I don't see how this one-off moment justifies it being used as an entirety across the entire verse. Just feels like a one and done situation, especially since this is a Silver Age, early comic thing that is pretty much never used again. Off-Panel just seems like author insertion or something adjacent to that. It's like saying Arale from Dragon Ball beating up Toribot makes her outerversal, beyond the creator-god level or something. It just sounds dumb. I personally just wouldn't that any of that seriously in an actual debate and seems more like wank for the sake of wank oftentimes. I respect the fact that you aren't toxic about it, even if I do disagree with what you say.
You know what else are one off moments, those gem stones that allowed Sonic to become elastic when he was squished by a boulder. Yet those are included in his profile. Even if it is a one-off moment, it has been utilized in a manner where we see Sonic defeat Eggman so it rightfully should be warranted as an ability of his. Adding onto this, we see in Sonic Live that Sonic is literally pulling real world humans into his world from a TV which supports the case even more. Off-Panel is nothing like author insertion due to there being exclusive enemies present like Deadline and even then, we see characters deciding how the plot would be dictated within the Comic itself. The reason why it's considered more than just an Omake let alone something that would be qualified as Outerversial is due to how the cosmology of the verse itself supports higher dimensional planes of reality (some of which has merit for being Outerversial but SOME MODS love to cherry-pick definitions and interpretations to make it now the case whatsoever. Definitely one of my major critiques regarding what gets approved on the site and what doesn't along with how it would be interpreted. Powerscaling is mostly subjective with some objective elements after all so scale it however you like) and in general is complex as hell. That's not even getting into how it's connected to the Image Comics Multiverse which is already its own can of worms.
I don't think that's really any reason to make Super Sonic weaker than Ultra Sonic. Seems like a taped-together reasoning for a form that's never truly explained. It just doesn't have the feats and I can't agree with this. It's really just 007-ing right now.
I disagree. The case against it doesn't make sense other than because of lack of appearances. The implications present and power sources present to power Sonic do hold a stronger case for Ultra Sonic > Super Sonic. Now, feel free to disagree of course. Powerscaling is subjective with some objective elements after all.
The way I see it, all Seven Super Emeralds Super Sonic > Regular Super Sonic (includes Post-Great Harmony and Post-Genesis Wave) and if one Super Emerald can turn Sonic into Super Sonic AND Ultra Sonic, then it makes sense that all Seven Super Emeralds would just do the same thing but MUCH stronger.
1. I never said that the Super Emeralds weren't stronger than the Chaos Emeralds, I just said that it's vague as to ONE Super Emerald being stronger than all Seven Chaos Emeralds. It just doesn't add up. It being POTENTIALLY stronger than the entire set of regular Chaos Emeralds just seems like headcanon, to me. The "used for emergencies" thing would have come up, like, way more often when they actually mattered. It's only come up a total of three times in the comic's entire run and in none of them does it have solid-enough evidence with Ultra Sonic being stronger than Super Sonic. These vague implications are very weak and don't add much to its non-fraudulency in terms of its power. It having more screentime in that instance doesn't make it stronger. That was around its debut comic, so of course it'd get some screentime. Super Sonic was hardly relevant then. I just don't see the vision. Just feels like an extreme reach to me.
Well....usually if all Seven are needed to obtain a Super Form yet a single Super Emerald is able to do so, I'd say that a single Super Emerald > All 7 Chaos Emeralds. Regarding the utilized for emergencies argument, usually they bet on the Seven Chaos Emeralds due to them being more easily accessible which in the context of the stories, was able to win against the big bad threats. Used for emergencies is typically structured to where even the Chaos Emeralds are not enough or if they have to rely on another sort of power source (Super Emeralds). I do agree that them being early on in the comics does make things even more complicated for accurate powerscaling, but from what we have seen, the stronger case here is Ultra Sonic > Super Sonic thanks to the power source of the Super Emerald being utilized. I understand why you disagree here, but I don't see how that isn't clear cut other than lack of screen time. I wouldn't say it's a vague implication when we've seen it right in front of our eyes in issue 71. I also disagree regarding Super Sonic not being relevant back then. We've seen Super Sonic and Super Knuckles clash so hard to the point where an entire zone exploded and they both fought against Mammoth Mogul alongside Super Tails.
