@isaac_clarke said:
I wouldn't know - I haven't read anything with Scheider - I'm just under the impression that his abilities are somewhat exaggerated when people are insisting he's completely immune to reality warping ( at least on a similar scale to Franklin) or Franklin is somehow not sporting insane durability given his showings against multiple Celestials.
First, you inject yourself in a debate in which you admittedly know nothing about one of the characters, then you proceed to completely mis-characterize other people's arguments. Honestly, you don't have the right to be "under the impression that [Dark Schneider's] abilities are somewhat exaggerated," because you've never read Bastard!! and, therefore, have no basis for your impression. You don't know anything about the metaphysics of the series. Furthermore, no one ever claimed that Dark Schneider was either immune to reality warping or immune to reality warping on the scale of Franklin Richards.
In fact, here's one of the first things I wrote in this thread:
I never said that Dispel Bound can protect you from all reality warping or that Dispel Bound couldn't be broken. That would be a no limits fallacy. You can break Dispel Bound, Fallen Uriel did it to Majin Dark Schneider in their fight. But it's clear that you need at least galaxy busting level power.
Then I went on to clarify in a later post:
At first I thought Franklin couldn't just blink DS out of existence because the Eternal Atoms needed to be destroyed in 3 different dimensions (or on 3 different planes of existence). Then I thought, well, if the reality warping is strong enough he could just bypass Dispel Bound and blink DS out of existence, after all, Dispel Bound isn't absolute or else it would be a no limits fallacy. Now that you've raised doubts I'm not sure anymore. Franklin needs to do something very specific in order to really take out DS: He needs to bypass Dispel Bound, then he essentially needs to destroy DS 3 times simultaneously in 3 different dimensions (he needs to destroy his spiritual body, his soul-body, and his physical body).
Now, let me clarify even more. Dispel Bound isn't just 1 thing. Dispel Bound is the name of a technique that allows you to literally ban your enemy's attacks from a certain area. You can have a Dispel Bound that stops time manipulation in a certain area, or space manipulation, or telepathy, or telekinesis, or elemental manipulation, you can even have a Dispel Bound that allows you to auto-win. Dispel Bound is an extremely hax defensive ability. Moreover, Dispel Bound is layer, upon layer, upon layer of magical protection shields. In order to even get to a point where you can kill Dark Schneider you need to destroy every single one, except Dark Schneider can repair them at massively FTL speeds and there are thousands upon thousands of them.
Furthermore, Dispel Bound is used to protect something called Eternal Atoms. In Bastard!! the characters have 3 different bodies: a soul-body (on the astral plane), a spiritual body, and a physical body (on the material plane). In Bastard the spirit and soul are two separate things. Now, the soul-body, the spiritual body, and the physical body are all made of Eternal Atoms. Eternal Atoms give the user some pretty hax regeneration abilities. If even 1 Eternal Atom exists, the user can regenerate every aspect of their being, i.e., their soul, spirit, and physical body. So, let's say you completely erase Dark Schneider's physical body from existence, he will be able to regenerate from nothing because the Eternal Atoms that make up his spirit and soul are still intact. Let's say you erase DS's physical body, his soul, and almost all of his spirit. Let's say even 1 Eternal Atom of his spirit is left, DS will still be able to regenerate all of his spirit, soul, and his physical body.
What does all of this mean? This means that, first, you MUST destroy every single Dispel Bound magical protection shield that surrounds DS's Eternal Atoms. Then, you must attack the Eternal Atoms directly: and you must attack his spirit, his soul, and his physical body simultaneously and destroy ALL of the Eternal Atoms.
On the other hand, all DS has to do to win is massively FTL speed blitz + Judas Priest (a magical spell that erases a person's spirit, soul, and physical body from existence) and the fight would be over (and he will do this; he doesn't have morals and he's no stranger to overkill). So, Franklin Richards has to do a very specific set of things in a specific order and in a specific way, while DS can win the fight very easily.
Now, contrary to what @hyper_god says, I've read the fight between Franklin Richards (& Galactus) and the Mad Celestials. And nothing in that fight suggests that he can't be speed blitzed, especially considering the fact that he had prep time against the Mad Celestials and he knew what he would be facing, and I'm not aware of anything that says Franklin Richards has resistance to spiritual or soul-based attacks (although hyper_god keeps saying that Franklin Richards has shown resistance to having his soul destroyed, except he won't show the scans).
Other people in this thread have suggested that Franklin Richards has passive defenses (although I'm still not clear about his resistance to soul-based and spiritual attacks); other people like hyper_god have just come into this thread and essentially said "Franklin Richards is very powerful, therefore, he wins" and other people like @misterguyman has acknowledged that it's difficult to decide who wins because it's difficult to reconcile the metaphysics of the two universes that these characters come from.
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