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Low Tier Marvel Comics Speed Revisions

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This is the "Varies 10-C to 1-A Gwenpool plothax" crap. Terrible idea lol.

If there is no variability mechanic, list them Unknown. End of story.
I don't think it's helpful to our readers to just list a statistic as unknown because we personally consider the portrayed range too extreme.

It is not our fault if a character genuinely swings anywhere from 10-C to 1-A based on the writer's whims.
 
I don't think it's helpful to our readers to just list a statistic as unknown because we personally consider the portrayed range too extreme.
It is, if the range is too extreme and it's inconsistent, we don't need to act like it is consistent or headcanon in mechanics that don't exist. We HAVE NEVER listed Variability in files for inconsistency in any other file (in fact remind me if we even allowed it for loose mechanical justifications like Toon Force), so creating exceptions for ONE SPECIFIC VERSE is nonsense.

Like Fine, Marvel Comics as it stands on the wiki has no rules that makes it a mechanically different verse to index, really the only rules we have are in regards to indexing, which is reduce bloat for supporterbase and staff checkers, and have better scrutiny for feats. I genuinely don't get why the new trend with supporters nowadays is trying to bend the rules to make their verse special fairies or something.
It is not our fault if a character genuinely swings anywhere from 10-C to 1-A based on the writer's whims.
Give an example. Again off the top of my head there are VERY FEW characters you can draw NO CONSISTENCY for, and they aren't exactly the characters you're thinking lol.

Like I don't think your big revision is exclusively for Mr. Hyde. If you're talking Spider-Man or Thor or something, then no, you can get a consistency for them, they're not gonna sound pretty maybe, we aren't doing weirdass Death Battle type scaling, but it's gonna be correct lol
 
My proposal would be for the wiki as a whole, not just Marvel.

I think there's long been a standing issue where if a character is clearly portrayed as one level 99% of the time, but some far higher level 1% of the time, we will just list them as that higher number. We're naturally biased towards the strongest showing of the character. We technically have policies against anti-feats and outliers but they're rarely every enforced, and they're not always applicable for this issue either.

As a parting staff member once said (paraphrasing): "We're told that a guy who regularly throws cars around as his main attack can casually destroy a universe."

My idea would just be something along the lines of having a 'typical' rating and a 'peak' rating.
We can't always just discard the higher feats, but I do think we could better acknowledge the inconsistency in our ratings.
 
We're naturally biased towards the strongest showing of the character.
I mean yeah. It's called wanking. Solution isn't to acknowledge it, solution is to remove it.

What is this "The Purge reduces crime rates" type logic lol, like no they're just gonna wank both low end and high end then, or WORSE you just turned an indexing wiki into a Respect Thread.

Like fundamentally this is straight up not what the wiki is about and there are better platforms for it.

Anyways we are getting off track then.
 
A variable tier is fine for someone like Incredible Hulk, "The angrier he gets, the stronger he gets." Or many other characters who either have their own explanations or many other verses have things where every character from said verse have their own things to justify variable tiers. But the Street tiers of Captain America, Spiderman, Hawkeye, Daredevil, none of them have Hulk's anger based empowerment system. Nor do they have a "Power of Friendship" or Empathetic Willpower empowerment system seen in many other verses. And as a result, variable tiers would just be trying to squeeze treating inconsistencies as a superpower that those characters really weren't meant to have. So a consistent speed rating within a ballpark of the case having multiple feats on that level should be prioritized. Impress and ArmorChompy are correct in their posts above.
 
I genuinely don't get why the new trend with supporters nowadays is trying to bend the rules to make their verse special fairies or something.
I've been meaning to ask this, but does the inconsistency come from internal scaling or calculated feats? Like, is there no consistency of who's faster than the other or no consistency for what characters can and can't dodge?




Also, question for everyone, are we actually going with "Unknown" for every single Marvel file?
 
