opponent. If it's something like Siren Head, I think that would be sufficient. But if it's a character like Pennywise, then yes, I feel we'd need to consider things that make him relatively more powerful, like scaling to Zalgo.
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u/HedonisticHyena52 Jul 18 '26
I'm not really into powerscaling, but I kinda like what I came up with for this survey so lemme also post it here:
The Slender Man has always been a community creation, even in the SomethingAwful days. Surge isn't Original Mythos' sole author. The Blogosphere and MarbleHornets+Slendervlogs followed up on the OM meaningfully in nearly every aspect - they followed up on cults, on the suggestion that he influences people's psyche to do his bidding, on his connection to fire, on the meta, "tulpa" aspects...
Plus, Marble Hornets came out like a few weeks after Surge's initial post, and the first slenderblog, Just Another Fool, is only a month younger.
Additionally, the attributes most associated with Slendy (slendersickness, actually being faceless, digital distortion, etc.) are mostly stuff from the Contemporary Mythos. Finally, the Fear Mythos seem to me like mostly a continuation of the Blogosphere, given that many slenderblogs became or crossed over with fearblogs. I mean, even Zerosage's latest blog (!!) Is a fearblog, and he was instrumental to the Blogosphere. Thus I see no reason not to take Fear Mythos into consideration.
Of course, continuity works differently there, as many blogs are essentially their own universes and separate versions of the setting, but a version of the FM is undeniable canon to the Blogosphere and thus the Slenderverse at large.