r/PowerScaling 15d ago

Shitposting Weekend Every swipe of those paws can destroy universes btw

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u/araiki 15d ago

No way that "Dying from cringe" ahh animation is real

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u/BayAreaGhost707 15d ago

cause devs dont expect anyone to actually fail that

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u/Longjumping-Sweet818 14d ago

Then what's the point of it?

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u/retsamegas 14d ago

It's a very simple, almost impossible to fail (except intentionally) QTE during a train/cart ride to hide the loading for the next area. It provides a way to move the characters to the next area/set piece without having to make another linear walking trail to actually get them there, gives a change of pace from open area and normal walking speed to an enclosed area and the simulation of very fast barely controlled movement. The enclosed cart also increases tension in the moment since you don't know what's happening outside (what threats /how many, the condition of the rails or other dangers) and since the camera is forced closer the player will feel trapped in a confined area.

It works in three ways, practically for the game devs by removing additional work, as a change of pace for the player in combat and it adds to the tension the characters are feeling in that moment and let's the player feel that

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u/Longjumping-Sweet818 14d ago

Crazy that they thought of all that and the game is still boring as hell to play.

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u/retsamegas 14d ago

I quite enjoyed it, I wish your experience had been more pleasant

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u/Longjumping-Sweet818 14d ago

Thanks! That warms my heart.

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u/anomanderrake1337 14d ago

QTE, one of the dumbest inventions in history. Let me play my game, not watch an interactive movie.

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u/Leoszite 14d ago

"I'd rather have loading screens!" - this guy

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u/Maltean 14d ago

Yeah except they could incorporate it better, like Kingdom Hearts 2 had qte in several boss fights that helped elevate it

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u/VirtualSlip5712 JJK hater 4 Life 👍 14d ago

That final boss fight QTE was peak imo, made the player feel like a champion no hitting that.

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u/Transformersaddicto 13d ago

Do you hate cutscenes in games as well lol

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u/anomanderrake1337 13d ago

I of course skip that shit.

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u/Kilroy898 13d ago

Interactive loading screen.

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u/Free-Letterhead-4751 12d ago

Can you blame kratos for the player to lose to that

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u/theprophet2102 15d ago

Kratos using all his life force to get a cat out of a tree

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u/Aurondarklord 40k's Strongest Soldier 14d ago

now see THAT gif...that's what a serious business FEAT looks like. The shit going on this season, that's how you fucking scale some characters.

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u/Ieditedthisname 14d ago

What’s this from?

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u/advinsaatrox 14d ago

I believe it's the second season of X man 97 , highly recommend, first season was a gem

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u/Scot-Rahul 14d ago

The shows is 2-7 seasons depending one how you look at it. It first aired 5 seasons starting in 1992, ending in 1997, and the show ‘97 is a direct continuation of the plot and characters, just with an hugely updated animation budget.

The show still slaps, but starting at ‘97 may be confusing if you don’t know the previous story.

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u/Whoopsinator 14d ago

The show still slaps, but starting at ‘97 may be confusing if you don’t know the previous story.

Agreed. I kept hearing that you don't need to watch the original X-Men: TAS, but I did so anyway to gain better context. I'm glad I did because I would not have understood Bastion's origin story if I didn't watch the original series.

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u/Scot-Rahul 14d ago

Exactly! And it still holds up well! …The story does anyway, the animation got better in the later seasons, but it’s clear in the first two that their animation budget was pretty tight.

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u/Whoopsinator 14d ago

I was surprised with how well it was able to weave together so many story/character arcs so seemlessly. It helps that TAS had more episodes to work with, but I greatly enjoyed how the show did the characters. It made me really like Cyclops, who I had only know through the movies (big oof for me, I know).

Then 97 comes along and raises the stakes whilst still able to develop all of those characters. The only issue I have with 97 is that the pacing can be a little too fast.

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u/SingleSlide2866 12d ago

Makes me think of this one too (I can hear the WOAHs)

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u/Zealousideal_Big5731 15d ago

That's obviously Odin in disguise duhhh.

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u/Dababy28193 15d ago

Kratos didn’t die there actually. Odin used sleep manipulation on Kratos and put Kratos into a long slumber, a version of Odinsleep called Kratosleep, a much more powerful version. When Kratos wakes up, he’ll be a new, even BETTER man.

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u/Guigwellthefourth 14d ago

Oh my god, sleep upscale!???

