Writerly Ways
Nov. 16th, 2025 10:31 pmSo what shall we talk about today? Something I've mentioned before but let's touch on this again because of Hazbin Hotel last week. The OverPowered character and what to do with them. ( spoilers for S2 if that matters to you )
So what do you do? Superman has this issue so they came up with kryptonite but then it gets ridiculous. That crap turned up everywhere. Ditto green lantern who is threatened by the color yellow. Captain Marvel faces the same issue. She's so powerful she could have smited Thanos so they sent her to the other side of the universe.
How then do we deal with over powered characters without things getting silly or making them look stupid? It's not that easy. Hazbin went with both pulling Lucifer's fangs AND making him look stupid which annoyed me. There needs to be a way to do this that doesn't make your character look/act dumb.
One way is to not get into the situation in the first place but what if you can't avoid it, say in the case of Lucifer an established entity in everyone's mind.
Another way actually is what they did with Marvel, get them out of the picture for some (hopefully good) reason. In this case above with Lucifer, there was no reason they couldn't send him to another ring of hell and he didn't know what was happening because he was busy elsewhere (though I suspect they are planning to use this to force his daughter into actions she doesn't want to take)
Any thoughts on this? Have you handled it? Ideas for handling it?
Any thoughts on the student who just emailed me at 10 pm asking for when unit 3 test is as if I haven't been posting it for weeks? It's tomorrow btw.
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