Post by Beatboks on Jul 17, 2011 5:47:48 GMT -5
In my opinion in writing any tale you have to be true to the characters in every respect (not just in power but in nature). If your going to deviate in any way you have to build the story to it. If your going to make changes to the spirit or nature of a character then there have to be causes (and effect) for the change. There is the fact that a character can win not because of superior power but because of superior will, commitment, being prepared to go that much further. History is full of battles where inferior forces have beaten superior ones because they had greater belief in the cause for which they were fighting.
As an example to tie that to comic characters, I point to the 82 Arion series. Throughout most of the series Arion was a mage who faced more powerful mages and one. He won not because he had greater power (though like all mystics there were issues or stories where he drew on greater power) but because he had the greatest commitment. The number of times that Arion in mystic battle would put everything he had into a single spell, a single attack. If any of these had failed he would have been completely lost. After more than a few of his greatest battles he was seriously depowered. Before he and his brother fought for the first time he had just gained his fathers inheritance (a major power upgrade) to defeat his brother Dann he sacrificed all that power in a single strike. TO defeat the the Ice mage (bringer of the Ice age) he expended everything he had down to all but a small spark. For issues after that he struggle to make a small magic flame for light and do simple illusions.
If you character lacks the power and must win combine plot, circumstance and COMMITMENT (for me the last is the biggest factor)
As an example to tie that to comic characters, I point to the 82 Arion series. Throughout most of the series Arion was a mage who faced more powerful mages and one. He won not because he had greater power (though like all mystics there were issues or stories where he drew on greater power) but because he had the greatest commitment. The number of times that Arion in mystic battle would put everything he had into a single spell, a single attack. If any of these had failed he would have been completely lost. After more than a few of his greatest battles he was seriously depowered. Before he and his brother fought for the first time he had just gained his fathers inheritance (a major power upgrade) to defeat his brother Dann he sacrificed all that power in a single strike. TO defeat the the Ice mage (bringer of the Ice age) he expended everything he had down to all but a small spark. For issues after that he struggle to make a small magic flame for light and do simple illusions.
If you character lacks the power and must win combine plot, circumstance and COMMITMENT (for me the last is the biggest factor)