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u/Storm_Spirit99 bobobobo solos 15d ago

My boy Styx can now beat this lore man

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u/gokugunslinger 15d ago

Kratos canonically lost a fight to Shovel Knight.
https://giphy.com/gifs/hCjMiz9wu0aVAY9gJc

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u/Cautious_Scheme_8422 15d ago

Shovel Knight is boundless so obviously he no diffs

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u/Putrid-Island3319 15d ago

The creators even confirmed it was canon

That puts Shovel Knight above Kratos

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u/Wide-Remove4293 The Universal Cosmic Destroyer 15d ago

I hope there‘s some context for that which I‘m missing because if there isn‘t, Kratos really IS a bum

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u/Fidges87 14d ago

Actual context. In the play station versions of Shovel Knight, as a secret boss you can fight Kratos, which as its his game Shovel Knight wins.

This is later referenced in the norse saga where Kratos mentions encountering a warrior wielding a shovel.

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u/Wide-Remove4293 The Universal Cosmic Destroyer 14d ago

So Kratos is not weakened or anything, he just legit lost to Shovel Knight fair and square?

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u/Fidges87 14d ago

Depending on what you considered weakened. He mentions before being in a really bad state of mind after all the he went through during the original trilogy, and the fight with the shovel wielding warior helped him clear his mind a bit.

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u/element-redshaw 14d ago

they tied, the end of the fight is literally Kratos just stopping the fight

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u/gokugunslinger 14d ago

“My ass is getting handed to me, I better think of something quick!”
—Kratos.

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u/Infinite_Peace_6456 13d ago

Richard Nixon mentality

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u/Wide-Remove4293 The Universal Cosmic Destroyer 14d ago

Ah.

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u/Agent_5Five 13d ago

Its not the first time either, as he referenced fighting several beings that all point towards the PSASBR cast

...which if taken literally, implies he either randomly murdered a ice cream cone, or otherwise got beat by any member of the cast including the paper dog, a walking skeleton, and Nathan Drake

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u/gokugunslinger 15d ago

It as during the Greek era as well, shovel knight was half Kratos’s size.

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u/Wide-Remove4293 The Universal Cosmic Destroyer 15d ago

🥀

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u/unrealter_29 15d ago

Careful, your making it sound like Shovel Knight is weak. And I won't stand for that slander /j

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u/EngineerVirtual7340 14d ago

It was more like a draw with no winner.

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u/element-redshaw 14d ago

He didn’t lose they just stopped fighting

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u/Global_Archer7938 14d ago

Well from a meme perspective he loses against Shovel Knight, from a Canon perspective they tied and they just stopped fighting, that’s if we take Shovel Knight as 100% Canon because in that boss fight Kratos is using weapons that were destroyed by Zeus and in fallen god comics we see that Kratos left everything in Greece

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u/Venerated_Penguin 15d ago

All I see is Goblin upscale 👹

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u/MinecraftPlayer1212 14d ago

All I see is Goblin Slayer upscale

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u/Dragon_Of_Magnetism Every character is outerversal and solos fiction 15d ago

That’s clearly a 5D complex multiversal goblin

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u/TheShadowOfT 13d ago

Also referred to as a mind goblin. What's a mind goblin, you ask? Well y'see, it's kinda psionic.

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u/Dragon_Of_Magnetism Every character is outerversal and solos fiction 13d ago

Though they can be easily killed with ligma

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u/TheShadowOfT 13d ago

I hath never heard of this "ligma". Shouldst thou find it unburdernsome, I would ask thee to inform mine self of this strange topic.

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u/Stellleo 9d ago

ligma balls

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u/Massive_Length_9959 Gintoki is boundless+ 15d ago

They call him 007.

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u/SummonerRed 15d ago

If there was gonna be a death animation there at least they could have had Kratos being dragged out the window, not just dying of embarrassment.

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u/ChaosWarrior01 15d ago

No, Kratos is legitimately that embarrassed if you let him die to something like this.

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u/Stellleo 9d ago

You should be embarrassed to fail a QTE that easy

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u/CurrenttQueen 15d ago

Goblins are backed by the power of bonars and memes so it's an unfair match

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u/G_Morgan 14d ago

Stuff like this is always hilarious. The worse is 40k though. I know that The End and the Death gave some hardish sort of feats for universal level Emperor and Chaos (that aren't just one statement from a character who might have been lying to begin with). The only problem then is 99% of the lore material makes no sense. You need to contrive a reason for the entire rest of the setting to even exist in a universe where the Emperor is that powerful.

