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Some additions.
I have issues with the 7-A AP rating, especially for physical strength, but I'll come to that later.
Some questions on current abilities/ratings:
I have issues with the 7-A AP rating, especially for physical strength, but I'll come to that later.
| In a few places, like Newcago, a single godlike Epic rules as a tyrant. Steelheart has no rivals here. Everyone knows he's invulnerable. Nothing harms him: not bullets, not explosions, not electricity. | ||
~ Chapter 29, Steelheart, pg 112 |
- I don't think Deathpoint's ability is deathhax. From the way it's described and how it affects Steelheart it seems he's inducing spontaneous combustion or using heat to reduce people to ashes. As such I think this falls under Heat/Fire Resistance.
| As Steelheart flew gracefully into the room, Deathpoint hastily raised a finger and pointed at him. Steelheart's shirt sizzled in one little section, like a cigarette had been put out on the cloth, but he showed no reaction. He floated down the steps and landed gently on the floor a short distance from Deathpoint, his enormous cape settling around him. Deathpoint pointed again, looking frantic. Another meager sizzle. Steelheart stepped up to the smaller Epic, towering over him. | ||
~ Prologue, Steelheart, pg 4-13 |
- Longevity. Applies to other Epics as well.
| Epics aged far more slowly than regular people, but they did age. | ||
~ Chapter 35, Steelheart, pg 341 |
- Self-Sustenance (Type 1), Resistance to Fire and Radiation
| "Let's see: incredible strength, can shoot deadliest blasts of energy from his hands, can transform anything nonliving around him into steel, can command the winds and fly with perfect control . . . oh, and he's utterly impervious to bullets, edged weapons, fire, radiation, blunt trauma, suffocation, and explosions. | ||
~ Chapter 13, Steelheart, pg 105 |
- Person with the same powers as Steelheart.
Slowed down the ISS Space station as it fell from orbit. Self-Sustenance (Type 1).
| I sat on the hillside, resting in the shadow of the fallen space station- which I'd transformed to steel as we fell. I'd made the transformation, then exited through one of the holes in its side. I'd grabbed hold, slowing it, then guided it out of its death spiral and eventually placed it here. | ||
~ Epilogue, Calamity, pg 421 |
- Where does Type 2 Immortality come from?
- He shouldn't have empowerment. He isn't empowered by people's fears; he isn't a regular dude when no one is around to fear him. It's rather that his powers don't protect him from people who don't fear him. A weakpoint in the armor, not the armor falling off entirely.
- Why is he scaled to Obliteration in strength? None of his feats are anywhere near Obliteration nuking cities. I understand scaling his invulnerability to that (after all, the "no modern weapons/bombs can harm him likely includes existing nukes), but his strength shouldn't be anywhere near Obliteration's AP.
- I'm very sure his bone-breaking feat was due to the father fearing him. I don't think he's anywhere superhuman when he isn't feared.
