From: Wanglicious | #142
comic characters don't really go through this, no. you get, at best, some differences interpretation of the character's levels, but personalities don't tend to change. and usually their powers are consistent. the complaint to them is more of one to do with history. it's that a lot have done everything and there's no real argument, just scans of 'he's done this, he's done that,' and comparisons made. inconsistency ain't the issue 9/10 times. everyone who knows them agree on what Superman is, on what Hal is, etc. those who don't end up getting a crash course in what the standard is.
<_<; which is only half of why that rule is silly and doesn't make a lick of sense.
Hence why the rule exists, actually. Preventing feat inflation. Stories with a consistent direction (like Dresden Files for instance) don't have to deal with this because the increases are linear. Comics contradict each other all the time and I'm not having any of that. GameFAQS Flash still exists under the era system, but he's heavily neutered by not getting to pick feats across, what, seventy years of existence?
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