The Versus Community

SEVERE DISCLAIMER

The Versus Community is a community on the internet that pits fictional characters against each other through the use of powerscaling. If you see a debate on who would win in a fight between Superman and Goku, or Sonic the Hedgehog and The Flash, or Green Lantern and Ben 10, it's the fault of this community.

## What is Powerscaling?

Basically it's taking everything demonstrated by a character and using that to determine how strong that character is and what they could destroy. The rules are wonky and strange. For example, in a video about the series *Jojo's Bizarre Adventure,* the character Jotaro is able to beat the main villain DIO in Part 3, and he is unable to beat a rat with a sniper rifle in Part 4, so people would say the rat that beat Jotaro is stronger than DIO, ignoring that Jotaro's strength varies in between parts.

## Why do we hate them?

* People are super obnoxious when debating about this topic
* The content creators that are a part of it take it WAY too seriously (see any debate involving Saitama)
* It was everywhere in 2019 (We HATE things that are everywhere. HATE!!!!! HATE!!!!! HAAAAAAATE!!!!!!! GRAAAAAAAAAAAGHAGAAGHGGHGHG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
* The ones that use "science" and "real life physics" are biased and inconsistent
* Both the fights and the research content creators do are based on opinion and popularity.
* They KNOW they're based on opinion and popularity and they try to hide it with stupid excuses
* Content creators take characters' abilities from every version they can find, which commonly misses important pieces about the character they're making a composite of. And sometimes they only do this for the characters they want to win
* It is my belief that powerscaling has the potential to ruin storytelling. Writers may want to make their characters the strongest and unable to be beaten by the "greats of fiction" (Goku, Superman, etc), and risk forgetting to write actual characters or having there be no stakes.

## Us making fun of them

#### Parodies in Meme Series

* Vert, who always scales to be stronger than whoever he's fighting by 1%
* Emmet, the most powerful character
* Mage and Shotgun, obvious parodies of Wiz and Boomstick from the Death Battle series that are on the run from the A.C.F.
* The Multiversal Powerscaling Act preventing mixture of other universes' logic
* Powerscaling being deliberately inconsistent throughout the whole series.

#### Real Life

One thing I plan to do along with Fin and Seth is make a show about fictional character battles that are actually scientifically accurate. The show would be called "Brutal Bout." As an antithesis to Death Battle, the animations would be extremely short and cut to one character losing.

## Other things

* Some shmuck named SethTheProgrammer tried to powerscale and beat allegations of pedophilia against him. He failed miserably.
* Kuro the Artist of The Ink Tank has been an exception to the list of things we hate about the Versus Community. He's been able to put his biases aside and look at things factually, but he doesn't do that anymore and he's made that clear for a while now so I would argue he doesn't count.
* If the GOUGAR were to appear in Brutal Bout, he would lose every time.