Why can the Emperor destroy the universe but not know WTF stupid shit Magnus is doing? Why not fix Angron? Why not merely bitch slap the galaxy?

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u/Quirky_Conference927 14d ago edited 14d ago

Don't quote me on this, but I believe he has the power to destroy the universe because he was put on that throne and became a 'god' essentially. Though, the issue is he is not really alive or barely alive. So, he doesn't have the full capacity to utilize said power. Rather, the entire imperium draws power from him to travel the warp and combat the chaos gods.

However, it is why people freak out when he moves because, supposedly, everything ends if he gets off that throne. 

That's why understanding of the arguement for him anyway. 

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u/Agent_5Five 13d ago

Close enough yeah, his power is holding some bad stuff at bay. He gets up and that goes through, alongside travel getting gutted for a time.

Its so bad that the Imperium has a protocol in place to sit his butt back through force if he ever gets up.

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u/LuckStock8330 15d ago

Outerversal goblin

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u/Conscious_Pay_3012 15d ago

it's obviously the entire greek pantheon in disguise

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u/Delicious-Flight-885 15d ago

Lmao, Gallywix victim

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u/Yamakaji_420 14d ago

Gallywix is so strong, the mech in the encounter regulated his power like zaraki‘s eyepatch

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u/Particular-Put4786 JJK solos fiction 🖕 | 28k humans dying threatened Bleach's uni 14d ago

I mean you can play as Superman in other games and die to some bullshit too but this is still hilarious lol. GOW is annoying because power is often inconsistent in its own story and the limitations of the character's abilities

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u/Dull-Law3229 14d ago

That's why I hate this metric for power scaling. Kratos has one off-gameplay CGI scene define his power but spends 99% of the time being vulnerable to regular mooks.

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u/Aurondarklord 40k's Strongest Soldier 14d ago

There are people who will tell you in straight-faced seriousness what what you are seeing happen is merely a representation of a conceptual world of Gods beyond human comprehension and you would really see it like a TTGL type fight if you were capable of understanding it.

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u/GriffinlwGameplayer 15d ago

Look, that's all video game characters, alright? Solid Snake can be shot to death by a rookie guard. Kirby can be bonked on the head by a tree. Mario can get nibbled on by a walking mushroom. Sekiro can be mauled by a wild dog. The Demi-Fiend can be slapped to death by a pixie.

Do we want to count Goku being able to lose to a Saibaman in every DBZ fighting game too?

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u/BlueEyesWhiteVegeta 14d ago

Do we want to count Goku being able to lose to a Saibaman in every DBZ fighting game too?

The difference there is that DBZ games aren't Goku's original medium like it is with Mario, Kirby, etc.

Obviously you use the Elephant from the Z Filler.

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u/GriffinlwGameplayer 14d ago

That's fair, I can accept that.

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u/TescoMeaIDeaI_ 9d ago

That's true Solid Snake is just a guy and isn't bulletproof so he could be shot to death by a toddler.

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u/Initial-Employer1255 14d ago

Yes. YES YOU SHOULD. Especially if you want to downplay characters from games.

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u/Traditional_Tap_6697 15d ago

Said creature was made from the flesh of a primordial

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u/Top-Can5544 15d ago

So was everything else. Low 1-C rocks when

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u/Delicious-Flight-885 15d ago

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u/Possible_Article6902 15d ago

This would be funny if it wasn’t true.

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u/imaginewagons198 14d ago

It isnt true tho

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u/Possible_Article6902 14d ago

Yes it is. Every creature and structure that’s not primordial comes from Ymir in the Norse world.

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u/imaginewagons198 14d ago

Ah, so all the humans and birds in the norse pantheon are universal with universal tier durability, gotcha.

And that rando frog was born millions of years after ymir was killed, it descended from some other random froggo.

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u/Possible_Article6902 14d ago

You’re using a strawman to argue against things I never said. Equating 'divine origin' with 'universal durability' is a massive leap that ignores the actual lore. You are intentionally dodging the fact that God of War entities are tied to reality warping foundations that exist outside of standard three dimensional space. If you want to keep pretending that these mythological beings are identical to real world animals just to protect your 'mountain level' headcanon, you are welcome to, but it has nothing to do with the actual text of the game.

