It's magic. Like Swamp Thing's connection to the Green.That cartoon is stupid if taken seriously. Being literally able to affect anything that lives in the water doesn't make sense because "things that live in water" is a category that includes things that aren't very related and are more closely related to other things. It's like having a power "can only be used on things that were bought on sale".
Hmm. I said it before but Plasticman being all-powerful strikes me as Squirrel-girl tier joke-character wank. He can stretch but how strong is he? How resistant to heat/cold?
If temperature extremes are his weakness then a laser-gun could kill him.

Plastic Man versus Fernus The Burning. Yep, he's definitely fire resistant. He's immune to telepathy too.
He's nigh-indestructible, capable of surviving thousands of years on the ocean floor as scattered fragments. You can blow him up, stab him, cut off his head, do pretty much anything without permanently harming him.
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