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Hello.
After reading Mister Mxyzptlk's profile, I saw that we were using his feats from the story World's Funniest which are clearly multiversal and represented Mxy as being capable of destroying the Fifth Dimension. However, the canonicity of World's Funniest is questionable and is considered an Elseworld story, which is not part of the main DC continuity.
The point here is not to prove that World's Funniest isn't canon, as the Elseworld stories are now somewhat considered canon thanks to Hypertime and Dark Crisis, but a story about two characters playing cat and mouse by destroying everything in their path is perhaps not to be taken seriously, the same goes for the feats displayed by Mxy in this story. Mister Mxyzptlk has plenty of feats outside of World's Funniest story, more worthy of being taken seriously and I think we should focus on them to keep some consistency in Mxy's profile.
My second point is the particular scan of Mxy saying he is the same in all forms of DC media, which poses scaling issues since there is this story where Mxy fights Trigon equally, and honestly, we shouldn't use this to add feats from a story that shouldn't be taken seriously. This would make Mxy's profile an incoherent mess, which it already is, but that's not what this thread is about.
My proposal here is to remove Mxy's feats from World Funniest from Mister Mxyzptlk's profile and focus only on those from stories whose canonicity is less questionable.
After reading Mister Mxyzptlk's profile, I saw that we were using his feats from the story World's Funniest which are clearly multiversal and represented Mxy as being capable of destroying the Fifth Dimension. However, the canonicity of World's Funniest is questionable and is considered an Elseworld story, which is not part of the main DC continuity.
The point here is not to prove that World's Funniest isn't canon, as the Elseworld stories are now somewhat considered canon thanks to Hypertime and Dark Crisis, but a story about two characters playing cat and mouse by destroying everything in their path is perhaps not to be taken seriously, the same goes for the feats displayed by Mxy in this story. Mister Mxyzptlk has plenty of feats outside of World's Funniest story, more worthy of being taken seriously and I think we should focus on them to keep some consistency in Mxy's profile.
My second point is the particular scan of Mxy saying he is the same in all forms of DC media, which poses scaling issues since there is this story where Mxy fights Trigon equally, and honestly, we shouldn't use this to add feats from a story that shouldn't be taken seriously. This would make Mxy's profile an incoherent mess, which it already is, but that's not what this thread is about.
My proposal here is to remove Mxy's feats from World Funniest from Mister Mxyzptlk's profile and focus only on those from stories whose canonicity is less questionable.