Plenty of battle threads and discussions say that Megaman.EXE has at the very least universal power, and that he can beat, for example, Goku pre-Dragon Ball Super at the very least. The Death Battle video about a Megaman Battle Royale also hypes Megaman.EXE as an insanely powerful being of cosmic power.
But this never sits right with me for one reason: Megaman.EXE is ridiculously powerful indeed, but only in the Cyberworld, which is essentially a futuristic version of the Internet. In the Cyberworld, I can see why his power is considered cosmic level. But no matter how big the Cyberworld is, it is still just the internet, created and maintained by humans. In the real world, the power of the internet can't really extend much beyond planetary at best. Megaman.EXE has never destroyed actual solar systems and galaxies if I'm not mistaken. He is ultimately an internet being, and his reach can only be as big as the reach of the internet itself, the planet Earth.
In a real world fight, Goku can obliterate the planet Earth, and Megaman.EXE is gone.
The only way we could make such fight be fair is with either of these two caveats:
1 - The fight is in the Cyberworld, and Goku is trapped there.
2 - We state that, for such battle's purpose, all of Megaman.EXE's feats in the Cyberworld should be treated as if they were all valid in the real world. Let's act as if that was the case, let's pretend that all his feats were indeed in the real world. I think that's what most videos and battle threads are doing when they talk about Megaman.EXE being this almost god-like cosmic being. Even thouse these videos and battle threads don't explicitly say this is the assumption they are making, I feel this is indeed the major caveat they are implicitly doing.
If I am misunderstanding anything, please correct me.
But this never sits right with me for one reason: Megaman.EXE is ridiculously powerful indeed, but only in the Cyberworld, which is essentially a futuristic version of the Internet. In the Cyberworld, I can see why his power is considered cosmic level. But no matter how big the Cyberworld is, it is still just the internet, created and maintained by humans. In the real world, the power of the internet can't really extend much beyond planetary at best. Megaman.EXE has never destroyed actual solar systems and galaxies if I'm not mistaken. He is ultimately an internet being, and his reach can only be as big as the reach of the internet itself, the planet Earth.
In a real world fight, Goku can obliterate the planet Earth, and Megaman.EXE is gone.
The only way we could make such fight be fair is with either of these two caveats:
1 - The fight is in the Cyberworld, and Goku is trapped there.
2 - We state that, for such battle's purpose, all of Megaman.EXE's feats in the Cyberworld should be treated as if they were all valid in the real world. Let's act as if that was the case, let's pretend that all his feats were indeed in the real world. I think that's what most videos and battle threads are doing when they talk about Megaman.EXE being this almost god-like cosmic being. Even thouse these videos and battle threads don't explicitly say this is the assumption they are making, I feel this is indeed the major caveat they are implicitly doing.
If I am misunderstanding anything, please correct me.
