DC Exploration: Yuga Khan

 

Yuga Khan is the perfect example of the kind of character I'd wanna do in one of these blogs. He's a character that every casual doesn't seem to know but everyone who's done at least a little exploration into DC knows because of his raw OP-ness even though he was only in two storylines and a baker's dozen issues basically. 

Who is he?

Yuga Khan (Title, real name Zonuz) is one of the Old Gods, the race of gods that existed prior to the creation of the New Gods of Apokolips and New Genesis after the Old Gods' civil war ended the third world and began the fourth world. Zonuz was a leader of the Old Gods, the most powerful of them. He is also the father of Darkseid and was the sole being that Darkseid feared. He tried to claim the power of the Source for himself, but ended up being sealed in the Source Wall the impenetrable barrier that seals all those who try to reach The Source. 

How strong is he?

As you might imagine, absolutely monstrously, to the point he might indeed be considered a god representing power. Zonuz dwarfs his sons Uxas (Darkseid) and Izaya (Highfather) to the point it took both of them to beat him back when he was weaker. His power was so great that he simply shut off the connection from the Source to all the New Gods causing them to all lose their powers and their technology to stop working at once. 

He's without a doubt one of the strongest beings in the Godsphere and in terms of raw power he's arguably the single most powerful being of the Godsphere though Billy Batson amped by the powers of Anapel, S'ivaa, Ate, H'ronmeer, and the Wizard was able to match him, S'ivaa by comparison being a character capable of destroying the entirety of the Godsphere at least. As such it's pretty clear that Yuga Khan is a High Godsphere Level Entity just through raw power alone. 

What are his Powers?

Like all the Gods, Yuga Khan is an immortal conceptual entity with the ability to manipulate reality as well as its components such as matter, energy, spacetime, souls, and minds and create avatars of himself with superhuman characteristics. He has done many of the standard abilities the gods are known for such as grow massive, cut off the powers of others, telepathically creating visions and illusions and mind-read beings as powerful as Highfather, etc. He's also functionally immune to most of the powers of the New Gods with characters like Darkseid not being able to deal with him in any quick way. 

Zonuz's unique power is his Torment Sanction, the equivalent of Darkseid's Omega Section. The Torment Sanction seems to drain the life and energy out of other beings including entire planets and other gods, allowing Yuga Khan to use their energy as his own. While Darkseid tends to annihilate enemies and then tries to drain them of their power if that doesn't work, Yuga Khan is the inverse and tries to drain enemies of their power before erasing them if that doesn't, possibly related to his belief that power is everything. Also, Desaad, Darkseid's mad scientist who he regularly kills and then brings back to life as punishment for failing him says that Yuga Khan has the ability to kill him such that even Darkseid couldn't bring him back which might be related to the Torment Sanction. 

His most dangerous power by far is that he can manipulate the Anti-Life Equation, the dark half of the Source, the power Darkseid sought to obtain, which can do many things such as derive worlds of free will and corrupt creation. Yuga Khan has used it for things like travel through hypertime (metafictional time), resurrecting the Old Gods, and cut off all the New Gods' access to the Source.

What are his weaknesses?

Without a doubt, Zonuz's biggest weakness is his lack of intelligence, or at the very least his complete and total arrogance about his own power. He was initially defeated because he tried to claim the Source's power and was sealed into the Source Wall. After escaping the first time, he basically defeated the New Gods and stole the power of New Gods...only to immediately try to claim the Source's power again and be sealed into the Source Wall again. When he reappeared in the New 52 he tried to steal the Wizard's power given by the Gods so he could try and do the exact same thing again. He doesn't use his powers very tactically most of the time, generally just draining all surrounding power.

Also his constant draining of power can sometimes backfire. His attempt to control the Wizard's power didn't work because the Wizard's power can only be wielded by someone worthy and so he couldn't wield it against Billy. 

In conclusion, Yuga Khan is easily a high Fourth World Tier entity. He would be the vast majority of Gods, Angels, and Demons and other entities in the Godsphere in a direct fight but is weaker then Fifth World Entities like Monitors and Imps. While he's stronger then Darkseid and would beat him, he's overall probably a lesser threat due to his much more exposed weaknesses.

