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Fiction vs non fiction

If we were to put up a non fictional character, such as Floyd Mayweather, up against a fictional character, such as Ethan hunt in a fight, Floyd Mayweather would win because he's actually real and Ethan hunt isn't, and that the actor playing as Ethan Hunt would get beaten by Floyd. Does that make sense? Personally, I don't think so.

This seems like a dumb question but I'm curious, and I can't seem to find anyone else talking about this. This seems like a really common argument that people make out.
 
If we were to put up a non fictional character, such as Floyd Mayweather, up against a fictional character, such as Ethan hunt in a fight, Floyd Mayweather would win because he's actually real and Ethan hunt isn't, and that the actor playing as Ethan Hunt would get beaten by Floyd. Does that make sense? Personally, I don't think so.

This seems like a dumb question but I'm curious, and I can't seem to find anyone else talking about this. This seems like a really common argument that people make out.
When it comes to versus matches, we compare the fighters' statistics determined through powerscaling; in powersaling, if it's the case where the 'charcacter' being scaled exists in the real word, the character's ontological status would not be put under consideration for any aspect of its ability, given the fact that the whole process of powerscaling is already purely abstract; broadly speaking, whether something exists in reality or not has no bearing to our imagination's limitation. So, yes, such of a claim makes no sense here.
 
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