pathfinderq1
First Post
Franklin Richards. 'nuff said...
Yeah, the powers don't prohibit good storytelling. They just mean your stories aren't just about physical challenges.
I think they inhibit it. I mean, to a lot of people someone that's super in every way imaginable breaks immersion way, way faster than something equally absurd but in fewer ways.
Over-poweredness is not about immersion - there's little immersive about super-powered fights and other exercises in power. Immersion comes from the normal aspects of the character's life or complications from the normal world around him.
That said, I think writers face some inhibited narrative space with uber-powered characters. At the very least, the typical super-fight is difficult to present as frequently as the action junkies who buy comics seem to want it. There's a limited list of things that can be done to really threaten Superman at his peak - that's why so many villains in Superboy and the Legion of Superheroes had so much kryptonite around. Superboy couldn't turn around without some bozo having it and using it on him. The writers were constrained in what they could do to challenge the guy because previous writers had made him so broadly powerful in his abilities.