DC Exploration: Generic Man

 

Generic Man is a character that has only appeared in a single issue of a relatively obscure Hero appearing in the Heckler #2 in 1992, putting him in the tier of the most obscure dc characters there are. However his concept and power are bizarre, out there, and make him extremely hard to explain, making him the perfect character for one of these blogs.

Who is he?

John Doe was a completely normal man. And he stayed that way. If anything he only got more normal over time. This progressed until he became so aggressively average and normal that he became literally the embodiment of genericness. Viewing distinctness and individuality as the source of conflict he began to spread his genericness until stopped by that bastion of wild distinctness and individuality, the Heckler.

How strong is He?

Overall, not very. He was killed by a stray shot from a completely normal human with a gun and fled from a potential conflict with the Heckler who himself would probably only be Low Vigilante Tier. While his powers hypothetically make him a danger to regular people, I think it's fair to say he's only Low Vigilante Tier.

What are His Powers?

This is the hard part to explain. Generic Man's power is the power to "Genericate" things by touching them, replacing them with a blank silhouette version of them with a word labeling them. Things are deprived of their individuality and uniqueness, reduced to their essence. This works on the metafictional level with the cover title and blurb being genericate-d by Generic Man and the second page and third page being turned into... well this. He does this passively to anything he touches up to at least a building scope. He explicitly couldn't do this to a city at once, but could infect a water supply to infect the entire city. His canvas of paints were reduced to just words of the colors, a newspaper was turned into a white page just saying "headline", and just running away from the Heckler he turned the comic background more generic,  as well as turning grass into a green patch with the word "grass" written on it. The things he makes Generic seem to have the power to turn things generic as shown with the water infection plan, and he can control people made Generic. 

Also while this isn't combat-applicable, when he died he immediately reincarnated into a baby who made the attending doctor start turning generic. You can't kill generic-ness. 

What are his weaknesses?

So Generic Man's biggest weakness is just his sheer average-ness statwise. He is a completely normal human physically and in terms of mental capabilities. He died to a normal bullet and has no real feats of physical capability. His best mental feat was contaminating the city's water with generic-ness which is fairly average in terms of mental capabilities. 

Generic Man's powers are also touch-based meaning while he presents a hypothetical danger to most people, anyone with a weapon longer than the human arm can fairly safely kill him out of his reach. He also has his emotions literally written on his face and instead of speaking normally speaks in special font direct expository dialogue meaning there's no way for him to deceive most enemies. 

So overall, I feel pretty confident calling Generic Man a Low Vigilante Tier character. He has powers that would be dangerous to normal civilians but normal criminals with guns would be a high risk to him, and most vigilantes would be able to handle him fairly handedly except for ones who fight primarily hand-to-hand such as Wildcat, Rorschach, and Al Pratt (The original Atom.) 

Explaining one of Sailor Moon's biggest mysteries

 

Whenever you see a list of "top x Sailor Moon plot holes" or "things in Sailor Moon that don't make sense", you very often get a list from someone who doesn't know the series at all listing "differences between manga and anime", "subjective opinions", "magical girl tropes", or genuinely "things that don't happen in Sailor Moon." However, there is one overarching mystery about Sailor Moon that causes genuine confusion even for the fandom and today I'd like to give my best answer to it.

The crux of the problem is about the non-powered-up form of the Base Senshi in the future. When we see Crystal Tokyo in the Black Moon Clan Arc, we see that the Guardian Senshi are still in their base form:

And over the next three arcs, the Senshi gain super and eternal forms, which raises the obvious question: Why are the Senshi in Base form in the future? Sailor Moon isn't like many Battle Shonen where higher forms seem to require more power or a cost. Transforming into a Super Sailor or an Eternal Sailor seems no more strenous than transforming into their Base Form, so what gives?

