I'm still of my own opinions that allowing varies for inconsistency is a dangerous road to go down
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I wanted to ask: how would using low-end, mid-end, and high-end without outlier feats/anti-feats be like? Reading some comments from people like
Antvasima,
Armorchompy, and
Maverick, it sounds like they would be including completely inconsistent outlier feats as the low-end and high-end feats. But what if instead of that, it was like:
Low-end: This is the lowest reasonable interpretation of the character's power level barring completely outlier anti-feats like Thor getting KO'd by a mere handgun.
Mid-end: This is approximately in the middle of what a character's power level normally is.
High-end: This is the highest reasonable interpretation of the character's power level barring completely outlier feats like Marvel/DC cross-writer power-scaling (that way characters still need to rely on feats or reasonable powerscaling).
That way, characters that are too inconsistent to accurately say they are only one power level can have different tiers for how they are portrayed while still not including completely irreconcilable feats/anti-feats.
Another thought I had is that even if a verse does not directly say that a character's power level is varying, a character may still have feats/anti-feats that vary heavily. So their power level would still vary heavily even if the verse does not say that. I do agree with people like Armorchompy that we shouldn't headcanon powers that the verse does not say. Yet, if the power level of a character varies by episode/book through varying feats/anti-feats, the power level is clearly varying even if the verse does not give a reason for it. Maybe calling it something like
Inconsistent rather than
Varies in the tier could be a way to differentiate between "the character is inconsistent" and "the character has an in-universe reason for their inconsistencies".
