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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Crimson Binome" data-source="post: 6815221" data-attributes="member: 6775031">It's a matter of consistency, and like I said, I'm not terribly familiar with WOIN. If we've already fought the Hydra, and it was completely immune to injury unless you cut off its head and seal it with fire, then I might be more willing to believe that the Sphinx can only be hurt by someone who overcomes its riddle.More often than not, at least as far as games I've seen are concerned, all of those myths are descriptive rather than prescriptive. If nobody could injure Achilles without hitting his heel, then that describes what happened, but doesn't rule out the possibility of someone else hurting Achilles by just hitting him in the face really hard (e.g. with the Hulk or a rocket launcher). Saying that he's invincible is a perfectly adequate description, if he has DR 20/epic and nobody around is strong enough to do 21 damage with a single hit.And on the scale of believability, the idea that he's ridiculously tough is way easier to believe than the idea that he's infinitely tough. Occam's Razor must also apply to any fictional world, if I'm going to buy into it.</blockquote>