So the default response is "Naoko hadn't thought of it yet." And while that doesn't answer the question in-universe, it would be a fairly compelling answer except for the fact that when we see the Future Senshi again in the Stars Arc they are still in their base form

Notice how this includes Sailor Pluto, but what makes this even more confusing is that this is in Act 56 when three acts ago in Act 53 we saw Sailor Pluto in the future who was in her SUPER form

This is perhaps the single most confusing form it could be. Eternal Form would be inconsistent with the Black Moon Clan Arc, but would be the intuitive one. Base Form would be counterintuitive but consistent with the Black Moon Clan Arc. To me Naoko's choice here is almost begging to be interpreted, as though she is saying "Yes, this was a conscious choice. Figure it out."

From this point, the most arguments I've seen from the fandom is that it's something to do with either time travel or changes to the timeline. That the Black Moon Clan and Chibiusa returning to the past either created an alternate timeline or changed the timeline. However, neither feels very likely to me because while it might address why the Sailor Senshi are in Base in the Black Moon Clan arc, it doesn't explain why they remain so in the Stars Arc or the strange single instance of Super Sailor Pluto. So I'm going to give what I think happened.

In order to explain this, we need to first explain what the super and eternal forms ARE, of which there's not a huge amount of info as Naoko isn't super interested in the hows of the mechanics of her world. When it comes strictly to the manga, I believe there are two variants of the Super Form. In the Infinity Arc, Act 30 this is the first description we are ever given about the Super Form

"When a Crisis Arrived, mysterious power would burst out of the grail. It granted its power to Neo-Queen Serenity and she saved the people, they say."

So what this tells us about the Super Form is that it's a power given by the Holy Grail during a crisis. At the end of Act 32 we see Sailor Moon's first henshin into Super Sailor Moon. This is during an encounter where the witch Cyprine has brainwashed the Outer Senshi and Guardian Senshi into fighting each other. She claims to Sailor Moon that this she has only brought out the Senshi's natural hatred for each other while Sailor Moon protests that she knows their hearts are unified. 

Sailor Moon calls for the Senshis' hearts to be united. Tuxedo Kamen and Sailor Chibi-Moon place their hands on hers which begins to glow and manifests the Holy Grail that itself glows. 

at the beginning of the next Act, Act 33, we see this theme continued for several pages, with the Holy Grail continuing to glow, Sailor Moon calling for the power of others. Everyone's hearts are pulled towards Sailor Moon, their powers entering the Holy Grail before Sailor Moon applies this power and transforms, causing the brooch on the other Sailors outfits to change into a heart

There's a serious emphasis on the unity of the Senshi with this henshin, to the point that later in Act 35 when the Guardian Senshis' souls are temporarily stolen, the transformation is lost

Now of the slight information we received in Act 30 this roughly matches the image we were given... but it also feels ever so slightly different. While Diana's description in Act 30 says that a mysterious power comes FROM the Holy Grail, this power is very clearly from the Senshi. While it goes into the Holy Grail, and then is applied through it to Sailor Moon, the power is consistently suggested to be formed of the Senshis' unity, not from the Holy Grail, to the extent that it relies on the other Senshi's continual connection to maintain. If it was the power of the Holy Grail, it would seem odd that the deaths of the Senshi would cause Sailor Moon to lose that power. Similarly, while the confrontation with Cyprine is very emotionally significant to Usagi, it's arguable whether it should be classified as a "crisis" in the same way that something like the cataclysmic destruction at the end of an arc. 

Still, the difference isn't massive or anything. This could be chalked up to a difference in emphasis or artistic license or Diana just being vague in her first description or any number of other factors.

At the end of the next Act, Act 35, when Pharaoh 90 is invading the Earth directly, after Sailor Moon transforms into Super Sailor Moon in a similar way, Chibi-Moon mysteriously duplicates the Holy Grail  

The mechanism isn't explained but it doesn't seem like Chibi-Moon has the same unity of hearts moment that Sailor Moon does. 