He obviously beat New Genesis and Apokolips. Compared to other Godsphere realms Yuga Khan would be one of the most powerful in raw power with the only comparisons being power outliers like the Archangels of Heaven, Lucifer Morningstar and Amped Belial of Hell, Morpheus of the Dreaming, and the strongest gods of Skyland and Underworld. Compared to other specific worlds of the Godsphere: Against Hell he would be stronger then almost anyone there and would actually be able to escape Neron and First of the Fallen's immersion via the Anti-Life's hypertime movement. That said there are plenty of some of the best tricksters (even outside Lucifer) in the godsphere like Belial or Lady Blaze who could trick him into being sealed into the Source Wall again or Azazel the Second of the Fallen who can use his metaconceptual soul consumption if he can get close to Yuga Khan. Against Heaven, the holy light hax of most of the Angels should work on Zonuz and any of the Archangels would be able to beat him. Against Underworld he would be very difficult to stop though it's possible that Osiris' hax described as being superior even to Nabu's and able to negate the regeneration of Swamp Thing could potentially defeat him, though Osiris is fairly weak and Yuga Khan could absolutely one-shot him in turn. Against Skyland he would have a pretty good fight against most of the top gods like Zeus or Odin, though he would have more raw power as they're considered relative to Darkseid, while he's far above. However, given that the strongest gods of Skyland were the ones who first divided Source into Life and Anti-Life it's possible they could affect his Anti-Life Power and divide it in two meaning the strongest gods of Skyland together should be able to beat him. Nightmare doesn't have much it can do to him save potentially trick him into being sealed again in the Source wall while for the Dreaming he should be able to beat anyone there save Morpheus himself, though Santa Claus who regularly gives Darkseid coal and escapes might be able to similarly escape from Yuga Khan.

So overall I think he would be a High Godsphere level entity. He could certainly threaten most of the Godsphere realms just by himself, though there are some characters that would still be an even fight against him or would outright beat him, and even without the strongest characters might struggle against Heaven due to their anti-evil hax, Hell due to their tricksters and strongest haxes, and maybe Dream/Nightmare due to their own suite of tricksters. 

Team Trial: Anti-Chuck Norris Team

 

Once there was a showdown. An ULTIMATE showdown. Of Ultimate Destiny. During the showdown, Chuck Norris descended from Heaven and went on a rampage, kicking people in the crotch and crushing peoples' heads. In order to stop him a brave coalition of heroes and villains formed, managing to kick Chuck Norris in his cowboy @ss.

In order to be able to hurt Mr. Carlos Ray Norris, it's possible that every member of the Anti-Chuck Norris Team would reach at least universal levels of power as, according to the Official Chuck Norris Facts Book, Chuck Norris' roundhouse kick is estimated as the power level of the big bang, a force Chuck Norris would have to tank every time he kicks.

The whole team would have to be at least massively hypersonic as the team is described as having come out of nowhere "lightning-fast" with them possibly reaching infinite speeds as they would have had to reach fast enough to tag Norris, who is stated in the same book to be able to fast enough to punch himself in the back of the head. 

The team of course has their own unique powers

Gandalf the Grey is one of the Istari, wizards of Middle-Earth. The Istari are actually a race of primordial spirits who created physical bodies for themselves. They commune past the physical, ability to telepathically reach or influence the souls and minds of others with their presence and sense things far away or beyond the physical. Gandalf's powers as a wizard gives him many inherent powers including the ability to storm, light, lightning and fire, as well as manipulate energy, matter, or illusions. He can also speak to animals and had a limited psychic ability to see the past and future due to hazy memories originating from his time existing before entering spacetime. His power was great enough to battle the storm conjuring wizard Saruman and smote a mountain in his fight with Durin's Bane.

His true form is potentially far stronger. Gandalf's true form is the primordial spirit Olorin, a maiar who had a part in manipulating the Ainunlindale, the song that comprises all reality with the mortal word Ea being a small thought in the mind of Eru and Gandalf's true form fighting in the war that threatened the timeless voids beyond spacetime. Manipulation of this song allowed for conceptual manipulation, fate manipulation, and through them manipulation of all things. 

