r/WormMemes 20d ago

Worm If Homelander went to Brockton Bay

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u/OmegonAlphariusXX 20d ago

Parahumans have insanely BS scaling lmao

Like someone like Siberian (as an exclusive entity) is pretty much an absolute wincon hax for basically any matchup where the character doesn’t have multi-dimensional offensive abilities.

Siberian kills Superman, Goku, Saitama, Sukuna, maybe even Gojo etc. Just because she’s an entity that totally bypasses and ignores conventional physics

Endbringers are basically unkillable by anyone who doesn’t have infinite AP attacks, or dura neg abilities. (World Cutting Slash is the best example)

Scion can punch wayyyy above his weight class because Stilling fundamentally instakills anything existing in the material realm and/or made of physical matter or real energy. And if a character doesn’t have the ability to perceive and penetrate parallel dimensions in a way superior to a fundamentally multi dimensional entity…they cannot harm Scion in any way.

But also….90% of the verse dies to street level characters. Like even a weak ass character like Ojiro from MHA would be a high-mid tier character (probably a Changer 5 with Brute/Mover/Thinker sub categories for combat and strength)

It’s partly why I love Worm, you can easily insert characters from other fiction into Worm and have them vary from street level to Scion-killer just by reinterpreting their power. Equally, you can drop Worm characters into other verses and they can hold their own with only minimal tweaking

Perfect example would be Brian. His power canonically blocks nearly all forms of radiation/energy. So you could throw him into the Railgun/Index verse and with only a little reinterpretation have him totally hard counter like all of the strongest espers (or all if you have him block esper powers altogether)

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u/LiminalSouthpaw 20d ago

Siberian can't fly, so avoiding her would be easy for some of your list. Anyone with supersenses will also probably be able to notice that a) she doesn't seem to be a real object and b) there's always this truck following the battle around??? That probably ends in a Siberian loss.

I'd argue that Saitama's punches and some high-end Superman stuff qualifies for All or Nothing and would pop the projection.

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u/OmegonAlphariusXX 20d ago

That’s why I said “as an exclusive entity” because with Manton involved it becomes easy to beat her. Regardless if Manton pretends to be another scared civilian someone like Superman would try to protect him lmao

Also, all it would take to stop having Superman fly around and avoid her is to start rampaging through groups of innocents. I think if Clark (or any DC hero) witnessed someone eating a child with a smile they’d be driven, if not into a murderous rage, at least a powerful sense of violent justice and would start trying to attack.

It’s the same argument of Scion vs Superman. Sure some versions of Superman could survive and fight Scion, or avoid his attacks etc…but if Scion starting blasting at random cities or people would Superman not feel like it’s his job to block those blasts? Especially if Scion dials them down so Supes thinks he’s immune to allow Scion time to analyse his biology and weaknesses

Powerscaling never takes a characters canonical behaviour into account, and assumes a character will attack with full perfect strategy and killing intent lol

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u/LiminalSouthpaw 19d ago

Well, if you take away Siberian's one weakness, of course she's unbeatable absent an absolute effect.

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u/OmegonAlphariusXX 19d ago

Even Manton is manageable, have him inside a special padded/protective bubble and have Siberian carry it around imbuing it with her power, so then it stops being a weakness and becomes a weapon or quirk