A few acts later in the Dream Arc, Act 39, Usagi and Chibi-usa can't transform due to the darkness barrier around the Earth made by Nehelenia. The Holy Grails from the Infinity Arc appear and they comment that they can't use them because the nine Sailor Senshi aren't gathered

However they express that they still have a need to fight and a new power courses within them allowing them to transform into Super Sailor Moon and Super Sailor Chibi-Moon with the henshin phrase "Moon Crisis Make Up" as opposed to the "Crisis Make Up" phrase used in the Infinity Arc (though this may be because they are going from civilian form to Super form directly as opposed to from Base to Super.)

The conclusion I would draw from this is that there seems to be two forms of Super Sailor transform, the Unity Henshin formed from the the unity between the Sailor Senshis' hearts and the Grail Henshin which is a power given by the Holy Grail in times of crisis. 

In Act 48, a Grail Henshin Super Sailor Moon is given power from the Senshi in the same way as the Super Unity Henshin after also channeling down the power of their planetary castles and their Power Guardians. This causes her to transform for the first time to transform into Eternal Sailor Moon

What this leads me to conclude is that Eternal Sailor Moon fundamentally is Super Super Sailor Moon, or in other words it's Sailor Moon using both forms of Super Henshin at the same time, both Unity and Grail Henshin.

There is one conflicting point about this and I admit it's the weakest part of my theory. Eternal Sailor Moon never reverts throughout the Stars Arc like Unity Henshin Super Sailor Moon does, even after the others have died. My only recourse is to say that the Eternal Henshin stabilizes the form, possibly because their powers were stabilized through their planetary castles which were never destroyed.

So if that's how the super and eternal forms work, why are the future Senshi in base form? Well first of all the world is not in crisis during the 900 years of almost entirely peace of Neo-Queen Serenity's reign and Neo-Queen Serenity keeps the Holy Grail in her room as a memento. As such Grail Henshin wouldn't occur. But what about Unity Henshin?

When Usagi took the throne of Crystal Tokyo, she lost much of hers powers to fight "as a soldier"

Personally I believe this to be because in the climax of the series, her Sailor Crystal changed to be the Cosmos Crystal and passed down the Silver Crystal to her daughter, though that's not important to this theory. The important part is that it seems like she's saying she could no longer transform into a Sailor Senshi. With Chibi-Moon not yet awoken in this time, the Silver Crystal couldn't be accessed and thus the unity of the Senshi's hearts could not be formed.

So that potentially explains why the Senshi were in base form during the Black Moon Clan arc, but what about Super Sailor Pluto in the Stars Arc?

In this scene, Chibiusa goes to her mother's room, and listens on to a conversation between Sailor Pluto and Neo-Queen Serenity about a great maelstrom warping spacetime reaching as far as their time.

Given the impending crisis, the Sailor Senshi were granted power by the Holy Grail. This conversation even takes place in the Queen's chambers where the Grail was kept. 

Later the Sailor Senshi lie dying so the reason they're in their base forms is the Holy Grail is no longer giving them the power to fight

Immediately following this, Chibiusa and her quartet transform into their eternal forms, showing that Senshi can still gain the power from the Grail so longer as they're still capable of fighting.

tying back to what Chibiusa said back in the fourth arc when she first used Grail Henshin that she felt the need to fight still within her.

The only unresolved question was if Eternal Henshin doesn't require the unity of hearts as seen with Eternal Sailor Moon's henshin not breaking and Chibi-Moon and the Quartet being able to transform, why was Pluto in super form, not eternal form in Act 53?

So my understanding is that because the times of crisis were over the Grail stopped giving the Senshi power which reverted them to Unity Henshin, except without the unity of their hearts since Usagi was no longer a soldier, they reverted to their base forms. In other words, the Eternal Form can maintain the unity of their powers, possibly through the usage of things like the Planetary Castles, but can't maintain without the Grail's powers, and without that, the Unity Henshin wasn't maintained. 

