Monday, January 28, 2019

General Power Tiers for my 8+/10 series

Made 2 blogs on this topic already so why not make it an even 3?

These are the general tiers of the verses put together into one big tier list to give an impression of how I generally relate to different power tiers. I use this mentally to find even matchups.

Top Tier:
Top God Tier:
Over-Void Beings (DC Comics)

High God Tier:
Monitor Sphere Level (DC Comics)

Mid to High God Tier:
Entropy, Time Master and Energy X (at max powers, generally more in Low God Tier) (Freedom Force)
Primordial Tier (Saint Seiya)
Sphere of the Gods Level Beings (DC Comics)

Mid God Tier:
Bleed Barrier Level Entities (DC Comics)
Heavenly Emperor Tier (Saint Seiya)

Low to Mid God Tier:
The Emotional-Electromagnetic Spectrum Entities (DC Comics)
Titan/Olympian Tier (Saint Seiya)

Low God Tier:
Essence of Divine Art (Stanley Parable)
Fear Zeus and Power of Hope God of War Kratos (God of War)
God (Divine Comedy)
Kami Madoka (Puella Magi Madoka Magicka)
Lambda Users/Chaos (SM)
Minor God/God Saint/High Tier Gold Saint Tier (Saint Seiya)
Possibly Annoying Dog (Undertale)
Pre-Crisis Kryptonian Level (DC Comics)
Supreme Magician Tier (CLAMP)

High Tier:
Top High Tier:
Akuma Homura (Puella Magi Madoka Magicka)
Asriel, Frisk, and Chara at max states (Undertale)
Dimension God Tier (CLAMP)
God Level/Top Tier Sailor Crystal Level (SM)
The Narrators (Stanley Parable)

High-High Tier:
Angels (Divine Comedy)/The Personifications (Divine Comedy)
Eternal Sailor Senshi/Animamate Level/Starlight Level (SM)
God Tiers (Yu-gi-oh!)
High Level Magician/High Level Spirit (CLAMP)
Mid Tier Gold Saint Tier (Saint Seiya)
Most of the Strongest Gods, Giants, Titans and Primordials (God of War)
Mrs Myrtle and Celestial Being (Wander over Yonder)
Shinju’s Power (Yuki Yuna is a Hero)

High to Mid-High Tier:
General High Tiers (Wander over Yonder)
Low Tier Gold Saint Tier (Saint Seiya)
Post-Crisis Kryptonian Level (DC Comics)
Top Tiers (Okami)

Mid-High Tier:
General Level of Titans, Primordials and the other Big 3 Gods (Ares, Athena, Helios) (God of War)
Super Sailor Senshi Level (SM)

Low to Mid-High Tier:
Almost Anyone/Imp Level+ (Okami)
Judgement (if she made the constellation) (Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt)
New 52 Kryptonian Level (DC Comics)
Perfected Daimon Level (SM)
Top Tiers (PPG)

Low-High Tier:
Amateur Seventh Sense Users (Saint Seiya)
High and Veteran Tier Pretty Cure Level (Pretty Cure)
Princess Tier/Fully Awoken Senshi Level (SM)
Top Tier Angels, Demons, Lumen Sages and Umbra Witches (Bayonetta)

Mid Tier:
Top-Mid Tier:
Xiaolin Dragon/Unsealed Heylin Witch (Xiaolin Showdown)

High-Mid Tier:
Reality Gauntlet User (Danny Phantom)
Wudai Warrior/Heylin Demon (Xiaolin Showdown)
Yord (Shamanic Princess)

Mid to High-Mid Tier:
Egyptian God Tier Monsters (Yu-gi-oh!)
Metroid Higher Tiers (Metroid)

Mid-Mid Tier:
Lesser God Tier/Pillar of Cephiro Level (CLAMP)
Lesser Gods/Powerful Monsters and Demigods (God of War)
Mid Tier Pretty Cure Level (Pretty Cure)
Planetary Scale Hero/Villain (DC Comics)