My idea would just be something along the lines of having a 'typical' rating and a 'peak' rating.
We can't always just discard the higher feats, but I do think we could better acknowledge the inconsistency in our ratings.
What is this "The Purge reduces crime rates" type logic lol, like no they're just gonna wank both low end and high end then, or WORSE you just turned an indexing wiki into a Respect Thread.
And as a result, variable tiers would just be trying to squeeze treating inconsistencies as a superpower that those characters really weren't meant to have.
Don't we already have a solution for this with "possibly" ratings?
 
Yeah-ish. Possibly/Likely ratings are usually discouraged from use but it works.

I've been meaning to ask this, but does the inconsistency come from internal scaling or calculated feats? Like, is there no consistency of who's faster than the other or no consistency for what characters can and can't dodge?
It depends, so for instance the way I listed Northstar is probably demonstrative

Northstar is a speedster so I purposely kept in mind that and tried cataloguing every notable speed feat I came across, result I got was an exhaustion/physics-based variability and even with that a **** ton of antifeats and contradictions (which I have listed in the Notes section).

I wanna say here Northstar is uniquely advantaged here too since he has a stated top speed that gets corroborated multiple times, in general he's a speedster so he has mechanical focus, and he doesn't have that many appearances in the long run, and STILL his speed rating is weirdly convoluted and not without many antifeats and outliers.

If there is a consistency, it looks way different than the way we list it, which is one rating and call it a day.
Also, question for everyone, are we actually going with "Unknown" for every single Marvel file?
I mean, unless people are willing to do the work, best course of action is to do that and not lie ig lol.
 
You can call it whatever you want but it's exactly what you are arguing for, your argument is of inconsistencies which is true for all statistics, if it's accepted that speed is too inconsistent to give a concrete tier what's stopping the same thing happening for the rest of the statistics? I mean this thread has over 10 calcs and still not enough, Spiderman's H8-C has less support that this, Thor's 3-C has less support, LS for class M has less support than this.
 
Why should we do that, when it's consistent? These aren't random one-off things it's just how the verse works.
Is it? Where did you take that from? Team books where even Thor is moving at the same speed as Captain America? Or one off team ups for a single story in a 50 issue solo comic?
 
You can call it whatever you want
No it's not whatever, it's a fallacy. We don't allow fallacious arguments to be used on the wiki, repeated offenses are grounds for action. You're also strawmanning and many other things which if I was more pro-active in keeping track I'd point out, but frankly it's a waste of time.

So keeping count.
 
700/10 is 70 per every calc
Because you refuse to talk about who scales to it, actually 700 is based on the premise that every hypersonic will go to sub relativistic which is not the case, based on the OP less than 100 characters with pages would be affected by the upgrade
High 8-C is like, 100 and it has like 7 or 8 feats, and corroborative feats below. you tell me which has more backing?
123 H8-C
Of which Nuke is not usable as it was made by Spino who makes bad pixel scaling and was mentioned in another thread.
Black Widow is a bomb that requires prep time and don't even know if she used it more than once
 
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123 H8-C
Of which Nuke is not usable as it was made by Spino who makes bad pixel scaling and was mentioned in another thread.
Black Widow is a bomb that requires prep time and don't even know if she used it more than once
Even 125/5 is 25/1, which is leagues less than 70/1

Also this is calcs, not feats, they have tank and plane busting, shit considered 8-C+ that can upscale to High 8-C, as well as sheer size.
Because you refuse to talk about who scales to it,
Quote where I said I refuse to let anyone talk about who scales. Refresh me where I said this.
 