So that's my explanation for why the Sailor Senshi weren't in their eternal forms in the future. 

DC Exploration: Batwoman (Kate Kane)

 

Definitely a much less obscure character than last time, but a lot of people still don't know who Kate is, her power level is a contentious topic, and with International Women's Day, I thought this would be a good blog. 

Who is She?

Kate Kane is a member of the Bat-Family who was kidnapped alongside her mother and twin sister at the age of 12. Her military father broke into the terrorist's organization however only Kate could be saved, leaving Kate with emotional scars. Shaped by the experience and wanting to serve her country Kate joined the military and did fairly well though was disbanded under the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" rule, due to it coming out that she was a lesbian. Despite this, Kate retained a positive view of the military and still considered herself a soldier at heart which, combined with some inspiration from Batman, lead to her taking up the vigilante persona of Batwoman in order to continue to try and serve her country.

How Strong is She?

So this is actually a fairly contested topic with DC writers tending to rank her higher in the Bat-Family hierarchy than most fans do and with her own series being infamously inconsistent feeling, with it feeling like she gets weaker later in her own series. She goes from with slight aid outright beating metahuman threats that are some of Batman's strongest rogues like Bane and Killer Croc anf fighting against and alongside mythological monsters, urban legends and magic wielders and outright demigods to struggling against a completely normal art thief like Wolf Spider. She manages to restrain and bring down a mutated monstrous Nightwing who should be as strong or stronger than normal, Nightwing being a character who was able to beat Batman who wasn't holding back in an extremely hard-pressed fight (albeit where neither of them were using any tech) yet has to use an elaborate plan of unleasing Batman's villains on Gotham and fighting him after Bane when he's worn out just to have a chance of beating a holding back Batman who is strongly implied would have won anyway. 

Some of this can be attributed to the switch in writers that changed the tone of the series very notably during her series. However if I were to try and explain it, I would say that Kate underwent heavy military and paramilitary training that trained her body to an extremely high physical level of strength, durability, and stamina which is what allows her to take blows and do considerable damage to these metahuman tier characters but that she lacks the outright supernatural feats or training in skill or intelligence that other Bat-Family members do meaning she can be relatively easily off-guarded by normal humans. Kate suggests something similar in Volume 1, Issue 30 of Batwoman saying "You'd think after fighting werewolves and child-drowning ghosts, a guy in a spider-costume would be easy. But Wolf Spider is clever. Fights dirty. Uses distractions well..."

How she compares to the other Bat-Family members therefore can be kind of tricky to tell as she is functionally somewhat of a bruiser, having stats high enough that Batman thought she could help physically train a team including Stephanie Brown, Tim Drake, and CASSANDRA FREAKING CAIN (though this was likely mostly training them in literal physical stats and teamwork), but could more than likely lose a fight due to being outwit or outmaneuvered.  The Bat-Family in general range from Mid Vigilante Tier to Low Metahuman Tier, with Kate being probably in the middle at High Vigilante tier. She's strong enough to at least temporarily go up against Metahuman threats and can win in certain conditions as well as being a threat to pretty much anyone who's not Metahuman tier, but still struggles occasionally against street crime and would likely lose most prolonged fights against metahuman tier enemies. I will mention how I think she'd fare against some other Bat-Family members later. 

What are Her Powers?

Like the majority of the Bat-Family, Kate Kane doesn't have, in-universe, any metahuman abilities and instead fights with trained physical skills and capabilities as well as tech. Due to her extreme military and paramilitary training, Kate developed a high degree of strength, speed, accuracy stamina, and willpower, the last of which gives an inordinately high pain tolerance and a minor resistance to mental manipulation. She has a very keen mind and many trained skills for vigilante work. From a cross-verse powerscaling perspective the most notable of these is the signature Bat-Family ability of stealth, hers being potent enough that she can hide her presence from Supergirl despite Supergirl's super-senses. This means that functionally speaking in most verses she would essentially have the ability to turn invisible. 

