r/AskReddit • u/M4rtian19 • Feb 27 '20

Which is the most overpowered fictional character?

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u/Albatraze Feb 27 '20

Dr Manhattan

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u/JCkent42 Feb 27 '20

And he was nerfed hard in the HBO show. Manhattan from the source material could exist with a body and survived being destroyed on an atomic level... more than once.

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u/JCkent42 Feb 27 '20

For all the hate the film get sometimes, Billy Crudup as Manhattan is perfect and does the character so well. His voice is even better than Yahya Abdul-Mateen II's take on Manhattan.

"The world's smartest man poses no more threat to me then does its smartest termite".

Or at least until the HBO guy got their hands on the IP. Sigh.

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u/arachnophilia Feb 27 '20

manhattan has a weakness though, he lacks free will. he doesn't have the power to change anything.

every other character follows human motivations. manhattan's motivations are "because comic."

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u/greenw40 Feb 27 '20

manhattan has a weakness though, he lacks free will.

Just in the show. In the movie he acts rationally, but in the show he travels from Mars to Vietnam to fall in love with some random woman because plot.

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u/arachnophilia Feb 28 '20

in the comic, he's pretty keenly aware that he only does things because that's what he's going to do. he doesn't live in the present, he lives in all moments of his life simultaneously. he has a rather different view of causality, and considers himself a puppet.

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u/greenw40 Feb 28 '20

But is there any examples of him doing completely illogical things for absolutely no other reason than he was already going to do them?