After Gandalf the Grey died, he was reborn as Gandalf the White. Gandalf's power was enhanced with his return and was given an immunity to all mortal weapons and the right to strip Saruman of all his magical power. 

The Black Knight was one of the most fearsome and definitely the most unyielding foe fought by King Arthur in his quest for the Holy Grail. The Black Knight was able to match equally King Arthur in a melee, Arthur being able to chop human limbs off with casual blows from his blade, requiring wall levels of power. Despite Arthur doing this to The Black Knight, cutting off all four of his limbs, the Black Knight showed no pain and continued to try to fight Arthur showing a level of immense pain resistance. Beyond that he was also skilled enough to accurately throw his blade in the visor of the Green Knight's helmet, showing an extreme level of skill.

It's quite possible he's even stronger. The Black Knight has claimed to be "invincible!" which is defined as meaning "too powerful to be defeated or overcome." The Monty Python universe includes very powerful characters including God who shows up in Monty Python and the Holy Grail. God is generally regarded as conceptually the creator of the universe, something which is said on the Monty Python wiki and shown somewhat in Monty Python and the Meaning of Life.

Benito Mussolini was the Fascist Dictator of Italy from 1925-1943. As might be expected, he lacks in any superhuman feats or abilities. However, by statements he was potentially far stronger. He was the leader of the Italian state, with him famously expressing his political philosophy as "Everything in the State, nothing outside the State, nothing against the State." He was a believer in the Hegelian philosophy of Actualism which holds gnostic conceptions of the state being a representation of God. If Mussolini's statements combined with his changing the state into a new kind of state, a totalitarian kind of state that encompasses all things, then this would be a form of universal conceptual manipulation.

The Blue Meanies are a fictional species that are the villains of the film "Yellow Submarine." The Chief Blue Meanie was physically capable of contending with the Beatles, who had many supernatural feats of power including withstanding explosions, car collisions, stopping trains, have "limitless undying love that shine around them like a million suns" and can casually exist in the sea of time, a transcendental plane outside the timeline where they can freely travel through time via pure speed.

The Blue Meanie's have the abilities to freeze things and turn them blue, including entire kingdoms, robbing them of color and music. Their attack also caused things to start breaking down in general and they had numerous powerful weapons.

Cowboy Curtis is a lasso-wielding cowboy friend of Pee-Wee Herman. At his peak he had a wish from the genire Jambi, these wishes having universal reality-warping power. 

Jambi the Genre is a genie living inside a jeweled box who can grant reality-warping wishes, though he can only grant one wish per show or become sick. When Pee-Wee wished to do everything in the episode all over again, Jambi used his magic to replay the entire episode in fast forward showing a metafictional control over the timeline via his magic. 

Robocop is the policeman Alex Murphy rebuilt as the crime-fighting robot Robocop. He has easily destroyed steel doors, tanked large explosions and more notably appeared in Mortal Kombat 11 to fight against the Kombatants of the Realms, who scale to such feats such as Shao Kahn passively merging two universal+ sized realms, Blaze being able to destroy all the realms at once, Shao Kahn withstanding blows from the Elder Gods that created the realms, the characters being able to shake the foundations of the universe, stated to be more powerful than the big bang, and threaten existence as a side-effect of their fighting. These Kombatants were also able to face and tag fighters such as Kratos (A Greek God that can reach the speeds of Hermes who outscales the light of Helios that lit up the infinite sized underworld in finite time and with his own slew of universal feats) and Superman mentioned below. 

Robocop also possesses numerous forms of natural weaponry such as a flamethrower, guns, and spikes for melee, a jetpack, and a lock-on system that allows him to hone in on targets. He also has built-in sensors including thermographic and telescopic, recording devices, and the ability to link up to computers. 

The Terminator is a Robotic Assassin turned Hero from the Future. He has numerous feats of explosions and withstanding or using futuristic weapons as well as also fought the Kombatants of the nine realms of the Mortal Kombat cosmology. The T-800 model has numerous forms of extrasensory perception and a metal exoskeleton that provides additional endurance and resistance to numerous abilities, voice mimicry, and incorporates an inhuman level of information, skill, and stealth beyond what any human could have.