Batwoman also uses a variety of technology, mostly famously Kate has no aversion using firearms and lethal force the way Batman is due to her personal mindset as a soldier and military training. She also uses batarangs, a flamethrower, and an electrified net. Her cowl has infrared vision and telepathic shielding and her cape can be used for gliding. She also has some gold thread in her skull used to help patch up an injury which gives her a limited ability to sense electromagnetic fields. 

What are Her Weaknesses?

Like most of the Bat-Family with the possible exception of Tim Drake, Kate is working through psychological demons and trauma and is a dramatic, stubborn, and headstrong personality. Compared to her fellow Bat-Family members, Kate is not especially skilled in hand to hand or intelligent. Now that's not to say she is unskilled or dumb. She's very smart by real world standards and would be extraordinarily skilled in the real world, but she is the only member of the Bat-Family with no training from Batman or otherwise supernatural training. While her paramilitary training was extremely physically intense, compare the 14 martial arts styles she knows to the hundreds Batman is said to know. While very impressive mentally from a real world standard, she is far more grounded in mental capacities than some of her peers. 

In conclusion I think Batwoman would be roughly a High Vigilante Tier character, in the middle of the Bat-Family range which generally extends from Mid Vigilante Tier to Low Metahuman Tier.She's definitely below the tier of Bruce, Dick, and Cassie. These three though they don't technically have powers, would be classified as low metahuman tier as through physical stats mistaken for metahuman, technology, and extreme mental stats, they can beat metahuman tier enemies one on one while Kate needed at least the element of surprise and minor backup from Flamebird or Maggie Sawyer to defeat Bane or Killer Croc. However I do think she could beat Tim, Barbera (whom Kate has beaten before), and possibly Damien as being able to beat literal Batman tier opponents in any context means she could probably overwhelm them physically. I think Jason would be a more interesting fight, but would probably guess Jason would win as he could evenly fight a holding back Batman only to get beaten when Batman uses his full strength while Kate required a large plan to wear down Batman by making him fight Bane to fight a holding back Batman and would probably have lost regardless. Still being able to physically contend at all with the modern versions of Bruce, Dick, and their enemies is insanely impressive and means Batwoman would be a major threat against almost any character without outright superpowers beyond normal humanity and threaten lower metahuman tier enemies. 

How they Compare: Yuna Akamine (Yuki Yuna is a Hero)

 

While the Heroes are normally created to protect the divine tree the Shinju, what if a Hero was made for the opposite side? What if the rebelling gods made their own Hero. This was the beginning of Yuna Akamine, a mysterious "hero" of the past summoned into the present by the rebelling gods in the video game "Yuki Yuna is a Hero: A Sparkling Flower."

Yuna Akamine hails from a chaotic period after the first generation of humans when chaotic infighting among humans was normal. She was given very limited divine powers by the Shinju not for fighting the vertex... but for fighting other humans, for forcing order upon their internal world as chaos was deadly in the time of the vertex. This was a time when some humans still revered the heavenly gods and thought their vertexes were their divine manifestation, a time when humans were unsure of the rightness of either side. This was the confusing time Yuna Akamine hailed from. 

Eventually, she was brought back in the time-bending adventure of the game she features in. Finding out the tragic fates of the other Heroes, the deaths and sufferings they had to go through, she strived to keep them trapped in the Shinju's dimension to save them. Eventually, Yuna Takashima and Yuna Yuki help sway Yuna Akamine from her dark path serving the rebelling gods and to trust the generations of Heroes to save the world. 

Yuna Akamine was able to at least somewhat physically contend with Yuna Takashima. The First generation would regularly fight hundreds of unevolved Vertexes, Stardust who are said to be immune to any of the weapons of humanity and created great natural disasters requiring power in the megaton range. These Stardust underwent hyper-evolution into perfect vertex which the First Generation Heroes could fight with extreme difficulty. with Wakaba Nogi bisecting a Serpentine Vertex made of hundreds of stardust. 