Low to Mid-Mid Tier:
A and S Class (Yu Yu Hakusho)
Deep Blue (Tokyo Mew Mew)
High Tier Ghosts (Danny Phantom)
Mankai Form Hero (Yuki Yuna is a Hero)
Master Wizard Level/Strongest Boss Level (Magicka)
Second and First Sphere Level Beings (Bayonetta)
Silver Saint Tier (Saint Seiya)
Strongest Non-God Puella Magi (Puella Magi Madoka Magicka)

Low-Mid Tier:
Low Tier and Rookie Pretty Cure Level (Pretty Cure)
Low Tier Villains and most Kaiju (PPG)
Partially Awoken Senshi/Heavenly King Level (SM)

Low Tier:
Top-Low Tier:
Anarchy Sisters, Daemon Sisters, Most High Tiers (Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt)
B Class (Yu Yu Hakusho)
Bronze Saint Tier (Saint Seiya)
City Scale Hero/Villain (DC Comics)
Dimension Scale Magician/Lesser Spirit (CLAMP)
Heroes and most Vertexes (Yuki Yuna is a Hero)
Low Tier Ghosts (Danny Phantom)
Metroid Low Tiers (Metroid)
Mew Mews and Aliens (Tokyo Mew Mew)
Most Puella Magi and Witches (Puella Magi Madoka Magicka)
Potentially Stronger Monsters (Undertale)
Stronger Heroes and Supervillains (Freedom Force)
The Countries? (Axis Powers Hetalia)
Xiaolin Warrior/Heylin Warrior (Xiaolin Showdown)

High-Low Tier:
Mages (Shamanic Princess)
Princess and Prince Tier (Princess Tutu)

Mid to High-Low Tier:
Assorted Yokai (Youma, Vampires, Spirits, Dark Agency) (SM)
Basic Wizard Level/Weaker Boss Level/Stronger Monsters (Magicka)
Low Tiers (Princess Tutu)
Magician/Powerful Warrior Tier (CLAMP)
Most Ghosts (Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt)
The Beast (Over then Garden Wall)
Third Sphere Level Beings (Bayonetta)
Weaker Heroes (Freedom Force)

Mid-Low Tier:
Alien Species in General (Mautians, Coronis People, Moon People) (Sailor Moon)
C Class (Yu Yu Hakusho)
Lesser Monsters (God of War)
Local Hero/Villain and the Amazons and Atlanteans (DC Comics)
Sixth Sense User/Cosmo User/Steel Saint Tier (Saint Seiya)
Stronger Panther Claw Agents and Cutey Honey (Cutey Honey)
Various Hell Beings (Divine Comedy)
Weakest Monsters (Undertale)

Low to Mid Low-Tier:
D Class (Yu Yu Hakusho)
Enhanced Humans (Tokyo Mew Mew)
Golden Age Heroes (Freedom Force)
Weaker Panther Claw Agents (Cutey Honey)

Low Tier:

Normal Humans

Order within a tier is not relevant.

So yeah, when I'm thinking of matchups either for me to do, or for a specific character, this approximately is what I think of.

Obviously there are and will always be in tier lists for any large amount of characters a number of cases where a lower character can beat a higher character. This is in general who what classes of beings in each verse would be relatively even and would be stronger then each other. The difference between a tier subdivision can be relatively small, only requiring speed equalization or granting one side the ability to attack intangibles for it to become even or even weighted in the other direction.

Thinking using this I could possibly make a fun little gauntlet :P IDK.

Edit: Make a few revisions

Saturday, January 26, 2019

On Universal Post-Crisis Superman

TLDR: I don't think Post-Crisis Superman is universal but I think I probably acted too rashly and didn't address the arguments for it which was unfair.

Long Version:

Let me tell you a story: I joined the versus debating community back years ago. Back then Superman and Goku were both considered planetbusters. Being a planet buster meant being in the big names, Heralds of Galactus were Star Level, Gold Saints being above Star Level was contested, and being star level was being op. Being Galaxy Level meant being super freaking powerful. Back then being city level meant being a high tier in the HST.

Back when I joined, the very first thing I did was make a respect thread for the anime version of Sailor Moon. Sailor Moon is my favorite character and back in the day people thought she was a glass cannon with low galactic dc and planet level durability.

I remember being friends with another SM fan named Echelon9 who became active at around the same time as me and wanted to upgrade SM to galaxy level with stellar+ dura from what I remember.