Captain James T Kirk is the captain of the starship Enterprise. Physically speaking he's contended with numerous powerful aliens and monsters, fought his close ally Spock physically on numerous instances, and at the end of the Green Lantern/Star Trek crossover became a Green Lantern giving him access to the power of the Green Lantern Ring giving him universal scale reality-warping, resistance to many forms of hax and powers, the ability to fly through space up to infinitely fast and more. 

Darth Vader is the fallen chosen one of the Galaxy in Star Wars and one of the strongest of the Sith. In the Legends canonicity not only does Darth Vader scale above lesser Sith and Force users having planetary and even stellar feats even as his much weaker self Anakin Skywalker but he was relative to Darth Sidious (Sideous himself stating Vader could have killed him and Vader surviving Sideous' Force Lightning), Sideous stated to have being the strongest being to ever been born, almost a force entity who force storms can wipe out "all of space." Vader also scales far above lesser characters reacting to outside events while shifting to hyperspace, a level of speed thousands to billions of times the speed of light.

Vader also has a wide and broken arsenal of abilities including superhuman levels of skill greater than anyone in the galaxy's history, telepathy, telekinesis, precognition, mental manipulation, statistic amplification, forcefield creation, energy absorption and manipulation, matter manipulation, and resistance to all aforementioned abilities. 

Lo-Pan is a dark sorcerer and the antagonist of the film Big Trouble in Little China. Even when weakened from his curse he was superior to his minions Lightning, Thunder, and Rain who can control the weather. With the green flame granted by his dark gods he managed to melt away the ice of Hell that imprisoned Yama, the god who killed the primordial dragon of chaos and separated him into the mortal universe, Heaven, and Hell. He's naturally intangible and has access to many dark spells, spirit sensing and summoning, light projection, hypnosis, and control of demons.

Superman is the ultimate superhero and champion of Earth, as well as Truth, Justice, and the American Way. He's also pretty clearly THE heavy hitter of this group. Superman can easily break the constructs of Green Lantern Hal Jordan who could reduce an explosion that would wipe out two universes to subatomic and forged his own ring from his own will sending echos across the emotional electromagnetic spectrum. As of Infinite Frontier he's stated to be stronger than he has ever been, possibly including the time he one-shot the World Forger and his multiverse, the World Forger being a metaconceptually infinitely powerful entity from the Sixth Dimensional World. He is also relative to major speedforce users in speed, these speedforce users able to run at conceptually infinite speeds or higher. 

Superman has a large powerset including cosmic super senses, heat vision, freeze breath, energy absorption and manipulation, supergenius intellect, conceptual canceling, phasing/bfr, attack reflection, regeneration, mental battlefield summoning and manipulation, resistance to basically any ability one could think of, and much more. 

The Power Rangers are many teams of transforming superheroes gaining powers from an extradimensional power source called the Grid. They are all stronger than the weak villain Jinxer from Lightspeed Rescue who made a solar eclipse as well as scaling to numerous feats from the planetary to stellar range. The Overdrive Rangers were able to beat the villain Flurious amped on the Corona Aurora, five gems of immeasurable power which grants the power to control or destroy the universe. The strongest however would be Lord Drakkon, the evil Power Ranger who casually infinite universes remaking it into his own twisted reality. 

Lord Drakkon also has the strongest abilities of the rangers having reality warping, manipulation of space, time, dimensions, and causality, brainwashing, sealing, attack reflection, various forms of elemental manipulation and energy manipulation, existence erasure, and more. The other Rangers add a few extra abilities including clairvoyance, psychometry, telekinesis, heart sensing, ninja skills, a sonic scream, transmutation, and even more forms of elemental manipulation. 

Bill S Preston and Theodore Logan (Bill and Ted) are two excellent dudes who had the universal abstract concept of Death thrown at them which they survived along with beating Death at Battleship, Clue, Monopoly, Electronic Football, Twister, and Rock-Paper-Scissors. Their music is great enough to create instantly inter-planetary peace, restore the spirits of a people for whom smiling was literally taken out of the gene pool, and impress both God and Satan. Bill was also able to gain dark force powers from Darth Bogus while Ted was able to read the on-screen text giving time and place to the audience. 