In terms of speed, Yuna Akamine can keep up with the first generation of Heroes who themselves can outpace the stardust and vertexes who are said to outpace any human weapon including hypothetically missiles traveling at hypersonic speeds. Beyond that, she may scale in reaction speed at least partially to the likes of Gin Minowa who has three seperate feats of blocking light with the Heroes also able to react to the vines of the Shinju which traveled into space in seconds, calced at roughly 3%c 

Yuna Akamine also has a Mankai form which, while she's unlikely to use most of the time, can bolster her stats massively and should make her relative to Yuna Takashima's Shuten-Douji, an attack that is explictly stated to have 50 teratons of energy, which is enough energy to destroy a country. Mankai Heroes can also move fast enough to quickly travel in space at massively hypersonic speeds.

Yuna has the powers of the other Heroes. As one who is both soul and body, her regeneration and endurance are amplified as well as all of her physical stats. She can superleap hundreds of meters, has an enhanced awareness, and an immunity to time stop. Most notably, she has a fairy which grants her immortality. And when they say immortality, they really mean it with even universal-level deities being unable to kill a hero, as the fairies are a part of the gods. A hero who wanted to kill herself literally couldn't because the fairy forcibly keeps them alive no matter what.

Yuna also has unique powers given by the evil gods. The evil gods granted her the power to control the vertex to act as their general. Beyond that, she has psychic powers. She can read the minds of others and cause them to relive memories. Both her and her fairy can disguise themselves as other people. Her fairy can enter into the minds of other people and ask them questions about themselves. If they can't answer, the fairy possesses them. The fairy usually asks personal questions Akamine has surmised are difficult for them to answer honestly. It required a heart that was honest to itself like Yun aTakashima or Yuna Yuki to defeat this trick of the fairy. Beyond this Yuna Akamine can summon gusts of wind to teleport her, can perform almost literally substitution jutsu (with Akamine's family being compared to spies and ninjas), and perhaps most strongly has the ability to BFR her opponents within her mind so they can't escape. The irony is Yuna Akamine, the girl who found it hard to communicate with others, who lived in a world of confusion and mistrust, gained the ability to communicate directly with the hearts of others.  

While Yuna Akamine is far from the best fighter of the Heroes, she is quite possibly the most intelligent, having manipulated all the others after they were summoned from the time, leading them along her grand mastermind plot. Her family, the Akamine family, are also a family of highly trained spies and ninjas with her having even outside her powers, significant skill in stealth. 

In terms of weaknesses, Akamine has the same physical weaknesses as the other Heroes. Mankai can cripple her, and her fairies can't protect her from non-physical forms of attack. Compared to the other Heroes, Yuna Akamine is actually relatively physically weak, only having attained limited divine powers to fight other humans rather than the swarms of Vertexes.

Mentally she has more notable weaknesses. Yuna was never trying even somewhat hard against the Heroes, leaving them clues as to her plot, wanting to fight and enjoy fighting rather than focusing on winning, treating her enemies with a strange amount of politeness rather than using deceptive pragmatic fighting like her powers would suggest. Granted this may not apply in most situations as Yuna Akamine's true goal it was revealed was she had seen the fates of the other Heroes and wanted to keep them trapped inside the Shinju forever so they would never have to suffer death and heartbeat. So against most characters, this may not apply. Also, she has real trouble communicating with people.