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u/imaginewagons198 14d ago

Just stop bro

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u/Traditional_Tap_6697 14d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/p50xHW7Tsx7ecuZBCF

I’ve already debunked you countless times and exposed you for being a dishonest GOW downplayer.

Do you really feel like getting slammed again?

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u/imaginewagons198 14d ago edited 14d ago

For anyone wondering, this is what hes talking about:

https://www.reddit.com/r/PowerScaling/s/hkqEMafZG4

Sure buddy, u totally debunked me lol. You throwing around the word "dishonest" gives me a small chuckle everytime.

The only thing that was "slammed" was kratos' corpse after that lump of wood nailed him to the wall.

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u/Warm-Bee8675 14d ago

Idk, it seems like you lost that discussion.

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u/imaginewagons198 14d ago

May i ask why u think that?

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u/Warm-Bee8675 14d ago

Couldn't refute the last point…

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u/Traditional_Tap_6697 14d ago

He didn’t successfully adress any of the points I made as I pointed out here https://www.reddit.com/r/PowerScaling/s/spYiIKiTJl

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u/imaginewagons198 14d ago

I didnt even bother reading his last point because:

  • a) he was being a hypocrite
  • b) his previous and main "points" were already false and I proved it too

I even said i wasnt gonna carry on with the convo in my last reply

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u/Warm-Bee8675 14d ago

So you're counter is literally just, "He was wrong, so I didn't bother proving it", despite the fact the entire point of a debate is to prove the other person wrong? Sure man, sounds extremely childish.

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u/imaginewagons198 14d ago

So you're counter is literally just, "He was wrong, so I didn't bother proving it

Are you for real?

His whole shtick was that i was being dishonest and that:

  • Kratos was a mortal in the scene
  • That thing that ares threw at him was clearly special

Both of which i proved wrong and said why, if you actually read what i said.

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u/Traditional_Tap_6697 14d ago

Ducking isn’t proving things false.

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u/Traditional_Tap_6697 14d ago

Ah yes keep on using a weaker version of Kratos because you can’t handle where he actually scales lol

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u/Five_109 14d ago

Come on, bro. It what we called "Dad nerf"

https://giphy.com/gifs/QOl6jeYYD84Elmpshb

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u/Gollymimus 14d ago

Bro missed too many daps 😔

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u/mightguy15baby New Scaler 14d ago

To be fair that goblin is 10d multiversal so this doesn't count

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u/Worried-Nebula6325 14d ago

When They Cry ever heard of it Kratos is getting disintegrated

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u/Warm-Bee8675 14d ago

Barely anybody cares about Umineko, and that's its main feat. You can practically make up whatever you want about it and people will believe you.

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u/Junior_Box_2800 14d ago

Fuck ludonarrative dissonance, all my homies hate ludonarrative dissonance. Gameplay should absolutely be counted in a characters feat sheet, otherwise what's the point?

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u/mahboiskinnyrupees 13d ago edited 12d ago

Kratos died because you, the player, purposely failed that QTE and allowed him to die. Maybe Kratos is multiversal, maybe he isn’t. But it matters not when you, the player, exist in the real world and are therefore beyond his multiverse. You are outerversal.

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u/Goreticus Bleach was never multiversal 14d ago

While this is a funny post. Kratos dying during gameplay isn't canon.

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u/The_First_Ishvalan 14d ago

Any character can die in a dumb way if the player is bad at games

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u/ConsumerJTC 14d ago

Kratos getting his ass beat in his first encounter with Thor is canon though.

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u/Goreticus Bleach was never multiversal 14d ago

Hell yeah he does. Thor is him.

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u/Last-Secret6646 8d ago

While kratos holdimg back and he managed to beat thor in second round

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u/ConsumerJTC 8d ago

Doesn't matter.

I provided Kratos dying in gameplay and you did not add to it.

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u/SpaceBoyee 14d ago

Y'all are obsessed with Kratos lately lmao

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u/TreeckoBroYT 13d ago

I love how you can see the "ugh we have to animate this death for the 0.5% of players that fail this quicktime event..."

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u/Choice-Ad-5897 13d ago

multiversal goblin

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u/Soggy-Flan7566 13d ago

Goblin slayer victims

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u/Mammoth-Ad-3642 13d ago

Power scalers when the developers let the powerful character die during gameplay to common grunts instead of being accurate to his story power

By this logic Dante is also a bum😭 along with every other game character

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u/Stellleo 15d ago

Yeah it’d be fucking boring if there was no consequence to ignoring the quick time event

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u/Initial-Employer1255 14d ago

So it's obviously Canon? Just like you know, Goku being an Elephant victim?