Spock is a human/vulcan hybrid and Starfleet Officer who received a Blue Lantern Ring in the same crossover Kirk got a Green Lantern Ring giving him relative powers. He also has his own general vulcan type abilities including psychic abilities including telepathy, psychic sensory, psychic resistance, mind-melding, mental manipulation, and memory erasure. He also possesses pressure point combat and vulcan resistance to various forms of biological attack and enhanced endurance. 

The Rock is a Wrestler in the WWE and the champion of the people. He scales above Matt Hardy and Bray Wyatt who threatened the universe in their battle as well as above Breezango and the Ascent who disrupted the spacetime continuum. He also scales above Curt Hawkins in speed who counted to infinity twice giving infinite speed. He is skilled in strikes, throws, holds, and aerials but his specialty is social influencing misleading his opponents and gripping the audience. He also has the ability to copy enemies techniques from seeing them having copied Austin's Stone Cold Stunner.

Doctor Octopus is a supervillain enemy of Spider-Man with a supergenius intelligence capable of creating advanced tech that could fry the entire world and was able to mentally beat Tony Stark. He also has his famous four metal arms strong enough to fight Spider-Man. Spider-Man beat the Herald Firelord who is considered a rival power to Thor and Silver Surfer, Thor having shaken the universe and created a storm that reached Earth from Asgard in another universe and Silver Surfer having broke vibranium walls and channeled the energy of the Big Crunch as well and traveled in time via flying fast enough as well as traveling infinite distances. 

Hulk Hogan also known as Mr. America is another champion wrestler of the WWE and should scale to similar feats of power, speed and skill as the Rock mentioned above. He also has the ability to induce explosions with the Atomic Leg Drop and can either shoot up the earth under his opponent to knock them in the air or summon a motorcycle to use against his opponent depending on the version for his video game version.

Name: The Anti-Chuck Norris Team

Origin: The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny

Powers and Abilities: Superhuman Stats, Superhuman Senses, Spacetime Manipulation, Dimension Manipulation, Elemental Manipulation, Matter-Energy Manipulation, Psychic Abilities, Spiritual Manipulation, Conceptual Manipulation, Metafictional Manipulation, Color Manipulation, Music/Sound Manipulation, Sealing, Forcefield Creation, Attack Reflection, Technopathy, Power Mimicry, Fate Manipulation, Causality Manipulation, Reality-Warping, Existence Erasure

Weaknesses: Nothing universal to all members

Attack Potency: Likely Universal for all members (Contributed to the defeat of Chuck Norris whose kicks are equal to the Big Bang and each member has at least universal scale), higher for Superman and Lord Drakkon (Have beyond universal scaling)

Durability: Likely Universal in general, higher for Superman and Lord Drakkon

Speed: At least Massively Hypersonic for all members (Came out of nowhere "lightning fast"), up to Infinite Speed (The fastest members have infinite speed feats, fought Chuck Norris who can tag himself in the back of the head via pure speed)

Range: Up to Infinite

Stamina: Up to Infinite

Skill: Varies from Mid D Tier to Mid A Tier

Intelligence: Varies from Human Level to Type 5 Supergenius 

Standard Equipment: Lots

While the team has already shown the capacity to take down Chuck Norris, who else would the team be able to bring down?

I think they could beat Goku with not that much difficulty. Superman and Lord Drakkon are both characters that could arguably win solo but even with that I think they could win. Goku even at the beginning of Super was able to destroy the Dragon Ball Macrocosm as a side effect of his fight with Beerus and has grown billions of times stronger or more, meaning most of the universal characters here would be fodder. That said everyone here would be relative in speed given infinite speed scaling and while Ultra Instinct lets Goku sense danger, fighting against hundreds of fast people would still be a problem.