Name: Yuna Akamine

Origin: Yuna Yuna is a Hero

Powers and Abilities: Enhanced Physical Stats, Regeneration, Leaping, and Senses, Physical Immortality, can control the Vertexes, Mind-Reading, Memory Manipulation, Shapeshifting, Possession, Teleportation, Wind Manipulation, Ninja Skills, Mental Plane BFR. Resistance to Time Stop

Weaknesses: Fairy can't protect against non-physical attacks, Mankai damages her body severely, can't possess people who are completely honest with themselves, can't communicate well

Destructive Capacity: City Level, Country Level with Mankai

Range: Likely hundreds of kilometers

Speed: Hypersonic, Massively Hypersonic with Mankai, Likely Relativistic Reactions

Durability: At least star level (Fairy barriers can withstand things like a black hole), potentially universe level (is a part of the universe level gods which even the other gods can't easily kill)

Stamina: Presumably higher than normal (Heroes have enhanced endurance)

Standard Armor: Hero Transformation Device

Intelligence: At least gifted, manipulated all the other Heroes, evading capture by them for a long time, comes from a line of spies and ninjas

So how would the dark Hero do in other verses?

In Marvel Comics, Yuna would be roughly a Mid Metahuman Tier fighter, comparable to other feats like Iron Fist defeating an opponent whose power was measured in the hundreds of megatons or Electro creating large electric storms. She'd be slower than almost everyone as most characters in this tier scale to lightning timing or higher, but her reaction speed is high enough that it shouldn't be a big problem.

Ironically, her unique powers are kind of meh for this tier in Marvel and it's her general hero abilities that would be much more notable. Her psychic powers are very low level for Marvel and almost any notable hero can probably just resist her powers, outside maybe her mental BFR. Similarly, her intelligence and ninja skills while impressive for her universe are pretty much bog standard for the Marvel Universe with almost every hero having impressive intelligence feats, ninja-like training in stealth and feats or training in seeing-through deception. Against characters like Spider-Man, Wolverine, or the Fantastic Four the only one of her unique powers that would be really notable is her mental BFR whcih would be a fairly unique one-shot type of attack.

What's more relevant is her general powers as a hero, in particular her fairy immortality. This would be an extremely broken type of defense on the same tier as something like Captain America's shield or Wolverine's claws. This would definitely give her a niche as a defensive type character who can fight most characters in the tier, though whether Wolverine's claws could get through Fairy Immortality would be interesting to see. Overall she'd be in the same range as most Marvel Metas with the most interesting things about her being her special BFR technique, being technically able to briefly shoot up to High Meta status, technically, and basically having a vibrainium suit at all time.

In DC Comics, Yuna Akamine would be roughly a Beta Metahuman similar in tier to characters like Hawkman, Fire, and Ice, with her Mankai form being closer to the level of a Royal Atlantean. 

In the DCU, Yuna Akamine's power would be a lot more dangerous with most Beta Metahumans being unable to keep up with her power level, especially with her ability to use Mankai, and her psychic powers may get some use with less of the tier having resistance to mental shenanigans. On the other hand, the DCU even at a relatively low tier of power has more ways around Akamine's immortality with characters like Batman having various mentally affecting gadgets and techniques including engaging in a mental plane battlefield, Harley Quinn and the Joker having mild metafictional abilities, John Constantine having just... a hundred different things he can do etc. While Yuna Akamine would be a lot more overpowering against characters without a way around her fairy immotality, it would be a higher risk scenario for her as well. 

In the Puella Magi-verse, Yuna Akamine would be a real trouble to add to the verse as she would do really well against Puella Magi but really poorly against witches, meaning she would only be able to hurt the heroes. She's roughly in the same power range as Homura thought a witch could maintain a barrier encompassing an entire copy of Mitakihara Town and the surrounding area, though Mankai can temporarily amp her to the level of someone like Isabeau who could create a barrier across all of France.

All the standard abilities of the Puella Magi are physical based abilities that wouldn't get past a Fairy's barrier. There are almost no Puella Magi normally with abilities that would be good against someone with the Hero System with many of the Magical Girls not being fully honest with themselves and likeable to Yuna Akamine's form of possession. Even Homura would struggle to get past Yuna Akamine given Yuna has time stop resistance. On the other hand, all Witches have as standard lots of non-physical powers like lifeforce draining and mentally manipulating people into suicidal homicidal insanity which would bypass fairy immortality entirely. 