I reread the SM Manga fairly often, as I greatly enjoy it. While I still was an amateur, it felt weird that she would be ranked that lowly when such feats were in the series. Eventually I began my general push to upgrade the verse that made me somewhat controversial, though now is considered fairly mundane, even lowballing if you go on vs battles wiki.

My pushing for it be upgraded happened while a lot of verses were getting upgraded either from new info or because people were just rethinking the feats. As such I didn't think it would be a big deal. Turned out to be so, some people got really angry at my claims. Regardless of the accuracy, the toxicity of the argument eventually caused me to leave the OBD. And you know, that's all fine and good, I am not gonna try and police how people can behave, even if I could.

That said, it is the general assumption that what we desire in a versus debating format is truth. Truth can be intuitive or it can be counter-intuitive. The truth can be something we find highly counter-intuitive in fact. I've seen people try to claim SM isn't universal under what is essentially veiled arguments of incredulity.

I have come to greatly despise the argument of incredulity as my most disliked fallacy. To me that someone could be counter-intuitive but true is, if I am honest, something I greatly enjoy in this activity, that something could seem impossible but being supported by evidence is fun. I enjoy when people think Magical Girl-verses are street level and being able to demonstrate that they are actually cosmically strong. To me that's funny and enjoyable.

Moreover however the argument from incredulity is a shut-down of debate. Something being seemingly absurd is not an argument. It's not even remotely an argument. It's worse then an argument it is the end of argumentation. It is a faith claim, that something is too absurd to be considered.

While obviously this ideal is impossible to live up to completely, I do believe it would be a correct ideal to never dismiss a claim consciously or subconsciously by it's seeming absurdity but instead solely on evidence regardless of intuition. This does not mean accepting every claim, merely that all claims must be addressed beyond "clearly this is an outlier/hyperbole/absurd". I believe this is a correct ideal to align with, because this is the ideal of rationality and objectivity. This is the ideal of not biasing oneself based on pre-existing beliefs. Obviously it is impossible for a human to reach this ideal, but nonetheless to increase our connection with it seems best if our aim is actually the truth and not merely the justification of our current beliefs.

Allow me to share a bias of mine. I greatly dislike the discarding of information. I hate that outliers exist, even if I understand their rational necessity to maintain self-consistency. That said I only will use them if there is no other explanation for why a character is acting out of bounds of their normal power level, even if it a very flimsy reason. It annoys me that people are so willing to dismiss information instead of trying to reconcile information as best as possible. That seems to me the way to understanding truth in the real world, to be able to reconcile as much information as possible cohesively. Fiction is different in that it can objectively self-contradict, but such cases are rarer then people think.

My private campaign to upgrade SM, despite the harsh opposition got supporters fairly fast and now it's a fairly mundane position to have that SM is Universal, though some people have gone too far in the other direction in my view and make claims like Usagi is Multiversal with infinite speed, claims I find very distant from the very familiar text I love. I do not believe this to be my intuition either as I have explained my reasoning in the blog directly prior to this one.

So let me move to a far less accepted position, one I do not currently hold, and one that I must confess I feel embarrassed to even bring up due to it's current connotations in the vs community. Namely the position that Post-Crisis Superman is Universe level.

Sailor Moon is my favorite character and Superman is my second favorite. I have a pretty strong knowledge of the character and I would say I love the character, one of the best characters in my opinion. I say this merely to impress that I have awareness of the character's abilities, that I understand what the intuition is towards the character's abilities, and what the current versus conception of him is.

An OBD member known as Tonathan100 began a campaign to upgrade Post-Crisis Superman to universe level. Superman's current position is at low galactic. The push of a low galactic character to universal may seem like only a small connection to my story, but it is enough to "give me pause".

If I am honest with myself I did not properly give the information a fair chance to sway me. That Superman would be Universal in the Post-Crisis era seemed absurd to me. It breaks my intuition of how strong things are. There's a nice neat orderly power rankings where Superman and Wonder Woman are comparable, both have star level feats somewhat early on and later on they can both take several but are harmed by infinite mass punches which are star level, suggesting they are above but not massively above that level. They also both have 1 or 2 low galactic feats I am aware and scale to a few such galactic feats from the Lanterns. All this led me to think that it was a consistent position that Superman was low galactic Post-Crisis. This was my intuition.

