Statement

This page is to talk about the use of Statements in detail from different verses.

## Summary

Statements are based on in-verse phrases or quotes that dictates a character or feat's quality or quantity, there are two ways of doing this, first is speech analysis and the other is decrypting their meaning.

First is speech analysis, the statement should be noted by certain words and how they are used:

* **Nouns**: A noun is generally defined as a person, place, or thing; however, ideas are also nouns. For example, love is not a tangible thing that can be seen or held, but clearly it exists, so it is a also a noun.
* **Verb**: A verb is a word that describes action or a state of being. The second part of this definition is important, as many believe that verbs are always action words that can be visualized. This is true of action verbs: run, walk, play, jump, sing, scream, etc.  However, there are also linking verbs, and these types of verbs do not express action; instead, they express identity, classification, or existence.
* **Pronoun**: A pronoun is a word that is used to replace a noun.  For example, instead of saying “Sam likes pizza” we can use “He” as a substitute for Sam.
* **Adjective**: An adjective modifies (limits or describes) a noun or a pronoun.  Essentially, it provides more information about a person, place, or thing.
* **Adverb**: Similar to adjectives, an adverb modifies a verb, an adjective, or another adverb. In the sentence Susan walked slowly towards the door, the word slowly serves as an adverb since it describes how she walked.
* **Preposition**: A preposition shows the relationship between a noun or pronoun and some other word in the sentence. This relationship is spatial, temporal, or directional. For instance, in the sentence Mark walked towards the house, the word towards is a preposition since it shows direction.
* **Conjunction**: These are used to link words or parts of sentences together.
* **Interjection**:  A word added to a sentence to convey emotion and is not grammatically related to any other part of the sentence. Interjections can also serve as a single word sentence (ex: Wow!). Usually used when quotes from characters are made.

The other is decrypting the Statement's meaning, for example:

"*This person is considered invincible in all the world*"

This can mean quite a lot of things, either one or more of the following:

* The person has an ability that makes him invincible or unable to be harmed, depending on how they demonstrated it and what their weaknesses are.
	+ If another person that made the statement has extensive knowledge of said person and experimented on said person with all sorts of means would have a more reliable stance, but not 100% believable, would only make the person invincible to the same or higher level to whatever the other person scales to.
* The person is so powerful that they can tank ridiculous amount of damage and keep going.
	+ A ridiculously powerful character in verse that says they can't kill or harm this person, that would give evidence for this person to be invincible, at least by which ever invincible means, either conventional damage, or Hax.
* A Statement in verse that makes claim said person could be invincible by the story's setting, but when put into different settings is another matter if they have higher stats or ridiculous abilities.
* If the Author makes the statement that said person is invincible, that would be the most reliable source as it is referred to as the (Word of God), but like the point above, said person would only be invincible in verse but would be different compared to other verses or actual showings to to make it literal or not.
* Visuals are usually another way of being a form of canon source to the verse if they are more than just indirect visuals, images or videos if they appear in the mainstream directly.
	+ For Video Games, sometimes trailers or out of game cinematics would be hard to be considered canon if they did not happen directly in game or did not appear in game, however if there are signs of them in game from the original cinematic, they could be accounted for in the canon material.
* Or this could be just some form or hyperbole or No Limits Fallacy which makes it both irritating or difficult to discuss especially when said person was defeated.
	+ If said person makes a claim to be invincible because they killed their master by some unknown means would still be hyperbolic.
	+ There are some cases claiming that only one thing from a certain verse can accomplished something that is relatively resistant in their verse.
		- These things are be deduced and must be looked at such as "Fairy King's Forest's Trees cannot be burned by ordinary flames, only the flames of Purgatory can do it." which shows a flaw in resistance as ordinary flames can mean that flames of standard temperature of 1,100 - 1,200 degrees would not work on them, however, hotter flames could or other special flames like Purgatory Flames.
* Statements while should be taken with a grain of salt without any demonstration can have weight to them as means of inspiring fear or as threats (Without any form of bluffing or tricking their target) and the target gives in to the threats because they know what would happen.

A character CAN be upgraded by word of mouth alone. You just have to double check to see by how much, as well as:

* If the source of the statement is reliable?
	+ Stated by credibly knowledgable individuals (not low in intelligence/mentally ill/or doesn't know the situation)
	+ Stated by many individuals and sources.
* If the comment is not in the heat of the moment and has collected reliable info to make a statement.
* If the statement doesn't conflicts with the story or feats of the character in power scaling?
* If the statement is only valid in the context of its setting, or if it holds up in comparison with other settings?

Also, if a statement has a plural noun but no mention of any numbers to describe the integers of the content, then the average for multipliers would be around 2-3 in max.

If we are going by **Titles** of Characters or Things, they should be more than just that, either stated to have meaning behind them and feats to back them up.

## Scaling

When there is a statement for comparing the strength of level of power of someone or individuals, there are a few ways statements like that can be interpreted, such as:

* **Scaling by comparison to a individual**: The person who makes this statement when scaling between either themselves or others to the rest of the specific individuals, it could be interpreted as though they could have similar power output or strong in the sense or being versatile in abilities such as hax or different stats.
* **Scaling by comparison or a show of power/feat**: The person who makes this statement when scaling a feat either made by oneself or by others to specific individuals, this one would likely be more direct with how to find stats for comparison of strength.

## Estimation/Interpretation

Also, since it is very easy to assume that certain statements can mean a lot of things (Ex. "*My blade can cut through anything and everything*") does not automatically mean they are universe level, possibly just means they have some sort of durability negation. even the word "**everything**" could be assumed as the universe, but the official definition is all the things of a certain group or class.