There are a few Magical Girls that could take her down. In the Tart Era for instance even outside Holy Tart herself, Riz has the Gates of Hell technique which with a self-sacrifice could bfr Yuna Akamine potentially and in Oriko Magica Kirika had the power to change her own form even giving herself the powers of a witch to protect Oriko, with witch powers being able to take down Yuna. However she'd be a big threat until she was taken down by a high tier magical girl like these. 

In the Nanoha-universe, Yuna Akamine would likely rank as an upper B rank mage in terms of raw power being above overall B Rank Arf who could create a storm with her raw power but below A Rank Chrono who could freeze a sea, calced in the teraton range. However Yuna could temporarily rise into A Rank with her Mankai.

As might be expected, Yuna's fairy immortality would be difficult for most of the wizards of the Nanoha-verse to fight as their magic tends to lack the ability to hit non-physical aspects of their enemy with the most likely weapons of most TSAB Mages to work against Akamine being binding spells or dimensionally trapping her. On the other hand, whether Yuna's attacks would work on them depend a lot on whether the powers Yuna was given by the evil gods qualify as "magic" or not. Personally I'm of the opinion it would, in which case the MGLN-verse Mages barrier against magic should protect them. This is not an impenetrable defense however as it's a pretty normal forcefield proportional to their attack potency meaning assuming Yuna can reach their level of power, she can break the barrier and then use her magic on them directly (or just punch them as their forcefield is where their durability comes from.)

Overall, Yuna would likely be a relatively even match for an A Rank Mage like one of the Wolkenritter as it would be a battle of them to trying to find a way to trap an immortal enemy before she goes mankai and breaks through their defenses. That said she would be no match for one of the Aces (Nanoha, Fate, or Hayate)

In Skullgirls, Yuna Akamine would fit in pretty normally stat wise. Her level of power is consistent with most fighters in the verse scaling from Double maintaining a large dimension within her as well as Hungern being stated to consume half of New Meridian in a quick timeframe and the Skullgirl Marie throwing a tower across the city, calced into the megaton range, alongside numerous hypersonic feats. With her Mankai she would reach a higher tier in the verse, being comparable to the Skullgirl Nancy who withstood a blast from Eoberung that annihilated dozens of smaller countries and spread her aura across an entire country-spanning battlefield giving Queen Nancy and Eliza very similar stats to Mankai Yuna Akamine.

How Yuna would do against the cast varies heavily. Someone like Valentine would see Yuna Akamine as a nightmare to fight being someone who can exploit her psychological contradiction, is immune to all her attacks and poisons and even her time stopping, and can one-shot her. On the other hand someone like Peacock would be a nightmare for Yuna having metafictional toon powers that allow her to casually teleport back from mental bfr via fourth wall shenanigans, easily bypass physical immunity with metafictional interaction or a violence ball or a soul-deleting theonite cannon, things which Yuna's fairy would have no way of protecting from, can obviously see through any of her deceptions and has no real psychological complications within being completely honest with herself. Someone like Beowulf would be somewhere in the middle with most of Beowulf's tactics being unable to hurt Yuna Akamine conventionally and could be deceived by her trickery, but has metafictional attacks and teleportation to bypass mental bfr and fairy immortality, and which Yuna Akamine's form of possession may or may not work depending on your interpretation of his character.

Overall Yuna Akamine would be a fairly balanced addition to the verse having a very powerful couple of abilities but weak to the myriad forms of metaphysical forms of attack in the verse, especially to manifestations of Theonite's destruction. Nonetheless, without information, she could definitely be a valuable asset against a Skullgirl helping to tank a few blows before she finds out Akamine's weakness.