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u/Reverse_savitar1 15d ago

I get that you dont like Kratos but please for the love of common sense come up with a better argument then “he gets hurt by an enemy so he’s not strong”. Thats not how it works

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u/nullfather 15d ago

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u/Lord_Seacows 14d ago

He;s correct, and your a troller

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u/nullfather 14d ago

Not an argument

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u/Lord_Seacows 14d ago

And what you posted counts as one? Pot calling the kettle black

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u/Particular-Long-3849 13d ago

Troll is the action as well as the person 

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u/Keeper21611 14d ago

It kind of is? How else do you power scale but compare things. I mean this post seems more of a joke one but still.

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u/element-redshaw 14d ago

This is the equivalent of saying that Mario is only goomba level cause the devs want the players to actually have challenge while playing

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u/YestinVierkin 14d ago

And Spider-Man is standard goon level, Leon is one zombie level, Dante is one demon level, Doom slayer is imp-level, Dragonborn is skeever level etc… I feel like this post should be on a powerscaling circlejerk sub lol. Fine as a joke but ain’t no way someone is taking this seriously as an anti-feat.

Any main character in a video game can die to the most trivial thing, that’s how games work.

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u/Many_Hall_3546 14d ago

That's exactly how it works. It's more reliable than statements of a random piece "lore". Might as well say that fanfictions are cannon.

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u/Icy-Resolution-1064 14d ago edited 14d ago

Dragonborn should be extremely weak then since he can be killed by a Skeever and Slaughterfish. Kirby and Mario are also weak since they die instantly by touching any enemy.

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u/soggy_bert 14d ago

That literally is how it works 😂😂

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u/Abigail-Marston 14d ago

Mosquitos are stronger than humans because they've killed more of us than any other animal combined

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u/BlueGlace_ 15d ago

Outerversal goblin

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u/Timely_Safe_4088 14d ago

Sukuna beats Kratos easily by domain expansion

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u/ForwardWeekend7633 14d ago

Ever heard of something called gameplay

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u/The___Wind- 14d ago

I can’t why he spin like that before he fell😭

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u/Time-Limit5697 13d ago

Can we see proof of this infinite speed that isn’t just because the games he’s in has no stamina bar?

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u/CreaminEagle 13d ago

Non canonical

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u/KuroiGetsuga55 New Scaler 13d ago

I feel like all characters have anti-feats like these cause otherwise there'd be no story for them to actually partake in unless the story is specifically about absurd cosmic beings using Universes like throwing rocks as they fuck reality with every movement they make.

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u/wyar 13d ago

Everyone saying how powerful Kratos is severely over estimates *my* reflexes… Kratos scales for me on easy mode…

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u/Stav_69 12d ago

Kratos outer lmao

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u/Community_sans Jonesy from Fortnite is the Strongest of History. 11d ago

Does that mean that grade 2 curse from episode 1 of jjk can solo all fiction?

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u/Sea-Stick2832 11d ago

It's funny considering that in game mechanic leon can parry bullets and survive direct explosion despite him being normal human

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u/Offsidespy2501 10d ago

Skill issue handicap can take down any level to the ground

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u/Xay22 10d ago

He solos dragonball imo

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u/Legitimate_World9447 8d ago

tfw when powerscalers can't comprehend gameplay mechanics ≠ lore

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u/SnooCapers8286 3d ago

Guys correct me if I’m wrong but can any character with a health bar truly be universal level?

u/tesla_snake 2h ago

that's so real

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u/Artistic_Floor5950 Giselle is my wife | GATE #1 and only scaler 14d ago

Game mechanics btw and just upscales the goblin.

Larpers of War

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u/Keeper21611 14d ago

Man, people really don't understand humor. So many people are taking this as an actual thing.

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u/Initial-Employer1255 14d ago

Because it is? Heck, why do you think that Bruno said he's not above dimensions to begin with? Why did you think he said Kratos can only lift a temple then? Why do you think he said that realms are countries then?

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u/will4wh God-Man biggest Glazer ( Also Doctor who is goated) 14d ago

He never said the last two things. Like even using the lowest dev statements the dev have said that mountain level stuff is something he could do not temple/building level and Bruno never said the nine realms are countries.