Even 125/5 is 25/1, which is leagues less than 70/1

Also this is calcs, not feats, they have tank and plane busting, shit considered 8-C+ that can upscale to High 8-C, as well as sheer size.
The op are calcs not feats too. Not 70/1, it's at best 20/1 I don't know why you keep acting like the OP wants to upgrade all the 700 hypersonic characters to sub relativistic when the very OP clearly states that Captain America and co will just scale to High hypersonic and discussing if Spider people could potencially upgrade.
Quote where I said I refuse to let anyone talk about who scales. Refresh me where I said this.
Considering you keep talking about "the 700+ characters" when the OP at no point says that they are all supposed to be upgraded to sub relativistic, I think you are refusing to talk about it.
 
Considering you keep talking about "the 700+ characters" when the OP at no point says that they are all supposed to be upgraded to sub relativistic, I think you are refusing to talk about it.
So you can't quote shit, and just strawmanned me. Got it.
 
Most definetly not strawmanning
The typical straw man argument creates the illusion of having refuted or defeated an opponent's proposition through the covert replacement of it with a different proposition (i.e., "stand up a straw man") and the subsequent refutation of that false argument ("knock down a straw man"), instead of the opponent's proposition.
Considering you keep talking about "the 700+ characters" when the OP at no point says that they are all supposed to be upgraded to sub relativistic, I think you are refusing to talk about it.
How many logical jumps did you make to get from "You are affecting scaling of 700 characters" to "I AM BANNING ANY AND ALL DISCUSSION OF SCALING AND REFUSING TO LET THIS THREAD PROCEED"

Literally just inventing shit.
 
Suig you are just completely derailing at this point, as you've done pretty often in threads like these. I think it's to a thread-bannable extent so I'd appreciate if you could stop.
 
Everyone is derailing here, after over 8 pages and 99% is completely unrelated to what the OP proposes.
Where are the opinions about Captain America's new calc which is literally the first point in the OP.
And no one has said a thing about discussing a list of characters that would scale to the sub relativistic l which again it's one of the points in the OP, no one is commenting on if those calcs can or not scale to reaction combat speed.
No one is talking about if Scarlet Spider can's speed tier is wrong or if Spider-Man can or not scale to the calcs proposed.

Impress said at one point that she would be checking if the calcs context are valid or not, and never commented on that again.
She proposed 4 possible solutions based on no argument of the OP and without providing any evidence for her claims that the calcs are too inconsistent, no anti feat whatsoever just argument of belief.
 
Anyways we are getting off track then.
Indeed.

In short, in regards to this thread, I'm saying that I don't think we currently have the tools required for me to make a decision on Marvel speed scaling that would make me happy.

If I'm forced to make a decision now then I think we should remain conservative, and ignore any feats that render a majority of other fights completely nonsensical.
 
List of characrters that would scale to sub relativistic, 68 characters on this list, 10 characters with feats
Ms. Marvel
Namor (Marvel Comics)
Super-Skrull
Captain Marvel (Mar-Vell)
Rogue (Marvel Comics)
Iron Man Armor Model 4
Iron Man Armor Model 8
Iron Man Armor Model 29
Wonder Man
Black Bolt
Abomination
Anti-Man
Awesome Android
Bi-Beast
Blue Marvel
Champion of the Universe
Corvus Glaive
Count Nefaria
Doctor Doom
Fin Fang Foom
Genis-Vell
Graviton
Grey Gargoyle
Hank Pym (Marvel Comics)
Theodore Altman (Hulkling)
King Hyperion
Iron Lad
Korg
Lauri-Ell the Accuser
Red She-Hulk
Sersi
She-Hulk
Skaar
Sphinx
Supreme Intelligence (Marvel Comics)
Nova (Richard Rider)
Star
Tiger Shark
Vision (Jonas)
Ragnarok
Volstagg
Moon Knight
Mister Fantastic
Invisible Woman (Marvel Comics)
Super-Skrull
Human Torch
Invisible Woman (Marvel Comics)
The Thing (Marvel Comics)
Hulk (Marvel Comics)
Amadeus Cho
The Champion of the Universe
Mindless Ones (Marvel)
Kree (Marvel Comics)
Executioner (Marvel Comics)
Ronan the Accuser (Marvel Comics)
Red She-Hulk
Iron Man Armor Model 6
Iron Man Armor Model 13
Iron Man Armor Model 15
Iron Man Armor Model 16
Iron Man Armor Model 19
Iron Man Armor Model 20
Iron Man Armor Model 37
Iron Man Armor Model 38
Iron Man Armor Model 42
Iron Man Armor Model 50
Iron Man Armor Model 51
Iron Man Armor Model 54
 
