Philosophía
"The devil made me do it"
The 'wow' factor is long gone. When writers started getting into a battleboard mentality and have the characters do feats just to appeal to the fanboys, it started going downhil to the point that, as you've pointed out, there's nothing left to really impress -- destroying planets and surviving Blackholes are relativly common, even among the characters that are not on the top of the 'herald-level' category, that it simply lost its impressiveness.
Like I pointed out in another thread, it's starting to be the same way on the street-level. Characters are catching, deflecting, dodging or outrunning bullets (which, again, if taken logically should put them at an insane level -- like the Black Hole one) because that's like 'totally awesome' until it gets old and common. Or fighting superhumanly strong characters without even bothering to express that it's skill related, or that they are the underdogs -- they just over power them, when they shouldn't. See Captain America and Nick Fury against the U-Foes recently. Or many other examples.
Not even getting into the mid-tier, with the whole "My brain is bigger than yours!" or "I r scientist supreme!" and that bullshit.
The next step is for the writers to come into the battleboards and when something that they don't like pops-up, they should just write it in canon.
Ah. Mcduffie with the Wonder Woman being faster than Superman.
Scratch that then.
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