That does not mean I am suddenly taken in by the argument. I would need to honestly assess the argument, because if I am being honest I did not do so in good faith the first time. I did so under the mental state that such was absurd and could not be, but this as I have explained above is a wrong way to think of it.

My apologies.

The take-away from this should be that our intuition is not infallible. If your opponent provides even minor evidence that something is the case, then it becomes your prerogative to debunk the claim. SCANT evidence still supersedes NO rebuttal regardless of how seemingly ridiculous the claim is.

Friday, January 25, 2019

10 Sailor Moon Versus misconceptions

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Hello, I am Imperator100. Without meaning to be too boastful, I consider myself one of the leading experts in Sailor Moon in the context of versus debating and I see a lot of misconceptions, wanking the verse, downplaying the verse or some other form, towards the Sailor Moon verse in versus debating. As such I thought I would clear up some misconceptions towards my favorite series.

I apologize if somethings are phrased strangely, this is not my first language. 

1: Canon
Sailor Moon the series has a very simple canon, while the franchise has a somewhat complex canon.

If you just want the canon Sailor Moon series it's pretty simple. It's basically just what was direction written by Naoko Takeuchi. This is the 60 chapters of the manga (52 originally but revised and expanded) as well as some short stories. The only contentious point is the Lover of Princess Kaguya a short story that kinda doesn't fit into the timeline. I still content that it is canon as Naoko Takeuchi still wrote and didn't give any indication it was meant to be non-canon like she did right up front with Parallel Sailor Moon another side story she did but immediately indicates it doesn't take place in the same universe. 

The bigger franchise is a bit weirder. There's a lot of cases of one-way canon, ie where A is canon to B but B is not canon to A. The 90s Anime is a single canon separate from the manga. The 90s anime is canon to the 3 movies, and the first 2 are canon to 90s anime but the third movie is difficult to place timeline wise and so is arguable (think DBZ movies pre-battle of the gods and you'll get the idea). The first 3 arcs of both the manga and the 90s anime are canon to the video game Another Story where due to time warping actions of the villain Apsu the events of both are twisted into one timeline. The Stage Musicals are a set of different timelines called stages, and the first season of the 90s anime is canon to the first Stage. The events of the first musical of the first stage reference the first season of the anime and take place right after the first season (Nephrite mentions his love affair with Naru, the death of Beryl and the Shitennou is mentioned after they are reborn through the power of hatred). The Live-Action series PGSM and the latest anime Sailor Moon Crystal are both their own canon. Unlike a series like Saint Seiya or CLAMP, these are not confirmed part of any larger multiverse, though I personally wish they were.

Neither PGSM or Sailor Moon Crystal are canon despite some contention. PGSM is a highly expanded form of the first arc based on Naoko's ideas. That said it still was not written by her. Likewise Sailor Moon Crystal is also not canon despite being much closer to Naoko's manga as it was not written by her and diverges from the manga, most notably in having the Shitennou survive longer then they did in the manga. Some people have also stated that Movie 2 is canon because Naoko wrote it however this is inaccurate. While she was more heavily involved in it's creation as it was adapting her most-liked short story Lover of Princess Kaguya, the actual screenplay was by Sukehito Tomita and Naoko has not indicated it being canon.

2: Sailor Moon has multiple timelines
While this has not been directly disproven, it is fan conjecture. Sailor Moon time travel, I must confess, doesn't make a lot of sense to me that said it is fairly consistent that the timeline is a singular entity that is affected from the past. Sailor Galaxia's actions in the present affect the future distorting history (Act 53). The Senshi of the future are seen in the second arc and it includes only the 4 guardian senshi in their base forms (Act 26). Despite this they attain super and later eternal states. Likewise when Mamoru is thrown into the Galaxy Cauldron by Sailor Galaxia, his daughter Chibiusa fades from existence (Act 59 1 2)

There is a parallel universe shown in the aforementioned Parallel Sailor Moon. Note how this is clearly a different universe by the fact that Chibiusa had already grown way past the age Crystal Tokyo was established and Usagi had become Neo-Queen Serenity (Parallel Sailor Moon 1 2 3). Likewise Nehelenia's universe is called a dark parallel universe (Act 39). That said while these are alternate universes, there is no confirmation of connected timelines within SM outside of conjecture. 

