Ponies overpowered? [Fan fiction]

[Bendy 1,821]

Does anyone notice in some fan fictions Ponies are ridiculously overpowered? As in Celestia with literally with God like powers and invincibility?

 

I think a rule in fan fiction, multiverse theory and writing in general it doesn't matter who you are, you could be literally of a God's level of power, you could still die by fighting the wrong person.

 

Say for example, canon Celestia (of canon level of power) tried to fight the god Bhaal (from D&D), aka the Lord of Murder. I don't think she would win against such a being.

 

However, if she's from one of the mary sue universes, then Celestia could win. At the same time, somewhere out there in the multiverse there are even more powerful versions of Bhaal that exist, whom would easily kill overpowered Celestia. At the same time there's beings out there, whom can defeat Bhaal.

 

I guess, what I'm trying to say, there is a counter force to everything. It doesn't matter who your character is, he or she can still be defeated by someone, if you attacked the wrong universe and got into the fight with the wrong person.

Edited January 22, 2014 by Rush

[Scootalove 10,692]

It depends on the fan fiction, sure it would make some people not read it but only a very bad writer would have a very overpowered pony who wins every time. Depends on how the writer writes the characters.

Edited January 22, 2014 by Scootalove

[SBaby 660]

It depends on the character, to be honest.  For someone like Celestia or Twilight, I could actually see them becoming really powerful eventually, especially given what we've actually seen in the show.  Twilight in particular seems to have an innate magical power that dwarfs all other characters, and she's been developing that power for awhile.  So it is very conceivable that she could eventually end up with that much power.

 

I really don't think it's that big of a problem in Fan Fics though, because authors are pretty much confined to their own stories.  And even then, seeing it in a story is pretty rare.

[Shanks 10,817]

How overpowered is "overpowered" depends on the characters role in the story. It is much more forgiveable for characters like Celestia, Luna and Discord to be overpowered because of their role in the story as god like beings, but if someone is going to make them anymore powerful than they already are in the show than the story had better call for it. Nearly all fanfics engage in wish fulfillment to a certain extent but some take it a bit too far by making characters more powerful than is actually believable or the story actually calls for especially with OC's which are in many cases the avatars of the author. The term Mary Sue comes from the name of the main character of a parody of bad Star Trek fanfics that were common in the 70's, but as many MLP  fanfics as there are that fall into this trap there are plenty of others that do not.

[Solid 1,327]

I tried to be realistic in my fic and it turned out that they are fairly underpowered, so underpowered that I have to call upon the ultimate plot armor.