(SPOILERS AHEAD)
Dawg...what? How? Just...huh???
Okay, I'm stumped. This goes BEYOND what I thought would be possible for the established universe. OFA was confusing at first, in the sense that I couldn't see a scientific reason behind OFA seemingly holding the minds and personalities of past users-since MHA is a Super Powered setting that relies on human mutations for its power base. Then I sat down and thought about it. The quirk most probably works by thoroughly copying a person and their powers-whatever they may be-down to their genetic level and adding it to the 'memory' of OFA. Effectively making the quirk evolve with every person that holds it, which explains the increase in power for every new wielder. I can wrap my head around that-that's comprehensible.
But the American Hero Stars and Stripes Quirk...oh my lanta what? The rules of convention just got thrown out of the window. Her quirk New Order let's her touch something and establish absolute authority over it after she says its name-being able to shape and control it in any way she wants. Basically she's a reality warper. Now, power scaling aside, unless we get more info for this power, this quirk brings into question the very nature of quirk's themselves. How did they come to be? How did they initially manifest? Why are they so powerful? To use a comparison, Mutants in Marvel's X-men developed their powers through genetic evolution, like MHA. But that only came to be because a group of ancient powerful cosmic entities played around with human DNA in their early days of existence. And because of their interference, the X-Gene came to be, and eventually evolved to let certain mutants be reality benders as well. But that's just it, Mutants in Marvel came to be by cosmic powers, and wouldn't have happened otherwise. So, how did quirks come to be? Just genetic evolution? Some random accident that pushed humans towards a path of mutation? Its hard to suspend my disbelief here otherwise.
My other bone to pick with this Quirk is just how broad in scope its being treated, but with obvious loopholes to be exploited. When she touches something, she has to say its name for her power to activate-for example, in the Manga, she 'touches' the atmosphere, and after saying the word out loud, is able to mold and control the air molecules to form giant invisible version of herself to beat enemies over the head with. Understandable-what gets me is how in the middle of the fight, she has he friends in the jets fire lasers at her, and then, SOMEHOW, the giant of air molecules GRABS THE LASERS, FORMS THEM INTO ONE GIANT BEAM OF LIGHT, AND THEN STABS THE VILLAIN WITH IT!!!!! I stared at the Manga page for a good few minutes to try to comprehend what I was seeing. I just...am I missing something? Her absolute control should be over the atmosphere, did shooting the lasers out into the atmosphere make them applicable to her rule? Did they factor in as light? But light isn't technically 'part' of the atmosphere, just the various gases. I don't know, that confused me. Her Quirk is also complex in the way that she needs to have an understanding of what she's touching-she tried to take down a villain whom she thought was someone else with her quirk, but because she didn't really know who it was, it didn't work. So wait, how deep does her knowledge need to be of what she's touching? Does she need to know only the broad basic scope? Does she need to have a complex in depth understanding like Momo to affect something? Does it have a limit towards whatever is physically possible for what she's touching? All that and a whole lot more questions.
So, yeah, Stars and Stripes, interesting so far-cool power, easily one of the most powerful we've seen so far, but my lord does it confuse me. Tell me what you guys think about it.
Dawg...what? How? Just...huh???
Okay, I'm stumped. This goes BEYOND what I thought would be possible for the established universe. OFA was confusing at first, in the sense that I couldn't see a scientific reason behind OFA seemingly holding the minds and personalities of past users-since MHA is a Super Powered setting that relies on human mutations for its power base. Then I sat down and thought about it. The quirk most probably works by thoroughly copying a person and their powers-whatever they may be-down to their genetic level and adding it to the 'memory' of OFA. Effectively making the quirk evolve with every person that holds it, which explains the increase in power for every new wielder. I can wrap my head around that-that's comprehensible.
But the American Hero Stars and Stripes Quirk...oh my lanta what? The rules of convention just got thrown out of the window. Her quirk New Order let's her touch something and establish absolute authority over it after she says its name-being able to shape and control it in any way she wants. Basically she's a reality warper. Now, power scaling aside, unless we get more info for this power, this quirk brings into question the very nature of quirk's themselves. How did they come to be? How did they initially manifest? Why are they so powerful? To use a comparison, Mutants in Marvel's X-men developed their powers through genetic evolution, like MHA. But that only came to be because a group of ancient powerful cosmic entities played around with human DNA in their early days of existence. And because of their interference, the X-Gene came to be, and eventually evolved to let certain mutants be reality benders as well. But that's just it, Mutants in Marvel came to be by cosmic powers, and wouldn't have happened otherwise. So, how did quirks come to be? Just genetic evolution? Some random accident that pushed humans towards a path of mutation? Its hard to suspend my disbelief here otherwise.
My other bone to pick with this Quirk is just how broad in scope its being treated, but with obvious loopholes to be exploited. When she touches something, she has to say its name for her power to activate-for example, in the Manga, she 'touches' the atmosphere, and after saying the word out loud, is able to mold and control the air molecules to form giant invisible version of herself to beat enemies over the head with. Understandable-what gets me is how in the middle of the fight, she has he friends in the jets fire lasers at her, and then, SOMEHOW, the giant of air molecules GRABS THE LASERS, FORMS THEM INTO ONE GIANT BEAM OF LIGHT, AND THEN STABS THE VILLAIN WITH IT!!!!! I stared at the Manga page for a good few minutes to try to comprehend what I was seeing. I just...am I missing something? Her absolute control should be over the atmosphere, did shooting the lasers out into the atmosphere make them applicable to her rule? Did they factor in as light? But light isn't technically 'part' of the atmosphere, just the various gases. I don't know, that confused me. Her Quirk is also complex in the way that she needs to have an understanding of what she's touching-she tried to take down a villain whom she thought was someone else with her quirk, but because she didn't really know who it was, it didn't work. So wait, how deep does her knowledge need to be of what she's touching? Does she need to know only the broad basic scope? Does she need to have a complex in depth understanding like Momo to affect something? Does it have a limit towards whatever is physically possible for what she's touching? All that and a whole lot more questions.
So, yeah, Stars and Stripes, interesting so far-cool power, easily one of the most powerful we've seen so far, but my lord does it confuse me. Tell me what you guys think about it.
