User blog comment:Mr. Bambu/The Overpowered Crisis/@comment-28644276-20161101012436

Funnily enough, I'm with you when it comes to the whole "Overpowered just for the sake of being overpowered". It doesn't bug me per se, but it feels really meh to me when I see all those powers without what I would call an actual reason for them being there... Other than "Yeah, my character is super strong, has no weaknesses, no failures in his character and I bet he can murderstomp everything!!", LOL

While I've been developing my story for quite some time (some years, tbh), I'm new here - and because of that, I've been recently making my profiles and taking my sweet time with adding their story and personalities. So... When it comes to my verse, yes, it's full of those guys who can flick planets out of existence. No, I don't blame Dragon Ball for that (though I did watch it as a kid). I blame my obsession with space, some philosophy, a little bit of physics and stuff. Inside the context of my books, these powers are necessary. For example, I can't have people traveling around/fighting through space by moving at Hypersonic speeds. And I don't want to have a threat to the universe be someone who can't destroy a planet or two with that one flick of his/her finger. After all, what is a planet to the universe but a grain of dust?

So, what does a character need to make me go "meh"? ...Whatever his tier, I most likely will not find him (or her) to be bad, as long as there is an actual reason for his powers and these stats being there that goes hand to hand with his character and what he has faced/has to face in his own series (this is one of the reasons why I don't add to my OC profiles powers that they haven't been demonstrated in the story yet). There are things I see around here that clearly have been put on the profiles exactly for the reason you said: For the sake of making a character stronger than others, or to avoid the idea of said character losing in a battle. To recognize these powers, just imagine the story where they come from and remove that particular power from there. You will see that it really makes no actual difference aside from being one more cannon (or shield) to use in a VS Match.

This is, indeed, the kind of character that I simply pretend I didn't see, because really, the quality of a character comes from his depth and how their powers and personalities resonate with the story where they come from.

Not from giving them the absolute highest tier you can think of and then doubling it up by granting them more abilities than a swiss army knife just because you can/want to - also, just to make sure, never giving them actual weaknesses because these are not for winners, I guess. ^_^

With that being said... Yes, you will find out that many - and I do mean a lot - of OCs are overpowered just because it's that easy to give powers to a character. But like Promestein and Cross pointed out, there are very good characters as well that can go around blowing up many things. It really depends on the author to know when he has to stop and remember that "Hey, the plot is the most important thing in a story, not how much I'm blowing up with each fight".