Do overpowered characters in comics and mangas bother you?

It kinda bothers me sometimes. For example I get mad at Superman sometimes because when he is getting humiliated or beat up by Lex I'm just like, "You move faster than light, you lift planets, and your pretty much unkillable. Stop goofing around run behind Lex and knock him out!"

Any other OP character's bother you?

no.

Only if the plot is contrived or terribly written that I am noticing something like that. But if the plot is engaging, I don't really think about it or care about it.

@ssjdarthplagueis:

All the overpowered characters make going to school tough for me.

Madara Uchiha kept pretending he had to cough during my English presentation, all my classmates were giggling even though I worked hard on that project.

And Pre-New 52 Martian Manhunter keeps shape shifting into a form that looks like my jacket and makes farting noises whenever I pass a group of girls.

Overpowered characters bother me all the time.

Ok.

@ssjdarthplagueis:

LoL I get what you're saying in the OP but don't let it get to you.

Characters are overpowered due to certain stupid writers. I often feel like people like superman and flash shouldn't have lost the way they lost a battle due to their ridiculous abilities. The writers shouldn't have given them those godlike powers in the first place. It leads to too much PIS and stuff. Only the writers who handle these character are to blame. This is way more visible in dc than marvel but marvel has its fair share of OP characters too.

No, I understand it's to get the story going

Off-topic: I actually love when certain characters are overpowered. Just my taste I guess

Overpowered characters only bother me when they just keep getting handed huge power ups by the writer with little to no explanation behind it, and even once they are already comfortably stronger than ninety percent of their world they continue to get powered up.

So most Shonen protagonists.

On the other hand, I tend to favor the powerhouse tier of comic heroes. It's pretty much just the repeated random power ups of already incredibly strong characters that bugs me.

Usually, yes. Why? Because then we get something lame like Kryptonite.

Depends on how they are handled.

yes and no.

Or we get something like this. Hulk can survive major explosions, a hell of a beating, gunshot/stab wounds, and he'll just heal up and be ok......but snap his neck he dies instantly and doesn't heal. Wtf!?

Depends on the writing. If the situation becomes contrived, or things are just done for convenience, then it pisses me off.

I agree with the op that sometimes I find it annoying how one minute Clark is a blur of motion, then get's nailed by Toyman. Toyman..oh..God. Anyway, plot controls everything, and since we have so many writer's we may get the occasional lazy one, who does not want to think of interesting way's to tell the story of the chracter/charaters they are writing, and or learn about them. We are going to have our heroes at their strongest and coolest, and sometimes we will want to scream at them. You see Hyperion surving an incursion, few panels over, a punch from Hulk makes him bleed. Aquaman lifting a city block, before that he is getting his ass beat by Batman few years before. Plot is the true power.

@ryagan: Or you can beat him to death without Kryptonite...you know, like Doomsday did.

There's no such thing as an "overpowered" character in comics. Only villains tend to be written as OP. This whole overpowered argument started because fan boys of characters like Batman and Spider-Man get upset that other heroes would make quick work of their favorite characters. So, in return, they call them overpowered to make their appease their souls.

How is Superman "OP" when, on the Justice League alone, he has 2 people who could match him in a fight of the other 6 members?

I think "overpowered" is a term that is used way too often. Characters who are truly overpowered are just too hard to find. People are always like "that guy just busted a planet? Overpowered!" But that's not true. There will always be someone else who can beat that character. There are but a few characters who are designed to be stupidly too powerful. Like Dr. Doom, who "got back from the dead thanks to willpower" or some other BS, and that's why I hate that character so much. The very concept of being invincible is stupid IMO.

Doomsday never killed Superman. Superman was in a coma.

Not one bit.

@ssjdarthplagueis: Yeah, DC can lick it, he was dead.

No. Also there's no such thing as a overpowered character in comics

I agree and disagree with this, but for now I'll just agree.

Not if there's an enemy that can take them on.

If the story's wrItten well, It doesn't bother me. Because If the wrIter takes the care to use a vIllaIn, or create a sItuatIon, that Is a chalange for the character In questIon It wIll be a good read -- For me at least.

There's is no such thing as overpowered; it's all subjective to the threats the characters face.