Question about The Writer

[Jonathanlighter]

In the page it says Questionable Omnipotence for powers and abilities. but why doesn't he have omniscience and omnipresence as well like the other tier 0s?

 

[Antvasima]

Because it is still a real world human writer, not a part of the story itself. Real world people are quite limited in intellect and do not have all DC Comics stories as part of their beings.

 

[Azathoth_the_Abyssal_Idiot]

I believe the Writer is also implied to be broken up into multiple "avatar" writers in the GM's Animal Man run.

 

[Matthew_Schroeder]

Yes, he jokes that he doesn't write every comic or else he'd have no life, and says that someone else writes Animal Man when he's with the Justice League, to which he replies. "True... I never seen to do much when I'm with them."

The whole story was still very clearly portrayed as being fiction within fiction, however.

Which is why the picture we use isn't Morrison's avatar anymore, but a generic author hand painting Animal Man.

 

[ProspectX]

"The writer" is not the equivalent to a real life person. If he was Then we could also just list tori-bot as tier-0.