Originally posted by GalacticStorm
In the case of SBP and his retcon punch, he would conclusively have a reality altering ability if it was flat out stated on panel, either through writer narration or confirmed via character statement that he has this ability.
We know the changes he has made just by punching things and
Galan posted this in the other thread.
There you have it clear on panel narration that when he punches he can alter reality.
Those reality changes retconned character histories. It's also not just brainless anger induced hulk type punching.
He can see the changes while it happens, as when he was punching the corrupt supermen and actually sort through the reality changes.
Originally posted by GalacticStorm
At the moment he's hitting things and its unclear wherever any subsequent effects are as a result of an innate ability he possesses or its due to the circumstances/situation he was in. I.e hitting a structure of multiversal significance, hitting Darkest Knight whilst he was powering reality alterations (thereby providing an explanation for the changes to reality) etc
I'll add one more item to your list.
3. hitting DK's creations.
Throughout SBP's history it has been made abundantly clear that he can alter reality, retcon character history.
When he hits things as you've mentioned and when he just punches in empty space like he did when he broke out of the Phantom Zone.
No one else has replicated this so it's logical to assume that it is the result of his innate ability.
Originally posted by GalacticStorm
Whether you find these alternate interpretations as convincing as the one you endorse or not isnt the point. The fact that its open to being interpreted in more than one way and a Dc source hasnt laid it out explicitly is the point.So as i said before, people need to accept when something is open to interpretation and make a case for what they believe whilst openly acknowledging that their evidence isnt conclusive but what evidence is there leads them to take on a certain viewpoint.
Bro, there is no alternate interpretation. You think that these events are open to interpretation because you made erroneous assumptions.
Lets look at some of these.
1- That changes can be made if anyone (not just sbp) can incapacitate or kill an alternate superman.
This is incorrect.
A. Comic clearly states that all SBP had to do was hit those DK corrupted characters, not Kill, or incapacitate. That was your assumption that went against on panel statement.
B. You said it had to be a Corrupted superman. Can you provide proof from the comic? The comic states "This imaginary stories reject". All of DK's corrupted characters can fit under this criteria. Finally,
C. Superman incapacitated the same corrupted superman and there were no reality changes. superman knocked the other corrupted one out with a single punch. So that punch was just as hard as the one SBP threw. Only SBP's punch made the change.
Onto your 2nd erroneous assumption.
"Darkest Knight whilst he was powering reality alterations".
Really? When a reality manipulator, re-writes reality, is he always powering those reality alterations? Do you have on panel statement or or narration to prove that dk was powering his reality alterations? If you can't then it's a false assumption.
Even if he was powering them, he had made those alterations prior to his battle with Perpetua. A battle that raged across every facet of reality. When she was hitting him, there were no changes other than maybe reality destruction, But when SBP hits him, we have reality changes. Further proof that SBP has this innate ability.
We have enough evidence in the comic and throughout SBP's history that he has this innate ability to change reality. The evidence in the origins comic from last week and SBP's history with on panel evidence, statements and narration leave nothing open to interpretation. If there is another interpretation, it is a misinterpretation based off of lack of knowledge of character and his history and the recent events that are shaping DCU. This isn't a knock on you, not everyone has read every comic in existence, except maybe Alberto, or so he says.