## Hyperbolic

There maybe some statements that could be interpreted as a feat, but would end up hyperbolic, such as if there is no such feat before, during or after that would justify it to such a scale or if not precisely detailed to warrant such measurement, such as with Madara's statement about Perfect Susano'o:

"*My Susano'o is Destruction Incarnate, With a single stroke of the blade contains enough power to smash all things in this universe... It rivals even the Biju.*"

This could be interpreted in one of two ways by "Universe"'s Definition (Depending on the kanji in Japanese Raw):

* One could mean the entirety of Spacetime and all existing matter in it while accompanied by it's continual expansion.
* Or based on a particular sphere of activity, interest, or experience. In other words, it's sphere of effect or influence which could be range as well.

And to avoid getting the confusion, read here about Dimensions and Realities and their interpretation in their own verse and how they are translated into feats.

A way for a statement to not have a hyperbolic treatment would be if the feat in question has a calc that would give it the level needed:

Example: "*This black hole has they energy of a collapsing star*" which a collapsing star would be a supernova, but if you measure the black hole's schwarzschild radius and it does reach the same tier as a supernova explosion, then it would warrant a worthy discussion.

As for the size of say a city, if we get only info for say how long it takes to get to one part of a city, that maybe fine, but if it takes a certain amount of days, that could lead to questionable measurements if there are visuals that contradict the statement made, so I would prefer to have a more inverse concrete statement of size by units of distance to have the size for cities. Otherwise, simply use pixel scaling to be the best size possible.

* You could however, get a result from both the pixel scaling and the statement results, add them both together and then divide by 2 to get a result of a compromise.

### Usage for statements

There are times where certain metaphors can be used for scaling or application for feats if it is a direct or intentional comparison of a character or faction in practice.

## In-Verse/Word of God Sources

It is important to note how the source is given, like above with the wording or what the author has to say if it can be backed up or from a character that is reliable in-verse to give validity to said claim or if statements can be matched with any calculations made.

What is also important to note is of any in-verse cultural usage of statements as there are things where they say things that in story has actual power or based on supernatural means, and cannot be always judged by our world standards all the time.

## Word Usage

There are points where words could be used to define feats whether they could range from figurative to literal, This can define if they would be valid or not, an example for defining them, we will use the word "Instant" in three usages:

* **Figurative:** Where words are used as a mean of expressing a situation or feeling in a nonrealistic way, similar to metaphorical or simile, where the former is direct, and the latter is using "like" or "as" for comparison. This would usually not mean much of a feat (but possibly opening up a use of metaphorical spectrum of powers if stated).
	+ Ex. Instant is in something that occurred or is produced rapidly or with ease: "The novel was so good, the critics declared it an instant hit!"
	+ Using the information for figurative speeches has different categories that should be taken into consideration:
		- **Idioms**: As a literary technique when is comes to use a phrase or an expression of something or situation in a non-literal manner, or in some cases to be expressed to retain some literal meaning.
			* Ex. Let’s paint the town red. (This doesn’t mean to literally go on painting the entire town in red colour, it just means to have some fun)
		- **Metaphors**: A literary technique where it is a figurative speech in a way to describe an action or object in a way that is not literally true, but helps expresses it as another.
			* Ex. That person is a couch potato (This doesn't mean a person is an actual potato as a couch, but a person who is lazy and doesn't sit up off the couch)
		- **Similes**: A type of literary technique where you make a comparison using "*like*" or "*as*" in a phrase with the main word and then the comparative term.
			* Ex. White as snow (the color of white can be associated with the object of snow)
* **Technical:** Where the words are used in a direct explanation of something in a practical or applied fashion, akin to scientific use. This usage would either be related to common scaling speed feats (with context) or using abilities that are more unconscious reflex/instinct movements.
	+ Ex. Instant is something that is a point of time that is now or present in reference to something or an action or an event: "This technique will allow me to instantly block any incoming attacks from any direction."
* **Literal:** The use of words where they are following the strictest and most literal of their definitions, usually this requires direct links, even by a sense of using in a sentence a word's literal definition or comparing the word to something for a feat or value to use (may have need of more than one source to use this usage).
	+ Ex. Instant is related to the infinitesimal space of time, related to moment or instantaneous: "The movement was so fast that it was instant in Planck Time."

## Wording

Sometimes it is important to understand the utilization of words in a sentence, such as using "when" or "as" in a statement, which the former is in the precise moment of the event in the statement, and using the later is something that just so happens to be happening at that time when the individual does something overtime,

An example for estimating numbers with words based on Few, Some, Several or Many, it all depends on if there is an actual number or context based on limit, but without it you can go with:

* Few is around 3.
* Some is 4, 5 or 6.
* Several is around 7, 8 or 9.
* Many is 10 or more.

## Context

Sometimes it is important to put into context what certain statements can mean without getting too hyperbolic, for example "He painted the void with fire and salted the earth with ash." Sometimes it can mean a lot of things, such as voids which is about 1 billion lightyears across in space. for tolerable scaling it would make sense to find the average between the distance between planets for neighbor planets to earth or to that of the entire solar system (in miles).

Which is:

* High Ball: 48000000 (Mars) + 69166000 (Venus) + 237530000 (Mercury) + 370140000 (Jupiter) + 746000000 (Saturn) + 1600000000 (Uranus) +2709500000 (Neptune) + 3255300000 (Pluto) = 9035636000 miles / 8 = 1129454500 miles
* Low Ball: 48000000 (Mars) + 69166000 (Venus) = 117166000 miles / 2 = 58583000 miles