After much discussion with Armorchompy and Impress on Discord, they have persuaded me that an Unknown speed rating is a viable option for the profiles, and if there is no other way of doing this, an Unknown speed rating should be used.


HOWEVER, I firmly believe that a possibly rating is more beneficial to acknowledge the two camps of feats these Low Tiers perform and scale to. I.e. feats centered around projectile dodging versus feats centered around flying into the atmosphere. Both are consistently portrayed as feats of speed, and are demonstrated with not dissimilar consistency. I think it is a fair compromise, as it acknowledges the most prevalent interpretations of speed for these characters.
 
After much discussion with Armorchompy and Impress on Discord, they have persuaded me that an Unknown speed rating is a viable option for the profiles, and if there is no other way of doing this, an Unknown speed rating should be used.
So instead of using feats and calcs, we will lazily put unknown at everyone because no one wishes to fix the actual problem that is this dogshit, held by duct tape, scaling chain? All because we gotta protect Abomination scaling to Elektra for some reason. Oh yes, The Thing, famous Elektra/DD supporting character. Honestly, I'd rather keep everything as it is or put everyone back at MFTL, but unknown? That's reserved for characters with actual zero shows of feats.

My final take of this thread is: if there's about 3-4 calcs (or more), they're mathematically correct, OP gives the comic issue and context, and doesn't go against the character's story, thematic and previous shows of feats, it's good to go. The character's own shows of feats should surpass any need to protect a very shaky and poorly made scaling chain.

This one is the most telling. There’s an ongoing thread to upgrade characters like Captain Marvel to Sub-Relativistic or higher based on legitimate feats of flying to space and reacting at those speeds. It can’t pass. Not because the feats are bad, but because it would backscale to 9-Bs. Let that sink in. We’re rejecting decades of feats from dozens of characters because the street level scaling chain has to be protected. The chain has become more important than the actual evidence.
Let that sink in.
 
So instead of using feats and calcs, we will lazily put unknown at everyone because no one wishes to fix the actual problem that is this dogshit, held by duct tape, scaling chain? All because we gotta protect Abomination scaling to Elektra for some reason. Oh yes, The Thing, famous Elektra/DD supporting character. Honestly, I'd rather keep everything as it is or put everyone back at MFTL, but unknown? That's reserved for characters with actual zero shows of feats.

My final take of this thread is: if there's about 3-4 calcs (or more), they're mathematically correct, OP gives the comic issue and context, and doesn't go against the character's story, thematic and previous shows of feats, it's good to go. The character's own shows of feats should surpass any need to protect a very shaky and poorly made scaling chain.


Let that sink in.
The more time passes the more I think M3X was right
 
So instead of using feats and calcs, we will lazily put unknown at everyone because no one wishes to fix the actual problem that is this dogshit, held by duct tape, scaling chain?
Are you high?

Tell me to my face right now that Rex and Suig read JACK for this revision and didn't just copy paste pre-existing calc blogs (Which I KNOW SAID CALCERS GOT from RESPECT THREADS) or linked feats on files.

I'd rather the files stay honestly ass to let someone else fix them later down the line, than perpetuate dishonest ratings.

What the **** is the scaling here? Literally nobody scales. This is the proposal. I just also know for a fact that nobody researched anything for this. I'm not replacing one ******* arbitrary scaling chain with another ******* arbitrary scaling chain where characters randomly are assumed to outspeed another class of characters when they have zero reasoning to, but the system still works on scaling characters that barely interact together.