Many people in this group have haxes that Goku hasn't seen before such as the Gandalfs manipulation of the Song of Creation, Kirk and Spock's Lantern Rings, Darth Vader's mind hax, the Blue Meanie's color and music drain, Bill and Ted's emotional manipulation, and Jambi the Genie's metafictional time manipulation. Against the literally hundreds of characters with every single Power Ranger, Goku wouldn't know who to prioritize and would probably be hit by some hax he'd never heard of before. Beyond that Goku's durability is massively lower when off-guard and so if anyone here sneaks up on him while he's fighting tons of others character, even if he can one-shot all of them, the stealthed character can possibly get a good hit in. Kirk, Spock, Darth Vader, Doctor Octopus, Lo-Pan and especially the Terminator have all shown stealth and the ability to snipe opponents from cover while Robocop has famously good aim with his targeting system that could allow him to hit Goku through all the chaos when he's not expecting it. There's also possibly the strategy that if Goku doesn't defeat him quickly, The Rock could pull a Goku on Goku and begin to copy his techniques from seeing them, which would give them another win con. 

All of this would be far easier with Superman and Lord Drakkon, both of whom have the stats and abilities to fight Goku head-on and distract him for their allies regardless. If you include them I think they can beat even stronger forms of Goku like Heroes Goku via a similar tactic as mentioned above on a higher scale. 

I think that the anti Chuck Norris Team could beat Tengan Toppa Gurren Lagann with mid difficulty. TTGL is a mecha that has infinitely evolving spiral power that manipulates reality. Lord Drakkon and Superman would once again by the heavy hitters, able to the mecha directly. Superman can use the Theta State to trap TTGL in a mental battlefield, though given the extreme wills of the pilots of TTGL this would be a temporary measure at best and Lord Drakkon can use his manipulation of spacetime and causality though this would be comparable to the Infinite Labyrinth power of the Anti-Spiral that Gurren Lagann broke out of. Superman does have one tactic that might work to finish off TTGL, that being his canceling out of their vibrations as he did to Darkseid, though it would force Superman and Lord Drakkon to get within range of the mecha avoiding its attacks, something that's potentially doable with the two of them. Similarly Drakkon might be able to seal away the mech as its never shown explicit sealing resistance though its probability manipulation, spacetime manipulation, and reactive evolution means it's hard to gauge if that would work. Superman should have resistance to these abilities however as he resisted Blackstarr who controls every facet of the universe and Drakkon has causality manipulation to resist it. 

The real trick and the plan B, Jambi the Genie can use his metafictional wish power to wish the members of the Anti-Chuck Norris Team within TTGL and while the spiral power does enhance the crew of the mech, breaking their concentration would give Drakon and Superman opportunity to strike. 

I think that the Anti-Chuck Norris Team would be able to defeat Infinity Gauntlet Thanos with high difficulty. I don't believe they could win a direct confrontation but similar to Marvel's Avengers, which this team has higher average power and higher numbers than, I think that Thanos in-character would allow himself to lose trying to fighting them all one by one. 

These forces are definitely strong enough on average that they would be able to contend with Thanos holding back similar to how Thor, Surfer, and Warlock were able to, but far more numberous. In addition, Thanos with the gauntlet wanted to lose subconsciously because he realized he didn't deserve to win against his opponents. While there are several villains on this team (The Black Knight, Benito Mussolini, The Blue Meanie, Darth Vader, Lo-Pan, Lord Drakkon, and Doctor Octopus), this team has some of the most morally good characters in their series of even fiction including Gandalf the guide of Middle-Earth and servant of Illuvatar, Robocop the Heroic Police Paragon, Captain Kirk and Spock the explorers and saviors of the galaxy, The Power Rangers who are protectors of the universe, many of whom are moral paragons in their own right, the two excellent dudes Bill and Ted, the people's champion The Rock, and of course the embodiment of hope and heroism Superman. It would be very similar to Thanos first loss with the gauntlet but even moreso.

There's also a slight chance Superman might be able to trick Thanos into leaving his universe where the gauntlet would be powerless and the team can just overwhelm Thanos with superior numbers, but that's definitely the outside case, this first scenario seems much more likely.

I mean, it's crazy and probably wrong and would be extreme difficulty but maybe possibly they could in some universe score a win on their better Mr. Rogers so long as his sweater isn't bloodstained. He did  win the ultimate showdown and was stated to be the better of everyone else, but that was with his bloodstained sweater. 

I don't know, crazy thought.

On a separate note, Happy First of April, and please don't take anything in this blog seriously. 

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.