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Nitpicks about Doomguy's profile (Classic key edition)

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Type 8 Immortality

> Due to the eternal struggle between good and evil, there will always be demons and the Slayer
This is Marty talking about how DOOM has always been a story about one good man against an army of evil, not sure why is this used as proof for his immortality.

Doesn't even link to the codex that mentions this.
These are all random comments written by a human being who is fangirling over Doomguy. We have many reasons to assume that Elena was a regular scientist that started blindly worshipping Doomguy after seeing displays of his badassery (understandable, I'd do the same), she is not reliable whatsoever regarding his Type 8 immortality.

Overall, Type 8 Immortality can still stay due to the ending of Eternal's DLC and Hugo's statements about it.

Immortality Negation

> Can kill undead beings permanently and rather easily, both zombies and spirits. Undead beings, specifically due to their undead status, cannot be killed normally, allowing them to survive even if blown to pieces. They can even survive just as skeletons.

Absolutely nothing here states or even shows that Doomguy has some special ability or equipment that let's him permanently kill undead. It even shows that Quake's zombies can be killed permanently by blowing them up, which does not prove negation of type 2 or 7 immortality, but rather exploits the weaknesses of those immortalities. Furthermore, nothing shows that the undead and spirits of DOOM's setting are hard to kill, they function as pretty much most undead in every other setting, that being that they're enduring but still easily killable if you damage them hard enough. This is like shoving a robot into molten magma and saying you have Inorganic Physiology Negation because of that.
Once again this is just exploiting the weakness of an immortality, rather than actually having the ability to negate it. It is outright stated on both the profile and scan that the Mother Demon managed to heal herself while being in a critical state, and that it took her a lot of years to actually ressurect all the demons you killed in the previous entries. Doomguy doesn't negate her regen whatsoever, he just kills her fast enough that she's unable to use her regeneration.
demon immortality in general seems to just be a giant mess so ill have to make a seperate thread about it

Overall, this ability has to go.


Regen Negation

Just read the previous section LMAO

Senses

> Doomguy is able to feel the presence of demons[2]
Links to a screenshot of some random Fandom wiki instead of the actual scan. Should be changed.

My only argument for this is that shotguns produce a LOT of light in the original DOOM. However, I can't provide any scans for it so I guess it can stay. Also this scan and statement is used twice for some reason...?

Free Movement

> Can walk across thin air
They're invisible bridges. Doomguy needs to activate the first one, even further proving that this isn't an ability of his. In the first scan the guy literally shows and says that it's an invisible bridge. Aztec takes place right after Well of Souls, so Doomguy would already be aware of invisible bridges, especially when there's convenient pillars of light in the shape of support beams you'd use for a bridge.

Why are we assuming that they're actually deep moats of water and blood? Not only does it not make any sense to assume that they're that deep, but a very good argument can be made that due to engine limitations ID didn't know how to make "realistic" water at the time.

I have no clue how was this accepted in the first place, especially when the scans used quite literally prove that Doomguy does not have these abilities. Get them out.
 
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used about instead of with for the thread title............ its so over vro.........................
 
I agree.

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Overall, Type 8 Immortality can still stay due to the ending of Eternal's DLC and Hugo's statements about it.
What is even the point of that section in CRT then.
Furthermore, nothing shows that the undead and spirits of DOOM's setting are hard to kill, they function as pretty much most undead in every other setting, that being that they're enduring but still easily killable if you damage them hard enough.
It is stated and explained many times they are immortal due to being dead to the point where blowing them up or turning them into skeleton is not enough to kill them. Yet Doom Guy's stabs and etc. are able to kill them pretty easily
Once again this is just exploiting the weakness of an immortality, rather than actually having the ability to negate it. It is outright stated on both the profile and scan that the Mother Demon managed to heal herself while being in a critical state, and that it took her a lot of years to actually ressurect all the demons you killed in the previous entries. Doomguy doesn't negate her regen whatsoever, he just kills her fast enough that she's unable to use her regeneration.
Point is Mother Demon has Regeneration and Healing on a High-Mid level which means Doom Guy should not have been able to kill her that easily
Links to a screenshot of some random Fandom wiki instead of the actual scan. Should be changed.
Its not "some random wiki" its Codex from Doom Wiki.



Anyways there is already two threads happening so this should be closed and done later. So I'll request this to be closed
 
I agree, I thought some of this looked ridiculous myself.
 
Looks good to me, idk why the bridge or water thing stayed when neither scenarios prove free movement.
 
I did not participate in the original threads for the abilities in the OP.

However, looking at the original thread, staff showed no agreement with the added justification of "Type 8 - Due to the eternal struggle between good and evil, there will always be demons and the Slayer, to the demons, he always has come, and always will." I don't know why it was added.

Regarding Immortality Negation, the profile currently lists Negation of Type 2, 3, and 7.

2: Resilient Immortality: Characters with this degree of immortality can indefinitely survive injuries that would otherwise be lethal to a normal person, without needing to heal.

The justification doesn't provide an example of Zombies "surviving" even after getting blown to pieces.

3: Immortality via regeneration: Characters with this type of immortality can simply regenerate from wounds that would normally be lethal, though its effectiveness depends on the degree of the regeneration.

To negate Type 3 means that a character literally causes an entity to stop regenerating. Killing an entity faster than they can regenerate is a separate thing.

7: Undead: Characters who cannot die due to technically being already dead, often overlapping with other forms of immortality. This includes characters who can keep existing as spiritual entities upon dying.

Not exactly sure what it means to negate Type 7.

Regen Negation - See Type 3 above.

Senses

"Doomguy is able to feel the presence of demons" refers to this page: https://doom.fandom.com/wiki/MAP30:_The_Lair_(Doom_64)

Can walk across thin air; Moats of water or blood

First was an invisible bridge. Not sure why either was added. Staff in the original thread also disagreed with it.
 
I agree with removal of free movement; that makes little sense and the rivers and blood rivers probably just weren't that deep. Senses, I agree it should link an actual scan instead of a screenshot from the DOOM wiki. Sure DOOM wiki copy/pasted text from the actual game, but actual images are still better than a mere here say with a works cited.

But the rest should stay via Shion and Firestorm's input.
 
I agree with removal of free movement; that makes little sense and the rivers and blood rivers probably just weren't that deep. Senses, I agree it should link an actual scan instead of a screenshot from the DOOM wiki. Sure DOOM wiki copy/pasted text from the actual game, but actual images are still better than a mere here say with a works cited.

But the rest should stay via Shion and Firestorm's input.
To clarify, most of my input is on the justifications being questionable.
 
To clarify, most of my input is on the justifications being questionable.
Ah

Well, the OP conceded to Type 8. Type 7 doesn't really need negation; not really even immortality but just "Undead" status. But points about Types 2 and 3 that simply going beyond limit rather than negation makes sense.
 
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