The proposal isn't "Everyone's Unknown", the proposal is "Unless you can confidently claim a character is one speed consistently I am not going to let you slap shit onto a file to repeat this fuckery 6 months later when another genius comes up with an idea to do a speed thread."

If a character has a good reason to be a certain speed tier and I know for a fact it's researched, that tier can stay. Also Variable characters are basically immune to it.
 
The problem with this ******* wiki is that we have ass files, people KNOW we have ass files, people CONSTANTLY COMPLAIN we have ass files, but if anyone says "Hey this is an ass file" onto the file itself, people lose their shit.

Like for all the shit you guys are giving here, you do realize literally everyone presently on this thread was either not on the wiki or didn't approve whatever ******* speed scaling chain you're complaining about, right? And the geniuses who approved it also approved the 4 different ratings for Thor on the notion he's unscaleable and should scale to his own feats but not really?

But go off on trying to null Electro's 9-B+ I guess. Real pressing issues. Ignore the actual issue that the verse got straight up griefed and vandalized for an year under the eyes of ignorant staff checkers who even right now go "Seems fine" on threads that immolate whenever you research anything.
 
The problem with this ******* wiki is that we have ass files, people KNOW we have ass files, people CONSTANTLY COMPLAIN we have ass files, but if anyone says "Hey this is an ass file" onto the file itself, people lose their shit.

Like for all the shit you guys are giving here, you do realize literally everyone presently on this thread was either not on the wiki or didn't approve whatever ******* speed scaling chain you're complaining about, right? And the geniuses who approved it also approved the 4 different ratings for Thor on the notion he's unscaleable and should scale to his own feats but not really?

But go off on trying to null Electro's 9-B+ I guess. Real pressing issues. Ignore the actual issue that the verse got straight up griefed and vandalized for an year under the eyes of ignorant staff checkers who even right now go "Seems fine" on threads that immolate whenever you research anything.
So your response is...to lash out at everyone and act like no one knows anything but you? And also act shock that the verse moved on when you were away for two years? And question the competency of wiki staff?

And whenever we try revising profiles, we get flak for "wank" or "doing too many revisions in one CRT" or whatnot. Including people like you questioning our research for flimsy reasons.
 
So your response is...to lash out at everyone and act like no one knows anything but you?
Literally didn't say this
And also act shock that the verse moved on when you were away for two years?
???
And question the competency of wiki staff?
Always, 100%, Guaranteed, never stopped it.
And whenever we try revising profiles, we get flak for "wank"
(He means the thread where he tried to scale Scarlet Witch to 9-A off of a 3-C character)
or "doing too many revisions in one CRT"
(He means the threads where he adds shit for 40 characters in one CRT including multiple tiering changes that had to be removed afterwards, and then constantly complains offsite that the thread is taking too long)
Including people like you questioning our research for flimsy reasons.
(He means the Scarlet Witch thread again, where he read 49 issues out of a thousand and claimed to be a Scarlet Witch expert off that, and I ended up having read those 49 issues AND MORE to show him he was wrong, and not a single person said yes to his reasoning after the debunks.)

I love random ass personal attacks.
 
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Literally didn't say this

???

Always, 100%, Guaranteed, never stopped it.

(He means the thread where he tried to scale Scarlet Witch to 9-A off of a 3-C character)

(He means the threads where he adds shit for 40 characters in one CRT including multiple tiering changes that had to be removed afterwards, and then constantly complains offsite that the thread is taking too long)

(He means the Scarlet Witch thread again, where he read 49 issues out of a thousand and claimed to be a Scarlet Witch expert off that, and I ended up having read those 49 issues AND MORE to show him he was wrong.)

I love random ass personal attacks.
I wasn't even referring to the SW CRT but now that you mention it, that case is a good example of you rejecting calcs and feats based of glorified vibes, something which you tend to do quite frequently.
 
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