3: Sailor Moon is only planet/galaxy level
Whenever I say SM is universal someone seems to randomly assume it's because the Silver Crystal's power is called infinite a lot in the manga. It is but that's certainly not why I do. 

The biggest things to me are that Chaos claimed with the Silver Crystal it could create a universe (Act 57), the Lambda Power's ability to restore the static "Cosmos" (Act 60) and near the beginning the Silver Crystal's ability to create the universe is foreshadowed as early as act 3 where it called the source of all energy (Act 3). I've heard a bizarre argument that it being all energy in the universe is not stated so it's not all energy in the universe. This is a bizarre argument to me as no limit is given, it is merely the source of all energy, and how immediately after it is stated to give dominion over the entire universe. Also Chaos say he's going to create a universe with it. It's almost...like it's consistent or something. This made the Top Tiers Universal.

Some people claimed to me to that Nehelenia had a universal feat of maintaining her own universe, because when she was killed, her dark parallel universe ended (Act 49) and this universe was at least large enough to contain constellations (Materials Book). I was reluctant at first. I considered it similar to Aries Mu's feat from Saint Seiya of destroying the universe of Iapetus containing many stars and thus just a multi-stellar feat. That said people seem now insistent that both this feat and that feat of being universal feats so I guess it's ok though I still am not 100% sure of using it. 

If that's the case then pretty much everyone in the fifth arc scales easily, because Usagi was tanking the power of civilian Galaxia greater then any previous opponent while in her civilian form (Act 55), Tin Nyanko's attack was enough to harm Eternal Sailor Moon (Act 54) and Eternal Sailor Mars attack briefly stalemates similar Animamate Sailor Lead Crow's attack (Act 53). Also the Eternal Senshi under Galaxia's control harm Eternal Sailor Moon before calling down more power from Galaxia (Act 58).

There are some other more minor supporting things but these are the main things. 

4: Sailor Moon is Multiversal
Some people seem to think I claim this? I have never claimed this. I would argue this if it was brought up around me. Some of the characters arguably have inter-universal range (like Nehelenia affecting the main universe from the mirror universe) but that is not at all the same thing. 

There are some alternate universes in Sailor Moon but I know of nothing saying that the Lambda Power restored them as well as the main universe or that the universe that would be created by the Silver Crystal would include these alternate universes. The Lambda Power, ultimate power of the Sailor Moon-verse is described as restoring the static cosmos, and cosmos literally means universe. While you could argue this is not a limit because universe does not strictly have a limit (Universe denotes all that is, the idea of multiverse is multiple observable universes), I don't see why people are assuming the lambda would affect these.

This is especially true with the corridor of spacetime. The corridor of spacetime is not a universal area and restoring does not make the lambda multiversal. The corridor of spacetime is an area outside of spacetime without concepts of distance and direction (Act 23). Wiseman at the end of time says that Chibiusa crossed the corridor to get to him by the strength of her wishes (Act 21) showing that to some degree crossing it is no longer decided by physical body but by the mind. Unless we want to say that PRE-AWAKENING Chibiusa is quadrillions of times the speed of light, saying that the spacetime corridor is universe sized doesn't make sense. 

5: Pre-Stars Sailor Moon is only City Level at max
This comes from the fact that Galaxia's energy who was in a league beyond all enemies seen before was only destroying a city. Pretty simple to debunk, the range of an attack is not equal to it's power. This is true in all verses. What, is Nemesis a giant balloon? (Act 26)

6: Sailor Moon is infinite in speed
Moving in zero time is not infinite speed. Speed is change in space divided by change in time. Saying that moving in zero time is infinite speed is backdoor way of trying to get 0 in the denominator and you can't divide by 0. No the answer to x/0 is NOT infinity. Infinity does not satisfy that equation. Nothing satisfies the equation x/0 unless x is equal to 0 in which case literally any number satisfies the equation. 

