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In closing, I do not wish to harp on too much about this, they're just fictional characters. However I want to say, to be honest I don't know who is worse, The Presence in DC or Zeno in Dragonball, they are both shockingly bad and inept at what they do. Their incompetence both led to universes getting needlessly wiped out. I'd never worship either of them if I were in any of their fictional worlds.
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Antimonitor wiping out universes in DC does add to the drama in a meaningful way but not if it is combined with the ineptitude of people who are supposed to protect them. If Constantine did not get harassed as much it would be a different story, but what happened in the story was not cool. If you were on a dying planet that was about to lose its magnetosphere after having lost about a third of its magma from an alien invasion, and you had the ability to turn back time, what would you do? sit idly by and let it happen? no, you would do what Flash did if you could. The whole premise in fiction, any fiction, doesn't matter what it is, of blaming people for an unforeseen consequence when using magic to reverse an apocalyptic situation when it is for a virtuous reason is stupid from the outset.
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About what I said about DC Universe and Constantine, do not misunderstand me, my criticism is not against Constantine as a character, it is how he is written that irks me. He gets blamed for being set up with no recourse or compensation, Infinite Crisis is an egregious example of this, where multiple universes get erased not by a villain, but by the incompetence of gods. I don't like Spectre in DC, as he sat on the sidelines allowing Darkseid to set a chain of events that led to Constantine doing what he did, asking Flash to create a flashpoint, then has the nerve to scold Constantine for using his magic to help. Spectre and the Presence are terrible characters.