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I understand why we don't try to stat up Jesus, Allah, Satan, the Archangels, or other powerful characters for VS debates. It would be either a massive circle-jerk for one character, or a massive flame-war involving the use of narrative statements that many would feel analogous to debating whether Michael Jordan or John Cena would kill the other in a fight to the death. It's just pointless, distasteful, and rude.
But can we stat up the lesser characters whom everyone recognizes as having faults?
Instead of trying to stat up the literal religious God-tiers and making no-one happy, could we perhaps stat up, say, Samson? He was given a blessing of great strength which seems to stay mostly consistent, he has measurable feats with which to calculate, and most probably wouldn't object to seeing him listed as, say, Wall-level.
What about Goliath? Wouldn't it be fun to imagine a battle between him and Little Mac? How awesome would it feel to see your favorite action hero play David in a fist-fight with this behemoth of a man?
How's about a page for the original Leviathan, performing calcs to see how tanky a 300 mile long serpent would be from sheer size alone? Or perhaps his forgotten sibling, the Ziz, the giant rooster whose tossed, rotten egg drowned thirty cities and crushed 300 cedar trees, whose wings protect the world from the four winds and can block out the sun, and who stands in the deepest areas of the ocean, the water only reaching its knees? How crazy would those be in a VS debate?
We're sitting on top of a goldmine surrounded by a field of different kinds of mines, and, while we have to be careful about keeping the more abstract, "omnipotent to some degree, but to which degree nobody can make up their darn minds" characters out of it, we could potentially add in some very unique and classical characters!
I'd suggest sticking all of them under the "Mythology" tag and insert a disclaimer about the nature of the characters as legendary figures which we are examining based upon their adventures and descriptions and that the ratings are for comparison to other characters, that we are looking at them from a purely analytical POV, and that everyone should take it with a grain of salt in their day-to-day lives, or something to that effect.
Thoughts?
But can we stat up the lesser characters whom everyone recognizes as having faults?
Instead of trying to stat up the literal religious God-tiers and making no-one happy, could we perhaps stat up, say, Samson? He was given a blessing of great strength which seems to stay mostly consistent, he has measurable feats with which to calculate, and most probably wouldn't object to seeing him listed as, say, Wall-level.
What about Goliath? Wouldn't it be fun to imagine a battle between him and Little Mac? How awesome would it feel to see your favorite action hero play David in a fist-fight with this behemoth of a man?
How's about a page for the original Leviathan, performing calcs to see how tanky a 300 mile long serpent would be from sheer size alone? Or perhaps his forgotten sibling, the Ziz, the giant rooster whose tossed, rotten egg drowned thirty cities and crushed 300 cedar trees, whose wings protect the world from the four winds and can block out the sun, and who stands in the deepest areas of the ocean, the water only reaching its knees? How crazy would those be in a VS debate?
We're sitting on top of a goldmine surrounded by a field of different kinds of mines, and, while we have to be careful about keeping the more abstract, "omnipotent to some degree, but to which degree nobody can make up their darn minds" characters out of it, we could potentially add in some very unique and classical characters!
I'd suggest sticking all of them under the "Mythology" tag and insert a disclaimer about the nature of the characters as legendary figures which we are examining based upon their adventures and descriptions and that the ratings are for comparison to other characters, that we are looking at them from a purely analytical POV, and that everyone should take it with a grain of salt in their day-to-day lives, or something to that effect.
Thoughts?