Infinite speed is certainly possible in fiction if the character's speed is explicitly stated to be infinite, or they move an infinite distance in finite time. But moving in zero time does not get infinite speed, and there's certainly nothing higher physically speaking. There is no feat in canon Sailor Moon that is either of the above nor is there I think in non-canon SM though I am less sure of that. 

7: Sailor Moon would get blitzed
In contrast to that, I sometimes see people thinking that against some really fast verses that SM would be totally defenseless. Ignoring SM's personal speed for a second I disagree.

First of all is Usagi's Time Travel and Acausality. Sailor Moon has the lambda power which allows her to use Pluto's powers including temporal bfr. (Act 20). She has been able to make contact, even kiss her former self (Act 59) despite this theoretically causing paradox (Act 26). If Sailor Moon was threatened by a speedblitz, her future self could come back in time and protect her. We know this because her future self has protected her before, both physically (Act 55 1 2 + Act 59) and through her spirit (Act 22). 

This is only one method. As demonstrated earlier, Sailor Moon could use the Pluto power to exit spacetime and enter the spacetime corridor and from there could be immune to any physical speedblitz as she would exist outside conventional spacetime. The Silver Crystal will also grow automatically to protect Sailor Moon (Act 20) though she can still act from within it as she did to empower her younger self (Act 22). The Silver Crystal can distort all of spacetime (Act 22) and given how speed is change in space divided by change in time, distortions in spacetime would likely mess up speed and an attempted speedblitz. With the Golden Crystal, Sailor Moon can gain information from her future self as well (Act 18) giving her pre-cog as well.

I don't think an attempted speedblitz would very well against End of Series Sailor Moon.

8: Galaxia couldn't create a galaxy
Sailor Galaxia wanted the Silver Crystal to create a galaxy (Act 57). If she's a universal entity, how is that she can't create a galaxy?

I can't believe this is actually an argument. Literally the very next page is the one where Chaos says the it will create a new universe with the Silver Crystal. Being able to create a galaxy does not preclude the ability to create a universe. If a Darkseid Avatar appears on Earth, fights the JL and then says he will destroy the planet, does that mean everyone there is only planet level because he didn't say he would destroy anything more? 

Furthermore, creation abilities are not inherent from being powerful. Lucifer Morningstar expressly can create nothing from nothing. Does that mean he is powerless? To create something requires more then just energy. Sailor Galaxia is the soldier of destruction, the soldier of solitude. The planets under her rule are turned into worlds of death where nothing grows (Act 54), why on Earth would that give her the ability to create anything?

 9: The Galaxy Cauldron Regenerates...
No no no. This one really annoys me because you just have to be not paying attention.

The Galaxy Cauldron is the place where star seeds and potential are born. Things are born there and go there to die and be recycled. Things are not regenerated there, that is absolutely contrary to the purposes of the Cauldron. Galaxia throws the sailor crystals of Usagi's friends into the cauldron to try and bring her anger to it's zenith and make her release the full power of the Silver Crystal (Act 59 1 2). If the Galaxy Cauldron regenerated things then this scene would make absolutely no sense. Why would this make Usagi at all angry. Right afterwards, Galaxia throws Mamoru into the Cauldron and his daughter Chibiusa disappears from existence. Is that just a coincidence?

The Galaxy Cauldron erases things from existence including star seeds, the more fundamental thing in the SM-verse. The Galaxy Cauldron does not regenerate things, that's absurd.

Sailor Cosmos directly states that the Senshi were regenerated by the Lambda Power, which is it's purpose, restoration of the static cosmos (Act 60)

Some people think Galaxia said something to the effect of the Galaxy Cauldron regenerating things (Act 59) but this is a mistranslation. This is official Kodansha's translation (Act 59) and nothing even remotely like that is said.

10: The Sailor Senshi didn't fly here, they teleported
Several speed feats of SM people try to "debunk" on the notion that the Senshi didn't fly there, they teleported.

Sailor Teleport is not actually used that often in SM, my guess for the reason being it's somewhat imprecise given how Luna and Ami needed Usagi to henshin to lock onto her energy to teleport Ami to Usagi. (Act 3).

You'll notice something else from that scan. Their teleportation is literally their henshin. IE if they do something in civilian form, they clearly didn't teleport because otherwise they would have transformed.