2. A power source that he knows how to utilize rather well as if it was second nature. I don't think this is relevant in this case. It's a form that he uses. I just don't see anything that Ultra Sonic has done that Super Sonic couldn't. Just seems like a lot of wank for the form that barely has showings. Ultra Sonic is just a rather dubious form that isn't even brought up much if at all, so I don't see the value in trying to reach so far to get this form to this level of strength. It isn't shown to do anything Super Sonic is unable to, it never comes up when it should count later on, and its applications seem useless. Why would the form need environmental adaptation if Super Sonic is just invincible and could fly. Why use atomic manipulation when he could just reality warp? He could already use BFR in Super by just using reality warping and just shunt him to another zone. It just seems like a completely useless form in comparison and Super just completely outshines it, yet it keeps getting clouted up as actually stronger than it's actually shown to be.
I think it is when you're trying to compare more complex fights found in Dragon Ball fights vs with more streamlined and straight-forward fights like Sonic. Wank is definitely a reach here since at worst, it's not out of the question and has a nice foundation compared to just wand-waiving it as something less than Super. Ultra Sonic is very similar to Hyper Sonic in that it barely comes up at all yet are both supplied by a superior power source being the Super Emeralds making them more powerful than Super Sonic. As I've stated before, it should count towards being utilized in cases of emergencies due to how sometimes the Chaos Emeralds are either not enough or unavailable where they needed to utilize a different power source. Even then, when they utilized the Chaos Emeralds, we see that they always pull through so there was never any need to utilize Ultra Sonic. The way that Ultra Sonic works is that it has a much greater connection to the Ixis Magicks compared to Super Sonic while also due to it being above Super Sonic thanks to the Super Emerald, the form allows for perfect mastery over Chaos Energy. The Ixis Magicks has HEAVY amounts of Atomic Manipulation. We've seen Ixis Naugus utilize such abilities on both in-organic and organic material (see when he turned Bunny Rabot's robotic parts to flesh and blood) to which we've seen Sonic scale to and surpass with his Super and Ultra Forms. In other words, Ultra Sonic has Greater Atomic and Elemental Manipulation compared to Super Sonic but also obtains new powers such as BFR and Adaptation to thrive more in different environments. That's not to say that Super is unable to thrive in said environment, but Ultra Sonic tailors specifically to survive in that environment while also allowing for easier traversal. Also, Ultra Sonic can fly as well. Super Sonic can use Sealing. Not BFR. Ultra Sonic can do BFR into the Zone of Silence. In other words, there is exclusivity for Ultra Sonic that Super Sonic does not have but that's irrelevant when Ultra Sonic already has everything Super Sonic has and more (even if it isn't too much in comparison). When it comes to why doesn't Super Sonic just reality warp in comparison to Ultra Sonic manipulating atoms, you don't need to fix a smaller solution with a bigger hammer depending on the situation. That's not to say the bigger hammer wouldn't work, but it's more impractical in comparison. Again, I disagree with it being useless when compared to Super Sonic. Super Sonic being able to do all that it has shown (all of which being impressive) yet thanks to Ultra Sonic being above it (thank you Super Emerald), makes Ultra Sonic a little bit more impressive even if it hasn't been shown as much in comparison.
3. I don't take Ian statements all too seriously unless it's something lore-related. His powerscaling is dog, so I'm more than likely going to knock it.
Yeah.....I don't blame you for this. The way I go about it is that I only take powerscaling statements when it's either used in conjunction to explain lore-related things, meant to clarify events that had happened within the comics, or if it lines up with already established evidence present within the comics in general. That's one of the reasons I agree with Ian Flynn stating that Ultra Sonic > Super Sonic espeically when it's been implied and shown through the superior power source being the Super Emerald powering Sonic but WHOLE HEARTELY disagree with him saying Dark Enerjak > Ultra Sonic because of it being a potentially cool narrative and nothing else. Ultra Sonic > Dark Enerjak any and all day.
Well.....now that I've finished my giant long reply. The only thing I have left to say is what I've said before. Powerscaling is mostly subjective with some objective elements. So scale it however you like whether you agree or disagree.