So for instance Minako going to Venus in Codename Sailor V chapter 1? (Codename Sailor V Chapter 1 1 2 ). This is not teleportation. She hasn't even awoken as a Sailor Senshi yet, even partially, how would she be able to use Sailor Teleport. Sailor Teleport literally is their henshin. She doesn't know it yet. You literally see Venus getting closer on panel. 

Likewise Hotaru flying off to help Setsuna when Galaxia attacked her at Charon Castle. Not teleportation. She is clearly still in civilian form when she gets there and if she had used teleportation/henshin she would have been transformed (Act 55)

There's also the feat where The Eternal Senshi fly across the galaxy to get to Sagittarius Alpha Star. They specifically say they are gonna fly there, not teleport, and they mention there's no guarentee they'll land safetly (Act 56). Unless there's anti-teleportation abilities in the Sailor Moon universe, something never established before then it's pretty clear they are physically moving there as in flying.





So yeah that's 10 Sailor Moon versus misconceptions. I'll probably do at least one more 10 SM versus misconceptions just because I can easily think of at least 10 more common misconceptions. I don't see why this happens, Sailor Moon is not a hard plot to follow. It really is a fun story that takes you along and shows you everything. 

If you have any SM versus questions feel free to ask in the comments and I will do my best to respond. 

Saturday, January 19, 2019

Best moment of each DB season ranked.

So far there has been five death battle seasons.With season 6 almost here thought I'd make this.  It seems the perfect time to make a top 5 for it. I've taken the best moment of each season and ranked them.


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What do I like in a Death Battle, official or fan-created?
1: Accuracy
2: Avoiding bias towards one side, trying to present both sides as awesome.
3: Creativity in the fight scenes

For the most part that is all that I want. So with that said what do I consider my favorite moments of each Death Battle season.

5: Infinite Mass Punch vs Dragon Fist (Season 1)
Season 1 is a bit rough in hindsight with a lot of episodes, even accurate ones lacking much in the way of detail, the fights being slower and less intricate, and the style not having quite gotten down. This was probably the most hype moment from the first season, especially as they were in their strongest forms. The animation was also as it's apex for the season (this is easily the best fight of season 1, with some interesting usage of powers)

4: TJ Combo beats Balrog (Season 4)
Well I'm not here to be popular :P Season 4 felt fairly solid overall, with few terrible moments and few spectacular moments. There were 3 really quality fights I felt (Naruto vs Ichigo, Wonder Woman vs Thor (though everything outside the fight for Thor vs Wonder Woman is not great bringing back ancient myths like piercing durability, slow Marvel, and muh combat speed) and Balrog vs TJ Combo). Balrog vs TJ while not as grand in scale as the prior two has a good thematic feel to it, both in presentation and in the character stories, so I'd put it here.

3: Ratchet and Clank vs Jak and Daxter fight ending (Season 3)
After.....the start of season 3 the black sheep of the DB seasons, it was pretty nice to see that the researchers words weren't being completely ignored. This fight seemed like a sweet send-up to one of their writers even incorporating the end he suggested. This was a much needed return after one of the most infamous episodes and a poor start to a season. I do have to wonder if it would seem less great in another season though...

2: "You're pretty good" (Season 2)
Season 2 is a long and complex season with some of the show's best and worst moments. It had what was for a long time my favorite episode Solid Snake vs Sam Fisher. After an expertly choreographed stealth fight the final segment of the fight is initiated with one of the most hype line and visuals in the series followed by one of the best reference inclusions I have seen. The whole episode is a great episode.

1: Fate's Helmet returns to him (Season 5)
 This being number 1 was without questioning. There are a few moments that remind me of why I love this hobby and this was one of them. What I love about vs debating includes as one of the primary reasons the exploration of the absolute magnitudes of fantastical tactics. Fate's helmet being fast enough to circumnavigate the universe allowing it to circle the universe to return all the way around after being thrown is an excellent example. The spark of resonance as the Helmet returned from the other side as the fact of the universe's cyclical shape and the sheer speed of the helmet all connected was magical. And it was followed by one of the coolest fight finishes too. Absolutely amazing. Even with some poor moments, Season 5 is definitely the best season so far in my opinion.